Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Do Breastfeeding and Pregnant Women have to Fast in Ramadan

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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