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Who Has More Power? Man or God? It
is a part of human nature to yield to the
powerful, and also to fear the fearful. This is
also ingrained in animal nature; deer, water hog
and wilder beast etc. - all fear lion. It is its
inherent predatory nature, strength and ferocity
that make a lion the King of jungle. But
the title bestowed on lions alone is somewhat
unrealistic. In fact, lions fear elephants. They
do not confront them, especially when they are
at a water hole, in a herd or are nursing and
training their babies. Like
the animal kingdom, we humans also have our own
kings and queens. They are the powerful ones,
who control us and our destiny. A minuscule
number of them inherit their kingly and queenly
qualities from their parents or close relatives;
others acquire their lord-like powers by
effectively using their mental prowess and
manipulative qualities. Others
who become �kings� of the ordinary people
are their political and religious leaders.
Political leaders maintain their hold over their
subjects by always trying to be politically
correct. Since a politically correct person
cannot always be a truthful person, falsehood,
in a way, becomes a virtue, following which,
many of our political leaders help themselves in
maintaining their influence and control over
their unsuspecting victims. Religious
leaders also follow the same pattern. Falsehood
is their stock in trade. It comes to them from
the doctrines they learn from their peers and
religious books. They live with, and propagate
falsehood in order to maintain their elevated
and lucrative positions in the societies and
communities they are members of. Among
innumerable falsehoods that are prevalent in all
religions, one is the topic of my today�s
short discussion. Islam
tells us that it is only God who knows what is
in a mother�s womb. It is He who decides a
child�s sex after his or her conception by his
or her mother. According to the Islamic
scripture, no human can temper with, or change
the sex of a child. Until
some years ago, I used to think that, perhaps,
the above claim was true. But the claim of
God�s dominance over the creation of human
lives became a mockery on account of the
following facts, reported by the Arab News in
its edition of �Three
Saudi sisters have undergone surgery at a
hospital here to become men and two others will
follow suit. Dr.
Yasser Jamal, a professor of surgery at �This
is not the first case. What is bizarre is that
it happened to five girls in the same family,�
Dr. Jamal said. Dr. Jamal insists on the term �gender
correction� rather than �reassignment�.
�We are taking the person back to his or her
original sex according to the intensive tests
that are done, but we will not operate on people
that are actually men or women to change them to
the opposite sex just because they want to,�
he said. The
chromosomes decide. �If the test shows xx, the
person is female, and if it is xy they are
male,� he said. �Also, tests are performed
on the testicular or ovarian tissue as well as
the patients� internal organs � for example,
does this person have a uterus? Then that is a
strong indication that she is a female.� He added that every person is born male
or female � the only problem that might cause
sex �misinterpretation� is a defect in the
external organs.
Unqualified midwives assisting at home births
might not understand the complications, he
said.� It
is apparent from Dr. Jamal�s comment that God
is not at all as powerful as He is depicted in
the religious books, and that He is as fallible
as we all humans are. Like us, He, too, fails in
ensuring the gender of a child. The
mistakes He makes in His creation require a
person, like Dr. Jamal; had there been no such
humans as him to correct God�s mistakes, what
sort of a life the five Saudi sisters would have
endured is easy for all of us to guess and to
pity upon! Does
the condition with which the five sisters took
their birth testify that God is All-Powerful and
Omniscient?
Mohammad Asghar writes from USA. |
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