Page 495 - Learning from the Qur'an

1. Man is not created from the entire semen, but only a very
small portion of it (sperm).
2. It is the male that determines the sex of the baby.
3. The human embryo adheres to the mother's uterus like a
leech.
4. The embryo develops in three dark regions in the uterus.
People living when the Qur'an was revealed, to be sure, knew
that the basic substance of birth was related to the semen of the
male emitted during sexual intercourse. And the fact that the baby
was born after a nine-month period was obviously an observable
event not calling for any further investigation. However, the items
of information just quoted were far above the level of learning of
the people living at that time. These were verified by twentieth
century science.
Now, let us go over them one by one.

A DROP OF SEMEN
During sexual intercourse, 250 million sperms are emitted from
the male at a time. The sperms undertake an arduous journey in
the mother's body until they make it to the ovum. Only a thousand
out of 250 million sperms succeed in reaching the ovum. At the end
of this five-minute race, the ovum, half the size of a grain of salt,
will let only one of the sperms in. That is, the essence of man is not
the whole semen, but only a small part of it. This is explained in
the Qur'an:
Does man reckon he will be left uncontrolled (without
purpose)? Was he not once a drop of ejected semen? (Qur'an,
75:36-37)
As we have seen, the Qur'an informs us that man is made not
from the entire semen, but only a small part of it. That the
particular emphasis in this statement announces a fact only
discovered by modern science is evidence that the statement is
divine in origin.

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