DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i04.001

Pages: 164-170

The issue of family planning is a complex one in the context of Bangladesh. A good number of people are holding prejudice views about family planning. This study indicates that many Muslim people gathering knowledge from only religious leaders comment that they are not allowed to use family planning method. But, a few people strongly recommend that Islam permits family planning absolutely. In their opinion, family planning method decreases maternal death, maternal morbidity and children death. It also minimizes socio-economic complications, like illiteracy, poverty, unemployment and so on. But, Islam must not forbid family planning and the negative concept about it is just a lacking of religious knowledge. For this purpose, this study aims to investigate the perception of Muslim people about family planning. 100 respondents were taken from Sadar Upazila, Sylhet. Face to face interview was taken with a pretested structured questionnaire. It was a cross sectional study & conducted from July to October 2015. The study shows that majority of the respondents of the both sexes- 62% of male and 76% of female had idea about family planning where 52% of them had partial concept about it. Only 14% male and 6% female say that it was accepted in Islam. 76% male and 62% female respondents stated that, contraceptive method might trigger various types of diseases. Only 34% of the male under the study adopted contraceptive method while 66% of female followed this. People’s misconception among family planning clearly reveals from this case study. This study concludes that accurate perception about family planning is poor among the Muslim community at Sylhet.