الجمعة، 17 أكتوبر 2014

A happy bride, but for how long?

A happy bride, but for how long?
عروس سعيدة ولكن إلى متى؟
Question:
I am a new bride. We are very happy and we love each other. People say that love doesn't continue. I am very worried, is that true? How can my happiness continue?
The answer:
Oh, daughter, you and your husband can keep happiness or lose it. To keep our happiness we must do our duties as we ask for our rights. I always ask you in our meetings to know your duties and do them and know your rights set by Islam (not imaginary ones) and seek them.
Oh, daughter you fear losing marital happiness. What do you and your husband do to keep it? What do you both prepare to face difficulties and problems of life after rosy times? Every Muslim male or female shouldn't do anything before asking, as God says:
"Ask those who know the Scripture if indeed, you don't know." Surat Al-Israa', verse 43.
For example, when a girl wants to marry, she asks her friends many times about every thing in marriage, gold, dress, wedding party and everything, why doesn't she ask about the rights of husband and wife towards each other? Isn't this from religion? Is there a girl thinks about these matters? There are some of course, but very few. If she asks, though we know that nothing is wrong when we ask or learn about religion, but she just asks about video tapes, then what about religion? Islam mentioned everything small or large. Islam explained all transactions between a wife and her husband and also between her and his family, but whoever asks?
During engagement time, we only talk about unimportant matters and 99.5% of our talk is about unreal things. We waste the beginning in illusion, imagination and dreams. When marriage happens, we must read a book about treatments and transactions of spouses towards each other. We must talk and know our duties towards each other. It should be the law we follow and never to forget, at different times we can remind each other. Do we know the rights and duties and how to keep to them? Maybe we don't know this but this is the foundation of happiness you feel in the beginning.
If you haven't done it yet, you can do it now. Both of you should know the rule of marital rights and duties and assimilate it together. Oh daughter, do it and care about each other, you will succeed in life, and the bird of happiness will flap its wings on your house God willing. And you don't care about people's words as long as you follow the words of the master of people (PBUH).

The spouses' enjoyment by each other

The spouses' enjoyment by each other
Question:
Can a woman see all her husband's body with no exceptions? And can a man also do to get legal enjoyment?
The answer:
Yes, it is permissible for each of them to look at, touch, enjoy and pamper the whole body of the other. Allah says in Surat Al-Bakarah (189):
"They are a source of comfort to you, as you are to them."
This is a perfect miraculous description of their closeness to each other. They have to be aware and say or conjure in their hearts "Ma Shaa Allah La Kowata Illa Bellah" (Allah's will be done, there is no power but with Allah) as Allah says in (Surat Al-Kahf 39)
"If only when you entered your garden you had exclaimed: Whatever God wills will be, no one can command power but Him."
A Muslim woman has to keep to this Do'aa (supplication) whenever she sees and likes something in her house, husband, herself, wealth, and her children or with anyone else because this protects and increases it God's willing.

Performing morning prayer after sunrise

Performing morning prayer after sunrise
صلاةالصبح بعد الشروق
Question:
What about performing Morning (Fajr) Prayer after sunrise?
The answer:
It's important to perform Fajr prayer before sunrise.
The Messenger of Allah used to pass his daughter Fatima every day on his way to the mosque knocking at her door to perform the Dawn prayer. One day He (P.B.U.H) knocked at her door and went to the mosque, on his way back she was still asleep, he said to her:
"Oh Fatima, why don’t you get up at this hour? Don’t you know that this is the time for distributing sustenance?"
Sustenance is distributed at this hour. Whoever gets up and performs prayer at this hour, he has blessed sustenance. Whoever performs Fajr prayer after sunrise; Aisha wondered and said to the apostle of God about him:
"O Messenger of God, I wonder about someone who performs Fajr after sunrise, How he is provided by his sustenance?
He (P.B.U.H) said:
"He gets his sustenance the same as a disbeliever." This tradition was narrated after A'isha in some references attributed to Imam Ashafe'ey in other words.

The prostration of forgetfulness

The prostration of forgetfulness 
سجود السهو

Question:
What about the prostration of forgetfulness?
The answer:
Prostration of forgetfulness is for obligatory prayer only not for voluntary prayers.
If she forgets how many rak'ahs (Units) she performed, i.e. she is not sure if they are three or four rak'ahs or she forgets middle Tashahhud, then she must perform prostration of forgetfulness., she considers herself performed the least number (three rak'ahat) (Units) and completes her prayer and then prostrates two prostrations of forgetfulness.
If she forgets ruku'u (Bowing down), or if she forgets prostration, her prayer would become false (void), and then she must redo the prayer again because these are basis of prayer.
Question:
If she ends the prayer before she completes the fourth rak'ah?
The answer:
As long as she ends the prayer but didn't talk to anyone yet, she can stand up and perform the fourth rak'ah and then prostrate two prostrations of forgetfulness but she mustn’t have talked to anyone.
Question:
Please, explain forgetfulness again.
The answer:
The most important thing is that she must perform basis of prayers and its actions or modvements correctly. If she doesn't remember she performs three or four rak'ahs or forgets middle tashahud, she can complete her missing fourth rak'ah and then prostrates two prostrations of forgetfulness, but it is important that she performs basis of prayer correctly.
One should raise her voice to hear herself only to get rid of this confusion and doesn't pray secretly, because when she performs prayer secretly, she remembers different illusions and becomes busy-minded in prayer. She reads Al-Fatiha loudly enough to hear herself only and not anyone around her. She also glorifies God and reads tashahud loudly enough to hear herself only. As ling as she performs correct basis of prayer, her prayer becomes acceptable, God Willing, but one who performs prayer secretly becomes busy-minded because problems and troubles come to her mind during prayer.

Adornment of the bride and dancing on the wedding day

Adornment of the bride and dancing on the wedding day
زينة العروس والرقص يوم الزفاف
Question:
Is it allowed that a bride can be adorned and dance on her wedding day?
The answer:
If the bride is adorned on her wedding day and only her husband or her Maharem (unmanageable people) can see her, it is ok, but otherwise it is prohibited. Then she must keep to legal adornment which can be seen by ordinary people.
One of them said:
"They say: It is allowed for the bride to be adorned on her wedding day?'
The answer:
Who gives them the permission to do this? They are like those who decide to do the wedding two days before Eed El-Fitr and tell the newlyweds not to fast the last few days of Ramadsan. Who gave them this permission? Adornment is only lawful to her husband or her Maharem who are not allowed to marry her. The Messenger of God has forbidden that the young men look at young women or young women look at young men.
Comment: What about dancing, sir? 
The answer: Dancing is permissible among women if no men are looking, but I tell you all if you are safe from the eyes of men at this time, are you safe from those who can watch the wedding videotape later? Cautiousness is much better and safer. We have seen lots of cases where the husband's eyes himself deviated when he watched the wedding videotape, take care of your daughters' houses and do what is good for their future.

The groom enters among women for gold



Question:

Is it permissible for the groom to enter among 

women to attire his bride the gold?

The answer:

It is permissible provided that he 

enters alone 

without any of his relatives or 

friends just to 

attire her the gold. Anything else 

the youths 

request is prohibited, this is God's law.

What are the principles of choosing a husband?

About choosing the husband
حول اختيار الزوج
Question:
What are the principles of choosing a husband?
The answer:
Nothing is better than the choice that God praises and says in verse 32, Surat Annoor:
"Marry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourselves, male or female: if they are in poverty, God will give them means out of His grace,"
The most important thing is that he is virtuous, the Messenger of God (PBUH) said:
"If someone who you agree to his religion and his manners proposes, accept him, if you don’t, it will be affliction of the world and a great corruption." Sonan Attermethy after Abi-Horayra.
One day a father asked our master Al-Hassan: "Two men proposed to engage my daughter, for whom I should marry her?
He (May Allah be pleased with him) said "Marry her to a virtuous man, if he loves her he would be generous with her and if he hates her he would not insult or be unjust with her."
He will not abuse, beat or insult her because he knows the rights of marriage in Islam. He won't ask her to visit her family and wastes her furniture as some people do now. One who fears God never to harm her or remiss her rights, why? Because he knows that God will question him about that.
O, girls, no one is better than a virtuous man, this is the truth, you want a crude man for whom you are the first girl, he must be bashful because "Modesty is from faith." You want a man who is a gentleman and fears God because as long as he fears God and does all His rights, he will also do all his wife's rights God willing.

Polygamy and spinsterhood

Polygamy and spinsterhood
تعدد الزوجات والعنوسة
Question: What about a man who marries two wives?
The answer: Women refuse that, and Islam believes that the solution of this problem is in polygamy but women say no, they exceed: "His funeral better than his marriage."
It is a social problem. Firstly; girls now are more than men. Secondly, we exaggerate in gold. She stipulates that she doesn’t want to live with his father, his mother or his brothers, she needs her own flat. She also insists on doing an expensive wedding ceremony. She says to him: "I'm not lower than my cousin. She also exhausts her father by expenses and requirements, "I want so and so." Thirdly, when a young man graduates he needs three things: a house, a job and marriage. If his father helps him at the beginning, he always asks his help in household expenses, this increases the problems of the youths and their parents and marriage becomes a big risk because it leads the young man and his father to be in debt and the burdens increase.
In the past there were several outlets for the youth, they used to go to Libya, Iraq and other Arab countries and get the money. This isn't available now as these countries don't want the Egyptians because they can get cheaper workers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries. So where do young people get the money they need? These are the obstacles in our age and the youths crisis becomes harder and we increase it more; so how can a young man get married?
If we assimilate this hard case and a married man comes and wants to marry and asks it in Halal and Sharia we say no. The first wife never agrees and she wants all goodness for herself alone, but if she put herself in the same place of the other woman, she might have mercy upon her. The parents also rarely agree that their daughter marries a married man. Now, you judge.
O Brothers, Sharia has explained and legalized this issue for the good of the whole society now and in the future. The society should understand it as God has explained it and we all need to cooperate to solve the big problem of marriage and spinsterhood.

Clothes of menstruation and prayer

Clothes of menstruation and prayer
ثياب الدورة والصلاة
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Question: 
Is it allowed for a woman to perform prayers wearing the same clothes she was wearing during her menstruation, though they are clean?
The answer:
Yes, it is allowed as long as the clothes she is wearing didn't touch any blood because the condition in Islam is the purity of clothes. Purity means that it mustn't have been touched by any blood or any dirt.
As long as the clothes are not touched by anything, it is allowed to perform prayers with it.

What does it mean that not all houses are built on love?

The life between us has changed
to the worst
تطورت العشرة بيننا إلى الأسوأ
Question:
What does it mean that not all houses are built on love?
The answer:
As we said before, love and heartily affection arises between the spouses with legal correlation. Love comes after marriage as God says:
"And between you both He implanted affection and mercy," Surat Arroum verse 21.
When? After marriage. At first life is rosy, mental and physical desires are strong and there are few problems. Everyone is happy and tries to make the other happy. After a period of time they get used to each other and changes happen to the man and his wife might hate him, some changes also happen to the wife and her husband might hate her, what can we do then?
The wife shouldn't tell her husband that she hates him or tell anyone else. The same thing happened at the time of our sir Omar; a man felt that his wife hates him. He talked to her but she denied, he asked her to swear, she swore that she hates him, she didn't tell a lie. They went to our sir Omar and the man told him that his wife swore that she hates him. Our sir Omar hit her with his stick and wondered: Why did you swear?
Man shouldn't also tell his wife that he hates her or tell anyone else because not all houses are built on love. Love comes at the beginning of marriage to connect between spouses until cordiality and compassion are implanted and grow, then come children and there is a bigger common interest between them, this is what controls their marital life.

Who names the baby?

Who names the baby?
تسمية المولود لمن؟
Question:
Who has the right to name the baby?
The answer:
Naming the child for whom?
Father has the right to name the child because the child is attributed and belongs to him. But cordiality and mercy in marital relations in Islam encourage the father to consult and content the mother because she did more than him in reproduction and has a greater role in upbringing and caring for children. He should ask her opinion and her ideas to please her and to strengthen the bonds of affection and love between them. They should choose a name that pleases them together and at the same time agrees with Islamic morals. They have to know that the name is a responsibility before God. We should advise the father if he wants a strange name, this is what the Prophet did at the birth of our master Ali's sons (Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein).

Parents interfere in choosing daughter's husband


تدخل الوالدين في اختيار زوج البنت
Question:
Do my parents have the right to prevent my marriage by a young religious married man? I agree to marry him as a second wife but my family refuses that completely even if I'll be spinster?
The answer:
Islam makes the agreement of father and mother an important condition for marriage because they have more experience and know what is useful of their children. The messenger of Allah (PBUH) made the agreement of the guardian essential for marriage, he said: "There is no (legal) marriage without waley (a curator) and two competent and fair witnesses, otherwise, the marriage is invalid." Narrated after A'isha in Saheeh Ibn-Hebban. 
The waley (curator or guardian) is the father when he is there, or he can be the brother or the uncle.
The messenger of Allah (PBUH) also said: "The satisfaction of God is in the satisfaction of father and wrath of God is in the wrath of father." After Abdullah Ibn-Amr in Sunan Attermethy.
Days and life have proved that any marriage done without the agreement of family finally fails. Family is the first guardian and protection for you when you need refuge.
Keep close to God's law and you will be happy.

Curing being absent-minded in prayer

women question
علاج السرحان في الصلاة

Question: 
How can we medicate being absent-minded in prayer?
The answer:
The best treatment for being absent-minded during prayer is to perform prayers in congregational prayer (prayer in a group at the mosque).
When a woman prays at congregation after the Call (Azan) in a mosque where there is a place for women, if God accepts the prayer of one of them, He will accept all of the others for him. The prayer in mosque is guaranteed to be accepted but if she prays at home, there are lots of workhouse, problems, children, grand children and other things, so there is no treatment better than praying in a group.
If she wants to pray at home and wants to be attentive, she should prepare to prayer at least ten minutes before Athan (the call to prayer), she should do ablution, sit remembering God and asking His forgiveness or read some verses from Qur'an in a special place far away from children, but if she sits next to television, how would she pray?
If she does this, she will be attentive in prayer for the remembrance of God provided that she raises her voice just to hear herself.

Delaying re-fasting the days of Ramadan

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Question: 
A woman gave birth in Ramadan and fasted some days and still some days and then next Ramadan comes and she didn't fast all the days. Is it correct to pay Fedya (feeding poor people or giving them money instead of fasting) now?
Another Question:
What if a Muslim woman or girl hasn't yet fasted all her missed days from last Ramadan and the next Ramadan comes? 
The answer:
If one has missed days from former Ramadan, for example five days or more or less and the next Ramadan comes, and she didn't fast her missed days, here, she must pay ransom for each day of those missed days and also must fast all her missed days at the same time… why?
To take care after that, she must fast her remaining days (days of her period or her menstruation) before next Ramadan. Her missed days for example can be five or six days, she can fast one day monthly till she ends them before the next Ramadan even if they were ten days and she fasts one day monthly, she will end them before the next Ramadan. But as she was lazy and didn't care until the next Ramadan comes, we tell her that she must pay a fine this is ransom (fedya). 
Ransom is like fast-breaking Zakat (zakat el fetr), and like zakat that we pay for one who is unable to fast. If zakat is three pounds, she must pay three pounds for each day and if zakat is five pounds, she must pay five pounds for each day and so on, because she delayed in fasting her missed days so she must pay her ransom and be attentive so as not to delay it again and try to fast all her missed days before the next Ramadan.
As we said before, she must fast all her missed days quickly after Ramadan to be acquitted from being guilty to God The Almighty because it is a debt and Allah's debt must firstly paid.
Interposition: 
What if she died?
The answer:
Here, it depends on the intention. The prophet (P.B.U.H) said: "Whoever dies and has been in debt and God knows that he wanted to repay it, he will not be punished by God or asked about it."
Another interposition:
Is it the same with money?
The answer:
Yes, money or others, for example: A woman went to her neighbor and said: "Give me twenty pounds." She intends and wants to repay it. If she dies, God would repay her debt. If she took the money and she doesn't want to repay it and she dies, she is like a thief. Religion depends on the intention: If she wants to re-fast her missed days God would not punish her.

Our daughters and their psychological health


Question:
My daughter reads the Qur'an and performs prayers at night but she looks too lazy and she doesn’t love or enjoy life or food or drinks except the Qur'an and prayer, is this from jinn?
The answer:
Such a girl has a psychological problem. She might have impossible demands. Young people sometimes have day dreams, she might day dream to get to a certain college or get married to a man with certain features and live in a certain villa. Sometimes she gets deep imagination and doesn't feel people around her. If someone calls her, she doesn't respond, because She swims in those dreams and those daydreams are normal not a disease. 
When she grows up and goes to university her dreams become greater. But when she graduates, gets to real life and finds that it is impossible to achieve her dreams because of the difficult economical circumstances, and then she has a neurological and psychological shock. She graduated but there is no work though she daydreamed to have a good job. Now she is looking for a husband but she doesn't find because the percentage of young men who are ready for marriage are smaller than girls, perhaps she had hoped to marry a young man but her dreams evaporated in real life, so young men escape and promises melt. 
However, neurological shock and psychological break, may lead to one of these four:
Firstly: God may inspire her satisfaction. She reads the Qur'an and worships God lovingly, praise be to God that such a girl contents herself in a good way. But she doesn't stop eating or abandon people and normal life. She realizes the reality and seeks God's help and she is patient and anticipates rewards in the hereafter, such a girl is safe.
Secondly: She might lose power and surrender then she escapes from her reality that she refuses to herself where she expects to find protection from this cruel world which has no mercy. Maybe the Qur'an, prayers and acts of worship are just an external way of this escape.
Thirdly: Psychological shock may dominate and she stops eating and drinking and she gets isolated and introverted. I always say that a psychological illness is like all other diseases. We should resort to a Muslim psychiatrist in the second and third cases and she will recover God's willing, but we must follow the appropriate means and never to go to magic or jugglery for cure because it is endless harm.
Fourthly: This is the disaster and here I strongly warn because few girls may satisfy themselves in an evil way. Young men may seduce them because they become weak and they are ready to believe false promises, so they get into troubles the least of them is undocumented marriage. So you should do everything to protect your daughters so that they pass such crises peacefully.

Moderation, similarity and facilitation in marriage


Moderation, similarity and facilitation in marriage
Question:
When someone proposes to the daughter of a pious man, he exaggerates and sets lots of conditions and demands as other people do. Please give advice to all.
The answer:
Mother sometimes controls things and father just returns things to her. Sometimes mother just looks for appearance boast and pride. Sometimes people want to take the daughter of a good man for nothing while they don’t agree to do this to their own daughters. A young man sometimes has an apartment but he has no job or so and so. We say there should be moderation, similarity and facilitation. 
A woman said: "If we agree to facilitations, one day he will say to her: "I married you with nothing because you are defective." So we don’t facilitate but we get severe and strict.
The answer: I repeat again and again that we treat Allah not people, it is not the matter of traditions, appearance or boasting, but the success of a marriage depends on following the instructions of Sharia and the orders of Sunna of the prophet ( P.B.U.H) and it concentrates on moderation on costs taking into consideration the social level and facilitation without excess or negligence. 
For example, today, there is a bedroom for ten thousand pounds and another with two thousand pounds and there is a Chinese kit for five thousand and another for five hundred pounds, here we should buy moderate things. I think this is clear. We don't forget that the man should have a job or an income to spend on his family, let's take on example from the tolerant prophetic era:
The Messenger of Allah (P.B.U.H) married his daughter Fatima to whom? Though rich people proposed to marry her, he married her to the poor man Ali Ibn Abi-Talib. Her dowry was one gram of gold and her bed was mattress stuffed with fiber covered with a wrap used partially as a sheet and as a quilt at the same time. This was furniture of the bride, the daughter of the Prophet (P.B.U.H), and it was a blessed marriage and all people at this era were the same.

الاثنين، 13 أكتوبر 2014

Helping a naughty son to get married


Question:
My naughty son wants to get married, he asked me to help to choose a suitable bride but he is naughty and I fear his bride may suffer with him, what should I do?
The answer:
Muslim parents should bring up their children according to good moralities. If they do this, then they did their duty towards their children. The messenger of Allah said about that:
"Nothing a father can give his son better than good morals." After Amr Ibn-Said Ibn-Al-Aas, narrated by At'termedhy and Al-Bayhaky in Shaab Al-Eeman.
If the son still has some bad morals, the parents should choose him a good, religious and patient wife to be able to improve his morals and be patient till he changes and becomes a good man. The parents should not deceive the girl or her family. They should teach their son about his wife's rights and his duties towards her. The parents should always help and support the wife in this great mission till their son becomes a good man.


Relationship after contracting a marriage and before consummation


Question: 
My marriage was contracted and the wedding ceremony will be after short time. My husband tells me I am his lawful wife. Is that right? Is it a sin if I disobey him at that?
The answer:
If man has completed his contract of marriage to a woman, she shouldn't think that everything becomes permissible. Yes after contracting the marriage you become his wife but this is never completed except after the wedding ceremony and after people see and know that. God does not permit other things for Muslim males or females. A wise Muslim girl doesn't allow such things and she only allows man to act as a husband after the wedding ceremony, something bad may happens and he leaves her before the wedding and she gets confused and puts herself and her family in a big problem as she did a big sin. She can’t protect herself from society who knows that she hasn’t completed her marriage yet. We shouldn't neglect such small things as they lead to big sins. So it is not disobedience if you prevent him before the wedding ceremony.
So, we always repeat advice to our sisters and daughters to contract the marriage at the wedding night to avoid all these problems and complications. We seek guidance of Allah to 
the right way.


الأحد، 12 أكتوبر 2014

The spouses' enjoyment by each other

Question:
Can a woman see all her husband's body with no exceptions? And can a man also do to get legal enjoyment?
The answer:
Yes, it is permissible for each of them to look at, touch, enjoy and pamper the whole body of the other. Allah says in Surat Al-Bakarah (189):
"They are a source of comfort to you, as you are to them."
This is a perfect miraculous description of their closeness to each other. They have to be aware and say or conjure in their hearts "Ma Shaa Allah La Kowata Illa Bellah" (Allah's will be done, there is no power but with Allah) as Allah says in (Surat Al-Kahf 39)
"If only when you entered your garden you had exclaimed: Whatever God wills will be, no one can command power but Him."
A Muslim woman has to keep to this Do'aa (supplication) whenever she sees and likes something in her house, husband, herself, wealth, and her children or with anyone else because this protects and increases it God's willing.

Man and woman relationship during engagement


Question:
I am engaged. My fiancé says we have to sit together and go out alone away from people to be closer. What is legally allowed during the time of engagement?
The answer:
Most of what we see now during the time of engagement isn't allowed by Islam. Islam has permitted engagement but on conditions, firstly: Khelwa (privacy) is not allowed, and this is for the sake of the girl. What does this mean? We mean that they aren’t allowed to be alone together in an enclosed place but they can sit in an open place or room as other people can see them.
Going out with him is prohibited without her Mahram (father or brother) this protects a girl at this time of engagement, because people will see and talk about her saying that she was going out with so and so, but she can sit with him at her father's house as we said before or they can go out with mahram such as her father, her brother or anyone from her family and every one agrees about that.
The prophet has taught us in the Hadith: "Whenever a man is alone with a woman the Devil is sitting with them as their third." It means when they both are in a closed place, this is a fact because even if she trusts herself 100%, can she trust in him? Maybe he looks as a gentleman but in Khelwa he may change. Islam says you should take all precautions. 
When you sit or go out with him according to these conditions, flirty speech is prohibited with him as you are still a stranger to him and if he leaves you or goes away, he will talk about you.http://www.fawzyabuzeid.com/table_books.php?name=%DD%CA%C7%E6%EC+%CC%C7%E3%DA%C9+%E1%E1%E4%D3%C7%C1&id=17&cat=2

Ablution for prostration during recitation



Question:
Do I need ablution for the prostration of recitation? And what can I do when I can’t do it?
The answer:
The prostration of recitation requires ablution. You must be on ablution to do it. But if I am not in a position allows me to prostrate or I am not on ablution and I hear the Qur'an and listen to a verse requires prostration, here you must not prostrate but just say:
"Subhan Allah (Glory be to God), Walhamdulellah (Praise be to God), Wala Ilaha Illa Allah (there is no God but Allah) and Allahu Akbar (God is the Most great)."
Don't prostrate.

the difference between birth control and family planning



Question:
What is the difference between birth control and family planning? 
The answer: 
Birth Control is forbidden, it means that women stop completely childbearing. Now, scientists invented several ways to get a woman completely sterile and not to give birth any more, this is forbidden. 
But family planning means that a woman gives birth from time to time because this is the order of the Qur'an as God orders a woman to breastfeed her child for two years, God says: 
"Mothers who have given birth shall suckle their babies for a period of two whole years." Surat Al-Bakarah verse 233. 
After the two years according to lunar calendar, if a woman wants to get pregnant after that she can do it, then there is about 3 years between babies two years if suckling and the period of pregnancy.