Hadith 397

peded and whither just as the plants whither when there is absence of water? And if, he does not get uncomfortable with labour when it is stronger, wouldn’t it happen to remain in the womb like the deposits inside the ground? And if the milk was not compatible with its birth, would it not just die of hunger, or be provided with food which is unsuitable for it and its body would not be correct upon it? And if the teeth do not emerge upon him during its time, wouldn’t he have been prevented upon chewing the food and swallowing it, or stay upon the breastfeeding, and his body would not have strengthened nor be correct for the work? Then his mother would have been too busy from bringing up her other children. And if the hair had not come out in his face during its time, would he not have remained upon the form of the children, and the women, and you have neither seen for him a majesty nor dignity? ’
Al-Mufazzal said, ‘I said, ‘O my Master–asws! I have seen one who remain upon his state and the hair does not grow in his face, and even if he reaches the state of being old’. He–asws said: ‘That is due to what their own hands have sent ahead, and that Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants [3: 182]. So, from this is which is observed until all things from these goals are achieved, except the One–azwj Who Grew the creation after it did not exist. Then, rely upon Him–azwj with His–azwj Purpose, after it has existed, for it is the neglect (without a plan), he (the atheist) should come with the like of this strategy. Thus, it is obligated that the deliberation and the determination happen to be with the errors and the impossibilities, because these two are contradictory to the neglect. And this is an exaggeration from the words and ignorance of the one saying it, because the neglect cannot come with the correctness, and the contradiction(s) are unsustainable within a (sound) system. Exalted is Allah–azwj from what the atheists are saying, Loftier, Greater. And if the new born had been born with understanding, intellectual, he would have denied the world at its birth and would remain confused, of lost intellect, when he sees what he does not recognise which come to him, not having had seen the like of it from the different images of the world, from the animals, and the birds to other than that, from what he witnesses hour after hour, and day after day. And consider that with one who is a prisoner taken from a city to another city, and he is with intellect, he would be like one puzzled and