Page 48 - Miracles in Our Bodies

the strong acid found in the
That is Allah, your Lord.
stomach that the foods,
There is no god but Him,
which are in large pieces
the Creator of everything.
when they first arrive the
So worship Him. He is re-
stomach, are broken down
sponsible for everything.
into smaller particles that
Eyesight cannot perceive
can be used by the body. Yet
Him but He perceives eye-
there is one more point that
sight. He is the All-
needs to be noted.
Penetrating, the All-Aware.
We have mentioned
(Surat al-An'am: 102-103)
that the food eaten is broken

down into pieces by the

stomach or gastric acid. So how is it that this acid does not

destroy the stomach itself, which is also made of flesh? Now,

think about it. The gastric acid digests the meat, for instance,
you eat at dinner, yet ignores the stomach, which is in the

same way a piece of meat. Why is this so? At this point, the

excellence in the creation of our Lord is revealed once again.

Allah, Who created everything perfectly, designed a protection

so that the stomach itself is not digested.

This protection may be summarised as follows; another

fluid, namely "mucous", is secreted during digestion to pre-
vent the hydrochloric acid from breaking down the stomach.

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