Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 500
! ! 500 Responsibility for Tabligh and Ahmadi Women Address to the Ladies at Jalsa Salana Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Bashir - ud - D in Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra October 1, 1946 (8 York Road, New Delhi, India) After Tashahhud , Ta‘awwuz , and recitation of Surah Al - Fatihah , Haz rat Khalifa t - ul - Masih ra said: In the Holy Qur’ān , wherever the beginning of the creation of mankind has been mentioned, God Almighty has mentioned that first, a soul was created. And then: َز ۡو َﺟ َﻬ ﺎ ِﻣ ۡﻨ َﻬ ﺎ َﺧ َﻠ َﻖ [ “… created theref ro m its mate … ” ] (Holy Qur’ān, Ch. 4: V. 2 ) from this, its partner was born. The Bible explains ‘from this, its partner was born’ by st ating that a woman was created from splitting Haz rat Adam ’s as rib. However, the Holy Qur’ān refutes this concept that a woman was born from splitting apart Hazrat Adam’s as rib. The Holy Qur’ān says : َز ۡو َﺟ َﻬ ﺎ ِﻣ ۡﻨ َﻬ ﺎ َﺧ َﻠ َﻖ [ “ … created therefrom its mate ” ] (Holy Qur’ān, Ch. 4: V. 2 ) T he mate is created from that very being. This means that Allah created woman from the same species as man. Here ِﻣ ﻦ ( min) refers to species, and t he Holy Qur’ān produces many examples of this. At one place, God Almighty says :