قَالَتْ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِى وَلَدٌۭ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِى بَشَرٌۭ ۖ قَالَ كَذَٰلِكِ ٱللَّهُ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ ۚ إِذَا قَضَىٰٓ أَمْرًۭا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ
Qaalat Rabbi annaa yakoonu ee waladunw wa lam yamsasnee basharun qaala kazaalikil laahu yakhluqu maa yashaaa'; izaa qadaaa amran fa innamaa yaqoolu lahoo kun fayakoon
She said, "My Lord, how will I have a child when no man has touched me?" [The angel] said, "Such is Allah; He creates what He wills. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is.
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She said ‘Lord how shall I have a child when no mortal has touched me?’ neither through conjugality or otherwise; He said the command ‘It is such that God will create from you a child without a father. God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing willing its creation He says to it only “Be” and it is that is and ‘he is’.
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The child does not come from all the liquid (sermen) and when Allah intends to create anything nothing can prevent it (from coming into existence).
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "At every womb Allah appoints an angel who says, 'O Lord! A drop of semen, O
Lord! A clot. O Lord! A little lump of flesh." Then if Allah wishes (to complete) its creation, the angel
asks, (O Lord!) Will it be a male or female, a wretched or a blessed, and how much will his provision
be? And what will his age be?' So all that is written while the child is still in the mother's womb."
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, 'O Lord, (it is)
semen! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to
complete its creation, the angel asks, 'O Lord, (will it be) a male or a female? A wretched (an evil
doer) or a blessed (doer of good)? How much will his provisions be? What will his age be?' So all that
is written while the creature is still in the mother's womb."
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah has appointed an angel in the womb, and the angel says, 'O Lord! A drop of
discharge (i.e. of semen), O Lord! a clot, O Lord! a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to
complete the child's creation, the angel will say. 'O Lord! A male or a female? O Lord! wretched or
blessed (in religion)? What will his livelihood be? What will his age be?' The angel writes all this
while the child is in the womb of its mother."
"A man from among the Ansar came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: 'O Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), I have a slave girl. Should I do 'Azl (coitus interruptus) with her?' He said 'Whatever is decreed for her shall come to her." He (the Ansari) came to him later on and said: "The slave girl has become pregnant." The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Nothing is decreed for a person but it will surely come to pass."
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