Repentance from “Family Planning”

Question

It is known that “family planning” is impermissible, and that an operation, the use of contraceptive medicines or ‘azl (withdrawal) out of fear of poverty and scarcity of provision — all these things are prohibited. The question, however, is this: if some half-educated [person] has an operation, and later, when inquiries begin, this respected religious scholar publicly repents in a general gathering in the Jami‘ mosque before a certain respected Mufti, and the respected Mufti, after taking his repentance, declares…

Answer

When repentance has been made with a sincere heart, then, in sha’ Allah, it has been accepted: this is the promise of Allah Most Pure, and no one has the right to say that so-and-so’s repentance is not accepted.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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