The mother leaves her child crying when she goes to work

30-3-2005 | IslamWeb

Question:

My wife is working and daily before she leaves for work, she normally go to our baby and bid her bye for now and say until I come back...before the baby doesn't used to cry or get upset. But now she is ten months old and she just started crying this morning when the mum was bidding the baby bye for now. Our question here is: knowing that nothing Islam doesn't have answer for… we feel we should enquire whether Islam agree for the mum to be doing the farewell bidding (say bye for now and kiss the baby) daily before leaving/going to her work or she should start to sneak and leave for office without the baby knowing.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.

 

There is no harm for the mother to kiss her child before leaving for work, and there is no harm for her as well if she slips away without being noticed by the baby, but slipping out of the house is more lenient for the child and it is better. What is important is that she leaves her with a trustworthy person who would take care of her while she is absent. For more benefit, please refer to Fatwa: 83607 about the ruling and preconditions for a woman to work.

Allaah knows best.