Say, "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited to you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with Him, and to parents, good treatment, and do not kill your children out of poverty; We will provide for you and them. And do not approach immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed] except by [legal] right. This has He instructed you that you may use reason." 6:151
"And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great sin." 17:31
Some of the scholars are of the opinion that it's haraam in it's entirety, except if going through with labor would put the life of the mother in danger.
This is similar to the fact that if a person is starving for example and there's nothing that they could possibly eat besides swine, the swine becomes permissible for them to eat.
As a student of the Arabic language النفس can be interpreted as an entity, kind of like شخس.
Some of the scholars indicate that النفس means 'soul', like ar-Ruh if you will, but there's no proof for that.
Don't be hasty to issue verdicts (fatawa). I've noticed that you have some nerve to tell people what's haraam or halal without firm knowledge in either Arabic grammar or morphology, usul al-fiqh (this is very important for studying the origins of rulings), fiqh, tafsir, hadith, ahkaam, etc.
Do you then form an opinion different to the scholars despite having no knowledge of any of the branches of Islamic knowledge that I've mentioned?
Do you think our scholars are stupid? Islamic scholars are unmatched in their collective intelligence, memory, etc.
Imam Bukhari for example, would attend the lessons of the muhadittheen and would not write anything!
After a few days passed, students were getting fed up with him and telling him that he's wasting his time because he's not making any notes. After they kept bugging him, he narrated to them around 15,000 ahadith from his memory which he memorised within a few days after hearing the aHadith once! With its chain of narration and biography of the scholars! This is no joke, it's equivalent to over 40 university degrees in such a small time frame.
كُنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ
"And We did not send before you except men whom We inspired to. So ask the People of the Reminder (Ahl-Azzikr / أهل الذكر
Maybe after you study for many years, you will realise the foolishness of your statements. No one is born knowledgeable, this is a fact but you want to issue verdicts (fataawa) without knowledge! The nerve!
Sahnoon ibn Sa’eed said: the most audacious of the people in giving fatwas is the one who has the least knowledge; a man may have a grasp of one branch of knowledge and he thinks that all the truth is to be found in this branch.
