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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 8308415" data-attributes="member: 91140"><a href="http://islamnewsroom.com/answers/384-embryologyquran/#story" target="_blank"><img src="http://islamnewsroom.com/images/stories/embryo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> New website <a href="http://www.scienceislam.com/" target="_blank">www.ScienceIslam.com                       </a>     The Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development: Read this page taken from "<a href="http://islamguide.com/" target="_blank">Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam</a>" by I. A. Ibrahim      <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/aqwas-ys.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  We created man from an extract of clay.  Then We made him as a drop in a  place of settlement, firmly fixed.  Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the alaqah into a mudghah <img src="http://islamnewsroom.com/images/stories/embryo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(chewed substance)<img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/aqwas-ym.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Quran, 23:12-14)     <img src="http://islamnewsroom.com/images/stories/embryotubal.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Literally, the Arabic word alaqah has three meanings: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot. In comparing a leech to an embryo in the alaqah stage, we find similarity between the two  as we can see in figure 1.  Also, the embryo at this stage obtains  nourishment from the blood of the mother, similar to the leech, which  feeds on the blood of others.               <a href="http://islamguide.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Figure 1: Drawings illustrating the similarities in appearance between a leech and a human embryo at the alaqah stage. (Leech drawing from Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah, Moore and others, p. 37, modified from Integrated Principles of Zoology, Hickman and others.  Embryo drawing from The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 73.)       The second meaning of the word alaqah is “suspended thing.”  This is what we can see in figures 2 and 3, the suspension of the embryo, during the alaqah stage, in the womb of the mother.       Figure 2: We can see in this diagram the suspension of an embryo during the alaqah stage in the womb (uterus) of the mother. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 66.)  (Click on the image to enlarge it.)    <a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img2-big.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>         Figure 3: In this photomicrograph, we can see the suspension of an embryo (marked B) during the alaqah stage (about 15 days old) in the womb of the mother.  The actual size of the embryo is about 0.6 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore, 3rd ed., p. 66, from Histology, Leeson and Leeson.)    <a href="http://islamguide.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>       The third meaning of the word alaqah is “blood clot.”  We find that the external appearance of the embryo and its sacs during the alaqah stage  is similar to that of a blood clot.  This is due to the presence of  relatively large amounts of blood present in the embryo during this  stage (see figure 4).  Also during this stage, the blood in the embryo does not circulate until the end of the third week. Thus, the embryo at this stage is like a clot of blood.       Figure 4: Diagram of the primitive cardiovascular system in an embryo during the alaqah  stage.  The external appearance of the embryo and its sacs is similar  to that of a blood clot, due to the presence of relatively large amounts  of blood present in the embryo. (The Developing Human, Moore, 5th ed., p. 65.)  (Click on the image to enlarge it.)   <a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img4-big.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     So the three meanings of the word alaqah correspond accurately to the descriptions of the embryo at the alaqah stage.  The next stage mentioned in the verse is the mudghah stage.  The Arabic word mudghah means  “chewed substance.”  If one were to take a piece of gum and chew it in  his or her mouth and then compare it with an embryo at the mudghah stage, we would conclude that the embryo at the mudghah stage  acquires the appearance of a chewed substance.  This is because of the  somites at the back of the embryo that “somewhat resemble teethmarks in a  chewed substance.” (see figures 5 and 6).       Figure 5: Photograph of an embryo at the mudghah  stage (28 days old).  The embryo at this stage acquires the appearance  of a chewed substance, because the somites at the back of the embryo  somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed substance.  The actual size of  the embryo is 4 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 82, from Professor Hideo Nishimura, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.)    <a href="http://islamguide.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>         Figure 6: When comparing the appearance of an embryo at the mudghah stage with a piece of gum that has been chewed, we find similarity between the two. A) Drawing of an embryo at the mudghah stage.  We can see here the somites at the back of the embryo that look like teeth marks. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 79.) B) Photograph of a piece of gum that has been chewed. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)    <a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img6-big.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a-img6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>       How could Muhammad <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/salla.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  have possibly known all this 1400 years ago, when scientists have only  recently discovered this using advanced equipment and powerful  microscopes which did not exist at that time?  Hamm and Leeuwenhoek were  the first scientists to observe human sperm cells (spermatozoa) using  an improved microscope in 1677 (more than 1000 years after Muhammad <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/salla.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />).   They mistakenly thought that the sperm cell contained a miniature  preformed human being that grew when it was deposited in the female  genital tract.  Professor Emeritus Keith L. Moore is one of the world’s most prominent scientists in the fields of anatomy and embryology and is the author of the book entitled The Developing Human,  which has been translated into eight languages.  This book is a  scientific reference work and was chosen by a special committee in the  United States as the best book authored by one person.  Dr. Keith Moore  is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of  Toronto, Toronto, Canada.  There, he was Associate Dean of Basic  Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and for 8 years was the Chairman of  the Department of Anatomy.  In 1984, he received the most distinguished  award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant  Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists.  He has directed many  international associations, such as the Canadian and American  Association of Anatomists and the Council of the Union of Biological  Sciences.  In 1981, during the  Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Moore  said: “It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in  the Quran about human development.  It is clear to me that these  statements must have come to Muhammad from God, because almost all of  this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later.  This  proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God.” (<a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/video/moore-1.ram" target="_blank">To view the RealPlayer video of this comment click here <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/video.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>).  Consequently, Professor  Moore was asked the following question: “Does this mean that you believe  that the Quran is the word of God?”  He replied: “I find no difficulty  in accepting this.”  During  one conference, Professor Moore stated: “....Because the staging of  human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change  during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification  could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah (what Muhammad <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/salla.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  said, did, or approved of).  The proposed system is simple,  comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge.  The  intensive studies of the Quran and hadeeth (reliably transmitted reports by the Prophet Muhammad’s <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/salla.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  companions of what he said, did, or approved of) in the last four years  have revealed a system for classifying human embryos that is amazing  since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D.  Although Aristotle,  the founder of the science of embryology, realized that chick embryos  developed in stages from his studies of hen’s eggs in the fourth century  B.C., he did not give any details about these stages.  As far as it is  known from the history of embryology, little was known about the staging  and classification of human embryos until the twentieth century.  For  this reason, the descriptions of the human embryo in the Quran cannot be  based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century.  The only  reasonable conclusion is: these descriptions were revealed to Muhammad  from God.  He could not have known such details because he was an  illiterate man with absolutely no scientific training.” (<a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/video/moore-2.ram" target="_blank">View the RealPlayer video of this comment <img src="http://www.islam-guide.com/video.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>).            <a href="http://www.scienceislam.com/quran_human_embryonic_development.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://islamnewsroom.com/images/stories/science1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>   More?  <a href="http://www.scienceislam.com/quran_human_embryonic_development.php" target="_blank">www.ScienceIslam.com</a></blockquote>

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