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The Wrapping of Muscles
Over the Bones

Until very recently, embryologists assumed that the bones
and muscles in an embryo developed at the same time. Yet, re-
cent research has revealed a very different fact which had gone
unrecognised by man. First, the cartilage tissue of the embryo
ossifies. Then muscular cells that are selected from amongst the
tissue around the bones come together and wrap around the
bones.
This fact, which has recently been discovered by science,
was related to man in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago:
Then We formed the drop into an alaq (embryo) and
formed alaq into a lump and formed the lump into bones
and clothed the bones in flesh thus bringing forth an-
other creature. Blessed be God, the Best of Creators!
(Qur'an, 23: 14)
This event, of which the Qur'an informed us 1,400 years
ago, is thus described in a scientific publication titled Developing
Human:
The shape of the skeleton determines the general appear-
ance of the embryo in the bones stage during the 7th week;
muscles do not develop at the same time but their develop-
ment follows around the bones throughout the body and
therefore clothe the bones. Thus the muscles take their well
known forms and structures. 1
In short, man's developmental stages as described in the
Qur'an are in perfect harmony with the findings of modern em-
bryology. God, the Lord of all the worlds, had given this infor-
mation to man centuries ago.

1- Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human, W.B. Saunders Company, PA, 1982, p.
364a