If a women is pregnant or is nursing, breast-feeding,is she exempted from fasting answered by Dr Zakir Naik #pregnant #pregnancy #baby #newborn #babygirl #love #babyboy #maternity #momtobe #motherhood #babyshower #family #momlife #pregnantbelly #babybump #weekspregnant #mom #maternityphotography #mumtobe #schwanger #babies #bebe #mama #pregnancyannouncement #birth #kids #preggo #hamil #zwanger
00:00The next query really is regarding a woman who is pregnant or is nursing, breastfeeding, nursing, rearing the children. Why are they exempted?
00:14According to the verse of the Quran in Surah Bakhra, chapter number 2, verse number 185, that if a person is ill and travelling, he can make up his prescribed periods of day of fasting later on.
00:27So most of the foqas, most of the scholars, they say that these women who are pregnant and breastfeeding, they come under the category of those who are ill.
00:35So therefore, if they want, they can abstain from fasting. But there are clear-cut hadith in which the Prophet has exempted these women from fasting.
00:45Mentioned in Sunnah ibn Maja, hadith number 1667, that our beloved Prophet says,
00:53The obligation for a person to fast and part of the prayer has been lifted from a traveller.
01:01And the obligation for fasting has been lifted from a lady who is pregnant and who is breastfeeding.
01:06Our beloved Prophet also said, it's mentioned in Sunnah Nisai, in the Book of Fasting, hadith number 2274, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has relieved the traveller from fasting and half his prayer.
01:20And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has relieved the pregnant woman and the woman who is breastfeeding from fasting.
01:28So based on these two hadith also, it's clear-cut that the pregnant woman and the women who are breastfeeding, they have been exempted.
01:36And the logical reason that one can think is because when a lady, she's pregnant or she's breastfeeding, the food she eats is not only for herself.
01:46It's for herself as well as the baby she's carrying or the baby she's feeding.
01:50So but natural, if her fasting makes it difficult for her or becomes difficult for a baby, then she's exempted from fasting.
01:59But if she's in the early stage of pregnancy and if she feels or she's breastfeeding and if she feels that fasting will not cause any damage to her health and will not cause the damage to the baby, then she should fast.
02:13If she has a doubt, if she can do it with hardship, as long as there's no damage to herself, to her health and the baby, she has option to fast, not to fast.
02:24But if it's causing damage to her health or the baby, it becomes haram for her to fast.
02:29Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not want to lay a burden more than what a person can bear.
02:35And in this regard, that is the reason Allah has exempted them.
02:39Later on when they are healthy, when they stop breastfeeding or when the pregnancy ends, after postnatal bleeding, then they have to make up for the fast they have missed before the next.
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