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The Mir a cle in the Cell Mem brane

aware that such extraor di na ry func tions are tak ing place,
let alone be able to per form any such selec tion con scious -
ly. The appear ance of an intel li gence beyond human in
the cell mem brane shows, as we already stat ed, that the
source of that intel li gence is not the cell itself but rath er
the inspi ra tion of Allah, Who cre at ed it. By the com mand
of Allah each and every cell car ries out its duties for us
flaw less ly.
No human's will and intel lect can deter mine, fol low
or per form any of these tasks which the cell mem brane
car ries out so per fect ly and which require con scious ness
and intel li gence. The num ber of cells in the human body
is a lit er al ly astro nom i cal fig ure: three times great er than
the num ber of stars in the Milky Way. Bear in mind that
these tasks need to be per formed for all cells at all times,
day and night and with out error, so you can bet ter com -
pre hend the dif fi cult task of the cell mem brane.
It will be use ful to recall that the words such as mind,
intel li gence, and fore sight used through out this book usu -
al ly refer to human activ i ties. Here, how e ver, these terms
are used to describe the activ i ties of a thin layer of fat and
pro tein made up of uncon scious mol e cu les—in other
words, the cell mem brane. It is of course impos si ble for
the thin nest of mem branes to assume these duties of its
own accord and to per form them with out error.
As any one of rea son and good con science will appre -
ci ate, Allah reveals His infi nite domin ion over life with
the exam ple of the cell mem brane. The intel lect we see in
the cell is a man i fes ta tion of the infi nite intel lect of Allah.
As Allah reveals in one verse of the Qur'an:

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