Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala also adorned the mouth with teeth, a handsome and agreeable sight to look at, a vital contributor to human survival and the tool of nourishment. Some of the teeth are tools of grinding, and some are tools of cutting. The Almighty made firm their roots, and gave sharpness to their edges. He gave them a white colour, and arranged them in two straight well-arrayed rows, like a necklace of pearls in their whiteness, purity and splendour. Curved over the teeth are two walls, the lips, which have a number of benefits and functions. The Lord has willed that the lips have an agreeable colour and shape, a nice position and appearance. He destined them to be a keeper of the mouth, a final and finishing station for the uttering of sounds, in the same way that the soft palate is the starting station and the tongue is the middle station.
The tongue is the most active organ in the production of letters, since it functions as the mediator. In His infinite wisdom, Allah disposed that the lips are just flesh, without bone or nerves, so thai a human may use them for sipping drinks, and have no difficulty in opening and closing them. He confined movement to the lower jaw which, as the lighter jaw, is more adapted to movement, and also because the upper contains precious organs that should not run the risk of movement. He destined humans' throats to be of infinite variety in narrowness and width, coarseness and smoothness, softness and hardness, and in length and shortness. In consequence of this, there is an endless variety of voices, in such a way that very rarely do any two voices resemble each other. An offshoot of this is that we believe a blind person's witness is legal, since he can distinguish people from their voices in the same way that a sighted person can distinguish them from their looks: the possibility of confusing sounds is similar to the confusion of looks.
Allah adorned the head with the hair, making of it a cover that is essential for the head; and adorned the face with hair at various locations and of various shapes: there are the brows, which protect the eyes from what might descend on them from the skin of the head; and He made them curved, agreeable to see. The eyelids are adorned with eyelashes, A male's face is further adorned with the beard, which gives integrity, dignity and venerability to the man; and his lips are also adorned with the moustache above and the beard below.
The hands are another wonderful creation of our Lord. They are a human's main instrument, weapon, and the means for earning a living. The arms are long enough to reach all parts of the body, and the palm is wide enough to fold and spread. It is provided with five fingers, and each finger is further divided into three phalanges, except the thumb which has two. The four fingers are placed in such a way that the thumb faces them, and so it can meet any of the fingers. It does that splendidly well. The hand can.
No two fingerprints of any two humans are identical in the whole world, or over the span of history. No two people in all the billions of humans now on the surface of the earth have identical fingerprints, and none will have in all the future of mankind. There is a law of biology, which is that nature, a creation of Allah, never repeats itself in the sphere of plant, animal, or man. The secret of fingerprints is accounted for by a hundred features of the fingerprints, by which their details are so numerous that it would be quite overwhelming to imagine the possibility of two prints being identical, whether between two persons or between two of any of the ten lingers of the same person. Not even twins have identical because of this fact, be efficient in spreading and tightening, and in doing what it has to do.
No other position of the fingers can be imagined to be as good, not if all mankind from the earliest times until now met to think of an alternative position. Glorified be He Who destined the hand to be in this form: He could as easily have chosen to make it like one plate, and a human would in that case not been able to carry out many tasks and actions and exact jobs like writing. He spreads his hand, and it will be a plate on which he puts things, and he closes it, over a club or another tool of strength; or he half-spreads it, and then he will have a scoop, which can be filled with a variety of things.
Then look at yourself, and think : Who took such great care of you - since you was a foetus in the belly of your mother, in a place where no hand could extend help to you, and no eye could reach you? You had then no way of seeking food or fending for himself. Who caused the mother's blood to supply you with the nutrients that you needed, as a plant is nourished by nutrition-rich water, and how was that blood turned into milk? He sustained you in the narrowest of places, least capable of providing or gratifying his needs; He supplied you until His creation was consummated and brought to its perfect destination. When your skin was judged to be strong enough to be exposed to air, your eyes strong enough to meet the light outside, and your bones were sturdy enough to withstand the touch of hands and life on earth, your mother had the labour that ushered him out into the world of ordeals, with all its attendant hardships.
It was then that your mother's womb ejected you in a way as if it had never embraced you, as if it had never held you from the day it accepted you as a drop until the day of ejection. It once used to enjoy having you in its fold, and now it screams in pain, and complains to the Lord about the burden that is you. So Who allowed you in it in the first place? Who made it enfold you and protect you until you grew to the right stage? And then He opened that gate and expanded it, for you to exit in the twinkling of an eye? You were not suffocated with its narrowness, and you were not held by the hardship of your passage through it.
In His vast judgement, Allah willed that man emerge from his mother's belly knowing nothing, a blank that has no intellect, no comprehension and no knowledge. This is really His mercy, since man, in his frailty, would not stand thinking, comprehension and knowledge: they would have shattered him. He rather evolved that gradually in him, step by step, so that it does not overwhelm him should it come in one blow. It grows in him little by little until it is fully grown.
That he entered this world as a dullard who understands nothing, who knows nothing about what people engage in, has been sheer mercy and deep judgement; since he encounter things with his feeble mental power and without prior knowledge of things, and then his mental power and knowledge grow steadily and slowly, until he became familiarized with things. Man practices things, and gradually overcome his bewilderment at them; then he stops being surprised and amazed at them; he begins to receive them with confidence, acting on them and taking control of them. There is even more to it than this. Who, then, is keeping such a close watch over man, keen to attend to his progressive needs, requisites, desires and tools at the time of their arising, not before and not later?
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