Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Do Breastfeeding and Pregnant Women have to Fast in Ramadan
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Another big issue during the fast a lot of the questions that come
about about women who are nursing, breastfeeding, and women who are
pregnant, should they foster not? There is this idea out there, this
notion out there that if you're breastfeeding, or you are
you have you're pregnant, then you can just pay yourself out of it.
First and foremost, you can't do that, because this is a temporary
issue.
This is a temporary issue, if you can't fast right now, for whatever
reason, and mentioned that right now, if you can't fast, you will
make up the first later on in the year. Right. So these two people
do have a dispensation if they cannot fast, because the health of
the child does come. It is very important. However, many, many,
many women, they do fast and have fasted in history, both when
pregnant. And when breastfeeding, SB I mean, it's well known,
because depending on your diet, and how much strength you have,
there's women who have complications in their pregnancy,
complications with their children, and so on. While there may be an
exception here, but other women who are pregnant or who do who
aren't nurse nursing, first consult a good dietitian for foods
that generally create a lot of milk. Right? There are certain
foods that will just create mashallah produced a lot of milk.
Number one, there's a lot of these websites online that speak about
this and give a lot of suggestions, making these certain
broths and things like that. So that's number one. Number two, if
you're not, if you're still unsure, fast, a few days, it is
find that it's just unbearable, it's impossible, it's difficult,
then then have a holiday, then fast another few days, and have
another holiday, get your strength back. The Ramadan, fasts are so
valuable, so potent in terms of their benefit, and so on. So for
that you don't want to miss them for if you don't have to, right.
And as I said, from historically looking at this situation, and
from seeing many women contemporary times as well, they
actually do fast. But if you're told right from before, you don't
have to fast and you just take that you're not going to be able
to fast because you feel like you don't shouldn't be fasting. Now
remember a lot of doctors, they'll just tell you don't fast, because
for them, there's all these liability issues and so on, they
give you guidance and so on. So there's the issue. That's why
unless you've got a complication or a specific issue that you know,
from experience, or whatever the case is that you just cannot fast
one of the cases, then in that case, try otherwise few days, and
then and then maybe give up a few days and then fast a few more
days. So it's no blanket ruling that just give it up or you have
to first you should try to fast as much as possible. Does that allow
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