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Originally Posted by Azy  The point is you have to change the rule as to what counts as part of the pair to make it fit.
In bacteria it's the parent and offspring.
In humans it's the two parents and not the offspring (otherwise it'd be 3)
In parthenogenic species a single parent creates many offspring (not sure how you'd make that fit into a pair) |
And it doesn't when worms take male & female roles because it is beneficial. I can't see why that wouldn't constitute a pair?
It is not about gender per se as their are hadiths speaking about intersex gender(s): in Hadith (sayings of Prophet Muhammad, SAW), effeminate men are forbidden to enter upon women as they may have interest in women, notwithstanding without natural sexual prowess. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) forbade the entry of an effeminate man in his household, since He (SAW) had heard him relishing the description of physical features of a woman. The narration exhibited amply the effeminate man’s interest in the women (Sahi Bukhari, 1986, p. 119; Mauta ImamMalik, 1979, p.557; Sunnan-e-Ibne Maja, 1983, p. 533).
There are clear rulings in Islam about intersex gender(s) which differ from male and female genders. Their issues has been discussed by early Islamic scholars.
It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and obedience to Allāh, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allāh, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masākīn (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salāt, and gives the Zakāt, and keep their word whenever they make a promise, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of persecution, hardship, and war. Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqūn (the pious).