Favours of the Gracious God

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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Favours of the Gracious God — Page 190

FAVOURS OF THE GRACIOUS GOD 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 خَلْقًا آخر ]Khalqan Akhar: another creation], and due to its preciousness and its ability to permeate within the limbs, it was also named as the self]. Then this entire entity was named جَنِيْن ]Janin: foetus]. Blessed be God, the Best of Creators. And when the foetus emerges from the womb of the mother; it was named وليد Walid: newborn baby[. When it inclined towards the mother's breast for milk, it was named صبي ]Șabiyyun: infant]. Till it suckled, it was named رَضِيعُ ]Radī'un: suckling infant]; and after it was weaned [off from the mother's milk] it was named نَطِيمٌ وَقَطِيْعُ ]Fatimun wa Qațī'un: weanling]. After some growth is observed, it is named در Darij: the one who crawls[; and when it attains a height of four spans of the hand it is named رباعي Rubā'i: fourer]; and when it attains the measure of five spans of the hand it is named خُمَاسِي [Khumāsi: fiver]; and when it sheds its milk-teeth, it is named مَشْخُور ]Mathghūr: the one whose front teeth were shed]; and when it regrows its real teeth, it is named مُثْغر 190