{"id":4680,"date":"2021-05-18T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:28:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T08:28:31","slug":"what-is-the-opinion-of-islam-about-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4680\/what-is-the-opinion-of-islam-about-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the opinion of Islam about birth control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Question: What is the opinion of Islam about birth control and stopping procreation? Some people in our family think that it is unlawful; therefore, they procreate in spite of their limited incomes, whereas others think that it is necessary to control birth though they are in a good economical state.<br \/>\nThe answer: Basically, the Muslims should procreate and increase in number as it is understood from the Prophetic traditions. The Prophet (S) said, \u2018Do you not know that I will be proud of you before nations on the Day of Resurrection even of miscarried fetuses\u2026[114]\u2019.<br \/>\nHowever, Islam has taken the different stages and circumstances of people into consideration. Economical conditions, narrow residences, difficulties of upbringing and educating, dangers of deviation from religion, and the problems of controlling people\u2019s affairs in general are factors requiring birth control for some people, but they may not require other people to practice that.<br \/>\nThis is understood from other traditions too. The Prophet (S) said, when predicting some things to take place in a time different from his time, \u2018A time will come to people, in which the best of people will be\u2026 those of less children.[115]\u2019<br \/>\nImam Ali (a.s.) said, \u2018There are three things that are among the worst of calamities: big family, dominance of debts, and chronic diseases.[116]\u2019<br \/>\nIt is understood that a smaller family is better.<br \/>\nImam Ali (a.s.) also said, \u2018(having) few children is one of the two eases.[117]\u2019<br \/>\nWe conclude that this matter (birth control) is permissible and is a personal decision according to the circumstances of a person himself. It is not possible to impose or not to impose the concept of birth control on someone except if it harms others seriously.<br \/>\nIt is thus if there are no imperialist plans behind birth control; otherwise, not controlling birth is obligatory on condition that one can bring up and educate his children properly, lest they become an easy game for the imperialists as mostly happens.<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>[114] Furoo\u2019 al-Kafi, vol.5 p.334.<br \/>\n[115] Kanzol Ummal, vol.16 p.287.<br \/>\n[116] Ghurar al-Hikam, p.364.<br \/>\n[117]Nahjol Balagha, p.153.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer: Basically, the Muslims should  procreate and increase in number as it is understood from the Prophetic  traditions. The Prophet (S) said, &lsquo;Do you not know that I will be proud  of you before nations on the Day of Resurrection even of miscarried  fetuses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7756,7376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-jurisprudence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}