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Moustafa Morsy
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Date Posted: 13:26:10 10/07/02 Mon
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Alikom assalaamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhuh.
Jazakum Allahu khairan for your DUA,A, Ameen.
The Qur’aan encourages the mother to breastfeed her child naturally. Allaah says:
“The mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years, (that is) for those (parents) who desire to complete the term of suckling”
[al-Baqarah 2:233]
This is a command to mothers, as the scholars explained, to breastfeed their children.. Undoubtedly in carrying out the commands of Allaah there is great blessing.But you have to know that drinking the milk of a woman creates the same relationship as does a close tie by blood (i.e., it has an effect on whom one may and may not marry, etc.).
So, you can give this milk to your children,but if you want to give it to other children, you should observe the rules of breastfeeding which it as follows:
Breastfeeding after the first two years does not create any relationship of mahram. This is the opinion of the majority of scholars, and among the references which they quote is the aayah cited above, along with the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “Nothing of breastfeeding creates the relationship of mahram except what fills the stomach to bursting point, before (the age of) weaning.” Reported by al-Tirmidhi. (No. 1152), who said: This is a hasan saheeh hadeeth
drinking one’s wife’s milk has no effect and does not create the relationship of mahram, Breastfeeding a grown-up has no effect, because the breastfeeding which has an effect (of creating the relationship of mahram) is that which consists of five feedings or more within the first two years, before weaning. On this basis, if it happened that someone breastfed from his wife or drank her milk, he does not become her son. Fataawa Islamiyah, 3/338.Some ulamaa said: drinking one’s wife’s milk has no effect, but it is better to avoid it.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen was asked about this matter, and he replied: Breastfeeding a grown-up has no effect, because the breastfeeding which has an effect (of creating the relationship of mahram) is that which consists of five feedings or more within the first two years, before weaning. On this basis, if it happened that someone breastfed from his wife or drank her milk, he does not become her son. Fataawa Islamiyah, 3/338.SO IF YOU GIVE THIS MILK TO OTHER CHILDREN,YOU SHOULD KNOW THE CHILDREN WHICH YOU FED THEM 5 TIMES WHILE THEIR AGE IS BEFORE 2 YEARS,AND THESE CHILDREN WILL BE A BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO YOUR CHILDREN(CAN NOT MARRY FROM EACH OTHER).
And Allaah knows Best.
Moustafa Morsy
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