10-23-2005, 05:31 AM
Rasoolullah(S.A.W)said,when a women breastfeeds, then on every gulp of milk ,she receives the reward as though she has granted life to a being and when she weans her child the angels pat on her back saying, congradulations;all your past sins have been forgiven,now start all over again.
The child has a right to fed on mother,s milk.It is this bounty of mother for which Quran emphasises on the child to treat the mother with exceptinal loveand kindness, in return for this service.
Mother,s milk is a natural food. It needs no prepareration.Almighty Allah has provided it for the saftey of the child,s health and growth.
Beside being nourishing ,the bonds of affection between mother and child are strengthened.Mother,s milhkis also a spiritual and ethical nourishment for the child.It deeply affect the whole personality of the child.The mother not only provides best nourishment to the child, but also infuses with every drop of her milk,her own ways of thinking and attitudes in to the child,s vein.It is also the duty of the mother to inculate in to the child with each drop of milk, the concept of oneness of Allah,love for Rasoolullsh(S.A.W.)and devotion for Islam
Rasoolullah S.A.W) advised mothers to suckle their children,and said they will be rewarded for doing this in Dunya and Ahira bythe Almighty Allah.He told them
"and for the first sip of her milk she gives to her child,the mother gets a reward equivalent to giving life to a person.
moreover he equalled a suckling mother to a dutiful warrier who guards the frontiers and she will achieve the status of a martyr if she dies during this period.
Denying the child the right to be suckled without any valid reason is unfair and unjust and below the dignity of the mother.Mothers who doesnot suckle their babies due to fear of deformed and loss of their beauty and shape, are no doubt r the most ruthless ones who donot deserved to be called mothers.There is no alternative for mothers milk.
RasoolullahS.A.W.) has warned such heartless women against terrible puinisment to be meted out to them by Allah.Describing the events of the night of Ascension, he said
'Then they took me further ahead and I saw some women whose breast were being continiously bitten by snakes.On asking about the indentify of these women ,i was told that those were the women who didnot breastfeed their babies.
Meical opinion on mother,s milk
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After childbirth the mother.s milk contains colostrum for some days.This important substance helps immensly in baby,s growth as it contains vitamin A.But after aperiod the colostrum looses this valuable vitamin A. avoidence of suckling the child right from the begining will deprive him of this vitamin which will result in deficient in growth.Besides, colostrum also helps babies resist external infection to which they are exposed and susceptible,The new born babies are usually exposed to the infection of the lungs and throat.They often devolop pnewmonia or diptheria etc in their early stage of life which might prove fatal for them.But if they receive adequate quantities of colostrum,they devolop resistance to such deadly infection
The infants who die during the first month of their birth are usually found to be deficient in this substance.
scientist have tried to reproduce mothers,s milk in the laboratory but failed to get the axact formula.
Before breast feeding, one should read Bismillah.........The baby;s first feed should be from the right breast.