Page 16 - The Miraculous Machine that Works for an Entire Lifetime: Enzyme

f Allah so chose, it could take us decades to
produce just a fleeting smile. We would
have to wait for years to be able to eat, to
think, or to move and speak. If Allah so

chose, a whole lifetime even might not be
enough for us to turn over a single page of
this book, nor even lift a single finger for
the purpose of doing so.
Our bodily systems do not work at
this slow pace, of course. We can smile
whenever we wish, walk and run, think
unrestrictedly, blink in an instant, and in-
stantaneously begin to do everything we
have planned. That is because Almighty
Allah has blessed us with a system that
permits our bodies, which He has created

so perfectly, to perform all their functions
at great speed. Enzymes, with their extra-
ordinary structures, are one of the most im-
portant elements in this system's function-
ing.
In the chemical miracle known as en-
zymes, more than a hundred microscopic

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