Islam and contraception: A missed opportunity

Marriage and procreation is rampant in the world today, but the proper upbringing of the offprings according to Islamic tenets is observed to be low standards. Family planning is a way to curtail rapid reproduction in human society, a practice adopted by many families including Muslims family in the world. This paper aims at looking whether this practice agrees with Islam or contradict it; it gives an overview of the Islamic position on the family planning and modern contraception. The paper relies on secondary sources, through internet and library materials such as journals, magazines, newspapers and textbooks for the study. The study discovered that family planning is divided in to two: Permanent and Temporary, it is permissible to use temporary methods of birth control for the purpose of spacing pregnancies, or preventing pregnancy for a specific period of time, if there is a valid reason, but the permanent method like sterilization is prohibited. The paper recommends Muslims to be very careful in western propaganda on family planning and birth control related issues, and they should ask Islamic scholars for more clarification on modern family planning.

2018

Corresponding Author: Aminu Ibrahim International Journal of Strategic Research in Education, Technology and Humanities |IJSRETH ISSN Print: 2465-731X | ISSN Online: 2467-818X Volume 5, Number 1, August, 2018 IJSRETH | Page 106 http://internationalpolicybrief.org/journals/international-scientific-research-consortium-journals/intl-jrnl-of-strategic-research-in-edu-tech-humanities-vol5-no1-august-2018 Background to the Study Islam provides guidance for Muslims in all the spheres of life, religiously, socially, economically and politically. This is why, Islam comprises set of norms, values and laws that make up the Islamic way of life. Among such norms, values and laws, is the family planning which emphasized the aspect of health education as it has to do with a process of transferring knowledge and skills that will bring about positive change towards a healthy living. Family planning increased level of health awareness among community members means that health problems can be prevente...

The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2006

Al-Afkar Journal of Islamic Studies, 2019

Abstrack Birth control also known as contraception and fertility control are the methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Planning, provision and use of birth control is called family planning. The History of birth control is as old as Islam itself. The Arabs used to practice it during the days of Jahaliyah. After the advent of Islam, the muslims continued the process and is said to have got permission with moderation from the prophet SAW. The moderation he did was to approve the practice of Azl as a measure to birth control. Birth control or family planning is not a new issue rather it has remained a burning issue from the advent of Islam as it is today. It is a concept for all people and all nations of the world irrespective of people's religious alienations.

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2013

The population of the world reached seven billion in 2012. Pakistan's population stands at more than 180 million, is growing rapidly, and has the highest unmet need for family planning (FP) in isolated rural areas. The low usage of contraception in the rural areas of Pakistan correlates with the level of isolation, poverty, illiteracy, and to a large extent, religious misinterpretations/misconceptions. Almost 25% of couples who desired FP services were not receiving them for a variety of reasons of which religion could be one, especially in the rural remote areas where the media is still not reaching and influencing mind-sets. In this scenario, the role of social marketing in bringing about attitudinal and behavioural change among users in underserved areas and gatekeepers and opinion makers in society must not be neglected. The work in promoting FP, contraception and birth spacing requires authentic evidence from similar sociocultural contexts and this endeavour of compiling ca...

Geoinformation in Europe ( …, 2007

Canadian Historical Review, 94, 1, March 2013, p. 1-27, 2013

"At the conquest of New France, the British had already built a long tradition of purchasing Aboriginal land. This policy, made official in the Royal Proclamation of 1763, was implemented in an extensive portion of the Canadian territory, but not in the Saint Lawrence Valley, heart of the former French empire in America, and what is now the province of Quebec. The British, followed by the Canadian government, adopted a policy of unilateral land appropriation in that area, dispossessing the Aboriginals without reliance on a treaty system. This particularity of the Indian land policy in Quebec has given rise to divergent interpretations that rest on the same implicit premise that a structuring legal framework existed, which, when reconstituted, gives meaning to history, either by legitimizing the unilateral dispossession process or by stigmatizing it. This article attempts to locate the process of dispossessing Aboriginal land outside the normative framework imposed by the law. The objective is not to identify a standard to explain why the British did not conclude treaties, but rather to follow a process of legal standardization, in which colonial practice is inscribed, through trial and error, detours, shifts in meaning, and improvisations into a legitimizing framework. Au moment de la conquête de la Nouvelle-France, les Britanniques avaient déjà une longue tradition d’achat de terres autochtones. Cette politique, officialisée par la Proclamation royale de 1763, fut appliquée sur une très grande portion du territoire canadien, mais pas dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent, cœur de l’ancien empire français en Amérique, ni dans l’actuelle province de Québec. Les Britanniques et le gouvernement canadien à leur suite ont adopté une politique d’appropriation territoriale unilatérale dans cette région, dépossédant les Autochtones sans s’appuyer sur quelque système de traités. Cette particularité de la politique relative aux terres indiennes au Québec a donné naissance à des interprétations divergentes qui reposent sur la même prémisse implicite voulant qu’un cadre juridique structurant ait existé, lequel, lorsque reconstitué, donne sens au passé, soit en légitimant le processus de dépossession unilatérale, soit en le stigmatisant. Cet article tente de situer le processus de dépossession des terres autochtones en dehors du cadre normatif imposé par le droit. Il n’entend pas mettre à jour une norme expliquant pourquoi les Britanniques n’ont pas conclu de traités, mais plutôt suivre un processus de normalisation juridique dans lequel la pratique coloniale est inscrite à coup d’essais et d’erreurs, de détours, de redéfinitions et d’improvisations dans un cadre théorique qui lui donne une légitimité."""

Desde una perspectiva analítica de orden sociocultural, este material aborda las formas simbólicas de la narcocultura relacionadas con el mito del Chapo Guzmán, materializadas en las marchas a su favor después de su reaprehensión; así como en los pertrechos simbólicos, en tanto instrumentos que comunican. Mediante el Modelo de análisis para los intercambios estéticos se explica la enunciación de la vestimenta, las mantas y pancartas, y los cuerpos que las portan; los hallazgos evidencian un vacío de autoridad, un Estado omiso. Al documentar los resultados, se tendrán condiciones para construir conocimiento en una articulación entre la cultura y la política, en tanto son campos de las ciencias sociales.

2005

1 INTRODUCTION A self-supporting church or institution requires its members to contribute for its development and survival. At any instance, if the church at any locality wants to be molded by a self-supporting spirit, its internal sources of finance should be sufficient to run all its operations. This brings the need for the church to know the ability and a possibility of being supported and financed by its members. This book has been prompted by the fact that many catholic dioceses rely on contributions from the Christians as their source of finance for running their operations. The issue at stake is that, it has been realized that some dioceses do not make scientific studies about knowing exactly the contribution made by this source of finance to the gross revenues obtained within a financial year.