Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

father. 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. The following couplet formulates
the mahram kinships by way of milk tie:
The milk parents’ kinsfolk, collectively;
Milk child’s husband or wife, and progeny.
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’]. Please see the final part of the sixth chapter of the fourth
fascicle of Endless Bliss!
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