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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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