# Human Senses

> Hearing develops before vision.

- Field: Embryology
- Level: Simple
- Qur'an passage: Quran 76:2
- URL: https://dailymuslim.org/quran-miracles/human-senses-hearing-before-vision

Hearing is one of the first senses to develop in a fetus. A baby can hear its mother's voice long before it is born. Vision comes at a latter stage. This was only known recently, however this was portrayed in the Quran 1400 years before it was discovered. The Quran insists that God created our hearing before our vision.

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## Qur'an passage · Quran 76:2

٢ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ سَمِيعًا بَصِيرًا

*We created man from a fertilizing sperm, to test him; and We made him hearing and seeing.*

### Quran 23:78

It is He who produced for you the hearing, and the eyesight, and the feelings. But little gratitude you show.

٧٨ وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَنْشَأَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَالْأَبْصَارَ وَالْأَفْئِدَةَ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَا تَشْكُرُونَ

The Quran always refers to the "hearing" before the "seeing" which turned out to be their actual order of creation.

## Ponder

**How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known about human senses?**

## Sources and further reading

- [Quran 76:2 · Quran.com](https://quran.com/76/2)
- [Early Experience and Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing, Developmental Psychobiology](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3953347/)
- [Miracles of Quran](https://www.miracles-of-quran.com/human_senses.html)

— Miracle of Quran, Daily Muslim · https://dailymuslim.org/quran-miracles/human-senses-hearing-before-vision