Fatwas Archive

Question: A young man would often swear by divorce, saying: “It is ḥarām and divorce from my wife that I did (such-and-such) / or that I did not do it,” while he was lying. He did that out of carelessness...

Question: An ignorant man frequently divorces his wife verbally, yet he does not want to divorce her; and she pays no heed to his words of divorce, knowing her husband’s habit of not intending divorce. Later, after receiving guidance and...

Question: An ignorant man wished to divorce his wife and took with him another man to the wife’s family. When they arrived, the companion coached his friend to pronounce the divorce, saying: “Say: she is divorced,” so he said, “She...

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.