What is the ruling on a woman limiting or regulating her pregnancy by taking pills for the sake of raising the children and the woman's rest, not for the sake of livelihood or the like?

The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. Our Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding the regulation of birth for the sake of raising the children and the mother's rest, not for the sake of livelihood or the like, and they say that the mother must rest for two years between each pregnancy because she consumes a lot of her body's energy, in addition to raising the child. So, they resort to contraceptives to achieve this regulation. Do you have any guidance on this matter? May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.

Those present: Hehehe.

The questioner : Shaykh... regarding contraceptives...?

The Shaykh : What every Muslim, whether married or not, should do is follow his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: This hadith is very clear in its indication that the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, loves for his Ummah to multiply. And this multiplication is not a material benefit, as some European politicians have pointed out, and I specifically mean Hitler, when he imposed a pension and salary for every child born between a husband and wife. He had a kind of political and military intelligence; he knew well that a nation that wants to control other peoples must have a large and abundant population. Therefore, he enacted a law contrary to what is done in some countries today. What concerns us are the disbelieving countries, whom we always mention as those whom Allah described as not forbidding what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and not making lawful what Allah and His Messenger have made lawful, and not [believing in] the religion of truth, until they pay the jizyah (tax on protected non-Muslims) from their own hands while they are in a state of humiliation. The well-known verse is: We are not concerned with these people, but we are concerned with some countries, as they are called today, Arab, and we do not call them anything but Islamic, which enact these laws that limit the multiplication of Muslims. This German man, Hitler, knew the benefit of multiplication from a material aspect, but the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, did not mean this, and even if he did, it was not for the sake of domination and tyranny over people, but rather as he said, peace and blessings be upon him: And therefore, there is a mursal (report missing the Companion link) hadith whose chain is authentic but it is mursal, and in the end, we cannot be certain that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, uttered this hadith, but its meaning is correct by the testimony of the first hadith. What is this mursal hadith? He said: Why? Because he is the most followed of the prophets and the most numerous in Ummah, in the sense understood from the first hadith and supported by the second. He said, may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him: By the abundance of rewards that reach him due to the multiplication of his Ummah. What concerns us Muslims is to firmly establish in our minds, all of us, that increasing the Muhammadan Ummah is something that pleases our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, by our intention to increase our offspring. And the opposite is exactly the opposite: limiting the population contradicts this Prophetic desire and the noble boasting in which he said: Therefore, limiting the population or regulating the population are two modern philosophies, and there is a known difference between them, of course, understood by everyone. It is in the sense that regulating the population is less than limiting the population. So, let us say that there is no basis for this limiting or regulating that it is less than disliked (makruh), due to the hadith of boasting that we mentioned earlier. But this boasting, from a jurisprudential perspective, can now decrease and disappear completely, or it can increase and enter the level of forbidden (haram). And there are examples for both, and we are content now to say: if there is a woman who is fertile and becomes pregnant with a child every year, here the women undoubtedly differ completely. Some of them can bear this continuous offspring and their bodies remain strong, and some of them cannot withstand it and become weak. Now, I am concerned with this latter aspect. If the woman, due to frequent childbirth, as doctors say, and you are now counting among them, that this may cause her blood weakness or anemia, if the fertile woman is exposed to this due to the frequency of her childbirth and signs of harm begin to appear in her body, then I see no objection to her regulating her population, not limiting her population, meaning that she takes care of her health. So, if she finds that her health has returned to her, along with her energy and strength, she refrains from the so-called regulation.