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  The Quran on Human Embryonic Development: In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development:  We created man from an extract of clay.  Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed.  Then We made the drop into an  alaqah  (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the  alaqah  into a  mudghah  (chewed substance)...  1  (Quran, 23:12-14) Literally, the Arabic word  alaqah  has three meanings: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot. In comparing a leech to an embryo in the  alaqah  stage, we find similarity between the two 2  as we can see in figure 1.    Also, the embryo at this stage obtains nourishment from the blood of the mother, similar to the leech, which feeds on the blood of others. 3 Figure 1:  Drawings illustrating the similarities in appearance between a leech and a human embryo at the  alaqah  stage. (Leech drawing from  Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah , Moore and others, p. 37,

  The Quran and Cosmology T  the time the Holy Quran was revealed, the human understanding of the nature of the cosmos and the movement or the stillness of the heavenly bodies was extremely primitive and obscure. This is no longer the case, as our knowledge of the universe has considerably advanced and expanded by the present age. Some of the theories relating to the creation of the universe have been verified as facts, whereas some others are still being explored. The concept of the expanding universe belongs to the former category, and has been universally accepted by the scientific community as 'fact'. This discovery was first made by Edwin Hubble in the 1920s. Yet some thirteen centuries before this, it was clearly mentioned in the Quran: And the heaven We built with  Our own  powers ( aydin ) and indeed We go on expanding it ( musi'un ). 1 It should be remembered that the concept of the continuous expansion of the universe is exclusive to the Quran. No other Divine scr