Page 124 - Allah's Art of Detail

to be recorded in our DNA, for DNA to exist,
for hydrogen and oxygen to collide to produce
water, for plants to make photosynthesis, for an ant to have
a neural network made up of 500,000 cells, for seeds to en-
able plants to emerge from beneath the ground and for those
seeds to store information, or for living things in the depths of
the ocean to produce light. Allah creates all of these without being
dependent on direct causes, because He, the Creator of the heavens
and Earth, is unfettered by such causes.

Whenever Allah wills something to exist, He merely tells it to
Be. Whenever He wills something to come into being with all of its
perfections, it is enough for Him to command it to do so:
Does He Who created the heavens and Earth not have the
power to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the
Creator, the All-Knowing. His command when He wills a
thing is just to say to it “Be!” and it is. (Surah Ya Sin, 81-82)
One of the wise aspects of Allah’s creation of details is that
they cause us to think, to see and understand that He has created
everything out of nothing and displays the proofs of His own exis-

tence. They are made for us to grasp the complexities in the build-
ing blocks that comprise us and to realize that we cannot under-
stand the skills and abilities of even a bacterium, which are
sometimes superior to our own … for us to see how much we
are in need of Allah; to understand that we live on Earth by
His will and permission, and that by His leave we will have
an infinite life in the Hereafter; and to remind us