10-17-2004, 12:52 PM
WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM MUM?
This is the conversation of a child to her mother. We get to see inside the child's questioning mind as she ponders on the marvels of life.
"Mum, from where do babies come?"
"Where does the milk you feed the baby come from Mum?"
" I'd thought I'd ask because they are so small."
"Mum, why are babies so small and how do they grow? How does your milk turn into their flesh?"
"It seems so strange, that even if I close my eyes and concentrate I cannot stop the beating of my heart."
"When I was born Mum, did Allah know how many times my heart would beat? I'm sure He did."
"I wonder how many more beats are left".
"If I sit still and feel its movement, I can count them, one, two, three,... it's scary isn't it Mum. If it stops, I die. And yet my heart is so small Mum. I didn't know I had one, until you told me the other day. It worked Mum, even though I didn't know it was there."
"It's just like the little baby, that cries. He doesn't even know he has hands Mum. But I can see them. After a bit, he'll discover them and then we'll say he's so cute, as he looks in wonder at them and smiles at Allah's gift.".
"How many things do I have Mum, that I don't know about? But then, how many things do you have Mum, that you don't know about?"