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same to them?" Say: "Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the One,
the All-Conquering." (Surat ar-Ra'd, 16)

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Cell division takes place in two fundamental ways, and each oc-
curs at just the right time and in just the right way. The first of these,
meiosis, takes place during fertilization and is a form of division of the
cells constituting the egg and sperm.
It is thanks to this division that human beings have the same num-
ber of chromosomes in very generation. The so-called germ cells in the
ovaries and testes reduce the number of chromosomes from 46 to 23 in
order to form the egg and sperm cells, respectively. When the sperm
and egg combine during fertilization, the 46 chromosomes are thus
completed in the embryo. But is it possible for cells themselves to make
this flawless mathematical calculation? They possess such foresight
and know what they must do to form a complete chromosome when
they are combined.
It is Allah Almighty, Who causes them to act in this way and Who
establishes this immaculate system. It is revealed in one verse of the
Qur'an that:
. . . Allah always achieves His aim. Allah has appointed a measure for
all things. (Surat at-Talaq, 3)
There is great wisdom behind our Lord's involving meiosis in the
emergence of a human being. For instance, the new embryo took all its
chromosomes from only the mother or only the father, every zygote
would still have 46 chromosomes, just like a normal human being. But
there would be no human diversity on Earth. Every newborn baby
would be an exact cloned copy of its mother or father. From that point
of view there is enormous wisdom behind meiosis, which has been op-
erating in a regular, flawless manner since human beings were first cre-
ated.