The Amazing Quran [2]

The Developing Human Embryo

Quranexplained the human reproduction and development long before the modern science. The staging of human embryos was not described until the 20th century. Quran states that both parents share in the origins of the offspring

 “O mankind! We created you from male and female.” (49:13) and “We created mankind from a mixed drop (nutfah-amshaj).” (76:2)

The mixed drop refers to the mixture and convergence of a small quantity of sperms with the ovum (and its associated follicular fluid) to form the zygote. The human embryo clings to the mothers womb, in the same way that a leech clings to the skin.

”Then out of that leech-like structure We made a chewed lump (mudghah).” This statement is from Surah 23:14.

”Then we made the drop into a leech-like structure (‘alaqah).” (23:14)

Lost Civilizations

In the 89th chapter of the Qur’an, the city of “Iram” is mentioned: “Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with Aad, of the city of Iram, with lofty pillars the like of which was never created in any land?”

Iram has been unknown to history until in 1975; in North-Western Syria the ancient city of Ebla was excavated. Ebla is over 4500 years old. In the ruins of the Palace Library they found the largest collection of cuneiform clay tablets ever discovered – around 15,000. Written in the oldest Semitic language yet identified, the tablets reveal that Ebla rivalled Egypt and Mesopotamia as a major power of the ancient world. They found in there a record of all the cities that Ebla used to do business with including one IRAM! [7,8,9]

The Holy Qur’an made a definite prediction about the preservation of the body of that same Pharaoh of Moses’ time 10:90-92: “This day We shall save you in your body so that you may be a sign for those that come after you”. The body was discovered in the tomb of Amenhotep II in 1898.[2,12]