Question: Are there verses of the Quran you read for the purpose of easing child birth for a woman?
Answer: “I do not know of anything about that from the Sunnah, however, if a person reads upon a pregnant woman who is in labor, verses which indicate easiness like:
يريد الله بكم اليسر ولا يريد بكم العسر
Allah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you
[2:185]
And verses that speak about pregnancy and childbirth like His statement:
وَمَا تَحْمِلُ مِنْ أُنْثَى وَلا تَضَعُ إِلَّا بِعِلْمِه
And no female conceives or gives birth, but with His Knowledge.
[35:11]
And His statement:
إذا زلزلت الأرض زلزالها وأخرجت الأرض أثقالها
When the earth is shaken with its (final) earthquake.
[99:1]
Verily this is beneficial and helpful by the permission of Allah. The Quran is all a cure. If the recitor and the one being read to are believers in its affect, then no doubt there will be an affect because Allah says:
وننزل من القرءان ما هو شفاء ورحمة للمؤمنين ولا يزيد الظالمين إلا خسارا
And We send down from the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it), and it increases the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers) nothing but loss.
[17:82]
This verse is general. The mercy and cure includes the cure of the hearts from the diseases of doubts and the curse of the body from serious sickness”.
[Taken from: https://audio.islamweb.net/audio/Fulltxt.php?audioid=313501 ]
Translated by
Faisal ibn Abdul Qaadir ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
