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Description of Nutfah
The Holy Qura'n points , in many verses , that
the beginning of the progeny of Adam is from
nutfah :
chapter
16 (A-Nahl) ; verse 4 :
" He has created man from nutfah (a drop of
fluid ) ; yet behold ! he is an obvious
opponent .."
- chapter 18 (Al-kahf) ; verse 37 :
" His companion said to him , while disputing
with him : Do you disbelieve in Him (God) Who
created you from dust, then from nutfah ( drop
of fluid) , then He fashioned you into a
man"
- chapter 22 (Al-Hajj) ; verse 5 :
" O people! if you are in doubt about he
Resurrection, then surely We created you from
dust, then from nutfah (a drop of fluid) , ...."
,
-chapter 35 (Fatir) ; verse 11:
" And Allah did create you from dust; then from
nutfah (a drop of fluid ) ...",
-chapter 36 (Ya-Seen) ; verse 77 :
" Does not man see that We have created him from
nutfah ( a drop of fluid ) ; yet
behold ! he is an obvious opponent
.."
- chapter 53 (An-Najm) ; verses 45 & 46 :
"And that He did
create the two sexes ; the male and female * from nutfah when it is poured
forth ”
- chapter 80 (Abasa) ; verses 18 & 19 :
" From what thing did He created him * From
nutfah ( a drop of fluid ) He created him , then
immediately
planned (programmed ) him. ".
From the previous verses including the term nutfah , it becomes
clear that the creation of the progeny of Adam (Who is created from the clay or
dust )
is from the nutfah ( a drop of fluid) . To know what is the meaning
of the term nutfah and its description in Arabic, we can say that the
term nutfah in Arabic language has several meanings , of which
a small drop or a little amount of fluid.
The term
nutfah , as it was explained by prophet Mohammad himself , peace and
blessings be upon him , from his haith , when he was asked about creation of
children by one of Jews :
" O, Jew , it is created from both ; from a man
nutfah and from a woman nutfah "
( This hadith was narrated in Musnad Ahmad, volume 1, page 465) . To explain
this hadith , it is clear from the answer of prophet Mohammad , peace and
blessings be upon him , that nutfah is the part by which the man
shares in creation of a child and also nutfah is the part by which the
woman shares in this creation . Thus , according to this hadith , it is clear
that creation of a child occurs from both male and female and that the
term nutfah is applicable to both male and female , not only male.
In one verse that describes the creation of progeny of Adam ,
chapter 32( As-sajda ) ; verse 08 : " Then He made his progeny of an
extract , of a little weak fluid "
, this verse means that creation occurs as
an extract from that little weak fluid , in Arabic the word extract is the best
of that fluid . Despite Qura'n does not mention in the previous verse , to whom belongs this fluid , it could
be understood that this fluid originates from both sexes , not only one of them
, that meaning could be appreciated from another verse of Qura'n ;
chapter 49 (Al-Hujraat) ; verse 13 : " O mankind ! We created you from a
male and a female .." , in this verse
, Allah , the - Al-mighty , Said that He Have created mankind from both sexes , the male and female ,
thus no one can longer say that Qura'n states that creation is from male only
.
Now , after
science have proven that creation is through fusion of a part from the man (
that is the sperm) and a part from the woman (that is the ovum) , Isn't this the
man nutfah and the
woman nutfah given in the above hadith without any contradiction ?? Thus ,
it is possible to apply , the term nutfah to both the sperm
(man nutfah) and the ovum
(woman nutfah) respectively . In another hadith
of Prophet Mohammad , He said : " Not from
all the fluid , the child will form , and if Allah Wants to create any thing ,
nothing can prevent Him to do so .." (this
is a part of a long Hadith narrated by Muslim , 2: 1064 ) , the meaning is clear
as not from all the fluid means from only a little part of it. In essence
, nutfah is source of the progeny of Adam.
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