THE MILK TIE (III)

Application of an enema with a woman’s milk will not bind a child with a milk tie. Nor will a person be a milk child by eating food cooked with a woman’s milk. If the food eaten was not cooked, it will cause a milk tie when the amount of the milk is more than fifty percent. According to Imâm Shâfi’î ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, the person concerned will become a milk child even when the milk is less than fifty percent. If the woman’s milk is dropped into the child’s nostrils, the child will become a milk child. A dead woman’s milk, as well as milk of a girl over the age of nine, will cause a milk tie. The event of having been suckled (by a certain woman) becomes a proven fact when the man who is to become married or who is married avows it insistently, like a declaration of ownership, or when two ’âdil men or one man and two women testify to it. The couple will become divorced by the decision of law court or by a bilateral agreement reached by the couple. If the two male witnesses are not ’âdil Muslims or if there have been only two women or one man and one woman as witnesses or if the only witness has been the ’âdil milk mother herself, and yet if the husband acknowledges it, the nikâh will become fâsid and the couple will become separated [Ibni Nujaym ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’]