Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 393
— Part IV 384 common practice, the Arab world would have been completely deprived of women and might have become extinct as a result of that. Again, they never murdered male children, and it should be noticed that the word Aul a d in Arabic is applicable to both male and female children. The teaching of family planning which is widespread today is done with the specific warning that if poor countries did not prevent conception by modern means, they would ultimately die of hunger. The Holy Quran raised a holy war against this fourteen hundred years ago when at that time there was no imminent danger of this. According to the Holy Quran, not only is it an objection against God as well as His design, it also means that man alleges that Allah’s scheme of things is faulty and He does not know how to create balance in His own creation. Wherever Allah has forbidden family planning in the Holy Quran, He has done so on account of the fear of family planners for shortage of food. The Companions of the Holy Prophet sa narrate that the only practice they carried out was not to abort children for the fear of poverty, but to take preventative measures against their conception for other reasons. The Wisdom Underlying the above Quranic Teaching Little do the people of poor countries understand that the more children they bear the less will be the fear of