There is nothing new under the earth; as grave as an event may be, you can be sure there have been similar experiences in the past that could be linked to it. Women are expected to breastfeed their babies and nurture them to health with everything they have. This should not be hard to understand as babies are dependent and it is the sole responsibility of the mother to look after them till they start to do things themselves. Muslim scholars will be familiar with the verse that says “Then if they give suck to the children for you, give them their due payment”.
This is taken from al-Talaaq 65:6; this simply means that a woman who asks her husband for payment for breastfeeding her children should be given. As strange as this sounds, women who want to be paid by their husbands for



