One of them fertilizes the egg, and from the combined cells, an embryo develops.

One of them fertilizes the egg, and from the combined cells, an embryo develops. The other male cell unites usually with two other cells near the egg, in the middle of the embryo sac, and the triple product forms the nutritive part of the seed. The existence of male and female in plants was entirely unknown before the advance of modern science.

But the Holy Qur'an clearly states the existence of sex in the plant kingdom: “Glory be to the One Who created all pairs of males and females of what the Earth grows and of themselves and of what they know not.” 36:36 At the time of the , no one had any knowledge about the conditions of outer space. People used to think that the more man ascends to the sky, the more he may find air and the more he would be able to breathe.

Now we know that outer space does not contain air, and that if a person ascends into the sky, he may suffocate through lack of oxygen. The Holy Qur'an, however, has a clear indication of this fact: “So whomsoever God chooses to guide, He opens his heart for Islam, and whomsoever He chooses to leave in error, He makes his chest close and narrow as if he is ascending in the sky.

Thus, does God lay penalty on those who do not believe.” 6:125 The narrowness of the chest of a person who ascends in the sky means his incapability of breathing which was contrary to the prevalent concept about outer space at the time of Muhammad. Previous…