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    Question ID: 7880Country: Canada

    Title: I have 2 sons elder one is 4 years old and younger one is 9 months old i am breast feeding him and planning to feed him till he will be 2 secondly both my chidren are cesarean so doctors usually recommends atleast 2 years gap so that the wound will be completly healed so i want to use the contraception method called coil is it permitted in islam.

    Question: Asalam o Alyikum, I have 2 sons elder one is 4 years old and younger one is 9 months old i am breast feeding him and planning to feed him till he will be 2 secondly both my chidren are cesarean so doctors usually recommends atleast 2 years gap so that the wound will be completly healed so i want to use the contraception method called coil is it permitted in islam.

    Answer ID: 7880

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1018/1018=M/1429)

     

    In future, in case of conception if you fear on your life or the life of your child or it may affect the health of child and the gap is recommended by religious Muslim expert doctor then in this exigent condition you can adopt temporary contraceptive method.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India