Human embryology and nutrition - some factor from the Holy Qur-an

ABSTRACT

The Holy Qur-an has provided vast information on various stages of human embryology. It has been stated that man has been created from the elements provided mainly from water and soil. Qur-an states that after fertilization, nutfah [zygote] rests in the mother's womb for some time, where it gets its nourishment and protection from the outside stresses. It grows into alaqa [a clot of congealed blood] and then into mudgha [fetus lump]. Then the mudgha is converted into izaman [mass of bones]. Then the mother gives birth to the child. The term used in Qur-an for giving birth is nukh-raja-kum tiflan [expulsion of the baby]. The newborn feeds on the mother's breasts for at least two years or two and a half years, as Allah states in the Holy Qur-an