Page 116 - The Miracle of Electricity in the Body

114 THE MIRACLE OF ELECTRICITY IN THE BODY

In addition, events constantly take place in our bodies of which we
are sometimes unaware. Thanks to signals coming from nerves at every
point in the body at once, you can perceive the shape of the chair you are
sitting in and the temperature of the air around you and see and inter-
pret hundreds of other such details. Even a breeze touching the back of
your neck is transmitted to the brain as a sensation with the same flaw-
lessness and timing. Consider the tasks of the brain by assuming that
millions of people want to give you information and ask you questions,
all at the same time. Each of these questions requires a separate field of
expertise, and incorrect answers could result in serious illness or even
death. Also, you have to respond in less than a second. Furthermore,
what is doing the responding is a piece of tissue consisting of uncon-
scious fats and proteins. Therefore, it is not enough to say that your
brain does everything, no matter how perfect a structure it may possess.
A Creator, possessed of superior intellect and knowledge, inspires these
duties in our brain and creates it with the features necessary to carry
them out. That Creator is Almighty God, Lord of us all.
The brain’s cells undertake tasks requiring consciousness and intel-
ligence through the inspiration of God, and carry them out to the letter.
God’s dominion over His creations is revealed in these terms in one
verse:

He directs the whole affair from heaven to Earth. (Surat as-Sajda, 5)