Islamic Edicts On Family Planning

This book is a compilation of rulings given by the Maraji' on issues related to family planning, like birth control, its various applications and procedures, and abortion. It also includes rulings by Sunni scholars on these topics.

The uncontrolled growth of population this century has posed a huge dilemma and has brought with it irreversible damages to all aspects of life - including the environment that people live in and the health and welfare of the family. Keeping in mind that if the economic, societal and cultural factors do not expand to keep in line with the growth of population, then this population growth will definitely have a negative impact on the well being of the entire society.


Where as 150 years ago, the population of the world was a mere 500,000,000 people, at the present time, there are cur-rently over 6,000,000,000,000 people inhabiting the planet Earth and this number is on the increase as can be seen by the current growth of population of the world. We must also keep in mind that 90% of this increase has taken place within the non-Industrialized countries of the world.


Iran is also one of those countries in the category of those whose population growth has led to a change within the soci-ety. Due to improvement of the state of health and medicine at the present time in comparison to the past, the number of deaths and mortalities especially the death and mortality rate amongst children has dropped - however the number of births within the country has also gone up.

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