07.05.2013 Views

en_key_to_understanding_islam

en_key_to_understanding_islam

en_key_to_understanding_islam

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

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 />

69

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!