{"id":30637,"date":"2024-06-29T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=30637"},"modified":"2024-07-06T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:39:58","slug":"breast-feeding-and-hurmat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/breast-feeding-and-hurmat\/","title":{"rendered":"If a Man Is Breastfed by a Woman Does That Woman\u2019s Husband Become That Mans Wife\u2019s Mahram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 07256<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: <\/strong><strong>Maulana Ubaidur Rahman\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Assalamualikum, if a man is breastfed by a woman when he was a baby, does that woman&#8217;s husband become that mans wife&#8217;s mahram, just like his biological dad would be her mahram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The mans wife will become mahram to the breast feeders\u2019 husband because she is linked to her own husband by blood and intimacy relations. So the same way that the breast feeder is haram for marital relations with her breastfed son, the same way the wife of the breastfed son will be prohibited for relations with the breast feeders husband. This is established through hurmat musaaharah. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Hurmat e musaaaharah is that relationship which comes into being as a result of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0632\u0651\u064e\u0648\u062c\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0645\u0627: \u0623\u064a \u062a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u0629\u064f \u0648\u0632\u0648\u062c\u064f\u0647\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639\u060c \u0648\u064a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0642\u0648\u0645\u064f\u0647\u0645\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639 \u0643\u0645\u0627 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0633\u0628\u060c \u0648\u062a\u062d\u0631\u0645 \u0641\u0631\u0648\u0639\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639\u0650 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u0629\u0650 \u0648\u0632\u0648\u062c\u0650\u0647\u0627\u060c \u0648\u064a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0632\u0648\u062c\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u0629\u0650 \u0648\u0632\u0648\u062c\u0650\u0647\u0627<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Hurmat e musaaharah is that relationship established through bond as marriage. A person is forbidden from getting into a relationship with someone connected to their partner because on the boundaries established through hurmat e mussaharah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When two people touch each other with lust and no thick cloth in between separating them, hurmat e mussaaaharah will be established, according to the Hanafi mazhab. The lust will be necessary to feel at the same time when touching, for the prohibition effect to take place after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u062d\u064f\u0631\u0651\u0650\u0645\u064e\u062a\u0652 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0623\u064f\u0645\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064e\u0640\u0670\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0628\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064e\u062e\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0670\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0645\u0651\u064e\u0640\u0670\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u062e\u064e\u0640\u0670\u0644\u064e\u0640\u0670\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0628\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u062a\u064f \u0671\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064e\u062e\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0628\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u062a\u064f \u0671\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064f\u062e\u0652\u062a\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064f\u0645\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064e\u0640\u0670\u062a\u064f\u0643\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0671\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0640\u0670\u062a\u0650\u0649\u0653 \u0623\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0636\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Translation: Forbidden for you (Haraam for you to marry are) your Mothers (and your Grandmothers), your daughters (and granddaughters), your sisters (half and full), your fathers (and grandfathers) sisters, your mothers (and grandmothers) sisters, your brothers daughters (and granddaughters), your sisters daughters (and granddaughters), your suckling mothers those women who breastfed you before you turned two years of age. All the daughters, granddaughters, sisters, aunties mother may also not marry the child she breastfed.<sup>2<\/sup>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0648\u064e\u0641\u0650\u0635\u064e\u0670\u0644\u064f\u0647\u064f\u06e5 \u062b\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0670\u062b\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0634\u064e\u0647\u06e1\u0631\u064b\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">And she breastfed the child for three years<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0623\u064e\u064a\u0652 \u0645\u064f\u062f\u064e\u0651\u0629\u064f \u0643\u064f\u0644\u064d\u0651 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652\u0647\u064f\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u062b\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627\u062b\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u063a\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0631\u064e \u0623\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0642\u0652\u0635\u064e \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0651\u0644\u0650<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Meaning to say that in every term there is upto three complete years of complete suckling while the child remains in their infancy and in need of breastmilk<sup>4<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Prophet (PBUH) has said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;\u200f \u064a\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0631\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064e\u0627\u0639\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0631\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0648\u0650\u0644\u0627\u064e\u062f\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u200f&#8221;\u200f \u200f.\u200f<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The same prohibitions of relations\/hurmat e musaaharah is present in suckling (breastfeeding woman) like the prohibitions in birth\/(Mother)<sup>5<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The resolution and basis of suckling is not linked to the bearing of the child, in order for the hurmat\/prohibition to apply. Rather, it is the suckling of the child for an extended period, over three complete years which establishes the hurmat and bond between the breast feeder and the breastfed child, not the bearing of the child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><sup>6<\/sup>\u00a0\u0644\u0650\u0623\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0625\u0650\u062e\u0652\u0628\u064e\u0627\u0631\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0632\u064e\u0651\u0645\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0650 \u0639\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0649 \u0635\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u062d\u064c \u0628\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0642\u0652\u062f\u0650\u064a\u0631\u064d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">This is due to the reason of the hurmat\/prohibition coming on the basis of time, the time spent suckling the child &#8211; for the correct application and definition of hurmat\/prohibition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">So whoever is connected by way of wedlock to the person upon whom hurmat applies, the hurmat will apply on them also from the husbands side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u064a\u062b\u0628\u062a\u064f \u0628\u0645\u0635\u0651\u064e\u0629\u064d \u0641\u064a \u062d\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0646\u0650 \u0648\u0646\u0635\u0641\u064d \u0644\u0627 \u0628\u0639\u062f\u0647 \u0623\u0645\u0648\u0645\u0629\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0645\u064f\u0631\u0652\u0636\u0639\u0629\u0650 \u0644\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0641\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0646 \u0648\u0646\u0635\u0641 \u0642\u0648\u0644\u064f \u0623\u0628\u064a \u062d\u0646\u064a\u0641\u0629 \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Two and a half years of suckling has been established by Imam Abu Haneefah (RH)<sup>7<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0648\u064a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0632\u0648\u062c\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u0629\u0650 \u0648\u0632\u0648\u062c\u0650\u0647\u0627: \u0623\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639\u064f \u0625\u0646 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0630\u0643\u0631\u0627\u064b \u062a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0632\u0648\u062c\u062a\u064f\u0647\u064f \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0632\u0648\u062c\u0650 \u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u062a\u0650\u0647\u060c \u0648\u0625\u0646 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0636\u064a\u0639\u064f \u0623\u064f\u0646\u062b\u0649 \u064a\u062d\u0631\u0645\u064f \u0632\u0648\u062c\u064f\u0647\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u0631\u0636\u0639\u062a\u0650\u0647\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">And the spouse of the breastfed is forbidden upon the breast feeder and their spouse: the relationship has been made prohibited from their initial relationship with the breastfeeder\/breastfed which establishes ties of kinship between them both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Based on the relationship of the wife to her husband, the one who was breastfed by the woman breast feeder, relations between the first wife and the breast feeders\u2019 husband is prohibited because of the existing relationship between her and her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah (\u0639\u0632 \u0648 \u062c\u0644) knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Ubaidur Rahman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">1 Sharh Wiqaayah, volume 2, page 53,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">2 Surah Nisaai, ayat 23, Quraan Made Easy, page 101, Islamic book service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">3 Surah Ahqaf, , ayah 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">4 Radd al Mukhtaar, page 210, volume 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">5 Saheeh Muslim, 1444b.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">6 Radd al Mukhtaar, page 210, volume 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">7 Sharh hul Wiqaayah, volume 2 page 51, Ubaydullah bin Masood al-Mahboobi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 07256 \u00a0 Answered by: Maulana Ubaidur Rahman\u00a0 \u00a0 Question: &nbsp; Assalamualikum, if a man is breastfed by a woman when he was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31555,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637\/revisions\/31555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}