Re: Outsourcing Motherhood - Is it allowed in Islam ?
I think what you are saying is based on Islamic fiqh, which IMO needs to be revised. The only form of surrogacy in the earlier centruies that could have been thought of was milk suckling. Today as surrogacy stands, milk suckling may not be necessarily qualified as a surrogacy. IMO, it never was meant for surrogacy as intended in mother. I say this because no where in our texts does milk suckling grant the women the same rights as a mother on the child that she suckled. It does make her mahram. So IMO milk suckling never should have been associated with surrogacy but rather a classification of mahram. For instance, if you suckled too much from your wife your nikah can become invalid according to our fiqh, not because she attains the status of your mother but because she becomes mahram in relationship to you. The same principle extends to half-siblings who have been suckled by the same woman yet having different fathers. It probably ended up being so in our Islamic fiqh of centuries old because no other form of surrogacy was imgaginale at the time as compared surrogacy as we know it today. So to me IMO milk suckling should not used as an example of surrogacy in motherhood.