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formation, which is one of the facts ignored, play a very
interesting role in the defence system. They check on
the body cells several times a day to see if there are any
sick cells. If they find any sick or old cells, they destroy
them. There are almost 100 trillion cells in our body
and lymphocytes make up only 1%.
Now, imagine a country having an exceedingly high
population, around 100 trillion. The number of health
care workers (lymphocytes) would then be 1 trillion. If
we think that the world's current population is some 7
billion, the number of the people living in our imaginary
country would be almost 14 million 285 thousand times
the world's population. Would it be possible for all the
members of a country with such a high 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 through-
out your body several times a day to do a health check.
Is it possible to attribute the extremely organised
operation of such a great mass of living beings to coinci-
dence?
Can coincidences account for each one of a trillion
lymphocytes assuming 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 ma-
jor infectious diseases such as AIDS, cancer, rabies and