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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on preventing pregnancy out of fear of having too many children

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Question:
May Allah reward you. At the same time, it is commanded to delay the feeling of preventing gratitude and not to follow their children. And He did not will this feeling except after a little of our wiping, so we see that behind them is a side, may Allah protect us, that does not feel safe with Allah until they follow their feeling and harmony, so they do not look at them except with what they love.

Answer:
This requires a report from a reliable medical committee stating that the pregnancy poses a danger to her life. If they determine that it endangers her life, and if no report is submitted to the authority, the question should be written with it, and it will be looked into, if Allah wills. These are matters in which it is not permissible to ask for a ruling or issue an individual fatwa, unless the individual fatwa is based on a substantive medical report. This is because people nowadays are trying to escape pregnancy. You take from the gathering, the teacher responds, and you do not take from the gathering. You take from the gathering, meaning he has children and fears the dawn. Even if one of the children is absent, Satan says, "Look, they are absent from him." Or the population conference held by the atheists two years ago affects those with weak faith. They say a time will come when the surroundings will be scarce, breaking the human population and not leaving any proportion on the earth. This is a bad opinion of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), who creates the creatures and provides for them, and there is no being on earth except that its provision is with Allah.
And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for youوَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ
[Al-Isra 17:31]
Provision is with Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He), and children are required in Islam to expiate the sins of the Ummah, and so that Allah may benefit the Ummah through them. The first benefit is that they benefit the mother. Also, not all of them will remain; perhaps some will die. According to the number you chose and stuck to, it remains possible that they will all die. It is not that they must die. You must rely on Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), except in a case of extreme necessity, if the appointed doctors determine that the pregnancy will end the mother's life.
So this has a special case, but it is not given to everyone. This must be presented to a committee of scholars, the circumstances in it and the government report.
Source شرح العقيدة الطحاوية [6] — alfawzan.live (29:42)

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