The Holy Quran 77:21 — Surah Al-Mursalat

Arabic text

فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُ فِى قَرَارٍ مَّكِينٍ

...placed it (the sperm) in a safe place (the womb)...

A secure place: that is, [We] kept [it] safe in a place of rest. What is meant by this is the mother's womb, which in our idiom is called the uterus.

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