Mother's Milk
Mother's
milk is an unmatched mixture that is created by God as both
an excellent food-source for the newborn baby, and a substance
that increases its resistance to diseases. Even artificial baby
food produced by today's technology cannot substitute for this
miraculous source of nutrition.
Every day, a new benefit of mother's
milk to the baby is discovered. One of the facts that science
has discovered about mother's milk is that suckling up to two
years after birth is very beneficial.(19)
God gives us this important information, which was discovered
by science only very recently, with the verse "…his weaning
was in two years.." 14 centuries ago.
"And We have enjoined upon
man goodness towards his parents: his mother bore him by bearing
strain upon strain, and his weaning was in two years: (hence,
O man,) be grateful to Me and to your parents; to Me is the eventual
coming."
(The Qur'an, 31:14)