What Is Birth? Is Our Birth and Transfer Only Done from the Mother’s Womb to the World?

“Happy birthday!”

We have probably said this expression to others a million times and heard it in relation to ourselves without even remembering the moment of our own birth. But have you ever thought about what birth is? Or why is birth an important life event? What makes it worth celebrating? How many times are we born in our lifetime?

The life of each individual has different ups and downs. But almost all of us have faced some kind of transfer in life. This transfer may have been in the form of migration from one place to another, or from one stage to another. It might have even been just a little change in our surroundings. But by definition, we do not consider any of these transfers to be a birth for ourselves. Now the question is, “What are the characteristics of birth that distinguish it from other kinds of transfer?”

While we celebrate the memory of this arrival after birth and transfer to the world, the truth is, as a fetus, we do not feel good about the moment of departing from the mother’s womb and entering the world. The womb is a challenging and restrictive environment. However, our familiarity with it makes it difficult for us to separate from it and enjoy the moment of birth. In fact, it is only after we are born and experience the vastness, beauty, and countless blessings of this world that we compare our life in the womb to life the world. Then we realize the change that has taken place in our life and living conditions. This birth may be even painful or terrifying for us.

Why Is Birth Important?

The most common definition of the word “birth” is the transfer from the mother’s womb to the world. So to understand the special features of birth, it is better to take a look at the conditions before and after birth. Before birth, we experience a completely different life. Our fetal life takes place in a closed and dark environment. As a fetus, we have specific duties inside the womb. At the same time, we have no special control over the space around us. We cannot change the living conditions inside the womb as we wish. Our connection with the space outside the womb is very limited. We even have no control over what we receive. We have to adapt ourselves to the conditions that our mother and her body impose on us. The womb environment is so limited that we cannot even use the tools that we have made for ourselves. In our mother’s womb, we are either developing and progressing, or regressing and suffering loss every single moment. This process continues until the time of our birth and transfer to the world comes. The point is that after our birth and transfer to the other life, we are no longer able to return to the womb and our previous place.

With birth and transfer to the world, we experience a completely different world. Life in this world does not have the limitations of life in the womb. Its conditions are not as fixed and unchanging as those of the womb. The dark space inside the mother’s womb gives way to the bright and colorful space of the world. The simplicity of the environment in the mother’s womb is replace by the world environment, which is subject to countless laws. Before birth, the fetus was the only being in that world. Now, after birth, he has taken on the name ‘baby.’ He sees himself in a family that loves him, and they are happy to love him. In general, birth and transfer to a new environment is a major change for a human being who has experienced life in the living conditions of womb. It is a transformation that is certainly worth remembering and celebrating.

How Many Times Are We Born?

Now we come to the answer to this question: “How many times are we born?” Is it only once in our lifetime, and that is from the mother’s womb into the world?

Based on the Law of Proportion, we know that the relationship between the mother’s womb and the world is similar to the relationship between the world and the hereafter. By comparing the living conditions and characteristics of the mother’s womb with the environment of the world, we realized that the birth of the fetus to the world is not a simple transfer. As a result of this birth and transfer, the living conditions are subject to change. We gain access to resources, powers, and attributes that we lacked before birth or were unable to use. These resources were not even defined for us in our previous environment.

We have previously proven that death and non-existence do not exist. We have also reviewed together the necessity of the existence of the hereafter and its characteristics. We now want to deal with another issue: According to the Law of Proportion, we will have another birth which has characteristics similar to those of our birth from the womb into this world. We refer to this birth and transfer as wafat[1] (departure) in everyday usage. This means a complete transfer to the realm of the hereafter.

The world has far more extraordinary characteristics and capabilities than the womb. However, in comparison to the hereafter, it is like a womb with limited characteristics and a small space. It does not give us the opportunity to fully develop and manifest our potentials. The truth is that we have become dependent on the womb of the world, just as we had become accustomed to the space of the mother’s womb and its living conditions. In fact, with our transfer to the hereafter, we will experience a world that is much vaster, more magnificent, and more advanced. Although most of us have not yet accepted this transfer as a birth. In a way, we are running away from it.

In this article, we explained the essence of birth and transfer from a world with specific living characteristics to a world with different living conditions. We stated what conditions and characteristics make the issue of birth important. In the end, we pointed out that, in addition to our physical birth from the mother’s womb into the world, we will experience another birth from the womb of this world to the hereafter.

Do you also consider your transfer to the hereafter as another birth? We would be happy to know thoughts on this matter.

[1]. وَفَاة