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Notes: 46. Laurence Pernoud, J'ettends un enfant, Pierre Horay, Paris, 1995, p. 138 47. Geraldine Lux Flanagan, Beginning Life, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1996, p. 103 48. Health in Islam, Mother's Mİlk by Hwaa Irfan, (www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Issues/Health/Mothers_Milk.htm) 49. Rex D. Russell, Design in Infant Nutrition, (http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-259.htm) 50. G. G. Simpson, W. B...

Notes: 20. Williams P., Basic Human Embryology, 3rd ed., 1984, p. 64 21. Eldra Pearl Solomon, Linda R. Berg, Diana W. Martin, Claude V. Willee, Biology, 3rd ed., Saunders College Publishing, p. 1066 22. Geraldine Lux Flanagan, Beginning Life, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1996, p. 28. 23. Gerard J. Tortora, Introduction to the Human Body: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, p. 556 24. Geraldine...

With the onset of puberty, there is a similarity in the developments in the male and female bodies. The female reproductive cell, the egg, along with the female reproductive system is prepared to complement the male reproductive system. With the coming of puberty in women, just as in men, the hypothalamus knows exactly when the time has come to send commands to the pituitary gland to produce the h...

Think of an immense army composed of millions of soldiers. They are advancing toward a common target, they encounter obstacles on the way and find themselves in mortal danger, but in spite of all these difficulties the army does not give up. The space these soldiers must traverse in order to reach their target is one hundred thousand times larger than they are themselves. Of course, such a crowded...

Related Audio: The Miracle Of Human Creation - Introduction The continuation of the human race in the world is possible with the perfect working of the reproductive system.  Reference:  Note 1. Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 10th ed., Harcourt International Ed., PA, 2000, pp. 918, 929.

The human body is the most complex machine in the world.

WHEN our beloved Prophet (May Allah bless him and grant him peace), was born 1,400 years ago, the Arabian peninsula was a scene of true barbarism and savagery. Complete lack of law and order, a crushing culture of constant fighting and blatant disregard for females dominated the land. However, years later, a bright civilisation was rising fast with great momentum, bringing along with it unparallel...

Scientific Miracles of the Quran: It is He Who has created hearing, sight and minds for you. What little thanks you show! (Quran, 23:78) Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and minds so that perhaps you would show thanks. (Quran, 16:78) Say: "What do you think? If Allah took away your hearing and your sight and sealed up your hearts, wha...

Pick up a leaf and look at it closely. Although it appears quite ordinary, what you cannot see are the wide-ranging and magnificent chemical processes that enable it to carry out photosynthesis. Its countless factories, which are invisible to the naked eye, accomplish in seconds a process that is so sublime that scientists equipped with the most modern laboratory facilities cannot replicate it. Th...

Allah gives people knowledge and possibilities in a wide range of fields. For example, modern-day technology allows us to observe the formation of many things in a laboratory environment. However, some fundamental events can neither be brought about nor even observed in such an environment. One of these great blessings is water, which covers much of Earth and meets our most basic needs. During the...

Answers from the Qur'an

Answers from the Qur'an

People’s skin is in constant contact with many things for varying lengths of time (e.g., clothing, watches, and furniture), and yet they do not constantly perceive their presence. There is a very important reason for this: after a certain length of time, the skin’s receptors grow used to whatever is touching the skin and stop sending the relevant signals to the brain. This marvelous system, compri...

A carnation always smells the same to you. The second time you smell a perfume, you recognize it immediately, because even if you only smell something once in your life, that smell always retains its place in your memory. The human nose has around 1,000 different scent receptors. Human beings can perceive more than 10,000 different smells through combinations of these different receptors. When you...

All of the other alternatives that surface after the voice of one’s conscience are the “voices of the self” that try to suppress the conscience. The self tries with all its might to prevent one from behaving righteously and to make one do evil deeds.  It may not do this very openly. It may outline certain excuses which may seem sensible. It may cause one to say “all this will come to nothing....

Allah always inspires the most proper course of action through the conscience of one who fears Him. In a verse, Allah says:  You who believe! if you go in fear (taqwa)  of Allah, He will give you a criterion (by which to judge between right and wrong) and will cleanse you of your sins and forgive you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (Surat al-Anfal: 29) It should not be forgotten that...

Any individual would know without doubt that he would be burned if he stuck his hand into a fire. He would never have to think whether it was really going to get burned or not. This means that this person has the implicit belief that the fire is going to burn his hand. In the Quran, “implicit belief” is referred to as follows:  This (the Quran) is a clear insight for mankind, and guidance and...

The atom consists of a nucleus, containing neutrons and protons, and electrons revolving around it. The smallest components of the atom are two types of quarks, and the electrons. All the matter in the universe, all odors, all tastes, all colors, hardness, softness and everything else is created out of these three tiny components. Electrons are extraordinarily minute compared to the nucleus. An el...

Sperm undertake a journey into the mother's body until they reach the ovum. Only a thousand out of 250 million sperm succeed in reaching the ovum. At the end of this five minute race, the ovum, half the size of a grain of salt, will let only one of the sperms in. That is, the substance of man is not the whole semen, but only a small part of it. This is explained in the Surat al Qiyama as follows:...

What would you do if the place you lived in suffered a flood disaster? Would you climb to the top floor and wait to be saved, or would you climb floor by floor as the waters arose? While climbing to the roof, would you act slowly or try with all your might to reach the roof as soon as possible? Obviously, the wisest thing to do at such a moment would be to choose out of all the alternatives that w...

First of all, one has to confirm from his heart that Allah is the only god, all power belongs to Him, and no being other than Him can possess any power to provide help or cause harm. A person who affirms these truths conclusively serves Allah alone and never ascribes partners to Him. Allah advised people that they must turn completely to Him to be saved from idolatry.  It is Him alone you cal...

In conventional speech, “idolizing” only means worshipping certain things or beings. Yet, this concept has a much wider meaning and is not limited to past ages alone. In every age, there have been ignorant people who have ascribed partners to Allah, adopted other gods and worshipped idols or totem poles. It is not necessary for a person who idolizes something to say “this is a god, and I worship t...

Idolatry means considering a person or another being, or a concept as equal to or higher than Allah in terms of estimating, attributing significance, preference, and holding superior, and to act with this distorted point of view. Allah describes this situation as “associating with Allah any other God”. In other words, to claim that somebody or something else has any of the attributes of Allah mean...

Allah's Scientific Miracles in the Quran. The Quran draws attention to a very important geological function of mountains: We placed firmly embedded mountains on the Earth, so it would not move under them... (Quran, 21:31) The verse states that mountains perform the function of preventing shocks in the Earth. This fact was not known by anyone at the time the Quran was revealed. It was, in fact, bro...

It takes just a few seconds to read a sentence. Yet if one of the body’s enzymes failed to work, it would take 1,500 years to read that same sentence. Enzymes activate cells and initiate and accelerate reactions up to 1010 (10 billion) times. In their absence, those cells that are waiting to go into action and perform many other reactions that keep you alive, even though they are unaware of each o...