Preface
What is the purpose of man in relation to human reproduction in Islam? What can a muslim believer do to obtain Allahss grace when we eschew the question of human reproduction?
Islam is a religion that promotes the enjoining of good and the forbidding of evil. Every droplet of ink and at each sentence in the Koran repeats the doctrines of amar maaruf and nahi munkar. It is the embodiment of the Koran. It also lays out the desire of its divine creator to see and urge his believers to actively pursue the task of moulding the best of offsprings otherwise known as zuriatunn toiyibban in the process of human reproduction.
Surah 3:38 PICKTHAL: Then Zachariah prayed unto his Lord and said: My Lord! Bestow upon me of Thy bounty goodly offspring. Lo! Thou art the Hearer of Prayer.
The muslim believer therefore must set forth with this objective in mind in relation to the burning question of human reproduction in Islam.
What springs forth to my mind is that Allah swt wants us to create a systematic approach towards building a society that are subliminal and luminous yet real and earthly. A society that envelopes itself in all worldly doctrines of peace, fraternity, humanity, material knowledge whilst emerging as an economical, political and military might but in turn they submit the destiny and will to its true creator, Allah and his approved and final religion, Islam.
Islam does not differentiate race, creed and religion. It recognizes every individual for their, thoughts, intentions, actions, deed and goodwill. It even acknowledges wickedness and lewdness as an imperative that resides in every human being. Whichever propensity to which individual endeavours to achieve, Allah will reward that person to whatever He sees fit.
If kindness has a goal and purpose it can thrive under gods grace. If wickedness has a goal and purpose it too can thrive and proliferate the good in mankind. Until there comes a time where Allah sees fit that the evilness must end, wickedry will never end until that individual actually ceases and repents.
These two cosmic energies, goodness and evilness are constantly battling itself in the world arena. It exists in a believers heart and also a non believer. We can have a good non-believer and we can also have an evil believer as opposed to an evil non-believer and a good believer. Gods grace will not discriminate all the four. All these individuals will be rewarded according to the level of their efforts. For example we see successful christians living a blessed life because they understood that to live in this world you must uphold the tennets of fairness, equity and humanity. In contrast we see a corrupt and tyraniccal muslim leaders who have been toppled by christian leaders? There is no irony. Allah will reward goodness to a non-believer and punish evilness to a believer. Those are principles governing his grace to the people on earth.
The dynamics of this world and its synergy with the development of world history proves that goodness and evil is a constant battle between the two.
What has all this got to do with human reproduction in Islam?
Human reproduction is the understanding of all these dynamics and understanding that in order to produce zuriattun toiyiban one must work with knowledge and with an awarness of all these dynamics that interplay with another so then to bring forth a nation that enforces to enjoin good and forbid evil.
Human reproduction is not about religious bigotry. It is about human knowledge and spiritual knowledge and the willingness to implement all that we have learnt from our worldly knowledge to obtain that beautiful by-product of iman and tauheed, the manly spirit who submits freely to the will of his creator, that is the best of offspring as captured so beautifully in the koran.
It is not state of utopia. It is not a fantasy. It is an earthly reality. That is human reproduction in Islam.
By Hamid Arshat
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