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Peace be upon you, استاد.
You previously spoke about the possibility of Satan’s involvement in the conception of a child, particularly in your book The University of Marriage.
Is what Dr. Abbasi says—that a baby’s temperament may resemble someone who was in the mother’s or father’s imagination—true?
What happens if one or both parents had a holy person in mind?
Please explain.
Mental associations—with both holy people and others—can affect a baby’s temperament. Spiritual traits can be transmitted through mental association, and every kind of connection, physical or mental, has its own offspring, which may emerge as qualities, characteristics, or even an inner form.
Satan is a partner in every kind of mental or physical interaction with someone of the opposite sex who is not a close relative. Physical genes are transmitted through physical interaction, and spiritual genes through mental interaction.
The immaterial faculties are far more complex than the material ones. Material interactions give rise to material consequences and phenomena. In other words, every bond formed in this world with anything brings forth one or more offspring. Every love or aversion toward the world and its inhabitants leaves its mark, and when two phenomena intermingle, a third emerges.
Gender-based relationships produce sexual offspring, while relationships beyond the sexual produce offspring of a different kind. Whatever the dimension in which a connection takes place, it produces offspring belonging to that same dimension.
The body can relate to the body, and the spirit to the spirit. Wherever the mind and thought turn, they connect with that person’s spirit. Only when the spirit on the path of connection possesses the necessary strength, resilience and faith can it prevent improper connections.
In illicit mental interactions, the result may be the birth of illicit offspring in the form of particular traits, qualities and phenomena—even as the inner forms of certain emerging microbes and viruses, or as corruption in the inner realms of individuals, society and the world.
Every kind of connection—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and so on—has its own effects. In this world of existence, each person has countless offspring: sexual, acquired, familial, emotional, mental, spiritual, satanic, celestial, and more, each in keeping with their inner state.
God knows best.