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

The eye, apart from its front part, is spherical in
shape. Its outer surface, a hard resilient stratum with a full
white color (the white of the eye), is visible and surrounds the
center’s colored part. If the white of the eye had a soft, gelati-
nous consistency, it could not protect the eye effectively. But
because it is hard, it can easily rid the eye of such harmful for-

eign matter as dust with the help of tears.
The hard, resilient tissue covering the eye changes at the
cornea, which it is composed of a transparent stratum that al-
lows light to pass through it. Despite the fact that the cornea
and the white of the eye both form continuity, their structures
are totally different and separated by a distinct boundary. The
white of the eye can be compared to the hard granite cover-

ing the front of a building; the transparent cornea can be com-
pared to the building’s windows. If the cornea’s thin tissue
covered the whole eye, it would be totally defenseless against
external influences, powerless, and blind. If the hard, white
tissue that forms the white of the eye extended over the front
transparent stratum of the eye, light could not reach the lens
and so people could not see. But Allah arranges all of these
things perfectly to display His incomparable artistry.

The cornea must always be transparent and sensitive
in order to see objects clearly. But when this transparency is
lost, one’s vision becomes blurred due to insufficient light.
The stratum open to the outside is very sensitive; it can notice
the smallest speck of dust that flies into the eye and get rid of

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