surface of ear and eye, and all surface 'sensory receptors' throughout the body
are derived from the embryonic ectoderm: that front row of pluri-potent cells
that line up in ranks in the tri-laminar embryonic primitive disc (like a flat-
worm or leech) during the first three weeks of gestation. And everyone
instinctively changes their tone of speech when approaching any infant:
"... He would have shown them (hypocrites) to you and you should have known
them by their marks; but surely you will know them by the tone of their speech.”
Q, 47:30)Psychiatrists have observed institutionalized patients who consistently laugh
whenever listening to a politician's speech. When examined, the madmen all
confessed that they mocked the speaker because they knew he was lying by
the sound of his voice. The baby, though not mad has something in common
with these madmen in that it simply has no desire to be touched by any sight,
sound or movement that is unpleasant and disturbs the 'Rest of God' in which
it sleeps, eats, and grows. It instinctively has the ability to discern that which
is not good, not beneficial or unpleasant, and when ears hear or eyes see
clearly, the infant will often reject the sound or sight of an unwanted visitor,
often embarrassing those it abhors until they prove themselves as worthy
companions. The babe instinctively does not trust their sight, smell, sound,
or touch as Allah's representative (wali) and deems them unworthy of its
affection.
Unlike the parents, all other humans must earn the trust and love of the babe
and these wages are all paid through the currency of 'touch'. This sentient
phenomena is readily carried over to the marriage bed, so that a spouse who
is unkempt in body and soul disqualifies themselves in the eyes of the other
as being too unpleasant to touch in love because they look, smell, sound or
act unpleasantly and do not deserve the loving touch and attentions of the
human sexual response, even though they desperately desire it out of genuine
human need.
This reason alones allows that a woman should never be forced into marriage,
or compelled to remain married to a man she finds unpleasant and as taught
by the prophet. Nor can a virile man sexually respond to a wife who has lost
her attractive charm through neglect and/or gastronomic overindulgence.
And even when a man is perceived as attractive physically and morally, if his