“My Body, My Choice”? — A Refutation From Divine Ownership in Islam

“My Body, My Choice”? — A Refutation From Divine Ownership in Islam

They say: “My body, my choice.”

But pause for just a moment and ask yourself:

Did you create your own body?

Did you design your organs, choose your genes, select your skin color?

Did you place the soul inside yourself?

You didn’t choose your heartbeat.

You didn’t author your DNA.

You didn’t breathe life into yourself.

So how can anyone claim ownership of something they had no hand in creating?

In Islam, the body is not property — it is a divine trust.

Allah created it. Allah owns it. Allah will take it back.

“And do not kill yourselves. Indeed, Allah is ever Merciful to you.”

— Surah An-Nisā’ 4:29

This verse doesn’t just prohibit suicide — it reaffirms who the real Owner is.

Not you. Not the state. Not society.

But Allah. Alone.

Islam teaches that your body is a gift with responsibility, not a toy for reckless freedom.

Liberalism teaches:

“You are your own master. Do as you desire.”

Islam teaches:

“You are a servant of the One who fashioned you from nothing. Submit to Him.”

In the name of “bodily freedom” today:

— Innocent unborn souls are extinguished

— Gender is denied and mutilated

— Modesty is mocked

— Zina is normalized

All because “It’s my choice.”

But in Islam, choice is bound by accountability, and freedom is defined by obedience to the Creator, not the nafs.

Claiming “my body, my choice” is the modern-day Pharaoh's cry —

“I am your lord, the most high!”

[Sūrah an-Nāziʿāt 79:24]

True liberation is not in doing whatever you want.

True liberation is in serving the One who made you.

And there is no honor — no dignity — greater than being a ʿabd of Allah.

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