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 {{Quote|Sahih Muslim, Book of Marriage, Chapter on al-‘Azl, No. 1483|Not from all the sperm a fetus is created and if God wills to create anything, nothing can debar him.}}
-The first thing to point out is that the word translated “sperm” in the apologists’ translation is actually m<U>a</U>a in the Arabic,<ref>For the Arabic see #1438: http://hadith.al-islam.com/Page.aspx?pageid=192&TOCID=635&BookID=25&PID=2677</ref> which as mentioned above, means water/fluid and is a euphemism for semen. A somewhat similar idea is found in the Talmud:
+The first thing to point out is that the word translated “sperm” in the apologists’ translation is actually m<U>a</U>a in the Arabic,<ref>For the Arabic see #1438: http://hadith.al-islam.com/Page.aspx?pageid=192&TOCID=635&BookID=25&PID=2677</ref> which as mentioned above, means water/fluid and is a euphemism for semen. This is also apparent in another translation of the same hadith:
+{{Quote|Sahih Muslim Book 8, number 3381|Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) was asked about ‘azl, whereupon he said: The child does not come from all the liquid (semen) and when Allah intends to create anything nothing can prevent it (from coming into existence).}}
+A somewhat similar idea is found in the Talmud:
 {{Quote|Babylonian Talmud, Nidda 31a|It teaches that man is not fashioned from all the drop but only from its purest part.<ref name="Nidda 31a"></ref>}}
-The possible Talmudic influence is much less clear in this example as the hadith concerns the practice of [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Al-'Azl|al-‘azl]], or coitus interruptus. In any case, it would have been well known that even a drop of semen could initiate pregnancy, so that this method of birth control was unreliable.
+The possible Talmudic influence is much less clear in this example as the hadith concerns the practice of [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Al-'Azl|al-‘azl]], or coitus interruptus. In any case, it would have been well known that not all of a semen emission was needed to initiate pregnancy, so that this method of birth control was unreliable.
 ===Al ‘azl and al ghila===