EMBRYOLOGY

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EMBRYOLOGY IN THE QURAN EMBRYONIC STAGES
2312-14 1.Droplet Nutfah 2.Something
that clings Alaqah 3.Chewed-like substance
Mudh-ghah 4. Bones 5. Flesh 6. Definitive
human formation Nashah
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STAGE 1 DROPLET NUTFAH

• NUTFAH A very small amount of fluid
• MINGLED MIXED FLUID (762)
• Sperm Ovum
• AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Hippocrates 5th Century B.C.
• Aristotle 4th Cen. B.C. Semen M.blood
• Middle ages till 18th Century pre-formation
  theories

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PREFORMATION THEORIES 17TH
CENTURY 1.MINIATURE FETUS IN THE HEAD OF THE
SPERM MANS ROLE 2.MINIATURE FETUS INSIDE THE
OVUM WOMANS ROLE
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BIPARENTAL INHERITANCE 18TH CENTURY Crucial
roles of both The ovum The sperm
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SPERM HITS OVUM
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SPERM ENTERS OVUM
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PLAN OF DESTINY THE DROPLET 8019

• Fa-Qaddarah from destiny or plan
• A better translation is laid down its destiny
  or plan
• Genetic characteristics from sperm and ovum
  determine destiny of zygote
• Conjunction Fa means fast sequence

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SPERM SEX DETERMINATION7537-39 5345-46

• Use of yumna tumna
• Meaning ejaculated
• Sperm determines sex
• 23 pairs of chromosomes
• 23rd is sex chromosome
• All ova carry the X chromosome
• Sperm carries either Y or X
• Type of sperm makes the difference

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WHERE IS THE DROPLET PLACED?

• Firmly-established
• resting place 2313
• Forms of protection
• Spinal column
• Abdomen
• Uterus
• Amniotic sac/ fluid
• Ligaments/Muscles

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STAGE 2 ALAQAH - MEANINGS

• SOMETHING THAT CLINGS
• LEACH
• A SUSPENDED THING
• A BLOOD CLOT
• STAGE 3 CHEWED-LIKE THING MUDH-GHAH
• Somites formation look like teeth marks

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FORMED UNFORMED 225Mukhallaqatin Wa-ghayri
Mukhallaqah

• DIFFERENTIATION
• PROPORTION

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STAGE 4 BONE FORMATION

• CARTILAGE BONES BEGIN TO FORM
• SKELETON SPREADS

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STAGE 5 FLESH

• CLOTHED BONES W/FLESH
• When cartilage bones are differentiated, the
  embryonic connective tissues around them are
  undifferentiated.They later differentiate into
  muscles and ligaments attached to the bones
  Keith Moore

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STAGE 6 DEFINITIVE HUMAN FORMNASHAH

• MAJOR CHANGES DURING FETAL PERIOD 9TH WEEK TO
  BIRTH
• Differentiation of sex organs
• Differentiation of limbs
• Appearance of nails on fingers toes
• Appearance of hair follicles 10th week

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SO BLESSED BE ALLAH GOD , THE PERFECT CREATOR
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THREE VEILS OF DARKNESS

• Creation in stages, one after another in three
  layers of darkness 396
• Staging of the human embryo was not proposed
  until 1940s
• Three veils of darkness
• Abdominal wall
• Uterine wall
• Amnio-chorionic membrane

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DEVELOPMENT OF SENSES

• Always hearing 1st, sight 2nd, and understanding
  3rd 329 762
• and split my hearing and my eyes..
• prophets prayers

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IDENTIFICATION BY FINGERPRINTS

• Arguments to deny resurrection 32 9
• How will our bodies lost in the earth be brought
  together in a new creation?
• An apparent answer in 753-4
• Able to fashion his/her fingertip
• Why not DNA ?
• Remember O.J. Simpsons trial?