4c. Oneness of Allah as the Absolute Creator and Sustainer ... continue

TAUHIID AL-KHALIQ-QIYYAH WAR-RUBUB-BIYYAH

(Attestation to the Oneness of Allah, as the Creator and the Sustainer)

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أَمۡ خُلِقُواْ مِنۡ غَيۡرِ شَىۡءٍ أَمۡ هُمُ ٱلۡخَـٰلِقُونَ

"Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators? "

(Qur'an: Surah Tur: 51: 35)

THE HUMAN HEART

The Heart is a small organ, about the size of the fist, (4 inches long and 21/2 inches broad), weighing not much more than eight ounces, yet this small pump can work prodigiously. It keeps on pumping day and night for a whole life-time with­out the least pause, rating some 100,000 strokes a day and sending about a gallon of blood circulating through the body once every 13 seconds. In a single day the heart pumps enough blood to fill a good-sized oil truck; in a single year it could fill a train of 65 large oil wagons.

The heart is specially built for the immense job it has to do. Its walls are made up of very tough muscular fibres, and it is surrounded by a double membrane (the pericardium) con­taining a fluid which lubricates its continual movement. The beat of the heart takes place in two steps as first the upper and then the lower half contracts. This enables each half of the heart to rest while the other is beating. Inside, the heart is divided into 4 chambers, two upper chambers called the auri­cles and two lower chambers called the ventricles. Blood always flows from the auricles to the ventricles, and this one way traffic is maintained by umbrella-shaped valves which guard the openings between the two sets of chambers.

THE HUMAN EAR

The Ear: Long before man discovered wireless, the ear knew all that was to be known about the reception of sound waves. The human ear consists of a funnel beautifully adapted to pick up sounds and equipped with fleshy folds which enable it to perceive the direction from which the sound comes.

Inside the ear, fine hairs and a sticky wax prevent harmful insects, dust, etc. from getting in.Across the inner end of the funnel there is a tightly stretched membrane, the ear-drum, which vibrates like the skin of the tabla (Indian percussion instrument) when sound waves strike it. The vibrations are passed on and amplified by three bones (the hammer, the stirrup and the anvil) whose relative sizes are precisely adjusted to produce just the needed amplification. Indeed, these bones never grow; they are of exactly the same size in the infant and in the adult.

The amplified vibrations are carried by the bones to another membrane just beyond which lies the wonderful organ of hearing, the inner ear. This is a small tube (the cochlea) coiled up like the shell of a snail, and filled with a liquid in which a harp of 6,000 strings ranging in length from 1/20th to 1/2mm, hang suspended. Each string vibrates to a particular frequency of sound so that the ear can hear alkl possible combinations of 6,000 different sounds. The vibration of the strings are transmitted to 18,000 nerve cells whose fibres communicate with the brain.

OBVIOUS CONCLUSION

These organs especially the heart are indeed vital in man, and because of them live is not only possible, nay with the ears (a pair) it also becomes much more meaningful - with senses that can appreciate sound.

The sheer complexity of the heart, connected to myriads of vessels - well-co-ordinated to synchronised the movements of blood - the oxyginated and the de-oxygenated; with connection to the lungs, anf the liver and spleen - surely would be astonishing indeed.

The organ of hearing, again this would be undeniably apparent, indicating of a designer that is appreciative of sound waves, and the functional needs of human. It is interestingly that our hearing organs are design just for man, because scientists would concede there are different levels or decibles of sound beyond which our hearing organs would not detect as these are inaudible to human. Imagine if there were no such limitation and we can hear them, our lives would not be peaceful.

Again, the question that need to be asked as in the quoted verse, i.e. to paraphrase the rhetorical question: "Were they created out of nothing? Or did they create these organs themselves?" Those who deny the existence of the Creator or Sustainer, indeed have not firm belief - but are guilty of 'kufr' (meaning 'concealment' or 'denial' of an obvious truth). Let them be warned:

وَلَقَدۡ ذَرَأۡنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ ڪَثِيرً۬ا مِّنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِ‌ۖ

لَهُمۡ قُلُوبٌ۬ لَّا يَفۡقَهُونَ بِہَا وَلَهُمۡ أَعۡيُنٌ۬ لَّا يُبۡصِرُونَ بِہَا

وَلَهُمۡ ءَاذَانٌ۬ لَّا يَسۡمَعُونَ بِہَآ‌ۚ أُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ كَٱلۡأَنۡعَـٰمِ بَلۡ هُمۡ أَضَلُّ‌ۚ

أُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ هُمُ ٱلۡغَـٰفِلُونَ

"Many are the Jinns and men We have made for Hell: they have hearts wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of warning)."

(Qur'an: Al-A'raf: 7:179)

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1. ibid. "God Arises - Evidence of God in nature and in Science" by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (The Islamic Centre, New Delhi -1991).

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