According to a narration...
According to a narration, they once asked the Imam (‘a), “Why is it so that after urination, it is enough purification to wash only the organ and parts to be washed during ablution, whereas ejaculation requires washing of the entire body?” Imam replied, “Particles of semen come from all the parts of the body.” On another occasion too he (man) was diffused and scattered because semen is obtained from food that man eats. A portion of it also is released in the form of semen. What was his food?
Rice, wheat and vegetables, which also were scattered in the earth. These scattered particles got together to form food. They entered the body of the father and then gathered in the form of semen at one place. Thus you have gone through collection and scattering twice during your life. So, after your death also, your body will get scattered and again recollected. Are you astonished at this third occasion? Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed?
(36:77) *** *** In the next verse also He says: *** *** And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. (36:77) *** *** That is, he has forgotten his own creation and therefore, astonishingly asks as to how God will gather or recollect the rotten bones? Mention of the first and the last condition removes ego The third benefit of mentioning man’s origin is improvement of man himself. He realizes that he is born of a despicable drop. His beginning was dirty and smelly.
So will be his corpse, dirty and stinking. Then what is there to be proud of and to be egoistic? One of the reforms that such admonition brings is submission to Almighty God and acceptance of every truth. When he thinks that in the beginning I was merely a drop. What did my Lord do to this drop? He gave eyes and ears. There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning. (76:1) *** *** He also provided a tongue, hands and feet.
He remembers such great bounties of God and becomes thankful to the One Who granted all this. He should be thankful unless he is blind and deaf and does not understand how great and precious these bounties are. How much submissive you should be to the Lord Who gave so many precious and invaluable bounties to you? One who denies this truth is, first of all, inimical to his own Lord. In fact he is denying God. Then lo! he is an open disputant. *** *** That is, he is an open enemy.