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many times over, follow up the recovery course of the
cells with extremely advanced medical equipment, and
direct them as necessary. Even the slightest delay or a
problem in the course of the process would cause the
illness to be further aggravated.
What if man were asked to form these cells, make
them recognise the enemy and manufacture the appro-
priate antibodies, then teach and organise all the proc-
esses they would perform … Unquestionably, such a life
would be far more troublesome and distressful than the
aforementioned model. It would literally be impossible.
Allah has taken the burden of this process away
from humans, creating a faultless system to work in the
most immaculate and independent manner ever imagi-
nable. Just like everything else in the universe, our de-
fence system, too, has obeyed its purpose of creation to
become an indispensable, critical element of life:
Hearkening to its Lord as it is bound to do…
(Surat al-Inshiqaq: 2)

Tolerance
We have explored in previous chapters how the de-
fence system distinguishes between friendly and hostile
cells with the help of the receptors. However, the building
blocks of some hostile cells are almost identical to those
of certain tissues in the human body. This represents a
significant problem for the defence system, which might
conceivably attack some of its own tissues accidentally.
Under normal conditions, though, such a response
never happens in a healthy human body. The defence
system never attacks a molecule, cell, or tissue of its