The Islamic Bulletin Volume X X II No. 27 Page 4 L Written by Sebatian R. Prange Photographed by Aasil Ahmad Before birth all human beings spend nine months in their mother’s wombs. At the beginning of its development, each human being consists of a tiny collection of cells just starting to divide and develop. One day, a small node of cells in the center of that assemblage receives a command and suddenly starts pulsating. All the other cells in the body lie quiet. But this group is in constant motion, and never stops for as long as the person will live. The embryonic heart begins during pregnancy, and works as a single pump for the embryo’s blood, which circulates only in the baby’s body and the placenta. After birth, however, since oxygen is inhaled directly by means of respiration, the embryonic heart needs to possess four chambers. This physiological dichotomy has been resolved thus: Two holes in the chambers of the heart enable blood to be retained in these chambers and the as-yet-undeveloped pulmonary veins are protected. When the baby takes its rst breath and begins crying, these holes automatically close and cease their function. This marvel of creation once again shows to us the awlessness of Allah’s creation. By beating an average of 70 times a minute, the heart moves blood around the body some 1,000 times a day. This means that blood visits every cell in the body 1,000 times a day, carries to them the necessary nutrients, gives oxygen and takes back carbon dioxide, repairs damage, makes good defects and collects wastes. Every cell in the body is “inspected” 1,000 times a day. The heart pumps 2,113 gallons of blood every day. The heart of an adult pumps 89 gallons of blood an hour even while sleeping. At that same rate, one could easily ll a car’s gas tank in just seven minutes. In one single day your heart can pump enough blood to ll a good sized oil truck. This magni cent pump works 24 hours a day for your entire lifetime without stopping. This extraordinary pump seldom misses a beat from its rhythm, and never goes wrong and becomes old. Every cell making up the heart is literally a living battery. It never loses its ability to pump blood throughout the body until the death of its owner. That is because this is an extraordinary miracle of Allah, who is able to create a superior artistry, awlessness, an incomparable balance and magni cent intelligence all at once. The heart is a piece of muscle the size of a st, consisting of water, fat and protein, but possessing a far more perfect and complex system than even the most advanced pump that has yet been developed by experts working with computers. This incomparable piece of esh is powerful enough to squirt blood 6 feet high into the air, and can determine the body’s needs and pump just as much blood as it requires. In a person at rest, the heart pumps just 1.057 to 1.585 gallons of blood a minute. That quantity is enough because the resting body’s cells don’t require too much oxygen. If someone is exercising, however, the need for oxygen rises, and it needs to be transmitted to the cells faster. The heart immediately identi es this need and begins beating faster. To see the perfection of these features of the heart, imagine a machine that pumps water at least once in a second, on an average of 65 to 70 times a minute. Let that water be carried to a hundred trillion homes every second by means of that pump, under the same pressure. At the same time, let that plant determine how much water each house needs and send the requisite amount to each one. In addition, make this system be able to function for at least 70 years, never develop the slightest defect, never rust, and never neglect a single pipeline leading to any of the homes in question. There is no doubt that the establishment of such a plant is impossible in a great many regards. Yet inside the body there is a network system incomparably more complex than this example. The vascular network, capable of reaching every cell in the body, is another proof that the body’s distribution system is awless and conscious. A machine that works at such high speed and to such an unchanging rhythm cannot last any longer than 10 or 15 years. Even before then, it will have to undergo maintenance many times to x any defects. It is impossible for such a machine to function for long years without any mistakes. It is totally illogical to claim that an ordinary piece of equipment can determine needs in houses, evaluate the situation and send the right amount of water where required. Never does it feel the need to stop for even a moment’s rest—not until the day when it receives the ultimate command to stop. Who establishes the cells that comprise you—and thus, this system that keeps you alive? And what have you done to ensure the existence of this circulatory system that maintains your very existence? There was absolutely nothing you could do to have formed such a system, because before you even opened your eyes, your body was prepared for you in a awless manner. For example, a perfect pair of eyes was created for you to be able to see your surroundings clearly. Although you had never encountered the air in the external world until the moment you were born and took your rst breath, the respiratory system that enables you to breathe was formed while you were still in your mother’s womb. You were born with a ready-made digestive system that would eventually digest foods of all kinds. Your body came with eyelids and lashes to protect your eyes from foreign bodies, and countless other such organs and distinctive features. Some persons argue that there’s no proof of any divine origin, there’s no truth that there is a God, there’s no truth that this universe has come about through any divine purpose. They say that perhaps this world has come about by chance. A big bang and this whole great world, with all of its orchestrations, just came together. They argue that life doesn’t have any de nite purpose, and there’s nothing that can be proven through either logic or science that there’s a God, or a purpose, or any divine reason behind this world. A few verses from the Quran address this subject: “Our Lord! You have not created all this without purpose, glory to You! Grant us salvation from the torment of the Fire.” (Quran 3: 190-191) Allah draws our attention that He has not created all of this for any foolish purpose. When you see the design of it, you know that the design of it is very powerful and very precise. And something very powerful and very precise that is beyond your own calculations and imagination; it cannot be foolish. It cannot be just thrown together. For instance, if you took ten marbles, and numbered then one through ten, and all LOOKING I NTO YOUR HEART
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