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THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

population to have a check-up one by one, and moreover, several times in
the same day?
You will surely say no, but this process is carried out in your body
every day; lymphocytes roam throughout your body several times a day
to do a health check.
Is it possible to attribute the extremely organized operation of such a
great mass of living beings to coincidence?
Can coincidences account for each one of a trillion lymphocytes as-
suming such an arduous and demanding task?

Certainly not!
Allah, the Lord of all Worlds, created each one of these one trillion
lymphocytes and charged them with the responsibility of protecting man.
Lymphocytes play a very important role against major infectious dis-
eases such as AIDS, cancer, rabies and tuberculosis, and serious ailments
such as angina and rheumatism. Of course, this does not mean that lym-
phocytes do not have any role to play with other diseases. Even the com-
mon cold is nothing but a combat fought by the lymphocytes to keep
those very dangerous common cold viruses away from the body.
The human body can defeat many of its enemies by using antibod-
ies. This may lead you to wonder why lymphocytes intervene in the war
directly when they already make a considerable contribution by produc-
ing antibodies. However, some microbes are so deadly that very strong

chemical toxins are needed for their removal. Therefore, some lympho-
cytes use these chemical toxins and directly participate in the war.
How then would the defence system stop these enemies?
First, chemists and a laboratory would be needed to produce the tox-
in. The structure of the required material is too special to be formed by co-
incidence. Allah, Who knows that the human body will face such an ene-
my, or rather, Who created such an enemy for man to take warning, has
also given the lymphocytes to synthesize this toxin.
So, is this chemical material satisfactory?