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formation was concealed inside the cell, but this priceless information
has been protected inside the cell nucleus, using a special code, ever

since human beings were first created. Every detail regarding this mol-
ecule is full of examples of Allah's sublime creation. DNA prompts us
to ask the following questions:
- Who possesses the information needed to construct a perfect
body?
- Who conceals that information inside living tissue?
- Who compresses such wide-ranging information into such a
minute space, and how?
- Who knows how very important this information is and main-
tains it under protection?

- Who encodes the information and who deciphers it?
- Who ensures that there are no deficiencies or impairments dur-
ing the deciphering process?
- Who knows that this information must be transmitted to future
generations and knows the technique to employ in doing so?
- Who copies this information into new cells as they are renewed
and multiply, and how?
- These questions, to which hundreds more could be added, lead
us to the existence of our omniscient, sublimely intelligent Creator.
DNA is ". . . the handiwork of Allah Who gives to everything its so-
lidity. . . (Surat an-Naml, 88)
In the Qur'an, Allah reveals the organization in His creation:

O man! What has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord? He Who
created you and formed you and proportioned you and assembled you
in whatever way He willed. (Surat al-Infitar, 6-8)
In order to write a work about what is needed for all of an organ-
ism's bodily functions, the author must know all the details about that
organism's cellular activities will be performed at the atomic and mo-
lecular level and to accurately determine its special requirements at ev-