Science in the Glorious Quran: Another Creation

“ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَاهُ خَلْقًا آخَرَ ۚ فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ” (المؤمنون:14).

“Then We developed out of it another creation. So, blessed be God, the best to create.” (Qur’an, 23:14)

After the development of the cartilaginous skeleton and the clothing of it with muscles, the embryo changes its shape dramatically and begins to look like a human and is then called the “foetus”. This happens through an accelerated rate of growth, during which the limbs and external organs appear and fingers and external genitalia are distinguished.

Early stages of the embryo (alaqah and mudghah stages)

Foetus-stages of embryo (another creation stages).