A single cell in the mother’s womb. Smaller than a grain of salt.

You, too, once consisted of this single cell.

Just like everybody else in the world.

And then this cell divided, becoming two cells. Then they divided and became four. Then eight, then 16 cells.

First a piece of flesh emerged. Then this piece of flesh took shape. It developed arms, legs, eyes.
God performed a string of miracles and created the human being you are watching in this film,
who was once just a drop of water.

And He revealed to Man how He created him in the Qur’an, in these words:

Does man think that he will be left uncontrolled, (without purpose)? Was he not once a drop of ejected semen? Then he became a clot, so He created and fashioned him and made him into two sexes, male and female. Is He who does this not able to bring the dead to life? (Surat al-Qiyama: 36-40)

The first miracle of creation begins in a woman’s body, in the organ called the ovary, with the maturing of a single egg cell…

There is a long journey ahead of this maturing egg.

It will first enter the organ known as the fallopian tube, then travel through this for a long distance and finally reach the mother’s womb.

A special system has been created for the egg’s journey. Millions of cells on the inner surface of the fallopian tube have been charged with ensuring the egg reaches the womb.

These cells position the tiny hairs on their surface, called cilia, so that they lie in the direction of the womb.

All of them together, they perform a carrying motion, in a unified direction.
If one part of these cells did not carry out their function, or if they performed that function in different directions, the egg would not reach its target, and birth could not take place.

God’s creation, however, is flawless and every cell carries out the task assigned to it without error.

In this way, the egg cell progresses straight to the place which is being specially prepared for it, in other words, the mother’s womb.

1. THE DESIGN OF THE SPERM

A sperm is in fact a cell,

the function of which is to convey the genetic data of the male to the egg cell in the woman’s body.

The front of the sperm is covered with armour.

There is another layer of armour under the first, and under this second layer lies the cargo carried by the sperm.

In this cargo are 23 chromosomes belonging to the male.

In order for a new human being to emerge the 23 chromosomes in the sperm have to unite with the 23 chromosomes inside the mother’s egg cell.

In this way, the first foundations of a person’s 46 chromosomes will be laid.

All the information concerning the human body, right down to the finest detail, is carried inside the chromosomes.

The armour system at the head of the sperm will protect this valuable cargo from all danger right through its journey .But the design in sperm is not limited to this.

There is a very powerful engine in the middle of the sperm. The end of the engine is connected to the tail.

The power produced by the engine turns the tail like a propeller and enables the sperm to move swiftly.

Thanks to this perfect design, the sperms head rapidly straight for the egg cell.

The production of these miraculous engines is carried out in a most expert manner.

Inside each of the testicles, the sperm production centres,

there are microscopic tubes of a total distance of around 500 metres long.

The production inside these tiny tubes works just like the conveyor-belt assembly system inside a modern factory.

The sperm’s armour, engine, and tail parts are assembled onto one another in turn.

This wonderful planning in the design of sperm is in itself a miracle of creation.

In fact, God draws especial attention in the Qu’ran to the creation of the seminal fluid in which the sperms exist:

It is We Who have created you. Why, then, do you not accept the truth? Have you ever considered that (seed) which you emit? Is it you who create it? Or are We the Creator? (Surat al-Waqia, 57-59)

As soon as the sperms enter the mother’s body they find themselves facing lethal dangers.
There is a dense mixture of acids in the mother’s reproductive organs designed to combat bacteria. This acid mixture is also fatal to sperms.

But God, Who created the sperms, has also created precautions against the dangers that they will face in the mother’s womb.

While sperm is being produced in the man’s body, a basic compound is added to the fluid that contains the sperms.

This compound partially eliminates the effect of the acid in the mother’s womb.

Thanks to this, a number of sperms pass the mother’s womb and manage to reach the entrance to the fallopian tube.

2. THE GREAT UNION

Finally, around a hundred sperms manage to reach the egg. Yet the race is not yet over.

This is a hard protective layer surrounding the egg, which kills off any unwanted micro organisms that may approach it. It is also extremely difficult to penetrate.

In order to overcome this obstacle, special systems again are created on the sperm.

Underneath the armour in the sperm’s head, it houses secret weapons which it has so far concealed.

These are tiny, dissolving enzyme sacs.

These little sacs make a hole in the protective layer, by dissolving it, and the sperms can then enter this layer.

While the sperm is moving ahead inside the layer, the armour at the end gets worn away, eventually falling apart.

The falling apart of the armour is part of the perfectly functioning plan. Because thanks to this, the second set of enzyme sacs inside the sperm, can emerge.

These enable the sperm to overcome the last obstacle facing it, in other words, the piercing of the egg shell.

As soon as the sperm reaches the egg shell, yet another miracle takes place.

The sperm suddenly abandons the tail which has brought it all this way. This is essential, because if the sperm did not do so, the tail, which is constantly in motion, would enter the egg cell and destroy it.

But how can the tiny sperm make such a fine calculation? a sperm is an unconscious biological machine which has no intelligence and is not able to perceive its surroundings.

God, who creates sperm, created it together with a system that enables the tail to fall off at just the right moment.

The sperm abandoning its tail, pierces the egg, and deposits the load, in other words the chromosomes, through the hole it opens up.

Even if people are not aware of it, the intelligence and planning seen in every part of these events are clear proofs that human beings are created by God.

3. THE EMBRYO

Two sets of genetic information are about to mix with one another to form an entirely new human being.

…This first cell is called a "Zygote".

The unborn baby’s eyes, complexion and hair colour, the shape of his face and all his other physical features are encoded here.

And it is not just his appearance, but also his skeleton, internal organs, skin, veins, and
even the shape and number of the blood cells circulating in those veins
and all the other details of his body that are determined here.

About four days after fertilization, the dividing cells reach an area specially prepared for them,
that is to say, the mother’s womb.

In order not to be expelled from the body, they have to cling on to the womb.

However, the newly forming embryo is a round cluster of similar cells. It has no special hook or extension to enable it to cling on anywhere. So, how does it stick to the wall of the womb?

This, too, has been taken into account. The cells on the very outside give off a special enzyme which dissolves the womb wall.

In this way, the cells cling tightly to the womb, and avoid being expelled from the body.

This new living creature, which sticks to the womb and begins to grow, is now known as an embryo.

This truth, discovered by modern science, revealed an important miracle of the Qu’ran.
In the Qu’ran, God uses the term “alaq” to refer to the first phase in the mother’s womb.

Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from alaq. Read and your Lord is Most Honorable.(Surat Al-Alaq, 1-3)

“Alaq” in Arabic means “a thing which holds on to somewhere.

The word is even used in describing certain parasites which stick to the skin and suck blood.
In other words, in the Qu’ran, which was revealed to us at a time when man’s knowledge of
biology was still very limited, a word is used which exactly describes the embryo in the mother’s womb.

This proves once more that the Qur’an is the word of God.

4. CONSTRUCTION IN THE MOTHER’S WOMB

A few weeks after the sperm and the egg have come together, the cells start to differentiate, obeying a secret command which is apparently given to them.

Each new cell that forms behaves as if it knows where it belongs, and which cells it has to make connections with.

Out of an infinite number of possibilities, it joins only to the cell it needs to.

And each one finds the place designed for it. But how?

That is one of the questions that science has not yet found an answer to.

Developments in the mother’s womb go on non-stop.

In the fifth week the embryo’s arms and legs become visible.

This bump will later turn into an arm. Some cells will then begin to form into hands.

You are now looking at the face of a four-week old human being.

At this stage two holes develop, one on either side of the embryo’s head. It is hard to believe, but the eyes will be constructed in these holes.

Development of the eyes starts in the sixth week. The cells operate with an unbelievable plan for months, and one by one form the different regions of the eyes. Each cell stops when it reaches the limit of the region it has to build.

And the eye, which consists of 40 different components, is constructed flawlessly…

In this way, the eye, which is accepted as the world’s most perfect camera, is brought into existence from nothing inside the mother’s womb.

The ears which will listen to that music are also constructed in the mother’s womb. These cells make up the finest sound reception instrument in the world.

Sight and hearing are in fact great blessings that God has bestowed upon us. God puts it this way in the Qur’an:

And God has brought you out from the wombs of your mothers while you know nothing. And He gave you learning, sight and hearts that you might give thanks. (Surat an-Nahl: 78)

5. THE MIRACLES OF THE QUR’AN

All the information that we have so far given regarding the development of the embryo in the mother’s womb has emerged from scientific research in the last 30 to 40 years.

And this new information has enabled more new miracles of the Qur’an to be grasped.

Until quite recently, it was thought that the bones formed at the same time as the muscles.

But the latest research has revealed a truth that human beings were unaware of. First bone tissue develops in the embryo, and then muscle tissue forms around the bones.

The interesting thing is that this newly discovered fact was revealed 1,400 years ago in the Qur’an:

(We) then formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot into a lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature. Blessed be God, the Best of Creators! (Surat al-Mumenoon, 14)

On the other hand, scientific research into birth has shown that the baby goes through three stages in the mother’s womb.

This fact is described in the following way in a text-book on embryology, “Basic Human Embryology:”

“Life in the womb goes through three phases: pre-embryonic (the first 2.5 weeks), embryonic (up to the end of the eighth week), and fetal (from the eighth week to birth.)”

This information which was come by with the use of modern technology, the result of long years of research, was nevertheless given in the Qur’an some 1,400 years ago:

... He creates you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold darkness. That is God, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (Surat az-Zumar: 6)

6. THE PLACENTA

The instrument you can now see on the screen is a medical tool which possesses some of the world’s most developed technology.

It is a life support system, which people in intensive care are linked up to.

But this entire roomful of high technology fails by comparison to another far more developed system of biotechnology.

This superior piece of equipment is the placenta, which surrounds the embryo in the mother’s womb and meets all its needs.

The placenta is like a kidney dialysis machine, a heart-lung machine, and an artificial liver.

It is a wonderful design which enables mother and baby to live.

The cells which make up the placenta recognise the food particles from the millions of molecules in the mother’s blood and allow these to reach the baby.

Another of the placenta’s duties is to protect the embryo. The defensive cells in the mother’s body flow towards the womb to attack the growing embryo.

But cells on the very outermost layer of the placenta form a kind of filter between the mother’s veins and the embryo. They allow the nutrient molecules to pass, but not the immunity cells.
This cord enables the link to be formed between the baby and the mother’s body.

This cord, which is cut and thrown away after birth is in fact a true wonder of engineering and carries out vital tasks for nine months.

It contains one vein and two arteries. The vein carries food and oxygen to the embryo. Thanks to this, the embryo does not drown even though it lives in a liquid-filled environment and its lungs are full of water.The arteries remove the carbon dioxide and waste food products from the baby’s body.

Neither the mother, nor the embryo growing in her womb, are aware of these systems and processes.

7. BIRTH

As the months pass, the baby in the mother’s womb takes shape and grows.

The time has now come for the final stage, birth. But there is a grave deal of danger for the baby waiting in its mother’s womb.

The baby will be born by passing through the mother’s womb and between her pelvic bones, posing a great threat to the unborn child.

But here again a special precaution has been taken to protect the baby’s health. The bones in the skull of a newborn baby are soft.

Furthermore, unlike in adults, the bones which make up the skull are not fused together.

Thanks largely to this, the bones are able to slide onto one another during birth.

In this way, the baby is born healthily, and its skull and brain come to no harm.

In the months that follow its skull will harden and the baby will lead its life in a healthy way.

8. LIFE AND AFTERLIFE

Do not forget that our Lord, Who created our bodies once, will recreate us after our deaths, and will hold us to account for the blessing He has bestowed upon us.

It is the duty of everyone in the world to consider this fact…

And your duty is to consider how you came to be, and to be grateful to God.

Those who forget their own creation and deny the afterlife are greatly deceived.

God speaks of these people in the Qur’an:

Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is an open antagonist! He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own creation, saying, "Who will give life to the bones when they are decayed?" Say "He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to life. He has complete knowledge of every created thing." (Surah Yasin: 77-79)