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Allah's Prophet (peace be upon
him) said:
“You see the believers as regards
their being merciful among themselves and showing love
among themselves and being kind to each other,
resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body
complains, the whole body shares (Tada`a)
the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever along with it.” |
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The Scientific Fact:
Intensive and successive modern researches revealed
marvelous facts about the interaction between the organs
of the human body when threatened with danger such as
injury or illness.
The researches also discovered strategies and functional
responses taken by the organs of the entire body
whenever one organ suffers from an injury or an illness,
and these responses differ according to the nature of the injury.
Soon
after the infection or injury takes place, sensory
centers start calling the control and alert centers in
the hypothalamus. This in turn calls upon the pituitary
gland to secrete hormones that call on the rest of the
endocrine glands to secrete their hormones, which urge
all the body organs to save the endangered (complaining)
organ. Therefore, it is a real complaint, and a true
call rather than a metaphorical one. The call, in this
case, means that every part of the body utilizes its
utmost energy to save that endangered part. The heart,
for example, starts beating faster to help the blood
circulate and reach the injured organ. At the same time,
the blood vessels in that injured organ contract, while
other vessels in the rest of the body expand in order to
send the required amounts of energy, oxygen, antibodies,
hormones, and amino acids to the injured part to help it
resist the infection or injury and to heal quickly.
The
body starts to collapse, i.e. by breaking up part of the
stored fats and proteins, in order to provide aid for
the injured organ. This constant flow of sacrifice
continues until the rescue process subsides, when the
injury or disease is under control, and the infected
tissues and cells are cured.
The
call from the injured or infected part resembles a real
call for help; the infected place releases neuro pulses
to the sensory and alert centers of the brain; moreover,
some chemical substances are released with the first
drop of blood that is shed or when a tissue is torn.
Then, all body organs respond in order to provide help
for the infected organ according to the nature of its
injury or disease. |
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Facets
of Scientific Inimitability:
What
is mentioned in the honorable hadith actually
happens, as all organs of the body call each other to
save the infected organ and the Muslim Ummah
should be like that: When an area suffers any
aggression, the whole Ummah should call each
other to come to its aid.
You
do not find a more accurate word than the word (Tada`a)
to describe the aching of one organ, so there is
linguistic, rhetorical, and scientific inimitability
present at the same time. The Prophet (peace be upon
him) told us what really happens inside the human body
without equipment or tools and using eloquent words and
rhetorical sentences.
What
is even more amazing is the fact that the name that
physicians call on the nervous system that interacts
when the body is infected or injured is: the lover,
kind, and merciful, which is the same wording of the
Prophet (peace be upon him) in the hadith.
Glory
be to Allah Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the
religion of truth
to make it superior,
and
Who supported him with miracles and eloquence. |
