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    Question ID: 20920Country: India

    Title: Is using condoms allowed in Islam? If not then how to avoid unwanted pregnancy?

    Question: Is using condoms allowed in Islam? If not then how to avoid unwanted pregnancy?

    Answer ID: 20920

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 517/440/B=1431)

     

    The use of condom without a valid reason is not lawful. However, if wife is too weak and cannot bear pregnancy or a victim of continual sickness, then in such case of exigency using condom is allowable.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India