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meat, bread, or any other food. No
matter what we ate, it would always
have the same insipid taste. Eating
would no longer be an enjoyable blessing
and would become an irksome duty.

The stomach’s various functions display a wonder-
ful balance. Digestion is accomplished by the stomach’s hy-
drochloric acid, which is so strong that it can both digest food
and decompose the stomach’s lining. But Allah created the
perfect solution for this: The stomach’s walls are completely
covered by the mucus secreted during digestion, which pro-

tects the stomach against the acid’s corrosive quality.
However, there is a perfect harmony be-

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