Re: Muslim Children Adoption
**there is NO LEGAL ADOPTION in Islam as we define an adoption in the west. a muslim can be a guardian and provide whatever he/she wants to but can NOT give him ur name and ur inheritence and this is to protect the rights of inheritence of their own children and next of kin. there is a list of relations who inherit a dead man's assets of the deceased.
for example, in the absence of any children, parents inherit, in their absence brothers/sisters get the inheritence and if they are NOT there then nephews and neices...and so on so forth.
even in the west, the confidentiality law is challenged in courts. the adopted children have the right to know who their biological parents are.**