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122 THE MIRACLE OF ELECTRICITY IN THE BODY

He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. He
does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He cre-
ated everything and determined it most exactly. (Surat al-Furqan, 2)

The Essential Nature of Our Bodies’ Communication

Network
Due to the magnificent communication carried out by the brain and
nervous system, your fingers can feel the page you are holding. You see
everything around you in the form of bright and flawless three-dimen-
sional images, and hear even sounds coming from a distance. The mech-
anism that gives rise to the sensation of burning when you scorch your
hand is just one of the trillions of connections leading from your hand to
the relevant region in the brain. Were you not to feel that discomfort, no
doubt your hand would suffer severe injury. These connections from
your nerve cells turn even the touch of a feather into an electrical signal
and transmit it to the brain. That is why you are able to see every detail
around you, feel everything that touches you, and why you feel hunger,
thirst and pain. It is quite impossible for any human to build such an er-
ror-free and rapid mechanism artificially. Yet the nervous system carries
out all its functions in the same perfect manner in billions of human be-
ings.
The axon—the extension of the nerve cell discussed in the previous
chapter—may be compared to a long tube surrounded by a membrane.
Everything to do with message transmission takes place in this axon
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membrane, just 1/100,000 of millimeter (0.0000039 of an inch) thick.
There are very different molecules in the fluid inside the axon mem-
brane and in the fluid outside. This tiny extension that transmits data is
a tube filled with liquid protein and potassium. How does chemical sub-
stance receive and transmit data from the outside, in a flawless perfect
manner, to exactly the right region, at the right time? No doubt this sys-
tem is an indication of creation.