According to Maurice Bucaille, the author of the book “The Bible the Quran and Science”, American Trust publication USA 1979′ page 204: “In the process of the birth of a child, the female egg fertilized by the male sperm, literally clings to the uterus like roots in the soil drawing nourishment for its growth. ‘Alaqa’ is this ‘something that clings’ ! Man has never passed a stage of being a blood clot.” Arabic dictionaries too give the meanings of Alaqa as hanging one, suspended, attached and leech which is a blood sucking worm. Maurice Baucille further remarks. Page 205: “The Quranic description of certain stages in the development of the embyro corresponds exactly to what we today know about it, and the Quran does not contain a single statement that is open to criticism for modem science.” In view of this the word Alaqa has been translated as ‘that which clings and hangs like a leech’.