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that the sperm is covered with a protective shield by "someone" who is aware
of this acidity. (The purpose of this acidic environment is the protection of the
mother from microbes.)
It is not only millions of sperms that are ejaculated into the uterus. Semen is
a mixture of various kinds of fluid. In the Qur’an this fact is emphasised in the
verse below:
"Has man ever known a point of time when he was not something
remembered? We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and
We made him hearing and seeing." (Surat al-Insan: 1-2)
These fluids within the semen contain sugar,
which is to provide the energy needed by the
sperm. Besides, its basic composition has various
tasks such as neutralising the acids at the entrance
to the mother’s uterus, and maintaining the slip-
pery medium for the movement of the sperms.
(Here, we again see that two different and inde-
pendent beings are created in accordance with
each other.) The spermatozoa make a difficult jour-
ney within the mother’s body until they reach the
ovum. No matter how much they defend them-
selves, approximately only a thousand out of the
200-300 million spermatozoa reach the ovum.

THE OVUM

While the sperm is designed according to the
ovum, the ovum, on the other hand, is prepared to
be the seed of life in a totally different medium....
While the woman is unaware, first, an egg matured in the ovaries is left in the
abdominal cavity, and then it is caught in the arms placed at the end of the
appendages called the fallopian tubes of the uterus. Following this, the egg
starts to move on with the help of the movement of the cilia inside the fallopi-
an tube. This egg is only as big as the half of a salt particle.
The place where the ovum and the sperm meet is the fallopian tube. Here,
the ovum starts to secrete a special fluid. With the help of this secretion, the
spermatozoa find the location of the ovum. We need to be aware: when we say
that the ovum "starts to secrete", we are not talking about a man or a conscious
being. It cannot be explained by coincidence that a microscopic protein mass
"decides" on such an act "by itself" and then "prepares" and secretes a chemical
compound to attract the spermatozoa to itself. There is evidently design at work.

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