Peace Upon You All
In a very significant verse in surat Al-Najm Allah says about him self: "And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep," (Quran 53:43) This verse contains a very nice scientific indication about the lately-discovered fact that foetus has facial expressions while he is in his mother's womb, without being taught to do so.
The
miracle of man creation reveals itself in the stages of foetal
development which is described by the holy Quran and begins with the
creation of germ cells in his parents, then when the sperm meets the
ovum fertilizing it and they form the zygote (Nutfa Amshaj) which then becomes a leech-like clot (Alaqah) then chewed-like lump of flesh (Mudgha)
which turns into bones covered with flesh, then at the decisive moment
this foetus is converted from just some growing cells into another
creature full of life and moves in his mother's womb and his facial
expressions appears clearly. As after this large technological
revolution which occurred lately in scanning embryos, we can now see
embryos smiling and crying in their mothers' wombs before they see
light on earth.
3D ultrasound is a medical ultrasound
technique, often used during pregnancy, providing three dimensional
images of the foetus. Often these images are captured rapidly and
animated to produce a "4D ultrasound".
There are several different scanning modes in
medical and obstetric ultrasound. The standard common obstetric
diagnostic mode is 2D scanning. In 3D foetal scanning, however, instead
of the sound waves being sent straight down and reflected back, they
are sent at different angles. The returning echoes are processed by a
sophisticated computer program resulting in a reconstructed three
dimensional volume image of foetus's surface or internal organs; in
much the same way as a CT scan machine constructs a CT scan image from
multiple x-rays. 3D ultrasounds allow one to see width, height and
depth of images in much the same way as 3D movies but no movement is
shown. 4D ultrasounds involve the addition of movement by stringing
together frames of 3D ultrasounds in quick succession.
3D ultrasound was first developed by Olaf von Ramm and Stephen Smith at Duke University in 1987.
Clinical use of this technology is an area of
intense research activity especially in fetal anomaly scanning but
there are also popular uses that have been shown to improve
fetal-maternal bonding. 4D baby scans are similar to 3D scans except
that they show fetal movement as shown in the video clip.
Facial expressions are not copying of the mother's ones
Pioneering scanning techniques have produced
astonishing images from inside the womb which show babies apparently
smiling and crying.Up to now,
doctors did not think infants made such expressions until after birth
and believed they learned to smile by copying their mother. Babies do not normally smile after birth until they are about six weeks old.
scientists are not the only who were astonished
by these picture but normal people were more astonished. These pictures
truly excite in the human soul a state of matchless admiration to
Allah's creation. And they trigger the emotions of mercy of parents and
the emotions of delight when you see the foetus smiles and the emotions
of compassion when you see the foetus cries.
And at these emotions, an essential question
must be asked, if the foetus is still in his mother's womb and it did
not see the light yet, it did not see its mother cry or smile, then who
taught this foetus to cry and who taught it to smile? This question is
asked even by scientists, Professor Stuart Campbell says : "What's
behind the smile? Of course, I can't say, but the corners turn up and
the cheeks bulge ... I think it must be some indication of *******ment
in a stress-free environment."[3]
But the answer comes from the holy Quran as Allah says "And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep," (Quran 53:43). Allah
is one who makes embryos smile and it is the one who makes them weep.
The advance in science does not only coincide with Quran, but also the
holy Quran answers the questions that confuse scientists.
Crying and Life
This verse is a strong indication to all people
that the one gives us the ability to laugh and cry is Allah (SWT). But
if we can think of our ability to laugh is favour from God to us, how
could our ability to cry be also a favour from God?
If we think in a certain moment of our life, we
will find that the greatest blessing of Allah upon us is crying……. Yes,
it is the first moment in our life, the moment at which we arrive to
this earth and without crying at this moment our life ends.
Smiles, relief, congratulations and applause do
not start when a child is born – they start when it cries. Without
crying, the room becomes increasingly silent and the mood increasingly
apprehensive; and for good reason – crying is a very positive sign of a
new, healthy life. Many factors and complex interactions go into the
production of the sound that announces joyful, healthy childbirth.
Why the baby should cry?
The oxygen exchange in the lungs takes place
across the membranes of small balloon-like structures called alveoli
attached to the branches of the bronchial passages. These alveoli inflate and deflate with inhalation and exhalation.
Everyone knows that it is much more difficult
to blow up a balloon for the first time. Why is that? For one thing,
the applied pressure does not create much tension in the walls of a
small balloon to start the stretching process necessary for inflation.
According to Laplace's law, the wall tension will be twice as large for
a balloon of twice the radius. If it takes a certain applied pressure
to overcome the elasticity of the large balloon and cause it to expand
further, it will take twice as much pressure to start to expand the
smaller balloon. All this makes it difficult for the baby to take its
first breath -- all the balloons are small! The alveoli
of the lungs are collapsed in the fetus and must be inflated in the
process of inhalation. Thus the traditional spank on the bottom of the
newborn to make him/her mad enough to make the effort for the first
breath. Further difficulties are encountered by premature infants
because the surfactant fluid which coats the alveoli
to give them the appropriate wall tensions is formed in the later
stages of pregnancy. Until that point, the alveoli are coated with
fluid which has essentially the surface tension of water, much higher
than that of the normal surfactant.
So it is a great blessing of Allah (SWT) to give us the ability to laugh and cry "And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep," (Quran 53:43)
By: Chem. Gamal Abdel-Nasser
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موضوع: Human Miracle 
