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(By Mian Iftikhar Ahmad)
Can a human shape the spiritual, moral, and intellectual potential of the next generation before birth?
Humanity’s greatest tragedy is not that man built nuclear bombs capable of erasing entire civilizations, nor that he suffocated his planet under the weight of industrial greed and environmental destruction. The real tragedy is far deeper, far older, and far more silent: human beings reduced the sacred act of procreation – the most creative, divine, and universe-altering function—to a mere biological necessity, a routine, an accident of desire and circumstances, something no different from the instinctive reproduction of animals. Today, a man will spend months planning the construction of a house, selecting the land, inspecting materials, calculating angles and dimensions, but will bring a new human soul into existence with no planning, no intention, no spiritual preparation, and no vision. Children are no longer created; they merely happen. Birth has become production, not creation. Yet a question knocks at the gates of human consciousness: was man given the rank of Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat-the crown of creation-only to multiply his own flesh, increase consumption, and fill the earth with more bodies, or was he meant to rise through self-purification, ignite the furnace of his soul, elevate his consciousness, and then bring forth a generation superior, purer, and more evolved than himself? Does a human being possess the power to predetermine the spiritual, moral, and intellectual capacity of the next generation before they are even conceived? Modern science, especially the field of epigenetics, and ancient spirituality, particularly the concept of purification of lineage, both agree: yes, it is possible.
If a human being undertakes two to seven years of disciplined spiritual practice-deep study, worship, meditation, purification of thoughts and emotions—he can alter the expression of his DNA. This is not fiction. This is not merely the cinematic imagination of Lucy accessing 100% of her brain. It is the language of cells, a language modern humanity has forgotten. For generations, biology held a rigid, fatalistic view: DNA is destiny. Whatever genes a person inherits from parents determine his life-temperament, talents, weaknesses, diseases, and personality. If a father has anger, the son will inherit it. If the mother has diabetes, the daughter must carry the risk. If a family has low intelligence, their future generations must remain mentally dull. But in the twenty-first century, epigenetic shattered this determinism.
In simple terms: DNA is the hardware; epigenetic is the software.
The hardware-the structure of the genes – remains the same. But the software-gene expression, the switching on and off of genes-depends entirely on lifestyle, thoughts, emotions, environment, food, and most importantly intention, worship, and the spiritual state of the individual. Scientific research confirms that trauma is inherited. The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944 proved that pregnant women who faced starvation gave birth to children whose bodies behaved as if they had lived through famine, even though they never experienced hunger themselves. Their genes carried chemical marks of fear and deprivation. If fear, hunger, and trauma can be written onto DNA and transferred to future generation.
Then how can it be that knowledge, worship, peace, gratitude, stability, and spiritual light do not?
When a person spends years in meditation, learning, worship, and moral purification, his body undergoes a chemical transformation. Stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline diminish. Neutral and positive hormones-dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins-increase and balance the body. These chemical signals enter the nucleus of the cell and instruct the DNA:
“We are no longer in survival mode. We are in a state of peace, awareness, and expansion. Turn off the primitive genes rooted in fear, aggression, and reaction. Activate the genes of higher consciousness.” Life’s fundamental purpose, as suggested in the film Lucy, is information transfer. This is not merely philosophy-it is biological truth. The very first cell that divided billions of years ago transferred its knowledge of survival to its progeny. Every human today is a container of ancient biological memory.
But the question is: what information are we transferring today?
A modern human being is immersed in stress, lust, jealousy, distraction, noise, screens, and anxiety. His DNA is constantly recording signals of danger, scarcity, fear, competition, and chaos. When such a person creates a child without intention or purity, the child inherits insecurity, anxiety, emotional instability, and fragmented identity. By contrast, a person who spends years in spiritual alignment-meditation, learning, worship, contemplation-transmits to his future children an entirely different set of instructions: the universe is harmonious, existence is meaningful, the Creator is merciful, and life is a journey of understanding. Such a child carries high intelligence, compassion, spiritual inclination, and clarity not as learned behaviors but as inherited biological tendencies.
Modern cell biology confirms that almost every cell in the human body is replaced within seven years. Bones, blood, organs-even neural pathways change. This means that any person can biologically renew himself. If he begins a life of worship and purification today, with consistent emotional discipline, intellectual training, and spiritual practice, the old cells-burdened with trauma, sin, ignorance, and negativity-will die. Their replacements will be formed in an internal environment of peace, purity, and higher consciousness. Seven years later, the person is literally a new biological creation. If he chooses to have a child after this transformation, the child is not shaped by the parents’ past impurities but by their new elevated state. Islamic practices-prayer, fasting, contemplation, avoiding haram, seeking lawful sustenance, guarding eyes and heart-are not mere acts of piety but powerful epigenetic protocols coded within religion long before science discovered them.
Quantum biology and the studies by Dr. Masaru Emoto show that water responds to intention, sound, and emotional vibration. Semen is also a fluid. When Islam instructs a man to recite:
“Bismillah, Allahumma jannibna ash-shaytaan…”
before intimacy, it is a spiritual firewall. Conscious recitation shifts the brain from lust to devotion, altering the chemical profile of the body. This prevents negative spiritual and psychological influences from being written onto the genetic material that will form a new human being. Similarly, the command to marry a woman of piety is not merely moral advice; it is biological wisdom. The mother’s womb is the first environment in which the child’s genes are activated. A woman rooted in inner peace, gratitude, and worship generates a neurochemical environment that nourishes the fetus with serotonin, oxytocin, and balanced hormones. A woman who is outwardly beautiful but inwardly anxious, angry, ungrateful, and unstable may unintentionally flood the fetus with toxic cortisol and stress hormones, shaping the child’s future emotional landscape.
Islam’s promise that a sincere repentance makes a person like a newborn child is not metaphor. Deep emotional shifts, tears of repentance, and spiritual surrender can erase harmful epigenetic markers, resetting the body’s genetic software. Similarly, Hajj-a monumental emotional and spiritual immersion-function as a biological reset, reorganizing the cellular memory and lifting the soul to its original purity. But today’s human beings are mechanical creatures. Processed food, polluted air, glowing screens, sleepless nights, addiction to pornography, dopamine crashes, fragmented attention, emotional neglect-this is the environment in which modern parents create children. How can spiritually starved, intellectually shallow, emotionally unstable parents expect enlightened, disciplined, God-connected children? The solution is not moralizing but conscious procreation-planning, preparing, and designing the next generation. If a person desires children with intelligence, inner strength, moral courage, spiritual sensitivity, and a higher purpose, he must treat procreation as a sacred long-term project.
A two-to-five-year preparation is essential:
Clean food → Clean blood → Clean reproductive cells
Clean mind → Clean thoughts → Clean neural pathways
Clean soul → Clean emotions → Clean epigenetic imprint
A child born after such preparation is not ordinary. He comes into the world with clarity, intuition, empathy, discipline, and spiritual inclination already encoded within him. He does not struggle for light; he is born carrying it. This is how saints, scholars, reformers, warriors of justice, and men of vision were created throughout history—not accidentally but intentionally. This is the path for humanity to design not only life but greatness in its next generation.
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