Statement: The Lord created man out of a congealed blood clot, taught man the use of the pen to teach what man did not know. Al Alaq literally has three meanings: 1. Leech,2, suspended thing 3. Blood clot This information about the nature of the human embryo was only discovered and recorded as factual in the 20th century. The Quran has had this knowledge recorded since the 7th century A.D.
Because the staging of human embryos 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. The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge. The intensive studies of the Quran and Hadith in the last four years (1981) have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D the descriptions in the Quran cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century. The quote is taken from Professor Keith Moore, one of the worlds prominent scientists in the fields of anatomy and embryology and the author of The Developing Human This book is considered a scientific reference work.