Birth control

Question

Is birth control permissible or not? If it is not permissible, as is commonly known, then what is the reason for that? Is birth control not established by this passage of Fath al-Mulhim: [ar]وَالْفِرَارُ مِنْ حُصُولِ الْوَلَدِ يَكُونُ لِأَسْبَابٍ: مِنْهَا خَشْيَةُ عُلُوقِ الزَّوْجَةِ الْأَمَةِ لِئَلَّا يَصِيرَ الْوَلَدُ رَقِيقًا، أَوْ خَشْيَةُ دُخُولِ الضَّرَرِ عَلَى الْوَلَدِ الْمُرْضَعِ إِذَا كَانَتِ الْمَوْطُوءَةُ مُرْضِعَةً، أَوْ فِرَارًا مِنْ كَثْرَةِ الْعِيَالِ إِذَا كَانَ الرَّجُلُ مُقِلًّا فَيَرْغَبُ عَنْ…

Answer

Since in the quoted passage of Fath al-Mulhim, after listing the causes of ʿazl, it is explicitly stated: [ar]وَكُلُّ ذَلِكَ لَا يُغْنِي شَيْئًا[/ar] “And none of that avails anything,” what room is left for this question? Birth control is not established by this passage of Fath al-Mulhim.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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