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BENEFICIAL FOODS MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN 77

agree that artificially produced baby foods should be used only
when the mother's milk is insufficient, and that the baby must
be breastfed, especially during its first months, because no other
nutrient material can fully substitute for a mother's milk.
It is also miraculous that every mother's milk, as regards its
density and quality, is produced according to her baby's specific
and unique needs. For example, the milk of a mother who gives
birth prematurely is quite different from that of a mother who
completes a full-term pregnancy.
Amother's milk is also antibacterial. Kept at room tempera-
ture for 6 hours, bacteria start to develop in cow's milk.
However, this is not the case with mother's milk. A mother's
perfect milk, which a baby can digest easily, cannot be matched
by any man-made baby food.