Is the wife sinful if she refuses to conceive after agreeing with her husband to be content with two children, justifying it by her inability to bear additional responsibility and her desire to save her effort and time for her current children, while the husband wishes to have more children fearing the loss of one of them?
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Procreation is a shared right of both spouses, and neither of them is permitted to prevent the other from it without a valid excuse. The reasons mentioned do not constitute an excuse for abstaining from procreation. Therefore, the wife must obey her husband in this regard, unless they both agree not to procreate, in which case there is no sin upon them.
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