Shanzophrenia.

Are you not the drop of semen before? Then He fashioned you by giving you eyes, ears, mind, face, hands and legs... He created you when you were nothing. He blessed us and makes us superior in all creatures. Then Oh men, what has deluded you in respect of your noble Lord?

-(Al Quran )

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'Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); Then we placed him as (a drop of) sperm, In a place of rest, firmly fixed; Then we made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; Then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; Then We made out of that lump bones, And clothed the bones with flesh; Then We developed out of it another creature.
So blessed be Allah, the Best to create! After that, at length ye will die.'

[Surah (23:12-15) Al Mu'minun-The Believers]


"The translation is that…‘We have created the human beings from a ‘nutfa.’ – ‘A minute quantity of liquid.’ Then placed it in ‘cararemakeen’ - a place of security. Then We made it into an ‘Alaqa’ - a leech like substance - something which clings - a congealed clot of blood. Then We made that ‘Alaqa’ into a ‘Mutga’ a ‘chewed like lump.’ Then We made the ‘Mutga’ into ‘Izama’…bones. Then clothed the bones with ‘leham’… flesh. Then We made it a new creature. Blessed be Allah Who is the best to create. These 3 Verses of the Qur’an, speak about the various embryological stages in great detail. First the nutfa placed in a place of security - Made into an ‘Alaqa’, Alaqa has got 3 meanings - One is ‘something’ which clings’, and we know that in the initial stages, the embryo clings to the uterine wall and continues clinging till the end. Point No.2, that it also means a leech like substance, and as I discussed earlier, the embryo in the initial stages, does look like a leech. Besides looking like a leech - it also behaves like a leech - It receives its blood supply from the mother’ like a bloodsucker. And the 3rd meaning;
Today… After advancement of embryology, in the initial stages, the embryo, besides looking like a leech, also looks like a congealed clot of blood, because in the initial stages, of the stage of ‘Alaqa’, 3 to 4 weeks, the blood is clotted withen closed vessels. The blood circulation does not take place - it starts later on - Therefore it assumes the appearance of a clot. And if you observe the conspectus - that is after abortion takes place, you can see, it looks like a clot. Importantly the Surah's explain the appearance of the development of the fetus. First is the appearance of the ‘Alaqa’ , a ‘leech like substance’ as well as a clot of blood.’
Then the Qur’an says… ‘We made the ‘Alaqa’ into ‘Mutga’ – a chewed like lump.’
But the stages are divided on appearance - Not on the function. Later on the Qur’an says… ‘We made the ‘Mutga’ into ‘Izama’…bones - Then clothed the bones with flesh.’ Today embryology tells us that the primordia of the muscles and the bones - they form together between the 25th and the 40th day, which the Qur`an refers to as the stage of ‘mutga.’ But they are not developed. Later on, at the end of the seventh week, the embryo takes form of human appearance - then the bones are formed. Today modern embryology says the bones are formed after the 42nd day, and it gives an appearance of a skeletal thing.
Even at this stage when the bones are formed, the muscles are not formed. Later on, after the 7th week and the starting of 8th week, the muscles are formed. So Qur’an is perfect in describing first ‘Alaqa’, then ‘Mutga’, then ‘Izama’, then clothed with flesh, and when they form - the description is perfect."


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Mutga: From Arabic, meaning ‘a chewed like lump.’
Explanation of the Surah by Dr. Zakir Naik [Qu'ran in the light of science]