Favours of the Gracious God — Page 91
91 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS part of conducting an upbringing, intention or love. For instance, a Buck who jumps at a female-goat and ejaculates its sperm therein, or an Ox who leaps upon a cow, and having executed its lustful urges, runs away from the cow—having no thought of procreation—or a pig, who is overwhelmingly driven by carnal urges and repeatedly engages in the act of mating, having no thought towards achieving the purpose of producing offspring at the moment of any carnal impulse and spreading piglets in great numbers upon the earth—nor has it been granted such sense—but if offspring are born, no doubt, each Swine etc. will be called the father of its offspring. Therefore, according to all the lexicons of the world, when the word abun —father—does not at all mean that the father, after depositing the sperm, engages in any further activity in relation to the sperm so that the offspring is born, or that the father possess - es this intention at the time of procreation, nor has any creature been granted this ability, instead, the word fa - ther does not even contain any thought of the birth of an offspring, and nothing further can be derived from the connotation of the word other than that the father should only provide his sperm; rather, it is only on the basis of this act that he is called abun , meaning father.