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Planning a pregnancy – is it allowed?

I heard that it’s not allowed to plan a pregnancy. Can I plan my pregnancy or not?

Shall I conceive or not?

Every night he is making love with me to make me pregnant, but I am taking pills without informing him. I know it is a sin. Also my teenage kids are against my pregnancy, and also against their new father. My husband has told me that if I don’t conceive, then he will divorce me.

Hoor, polygamy, children…dilemmas of an ex-sinner

Thinking of more women and variety reverses my contentment and harms the frame of mind I have constructed for myself. It feels like greed to me and it reminds me of my past. It doesn’t leave any space for love at all. I just don’t feel comfortable with extra lust.

Is there a limit to the number of times one can have sex with his wife?

My question is, what if a Muslim couple wants to have sex once every four months and they do not want to have a new child; how can they have intercourse without the wife giving birth to a new child?

Do I have to get pregnant right away after marriage?

My sister told me, when a women gets married its considered nasib (fate) if she gets pregnant or not, and can’t control it… So I mentioned birth control, and she said no if a girl takes birth control before her first baby she’ll have problems getting pregnant! Is it true?

We agree on divorce, how does he do Talaq?

My husband doesn’t always pray all his 5 prayers. He works nights and sleeps most of the day. Sometimes he will combine prayers either at the wrong time or altogether as he cannot prayer at work. Does this invalidate our nikkah?