CHAPTER THREE
Choice and The Body
We
mentioned that man was not given the ultimate choice from Allah, only a limited
choice that best suits his mission in life and that coincides with the needs of
the law of Allah that He (SWT) assigned to man.
And now we
move to another area, the human body, to see whether the body is a property of
man that he can do whatever he wants with or whether Allah (SWT) wanted us to
know that the human body is owned by Allah and that we are only heirs of it in
our life time which is actually a testing period for us.
Most of the
parts in the human body, the parts that are related to life and its functionality,
and more are oppressed. For in our bodies there are many organs
that we know nothing about and we do not notice them unless they are destroyed
or infected, but as long as they function in a normal way we do not feel them.
First we
will start with those parts of the body that are completely subjected by Allah
(TWT) and then we move to those parts that are still subjected by Allah (Galla
Gallaloh) but that we have some kind of control over them.
If we look
to the life cycle in our bodies we find that we eat the food, chew it with our
teeth and then it goes through the esophagus to the stomach where it is digested
in a complex mechanical process. Then the food goes to the small intestine
where the nutrients that are the fuel of human life get absorbed and carried by
the blood to different parts of the body and then the body gets rid of the
waste through the intestine.
Starting
with the food, do we have anything to do with the reacting process taking place
between food and the body? Truly not, when the food reaches the stomach where
different enzymes are secreted upon it, it is a question of oppression, for no
one willingly tells his stomach to start secreting the required enzymes and no
one can stop the secretion of enzymes from digesting the food. It is a process
that takes place in our bodies and we don’t feel it. If we watch a movie
showing what happens to the food inside our stomach we will sure be stunned
from the divine power that made all those processes take place in the stomach
without man knowing anything about it. There have been a lot of people that
lived and died without knowing how their stomach digested the food or what were
the glands that secreted the enzymes necessary for the digestion process.
Then if we
move to the liver for example, that has main functions in the body, do we know
what the liver does? Do we feel it starting to work? Of course not, for the
liver is working in the body without us knowing or feeling that process and it can
go on like that for years as long as it is functioning in a normal way.
Do we know
what does the small intestine do? And can we make the heart beat or stop
beating when we want? And with the process of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange
taking place continuously in your lungs day and night, is it you that manages
that exchange? And the blood circulation that is taking place in your body, do
you know anything about it? The blood contains tens of the cells among which
are the red and white cells and many more, do you know about them?
There is
battles going on inside your veins, by the time the microbe enters the patient’s
body the white blood cells starts to face it by preparing the immune necessary
to kill the microbe and retain your health. Do you do that? Of course not for
that is all subjected to Allah (SWT), you do not know anything about it and if
you see it you are stunned that all those processes are taking place in your
body without you knowing anything about it.
And more
important is that you have no control what so ever over all those processes
taking place in your body, they do not take any instructions from you and you
cannot make them function or stop functioning and that is mercy from Allah
(SWT). For, if they were subject to your will, it would have been a big problem.
Imagine
that you are asked to order the heart to beat, the stomach to work and the
lungs to breath. Surely you will not have the time to do all this and even if you
have the time you will not be able to seek your living, improve your civilization
and apply the laws of Allah. You will not be able even to sleep and how can you
sleep when you are the one who orders the heart to beat, it will sure stop
beating by the time you sleep. And how could a little kid who still doesn’t
know anything, make those devices work without stopping?
To be continued....
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