Favours of the Gracious God — Page 190
190 it connects to another and attaches onto it. Thus, like clothes, flesh connects to and forms over the body and flesh meets with tough bones and causes them to hold together and causes an affinity between them. And the sixth [transformation] was named ًا ت َل�ْ ض � َر ض آ� [ Khalqan A khar : another creation], and due to its preciousness and its ability to permeate within the limbs, it was also named نَفْس [ Nafs : the self]. Then this entire entity was named ض �ْ ی�ِ ض �َ ج� [ Jan i n : foetus]. Blessed be God, the Best of Creators. And when the foetus emerges from the womb of the mother; it was named وَل�ِی ْد [ Wal i d : newborn baby]. When it inclined towards the mother’s breast for milk, it was named ٌ ی �ِ ج ص�َ [ S abiyyun : infant]. Till it suckled, it was named ٌ ْع ی�ِ ض ر�َ [ Ra di ‘un : suckling infant]; and after it was weaned [off from the mother’s milk] it was named ٌ ْم ی َط�ِ ض � ٌ ْع ی َط�ِ ت � َ و [ Fa ti mun wa Qa ti ‘un : weanling]. After some growth is observed, it is named ج دَار�ِ [ D a rij : the one who crawls]; and when it attains a height of four spans of the hand it is named ی َاع�ِ ج ر�ُ [ Rub a ‘i : fourer]; and when it attains the measure of five spans of the hand it is named ی ُمَاس�ِ ض � [ Khum a si : fiver]; and when it sheds its milk-teeth, it is named ُوْر ض �ْ ث م�َ [ Mathgh u r : the one whose front teeth were shed]; and when it regrows its real teeth, it is named ِر ض �ْ ث م�ُ