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"Marry women who will love their husbands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people."

— Islamic views on birth control

January 1, 1970

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Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam, p.314, who refers to book 13 of Mishkatu'l Masabih ("niches for lamps [of the tradition]", a compilation of Sunni traditions by the 12th-century Imam Husain al-Baghawi, expanded in the 14th century by Shaykh Waliuddin).

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Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam, p.314, who refers to book 13 of Mishkatu'l Masabih ("niches for lamps [of the tradition]", a compilation of Sunni traditions by the 12th-century Imam Husain al-Baghawi, expanded in the 14th century by Shaykh Waliuddin).