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Al-Batoul (The Chaste and Pure One)
Allah, the Exalted, created His creatures and implemented in them
certain laws and habits. He also subjected these creatures to laws and
habits. For instance, a law that rules fire is incendiary; while plants
require certain spans of time and specific environments to grow and
produce; likewise, animals require specific conditions that vary
according to their sizes, types and colors, to grow. Generally speaking, humans are subjected to assigned universal laws
and physiological, psychological and spiritual peculiarities; yet, certain
people who have been chosen by Allah and on account of His far-
reaching wisdom, have been excluded from these laws. In other
words, Allah subjected special laws to the chosen ones. Fire, for
example, turns everything in its way to ashes; yet Allah said to it: "O
fire! Be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Ibrahim."
When Yunus was "cast forth on the naked shore in a state of
sickness," after the whale swallowed him, Allah caused a "spreading
plant" to grow quickly and cover Yunus's sick body. Procreation, too, cannot take place without impregnation and the
implementation of sperm in the woman's womb, wherein the sperm is
made into a clot that grows to be a fetus covered with bones that
becomes an unborn child. This process takes at least six to nine
months; but his natural process that Allah implemented in mankind
was invalidated in the case of Maryam (A) who gave birth to Isa (A)
without any of these steps. It has been said that she carried him six to
nine hours in her womb before giving birth to him under a palm tree in
Likewise, all miracles, which occurred through other prophets, took
place in environments that did not conform to natural laws. The
examples of such events are tremendous. The Holy Quran narrated
many stories about prophets' and Imams' challenges to the laws of
nature. Among these stories are Adam's descension from Paradise to
Earth, the gushing forth of the fountains of earth in the story of Noah,
Sara's pregnancy with Ishaq at an old age, the turning of Musa's stick
into a snake, healing the blind and the lepers and raising of the dead
by Isa, and Ascension into the Heavens by Allah's last Apostle (S)
Now that the above is understood, the following conclusion can be
Women's monthly menstruation, which starts at maturity and continues
until the fifties or sixties, is nothing but the discharge of spoiled blood
and tissues which were to hold the fetus had it been conceived.
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