Page 155 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya

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 relat-
ed in the Qur'an with the
expression, "a drop of eject-
ed semen."

stance of man is not the whole
semen, but only a small part of it. This is
explained in the Surat al-Qiyama as follows:

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 empha-
sis in this verse announces a fact only discovered by modern science is
evidence that the Qur'an is the word of Allah.

The Mixture in the Semen
The fluid referred to as semen, which contains the sperm, does not
consist of sperm alone. On the contrary, it is made up of a mixture of
different fluids. Seminal fluid is a collection of substances secreted from
the testicles, the seminal vesicles, the prostate gland and glands linked
to the urinary tract. A detailed analysis of this fluid shows that it con-
sists of a great many separate substances, such as citric acid,
prostaglandin, flavin, ascorbic acid, ergothioneine, cholesterol, phos-

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