Page 11 - The Miracle of the Blood and Heart

efore they are born, all human beings—
including yourself—spend nine months in
their mothers' wombs. At the beginning of its
development, each human being consists of a
tiny collection of cells just starting to divide
and develop.
On the 22 day, the embryo is even smaller than a baked
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bean. One day, a small node of cells in the center of that assem-
blage receives a command and suddenly starts pulsating. All
the other cells in the body lie quiet. But this group is in con-
stant motion, and never stops for as long as the person will
live.
Never does it feel the need to stop for even a moment's
rest—not until the day, decades later, when it receives the ulti-
mate command to stop.
During the intervening period, a human being completes
his or her lifespan. Who gives this tiny node the command to
start and finally stop?
This perfect pump, which began its beating when you were
just three weeks old in your mother's womb, bears a most
important responsibility: ensuring the circulation of the blood
in your body. In other words, it maintains life in the 100 trillion
cells in your body which are just as alive as you. It permits
these cells to absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide. It
nourishes and cleanses them, cures them of their diseases and
ailments, and guards them against their microbe enemies…
Who establishes the cells that comprise you—and thus,
this system that keeps you alive?
And what have you done to ensure the existence of
this circulatory system that gives you life? There was
absolutely nothing you could do to have formed
such a system, because before you even opened your Adnan
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