Herewith I introduce exposition of these purposes...

Herewith I introduce exposition of these purposes: Permanence of Human Offspring The holy Qur’an, in a verse, refers to marriage with terms like cultivation and harvest: “Your women are a tilth for you “to cultivate”, so go to your tilth as ye will…” (Qur’an,2 :223) Sayyid Qutub, in exposing this verse, says: The Qur’anic verses manifest the marriage connection with miscellaneous expressions in so many places, using the term raiment “Libaas” once and finding rest and love another time, or tilth “harth” in another place.

The term tilth “Harth” indicates a part of marriage attachment, which is procreation of the kind and multiplication of offspring. Thus we come to realise the profound view of Islam which admitted man, with all his inclinations and needs, not considering a part of his necessities.[^9] Some traditions are there to support this theme. Once the Messenger of Allah (S) said: “Get married so that to multiply in number, so as I can boast with you the nations.”[^10] Al-Imam…