Book of Marriage and Related Matters

Question: A sterile man strongly desires a child. He went to a physician, who took some semen from another man and injected it into the sterile man’s testicle. He then said: “Go and have intercourse with your wife.” The man...

Artificial insemination is the placing of a man’s sperm in a woman’s womb in pursuit of offspring. They have tried that either through the woman’s husband: the physician takes semen from a man and places it in the urethra of...

Question: Physicians have recently undertaken to take from a man’s semen and from a woman’s (i.e., ova), then place that in test tubes, where the child is formed and grows; then the child is transferred from the tube and placed...

Question: A man married a woman, and she gave birth to a daughter two years after he married her. She had previously been married to another man, but she had not menstruated from the time her first husband divorced her...

Question: A man married a woman, and five months after his marriage his wife gave birth to a boy. We asked the physicians about the newborn, and they said: a full-term natural birth. The woman’s husband did not realize that...

Question: If a husband prevents his wife from visiting her parents, is it permissible for her to visit them without his permission or not?

Question: A woman may be confused about which to prioritize when there is a conflict between the husband’s rights and the parents’ rights: which takes precedence? Please clarify.

Question: What is the ruling on masturbation if a physician requests a semen sample from a patient?

His—Exalted is He—saying: "If they are poor, Allah will enrich them from His bounty." [Al-Nūr:32]. If it is said: A man may marry and yet not become well-off?

Question: What is your view regarding a woman six months pregnant who fell ill and was taken to the hospital? The doctors said: “If you want the mother to live, the pregnancy must be removed.” They removed it while the...