Islam As It Is
man, know theyself!
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Let us take the first proposition. Consider the
corpse of a man who has died of heart failure. All
its elements are still arranged in the same order as
they were a few minutes beforehand, no significant
changes having taken place. But those elements are
now lifeless. The corpse is still an “orderly
elemental manifestation.” but the soul which once
inhabited it has now departed. This shows that the
organization of elemental matter neither creates nor
sustains life. We all know that it is not just those
who have been torn limb from limb in accidents
who die. People of all ages and in all states of health
regularly pass away, and it frequently happens that
doctors cannot say—particularly in the case of
strokes, heart failure, etc. — why a patient should
have died at that particular point in time. It so often
happens that a man is perfectly healthy one day and
is dead the next. Life, we must concede, is a
separate entity from the body.
As for the second proposition—the creation of a live
human being in a laboratory—scientists are the first
to admit that this is a sheer impossibility. They say
this, although the body’s chemical formula and
atomic structure are well-known. Its carbon is the
