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Blood: The Incomparable
Liquid of Life

God reveals this major truth in verses:
That is God, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the
Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible
for everything. Eyesight cannot perceive Him, but He per-
ceives eyesight. He is the All-Penetrating, the All-Aware.
(Surat al-An'am: 102-103)

Red Blood Cells at the End of Their
Life Span

As they near the end of their 120-day odyssey in the blood-
stream, red blood cells become less active. As these cells grow
older, they become more vulnerable. Their increasingly sensi-
tive cell membrane can tear while passing through narrow
points in the circulatory system. Their 8-micrometer diameter
is especially damaged while passing through the 3-microme-
ter diameter of the red splenic pulp. As a result of this con-
striction, a large amount of red-blood corpuscles are found in
the spleen tissue. (When the spleen is removed from the body
for any reason, the numbers of abnormal and elderly cells in
the blood will rise, since the natural filtering in question does
not take place.)
Red blood cells that have come to the end of their lives are
broken down by macrophage cells in many regions of the
body, particularly in the liver, spleen and bone marrow.
During this process, the hemoglobin in the deceased red blood
cell is released. Over the next few hours, the macrophages sep-
arate the iron from the hemoglobin to be carried in the
bloodstream—either to the bone marrow for the pro-
duction of new red blood cells, or to the iron storage

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