Breastfeeding During Ramadan

[Sister Nomee]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Hope you are in the best of health and imaan Inshallah.

I would be grateful if you could clarify the ruling on breastfeeding and Ramadan, as alot of nurturing mothers are in doubt whether they are excused from fasting or must keep fasts etc.


Jazakallah Khair.

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

[Imam]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu



All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved, and Final Messenger of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa 'aalihi wa Sallam



Jazak'allah for your question. According to the shar'iyyah there are a few cases where a person is exempt from keeping the fast. However, once these cases have lapsed, then it is fard (obligatory) to keep those fast's, at another time.


These are :- A journey, during pregnancy, during breast feeding, illness, ageing, when ones life is in question, mental disease, and jihad.


When a woman is in the months of pregnancy, who she fears her life, or fears the life of her child, then the shar'iyyah allows for her not to fast. She should not fast even if she is a maid who feeds the child, or the childs real mother. This also includes if she is employed to breastfeed during the month of Ramadhan.


I hope that the issue of being in trouble, and the child being in trouble, and further not to keep the fast's in such a state, and then to make qadha' afterwards is understood.


May Allah the Almighty give us all the tawfiq to perform the rituals of Islam in the correct way, and to understand them correctly. (amin)



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab



M. Waseem Ashrafi