Studying demography in Public Health. It says that one characteristic of a developed nation is low fertility rates brought about, among other ways, by raising the status of women via education. I am trying to look at this statement through the Islamic perspective: What is the Islamic view on family planning? What is the status of gender roles in Islam? Can we reconcile the hadīth about the Prophet SAW’s pride in the large number of his ummah with this statement? Is there a difference between the Islamic definition of a developed civilization and the Western demographical definition? Must a developed nation always have low fertility rates? How does Islam handle the increase in size of the population economically? How can we view this issue through the lens of maqāsid vs the lens of usūl? And an interesting fact, the world population increased many folds in the second half of the last millennium. Before that, the world population was below one billion. Now it’s more than six billion. So does this sudden increase in size will have an impact on the way we view Islamic texts regarding population management? A lot of questions unanswered, too lazy to research. “Mental exercise.” “IHAB’s 9th usūl.” Okay.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:49:27 +0000
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