Fertility and Contraception

• Is it permissible to use contraception due to low income, poor health, and the fear of increased burdens with many children?
• Is it permissible to tie the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy in cases of repeated cesarean sections and the existence of health contraindications to using other birth control methods?
• What is the ruling on a female gynecologist working in the field of family planning and the financial gain derived from it?
• How is reproduction in Islam carried out?
• Is it permissible for a married woman to insert an IUD for contraception without her husband's knowledge, if he insists on her repeated pregnancies despite her physical and psychological exhaustion and her preoccupation with work?
• Is it permissible for a woman afflicted with Marfan syndrome to conceive and bear children, given the significant danger to her life, reaching 90%, and her need for an abortion if she becomes pregnant to save her life, with only a 10% success rate?
• What is the ruling on a husband preventing his wife from going out, moving, and traveling, despite her old age and need for treatment, and her desire to attend her children's engagements? And what is the ruling on her traveling without his permission?
• Do the spouses incur sin if they perform a temporary tubal ligation for the wife (temporary sterilization) for the purpose of birth control after trying all other methods and their failure for medical reasons, and what is the expiation for that if sin is incurred?
• What is the Sharia ruling on using birth control methods to regulate conception, which include preventing the formation of a woman's ovum, preventing the meeting of the two ova, and preventing the attachment of the zygote to the uterus?
• Is it true that contraception is forbidden in Islam, and that there is a punishment for women because of it?
• Is it permissible to marry a second wife with certain conditions, such as not having children, or that she contributes to living expenses, knowing of the long absence from the first wife, and is this considered just between the two wives?
• Is it permissible for a woman to take contraceptives to avoid pregnancy, which might complicate matters further with her husband, especially in light of ongoing marital problems and the absence of tranquility, security, and financial support?
• Does the IUD prevent pregnancy from the beginning or does it kill the sperm, and what is the legitimacy of its use and other means of contraception?
• Is it permissible to abort a pregnancy in its early weeks because the mother has young children and cannot bear the sole responsibility of raising them?
• Is it permissible to abort a pregnancy in its first month, given that previous deliveries were by Cesarean section, and in the third delivery, the questioner was asked to undergo tubal ligation to prevent pregnancy due to the danger of repeated Cesarean sections?
• Why do jurists differentiate in ruling between coitus interruptus (al-azl) and contraception by modern means, even though modern means may achieve benefits that coitus interruptus does not, such as the woman's complete enjoyment?
• Is it permissible for a woman to insert an IUD herself without medical supervision, and would the female doctor be sinful and her earnings unlawful for inserting IUDs for women, knowing that the IUD is forbidden due to the exposure of the 'awrah?
• How is birth control regulated and the period between each birth determined, and on what basis?
• Is it permissible to obey one's husband in matters of birth control, and is it forbidden to become pregnant without his consent, given that I have three daughters and no sons?
• Is it permissible for a Muslim female doctor who supports her family to work in a mixed hospital examining both men and women, or to work in a family planning center that is restricted to women but requires her to perform or participate in abortions if the fetus is not older than twelve weeks?
• Can birth control delay the birth of a child, or is its birth date predetermined and unchangeable?
• Is it permissible to postpone conception, and for how long? What are the best methods of contraception and abortion for a fetus in its early days? What is the effect of abortion on a woman's fertility? And what is the opinion of the majority of scholars on this matter?
• Is it permissible to use contraception without the husband's knowledge if the husband is violent and insists on having children, while the wife suffers from health issues and does not wish to become pregnant again?
• Is it permissible for a wife to use contraceptives without her husband's knowledge, given that he agrees to postpone pregnancy but they differ on the method of contraception?