THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH
(Allah created Adam out of dust, then He created his mate
and made them capable of reproducing their own species so that
the cycle of life goes on revolving for as long as He wished it
to last. Men and women unite in holy matrimony and cohabit with
each other; but is that enough? Does every physical union between
members of opposite sexes inevitably lead to conception and to
the miracle of birth? Could the sowing of the seed by itself
become a guarantee of its sprouting? Could striking the match
suffice for igniting the flame, if there is no spark in it? It
can never be! Sowing the seed is an act of man, but its
germination is the will of Allah; striking the match is an act of
man, but igniting the flame is the will of Allah; mating is an
act of man but conception is the will of Allah. It is by the will
of Allah that a drop of seed lodged inside the safe repository
either evolves into a foetus or is aborted and discharged in
the form of menstrual bleeding; it is by the will of Allah that a
shapeless lump acquires a heart and slowly begins to pulsate; it
is by the will of Allah that it acquires its features, its
gender, its skeletal structure and its physiognomy; it is by the
will of Allah that its parents would celebrate the arrival of new
life in their midst, rest their foreheads on the floor, give Him
thanks, make plans for the future and seek His guidance in
discharging the obligations of parenting! There is no room in any
of this for Stars and Planets, for rocks and idols, for the
Aurora of the Sun or the Corona of the Moon, for the devils and
for their sycophants!
Let not the doctors who replace the womb of the mother with
their laboratories to carry out a function which Allah has
intended to be carried out inside her womb squeeze the marvel
of birth in the narrow confines of their test tubes; extend
the short-lived tenure of the human seed by preserving it in
freezers; subject the proliferation of mankind to the outcome of
their fertility drugs boast that they can substitute for
Divinity; they can re-write the Book of Decrees by writing their
dissertations; they can rob Allah of His Glory; they can usurp
His Sceptre; they can enthrone themselves on the Pedestal which
belongs to Him alone, but do well to remember that, after loosing
a million chances of creating a new life, the one life they
succeed in creating arrives in the world by the same Will which
they tried to substitute; it is always by His Will and at His
command that every fertilized egg incubates; it is by His
dispensation that the theatre of life and death stages all its
shows!)