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Superior parietal lobule When you decide to lift
your glass to your lips, the
brain sends a contraction
Image of
Inferior parietal Motor
body cortex signal to your biceps, con-
lobule
tracting the arm. At the
same time, the triceps at
Target the back of the upper arm
Estimation must expand to let the arm
bend. The biceps is sent a
command to contract and
the cells that straighten
Control of
“movement plan”
Cerebellum Estimating “the the arm are commanded to
halt! Thus the arm ap-
image of the
proaches the mouth.
Feedback for learning and Movement commands These systems, over
organ ”
determining errors
which we have no control
at all, are a reminder that
we live in need of our
Lord.
God is “rich beyond need”
(Surah Luqman, 12) and
the One Who “has power
over all things” (Surat al-
Baqara, 20).

There are more than 650 skeletal muscles in the body, which contract in order
to close the joints and cause the bones to move. However, all these movements
take place as the result of an extraordinary co-ordination in the body.

A neuropathic disease, the ALS is known as the disease that the
world-renowned English scientist Stephen Hawking suffers from. The
disease causes degeneration in the motor neurons (motor movement
nerve cells), which regulates locomotion. It does this by traveling from
the brain to the spinal cord, and from there to the muscles. When the
nerves that trigger muscles are impaired, the muscles cannot be stimu-
lated. As a result, patients lose their speech and movement functions in
a short time. Starting with the weakening of the arm and leg muscles,
and gradually affecting speech, chewing and respiratory functions, the