Surah At-Taariq (86) — Ayah 5

(Ayah 5 to 7) ➊ {فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْاِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ … :} The protection of the human self and the supervision of deeds until an appointed time is for the Day of Reckoning. If it seems impossible for him to be resurrected, then let him reflect on his own creation—what is he created from? From a gushing fluid. When Allah, having shaped a liquid substance like water, created a complete human being, in whom all bodily organs, life, strength, intellect, and perception are present, then surely He is also capable of recreating this human from his dust in the same original form. Tell me, is it more difficult to create man from water or to recreate him from his own dust? And is it more difficult to create for the first time without a model, or to recreate upon the first model?

➋ Although semen apparently forms in the testicles, when the Creator has informed that its real origin is between the backbone and the ribs, then there remains no room for doubt in this fact. The summary of some scholars’ statements is that modern medicine has also acknowledged that the fetus’s testicles are located near the kidneys between the backbone and the ribs, then before birth—and sometimes shortly after birth—they descend into the scrotum, but even then, their nerves and veins remain at the same {’’ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَ التَّرَآىِٕبِ ‘‘} location, and in fact, their artery also emerges from near the backbone, from the main artery ({أَوْرَطٰي}), and passes through the entire abdomen to supply them with blood. Thus, the testicles are essentially a part of the back, which, due to their inability to withstand the higher temperature of the body, have been transferred outside into the scrotum. Now, although semen is produced in the testicles and collected in the seminal vesicle, the center that supplies blood and initiates movement is {’’ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَ التَّرَآىِٕبِ ‘‘} itself. When the command is sent from the brain through the nerves to this center, the seminal vesicle contracts by the stimulation of this center, and the gushing fluid is expelled like a jet. All praise is due to Allah, modern medicine has also succeeded in discovering this fact. Even if it had not reached this reality, the statement of the Qur’an would still have been an unalterable truth. The fault would have been with human experiments and observations, which, due to their limitations, could not reach the reality described by the Creator.

5. 1. That is, from semen which comes out forcefully after the fulfillment of desire. This very drop of fluid, by Allah's command, becomes the cause of pregnancy in a woman's womb.

5. So let man consider from what he was created [4].

[4] After drawing attention to the higher realms, now man is being invited to reflect upon his own creation: who nurtured him in his mother’s womb, and who kept his embryo firmly established in the womb, so firmly that without a severe accident the pregnancy could not be lost? Then, when he came out of his mother’s womb, he was so weak and feeble that no other living creature’s offspring is as weak as he was. Then, arrangements for his growth and development were made even more than for all other creatures. Then, from birth until death, he is continuously watched over. He is protected from diseases, accidents, and all kinds of calamities. So many means for his life and its preservation are provided to him that man cannot even count them, nor is he even aware of them. How could he possibly provide them himself? Until he reaches that appointed time of death which Allah has fixed for him. Now the question is: is it possible for all this to happen without Allah’s planning and supervision?