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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL

An Eye that Sees

To understand this topic more clearly,
we can use an example from a great
Muslim scholar.
Imagine a person watching the sea on a
sunny day, from a balcony covered by an
awning. Because of the awning, he cannot see
the sun, only its reflections on the sea, in the
form of millions of tiny sparkles. The sparkles pos-
sess a beauty that is, in a word, dazzling.
The person wondering about the source of the beauty in
these sparkles has two choices. Either he must assume that each
sparkle formed by itself on the water independently of the rest, or
accept that each is a reflection of the Sun on the water. Water does not
possess the ability to make light. Light only comes from the Sun, and
the rays falling over the water form millions of reflections.
Everything in the universe is similar to this example.
The universe, with all of its tiniest detail, was created by God and
shaped by His attributes. Everything comes from Him. All of the
beauty that we see is just a reflection of His beauty. All of the intelli-
gence that exists is only a manifestation of His intelligence.
God gives life to everything in the universe for a determined
period, with His attribute of al-Hayy (the Living). These display a
small reflection of God's intelligence, beauty, and knowledge, and
then die-again at the time determined by God.
Human beings are like this too. We come from the earth, and live
a particular length of time as God has determined, then die and return
to the earth. During the short time that we live, we can also reflect
some of those attributes of God, as He wills. A human being, who
begins as a single fertilized cell in his mother's womb, grows up to

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