Medicine For Faith: Correlation between Qura'n and Embryo

Progeny of Adam is not From a despicable fluid

Qura’n , during description of creation of Adam’s offspring , reported that creation is from Al-maa’ al-mahin , Allah -the Almighty – said : “Then He (God) made his (man’s) progeny from a quintessence (sulalah) of Al-maa’al-mahin (a very little weak fluid )” (Surah As-Sajdah, 32: Ayah 8 ) , and also He said : “ Did We not create you from Maa’mahin (a very little weak fluid)” (Surah Al-Mursalat , 77 : Ayah 20). More »

Human Creation In Three Dark Zones

Qura’n had accurately described that the passage of the embryo , during early stages of its creation ,  from  a creation stage to the subsequent one,  occurs within three dark zones .
Allah , the Almighty , Said :
“ He (God) makes you in the abdomen of your mothers ;  a creation after a creation , inside three dark zones…” (Surah Az-Zumar, 39, Ayah6).
The commonest interpretation of  these dark zones according to standard commentaries (tafsirs) was ; the darkness of the abdomen , the darkness of  the uterus and the darkness of the placenta . In the early eighties , an anatomical  explanation to these dark zones was ;  the abdominal wall, the uterus, and the amniochorionic membrane  .
However, the  aforementioned interpretation of these three dark zones is criticized in two aspects ; first : the placenta is not a sac , being  only facing one side of the embryo , so it could not be one of the three zones surrounding the embryo , second : considering the abdomen or abdominal wall one of these zones  is inaccurate , as Allah , the Al mighty , said  in the verse : He creates us  in the abdomen  of our mothers  inside three dark zones , so the abdomen could not be one of them and this view is supported by Qura’n  itself  ; Allah , the Al mighty , Said :
“He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He likes  ; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise” …” (Surah Al-E-mran, 3, Ayah6)

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Male Reproductive system

The male reproductive system  consists of the following parts:
1.Primary sex organs :
These are the two testes , that lie outside the abdominal cavity, suspended inside  a sac of skin , called the scrotum. The testes contain loops of highly-convoluted tubules , called the seminiferous tubules, about 250 meters of these tubules are packed inside each testis . The walls of the tubules  contain primitive germ cells , called the spermatogonia, form which the sperms are produced by meiosis , then  released into the lumen of the tubule  . Both ends of each loop of the seminiferous tubule form short straight  tubules that join together to form a network of tubules , called the  rete testis, that connect to the epididymis by 15-20 tubules , called vasa efferentia , and drain into a network of ducts in the head of the epididymis  . The testes move close to or far from the body to provide an optimal temperature for spermatogenesis (36 C?). More »

Female Reproductive System

The female reproductive system consists of  the following  parts :
1.Primary sex organs :
         These are the two ovaries , that are located within the lower abdominal cavity or the pelvis . Each ovary has its own mesentery, that is called the mesovarium, on the back of the broad ligament of the uterus. It has direct relation with the fimbriae of the uterine tube . The ovary has  an outer cortex and inner medulla . The cortex contains numerous masses of cells , called the primary or primordial  ovarian follicles.  Each primary follicle is composed of a developing egg , called the primary oocyte containing 46 chromosomes and is surrounded by an outer layer of flat follicular cells , which limit the cytoplasm of  the primary oocyte as it lacks a cell membrane.At birth each female carries a lifetime supply of developing oocytes, each of which is in Prophase of  the first meiotic division and  and do not finish it untill puberty is reached . This arrest is due to an oocyte maturation inhibitor secreted by follicular cells . The ovarian follicles remain dormant until puberty is reached .
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What is Oogenesis?

The process of gametogenesis in females occurs in the ovaries to produce ova, this is called oogenesis. This  starts at puberty and ends at menopause . It is a cyclic process i.e. occuring once every month in the ovary. The process starts early in the life , during female baby in utero , therefore it passes through prenatal  and postnatal phases. More »

What do you know about the hajj (The Muslim pilgrimage) ?

It is one of the pillars of Islam  that represent  the best worship  because  it involves the spirit of all the other worships. It should be preformed  at least once during the life of every adult Muslim; whether a man or a woman, provided that he or she is physically and financially able to do so.
Hajj  is an order from Allah ,   As Allah , the almighty, said in Qura’n (Surah 3 : Al-Emran ; The family of Imran – Ayah 97)  :
{ …..And pilgrimage to the House is a duty unto Allah for mankind, (upon) every one who is able to undertake the journey to it; and whoever disbelieves, then surely Allah is Independent (Self-sufficient) of  any need of the worlds ..}  [[ A modified translation  from Yusuf Ali , Pickthal &  Shakir]] More »

Eid Al-Fitr 2010

News Agencies : Most Arab countries had declared that Friday 10th of September 2010 is the first day of Eid Al-Fitr and that tomorrow (Thursday ) is the supplementing day of the month of Ramadan.
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Answering false claims about Hadith narrated by Ibn Mas’ud

          As regard the hadith reported by Abdullah (Ibn Mas’ud ) -  he may be blessed by Allah – : Allah’s Messenger ( peace and blessings be upon him ), the  truthful and  truly-inspired (trusted) , said  : Each one one of you  is collected (i.e. constituents of creation are collected together)  in his mother’s abdomen  (i.e. womb )  for  40 days , and in that it is an alaqah like that , then in that it is a mudghah like that. Then God sends an angle and order him with four words (i.e. instructions) . He is told to record  his  livelihood ( his sustenance ) , his age , his  deeds , whether he will be miserable or happy , and then the spirit is breathed into him  (i.e. the soul is acquired)…”      (This is narrated in Sahih Muslim, book of destiny ” in Arabic Kitab al-Kadar”  and also  in Sahih Al-Bukhari , beginning of creation book “in Arabic Kitab Ba’doul Khalq “  ; the words of the hadith mentioned above is that shown by Muslim narration , which the the same as that shown in  the narration of Al-Bukhari , except  that the phrase “in that” was  not mentioned ). More »

What is the menstrual cycle?

        The menstrual cycle includes all the cyclic changes that occur in the endometrium of thelayers of endometrium uterus every month under the influence of the ovarian hormones (estrogen and  progesterone). They stimulate the development of the endometrium and prepare it  for implantation of a zygote. If pregnancy does not occur, the drop in FSH and LH cause the corpus luteum to disintegrate. This causes a drop in esterogen and progesterone  hormones  that causes  sloughing off of the inner lining of the uterus by a series of muscle contractions of the uterus. More »

What is ovarian cycle??

TheGraafian follicle   length of the ovarian cycle is typically 28 days, but it may vary from 24-32 days . It starts at puberty (11-13 years) , usually stops during pregnancy and sometimes during lactation and ends at menopause (45-50) , when reproductive capability ends. After puberty ,  the ovary cycles between a follicular phase (maturing follicles) and a luteal phase  (presence of the corpus luteum). More »