Page 38 - Allah's Art of Detail

The Sublime System of Photosynthesis

Pick up a leaf and look at it closely. Although it appears quite
ordinary, what you cannot see are the wide-ranging and magnifi-
cent chemical processes that enable it to carry out photosynthesis. Its
countless factories, which are invisible to the naked eye, accom-
plish in seconds a process that is so sublime that scientists
equipped with the most modern laboratory facilities cannot repli-
cate it. This chemical process, which is performed very quietly by
a usually unnoticed part of creation, is one of the main reasons
why humanity is still present on this planet.
Every square millimeter of each leaf contains around 500,000
chlorophylls, the magnificent molecules that are necessary for pho-

tosynthesis. Were we able to examine this molecule, a great many
more details would become apparent. For example, the entire pho-
tosynthesis process that takes place inside this particular molecule
occurs within one ten-millionth of a second. In other words, the
complex process initiated by the light reaching a leaf’s water and
then activating the relevant subatomic particles and changing their
orbits is repeated 10 million times a second. In addition, this proc-
ess takes place separately in each chlorophyll molecule.
If Allah willed chlorophyll molecules to cease their activities
or the wavelength of the light reaching the leaf to change, no
means of locating another source of oxygen would exist. If photo-
synthesis stopped, there would be no other way to convert into ox-
ygen the carbon dioxide that human beings and animals exhale. It
would be illogical to expect a chlorophyll molecule, which is essen-