Preface:
It is well understood, what human being is created from and through what stages he was developed. We have not examined, however, that all kinds of food, fruits and vegetables that he eats, are all, soft and mild. How can be that all these weak, non-matching things are transformed into to the body's flesh, bones, organs, limbs, and glands, causing the wasted energy of the body's organs to be restored?

In simpler words: a child, after he is born, drinks milk, but from milk comes the formation of the baby's bones, muscles, organs and limbs, and he grows. What is this mystery?

What machinery undertakes this process for the Wisdom of God Almighty? And how is this being undertaken? It is necessary to attentively look at this secret as well. And reflect deeply this key to the secrets of the management of His Irresistible Great Court, so that we may better perceive His Glorious Greatness, Perfection and Magnificence. Praise be to God.

1. Have you reflected? The intestines are flesh, but not of the same flesh as muscle. Likewise, the lungs are flesh, but not of the same flesh as the heart. Hair is not the same stuff as nails, along with other differences. On deeper examination, we find out that every part and piece of the body is made out of a separate and different thing. Each restores its necessary wasted materials out of the particular corresponding materials through the caravan of blood, especially during sleep.

How Most Gracious Most Merciful (Rahmaan er-Raheem), is the All-Knowing ('Aleem) and Wise (Hakeem) God.

2. Have you reflected? It is the inspection of blood's caravan which picks up all the above mentioned necessary nutritional requirements of the body. During its circulation, it provides each organ with its corresponding kind of nutritional requirement. It does this in a manner in which no interruption impedes the progress of its journey.

Do you deliberate, what particular perception and force does the blood circulation system possess that it knowingly provides things to their appropriate places?

Indeed, the Sublime Cherisher (Rabb ul-Jaleel), is Exalted He.

3. Have you reflected? What definite and required understanding has Glorious God given to this caravan of blood that it picks up the necessary requirements of each kind of organs and gland, then delivers them to the required places in proper measure. Meanwhile, this caravan does not create any interruption in its own circulation.

4. Have you reflected? Qualitatively, in animals, especially in mammals, the processes of delivering the nourishments by the caravan of blood circulation for the organs and limbs is very much alike, except that each animal is preparing his required energy from a different source.

How All-Seeing Hearer (Sama'e ul-Baseer) and the Aware Wise (Hakeem ul-Khabeer), is the Omniscient and Powerful God.

5. Have you reflected? Astonishingly, then, man restores all his wasted energy with the best of favors through this caravan of blood, but animals do the same from very limited and simple things, such as grass, oil cake and the like. The animals also add on to it, which are prepared for us in the form of milk with cream, butter, yogurt, and cheese and so on.

Indeed, the Powerful Self-Subsisting (Qayyum ul-Moqtadir) and Omnipresently Noble (Maajid ul-Haadhir), is Glorious He.

6. Have you reflected? As the blood to some parts of the body delivers some of these materials, they smoothly reappear in those areas after they are cooked, such as head's hair, beard's hair, nails, and some other organs.

No doubt, Exalted He is the True Witness (Shaheed ul-Haq) and the Absolute Strong (Qawee Mutlaq).

7. Have you reflected? As the required nutrition of each hair has been delivered under its reservoir by the caravan of blood, the nutrients, as time passes by, start getting cooked in a required manner. It starts appearing smoothly into the good form of hair, within a prescribed period. Man does not feel this process along with other transformations taking place in parts of the organs, glands, and other limbs.

How Great ('Azeem), Generous (Kareem), Omniscient ('Aleem) and Eternal (Qadeem) is He Who, has placed perfectly His management in each thing and existent in ordered ways. This will proceed until the end of the world, without any change.

Praise be to Allah, the Generous (Kareem).

8. Have you reflected? The hair is originally white, but the imperceptible Hand of power of Almighty God has colored it sufficiently black in His unseen dye-house. As soon as He Almighty commands the dying to stop, the hairs start appearing one after the other in their original color-white. We consider this as a sign of age.

9. Have you reflected? After the nutrients of the nail are delivered to it by blood, the machinery of the nails will work in such a way that flesh underneath the nail moves along with the nail in a circular form. The flesh takes the nail smoothly forward from its origin within a year or more or less becoming ready to be cut.

Verily, the Responsive All-Embracing (Mojeeb ul-Waasa'e) and the Great Exalter ('Azeem ur-Raafa'e) is Glorious He.

10. Have you reflected? If it happens that the origin of your nail has turned black or red due to dying or the discoloring effect of a stub, after some time, that particular spot comes slowly forward towards the end of the nail. Ponder! How does the nail slip on the flesh and come forward?

11. Have you reflected? The part of the body most sensitive against discomforts is the flesh underneath the nail. Hence, if this process was not accomplished in a rotational manner, then how could we ever accept that the nail would be slipping on the flesh and thereby going forward?

How wise, the Owner of Wisdom, is Glorious God, the Unique.

12. Have you reflected? In this process, if an edge of the nail is left behind from the periodic motion, it will ache. Some people say, it is due to drinking leftover water, which is superstitious. One can hardly feel comfortable until it is totally cut away.

Truly, the Evolver Creator (Khaaliq ul-Baaree) is He, Glory be to Him.

13. Have you reflected? Why does one move from one side to the other and from one position to another while in sleep?

Of course! After the blood has accomplished its task of restoring the deficiencies in the body's organs to some extent on the free side; then it informs the soul via the heart's computer to rotate the body in such a way that the person should not wake up.

Sure! He is the Equitable Gatherer (Moqsit ul-Jaama'e) and the Hinderless Bestower.

14. Have you reflected? Therefore, human being subconsciously rotates his lower side from the ground upwards, and the upper side downward. So that the side in need, will be free from body's pressure, and the blood may well restore its deficiencies.

How All-Knowing ('Aleem) and Great ('Azeem) is He, the Generous (Kareem) Lord.

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1 Scientific American, September 1993, p. 58.