The ruling on increasing offspring despite poverty

Question:
May Allah bless you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. This question says, may Allah preserve you: What is your view regarding those who speak of people who seek to increase their offspring despite their poverty and limited means, and who are described as having many children, especially in some media outlets? How? He says: What is your view, may Allah preserve you, regarding those who speak of people who seek to increase their offspring despite their poverty and limited means, and who describe them as addicted to having children, and this is mentioned in the media.

Answer:
This is a bad opinion of Allah the Exalted, because they think that children have no provision except the provision of their father, and that their father is the one who provides for them. They have no certainty in Allah that He who created them will provide for them. Allah the Exalted said: So the one who avoids having many children out of fear of poverty is imitating the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, imitating the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and having a bad opinion of Allah the Exalted. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged having many children, saying: “Marry women who are loving and fertile, for I will compete with the nations in number on the Day of Resurrection.”
And increasing offspring is required for Muslims so that they may be strengthened by it and the number of Muslims may increase. But the disbelievers want to eliminate the Muslims by every means, so they have planted this doubt in them, that having many children causes poverty, causes scarcity of provision, and population explosion causes this and that, as are the rumors. But Muslims do not pay attention to these malicious rumors; rather, they rely upon Allah the Exalted. He who created these children is the one who provides for them. And in the other verse: Yes.