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Surrogate motherhood is a by-product of the artificial insemination. It has created great controversy in the legal and ethical circles around the world, especially so after the baby 'M' case of 1987. Surrogate motherhood means that a woman allows a f...

Surrogate motherhood is a by-product of the artifi...

It will be of interest to know that our mujtahids are keeping themselves ahead of scientific technology in deciding the religious and ethical issues about human reproduction. While talking about artificial insemination, they also talk of the followin...

It will be of interest to know that our mujtahids ...

The first two methods were for cases where the hubands sperms lacked in quality or quantity. IVF is a technique used mostly for women whose fallopian tubes are blocked and cannot be remedied by surgical procedure. Also for those who fail to conceive ...

The first two methods were for cases where the hub...

AID is very similar to AIH. However, AID is used in cases where the husband's semen is definitely inadequate in quantity or quality. In the Western society, some single women who wish to remain unmarried but have a child also use this method to becom...

AID is very similar to AIH. However, AID is used i...

AIH is used when the husband can produce semen, but his semen is not quite adequate to achieve fertilization. The inadequacy of semen can be attributed to low number of active sperms or the inablility of sperms to swim fast enough towards the ovum. A...

AIH is used when the husband can produce semen, bu...

The birth of the first 'test-tube-baby' in 1978 made headlines all over the world. All the world, with the exception of Vatican, welcomed this new development in human science. After all, man is the prime creation of God. Allah has created the univer...

The birth of the first 'test-tube-baby' in 1978 ma...

Sterilization involves surgical operation. Sterilization in man, known as vasectomy, means the severing or blocking of the tube in the male reproductive tract. This tube or duct passes sperm from the tests to the prostate and other reproductive organ...

Sterilization involves surgical operation. Sterili...

Coitus Interrrupts means withdrawing the penis just before ejaculation. This was the most common method of birth control before the invention of modern devices. Muhammad bin Muslim and 'Abdru Rahman bin Abi 'Abdillah Maymun asked Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq...

Coitus Interrrupts means withdrawing the penis jus...

There are three basic procedures to predict ovulation so that sexual intercourse can be avoided during the approximately six days of a woman's most fertile monthly phase. These three methods are as follows: (a) Ovulation Method: A woman learns to rec...

There are three basic procedures to predict ovulat...

Birth control pills prevent conception by inhibiting ovulation. The pills alter hormonal levels and suppress the hormonal signal from the gland for the ovaries to release an ovum. These pills are taken orally on a precise schedule for 20 or more days...

Birth control pills prevent conception by inhibiti...

Islam allows the preventing of pregnancy, but does not allow its termination. However, the problem arises in defining the beginning of pergnancy from the shari'ah point of view. Before we look at various methods of birth control, we must first define...

Islam allows the preventing of pregnancy, but does...

The question of birth control has created much debate in the Western world. This question is related to the basic view of sex. On the one one hand, if you relate sex to the origina sin and equate it with evil, and allow sexual intercourse only for th...

The question of birth control has created much deb...

There was a time when people need not be reminded of some of the basic moral and ethical values, but now we are living in an era where moral values are changing with the change of the worn-out car tires! One of such issues is decency in dress at home...

There was a time when people need not be reminded ...

The opinions of our mujtahids vary on the permissibility of anal intercourse. This variance in fatwas is because of the difference in the ahadith we have on this issue. There is a hadith, for example, from Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq quoting the Prophet tha...

The opinions of our mujtahids vary on the permissi...

As far as the methods of mutual stimulation in foreplay are connected, the shari'ah allows the husband and the wife to see, kiss, touch, smell and stimulate any part of each other's body. Therefore, oral sex, as it is known in this part of the world ...

As far as the methods of mutual stimulation in for...

Before I start writing anything about sexual techniques, it is necessary to stay that there exist no rules and laws either in foreplay or in intercourse. The only laws and rules are the ones reached by the lovers by mutual, and often unspoken, unders...

Before I start writing anything about sexual techn...

* Is sex forbidden at any time in marriage? Yes, by considering the discomfort for the women during the monthly periods, Islam has forbidden both the husband and the wife from engaging in sexual intercourse during the menstruation. The Qur'an says: "...

* Is sex forbidden at any time in marriage? Yes, b...

If a person does not marry soon after maturing and finds it difficult to control his or her sexual desire, then the only way to fulfill the sexual desire is mut'ah. In Islamic laws, according to the Shi'ah fiqh, marriage is of two types: da'im, perma...

If a person does not marry soon after maturing and...

Islam has allowed marriage as soon as a person becomes physically mature, and it also strongly recommends that at least during the early years of marriage adopt a simple life-style so that lack or paucity of financial resources does not obstruct a ha...

Islam has allowed marriage as soon as a person bec...

One way of fulfilling the sexual urge which is now becoming acceptable in the Western world is sexual relation between membees of the same sex, homosexuality and lesbianism. By saying that it is becoming acceptable in liberal societies I do not mean ...

One way of fulfilling the sexual urge which is now...

In Islam terminology, masturbation (istimna') means self-stimulation of sexual organ till one achieves emission of semen or orgasm. Masturbation in form of self-stimulation is forbidden is Shi'ah fiqh. While describing the believers, the Qur'an says,...

In Islam terminology, masturbation (istimna') mean...