{"id":2714,"date":"2020-12-04T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:39:40","slug":"can-a-non-muslim-breastfeed-a-muslim-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Can a non-Muslim breastfeed a Muslim child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can a non-Muslim breastfeed a Muslim child<\/strong>?<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Can a non-Muslim breastfeed a Muslim child, like one\u2019s non-Muslim neighbor or helper? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> There is no prohibition for a non-Muslim woman (neighbor or helper) to breastfeed a Muslim child. However, whenever necessary, a Muslim child should be breastfed with the breastmilk of an upright Muslim woman and not of a non-Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>All the laws applicable to fosterage (Radhaa\u2019ah) will also apply to the non-Muslim mother when breastfeeding a Muslim child. <strong>(Durarul Hukkaam 1\/355 \u2013 Fataawa Mahmoodiyyah 623)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a non-Muslim breastfeed a Muslim child? Q. Can a non-Muslim breastfeed a Muslim child, like one\u2019s non-Muslim neighbor or helper? A. There is no prohibition<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}