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The next stage mentioned in the verse is the mudghah stage. The Arabic
word mudghah means "chewed-like substance". If one were to
take a piece of gum and chew it in his mouth, and then compare it with the
embryo at the mudghah stag, we would conclude that the embryo at the mudghah
stage acquires the appearance of a chewed-like substance because of the somites
at the back of the embryo that "somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed
substance" (see figures 5 and 6).
Figure
5: Photograph
of an embryo at the mudghah stage (28 days old). The embryo at this stage
acquires the appearance of a chewed-like substance, because the somites at the
back of the embryo somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed substance. The
actual size of the embryo is 4 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore and
Persaud, 5th ed., p. 82, from Professor Hideo Nishimura, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan.)
Figure
6: When
comparing the appearance of an embryo at the mudghah stage with a piece
of gum that has been chewed, we find similarity between the two.
A)
Drawing
of an embryo at the mudghah stage. We can see here the somites at the
back of the embryo that look like teeth marks. (The Developing Human,
Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 79.)
B)
Photograph
of a piece of gum that has been chewed.
How could Muhammad 
have possibly known all this 1,400 years ago when
scientists have only recently discovered this using advanced equipment and
powerful microscopes which did not exist at that time? Hamm and Leeuwenhoek were
the first scientists to observe human sperm cell (spermatozoa) using an improved
microscope in 1677 (more than 1,000 years after Muhammad ). They mistakenly
thought that the sperm cell contained a miniature preformed human being that
grew when it was deposited in the female genital tract.
Professor Keith Moore is one of the world’s prominent scientists in the
fields of anatomy and embryology and is the author of the book entitled The
Developing Human, which has been translated into eight languages. This book
is considered a scientific reference work and was chosen by a special committee
in the United States as the best book authored by one person. Dr. Keith Moore is
a Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada. In 1984, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field
of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of
Anatomists. He has directed many international associations, such as the
Canadian and American Association of Anatomists and the Council of the Union of
Biological Sciences.
In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia,
Professor Moore said, "It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify
statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these
statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because almost all of
this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me
that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah.
Consequently, Professor Moore was asked the following question; "Does
this mean that you believe that the Quran is the Word of God?" He replied:
"I find no difficulty in accepting this."
During one conference, Professor Moore stated, ".... Because the staging
of human embryo is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during
development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be
developed using the terms mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah (what
Muhammad said, did or approved of). The proposed system is simple,
comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge. The intensive
studies of the Quran and Hadeeth (reliably transmitted reports by the
Prophet Muhammad’s
companions of what he said, did, approved of) in the last
four years have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing
since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D. Although Eric Statle, the
founder of the science of embryology, realized that chick embryos developed in
stages from his studies of hen’s eggs in the fourth century B.C., he did not
give any details about these stages. As far as it is known from history of
embryology, little was known about the staging and classification of human
embryos until the twentieth century. The only reasonable conclusion is that
these descriptions were revealed to Muhammad
from Allah. He could not have know
such details because he was an illiterate man with absolutely no scientific
training."
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