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Learning about Allah from a
Science Book
When I arrived home from school
one day, my mother
asked me what lesson I had that afternoon. I told her that it was a science lesson, pertaining to
the digestion of food. The teacher asked us
if we knew about the gullet, the stomach
and the intestines, and also if we knew how
the digestion of food takes place. Since
none of us really knew about these things, the teacher told us to find out all about them for
tomorrow's lesson. Hearing this my mother told me to take out the
science book, and she took a large book from
her bookshelf. It had many diagrams. Then
we sat down to study these things
together. She pointed to one of the
diagrams. "Do you see this bag-like thing
here?", she asked. "The food we eat all
goes into that bag. It's called the stomach. Do you see how the food gets into stomach?" I looked closely at the diagram. "It must go through
this pipe". I said. "That's right", said the mother. "Its name is the
gullet and it connects the throat to the stomach.
And this pipe connects the throat to the
lungs." I looked at the diagram. The mother
said: "When we breathe the air it goes to
the lungs through this passage; do you know
its name ?" "It's called the windpipe", I
said. "That's right", said the mother.
"This pipe, is for the passage of food, and
this pipe is for the passage of
air." I then asked a question, "What would
happen if food went down the
windpipe?" Simple, my mother said: "We
would suffocate and die." "So how come I'm not dead," I replied. 'I never
knew that food mustn't go down the
windpipe'. "Ah", said my mother. The story
of how we swallow food is amazing. Look at
this diagram. See, the throat has four
passages. One passage leads to the nose, one to the mouth, one to the lungs and one to the
stomach. When we want to swallow food, only
the passage to the stomach must be open,
otherwise the food would get stuck in our
windpipe and we wouldn't be able to breathe. Therefore, our body has been provided with
two little flaps that enable US to breathe. One of
these shuts the windpipe, the other shuts
the passage to the nose. The one that shuts
the windpipe is called the epiglottis and
the one that shuts the passage to the nose
is called the uvula. We are entirely
dependent on these two flaps. With out
them, we would suffocate with our first mouthful of food. I'm glad I have them
too. I said, or else by now I would have
been dead. Then my mother said. "Do you
think that these two flaps came into
existence just by themselves?" I thought
about it for a moment, and then the answer became perfectly clear, and I told my mother; "No,
since both of them have a special job to do they
couldn't have just developed by chance. It
is obvious that a wise being has created
them for us." "Well done", said my mother,
"You are exactly right". Allah created us
and knew everything that we would need,
just as He knows everything. He knew that
we would need the epiglottis, for we must both eat and breathe at the same time; and He knew that
the food must not enter the windpipe. So He
created the epiglottis for us, and now,
whenever we wish to swallow a mouthful of
food, the epiglottis does its work and
automatically closes so the food stays out of the windpipe. We have been
created by Allah, the All-knowing and the
All-powerful. He foresaw all the things that we would be in need of, and He created them for us.
Let us look at another example. In the
stomach wall-which is a kind of lining in
the stomach-Allah created thousands of
glands. Each of these glands secretes a
special liquid onto the food we eat, and this liquid makes the food easier to digest. He also
created the intestines, and when the food leaves
the stomach it enters these intestines, and
there the food enters the next stage of
digestion. He created for us two organs
called the gall-bladder and the pancreas, and while the food is in the intestines, these
secrete some chemicals which make it easier
to digest the food.
"In the wall of the intestines He
created thousands of tiny glands which
again secrete fluids as part of the process
of digestion. Finally, when the food is perfectly digested, the intestinal wall picks out its essential
ingredients, and these are picked up by the blood
stream and circulated all round the
body. So you see, my dear, this
well-ordered and well-planned system of
digestion has obviously not come into
existence at random. No, indeed, Allah our Wise and Merciful Lord thought of it and created it for
our benefit. By eating our food we gain strength and energy
which enables us to stay alive. Allah has bestowed
this strength and energy partly through the
food we eat and partly through the
digestive system by which we digest it, and
in gratitude to Him we use this strength in
obedience to Him. We accept His commands, we refrain from !ins and crimes, bad manners and morals,
and we try to make Allah pleased with us and
grant us more blessings in this world and
in the Hereafter. Here is a diagram of the
intricate and orderly digestive system that
Allah knew we would need and created for
us. Is it possible that such a well-planned system could have come into being by chance? Write down the names of the parts of the digestive
system alongside the
lines.
