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THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

repository for a recognised term? It is We who determine. What an
excellent Determiner! (Surat al-Mursalat: 20-23)
There are occasions when these cells fail to fulfill their functions.

However, it should never be forgotten that if Allah had willed, this would
not happen either. Such disorders are created for a hidden cause for peo-
ple to clearly comprehend how temporary and incomplete the life of this
world actually is. Were it not for the existence of a variety of diseases and
illnesses, humans would be likely to forget how helpless they were
against Allah Who created them. They might fail to remember that no
matter how advanced technology is, their recovery, as well as their life,
depend on the will of Allah alone. They may continue to live as if they
will remain in good health forever, as if they will never meet death and be

called to account for their actions in the presence of Allah on the Day of
Judgment. They may live on without reflecting on the plight of those who
are sick, deprived and oppressed. Therefore, they may fail to appreciate
that their health is a blessing from Allah and that they should live their
lives in the most favorable and productive way. People of this sort, how-
ever, hardly ever accept these facts, which we have listed above. Illnesses
make people accept them in a flash. It is not until then that people start to

think about things that never occurred to them before, such as their help-
lessness and incapacity against the power of Allah, the fact that technolo-
gy, which developed by the will of Allah, can again only be of any use by
His will; they think of those people in need, of death, and depending on
their illness, even the stage beyond death. Only then do people appreci-
ate their health. Furthermore, they witness the undependability of the life
of this world, to which they were blindly devoted and committed with all
their existence; this causes them to re-assess whether they have worked
enough for the hereafter, their true abode.

Indeed, our true abode is not this world, but the hereafter. Life in the
hereafter is not limited by years, nor is its quality dictated by such basic
needs as sleeping, feeding, or cleaning, or by negative factors such as dis-