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• It is mith great pleasure that I forward this book, the second of Professor Hassan Hathout's in the series of publications of the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences, to follow his "Topics in Islamic Medicine" that hit great success and wide acclaim.  Mention of "Islam" has abounded in the contemporary media and the lay press perhaps as never before, perhaps spurred by the political upheavals and trepidations endured by our restless world.  Yet I feel all the more that Islam is largely unknown, not only to its adversaries but to large numbers of its followers.  The core of Islam that furnished the foundations over which a great empire and a great civilization were built, still remains veiled behind many misconceptions and superficialities.  It would therefore behove Muslims of sincerity and knowledge to attempt to present the realities about various aspects of Islam and make them accessible to keen readers the world over.

• Upon his own field of obstetrics and gynaecology, Professor Hassan Hathout focuses the light of Islam and presents the Islamic coverage of that area of knowledge.  As he looks into and beyond pure reproductive science, he adeptly and adequately captures their Islamic echoes derived from the Quran, Sunnah and Islamic Jurisprudence.
• At a time when whole populations of the world have accepted that the feasible source of human values cannot and should not be RELIGION, this book demonstrates once more that the religion of Islam is a comprehensive regulator of human life: both moral and legal and that even such a technical field as reproductive biology does not lie bare of God's guidance.  It also shows that rebellion against God's guidance so profoundly a feature of modern times can bring about very untoward consequences that the medical authorities all over the world are facing the burdens thereof.