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Why did the Ayatollah Sistani say that an UGLY woman cannot breast feed a baby?

The Ayatollah said this on his website:

2497. It is recommended that the wet-nurse, whose services are obtained for a child, should be Shia Ithna-Asheri, sane, chaste, and good looking; and it is Makrooh for a wet-nurse to be a non-Shia Ithna-Asheri or ugly, ill-humoured or illegitimate. It is also Makrooh to entrust the child to a wet-nurse who has given birth to an illegitimate child.

So who is the one judging the woman’s ugliness? The husband, the wife, the Ayatollah or maybe the baby? And what if the BABY is ugly? Can an ugly baby be breast fed by a good looking woman? Can an ugly woman breast feed her own baby? This decree from the Ayatollah raises so many questions doesn’t it?

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