Customs and Desirable after Childbirth, in Islam

Khademi, Gholamreza; Ajilian Abbasi, Maryam; Bahreini, Abbas; Saeidi, Masumeh

doi:10.22038/ijp.2016.6433

Customs and Desirable after Childbirth, in Islam

Authors

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

² Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

³ Students Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

⁴ Students Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

10.22038/ijp.2016.6433

Abstract

Children are a precious gift from God, and the blessing of a child is a special time in a person's life. All cultures and religious traditions have certain ways of welcoming a newborn child into the community; also, each culture and religion has its own customs and traditions for the birth of a child. During and after the birth of a Muslim child, there are certain rituals the mother and father must perform. Some of these traditions are culturally inspired, and others are performed according to passages in the Nobel Quran that detail the appropriate actions after childbirth.
We explain some of these customs which include: Birth customs (the Adhan, Male circumcision, Aqiqah, Shaving the hair, Congratulate and Walīmah); Muslim baby names and Breastfeeding. There are a number of birth customs common to Muslims, an appreciation of which provides unique insights into the lives of Muslims.

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