Fathwa, - Using birth control

Question
I know a girl who wants to get married but she wants to finish her
university so she doesn't want children until she finishes university
is it allowed to use condom or pills to avoid having children?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify
that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that
Muhammadis His slave and Messenger.
There is no harm in delaying pregnancy in order to achieve a
permissible benefit as Allaah permitted it for a need.
ImaamMuslimreported that a man came to the Prophetand told him: 'I
have a slave girl who is our servant and I have intercourse with her,
but I do not wish that she becomes pregnant.'So the
Prophetremarked:"You can practice coitus interruption if you so wish."
There are many means for preventing pregnancy, and they differ based
on the physical harm that they might cause, or the violation of
religious limits they include or may lead to, so one has to use the
easiest means. The harm is defined by doctors who specialize in this
field.
The spouses are advised to practice natural planning as one of the
beneficial methods, which is avoiding sexual intercourse when the egg
is ready to be fertilized; the egg is at this stage at regular times,
so one can know this by asking doctors.
Finally, the following matters should be noted:
1( One of the objectives of the Islamic Law in marriage is to have
children, so whenever a Muslim can achieve this objective, he should
not delay it.
2( The study of the woman should meet the religious requirements, for
instance the field of her studies should be in accordance with her
nature. Besides, she should abide by Hijaab when going out, avoid
forbidden mixing of men and women and so forth.
Allaah knows best.

Fathwa, - Wants to prevent additional pregnancies

Question
I have four children. All four have been delivered by C-section. Is
it permissible to have a tubal legation, or for my husband to have a
vasectomy? We are worried about the risks associated with multiple
c-sections. My husband and I would rather that he have the vasectomy,
as it is less complicated than a tubal legation; and I don't react
well to general anesthetic.
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify
that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that
Muhammadis His slave and Messenger.
One of the most important objectives of the Islamic Law is to multiply
the progeny. It is indeed for this reason that Islamic jurisprudence
legislated marrying a fertile woman. Therefore, it is forbidden to
totally prevent pregnancy except in case of necessity. This is
explained in Fataawa: 86253and 83516. Therefore, if it is proven by
trustworthy experienced doctors that getting pregnant is a danger to
your life, and that it is an obligation to permanently cut off
reproduction as a way of removing this danger, then in this case it is
permissible for you to do so.
The ways of preventing pregnancy are various. Some means could
transgress a religious limit or cause a physical harm, so one has to
resort to the least harmful method.
However, it is forbidden for your husband to perform a vasectomy
because the necessity is in relation to the risk of your becoming
pregnant ]and does not pertain to him[, so it is not permissible for
the necessity to exceed its limits to include others. So the ruling in
relation to your husband remains as stated.
Allaah knows best.

Fathwa, - Tubal ligation to prevent pregnancy

Question
I am surgeon, I would like to know about doing tubal ligation for
women to prevent conception )pregnancy( most of them already having
between 8 to 10 children and the operation according to their request
)wife and husband(.
Answer
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and may His blessings and
peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and
Companions. Shariah )Islamic Law( highly recommends Muslims to
reproduce prolifically so as to guarantee some advantages for the
Muslim individual, community, and the Muslim country in general, both
in this life and in the Hereafter. Therefore, the Prophet )peace be
upon him( said:Marry women who are loving and very prolific, for I
shall outnumber the peoples by you. ]Reported byAhmadandAbu Dawoud,
and classified as authentic byAl-Albani[ Muslim scholars have
proclaimed that it is prohibited to cut off reproduction for good or
limit the number of children to be born, as such procedures, no doubt,
contradict the objectives of Shariah. Doing so constitutes a response
to the calls made by the enemies of Islam such as the masons and
others in order to weaken the Muslims and reduce their number. This
Fatwa of prohibition was adopted by some contemporary research centers
and authorities, such as the Council of Senior Scholars of Saudi
Arabia. However, there are certain exceptions to this ruling, such as
the case of a woman whose pregnancy causes her health troubles or
whose delivery causes risks to her life. Such forcing necessities are
to be decided by a trustworthy Muslim doctor. Based on that, one is
not allowed to help others cut their reproduction by blocking )or
tying( the womb or any other means even with the consent of the two
spouses. Hence, to do so or just to help others do it is prohibited
according to Allah's Saying: }...Help you one another in Al Birr and At
Taqwa )virtue, righteousness and piety(; but do not help one another
in sin and transgression. And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in
punishment{ ]5:2[. Allah knows best.

Discover Islam, - Trial and error: punctual equilibrium

Neo-Darwinists propound improbable new scenarios in their efforts to
keep Darwinism alive
Most of the scientists who believe in evolution accept the
neo-Darwinist theory of slow, gradual evolution. In recent decades,
however, a different model has been proposed. Called "punctuated
equilibrium", this model rejects the Darwinist idea of a cumulative,
step-by-step evolution and holds that evolution took place instead in
big, discontinuous "jumps".
The first vociferous defenders of this notion appeared at the
beginning of the 1970s CE. Two American paleontologists, Niles
Eldredge and Stephen Nay Gould, were well aware that the claims of the
neo-Darwinist theory were absolutely refuted by fossil records.
Fossils proved that living organisms did not originate by gradual
evolution, but appeared suddenly and fully-formed. Neo-Darwinists were
living with the fond hope -- they still do -- that the lost
transitional forms would one day be found. Realising that this hope
was groundless, Eldredge and Gould were nevertheless unable to abandon
their evolutionary dogma, so they put forward a new model: punctuated
equilibrium. This is the claim that evolution did not take place as a
result of minor variations but rather in sudden and great changes.
This model was nothing but a model for fantasies. For instance,
European paleontologist O.H. Shindewolf, who led the way for Eldredge
and Gould, claimed that the first bird came out of a reptile egg as a
"gross mutation", that is, as a result of a huge "accident" that took
place in the genetic structure. According to the same theory, some
land-dwelling animals could have turned into giant whales having
undergone a sudden and comprehensive transformation. These claims,
totally contradicting all the rules of genetics, biophysics and
biochemistry are about as scientific as the fairy tales about frogs
turning into princes! Nevertheless, being distressed by the ``crisis
that the neo-Darwinist assertion was in'', some evolutionist
paleontologists embraced this theory, which had the distinction of
being even more bizarre than neo-Darwinism itself.
The only purpose of this model was to provide an explanation for the
unexplained gaps in fossil records that the neo-Darwinist model could
not explain. However, it is hardly rational to attempt to explain the
fossil gap in the evolution of birds with a claim that "a bird popped
all of a sudden out of a reptile egg", because by the evolutionists'
own admission, the evolution of one species to another requires a
great and advantageous change in genetic information. However, no
mutation whatsoever improves the genetic information or adds new
information to it. Thus the "gross mutations" imagined by the
punctuated equilibrium model would only cause "gross", that is "great"
reductions and impairments in the genetic information.
Moreover, the model of "punctuated equilibrium" collapses from the
very first step by its inability to address the question of the origin
of life, which is also the question that refutes the neo-Darwinist
model from the outset. Since not even a single protein can have
originated by chance, the debate over whether organisms made up of
trillions of those proteins have undergone a "punctuated" or "gradual"
evolution is senseless.
In spite of this, the model that comes to mind when "evolution" is
discussed today is still neo-Darwinism, we must first examine the
neo-Darwinist model and then look at the fossil record to test this
model. After that, we will dwell upon the question of the origin of
life, which invalidates both the neo-Darwinist model and all other
evolutionist models such as "evolution by leaps".
Before doing so, it may be useful to remind the reader that the
reality we will be confronting at every stage is that the evolutionary
scenario is a fairytale, a great deceit totally at variance with all
scientific facts and evidence. It is a scenario that has been used to
deceive the world for the past 140 years. Thanks to the latest
scientific discoveries, its continued defence has at last become
impossible.
The Quran states that Allaah will show us His signs, in the world
around us and within ourselves, at which the people of understanding
will have increased faith. Unlike what evolutionist scientists would
have us believe, Allaah has not created the world in vain, it has a
specific purpose and underlying design. In spite of misleading
obscurantist agendas, it is our duty to unravel the truth and expose
falsehood.