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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

life to be sustained. The process of birth alone is enough to
amaze anyone.
To summarize: The body of each man and woman is
formed by combining two different and completely inde-
pendent but mutually compatible elements: a man’s sperm
and a woman’s egg, both of which are formed apart from
each person’s will and control. They do not even know that

they are being formed. In the Qur’an, the Lord says:
We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth?
Have you thought about the sperm that you ejaculate? Is
it you who create it, or are We the Creator? (Surat al-
Waqi’a, 57-59)

These two elements have been created to be compatible
with each other. Their creation, union, and subsequent de-
velopment into a human being are great miracles. The sperm
produced in the testes, at the average rate of 1,000 per sec-
ond, have a special structure, as if they knew the nature of
their journey on their way from the male body to the female

Of 200-300
million sperm,
only as few as
1,000 actually
reach the egg.

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