God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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‘Verily, in cattle there is a lesson for you. We give
you to drink of what is inside their bodies, coming
from a conjunction between the contents of the
intestine and the blood, a milk, pure and pleasant
for those who drink it.”
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In
The Bible, the Quran and Science
, (p. 196,197) Dr.
Maurice Bucaille explains that “the constituents of
milk are secreted by the mammary glands. These
are nourished as it were by the product of food
digestion brought to them via the bloodstream.
Blood therefore plays the role of collector and
conductor of what has been extracted from food
and it brings nutrition of the mammary glands, the
producers of milk, as it does to any other organ. He
writes:
“Here the initial process which sets everything in
motion is the bringing together of the contents of
the intestine and blood at the level of the intestinal
wall itself. This very precise concept is the result of
discoveries made in the chemistry and physiology
of the digestive system. It was totally unknown at
the time of the Prophet Muhammad and has been
understood only in recent times. Harvey made the
