The Gender of the Baby is Determined by the Male

• Before the invention of the strong microscopes, the sperm was visualized by Hartsoeker with little imagination that inside that sperm was a little human being and all it needed is to be implanted in the female where it would grow. There were others that believed that the female egg contained the little human being. The fact that the sperm and the egg are both necessary for conception were not known until the 18th century when strong microscopes were developed. The Prophet Mohamed was the first to mention that both fluids from the male and the female are booth needed for fertilization. When the Prophet Mohamed was asked by a Jewish person, what is man created from. The Prophet answered "O, Jew, he is created from both: from the fluid (Nutfah) of the man and the fluid (Nutfah) of the woman." (Prophetic Statement Narrated  in Musnad Imam Ahmed). Click here to see the video by Professor Keith Moore.

• The Quran is the only ancient book that indicated that gender is determined by the ejected sperms. The fluid form the male containing the sperms is the one being ejected. The female egg is not ejected. In Quran [53:45-46] "He has created both genders, male and female from a drop of a sperm which has been ejected."

• Professor Keith Moore said "The statements about fetal development mentioned in the Quran should be used to teach Muslim students because they are in accordance with our modern understanding of the development before birth. It will also enable Muslim doctors and nurses to explain  human development to their patients using Quranic references. Mohamed could have not known these facts about human development in the seventh century because most of them were not discovered until the twentieth century.  Muslims and others are justified in concluding that these facts could only have been revealed to Mohamed peace be upon him by God who knows all about us, not only about how we develop, but how we live and function”. Click here to see the video.

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4. Click here to see the video “Quran on Embryology - Professor Keith L. Moore”