Well-protected repository and specific period

Well-protected repository and specific period

( Have We not created you from a fluid (held) despicable? ٭ The which We placed in a place of rest, firmly fixed, ٭For a period (of gestation), determined (according to need)? ٭ For We do determine (according to need); for We are the Best to determine (things).٭ Ah woe, that Day, to the Rejecters of Truth! ) AL MURSALAT(20.24)

Through this miraculous structure , Allah states two stable scientific facts related to embryology , anatomy and instinction. The first fact declares that verses describe the uterus as a well-protected repository .The second one refers to the constant age of the pregnancy, approximately, as mentioned in the Qur'an as definite period.

The Qur'an invites everyone to research and contemplate in the secrets of these two facts , as presented in the following details.

protected repository

( Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); (13) Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest, firmly fixed ) SURAH AL MU'MINUN p 342.

The tiny drop can be seen by naked eyes by using the telescope. Allah placed it in safe repository then it is formed and is reproduced to make this great construction. By specific period , the drop has whatever it needs of nourishment, water and oxygen. It stays in a safe , immune and comfortable place and under strong protection from any internal or external effect. The uterus is really a well-protected repository .The story is very interesting and it is hard not to glorify Allah as one can realize the coherence of the different mechanisms which exchange in each phase of embryo development to make always the uterus a safe place.

Anatomically :

Firstly, The uterus is situated in the pelvis between the bladder in the front and the rectum in the back . The uterus consists of three parts anatomically . They are the body , the cervix and the middle portion, Isthmus, which links between them.

Secondly , the uterus is surrounded by a very strong and muscular walls called the pelvis .The pelvis consists of group of thick bones which are sacrum and coccyx in the back and hipbones from the both sides and they extend to fuse to form pubis . This strong muscular construction does not only protect the uterus from all sorts of external stress or bruise , but also it form an anatomic construction and arrangement to please the fetus and to be suitable for its growth, size and shape . When the embryo develops into a healthy fetus and grows thousand times , the pelvis allows it to pass easily to the abroad world through the vulva . Any disorder in the pelvis' shape or size may causes difficult or impossible delivery . At this sense, it is necessary to extract the baby by surgical operation called cesarean.

Thirdly, the uterus' ligaments come from different parts of the uterus to join the pelvic bones or the abdominal wall. Its function is to hold the uterus and to keep its special position to suit the pregnancy and delivery . The uterus is the shape of upside-down pear, its wide portion is in the top while its thin portion is in the bottom ,and its body protrudes into its neck with light angle from the front. The ligaments protect the uterus from inversion to the back , the front or down when its weight increases to thousand times. There are two round and another transverse ligaments as well as the anterior and posterior ligaments. It is sufficient to know that they hold the uterus whose weight increases from 50 Ib ,before pregnancy, into 5325 Ib including its offspring. The uterine inversion may be a cause of infertility as the drop cannot pass through such uterus. It could be a cause of the miscarriage if it happened after the pregnancy.

Hormonically :

The fetus is protected from uteral spasms by increasing the rate of the progesterone which raises the threshold of contractions of the uterine muscle fibers .The strong contractions may cause the death of the fetus or throwing it out. The progesterone is a member in the hormone balance committee and exists during the pregnancy. This committee consists of the gonadotrophic hormone which works as supervisor and the progesterone which has a direct effect. The members of the committee cooperate and consultant together to provide the fetus with the security and the durability in its well-protected fortress. Let's briefly enjoy their story.

The chorionic villi sends the gonadotrophic hormone to the corpus letuem to inform it of the arrival of the fertilized ovum in the uterus and to prepare the uterus to do what should be done for hospitality. The hormone has the direct effect on blood to save the offspring's demands . As we mentioned before , the progesterone raises the threshold of the contractions of the uterine muscles, so they contract a little to have the fetus adjusted in the uterus .The corpus letuem stops producing hormones and begins to be atrophic in the third month of pregnancy. Through this time , the placenta has been already formed to replace the corpus letuem's function of producing the increasing demands of hormones for pregnancy. So, the cooperation appears between the hormone committee and what replaces it to complete its function.

Reference : "With medicine in the holy Qur'an" by Dr. Abdel Hamid &Dr. Ahmed Azo'oz,in the Qur'an science administration,in Damascus.