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Is it permissible for a couple to delay pregnancy if the pregnancy is difficult for the wife or if it is due to their poverty?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for a couple to delay pregnancy by having the wife take pills if pregnancy every year is difficult for her and tires her in raising the child, or if it is due to their poverty? Is this permissible?

Answer:
Is the cause of their poverty, right? If the impact is on the woman's health, and the doctors have determined that continuing the pregnancy will harm the woman's health, then there is no harm in her taking what delays the pregnancy until she is prepared to receive it; this is subject to the doctors' report. However, if she takes what prevents pregnancy out of fear of poverty, that is the action of the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) who killed their children out of fear of poverty, so
kill your children for fear of povertyتَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ
[Al-Isra 17:31]
, meaning only, so this is not permissible. They should have good expectations of Allah, and Allah does not create a soul except that He creates its provision for it and facilitates its provision for it. And the increase in offspring is a cause for the increase in provision, so the increase in offspring is a cause for the strength of the Muslim community (ummah), the strength of the community and the increase of the community and the increase of production for society, so offspring contains many blessings. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [384 -3022] هل يجوز للزوجين تأخير الحمل إذا كان الحمل يشق على الزوجة أو كان ذلك بسبب فقرهما؟ — youtube.com

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