The Ruling on Using Birth Control Pills Without the Husband's Permission
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Question:
She says about herself: I am ill, and the doctors have diagnosed my condition, which is a heart defect. My husband wants children, but out of fear for my health, I started using birth control pills. Am I right, or what? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This requires consulting the experts among the doctors. If there is harm to you, and a danger in leaving off these pills, then there is no blame on you. But if these pills are not necessary, and your husband is not pleased with them, then leave them off.
The summary is that this returns to asking the experts among the doctors. If you are in dire necessity for this, then there is nothing wrong with it. But if there is a way to do without them, the obligatory thing is to leave them off, unless the husband permits their use. We ask Allah for health for us and for you.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, with the observation—Shaykh—that the husband is the one mentioned in the first question?
The Shaykh: And as for what came before, as long as he is the husband mentioned, it was previously stated that it is not permissible for you to consider him a husband as long as he is in this state. You may use what benefits you and alleviates the harm from you, even if he is not pleased, because he is not a husband in reality, as long as he leaves off the prayer, or engages in something else that necessitates his disbelief, such as insulting the religion, or engaging in other things from the types of disbelief. As for drinking intoxicants, if he does not consider it lawful, but does it, and he knows that it is forbidden, and he does it in obedience to his desire, then he is thereby a sinner and an open sinner, and he does not become a disbeliever. But for you—as mentioned before—is to seek divorce. But if he considers it lawful, seeing that it is lawful and that there is nothing wrong with it, he becomes a disbeliever by that. We ask Allah for health. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
She says about herself: I am ill, and the doctors have diagnosed my condition, which is a heart defect. My husband wants children, but out of fear for my health, I started using birth control pills. Am I right, or what? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This requires consulting the experts among the doctors. If there is harm to you, and a danger in leaving off these pills, then there is no blame on you. But if these pills are not necessary, and your husband is not pleased with them, then leave them off.
The summary is that this returns to asking the experts among the doctors. If you are in dire necessity for this, then there is nothing wrong with it. But if there is a way to do without them, the obligatory thing is to leave them off, unless the husband permits their use. We ask Allah for health for us and for you.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, with the observation—Shaykh—that the husband is the one mentioned in the first question?
The Shaykh: And as for what came before, as long as he is the husband mentioned, it was previously stated that it is not permissible for you to consider him a husband as long as he is in this state. You may use what benefits you and alleviates the harm from you, even if he is not pleased, because he is not a husband in reality, as long as he leaves off the prayer, or engages in something else that necessitates his disbelief, such as insulting the religion, or engaging in other things from the types of disbelief. As for drinking intoxicants, if he does not consider it lawful, but does it, and he knows that it is forbidden, and he does it in obedience to his desire, then he is thereby a sinner and an open sinner, and he does not become a disbeliever. But for you—as mentioned before—is to seek divorce. But if he considers it lawful, seeing that it is lawful and that there is nothing wrong with it, he becomes a disbeliever by that. We ask Allah for health. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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