These facts have come in the Holy Qur’an about 1400 years ago, however, have been proved by the modern science. That is, man is created from a fluid, gushing forth, proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs.

الصُّلْبِ (backbone): loins of the man.

التَّرَائِبِ (ribs): of the woman, which is referring to her chest.

Had Allah (swt) willed to create without any means of gushing fluid or the backbone of ribs, he would have done so. The proof is the first creation of Adam (PBUH) without father and mother, Isa (Jesus) (Peace be upon him) furthermore, was created with no father. All the other human beings are created from a father and mother, however, sometimes there is a couple of male and female but with no children.

Therefore, this issue is not connected with any means rather it is the ability and will of Allah (swt):

} لِّلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ ۚ يَهَبُ لِمَن يَشَاءُ إِنَاثًا وَيَهَبُ لِمَن يَشَاءُ الذُّكُورَ % أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَاثًا ۖ وَيَجْعَلُ مَن يَشَاءُ عَقِيمًا ۚ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ{

(To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He creates what he wills. He gives to whom He wills female [children], and He gives to whom He wills males.

% Or He makes them [both] males and females, and He renders whom He wills barren. Indeed, He is Knowing and Competent.) (Ash-Shura: 49-50)

Many researchers have assumed that man’s water is like that of the woman. The truth is that a woman’s water has no role in the human formation because the human formation comes from the man’s sperm and the woman’s egg. Accordingly, some of the orientalists and researchers thought that there is a conflict between the Holy Qur’an and the noble Hadith, but it is very far for them to find a conflict between the texts of the Qur’an and the texts of the Sahih (true) Sunnah. They took the Hadith of the Prophet (saws):

“If the man’s discharge proceeds the woman’s discharge, the child attracts the similarity to the man and if the woman’s discharge proceeds the man’s, then the child attracts the similarity to the woma”.)[1]

Shallow thought towards this verse and Hadith may result to say there is a conflict between them and that the Hadith does not agree with the modern science which proved that the ovum has no role in determining the embryo’s sex rather it is the man’s fluid.

However, looking thoroughly into this Hadith, we find that the word (proceed) is the key of confuting this suspicion; this word indicates that there are two things starting form the same point and runs in the same direction which means that the masculinity and feminity water starts from the same source that is the man, otherwise if they are facing each other the word (proceed) would not be used. Thus, man’s sperm is the one that holds male or female sex whereas the ovum is just a receiver.

[1] Sahih Al-Bukhari: Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar), No. (3723)