The Mysterious Account
of Miriam's (pbuh) Temple Stay

Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (Even) in matters of which ye had some knowledge! but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is Allah Who knows, and ye who know not! Quran, 3:66



Why is the Sura about the Virgin Mary (Miriam, pbuh) the 19th Sura?

I have often wondered about that. The sura itself is an outright declaration of her role in all of this long winding tale of humanity's most major religious predecessors i.e. the "family" tree of the prophets. It appears that Miriam (the Virgin Mary, pbuh) was sequestered in the Hebrew temple during prepubescence/pubescence to control who would father the prophet that the rabbis were on watch for (it is noted that whenever a prophet was to be born, the Hebrew scholars knew about it as they had certain knowledges which had been handed down through the ages). In the Bible Miriam's 'husband' Joseph iselevated to the status of being from the line of David (Dawood, SAW) ..... but really folks, use your OWN noggins. What significance is he (Joseph,pbuh) if the prophet Jesus (Isa, SAW) is said to have been 'immaculately conceived' (by the Christians and Muslims)? Jews on the other hand, denied Isa (Jesus, SAW) was anything other than "Raboni" or 'teacher'.

Why the discrepancy? This is one major paternity suit if you ask me. It has led to wars, famines, bloodshed and the "creation" of a whole branch of religion not authorized to exist in ANY sacred text: Christianity which more or less falls within the type of fellowship that believes Jesus (a human being) was synonomous with God (although there are exceptions in certain sects like the Copts and Orthodox).

It appears to me that when Miriam (pbuh) was sequestered to isolate her from potential "mates" in the Hebrew temple, it was a means of controlling the lineage of prophets by handpicking the father of her child. Guess what? She turned up pregant even though the only contact she had with anyone at all was the contact she had with the prophet Zachariah (pbuh, the father of St. John the Baptist i.e. Yehye, SAW) who was a short time later into the drama, murdered on the Temple stairs in cold blood. It is interesting to note that when Yehye is mentioned in the Quran, we are told that it is the first time in history that the name "Yehye" was conferred upon any prophet whereas his father's name "Zacharaiah" was a common name amongst prophets and there are at least a half dozen different "Zachariahs" mentioned in the Tanakha (Torah). Why the mention then? What is the importance of the double murder of Zachariah AND Yehye (John the Baptist) in relationship to a unique name i.e. Yehye?

19:7
(His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction before."

That fact and the placement of Miriam at "19" is a means of indicating the importance of this particular story in a canon (Tanakh, Injeel, Zabur, Quran) which contains thousands of personal dramas. This ONE drama in particular has an importance beyond any drama in any sacred text and as well, it is only the Quran that gives you these incredibly important and MISSING details which are found no where else. Were these details cleansed from what we call "the Bible"? No one knows really but I assure, these are the missing pieces in the modern drama called "religion".

19:37
But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!

The manner (per Quran) in which Miriam was "assigned" a protector is notably significant in that the Quran tells us that the rabbis "drew straws" for her once she was assigned to stay sequestered in the temple. It isn't clear whether that means literally drawing straws for her as a means for sequestering the right of fathering a child with her or simply as a means of assigning a "protector" for her from potential 'less than satisfactory' Hebrew suitors NOT of the known royal/divine lineage i.e. David/Solomon. In any event, it was Zachariah (murdered later per Bible lore) that pulled the odd straw which deemed him her "guardian". In the Quran we are told that Zachariah discovered Miriam in her room and that she has been supplied with food from somewhere . Because he is the only one (theoretically) in contact with her personally he questions from where she obtained the food to which she answered, "it is from Allah." Details regarding Miriam are also found elsewhere in the Quran but in particular in the fourth Sura called the Family of Imran (her father who was of known prophetic lineage but not of the direct lineage of David/Solomon).

The case of Miriam and her son Isa (Jesus, SAW) was the first time in Hebrew i.e. Torah history that a MAJOR prophet was born without a direct paternal lineage to the Hebrew prophets of David and Solomon (SAW). Perhaps this is the reason the Jews do not give Isa his "due" and the reason Christians remain so confused regarding his role in the astounding tale of religious and moral human history. Certainly it is the reason the "authors" of the Bible construct a lineage for Joseph without a logical reason to do so.

But why is her Sura given this most important place in the Quran at a position of 19?

It is because this is what divides the "believers" now? The ideas surrounding the birth and attempted assassignation of the next to last prophet is THE problem of modernity and modern religions. It is referred to in the Quran as "The Lie*".

19:89
Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!

19:90
At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,

19:91
That they should invoke a son for (Allah) Most Gracious.




This is the significance (at least one of them) of the numerical order of the Sura "Miriam", i.e. Sura number 19:

http://www.quranmiracles.com/mmwh/mmlhread.asp?id=48


*Note: It is "illegal" for me to deliver facts that are not actually mentioned directly in the Quran. In this case, the reason for the "drawing of straws" is not given but we are allowed to deduce a few facts from this detail. Using one's logic to do this is called Ijtihad. This applies also to the mention of "The Lie". The Lie is mentioned but not in the sense that the Quran reveals "THIS is the Lie". There is however no other thing in my estimation that constitutes such a weighty predicament for all believers of any stripe and relegates it to the status of being something that establishes a "fact" when in fact, the whole case of prophets and the three major contenders centers around this extremely important misconception regarding Jesus Christ i.e. Isa (SAW).

**Using citations such as "pbuh" or "SAW" is a means of giving respect to notable persons (pbuh) and prophets (SAW) and a means of distinguishing one from the other. For instance, Yehye was a prophet and is noted by using SAW after his name whereas Miriam is not a prophet but a person who is given recognition of her role by wishing "peace be upon her" whenever writing her name. Unlike other believers who mock prophets in the media, muslims are required to note the respect they have for these important historical figures.

***The word derives from the Arabic verbal root jahada "struggle", the same root as that of jihad; the is inserted because the word is a derived stem VIII verb. The common etymology is worth noting, as both words touch on the concepts of struggle or effort. In the case of form VIII verbs, this means to "struggle with oneself", as through deep thought. Ittihad is a method of legal reasoning that does not rely on the traditional schools of jurisprudence, or madhabs.

Teaching Islam To Nonbelievers

The Abundance (Kawther)

To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).

Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice.

For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).

I have been leading a series of lectures in Bisbee for nearly seven weeks now. My goal was to dispel some of the misconceptions people have about Islam. I also stated that my goal was not to "convert" the students in my lecture series but in that, I know that Islam itself is a system of Allah choosing whom Allah will and if something I say to my students leads them to further investigation and 'conversion', then so be it, the seed of belief was already in them, the notorious MUSTARD SEED. I told them early on about what my bias is and asked them to consider their own. My bias is that I do believe the Quran is the Word of Allah and nothing less, that I take it LITERALLY and I did my best to relate to them the logic of that. The logic of that is based in the Arabic language as the transmission mode of what the Quran refers to as "the communications" of Allah or "Our communications" as it is worded verbatim in the text.

What I've found is that the American society is far away from belief. It is far astray in terms that most people have a very, very difficult time conceiving of a Creator let alone the Angels and the Djinn. I have been really challenged over the weeks by my students because they can become irritated at what it is I have to say. They apparently do not understand that I am not the one saying it....Allah is the one saying it...in the Quran and those communications follow a distinct logic. The problem however with my students overall (with the exception of the believers in the group) is that the unbelievers (athiests and so called "agnostics") is that they possess the FIRST BIAS. The First Bias as I like to call it is that they do not believe in Allah or God (whatever word you choose to use). The first thing a person needs to UNDERSTAND the logic of the Quran is this simple belief and it is contained in the Shehada which is the statement of "WITNESS" a person makes when actually accepting/embracing Islam as a way of life:

"There is only one 'ilah (ALLAH) and he has no sons and no partners and his messenger and prophet is Mohamed". What distinguishes a monotheist from a muslim is the second part of that statement i.e. that Mohamed (SAW) is the messenger and prophet of Allah. It is also what distinguishes other "types" of believers i.e. Christians/Jews/Others from muslims. A muslim is a DISTINCT type of believer but not one that ignores the existence of other types which never accepted the communications i.e. the QURAN and accepted it as the actual word of Allah. Let alone what distinguishes a Jew from all other types of believers that accepted the next to last prophet, Jesus (Isa, SAW) and hence, they are the focus of much of Allah's attention in the Quran as complete and serial rejectors of the prophets (which originated in their demonstrable genetic line). Due to the fact that Allah "chose" them above all others (Allah chooses whom Allah will) then they are in a very serious bind when it comes to the communications. Not from me but from Allah.

My group of students is composed of one fundamentalist Christian (and anti Arab believer - a teacher from the high school), one non practicing Jew (who is very Jewish in an ethnic sense but not a religious one), one woman who desires to accept Islam, another woman who is "Islam" friendly and inquisitive, a man who has never declared to be anything really but seems to want to be something, and yet another who seems to be interested in Islam from either a historical perspective or simply one for entertainment's sake and last but not least, a Canook who left a fundamentalist background for a "universalist" one but cannot conceive of the linkage between science (nature) and religion let alone politics and the all encompassing view Islam has of humanity and the societies in which we exist in together.

Out of all the lectures I have given, it was the last one that provided for me the biggest challenge overall. It was the lecture that questions what the Quran has to say about genetics versus what Darwin had to say and how Darwin's view has become obsolete even to non believing laboratory scientists. It is the case that Darwinism and all of it that Darwinism entails as a basis for societal/political practices has caused most of the disruption in the "God Beliefs" of people in Western society in my opionion and in the opinion of the Turkish muslim philosopher, Harun Yehye. In fact, I was not in agreement with the manner in which Yehye promotes "anti Darwinism" but now that I have seen it up close and personal, I am a believer in Anti Darwinism. That is because Darwinism is taught as a 'religion' in the sense that it cannot be questioned and to question it is to become an "apostate" (kafir in Islamic terminology) to this Western society. Nothing that I can see has caused greater damage to the souls of humanity.

So when one of my students was confronted with my Darwinian challenges he asked, "So, you (muslims) do not believe in evolution?"

How can a person answer that? It isn't that muslims do not believe in evolution "per se" but is evolution really understood by the people who believe in it? Any more than Islam is understood by everyone who believes in that as well?

NO. It isn't. People seem to have confused the two things: Evolution and Adaptation.

Two different things entirely. Evolution is the COMPLETE change of one species into another regardless of the time span required for such a change. For example, evolutionists have promoted the idea that fish somehow turned completely into birds. This is truly laughable when you think about the steps required for fish to transform into land going beasts let alone, sky going and non water filtering respiratory creatures who build nests instead of deposit eggs on underwater grasses or by simply depositing them for the currents to carry this way and that. Forget the fact that fish had to learn to sit on their eggs and completely ignore that fish are COLD BLOODED and birds are WARM BLOODED. And why then are there still fish since we know that for things to evolve it is due to the EXTREME force exerted by the NEED to adapt to varying environmental changes? The list of rhetorical questions that refute the ludicrous concept of absolute evolution are quite long and I won't go into to them now. Hopefully, I wouldn't need to as people have brains and ought to investigate ALL of their beliefs (not just the ones they like either).

Adaptation though, is another matter altogether. Islam puts forth the argument that all body plans were initially created but Islam does not negate that those types of things experienced progress and vascillation through "stages" and sometimes were changed by complete changes (human beings) but that all human beings are of the same type (NOT apes/monkeys) but of different RACES which are now extinct. We humans tend to not think we are like the Dodo bird and can experience RACIAL/SPECIES SPECIFIC extinctions that are the results of the deleterious effects of HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Western systems tend to think that kind of thinking is "for the birds". Heh.

For instance, homoerectus whateveris (to paraphrase the lineages of bones discovered by the Leakey's et.al.), were simply like Eskimoes. And we know for a fact that these types of small indigenous cultures from the Aborigines to the Apaches...are at risk for not only "social" extinction but actual "genetic" extinction through intermarriage, language and social deterioration and disease (as would be the case with the serious genetic mishaps on the Arabian Peninsula where first cousin marriages are the norm and have known detrimental effects on the offspring of those individuals in terms of increasing the morbidity and mortality of specific populations i.e. Saudis the best example of that that I know of).

In a nutshell, it has become clear to me what was not clear before. The Quran states that most people will not "believe" and it is true. Most will not because most cannot as they have been given a serious handicap in their thinking by a significantly huge number of DARWIN FANATICS. Most people will not believe without the intervening periods of vast social change like the one we are experiencing now in which humans are forced (as the Quran states: willingly or unwillingly) to face the seriousness of following a certain set of dictates NOT of human origin but of DIVINE origin.

It does beg the question, "What about the Jews then?" Are we responsible for what becomes of their small "indigenous" tribe in light of the idea that Islam relates that we all originate from the same two persons, Adam and Eve (Huwa, pbut) and in all actuality are all of one species and Allah gives everyone free will to choose "his way or the highway"? That is the question and if I was a Jew or any other type of actual "rejector" then I'd be investigating very seriously what Allah has said his plan is for those who disagree with his words. I'd be what you call, "motivated". It has bothered me for some time that Christians who supposedly believe in "God" would ignore ANYTHING God might have said. I ask them, "If you knew God left a message under that rock over there, wouldn't you want to go see what it said? Wouldn't you be overwhelmed with love for God and a desire to understand his plan and turn that rock over?" That one causes most Christian believers to tremble a little in stupification of their own "ignorance" as in ignoring something very, very important to them.

As for the unbelievers and the arrogant, who cares really what becomes of them. I certainly don't and have no control over it.

How to get people to see the logic of this thing called Islam? Well, Allah knew that was not only difficult but a job for Allah only. And that is why Sura "one-o-nine" was revealed to us as muslims:

The Disbelievers (Kafr)

109:1
Say : O ye that reject Faith!

109:2
I worship not that which ye worship,

109:3
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.

109:4
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,

109:5
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.

109:6
To you be your Way, and to me mine.

Sura called Time

76:1
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?

76:28
It is We Who created them, and We have made their joints strong; but, when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a complete change.


"It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all round the world- flies which produce a new generation every eleven days-they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme."21


Although an almost incomprehensible number of species inhabit Earth today, they do not form a continuous spectrum of barely distinguishable intermediates. Instead, nearly all species can be recognized as belonging to a relatively limited number of clearly distinct major groups, with very few illustrating intermediate structures or ways of life. ( Robert L. Carroll, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 1997)


If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed... Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 179)

And be careful for those Moby Bears:


"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale" - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Humor, er, Species.

Sura Ya Sin, 36

Glory be to the One, who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as themselves, and other things they do not know.



The Arabic word “azvaj” is the plural of “zavj” meaning “pairs,” “matches,” “partners.” There are three sorts of pairs in the Creation as described in the verse:

a- Pairs that grow from the earth, i.e., plants that have species of differentiated sex;
b- Human pairs, males and females. Also some included human characteristics like bravery / cowardice; love / hate; generosity / stinginess, etc.
c- Pairs unknown: men did not know anything about the creation in pairs at the time of the descent of the Quran. In this section we shall be dealing with the latter in particular.

Sura Yunus

Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say: "It is Allah Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the truth)?"

Sad. I find it entertaining to hear that some gringos think that the war started after 9/11. The war on muslims has been going on for over fifty years in Israel. This is just a little flare up and what a flare up it is to have revealed that the American culture is a bust.



http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/957

From the Zabur, more commonly called, Proverbs which is attributed to Solomon and part of the Psalms of the ancient Jews contained in what is known today as the Torah or Tanakha:

The Sayings of Agur*

I am myself the stupidest of people,
bereft of human intelligence,
I have not learned wisdom,
and I lack the knowledge of the holy ones,
Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again?
Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand?
Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak?
Who has set all the ends of the earth firm?
What is his name?
What is his child's name?
Do you know?
Every word of God is unalloyed,
a shield to those who take refuge in him,
To his words make no addition,
lest he reprove you
and account you a liar.

Two things I beg of you,
do not grudge me them before I die:
keep falsehood and lies from me,
give me neither poverty nor riches,
grant me only my share of food,
for fear that, surrounded by plenty,
I should fall away
and say "Yahweh - who is Yahweh?"
or else, in destitution, take to stealing
and profane the name of my God.

Do not blacken a slave's name to his master,
lest he curse you and you suffer for it.

There is a breed of person that curses his father
and does not bless his mother;
a breed that, laying claim to purity,
has not yet been cleansed of filth;
a breed haughty of eye,
with disdain in every glance;
a breed with swords for teeth,
with knives for jaws,
devouring the oppressed from the earth
and the needy from the land.

*Agur was the son of Jakey of Massa (in Northern Arabia).

On Being Different, Unusual,
Impractical and Saved:


From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:

Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren***!
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful

And from the Bee, Sura number 16 which coincidentally (or maybe not!) is the haploid number of male drones who fertilize the diploid (32) Queen Bee rather than the diploid drones who, if they were to fertilize the eggs would manage to create a new species of bee with 64 chromosomes and why stop there! Why not have bees with a squillion chromosomes, what the hell! You see, bees practice a kind of eugenics that conserve all the genetic material of both parents as opposed to humans who are less conservative and exercise a bit more "free will" in their reproduction techniques by using only half of the information contained in the humble strands of DNA:

16:3
He has created the heavens and the earth for just ends: Far is He above having the partners they ascribe to Him!

16:4
He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!

16:5
And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye eat.

16:6
And ye have a sense of pride and beauty in them as ye drive them home in the evening, and as ye lead them forth to pasture in the morning.

16:7
And they carry your heavy loads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,

16:8
And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.

The interesting thing to note about the Sura called the Bee (well, there are several things actually but this is one) is that it contains within it not only the suggestion of the eugenics of Allah, but the entire process of how food is brought to market including the fact that it is driven there on the backs of animals created specifically as beasts of burdens. For example:

16:10
It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle.

There is a sense of the purposefulness of the plan in many Suras but especially in The Bee. When at first a person reads the Qur'an, a person with no experience and no faith either, they tend to see these passages as just more Bible Stories of the ancients. But no....not in this case when in fact it starts out with a big "Wha?" Allah states, I created you from a spermatazoa and you dare to question my authority in these matters? How dare you, you fools! And truth be told, when a person becomes fully aware of the capacity of the Qur'an to comment on human nature, human biology, the food chain and natural selection (which is naturally, Allah's selection of the fittest and it is NOT random and not at all based on competition save for the evil doers who feel there is never enough to go around)...when a person comes to the final conclusion regarding the integrity of the Qur'an, a person can no longer ignore the rules. How it is...only a fool would do that and even then, Allah promises that a soul will follow willingly or unwillingly. One only has to look at the news on any given day and see that people are struggling whole heartedly against natural law in their societies. Natural Law which is necessarily, the Law of the Creator of all things including Jesus Christ (Isa, SAW), including Jonah (SAW), including Musa (Moses, SAW) and including you and me plus our dogs, cats and circular saws:

16:12
He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; and the stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who are wise.

16:13
And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and qualities): verily in this is a sign for men who celebrate the praises of Allah (in gratitude).

The Qur'an is so thorough that it even reminds of us modern definitions of infinity which are popularly accepted (ignored and avoided by the Greeks who didn't require a mathematical model for infinity (calculus/algebra) in order to square a corner or stack a wall)...popularly accepted "nowdays" as infinity that is "countable and uncountable":

16:18
If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye be able to number them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The notion of countable and uncountable infinities requires a decent understanding of the world of real numbers and the world of transcendental numbers. Take a stick of known size (say a six inch stick) and divide it up into smaller and smaller sections (the notion of Borges Map of the World)...you will never achieve the final division of course and it used to be in mathematics that it was similar to the speed of light...one could approach it but never attain it which of course, is also in the book in the Sura called The Beneficent (a Sura which details several of the favors for you):

55:33
O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!

55:34
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?

It was that infinity was a "known" quantity but it was unusually hard to gather the facts of it due to its very nature. In other words, it is both countable and uncountable and without it, modern mathematics would not be what it is and we as humans would not have been able to construct a universe that can be discussed logically between each other. We'd still be building the Parthenon and gosh, we'd be very tired of all the repetition of forms.

16:72
And Allah has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature, and made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for Allah's favours?-

Allah made mates for you "of your own nature", kind of like the bees who we are expected to study at some point in time to understand the nature of haploidy/diploidy and of course "euploidy" not to mention polyploidy, aneuploidy (which, believe it or not is the cause of cancer) and the soon to be famous:

Eurekaploidy. I discovered that one. No one knows about it yet.

Heh.


***!
Of those he makes barren on purpose, it is the Klinefelter's male, not the Turner's mosaic female, he makes barren. And for a reason. One that many people nowdays, are rather fond of NOT calling: Gender Confusion. A wide spread problem in a society where sixth grade children have begun having sex under their computer lab desks. Sheesh. For that matter, it might be tres inconvenient for men to be "fertilizable" because certainly, they do not possess a uterus and that much is for sure. As opposed to the humble Honey Bee eggs, ALL OF WHICH are viable and hatch regardless of being fertilized in the proper manner or not.

Are Gender Problems
Getting You Down?

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/management.html

An article regarding the creation of males, females and a very common genetic disorder in both sexes (Turner's Syndrom (1 in 5000 human births) and Klinefelter's (1 in 700 births))socialization, hormone replacement therapy, transexualism, etc.

From the article:

Another case is that of a well known Olympic figure. He wrote of his story in 1988.42 Erika Schinegger won the Olympic gold medal for Austria for women's downhill skiing in 1966. After the win she was given a sex test and declared unequivocally XY. When told of the test findings she immediately transitioned to living as Erik, a male. Erik said he never truly felt he was a typical girl. He had never been interested in romantic boy friends and was always more attracted to women. As Erika, however, she just thought that was her lot in life. I've interviewed Erik and one of his physicians. None of the physicians she had been seen by previously wanted to tell her of the mistake for fear it would be too psychologically damaging. Switching sex never occurred to her until the condition and situation was revealed. Follow up showed that she was born in a small town, delivered by a midwife, and pronounced a girl due to a severe hypospadic condition. When she was made aware of the situation her transformation to male living was rapid. The hypospadic condition was repaired and her psychological adjustment to the change was appropriate. Erik is now a married ski instructor.

From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:

Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful



***Fertility in males with Klinefelter's cannot be improved with testosterone therapy but enlarged breast size can be influenced with testosterone therapy in Klinefelter's males as well as an increased sense of "well being". Additionally, the type of Klinefelter's in which there is more than one X chromosome, there is an increased possibility for criminality which might be influenced with early recognition and hormone replacement therapy.

***Fertility in females with "monosomy" type Turner's syndrome is absent but females with "mosaic" type Turner's syndrome are usually fertile.

American Gothic

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.The simulacrum is true.=Ecclesiastes, from Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra.

It used to be the sky
and vast dominion meant
this side next, fill it up or erase it.
All the water in the far off sea was clean
under and outrageously deep, freshening the edges.
Once upon a time mom and dad
could fill a car for the weekend
with gum and wrappers
as children fell asleep in the corners,
jarred and blinking in the glow
of good intentions.
There was no where to run, no real need to
and plenty of jargon to fill the time.
Nothing needed to be done about
the same old secrets: engine on, engine off.
Easy does it and upsy daisy in the rigamarole,
we kept the getty-up and go
in the thingamajig under the hood.
Time doesn't pass in these juke boxes anymore,
there's more fidget in a pesky market
than on the streets where everyone used to ride
look no hands and by the seat of the pants
all torn and socks full of thorns.
The weeds mattered more than the sanctions
when girls got up slow and boys grew up thin.
Way back when a window was mostly pegs and putty
instead of glide and shine, no one minded a crack.
No one bothered to count the missing bits
of paint or the patches on a pair,
it was expected. Life needed to end somewhere.
We could stitch the universe with a thread,
organize the world with a rake and we sure did.