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why does it select such a difficult and complex method as rising
through the air? Even more interestingly, how does it manage to do
so? How did it obtain the ability to control crystallization and air
currents, and how does it know that the clouds will be able to pro-
tect and nourish it, and that one day when it starts raining, it will
return to earth in a healthy state? How does this single-celled crea-
ture actually manage to do this? How do these microorganisms

manage to do this, despite having totally different structures and
features? Could a single-celled microorganism think of all this,
learn by experimentation and inform all other members of its spe-
cies? That being of course impossible, all these details once again
point to the magnificent artistry manifested by Allah. It is Allah
Who, in addition to creating the bacteria that carry out all these ac-
tivities, also created the air that raises them, the clouds and atmos-

phere that shelter them, the rain that brings them back down, and
the Earth that enables them to multiply and spread. For that reason,
all these details have been created to be totally compatible with one
another, and have remained in that state of equilibrium for millions
of years.
Allah states in the Qur'an that:

In the Creation of the heavens and Earth, and the alternation
of the night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to peo-
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE and scatters about in it creatures of every kind—and the vary-
ple's benefit, and the water which Allah sends down from the
sky—by which He brings the Earth to life when it was dead

ing direction of the winds, and the clouds subservient be-
tween heaven and Earth, there are signs for people who use

their intellect. (Surat al-Baqara, 164)

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