Waleed Basyouni – Permanent Sterilization – Ask The

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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.