Wants to abort her pregnancy to acquire religious knowledge
26-4-2011 | IslamWeb
Question:
Assalalmoalykum, i am alhamdulillah a student of knowledge. i was praying to become one for long time but there was no school in the place where i live. Alahamdulillah i have a school now and an aalima teaching there. i am also memorizing Quran. I have become pregnant, and can i abort my pregnancy due to the ernest desire to learn deen, because i will not be able to focus on my studies, i am very depressed and might harm the baby when it is born. what can i do?
Answer:
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
First of all, may Allaah reward you for being keen on acquiring religious knowledge as this is a means of much good and an act by which one gets closer to Allaah.
As regards aborting your pregnancy, this is forbidden at any stage of the stages of the development of the fetus, and this is even more forbidden if the soul is breathed into it as this is killing of a soul which Allaah forbade except with right. For more benefit on abortion, please refer to Fataawa 85930 and 85558.
In fact, your will to seek religious knowledge is not a sound reason for carrying out abortion. We think that the matter is easy and it does not need that you worry too much about it. So, you should try to be moderate and have a reasonable approach and endeavor to acquire knowledge according to your ability during your pregnancy. If you miss some knowledge, it is easy to acquire it at this present time and age where the modern techniques are available, like tapes, CD’s, lectures on the internet and the like.
Allaah Knows best.