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THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAM<br />
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try<br />
him; and We made him hearing and seeing. (76:2)<br />
Meiotic spindle<br />
Secondary oocyte<br />
Diagram illustrating fertilization, the procession of ev<strong>en</strong>ts beginning wh<strong>en</strong> the sperm<br />
contacts the secondary oocyte’s plasma membrane and <strong>en</strong>ding with the intermingling<br />
of maternal and paternal chromosomes at metaphase of the first mi<strong>to</strong>tic division of<br />
the zygote. A, secondary oocyte surrounded by several sperms, two of which have<br />
p<strong>en</strong>etrated the corona radiate. (Tak<strong>en</strong> from Dr. Keith Moore, The Developing Human,<br />
pg. 34 – 7th edition)<br />
If the sperm fails <strong>to</strong> fertilize the ovum, it is cast out of the womb along<br />
with it, but if it fertilizes the egg and creates a zygote, it clings <strong>to</strong> the side of<br />
the womb in the form of a blastula. If Allah wills that it clings <strong>to</strong> the womb, it<br />
moves on<strong>to</strong> the Alaqah stage (i.e. a leech like, susp<strong>en</strong>ding thing).<br />
Allah () says:<br />
Zona pellucida<br />
Corona radiata<br />
First polar body<br />
O people, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection, th<strong>en</strong><br />
[consider that] indeed, We created you from dust, th<strong>en</strong> from a spermdrop,<br />
th<strong>en</strong> from a clinging clot, and th<strong>en</strong> from a lump of flesh, formed<br />
and unformed – that We may show you. And We settle in the wombs<br />
whom We will for a specified term, th<strong>en</strong> We bring you out as a child,<br />
and th<strong>en</strong> [We develop you] that you may reach your [time of] maturity.<br />
And among you is he who is tak<strong>en</strong> in [early] death, and among you is<br />
he who is returned <strong>to</strong> the most decrepit [old] age so that he knows,<br />
after [once having] knowledge, nothing. And you see the earth barr<strong>en</strong>,<br />
but wh<strong>en</strong> We s<strong>en</strong>d down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows<br />
[something] of every beautiful kind. (22:5)<br />
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