28 May 2008

Period: the beauty of God's Creation

This is a continuation of Period: More than just time

after a little bit of research and survey I made, I am convinced that man my age still feel eeky about it, know practically nothing about it, and women my age happened to have open mind when describing it.

Period as a Sign from God
First of all, the way I see it period or menstruation is a sign from God for women. It actually mark the important stages in a woman life; children, adult and old age. This is the luxury for a woman since God himself remind her of her stage of life which no man have enjoyed.

As a girl don't have to worry about almost anything and she can actually focus to develop her character with her parent guides. Then as she grows up, she will having menstruation cycle. This marking her adulthood where she supposes to become more responsible for her own acts. As she reach menopause stage, It a constant reminder that she will leave the world soon. So she can prepare herself with a lot of good deeds. If she's already start doing good deeds from young it would be easy for her to continue, if not it is never too late to start even after menopause.

Whereas a man has to realize by himself that he is actually children, adult or old age. Thus coming the saying 'husband is like a baby' and in Malay Proverb Tua Miang Keladi, Makin tua makin menjadi. The Proverb trying to paint a picture of an old man but acting like he is only 20 or 30 years old still fooling around and flirting with girls of his granddaughter age cause he never realize that his days a numbered.

Period as a Sign of Health
Women also can know about her own health just by watching her menstruation cycle. It is a fact if a woman menses is in her normal cycle; she is actually healthy in the inside, even if she has a bad fever or flu. A woman with normal menses, because of frequent hormonal change, will experience a lot of emotion change. She then unconsciously develops the lots of other emotion to keep the world at balance. As I see it with frequent pain during menses women understand that she is stronger, and more determination to over come the pain and with attention she get during menstruation, deeply she know she is loved and tend to love those whose giving her attention. Thus I believe women have greater EQ compared to man due to frequent practice.

On the other hand, a man can be unhealthy in the inside even if he never catches a cold or fever. He could be suffering from impotency or any other silence diseases including cancer. Seldom man experience change in hormone and/or emotion. So I believe man tend to become such an arrogant, ego, stone-hearted person. With the love from woman is the only stronger obstacle for a man to become such person.

This is proven in Moses and Pharaoh story, where due to love for his wife Pharaoh spared Moses life when Pharaoh himself order for baby of Israelites to be murdered.

Period as a sign for Rest
it is always for me to question why God allow woman not perform solah while she was having her menses but woman and man are equal in his/her deeds. A husband can't have sexual intercourse with his wife in any way during her menses. From my religious classes back then, I only learn that woman is unclean during her menses. Maybe my teacher just wants to make it easy for me to understand since I was just 7. But after a discussion with my female friend I soon discover the truth. Menstruation is meant for woman to rest.

After-Birth-Menstruation: I t is a known fact that giving birth is one of the severe pain suffered by a woman in her life. Thus as God's Mercy woman a meant to rest after giving birth to recover all her energy back. When she is fully recovered she can do her chores in family with interruption. The question is always how long should women rest? Well God himself give the sign which is the menses after giving birth. As God All-Knowing, he knows how strong every woman is, and how long she need to rest thus the menses often vary from woman to woman and even vary from child to child. This is another beauty of His Creation yet again.

Normal Menstruation: my female all agreed in one thing about their menses. It hurts! Then I asked "how it actually hurts?" Several of them describe it can be compared to a small portion of giving birth pain and it consumes a lot more energy to do something while having a period.

Man on the other hand would always have their energy at full strength at all time in his life. Thus he does not need a break time or rest time. So he can always perform solah when is required. And I believe sexual intercourse required a lot of energy from both party, so it is only suitable for man in order to respect the lost energy of his wife, not to having sexual intercourse during his wife menstruation.

That concludes my article on the subject. Alhamdulillah after my survey and discussion with friends I see how God treasure a woman and I see the Mercy of God on women and of course yet another beauty of His Creation. May God Bless You and me

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

interesting topic to discuss...
hmm woman actually is great creation more than wat we see. i remember my last time posting in Obstetric & Gynaecology. A happy couple went to the family planning clinic for medical checkup.When the doctor asked about her las menstruation, she couldn't remember.Surprisingly, her husband opened his wallet,took out a small callendar and showed the last menstruation day to the doctor. Wahh...very lovely couple...sharing their secrets together.I alwiz wish my husband like that.
although it was funny little thing but in reality, menstruation gives lots of meaning in woman's life.
Girl always forget their period cycle including me lah...I think some of us even does not know how to count their menstruation cycle. hmmm then we should learn because the period reflects whether we have normal reproductive system or abnormal.
Despite, man also must have these knowledge. They should be blame if woman get pregnant!! =) especially unwanted pregnancy end up wit abortion..poor little baby...
hmmm i think that's all i can share wit u...nice blog for woman..=)