The Ruling on One Who believes that a Child is a Gift from Other than Allah

Question :

Is a child a gift from a Murshid, or does he increase and diminish sustenance? What is the ruling on this belief?

Answer:

Whoever believes that a child is a gift from other than Allah, or that anyone other than Allah has the power to increase or decrease sustenance is a polytheist, who is guilty of a worse Shirk than that of the Arabs and others in the pre- Islamic period of ignorance. For had the pre-Islamic Arabs and their like been asked, (even) in their ignorance, about who sustains them (with rain) from the heaven and (food from) the earth, and who brings forth the living from the dead, and the dead from the living, they would have said: "Allah." They only worshipped their false deities in order, as they claimed, to bring them closer to Allah. Allah says:
Say: "Who provides for you from the sky and from the earth? Or who owns hearing and sight? And who brings out the living from the dead and brings out the dead from the living? And who disposes the affairs?"
They will say:
"Allah." Say: "Will you not then be afraid (of Allah's punishment for setting up rivals in worship with Allah)

And He says:
Those who take Awliya' (protectors and helpers) besides Him (say): "We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allah." Verily, Allah will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Truly, Allah guides not him who is a liar and a disbeliever.

And He says:
Who is he that can provide for you if He should withhold His provision?

It is also confirmed by the Sunnah that giving and withholding are in Allah's Hand, Alone. In Al-Bukhari's narration, in the chapter on the remembrance after prayer in his Sahih, Warrad, the scribe of Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah, said:

"Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah dictated to me in a letter to Mu'awiyah that the Prophet used to say, after each obligatory prayer:

There is none worthy of worship except Allah, Alone, without partners; His is the dominion and all praise and thanks are due to Him, and He is Able to do all things. O Allah! There is none who can withhold what You bestow and there is none who can bestow what You withhold, and no fortune can benefit its owner against You.

Thus it was narrated by Muslim also in his Sahih. But Allah might bless His slave with family and increase his sustenance through his supplication to Him, Alone, as is clear from Surah Ibrahim in which Ibrahim - Allah's Friend - asked his Lord and He answered his supplication, and in Surah Maryam and Al- Anbiya' and others, such as the supplication of Zakariya to his Lord and His answer to it. And it has been authentically reported on the authority of Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: I heard Allah's Messenger saying:

"Whoever wished for his sustenance to be increased and his life span to be extended should maintain family relations.
Source:
The Permanent Committee
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 1 Pages 332-334