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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do Muslims give out candy in the hospital after a baby is born?  What does it mean if you took care of them all day and they don't offer you any? Who is the candy really for? [/quote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSLIbMZ-HM[/quote]

First, thanks for linking to a video that is blessedly short.

Second, thanks for pointing out that he two to one for males vs. females starts as soon as children are born.  The scholar here says the Islamic correct custom is to slaughter one sheep for a girl and two for a boy.  None of this is from the Quran--he implies there are hadith of various kinds giving customs around the birth of a child.[/quote]

My Arab Muslim DH says this is nonsense.  Sheep aren't slaughtered when a child is born.  Then we both recalled a story in an Arab newspaper about a family whose sons and their descendents had not had a girl born in over a century.  When a girl finally was born the whole tribe had a huge celebration.[/quote]

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