Page 55 - Miracles of the Qur'an

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?„

(The 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.

In the picture to the
left, we see semen
ejected into the
uterus. Only very
few sperms out of
250 million sperms
emitted from the
male can make it to
the ovum. The sperm
that will fertilise the
egg is the only one
out of a thousand
sperms that have
managed to survive.
The fact that man is
made not from the
entire semen, but
only a small part of
it, is related in the
Qur'an with the
expression, "a drop
of ejected semen".

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