Favours of the Gracious God — Page 189
189 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS two loves. Then, by God’s will, the law of nature underwent such change that after many transformations, man’s creation started to proceed through the wombs of mothers. Thus, the first transformation was named ٌ ت �ِ ض دَا� ٌ مَاء [ m a ’ un d a fiqun : gushing fluid] and ت �َ ض ُط�ْ ض � [ nu t fah : semen-drop]. And the name given to the second transformation, through which the trace of life progresses, was ت �َ ت عَل�َ [ ‘alaqah : clot]; and the name given to the third transformation, is analogous to an intensely chewed morsel, which in Arabic has the name ت �َ ض �ْ ض م�ُ [mu d ghah : lump of flesh]; and the fourth transformation, which progresses further from a morsel, is when it reaches the point of extreme rigidity and God bestows on it a system of order full of great aspects of wisdom; hence at this stage was named َامًا ن ع�ِ [ ‘I za man : bones] for at this point it reaches greatness, increased honour and rank, which is the point at which bones from the Lord of All the Worlds have been bestowed. And the fifth [transformation] was named ٌ لَحْم [ La h mun : flesh] which increases it like a garment and it became the cause of its complete beauty and adornment; it is called this because in Arabic ٌ لَحْم [ La h mun : flesh] means to patch or connect something together when