She is pregnant from Zina and refuses to abort her child
12-1-2010 | IslamWeb
Question:
salam.I need advice on how to repent now that ive commited sin.I use to be a good person,pray,read qur'an.be fully coverd.but i felt i was trying to much to be some one am not,just wanted make ma parents proud.then lot of bad things happend to me and was too much to handle with no support from my family from the age of 9 til18.and then i started to drink but always hated alchahole.but it was a time i just wanted to show evryone how angry, lonely i was,and not thinking about how wrong it was.theres alot of shameful haram things ive done,it makes me feel dirty and deserve to be punished, ive commited zina before marriage and i am 8months pregnant.people and family put me down, made me ashamed of my self and i know i just went over the top too much now and made me realise and woken me up,and told ma self ive done wrong all my life i didnt want it.and now i am scared of death and all the punishments am going to get.i feel like am trapped now and theres no way out. And i regret everything bad ive done.i really want to repent and do it properly but i need advice how.theres this boy who always puts me down tells me am a whore and am going hell,because of me my unborn child gets insulted and that really hurts and makes me cry.the babys father dont care about the baby.so i am alone, have no support from any one.ive been strugling the past 2months with not enough money to feed my self i stay hungry at times and cry and know one hears me crying for help in need.and i want to talk to Allah in my dua's and i want him to help me but i need some support and couriage. i dont live with my family because they wer'nt accepting my child and kept forcing me evryday for a whole month to do abortion and i refused.and was under alot of stress and told me i had one option to leav if i am to keep the baby and so i did.but what they dont understand is ive aredy commited a sin and regret and commiting another one by having abortion is making things worse.i need some advice from you asap.
Answer:
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
First of all, you should know that the Mercy of Allaah is so vast and that Allaah forgives every sin whatever great and grave it is. Indeed, Allaah opened the door wide open so that people would repent. Allaah Says (what means): {Say, “O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning] do not despair of the Mercy of Allaah. Indeed, Allaah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He Who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.}[Quran 39:53] Allaah accepts the repentance of a non-Muslim, and a hypocrite, how come that He does not accept the repentance of a disobedient Muslim? Therefore, you should take the initiative to repent from every sin and you should not despair from the Mercy of Allaah as being despaired of the Mercy of Allaah is one of the great major sins. Allaah Says (what means): {…and never give up hope of Allaah's Mercy. Certainly no one despairs of Allaah's Mercy, except the people who disbelieve.}[Quran 12:87] For more benefit on the conditions of repentance, please refer to Fataawa 86527 and 87903.
Indeed, among the things that complete your repentance from Zina (fornication or adultery), is to avoid any means that may lead you to commit this sin again, like establishing affectionate relationships, being in seclusion with a non-Mahram man and so forth.
Moreover, none should blame you for a sin which you repented from, and your family is wrong for driving you out of home because of this. By doing so, they are exposing you to evil and are opening a door of temptation for you. So, we advise you to be careful and you should seek the help of some pious and righteous Muslim brothers so that they would talk to your family and ask them to take you back to them.
Indeed, you did well when you refused to abort that fetus because aborting him is killing a soul without any right as we clarified in Fatwa 85930. So, when you give birth, you should be kind to your child and nurture him well (according to Islam). He is your son and he should be traced back to you; he should not be traced back to the fornicator who is not his father at all. If you fear any embarrassment for him [child], then you may give him a general name like Ibn ‘Abdullaah or Ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmaan and the like, as all the people are slaves of Allaah. For more benefit on the ruling on a child born out of wedlock, please refer to Fatwa 85430.
Also, when your waiting period expires by giving birth, then you should take the initiative to marry and it is permissible for a woman to look for a pious husband to marry as we clarified in Fatwa 82471.
As regards the statement of that young man that you are a prostitute, then this is accusing you of Zina and you are permitted to take his matter to the authorities. Besides, how dare he state on behalf of Allaah that you will enter Hellfire? It is not permissible to judge anyone to be a dweller of Paradise or Hellfire except those whom Allaah and His Prophet judged to be so. On the contrary, if you repent, you will not be held accountable for your sin, Allaah willing, and you will be not be punished because of giving birth to this child.
Allaah Knows best.