Sunday, October 21, 2012

Birth Rites



The words "God is great, there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer." are the first words that a Muslim baby should hear, they are whispered in the ear of the newborn baby by its mother or father.

The baby’s first food needs to be something sweet. Muslim’s do this because it was what Muhammad first did. After seven days they shave the baby’s head and weight the hair they then give the same weight of money to a charity, this connects to almsgiving one of the five pillars of Islam.
On the seventh day the baby if it is a boy is also circumcised but this process an happen anytime before puberty, they also sacrifice a lamb which is symbolic of Moses and distribute the meat to family or give it to charity.


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