Imam Al-Sadiq

food, nor to get rid of the harm, nor to get an advantage, nor to get rid of damage. Indeed
some of the menstrual blood flow through its body to feed it as water feeds plants. This
continues to be its food. When its creation is perfect, its body becomes strong, its skin
becomes strong enough to face the air, and its sight becomes strong enough to face the light,
its mother labors. This annoys it (the baby) very much till it is born. When it (the baby) is
born, that blood which feeds it separates from the blood of its mother and goes to her breast.
So, the taste and the color turn into another kind of food. It is more suitable for the new born
baby. It (the food) comes to it (the baby) when it (the baby) needs it. When if (the baby) is
born, it smacks and moves its lips to seek suckling. It (the baby) finds the breasts of its
mother like the hanging skin bags because it always needs them. It (the baby) goes on feeding
on milk as long as it has a wet body, thin intestines, and flexible limbs. When it begins
moving and needs a harder food to strengthen it s body, its teeth come out to chew food. It
goes on that state till it attains puberty. When he attains puberty and is a male, hair grows on
his face as a mark of the male and the honor of the man, which distinguishes him from the
boy and the woman. And if she is a female, her face is without hair so that beauty and
freshness remain to move the males to continue progeny.
Mufaddal, take a lesson from the thing which regulate man during these various states. Then,
do you think that these states happen through negligence? Do you not think that if blood does
not flow through its body while it (the baby) is in the womb, it will fade and dry as plants do
when they lose water? If labor does not annoys it when it becomes perfect, will not it stay in
the womb just like the dead person in the ground? If milk does not suite it during its birth,
will not it die of hunger or feeds on the food which does not suite it and its body does not
grow due to it? If teeth do not come out in their limited time, will chewing food not be
difficult for it? Or will it not go on suckling, so its body does not become strong and is not
suitable for any work, then its mother is busy (suckling) it, paying no attention to other than it
of the children? And if hair does not grow on his face in the limited time, will he not stay in
the shape of boys and women, so you do not see his loftiness and gravity? So, who is this who
takes care of it (the baby) and supplies it with all these needs? Surely, no one but He who
creates it when it was nothing, then He (Allah) takes care of it (the baby) when it becomes a
human being. Thus, if negligence creates such a regulation, then intention and estimation may
lead to the error and impossibility because they are opposite to negligence. And these are
horrible words whose owner is ignorant. That is because negligence does not create
correctness and contradiction does not create orderliness. Allah is free from the things they
ascribe to Him!" I (the author) say. Indeed, negligence always causes an error as we see with
our own eyes. For example, do you think that the water will cover the plants when you direct
it for them while you neglect to distribute it equally through the fields? Do you think that the
plants will come out orderly when you sow the seeds disorderly? And do you think that you
are able to make a chair without an order when you collect pieces of wood and join them with
nails?
Then al- Sadiq, peace be on him, said: "If the baby was born with understanding and intellect,
then he would deny the world at his birthday, and would be perplexed when he saw what he