What is the ruling on coitus interruptus in Islam? What is the ruling on taking contraceptive pills? What is the purpose of coitus interruptus?
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The Shaykh : What is the ruling on coitus interruptus in Islam? What is the ruling on taking contraceptive pills? What is the purpose of coitus interruptus?
Before answering these three questions, I want to draw your attention to the fact that the questioner wrote a question mark after each question, using the European style, which is written from left to right! The correct way when writing in Arabic is to start from right to left, right? So the question mark starts here and goes like this, not like that. This is one of the etiquettes of writing in Islam. And what made us start from left to right? It is our habit of writing in the European style. I think some might say: What is this strictness, O Messenger of Allah? Since you have denied the permissibility of wiping over socks and the conditions they set for it! We say: There is no strictness here; because it is a single operation. You want to write a question mark, so instead of starting in the disbeliever’s way from left to right; start from right to left. The price is the same, the cost is the same, and the result is the same; so there is no strictness, but rather it is guidance, and this is a reminder.
And this has other examples as well, and there is no harm in ... mentioning some of them, a reminder[Qaf 50:37]. For example, in the middle of a line, within the lines, a phrase where the author or the reader focuses on it, they place a horizontal line from below; this is an Islamic error. It must be placed from above. Do you know this style? The horizontal line that exists in many difficult books in some phrases must be placed above the phrase, not below the phrase. Placing the line below the phrase is a foreign method, placing the line above the phrase is a Salafi hadith method. The scholars of hadith are the ones who place this mark, but previously they placed it like a line like this, then a line upward, then a long line like this; so these are etiquettes that we must pay attention to.
I now return to answering the question:
The ruling on coitus interruptus in Islam:
The ruling differs depending on the one who practices coitus interruptus, and detailing this is not the place here; because we have many questions. Rather, if coitus interruptus is for a Sharia reason or a lawful cause, it is permissible, and if it is for an unlawful cause, it is not permissible. I want to speak briefly now about the latter type; which is if the motive for coitus interruptus is an unlawful cause, which is fear of poverty. A person among the people has a salary of two hundred notes, the first child comes, and the second child, and the third child, and the salary remains the same! He thinks in the European way that does not believe in the divine decree and destiny of Allah and His mercy and His management of His creation. He calculates and strikes - as it is said - fives in sixes. Now he has two or three children, and the salary is the same. Tomorrow he will have five or six, where will he get from to provide for their livelihood?! This is, of course, talk that circulates in the hearts of many of those who are called Muslims, and a large portion of them may be geographical Muslims. It must be known by whoever among them wants to know that this thinking should not be hesitated over, but rather it should not even cross the mind of a Muslim at all as long as he believes in the saying of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - :[Az-Zukhruf 43:32], and as long as he believes in [Adh-Dhariyat 51:56-58].
The Muslim who believes in these divine realities never thinks about what children will come to him or what is hidden for him in the unseen of salary or income. And it is strange = -- ... -- = I return to completing the previous discussion, so the Muslim who believes in these Sharia realities as we mentioned should not be driven by the motive of the Jahiliyyah creed that does not believe in the divine decree and destiny of Allah, and one of the effects of which was what Allah - Mighty and Majestic - mentioned in the Noble Qur'an regarding the burying alive of girls by the polytheists. So the admonisher of Allah in the heart of the Muslim, when he says in the noble verse:[Al-Isra 17:31] "We provide for you and them" . So, here, and you?
Those present : ... .
The Shaykh : We provide for you and them?
Those present : .
The Shaykh :[Al-Isra 17:31], so the one who practices coitus interruptus with this intention is doing and working the work of the first Jahiliyyah, but with a slight difference; that Jahili did not have the civilization of that era to help him with regulated, organized coitus interruptus; and so he would satisfy his desire and then his wife would go away pregnant, and he would eventually be forced to kill the child out of fear of poverty. But today, because of the means that science has facilitated, and often science facilitates means that are not among the interests of man, but rather among his harms, and this matter does not need explanation. From that, for example, are the means taken regarding prostitutes so that they are not affected by the contagious disease syphilis. This is, of course, if not for this science they claimed, fornication would not have spread among women due to such encouragement by protecting them from contagious diseases.
Likewise, means have been found today that achieve coitus interruptus for the person, and it is like an automatic guaranteed method, often one hundred percent. So we must look at what drove this Muslim person to coitus interruptus? If it is the cause of fear of poverty, he is attached to the polytheists who did not believe in the divine decree of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - and His destiny.
And it is strange that is reported about these people because of their distance from what concerns them of the matters of knowledge, you find the poor man with the limited salary, and yet Allah provides him with child after child and the salary is the same, but nevertheless the children are living, Allah is responsible for their provision; because He said: "Indeed, He is the Provider"?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
Another questioner :[Adh-Dhariyat 51:58] .
The Shaykh :[Adh-Dhariyat 51:58] in verification of this noble verse. Then some people may suspect: O my brother, if their father dies, who will support them, who will provide for their living? He forgets or ignores, and I think many of them forget and are ignorant that the great inventors and the great scholars were originally poor! And there may be orphans among them, and there may be slaves among them, slaves who were enslaved, and yet they became among the great scholars afterwards. People forget these facts, and they are real, cosmic facts. Then they resort to means that do not benefit them, as the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - indicated to that in the hadith of Thabit; a man came to the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - - and this is the answer to a previous question regarding a Sharia reason for the permissibility of coitus interruptus - a man came to the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - saying: He has a slave girl - meaning: a female slave - and he naturally has intercourse with her, and he does not want her to become pregnant from him; so is it permissible for him to practice coitus interruptus with her? He said: or as he said - peace and blessings be upon him - this is the meaning of the hadith. The man came after a period and said: O Messenger of Allah, my slave girl has become pregnant. He said to him: Did I not tell you! That what is decreed will happen, meaning the man was overcome by his affair, so the water preceded him, and she went away pregnant from him! So destiny is the dominant one, and even some of the means, as I mentioned earlier, some of the scientific medical means today, in colloquial expression, "they bypass," they do not succeed, why? For the decree of Allah to proceed despite people, despite what? Their efforts and their material means.
In summary: So coitus interruptus is permissible if the motive for it is Sharia, like the previous cause, which is a slave girl who does not want to become pregnant from him; because if she gives him a child, and he may be forced to sell her, so what does she become? Sold, and he has a child from her, and there are other causes he does not like her to become pregnant from him like this child, so the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - permitted the Companions to do such a thing.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, if there is an opinion from a Muslim doctor that pregnancy will harm her, this is considered a Sharia excuse.
What is the ruling on taking contraceptive pills?
This question is appended to the previous question and the answer is taken from it.
What is the purpose of coitus interruptus? Likewise.
The questioner : Professor, coitus interruptus in the Jahiliyyah means ...
The Shaykh: Yes.
Before answering these three questions, I want to draw your attention to the fact that the questioner wrote a question mark after each question, using the European style, which is written from left to right! The correct way when writing in Arabic is to start from right to left, right? So the question mark starts here and goes like this, not like that. This is one of the etiquettes of writing in Islam. And what made us start from left to right? It is our habit of writing in the European style. I think some might say: What is this strictness, O Messenger of Allah? Since you have denied the permissibility of wiping over socks and the conditions they set for it! We say: There is no strictness here; because it is a single operation. You want to write a question mark, so instead of starting in the disbeliever’s way from left to right; start from right to left. The price is the same, the cost is the same, and the result is the same; so there is no strictness, but rather it is guidance, and this is a reminder.
And this has other examples as well, and there is no harm in ... mentioning some of them, a reminder
for whoever has a heart or who listens while he is present [in mind].
لِمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ وَهُوَ شَهِيدٌI now return to answering the question:
The ruling on coitus interruptus in Islam:
The ruling differs depending on the one who practices coitus interruptus, and detailing this is not the place here; because we have many questions. Rather, if coitus interruptus is for a Sharia reason or a lawful cause, it is permissible, and if it is for an unlawful cause, it is not permissible. I want to speak briefly now about the latter type; which is if the motive for coitus interruptus is an unlawful cause, which is fear of poverty. A person among the people has a salary of two hundred notes, the first child comes, and the second child, and the third child, and the salary remains the same! He thinks in the European way that does not believe in the divine decree and destiny of Allah and His mercy and His management of His creation. He calculates and strikes - as it is said - fives in sixes. Now he has two or three children, and the salary is the same. Tomorrow he will have five or six, where will he get from to provide for their livelihood?! This is, of course, talk that circulates in the hearts of many of those who are called Muslims, and a large portion of them may be geographical Muslims. It must be known by whoever among them wants to know that this thinking should not be hesitated over, but rather it should not even cross the mind of a Muslim at all as long as he believes in the saying of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - :
It is We who have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of this world
نَحْنُ قَسَمْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَعِيشَتَهُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا(56) And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me. (57) I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me. (58) Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ * مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُمْ مِنْ رِزْقٍ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ يُطْعِمُونِ * إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُThe Muslim who believes in these divine realities never thinks about what children will come to him or what is hidden for him in the unseen of salary or income. And it is strange = -- ... -- = I return to completing the previous discussion, so the Muslim who believes in these Sharia realities as we mentioned should not be driven by the motive of the Jahiliyyah creed that does not believe in the divine decree and destiny of Allah, and one of the effects of which was what Allah - Mighty and Majestic - mentioned in the Noble Qur'an regarding the burying alive of girls by the polytheists. So the admonisher of Allah in the heart of the Muslim, when he says in the noble verse:
And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ نَحْنُIndeed, their killing was a great sin
إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًاThose present : ... .
The Shaykh : We provide for you and them?
Those present :
We provide for them
نَرْزُقُهُمْThe Shaykh :
We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great sin.
نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًاLikewise, means have been found today that achieve coitus interruptus for the person, and it is like an automatic guaranteed method, often one hundred percent. So we must look at what drove this Muslim person to coitus interruptus? If it is the cause of fear of poverty, he is attached to the polytheists who did not believe in the divine decree of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - and His destiny.
And it is strange that is reported about these people because of their distance from what concerns them of the matters of knowledge, you find the poor man with the limited salary, and yet Allah provides him with child after child and the salary is the same, but nevertheless the children are living, Allah is responsible for their provision; because He said: "Indeed, He is the Provider"?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
Another questioner :
Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider
إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُThe Shaykh :
Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُIt is not a problem for you not to practice coitus interruptus, and what is decreed will come to pass
لا عليك ألَّا تعزل ، وما كان مقدَّرًا فسيكونIn summary: So coitus interruptus is permissible if the motive for it is Sharia, like the previous cause, which is a slave girl who does not want to become pregnant from him; because if she gives him a child, and he may be forced to sell her, so what does she become? Sold, and he has a child from her, and there are other causes he does not like her to become pregnant from him like this child, so the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - permitted the Companions to do such a thing.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, if there is an opinion from a Muslim doctor that pregnancy will harm her, this is considered a Sharia excuse.
What is the ruling on taking contraceptive pills?
This question is appended to the previous question and the answer is taken from it.
What is the purpose of coitus interruptus? Likewise.
The questioner : Professor, coitus interruptus in the Jahiliyyah means ...
The Shaykh: Yes.
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