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Embryo in the last months of pregnancy
Dear believing brothers, a new branch of medical science, embryology, which studies the development of the embryo in the mother's womb, has advanced greatly in the last few years. Now, it has become possible for embryologists and specialists to picture the embryo inside its mother's womb and trace the different stages of its growth. There are pictures of embryos in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth weeks of growth. What concerns us here is the picture of the embryo at the beginning of its sixth week of growth in its mother's womb. What can we see?
We can see the nose fused with the mouth and eye. The hand looks like a tiny oar, and the head looks fused with the body. This is how the embryo looks at the beginning of the sixth week of growth. As soon as the sixth week is over, the head stems off the body, features of the eyes show clearly, and so do features of the nose, mouth, arms, and legs. This is how the embryo looks at the end of the sixth week of growth. If we multiply six (the number of weeks) by seven (the number of the days of each week), we get the number 42, which represents the age of the embryo in days after its sixth week of growth.
In this context, pay attention to the following Hadith, please:
(When forty-two nights pass after the semen gets into the womb, Allah sends the angel and gives him shape. Then he creates his sense of hearing, sense of sight, his skin, his flesh, his bones, and then says: My Lord, would he be male or female? And your Lord decides as He desires and the angel then puts down that also and then says: My Lord, what about his age? And your Lord decides as He likes it and the angel puts it down. Then he says: My Lord, what about his livelihood? And then the Lord decides as He likes and the angel writes it down, and then the angel gets out with his scroll of destiny in his hand and nothing is added to it and nothing is subtracted from it.)
Notice the obvious conformity between the above-mentioned authentic Prophetic Hadith and the modern science of embryology, particularly pictures of the embryo at the end of its sixth week of growth in its mother's womb. In this context, Allah, Exalted and Sublime be He, says:
(Nor does he speak of (his own) desire* It is only an Inspiration that is inspired.)
What did our Master Sa'a bin Abi Waqqas say? He said, "By Allah, I never hear a Hadith from Allah's Messenger PBUH, but I know for sure it is the Truth from Allah the Almighty."