Waleed Basyouni – Permanent Sterilization – Ask The
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The Clear Lake Islamic Center is offering a series of recorded lectures and a message channel for their "verbal guidance" program, which includes a temporary method for women and men that is not allowed in Islam. The method is not permanent and can lead to harm to women and children, and some may not be able to use it for their life. The speaker suggests that "overwhelming" methods for women may cause complications for people who have children and may need to close the pregnancy door. The psychological impact of having children is discussed, and advice is given to the audience to get an actual fatwa from their father to resolve the situation.
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Assalamu, Alaikum, wa ala Ali. He was a dear brothers and sisters
and community members of Clear Lake Islamic Center, we have
started the program, which we call as the Imam, in which we receive
your questions, and then we'll meet here and answer these
questions and post them on our message channel. The way we can
receive a question is by sending your emails to ask the Imam at the
message.org that is one word, ask the Imam at the message.org
What about permanent sterilizing? Sterilization, like vasectomy,
vasectomy, or for the woman to tie the tubes permanently. Is that
allowed in Islam, with a reason or without a reason when they could
not handle the convenient or the conventional birth control
methods?
But Allah Um, first of
all, there is an agreement among all Muslim scholars that
that
is haram when you pick you put you make something that permanently
will prevent you from being able to impregnate women, or you became
pregnant, and they asked the Prophet about sterilization, and
he said it's not allowed. Or castration, castration, he said
it's not allowed. So from this, the scholars said about these
modern methods that some people use today
to
stop pregnancy in a way that became permanent. We said it is
not allowed because of that hadith of the Prophet salallahu. But also
Rahim Allah said the exception can be made with there is a medical
reason, a valid medical reason, so the mother is live at risk. You
know, there is like risk has to do with her, or there is a genetic
disorders, or something of that or that nature, she is allowed to do
that, especially if she cannot use other methods.
When
it comes to men we call, we call that vasectomy, vasectomy. What I
know vasectomy is not permanent. You can reverse that. So just from
the little bit, I know that it can be reversed, so, but we talk about
something that is hard reverse, or like most likely will not be
reversed, like removing the uterus, uterus, or tying it to the
woman. And in this case, the biggest problem, my opinion, that
I see a lot of people deal with. She said, I don't have America.
It's not a health, life and death kind of situation. But you know
what, chef, I have five kids, and you know what, I'm just
overwhelmed. I can't handle this. I'm, like, having three kids
already. Like, Young. I'm like, in my late 30s. Yes, I still can get
pregnant, but you know what, I'm not having kids. Most of the
people that the fatwa, the major, the majority of the scholars, will
say she's not allowed to use this kind of method. But in my opinion,
which is so interesting that the same people who are doing that,
they allowed her to use a temporary method for the rest of
her life, yeah, which becomes like permanent, which become like
permanent, in my opinion, this is just going to do, right? So if we
see a case where a woman in certain age, you know, and you
have enough children, yes, I understand they said, What if she
got divorced? What if her husband died? What if she married again?
Maybe she want to have children, yes, but Sharia in Islamic ruling
is always about the not the rare scenarios. Yes, not the exception.
So if, if we're going to go this route, we're not going to be able
to give fatwa in general in because always there is any
general statement, there is exceptions can be made. So my
opinion, if there is she have enough children, and she is
another point to look at it psychological effect, because the
harm is not only physical, it's not only alive and death, it's
also psychological.
Some people might go into deep depression, might not able to
handle children, might be able to if they don't do it. You mean it
might, yeah, if you have children psychologically, they're not able
to do that. And she reached to a level which is, cannot handle
children anymore. Some people have eight, nine kids, and she still
can get pregnant. Yeah, you know, especially in living in this time
in society, where things are more complicated than it to be before
and much harder than before.
So in cases like this, when I see case by case, I said, Yes, I gave
fat with several family they asked me, and I said, yes, you're
allowed to use that method, you know.
But I don't want this to be like the norm. This is like, you know?
What?
I have, you know, Alhamdulillah, I have two kids and two cats. I'm
good, you know, that's the family. That's not how it works. You know,
in a Muslim family, and I'm not going to put a number also for the
number of kids, but you know, everybody knows their their
situation, everybody knows their needs. And when there is, they
think that this is can cause more harm to the children than than to
the family. Then benefit. You can use that method because also this
is, will close the door for abortion, close the door for, you
know,
people ask, How can I port the child or get rid of the pregnancy?
And I want to say final thing, final thought about this. What I
really don't appreciate
when I get a couple Okay, and the pressure become all about the
woman Okay, and the husband is not willing to do anything but to make
her pregnant, or to maybe spend money, but all the load of the
work, all the psychological effort that associated with it, all the
the hard work of raising, actual parenting on the mother, on the
mother. Yes, you know, I think a lot of this problem will be solved
if we find a great deal of cooperation more equitable, yeah,
you know. And also pacing the children, maybe, you know, not all
of them at one point and again. If you can use a method that is not
going to cause permit
sterilization, it's much, much better. But if there's the only
solution that you find, and you find it, and you really have not
number of children that you can handle. You know, you and your
husband agreed 100% on that. I don't see Inshallah, personally, I
give it to in a limited capacity. So I advise you to talk to me
personally and to somebody and personally to explain the detailed
situation of your case. So it's not a blanket permission. It's
just a case by case situation, and that, if you're thinking of it,
you need to talk to the sheik and get an actual fatwa from him,
because that will be considering the situation from all angles.
Does that. But what I think it's beneficial to the community to
know, also, I know to the majority of the scholars who give that
blank statement not allowed unless it's alive and that situation or
harmful physical, I think there is more nuance to this than just
black and white like that, right? Okay, that would be, that was, I
mean, I learned a lot from this.
Thank you.