Islam Question and Answer - Ruling on milk banks

Fri 13/1/1430 - 9/1/2009

» The company takes the down payment then buys the property then sells it to the purchaser.

» She learned of some faults in her fiancé and prayed istikhaarah about annulling the engagement, but it was not easy for her to do so.

» Ruling on giving everything one owns in charity.

» It is not essential for socks to be of leather.

» Eating ‘Ashoora’ food and spending extra because of someone’s birthday.

» Should he say that he belongs to Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah or al-Salaf al-Saalih?.

» Should the one who has been affected by witchcraft see the one who put the spell on him during the ruqyah?.

» Conditions of wiping over socks .

» When the company buys the car and it comes into its possession, then it may sell it.

» She died and left behind a husband, two daughters, two sisters, a grandmother, a maternal uncle and two maternal aunts.

4049

Fiqh of the family » Breast Feeding

Ruling on milk banks

In America there are banks known as milk banks, which buy milk from nursing mothers then sell it to women who need to give it to their children but their own milk is lacking, or they are sick or are too busy working, etc. What is the ruling on buying milk from these banks?

Praise be to Allaah.

We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah preserve him, who replied as follows:

This is haraam. It is not permissible to establish this kind of bank, because this is human milk, and the milk from different mothers will be mixed, so that no one will know who is the mother. In Islam, drinking the milk of a woman creates the same relationship as does a close tie by blood (i.e., it has an effect on whom one may and may not marry, etc.). If the milk is of any kind other than human, then there is nothing wrong with milk banks.

And Allâh knows best.

Islam Q&A
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

Hands

contacts

at you site

suggest

guestbook

send to friend

bad URL