Also, the sisters through breastfeeding: do they represent all the children of the nursing mother, both those before and after the breastfeeding, or are they limited to those after the breastfeeding?
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The questioner : Also, the sisters through breastfeeding: do they represent all the children of the nursing mother, both those before and after the breastfeeding, or are they limited to those after the breastfeeding only?
The Shaykh : If a child nurses from a woman five times or more before weaning, he becomes her son and the son of her husband, from whom this milk comes.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If that is the case, then all the children of this woman who nursed him are his brothers, those before and those after, and even those from another husband if her husband died and she married after him; they become his brothers.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Likewise, this nursed child becomes a brother to the children of the nursing mother’s husband, even if they are from another woman, because he has become the son of the nursing mother and the son of the owner of the milk. Thus, all the children of the nursing mother are his brothers, and all the children of the owner of the milk are his brothers as well. Yes.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If a child nurses from a woman five times or more before weaning, he becomes her son and the son of her husband, from whom this milk comes.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If that is the case, then all the children of this woman who nursed him are his brothers, those before and those after, and even those from another husband if her husband died and she married after him; they become his brothers.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Likewise, this nursed child becomes a brother to the children of the nursing mother’s husband, even if they are from another woman, because he has become the son of the nursing mother and the son of the owner of the milk. Thus, all the children of the nursing mother are his brothers, and all the children of the owner of the milk are his brothers as well. Yes.
The questioner : Yes.