Is family planning permissible?
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The questioner: "Tala'ik," meaning family planning; is it lawful?
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner: Tala'ik.
The Shaykh: Tala'ik?
The questioner: Yes, tala'ik, it is a Halaqi dialect term.
The Shaykh: Yes, it is a Halaqi dialect term.
Another questioner: Delaying the...
The questioner: Is it lawful or forbidden? And what is the evidence for that?
The Shaykh: The answer is that this regulation, which they call today "family planning," I have seen in Morocco large billboards spanning the width of the street that read "Family Planning Week," with a picture of a father and his wife, each holding a child; meaning four people only, but missing from the picture is their dog, their fifth member [everyone laughs!], their fifth member is their dog!!
Yes, this family planning, I believe, is all inspired by the West, which wants to destroy the Muslims through treachery, and in the vein of putting poison in the fat; that this family planning is for the benefit of the Muslims.
So I say: This collective, popular family planning is not permissible in Islam. It is sufficient that it responds to the desires of the disbelievers, the enemies of Islam, and does not respond to the desire of the Master of the Muslims, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he said:, and when he permitted, or rather I say: recommended, for every man to marry more than one woman.
Do you like these, or are these not going well?
Another questioner: Dangerous, Professor!!
The Shaykh: The goods are not moving...
Another questioner: Recommended?
The Shaykh: Yes.
I said: He permitted it; rather, he recommended for the man to marry more than one woman; this is due to His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He):[An-Nisa 4:3] first, and second: because if He commanded marrying one fertile woman for the purpose mentioned in the hadith: Sunan al-Bayhaqi 10:852, there is no doubt that boasting would be realized for him in its broadest meanings if he married more than one woman.
Of course, this entire guidance is unacceptable in the present age, even from those who claim to call to Islam; because they want to bring Islam closer to the European disbelievers, an Islam that is Americanized or Westernized—if the expression is correct—or Westernized to the extent that it enters their minds. And a Muslim is not proud of his religion unless he presents it without any change and without any alteration, but rather without any decoration or embellishment; because the purity of Islam by its nature and essence is sufficient to call people to enter the religion of Allah in groups, as they entered the religion of Allah in groups at the beginning of Islam. And this matter must be realized more than it was realized before, as our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) said in the Qur'an:[At-Tawbah 9:33].
So this collective regulation is definitely not permissible. As for—and I do not want to call it a regulation either—and as for a man's coitus interruptus with his wife for a temporary and personal matter that does not spread to others, it is his excuse; if his excuse is prescribed, then he has that right, otherwise, if he practices coitus interruptus and limits the offspring and reduces them for any of the reasons that are innovated today or newly introduced, for what purpose? By Allah, a man with a limited income, is he and one daughter or one son living despite his will? So how if another child comes to him?! He will cut off his life before the spirit is even breathed into it; so this motive is pre-Islamic without a doubt,[Al-Isra 17:31], so a man's coitus interruptus with his wife with this motive is imitating the disbelievers, whom this same motive incited to kill the soul that Allah has forbidden without right.
Other than that?
The questioner: In a follow-up, please proceed.
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner: Tala'ik.
The Shaykh: Tala'ik?
The questioner: Yes, tala'ik, it is a Halaqi dialect term.
The Shaykh: Yes, it is a Halaqi dialect term.
Another questioner: Delaying the...
The questioner: Is it lawful or forbidden? And what is the evidence for that?
The Shaykh: The answer is that this regulation, which they call today "family planning," I have seen in Morocco large billboards spanning the width of the street that read "Family Planning Week," with a picture of a father and his wife, each holding a child; meaning four people only, but missing from the picture is their dog, their fifth member [everyone laughs!], their fifth member is their dog!!
Yes, this family planning, I believe, is all inspired by the West, which wants to destroy the Muslims through treachery, and in the vein of putting poison in the fat; that this family planning is for the benefit of the Muslims.
So I say: This collective, popular family planning is not permissible in Islam. It is sufficient that it responds to the desires of the disbelievers, the enemies of Islam, and does not respond to the desire of the Master of the Muslims, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he said:
Marry the loving and the fertile; for I shall boast with you before the nations on the Day of Resurrection.
تزوَّجوا الودود الولود ؛ فإني مباهٍ بكم الأمم يوم القيامةDo you like these, or are these not going well?
Another questioner: Dangerous, Professor!!
The Shaykh: The goods are not moving...
Another questioner: Recommended?
The Shaykh: Yes.
I said: He permitted it; rather, he recommended for the man to marry more than one woman; this is due to His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He):
then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four
فَانْكِحُوا مَا طَابَ لَكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ مَثْنَى وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَFor I will boast with you before the nations on the Day of Resurrection
فإني مباهٍ بكم الأمم يوم القيامةOf course, this entire guidance is unacceptable in the present age, even from those who claim to call to Islam; because they want to bring Islam closer to the European disbelievers, an Islam that is Americanized or Westernized—if the expression is correct—or Westernized to the extent that it enters their minds. And a Muslim is not proud of his religion unless he presents it without any change and without any alteration, but rather without any decoration or embellishment; because the purity of Islam by its nature and essence is sufficient to call people to enter the religion of Allah in groups, as they entered the religion of Allah in groups at the beginning of Islam. And this matter must be realized more than it was realized before, as our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) said in the Qur'an:
It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it.
هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَSo this collective regulation is definitely not permissible. As for—and I do not want to call it a regulation either—and as for a man's coitus interruptus with his wife for a temporary and personal matter that does not spread to others, it is his excuse; if his excuse is prescribed, then he has that right, otherwise, if he practices coitus interruptus and limits the offspring and reduces them for any of the reasons that are innovated today or newly introduced, for what purpose? By Allah, a man with a limited income, is he and one daughter or one son living despite his will? So how if another child comes to him?! He will cut off his life before the spirit is even breathed into it; so this motive is pre-Islamic without a doubt,
And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْOther than that?
The questioner: In a follow-up, please proceed.
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