Page 201 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

hroughout this book, we have examined
two of the most important features of
plants, photosynthesis and the extraor-
dinary properties of leaves. The aim be-
hind providing this information is to
show that these living things and the features they
possess could not have emerged as the result of coin-
cidences.
Plants are organisms without any traces of con-

sciousness and reason such as decision-making or
free will. But as you can see from the information pro-
vided this far, the processes carried out by plants do
require considerable consciousness and reason.
Indeed, plants succeed in performing activities that
human beings cannot replicate with their conscious
knowledge and advanced technology, and in spaces

of time as brief as a millionth of a second. So to whom
does this intelligence—which human beings come
nowhere near approaching—belong?
Since the day they were first created, plants have
been behaving in the manner inspired in them by
Allah, with His infinite knowledge and intelligence.
Every one of the plant’s cells, and even every atom, is
told how to behave at every moment. This is revealed
in a verse from the Qur’an:

It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and
of the Earth the same number, the Command
descending down through all of them, so that