What is your guidance regarding one who advises against having children until financial conditions improve?
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Question:
Some people advise one who wants to get married, saying to him: Do not have a child at the beginning of married life until your financial situation improves after a few years. He asks: What is the guidance in this matter? May Allah grant you success.
Answer:
This is of the same kind as the statement of the polytheists that children narrow the provision and that they kill them out of fear of poverty. This is a warning against children out of fear of poverty. Rely on Allah, and the One who creates the soul provides for it. Its provision is upon Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes. Have good opinion of Allah. Yes.
Some people advise one who wants to get married, saying to him: Do not have a child at the beginning of married life until your financial situation improves after a few years. He asks: What is the guidance in this matter? May Allah grant you success.
Answer:
This is of the same kind as the statement of the polytheists that children narrow the provision and that they kill them out of fear of poverty. This is a warning against children out of fear of poverty. Rely on Allah, and the One who creates the soul provides for it. Its provision is upon Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes. Have good opinion of Allah. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما توجيهكم لمَن ينصح بعدم إنجاب الأولاد لحين تحسن الأحوال المادية؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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