Ini Pasal Susu!

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Semasa saya sedang menyelesaikan urusan bank tadi, saya terbaca artikel dalam suratkhabar mengenai Tabung Ibu Susuan di mana (kalau tak silap saya) ibu yang tidak mampu menyusukan anak disebabkan masalah tertentu, boleh dipertemukan dengan wanita yang sanggup menyusukan bayi tersebut. Anehnya, muzakarah fatwa menyimpulkan bahawa aktiviti  Tabung Ibu Susuan ini adalah haram.

Ye ke? Tapi saya anak emas ibu tau. wajib dapat nutrien terbaik!

Aneh bukan? Kerana hukum asal ibu susuan, adalah HARUS. Tambahan pula proses ibu susuan itu sudah lama dilakukan, malah sebelum zaman kerasulan Nabi SAW lagi. 

Oh tidak, bukan saya hendak menafikan muzakarah fatwa namun saya benar-benar harap ia dikaji semula. Ini kerana walaupun penyusuan itu adalah penting bagi bayi, terdapat banyak kekangan dalam proses penyusuan. Antaranya penyakit yang boleh berpindah secara susuan (seperti AIDS), ataupun masalah kekurangan susu ibu. 

Malah, tidak lama dahulu saya pernah terdengar perbualan dua orang pelajar yang mempunyai bayi. Salah seorang mengatakan bahawa dia dimarahi oleh doktor kerana kurang menyusukan bayinya. “Namun apa saya boleh buat,” katanya, “ia tidak keluar!” Mungkin stress belajar menyebabkannya begini. Ya, oleh sebab pengeluaran susu dikawal oleh hormon, maka stress juga boleh menyebabkan ia kurang.

"Kalau adik pakai macam bear, adikboleh minum susu mak bear tak? hihi"

Apa-apa pun, saya boleh katakan terdapat banyak sebab ibu susu itu amat diperlukan. Maka apa salahnya kita menaikkan semula budaya ibu susuan ini. Ya, saya faham tentang terdapatnya banyak kerisauan dalam budaya ibu susuan, khususnya menjaga keturunan. Oleh itu, saya sarankan bukan untuk mengharamkannya secara terus, tetapi memberi syarat supaya rekod ibu susuan disimpan dan dimaklumkan kepada pihak ibu kandung juga. Jangan risau tentang nasab; zaman sekarang lebih mudah! Dengan nombor IC dan maklumat daripada jabatan pendaftaran, macam-macam boleh tahu daripada alamat rumah kepada bllangan ahli keluarga. Maka apabila anak itu sudah dewasa nanti, dia boleh menjejak semula keluarga si ibu susuan untuk memastikan siapa muhrimnya.

Selain itu, agak menarik untuk kita baca syarat-syarat tambahan yang digariskan di laman web ini  :

1. Ibu pembekal haruslah beragama Islam dan tidak mengambil sebarang makanan atau minuman yang menyalahi hukum Islam
2. Ibu pembekal susu haruslah bebas dari sebarang penyakit merbahaya seperti HIV atau Hepatitis.
3. Ibu pembekal tidak menerima sebarang pemindahan darah di dalam jangkamasa setahun ini.
4. Ibu pembekal tidak merokok.
5. Ibu pembekal tidak mengambil sebarang ubat-ubatan yang boleh mempengaruhi kandungan susu.
6. Ibu pembekal haruslah baru memulakan penyusuan kurang dari 6 bulan. Sekiranya penyusuan telah lebih dari 6 bulan, kandungan protin di dalam susu sudah kurang sesuai untuk bayi yang baru berusia beberapa hari ini.
7. Sekiranya ibu pembekal tidak berniat untuk menjadi ibu susuan, bolehlah mendermakan susu di dalam kuantiti yang sedikit iaitu kurang dari 10 auns.
8. Sekiranya ibu pembekal mempunyai bekalan susu yang amat banyak dan kuantiti itu cukup untuk menjadikan bayi kenyang lebih dari 5 kali (syarat ibu susuan), kedua-dua belah pihak perlu menandatangani surat perakuan yang menyatakan ibu pembekal adalah ibu susuan kepada bayi tersebut. Ini adalah penting sebagai rujukan di masa akan datang agar tidak timbul permasalahan dari segi nasab bagi kedua-dua belah keluarga.

Syarat-syarat tambahan ini bukan saja untuk menjaga nasab keturunan tetapi menjaga kesihatan bayi itu juga. Nampak lengkap bukan? Jadi harapnya para mufti dan ulama’ dapat menilai semua pengharaman terus kepada kumpulan ibu susuan. Ini kerana seorang bayi itu mempunyai hak untuk mendapatkan nutrien yang terbaik bagi kemandirian hidupnya.

Rrrawr! Kite shehat dan kuwat sebab minum shewshew ibuew taww!

Saya nak akhiri dengan hadis mengenai kebaikan penyusuan ibu, tetapi ada kawan yang menyatakan hadis itu palsu pula. Aiseh. Anyway, good day people!

Hukum Penyusuan: Bacaan tambahan di sini dan sini. Gambar, dari IMGUR.

Is It A Yes Or A No?

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Actually it’s such a hectic week, including last week and the next week too. I barely had time to do my reading and to complete some other work, which leads me too much lynching and scolding :(.

But on one or two rare occasional days, I managed to sneak in some blogging and reading time along the way. Lately, I’ve been inclined to read some of the fatwas and “hukum-hakam” given out by some Mufti/Ustaz either via websites or videos. They have fatwas for everything—from Facebooking and drinking ribena up to major issues such as witness credibility in sexual crimes (we’ll talk about that later).

from here

 One thing that interest me is that some fatwa really do cross opposite ways with each other, for example, a week ago someone discussed the fatwa of wearing inai (henna) on hands. One said you can, but only on certain fingers. I said eh? Wasn’t it not permissible at all? My mom said so, it’s HARAM! But instead of bashing her further for “ignorance” I googled it up.

Who was right?

Both, actually.

The fatwa agreeing on wearing henna is here, which I directly copy-pasted below:

The 88th Muzakarah (Conference) of the Fatwa Committee National Council of Islamic Religious Affairs Malaysia held on 2nd October 2009 has discussed the ruling on applying design henna in Islam. The Committee has decided that:

1. Applying henna in both hands and feet is permissible for women, whether for married or non married women as long as it does not open the door to fitna

2. However, the application is limited to wrists and ankles. The colour of henna should not remain permanent as in tattoos and the henna does not contain doubtful ingredients. As for the pattern and design, the permitted designs are leaves and plant designs. Meanwhile, designs of animal, deities or any design contradictory to Islam are prohibited.

3. Application of henna on the both hands and legs of men is not permissible except to a number of fingers of bridegrooms during marriage ceremonies and for medical purpose.

from here

Now the hokum disagreeing on henna usage is here :

Volume 7, Book 72, Number 816
Narrated Humaid bin 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf
that in the year he performed Hajj. he heard Mu'awiya bin Abi Sufyan, who was on the pulpit and was taking a tuft of hair from one of his guards, saying, "Where are your religious learned men? I heard Allah's Apostle forbidding this (false hair) and saying, 'The children of Israel were destroyed when their women started using this.'" Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Allah has cursed the lady who artificially lengthens (her or someone else's) hair and the one who gets her hair lengthened and the One who tattoos (herself or someone else) and the one who gets herself tattooed"  (hadith taken from here)

This hadith was taken as a basis for Dato Abu Hasan Din Al-Hafiz’s conclusion, a former religious officer in the Royal Palace of Kuala Lumpur. He compares henna drawing such as vines, flowers or leaves to tattooing (although one is temporary and one is permanent). He even go as far as saying it is cursed by Allah SWT.  The only thing permissible, he said, is to wear it at the tips of the fingers (as nail color).

from here

So there are two reasoning to that one same situation—one leads to it being haram and the other as halal. I don’t know which is “better” than the other but I’ll stick to the one being Halal so I don’t start criticising people on their wedding day for wearing henna. Although, I’ll refrain myself from drawing henna on my hands to avoid pissing off my mom. She is so hell-bent in prohibiting us from doing henna art that she won't evn listen to my explatantion on the clashes of fatwa. Why? she was brainwashed time and time again by seniors and scholars that it is wrong. (and she got no Google to read up the intellectual discourse that follors)

When I look back at the fatwa’s clashing, I gave a big sigh. This is not something simple—it’s the opposite ends of the spectrum—HALAL and HARAM. Some individual ustaz, especially those with power and popularity, need to refrain from freely giving hukum before consulting some other experienced people. Yes, you think your ten years in Middle East and five years as an Imam is enough, but don’t you think that you might be a “raisin before a grape”? (raisin before a grape is an analogy quoted by a famous Muslim scholar, citing people who think they have enough knowledge that they give judgemental  freely). 

from here

So this problem has been around for centuries, and it has got a lot worse in these days. The fatwas of Yoga and Poco-poco for example, has ended in ridicule by non-Muslims and liberal Muslims by being too “over the top” and “overreacting”. I am not opposing that Fatwa actually, I am rather afraid that this might lead to distrust of the ustaz/mufti community as a whole.

Hopefully one day, we can just have one BIG muzakarah (probably worldwide, but let's be practical--Malaysia is good enough) and they all can do fatwa of everything under the sun. yes it's costly and time-consuming, but no disputes can trouble the minds of the commonfolk anymore.

Let us practice religion in peace please!

 

Assalamualaikum itu ada lima hukumnya....

Assalalumalaikum wbt...

Ha, ini sebenarnya bukan entri nak beri hukum hakam ala2 Norman Hakim Ustaz Zaharuddin. tetapi sekadar merumuskan perbincangan tentang hukum memberi Salam yang ditayangkan di TV9 pagi Rabu lepas. Saya sampaikan saja, dan menurut pencarian saya, apa yang dia cakap tu betul. Kalau salah tolonglah betulkan, dan jangan salahkan saya, salahkan ustaz tu! Huuu

Lima hukum memberi salam
1) Wajib:

Wajib? lupa pulak adik. [link]

beri salam kalau dalam solat. benda tu kan rukun solat. haaaa

2) Sunat

Samekom adew sapew kat umah takkk, ittew nak masukkk [link]

 kalau memulakan salam sesama rakan, saudara, makcik, pakcik, jiran sebelah...you get the idea.

3)Harus

tiba-tiba ternampak kelibat biru laju disebelah anda...[link]

Seorang lelaki yang memberi salam kepada jemaah perempuan (aka a group of girls. tapi bukan utk mengorat tau!). Rasulullah SAW pun pernah buat. ada saya tulis dalam post terdahulu. cari sendiri!

4) Makruh

Ai tengah bisnis. Jangan kacau eh.[link]

 Makruh beri salam kepada orang yang berada dalam toilet.

5) Haram

haram kalau macamana?

kalau lelaki bagi salam kepada perempuan bukan muhrim secara individu. aka, taktik mengorat mat rempit. actually, girls, tak dosa kalau tak jawab ok. Terutama kalau anda sedang berlari laju-laju kerana takutkan dia yang tengah sengih gatal! Hehehe

Harap maklum.

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