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Plants have no senses with which
to determine whether the fragrances
they produce are attractive or effective.
Neither do they possess the intelligence
or the means to set up a chemical labo-
ratory to produce perfume in a volume

just a thousandth of a cubic millimeter
in size. The plant’s cells produce the
compounds that give rise to scent. In oth-
er words, certain unconscious atoms use
other atoms, just as chemical engineers do,
to manufacture the world’s most delightful
perfumes. These atoms seem to know the
characteristics of other atoms around them,
the quantities in which they need to be com-

bined, and the kind of scent they will eventually obtain,
also know the environmental conditions essential for the dissemination of
those scents and which living creatures will be affected by it. Indeed, they
also know the entire chemical structure of the living creature they aim to
attract, and thus prepare compounds that match its scent perception.
A great many plants possess these perfume laboratories. Although
the world’s plants are operating millions of scent laboratories, they never

make a mistake while preparing chemical compounds. Therefore, one can
obtain the same scent from the same flowers anywhere in the world. It is
impossible for chance to account for perfect fragrances being produced by
complex formulae carried out by unconscious atoms, or the aesthetic sig-
nificance of the perfumes that result. Scent and the systems that produce
it have been specially designed and created by Allah. In addition to all the
many fragrances, the living things that detect these scents and their per-
ceptual systems have all been created in harmony with one another. The
countless fruits in the world, bananas, oranges and apples—and flowers

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