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PART II: "THE HUMAN BEING"
PART II: "THE HUMAN BEING"

CREATION IN THE UTERUS

I f person does not use his common sense and ask himself the question
"how did I come into being?" he will adopt an illogical attitude saying
to himself, "I somehow came into being!...". With such reasoning, he
will start to lead a life in which he will have no time to think on such issues.
However, a person with common sense should think how he was created
and determine the meaning of his life accordingly. While doing this, he should
not be afraid, as some people are, of ending up with the conclusion "I have
been created". Those people mentioned above do not want to take any respon-
sibility towards a Creator. They fear changing their lifestyles, habits, and the
ideologies the have accepted in case they acknowledge that they are
created. Therefore, they run away from obeying their Creator. Those Allah created you
who deny Allah and who "refuted them (His signs) wrongly and from dust and then
haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them," (Surat an-Naml: from a drop of
14) as described in the Qur’an, adopt this psychology. sperm and then
On the other hand, a person who appraises his existence with made you into
wisdom and common sense will see nothing in himself but the signs pairs. No female
of Allah’s creation. He will acknowledge that his existence depends becomes pregnant
on the co-operation of thousands of complicated systems, none of or gives birth except
which he creates or controls. He will grasp the fact that "he is creat- with His knowl-
ed" and, by knowing our Creator, Allah, he will try to understand for edge. And no living
what purpose He "created" him. thing lives long or
For anyone who tries to comprehend the meaning of His creation has its life cut short
there is a guide book: the Qur’an. This book is a guide sent to him without that being
and to all created men on earth by our Creator, Allah. in a Book. That is
That the phenomenon of creation takes place just as described in easy for Allah.
the Qur’an conveys significant meanings to the men of understand- (Surah Fatir: 11)
ing.
The following pages include various pieces of information, for those with
wisdom and common sense, exhibiting how "they were created" and the mar-
vel of this creation.
The story of man’s creation starts at two different locations very distant from
each other. The human being steps into life by the union of two separate sub-
stances present in the bodies of women and men, which are created totally

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