Re: Adopting a child - impact?
Oh good god… Adoption is allowed is Islam but there are a few guidelines. Key one is inheritance and the other is not hiding that the child is not biological offspring. There is no Islamic ruling against raising a child who is not your offspring in your home. Also, the inheritance is not just to protect the interests of those with an inherited e stake, but also so they don’t oppose adoption as they protect their financial interests, and importantly the assets of the orphan too. Idea being you can’t adopt the kids of some rich relative of friend or neighbour who died at war..and then since you have adopted the kid you have ownership of all the assets that are the right of that child.
Not sure what kind of god would pass a religious decree that you can’t bring an abandoned infant home and raise her, but pay some orphanage instead for her to be raised in an institutional setting.
Does the rule change when it’s a blood relatives kid? Sorry kiddo, I know I am your chacha and live in a mansion, but why don’t you go stay at edhi center and we will send them some money each month.
When the essence of the message is lost and people do intellectual gymnastics on semantics, it gets rather amusing to watch. The ruling wrt Zayd was to provide specific guidelines and not of prohibition. The messaging was very focused on the topic of mehram issues which are bloodline related and would thus not be same as for someone who is not biologically if the family and bloodline.
If a couple adopt a boy he is na mehram to wife and if it is a girl she is na mehram to husband.