THE MILK TIE (II)

It is eternally harâm for the milk child to marry its milk mother or milk father or their mother or mother or siblings or children or grandchildren of any generation. The same restriction would apply if those people were related to it by blood. The milk child’s offspring cannot marry its milk mother or milk father. The milk child’s wife cannot marry the (same) child’s milk father, and the milk child’s husband cannot marry the (same) milk child’s mother. A boy and a girl who have been breastfed by the same woman cannot marry each other or each other’s children or grandchildren, even if each had a different milk father or the years in which they were breastfed differ. The author ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ of the book entitled Durer states: “It is harâm for a male to marry his own sibling’s milk daughter or his milk sibling’s own daughter or his milk sibling’s milk daughter.” A man may marry the mother or sister of his milk sibling who was milked by his own mother. However, he cannot marry the mother of his sibling from the samefather. In other words, a person can marry their own sibling’s milk sibling born from a different mother. Likewise, a man can marry the uterine sister of his brother from the same father. A man can marry his milk child’s sister. Yet he cannot marry his own child’s uterine sister. A man cannot marry his milk father’s other wives or his milk son’s wives. These two kinds of marriage are unsuitable also in cases where the father and the son in question are the man’s own father and son, respectively.