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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

vide and multiply. The growth hormone affects all the cells
of the body. Every cell understands the message sent from
the pituitary gland. If it must grow, it grows; if it must divide
and multiply, it does so. For example, even though a new-
born baby’s heart is about one-sixteenth the size of an adult
heart, both hearts have the same number of cells. The
growth hormone affects each cell during the development

process. Every cell develops as much as the growth hormone
tells it to. Thus, the infant’s heart grows and turns into an
adult’s heart. Other cells, such as those belonging to the
muscles and bones, divide and multiply, again due to the
growth hormone’s instructions. This is a miraculous process,
because the chickpea-sized pituitary gland controls all of the
body’s cells and ensures their growth either by increasing

their bulk or dividing.
This wonderful order shows the perfection in Allah’s
creation. Cells contained in one small area make sure that
trillions of cells divide and grow in an ordered way.
However, these cells cannot see the human body from the
outside, or know how much it must grow, or at what stage it
must stop growing. Bereft of all knowledge, sight, and con-
sciousness, they nevertheless produce the growth hormone,
stop the growth at the appropriate time, and control both the

organ’s growth and this hormone’s secretion at every stage.
Allah has created such a perfect system that growth and the
secretion of this hormone are controlled at every stage. And
this shows once again the power and the knowledge at
every point in the creation of the human body and makes us

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