The problem here was with the mixing of milk from different sources, so that it would be impossible to know who was whose foster mother. This comes from a hadith:
“Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hadhaifa, lived with him and his family in their house. She (i.e. the daughter of Suhail came to Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) and said: Salim has attained (puberty) as men attain, and he understands what they understand, and he enters our house freely, I, however, perceive that something (rankles) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) said to her: Suckle him and you would become unlawful for him, and (the rankling) which Abu Hudhaifa feels in his heart will disappear. She returned and said: So I suckled him, and what (was there) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa disappeared.” (Sahih Muslim 1453b)
The idea that a man and a woman who were not married could lawfully be together if the woman first breastfed the man, thus becoming his foster mother, was originally in the Qur’an:
“It was narrated that ‘Aishah said: ‘The Verse of stoning and of breastfeeding an adult ten times was revealed, and the paper was with me under my pillow. When the Messenger of Allah died, we were preoccupied with his death, and a tame sheep came in and ate it.'” (Sunan Ibn Majah 1944)
Yet when we called attention to this absurdity some years ago, we were called “liars” and “Islamophobes.” And now here is the same Islamic ruling we supposedly made up being confirmed in the far-left Guardian.
“Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval,” by Zofeen T Ebrahim, Guardian, July 8, 2024:
When he heard a hospital in Karachi was setting up a milk bank for babies, the news was a “huge relief” to Mohammad Munawwar.
With his wife very sick and their premature son Ayan in hospital, the 52-year-old father had had to collect milk five or six times a day from different female relatives who were breastfeeding their own babies.
His elation was short-lived; last month the bank closed before a single ounce could be deposited after complaints from Islamic clerics. Doctors who had been working on the bank for more than 12 months share Munawwar’s disappointment.
“We had been working on the bank [for] a year and had been in intense discussions with the religious clerics from Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi [for] the last eight months,” said Dr Jamal Raza, executive director of the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN), which had established what should have been the first-ever milk bank in Pakistan, in collaboration with Unicef.
He said the scholars had raised several concerns, all of which were addressed, and after finally getting a nod from the seminary, the bank was inaugurated on 12 June.
But the seminary has now withdrawn its fatwa of assent, saying it had new advice that the hospital would find it not only “difficult but almost impossible to adhere to the strict conditions” set down by the institution’s clerics.
“The objective of the doctors who wanted to set up the human milk bank may be in good faith, but we concur with Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi, and do not think it needs to be encouraged,” said Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, chair of the Pakistan Ulema Council, though he refused to elaborate.
The complexity arises due to the kinship bond. In Islam, when a baby feeds from a woman who is not the biological mother, any future marriage is forbidden between that baby and any of the woman’s own children.
Further exacerbating the concern is that in the 750 milk banks in nearly 70 countries, donors are anonymous and milk can be combined from several sources.
However, Raza said this would not have been an issue. “The original fatwa allowed us to mix a maximum of three to five mothers’ milk but we intend to keep it to one mother donating to one child at a time.”
Dr Azra Pechuho, health minister for Sindh province said: “When there is a properly developed digital identification system in place in Pakistan, keeping a record of which child got milk from which woman is not difficult.”
She said the state should not let this opportunity of “saving the lives of premature babies lapse because of this issue which is clearly resolvable”….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good. May Pakistan go extinct just by infant mortality going through the roof. Malnutrition might be better than terrorism or war
BTeboe says
Islam and science don’t mix, ever.
Tony Rice says
I wonder if Pakistan will follow the example of IRAN where urinals have been removed from in public as it is now belatedly realised Muhammad peed sitting down, so all Iranian males can no longer pee standing up.
Burnaby Lad says
at best islam is a spank bank
Hari says
This is because Muslims are not allowed to marry those who have had the same wet nurse as themselves.
Muhammad was forbidden to marry any of the people who his wet nurse,Halima, breast fed. Distribution of breast milk this way would create confusion as to whose one may legitimately marry. Guess this method of breastfeeding was not foreseen by the founder of the religion of peace.
WPM says
From a religion that encourages rape ,”honor killings ” ,child brides, woman wrap in cloth coffins in desert heat , use their own children as cannon folder in jihad, torture of unarmed peaceful unbelievers to appease a pagan moon god is anyone surprised ? Do the same Imams encourage the men to take 4 or 5 brides ,women of the right hand as sex slaves ,throw gay relatives from roof tops , steal and murder unbelievers ? Feed malnutrition under weight or babies who lost their mothers we cannot have that ,because the babies according to their crazy holy book the babies might “lust ” after the donating women??
Troybeam says
Such a messed up culture and theocracy.
OLD GUY says
Islamic males should withhold having sex with any female other than a goat. Cures the problem and besides they value the goat more anyway.
WPM says
But but the poor goats, donkeys’ , lost hamsters never to be seen again ,Islam where any warm body or even dead bodies can head off “sexual emergencies “!
abu taleb says
The clerics want muslims to suck milik from the women directly so there won’t be any adultery because the women become their muhrims. LOL