Numerous organs and limbs...

Numerous organs and limbs, and various integral systems of sensing to form conceptions are bestowed upon you. Who has given you this very blessing of life and being? Did you yourself give it to your own self? It is clear that every rational person will unhesitately confess that this blessing is not from his own origin, but it has come from a knowing, mighty source, the One Who knows all its secrets and its complicated arrangements; and Who is able to design it totally.

In this case there will arise the question of why you deny the One Who has granted you life. Today, it has been proven by the scientists of the world that there is not anything more complicated than the phenomenon of life. Man has surprisingly gained a great deal of successful progress in the field of science, in general, and experimental natural science, in particular, but the secret of the riddle of life has not been uncovered yet.

This subject is so mysterious that it has remained inexplicable for millions of learned individuals whose thoughts and efforts have been left fruitless in conceiving it. Possibly, in the future, under the light of further scientific development, man will gradually become more acquainted with the secrets of life.

But the main question is: Can anybody ascribe such an extraordinarily delicate and precise phenomenon, which is full of mysteries and is in need of superior knowledge and power for itself, to the irrational nature, which itself does not have 'life' from its own ? That is why we say the phenomenon of life, in the world of nature, is the greatest evidence for the affirmation of the existence of Allah about which abundant books have been compiled.

The Qur'an, in the above verse, emphasizes on the very matter, too. After the citation of this bounty, it refers to another vivid example, i.e., the phenomenon of death. It says: "...then He will cause you to die..." Everybody usually sees that his relatives, kinsfolk, acquaintances, companions, and friends die one after another, and their lifeless bodies are buried in the soil. This actual circumstance is also a station of contemplation: Who took their beings from them?

If their beings were theirs by themselves, they would be eternal. When it is taken from them, it is further proof that life is bestowed upon them by someone else. True, the ' Bestower of life' is the' Bestower of death', as the Qur'an says: " He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed... ", (SurAl-Mulk, No. 67.