Page 25 - For Men of Understanding

The photograph is of a tiny animal that lives as
a parasite on gnats.
When we consider that apart from the
excellent systems of the gnat, such as feeding,
reproduction, respiration and blood circulation,
only a small part of which we could examine
here, this lice also has complex systems and
organic functions, we can better comprehend
the boundlessness of the signs of Allah.

ting of blood. Thus, the gnat sucks the blood it needs without the problem of
clotting. The itching and swelling formed on the spot bitten by the gnat is
caused by this liquid that prevents clotting.
This is surely an extraordinary process and it brings the following questions
to mind:
1) How does the gnat know that there is a clotting enzyme in the human
body?
2) In order to produce a neutralising secretion in its own body against that
enzyme, it needs to know the chemical structure of the enzyme. How could
this be possible?
3) Even if it somehow attained such knowledge (!), how could it produce
the secretion in its own body and make the "technical rigging" needed to trans-
fer it to its proboscis?
The answer to all these questions is
obvious: it is not possible for the gnat to
Everything in the heavens
perform any of the above. It neither has the
and the earth glorifies
required wisdom, knowledge of chemistry,
Allah. He is the
or the "laboratory" environment to produce
Almighty, the All-Wise.
the secretion. What we talk about here is
The sovereignty of the
only a gnat of a few millimetres in length,
heavens and the earth
without consciousness or wisdom, that is
belongs to Him. He gives
all!
life and causes to die.
It is quite clear that Allah, "Lord of the
He has power over
heavens and of the earth, and of all that is
everything.
between them", has created both the gnat
(Surat al-Hadid: 1-2)
and man, and donated such extraordinary
and marvellous features to the gnat.

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