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Given that one of the meanings of 'alaqah is congealed blood, which was also the understanding given in numerous tafsirs, it is most unwise to use a word with such a biological meaning to describe a biological process if that meaning was not the intention. A perfect author would avoid arousing any such suspicion of inaccurate biology with his choice of words. | Given that one of the meanings of 'alaqah is congealed blood, which was also the understanding given in numerous tafsirs, it is most unwise to use a word with such a biological meaning to describe a biological process if that meaning was not the intention. A perfect author would avoid arousing any such suspicion of inaccurate biology with his choice of words. | ||
Interestingly, the pre-Islamic poet al-Nabigha النابغة (c. 535 – c. 604) in one of his poems says: | |||
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الخـالق البـارئ المصـور في الأرحام ماء حتى يصير دما | |||
The creator, the maker, the fashioner, in the wombs semen until it becomes blood <ref>http://poetsgate.com/poem_14021.html</ref>}} | |||
This further underlines the suspicion just mentioned, and moreover, suggests some influence in 6th century Arabia of the ideas of the Greek physician, Galen, whose works were studied at that time by groups in Alexandria and Syria. Indeed, other similarites between Galenic embryology and that of the Qur'an are well known. | |||
===The Formation of Bone=== | ===The Formation of Bone=== | ||