The Rule of Birth Control from the Point of View of Islamic Jurisprudence

Abstract

The current paper is “Sentence of limiting Generation from the Islamic Jurisprudence Perspective”. The restriction of generation is an Islamic jurisprudence term, and is to stop and to ban the pregnancy and delivery, after having the adequate amount of children. It differs from the preventing the pregnancy and the family planning. The “Restriction of Generation” was officially proposed as the restriction of generation and the Principle of Population by a British economist scholar in England in 1798. Later, Malthusian theory was promoted by a French scholar Francis Place and a famous American doctor Charles Norton. The main methods of the restriction of generation are: extraction of the women’s uterus, neutralization of the sexual cells of the couples, utilization of the tools and medication to prevent pregnancy and the isolation of couples’ form each other; Islamic tradition, has focused and emphasized on having children and increasing the human being’ generation. Therefore, according to the classic and contemporary Islamic scholars, the restriction of generation, form the very beginning of the marriage, except the particular conditions and the presence of legal urgencies, like, the existence the threats to the mother life..., and due to family, economically and health and social issues, committing this is considered to be illegal. But, family planning according to the family, economically, health, and social challenges has been permitted. This paper aims: to introduce the restriction of generation, to identify the legal and illegal conditions for the restriction of generation. This library research was done referring to the most authentic and reliable resources to increase the validity the quality of this paper.