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Ibn Qayyim (d. 1350), a prominent Hanbali jurist, links these to different membranes being mentioned by Hippocrates, quoting previous scholars opinions on the matter. | Ibn Qayyim (d. 1350), a prominent Hanbali jurist, links these to different membranes being mentioned by Hippocrates, quoting previous scholars opinions on the matter. | ||
{{Quote|[https://www.academia.edu/12237577/Sex_and_Society_in_Islam Musallam, Sex and Society in Islam, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pg. 56]|(A) Hippocrates said in the third chapter of Kitab al-ajinna: . The semen is contained in a membrane, and it grows because of the blood of its mother which descends to the womb, and the semen in these membranes draws in the air and breathes it for the reasons we have mentioned... As the semen becomes a foetus several other membranes are formed, and grow within the original membrane, all being formed the same way as the first. Some membranes are formed at the beginning, others after the second month, and others in the third month. (B) This is why God says, "He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, by one formation after another in three darknesses (Quran 39:6)." (C) Since each of these membranes has its own darkness, when God mentioned the stages of creation and transformation from one state to another, He also mentioned the darknesses of the membranes. (D) Most commentators explain: it is the darkness of the belly, and the darkness of the womb, and the darkness of the placenta...}} | {{Quote|[https://www.academia.edu/12237577/Sex_and_Society_in_Islam Musallam, Sex and Society in Islam, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pg. 56]|(A) Hippocrates said in the third chapter of Kitab al-ajinna: . The semen is contained in a membrane, and it grows because of the blood of its mother which descends to the womb, and the semen in these membranes draws in the air and breathes it for the reasons we have mentioned... As the semen becomes a foetus several other membranes are formed, and grow within the original membrane, all being formed the same way as the first. Some membranes are formed at the beginning, others after the second month, and others in the third month. (B) This is why God says, "He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, by one formation after another in three darknesses (Quran 39:6)." (C) Since each of these membranes has its own darkness, when God mentioned the stages of creation and transformation from one state to another, He also mentioned the darknesses of the membranes. (D) Most commentators explain: it is the darkness of the belly, and the darkness of the womb, and the darkness of the placenta...}} | ||
=== Seminal fluid and the backbone === | |||
{{Main|Semen Production in the Quran}}The relationship between seminal fluid and the backbone has many ancient pre-modern scientific roots.{{Quote|{{Quran|86|6-7}}|He was created of a gushing fluid, emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.}}As Noble et al (2014) note.{{Quote|Noble Denis, DiFrancesco Dario and Zancani Diego. 2014. Leonardo da Vinci and the origin of semen. Notes Rec.68391–402 DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2014.0021|The view that semen was derived from the spinal cord was old enough to be denied by Alcmaeon in the sixth century bc, but Plato and Hippocrates subscribed to it. Plato in his Timaeus considers the brain and spinal ‘marrow’ as but a special form of bone marrow (Timaeus, 73) in which ‘God implanted his divine seed’. | |||
This spinal marrow passes down the back and communicates its ‘universal seed stuff’ to the genitalia for the purpose of procreation. Plato in the Timaeus, and Leonardo on this page, traces the spinal marrow (RL 19097v):}}This was an ancient Egyptian belief too, as Schwabe, Calvin W., et al. (1982) notes, '<nowiki/>''Egyptians believed that sperm was produced in the thoracic spine , a conviction apparently based on their understanding of the bull.''<nowiki/>'<ref>Schwabe, Calvin W., et al. “''[http://www.jstor.org/stable/30027646. Egyptian Beliefs about the Bull’s Spine: An Anatomical Origin for Ankh.]''” Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 24, no. 4, 1982, pp. 445–79. JSTOR, <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/30027646</nowiki>. Accessed 18 Oct. 2024.</ref> | |||
===Semen stage lasts 40 days=== | ===Semen stage lasts 40 days=== | ||