"Only God Knows What Is in the Wombs" - Is This Still True? (31:34)

31:34 says only God knows what is in the wombs. Modern ultrasound technology can now determine the sex of a fetus. The claim is that science has falsified this Quranic statement.

The false claim: 31:34 has been rendered false by modern medicine - ultrasound reveals what is in the womb, disproving a Quranic claim.

31:34 does not say that only God knows the sex of the fetus. The claim imports a specificity the verse does not contain - and the difference between what the verse actually says and what the claim attributes to it is enormous.

[31:34] GOD possesses knowledge about the Hour (end of the world). He is the One who sends down the rain, and He knows the contents of the womb. No soul knows what will happen to it tomorrow, and no soul knows in which land it will die. GOD is Omniscient, Cognizant.

The words are "the contents of the womb" - not "the sex of what is in the womb." The verse is making a comprehensive statement about the totality of knowledge concerning the unborn, not a claim about one specific piece of biological information that technology might one day detect.

What is in the womb is incomparably more than its sex. The fetus's DNA alone contains approximately three billion base pairs encoding millions of pieces of information. From these are determined not only physical characteristics - the vast majority of which remain entirely invisible to any scanning technology - but the complete blueprint of who this person will become: their temperament, their cognitive architecture, their predispositions toward health and disease across decades of life, the structure of their character, their emotional landscape, and ultimately the orientation of their soul toward truth or falsehood. None of this is accessible to us while the child is in the womb. We can, in many cases, detect chromosomal sex. That is a single variable out of a billion-variable system.

Knowing one variable out of millions does not constitute knowing "the contents of the womb" in any meaningful sense of that phrase. The author of the claim isolated the one narrow piece of information that modern technology can sometimes detect, treated it as though it exhausts the verse's meaning, and declared victory - ignoring the vast ocean of knowledge that remains entirely and exclusively with God: who this person is, who they will become, what they will choose, what they will suffer, and how they will ultimately stand before their Creator. The verse stands without qualification - and will continue to stand regardless of how far medical imaging advances.