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THE MIRACLE OF HORMONES

adjust your body temperature, trillions of cells functioned as micro-heat-
ers. The speed at which each cell functioned was supervised and con-
trolled individually.
Cells determined the amount of sodium in your blood, and the re-
quired amount was supplied by special mechanisms.
Cells measured your blood pressure to prevent it from rising or fall-
ing to a dangerous level and worked day and night to take the appropri-
ate adjustment measures.
The muscle cells around your blood vessels sometimes contracted
to narrow them and sometimes relaxed to dilate them.
Some cells in your kidneys took either fluid or sodium molecules
from the urine and mixed them with your blood…
And thousands of operations like these were carried out by means
of your hormones.

In short, in order to allow you to survive, every point in your body
was controlled individually, deficiencies were removed, and order was
ensured. As you read this book about hormones, hormone molecules en-
sured the operation of all these wonderful functions in your body.
At this point, there is an important duty that becomes incumbent on
a person: the duty to think.
Everything in the heavens and on Earth is a proof of the existence of
God, and thinking is the only way to see these proofs properly.
Thinking about created things draws us closer to God and enables
us to better appreciate His power, and thinking is the vehicle by which
our awareness of God is increased. The Qur'an reveals that the wonders
of God are found on Earth and in the heavens and describes the attitude
of faithful people to these wonders.
In the creation of the heavens and the Earth, and the alternation of
night and day, there are Signs for people with intelligence: those
who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides,
and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the Earth [saying]:

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