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ইছলামী বিগ্যানের বিশেষ আবিষ্কার! নারীর গর্ভধারণকাল চার বছর দীর্ঘ হতে পারে!

পোনে দুই মিনিটের ভিডিও। ট্র্যান্সক্রিপ্টও আছে।

Following are excerpts from a TV debate on sex education in the Arab world, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 11, 2009. 

Al-Azhar university scholar Ibrahim Al-Khouli: What [the imam] Malik and [the imam] Al-Shafi'i said about the minimum and maximum terms of pregnancy is based on life experience. They set the principles according to the norm.

Khaled Muntaser: What, in the past pregnancy lasted four years and now only nine months?

Ibrahim Al-Khouli: I didn't say that.

Khaled Muntaser: So what life experience are you talking about?

Ibrahim Al-Khouli: You're not listening to me.

Khaled Muntaser: This is about science.

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Ibrahim Al-Khouli: Some books of jurisprudence say that pregnancy lasts four years, while others – like Ibn Hazm and Averroes, who are among the greatest jurisprudents – say the norm for people is nine months.

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A fetus can spend more than nine months [in the womb]. This happens in cattle. A cow can become pregnant and give birth...

Khaled Muntaser: Are we talking about cattle now?!

Ibrahim Al-Khouli: Allow me!

Khaled Muntaser: Next thing you'll bring us the elephant. What cattle are you talking about?

Ibrahim Al-Khouli: You people turn human into cattle.

Cows are pregnant for nine months. Sometimes it lasts for ten months. That's the truth. It's very normal, but rare.

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It was the Koran that taught the world to respect science, man. Before that, Europe had not heard about science and knew nothing about it. We are the ones who taught it about science.