You are pleasant and the place of your growth too is pleasant and pure.
You are pleasant and the place of your growth too is pleasant and pure...[^12] Alluding to the pleasant growth of Hadhrat Maryam (AS) Almighty Allah says: فَتَقَبَّلَها رَبُّها بِقَبُولٍ حَسَنٍ وَأَنْبَتَها نَباتاً حَسَناً...
Thereupon her Lord accepted her with a beautiful acceptance, and caused her to grow as a lovely plant...(3:37) Imam al-Husayn (AS) says in his well-known supplication of ‘Arafa: خَلَقْتَنِي مِنَ التُّرَابِ، ثُمّ أَسْكَنْتَنِي اْلأَصْلاَبَ آمِناً لِرَيْبَ الْمَنُوْنِ وَإِخْتِلاَفِ الدُّهُوْرِ، فَلَمْ أَزَلْ ظَاعِناً مِنْ صُلْبٍ إِلى رَحِمٍ فِيْ تَقَادُمِ الأَيَّامِ الْمَاضِيَةِ وَالْقُرُوْنِ الْخَالِيَةِ ...You created me from clay, then established me in loins safe from the unpredictable turn of destiny and the difference of times; then I have been shifting from the loin to the womb along the course of the bygone days and the past centuries .’[^13] Here Imam al-Husayn (AS) is trying to teach us of a profound reality: the question of transfer of purity or impurity is not necessarily from the immediate parents.
Generations are responsible. In the well-known Ziyarat…
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