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tial for continued life, to
come into being and set about
cleaning the air and giving rise to nutrients all by itself.
The fact that a plant can consume carbon dioxide and
release oxygen is a great miracle. This extraordinary system
is a great blessing and astonishing work of Allah, the Lord of
the Worlds:

Good land yields up its plants by its Lord’s permission, but
that which is bad only yields up scantily. In this way, We
vary the Signs for people who are thankful. (Surat al-A‘raf,
58)

Each leaf makes photosynthesis as the result of impressive
and wide-ranging processes. Allah has equipped every
square millimeter of a leaf with 500,000 chlorophyll molecu-
les. By Allah’s leave, this special process, which has still
not been capable of being performed in
the laboratory, is carried out in a
flawless manner in every milli-
meter of the leaf.

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