Abu Hurairah (Rad.) reported that Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) said that contemplation for one hour (sa'at) is better than worship for 60 years. Hadith.

In the subsequent matters, we draw your attention in such a way to the truths and manners of creatures coming into existence that, on the one hand, we grasp the essential favor of healthy organs that are created under the control of the Exalted Unique Being. On the other hand, it will fully become evident that if it were not for the supervision of the Sole Creator, as in the verse: "Then He fashioned him in due proportion," and if we were created by chance or spontaneously, we would definitely suffer the deficiencies described in the following discussion.

In the name of God, who opened the door of nothingness, and from it created billions of types of creatures, living, non-living and so forth, with incredible and rare forms and sorts, we start with the following matters. What would we have been if Almighty God had not brought us out of that nothingness, a state of non-existence, to create us in the best shape and figure?


Translation: "We have indeed created Man in the best of molds." (95:4Q)

If Divine Will was to create us, then ponder! What would we have done, had we been created in the category of inanimate entities, such as rocks, sand, mines, trees, fruits, grains, vegetables, and thousands of other like objects.

Let us submit that He had intended to create us as living entities.

What if we were created in the category of thousands of non-human organisms, on land or in the seas, such as microbes, mosquitoes and, at the very most, sheep, horses, goats, elephants or some birds or in the form of some other creatures? What would we have been then?

After all why O' man! Vicegerent of the Almighty Lord of the earth and heavens, don't you ponder that before your creation, the Exalted Most Gracious and Most Merciful had bestowed all these Favors unto you?!

Let us acknowledge that His Will was to create our selves in the form of mankind!

If Almighty God had created us amongst false religions, corrupt superstitious customs like fire-worshipping, Zoroasterism, and other doctrines, or even within the category of atheism and the denial of His Existence, what would have happened?

Why don't you reflect deeply, O Muslim! O Participant! in the militant (militant, the struggle against Ego) school of God of earth and time? What right did we have over Him that He eternally placed His Grace, unrequested, upon us? Now if we do something for His Happiness, how would He ever waste it!

If Almighty God had not endorsed us and given the aptitude to acquire knowledge, how could we ever come to perceive this very text and its resulting secrets and enlightenment? We should ponder! Let us look at the following.

In the process of coming from non-existence to our fathers' loins, and from there to our mothers' wombs millions of sperm cells like us from one of which we were created, the rest were eliminated. If Almighty God had eliminated and placed us in the line with those subject to extinction, what would have happened?

If Exalted God had created us in the womb with an ugly appearance, or with vision or other organs handicapped, what would have then happened?

If Almighty God had not taken the baby out automatically, with His compassion and beneficence from his mother's womb, despite its size and disproportionality at the "exit", and man were to take it out himself through an incision, would any woman be willing to have this done to her? If it were at all possible, there would be much hardship, and who would be capable of bearing this difficulty?

If we were eliminated, like other children of our age, through different diseases, made paralyzed, powerless, illiterate or ignorant, what would have then happened?

If Almighty God had not bestowed upon us to be raised in the warm bosom of our parents, or due to other mishaps we would have been desperate to do servitude to others' homes, what would have happened then?

If either the father or the mother goes away, and Almighty God had not turned our relatives and other people compassionate to guard us, take care of us and coach us toward higher education, how could we ever come to access this jewel-box of the secrets of the world of truth and reality, the purity of Islam and its jurisprudence? What would have happened then?

A lot of thanksgiving is needed!

What if the nerves in our body were not spread out like telephone lines? How many times a day would we have suffered numerous wounds from bits of rocks, wood, nails, needles, and other objects? Before we notice what is happening, the wounds might become black and decay. What would have happened under those circumstances?

If Almighty God had not given us memory, whether of things or words told to us, what would we use to recall and what portion would we recall when trying to relate. Taking and giving in communication would then come to a complete halt, and each person would have to encounter the other personally in order to be able to talk to him.

What If Almighty God had provided us with a limited intellect such as He has provided the animals, under the name of instinct, to know only how to reproduce, being vigil of enemies with some other limited characteristics, but no more than this? What would we have been and what could we have done in such a case? Verily, in this case, we would have been big monkeys in the woods or in the mountains or in the desert that our generation would have been completely extinct by now due to other animals' strikes such as lions, tigers and others?

If Almighty God had not oiled consistently the body and head's hair and given them unbreakable form, it would be necessary that we oil them ourselves, so that they would not break. What a situation! What kind of people would be employed in this kind of work, all trying to preserve personal beauty, but with what difficulty!

If Exalted God had made human body hairy like that of a sheep, what would have happened then?

If Almighty God had not automated human hair growth appropriately and within measure, the growing of each hair would be a task, which would fall on our shoulders. What would have happened and what would we have done under that circumstance, especially if we were unable to pull?

If Almighty God had caused the hair of the eyelid, eyebrows, and body to consistently grow like the beard, head and other organs, would we not be facing inconvenience pertaining to their cutting, styling and fashioning?

If Almighty God had not endowed humans with hair on his eyelids and eyebrows, do you know how awful the most beautiful Human would look like?

If the hair on the eyelid or eyebrow were breakable, needing to be oiled with regular or some standard oil, and forgotten about, they would simply break and fall. What situation and what an appearance we would have had!

If Almighty God had not created the inner lens in the eye that enlarges the object's image, or if we could see only as big as the pupils we have; how many hours would we spend rotating our head so that we could scan a one meter spot. How could we have managed then?

What if Almighty God had not automated a required, consistent wetness in our eyes, and our eyelids did not automatically blink? Could you imagine in that case what would have happened and what would we have done? Well, each individual would always have needed clean cotton and q-tips in order to clean one's or friends each other's eyes whenever these became unclear and dark from the environment and work. In this case, superb eye cleaners would be needed, since inexperience could cause wounds to the eyes or blindness.

What if there were nobody available in the valleys or deserts, how would eyes have been cleaned? Or, what if we had to wait for someone to clean our eyes so that we could see our way. There are expert ear-cleaners in some countries that have special dress and instruments. But the eyes are much more indispensable and their cleaning is more delicate.

If Almighty God had not made human eyes powerful and energetic vis-a-vis sunlight, and we were like bats in our holes during the day, coming out only at night, what would our condition have been like?

If Almighty God had given us only one eye and located that on top of our head, how would it have been then and how difficult it would have been to see our way and to work!

If Almighty God had not made our nose and ears from cartilage, can you see that every night our ears and nose would be broken? We may have had to sleep on our backs making sure not to turn sideways or face least our ear or nose broke.

If Almighty God had made our hearing sense so weak as to prevent us from hearing the talker who does not speak directly in the ear, what then, and how would our conditions be?

If Almighty God had not grown nasal hair, imagine our breathing dust and dirt, or if it were too thick, what difficulty we would face if gland secretions had stuck all the hairs together; It would have stopped the breathing passages altogether.

If Almighty God had made us proboscidian (possessing a trunk like that of an elephant), how would an expensive suit look with this appearance?

Ponder what a favor from the free favors of the Omniscient and Wise, Disclosed and Undisclosed, the Almighty God, is our blessed appearance.

Translation:"We have indeed crated Man in the best of molds." (95:4Q)

If the teeth did not possess this peculiar nervous sensitivity and cleverness, how many pieces of stone we would be chewing on while eating, although doctors say there are no nerves in bone? If God Almighty had created human teeth out of one bone piece - First, what would have happened to the beauty of the mouth with its teeth? Second, we would be compelled to remove that one piece of bone if ever we felt a toothache. Then what would have happened and what difficulty would we be facing? Pulling out of the lower or upper jaws is not a simple task.

If Almighty God had given man a beak like that of a bird instead of a mouth, so we would not be able to eat anything but grain, then what would have happened? What suffering we would face, if we ever ate?

If after putting food in our mouths, we had to push our jaws up and down by means of our hands, how difficult it would have been and what would have happened?

What if Almighty God had not given the tongue two peculiar eyes and unique sensitive perception to be used during the chewing process to take the morsels from the left to the right and push them under the molar teeth, placing them there? It does not do this job just once, but repeats every time we chew. It collects food from around the mouth, and takes it to be chewed under the molars and other teeth. Reflect upon this perfect order of creation in each organ, could it ever be possible without a Prudent Artificer? No, never.

If the tongue were not operative with awaken, fully vigilant "eyes" in the cave of the mouth, its half would be somewhat injured and come under the teeth every time we ate. We would have to perform this task with our fingers, provided they are in the mouth during chewing; hence they would be injured during the first or second attempt. Ponder how this eyeless piece of flesh was given eyes? It does its work in the darkness of the mouth, while both right and left molar teeth are active. It avoids going beneath the teeth.

If God Almighty had not endowed man with the capability of speech and writing, what difficulty would his searching intellect have to meet? For he wished to talk and could not, or his order or command to be carried out somewhere far away but was unfamiliar with written communication. So what should he have done and how could he solve the problem, which existed far away, what would have happened then?

If food by God's command did not go down our throat automatically, we would have to push it down for each other using, for example, a skewer. Then, what would have happened? What would have been our condition?

Is this system spontaneous?

Ponder! Does the claim that creation came about by chance, or that Almighty God does not exist, have any sense except for being a wheel within the wheel, or the hands of control or power behind curtains?

If, during the descent of a morsel of food, the epiglottis did not automatically lock the trachea's inlet, what problems we would have been facing pertaining to a morsel reaching the stomach? Reflect on how the epiglottis in the throat is acquainted with the performance of this task. Is it still appropriate for man to consider the creation of this entire universe as coincidental, with the absence of the Almighty Creator? The answer is negative.

If Almighty God had not placed the heart in the thorax, but had created it outside the thorax, with its connections with the inside of the body through arteries and veins, how impossible would it have been to save the organ from accidents and other mishaps? How would we have fared in trying to protect it?

If we had to execute the heart's pumping, pressing it constantly, what difficult a task it would have been and what would have become of us, and how would we have handled it while at work and business?

What if there was no pumping of the heart and it did not keep circulating blood throughout the body? Indeed blood would go downward after a few hours' walk, and then we would have to lift up our legs and wait a while until blood comes rushing toward the head and chest. Then what would have happened, what would we have done, and what would have been our conditions?

Ponder well! Are all these organs filled with these mysteries created spontaneously? As some say so, and deny the Almighty Great, Omnipotent and Self-Existent God.

If Almighty God had not given man, hands and fingers, then what condition we would be in now and how would we transfer things to our mouth?

Do you know that the flesh from the beginning of the nail to its end grows periodically, taking the nail from its beginning to its end forward. Then from there it subtly separates from the nail so that we do not notice it. Subsequently, it takes its reverse cycle from the end to beginning of the nail.

As an evidence to this truth, you might have observed that the beginning of the nail that has turned red or has become black after being struck, especially if it is located at the root of the nail. After a short while, approximately six months the black spot has gradually risen reaching the end of the nail.

Hence, we must ponder that if the nail were to slip over the flesh and come forward, naturally underneath the nail having the most delicate sensitivity to pain, indeed we would feel an intense discomfort or at least notice the separation of nail and flesh. No pain, or processing related to this action, is, however, noticeable to us. These processes well convey that the flesh underneath the nail is circulating along with the nail letting the nail reach the end and then it takes the reverse cycle towards the beginning of the nail. Therefore, a piece of flesh from the finger side, if separated and left behind from the flowing process, aches. It bothers us and makes us feel uncomfortable unless we cut it.

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1 Michael Denton, Evolution:A Theory in Crisis, London: Burnett Books, 1985, p. 334.
2 New Scientist, v. 103, 16 August 1984, p. 19
3 R. L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 1990, p. 9
4 William A. Dembski, Converting Matter into Mind, 1998