When a man took a look at himself, and considered the judgement of the Gentle, the Knower, Who, when He created the body, specified for every organ its position and assigned to it its function. Imagine the stores which Allah designed to gather the waste material and hold it, so that it does not stay in the body and spoil the rest of the organs. The wisdom of his development and the abundance of parts, without any looseness or disharmony! If a goldsmith or sculptor had made a statue of gold, silver or copper and then wanted to enlarge it, could he do that without first breaking the statue and recasting it?
In contrast, Allah develops a child's body and its external and internal organs and all its parts, preserving all the time its appearance and shape, not disintegrating, not loosening, and not diminishing. Even more telling is the shaping of the embryo in the womb, where no eyes see it, and no hands touch it and no machines handle it! When he emerges he is a normal human being, with all that is requisite for his survival and progress in life: organs, senses, internal mechanisms, limbs, vessels, nerves, ligaments, membranes, and bones; all of various shapes, sizes, functions and positions; the flesh, fat, and brain with their intricate structure and subtle creation, revealing unfathomable judgement and splendid craftsmanship! It is all developed by the Best Creator from a drop of almost worthless liquid!
The world is a village and a believer is its chief. Everyone is eager to work in his interest, and everybody has been directed to serve him and endeavour to run his errands. The angels, who are bearers of the Compassionate throne, and those around it, pray in his favour; the actors who are assigned to accompany him protect him; the angels who are entrusted with rain and plants work hard to ensure that he gets his allotted earning, and they work for that; the orbiting bodies of heaven are obediently moving to fulfill his needs; the sun, moon, and stars run dutifully in their orbits so that he may refer to them in setting his times and schedules, and in taking care of the expenses of his property; space is subservient to him - its winds, air, clouds, birds and the rest of its creatures; the earth is all controlled to be in his service, to fulfil his needs - its land, mountains, seas, rivers, trees, fruits, plants, animals and all that exists on it.
When a man took a look again of himself; reflecting on the great wisdom of the All-Knowing Creator as attested by his creation. Thought of the senses which are like windows from which to observe things around him. He saw how the Lord had caused most of them to be in the head, like lights placed at the top of a light-house, to explore things. He did not place them in organs that are exposed to rough jobs like the hands and feet: otherwise they would have received injuries that result from actions and movements; nor in organs in the middle of the body, like the belly or the back, for it would be uncomfortable for him then to turn to things and perceive them. Because no other organ is fit to hold the senses, the head was deemed to be apt to hold them, being the fittest and finest part of the body. It is the shrine of the senses.
Then observed the wisdom of making the senses five, to counterpart the five types of stimuli, and so no stimulus is left without a sense organ to react to it. Vision reacts to visible things, hearing reacts to audible things, smell reacts to the various scents, taste reacts to the various tastes, and touch reacts to tactile stimuli. Is there any perceptible thing left without a sense to perceive it? If there were, man would have been given a sixth sense to react to it. As the rest of things can be reacted to by the internal organs, He bestowed on him the internal senses. This system is so comprehensive that they say of a deep thinker: he uses his five to counter six, meaning that while he has only five senses, and the directions are six, his mind is so active that it helps the five senses to cope with six directions in his eagerness to search for answers."
Then physician smiled, he uttered, "Glorified be the Lord, who bestowed on man all aspects of honour: mind, knowledge, expression, speech, appearance, good looks, impressive aspect, fair stature, the acquisition of sciences through inference, reflection, and the upholding of righteous, decent ethics, such as loyalty, obedience and responsiveness. There is a world of difference between his state as a drop of clotted blood inside the womb, and his state when the angel will come to greet him in the Gardens of Eden! Our Lord! Accept this from us. For Thou art the All-Hearing, the All-knowing."
[Part 1]"It is He who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot; then He brings you out as a child; then [He develops you] that you reach your [time of] maturity, then [further] that you become elders. And among you is he who is taken in death before [that], so that you reach a specified term; and perhaps you will use reason." - [QS.40:67]
[Part 2]
Reference :
- Capt. Anas Abdul-Hameed Al-Qoz, Men and The Universe - Reflections of Ibn Al-Qayyem, Darussalam
