The brain’s flawless system is, by itself, sufficient for us to realize His sublimity. It contains more than 100 billion nerve cells. In order for us to perceive, see, and feel our surroundings, communication has to be established among these 100 billion nerve cells. This is done by somehow making a total of 100 trillion connections.

The means by which this astonishing level of communication is established are exceedingly effective. A special fluid located between the nerve cells contains certain highly specialized chemical enzymes that make electron transport possible. When the electrical signal reaches a nerve ending, electrons are loaded onto these enzymes and then transmitted to other nerves by floating through the fluid between the nerves. The electrical current thus continues to flow by passing on to the next cell. This process takes place in microseconds and with no interruption in the electrical current.

If one of these enzymes fails to perform its function, the transmitted message cannot reach the brain. In other words, although you were looking at your hand, its image would fail to reach your brain.

Moreover, if the enzymes stopped functioning for any reason, the brain’s 100 billion nerve cells would also cease functioning. If these enzymes decided to distribute the massage randomly rather than taking it where it needs to go, the resulting disorder would overturn the entire sensory system and paralyze contact with the outside world.

Every nerve in the brain and every enzyme, protein, and electron is the work of Allah. The example described here is just one of the countless details created by the One Who controls all entities at every moment and enfolds them with His mercy at all times:

It is Allah Who created the heavens with no support–you can see them–and cast firmly embedded mountains on Earth so that it would not move under you, and scattered about in it creatures of every kind. And We send down water from the sky and make every generous species grow in it. This is Allah’s Creation. Show me, then, what those besides Him have created! The wrongdoers are clearly misguided. (Surah Luqman, 10-11)
 

The superior Creation inside the mechanisms of protons and neutrons which are inside the atoms, the basis of cells and the quarks inside these is such as to amaze everyone, believer or not.

Air, water, mountains, animals, plants, your body, the chair you sit in short everything you see, touch and feel, from the heaviest to the lightest is made up of atoms.

Every page of the magazine you hold in your hand consists of atoms. Atoms are such small particles that it is impossible to see one even with a microscope. The diameter of an atom is only one in a million of a millimeter.

It is not possible for a human being to visualize this smallness. So we can try to explain it with an example:

Think that you have a key in your hand. No doubt, it is not possible to see the atoms inside this key. If you say that you want to see the atoms, you have to maximize the key to the size of the Earth. If the key in your hand is maximized to the size of the Earth, only then each atom inside it reaches the size of a cherry so that you can see them.

Let’s give one more example to comprehend this smallness and to see how everywhere is full of atoms:

Let’s think that we want to count all the atoms of a single grain of salt. And assume that we are fast enough to count one billion (1.000.000.000) per second. Despite this remarkable ability, we would require more than five hundred years in order to determine the number of atoms inside it.

So what is inside such a small structure?

Even though it is such small, inside the atom there is a perfect, unique and complex system that can be compared to the system in the universe.

Every atom is composed of a nucleus and electrons that turn around the orbits far away from the nucleus. There are also particles called protons and neutron inside the nucleus.

Perfect Structure of Quarks

Until 20 years ago, it was supposed that protons and neutrons are the smallest particles that form the atom. However, at a very near date, it was discovered that there are smaller particles that form these particles inside the atom.

Following this discovery, a field of physics called “particle physics”, which explores the sub-particles inside the atom and their movements, came up. The research done by particle physics has brought about this: The protons and neutrons that make up the atom are composed of smaller particles called “quark.”

The size of the quarks that compose the proton, which is far smaller than the human mind can comprehend, is even more astonishing: 10–18 meters. (0,000000000000000001)

Quarks inside the proton cannot be drawn away from one another so much; because the “strong nuclear power” that hold the small particles inside the nucleus together takes affect here as well. This power acts like an elastic band between quarks. When the quarks draw apart this power grows and two quarks can only drift 1 meter away from one another at the most. These elastic bands between the quarks are formed as a result of gluons that carry the strong nuclear power. The quarks and gluons are in strong communication with one another. But scientists have not yet discovered how this communication takes place. (Harun Yahya, Miracle in the Atom)

Several researches are being done in the field of “particle physics” in order to illuminate the world of particles. But mankind can only recently discover this substance that forms everything in spite of all the intelligence, consciousness and knowledge he has. Moreover, as he goes further inside this substance, he becomes stuck at the 10–18 m threshold of this particle. So what is under this threshold?

Today, scientists suggest various arguments about this subject, but as we have mentioned above, this threshold is the final point of the physical universe. Everything that will be found under this can only be expressed with energy, not with matter. The real important point is that in this place where human beings have just came to discover, vast balances and physical laws work like a clock. In addition this place is the inside of the atom that is the building stone of all matter and human beings.

People are just recently aware of this perfect mechanism that work every second in the organs and systems of the body. The mechanisms of the cells that make up these systems have been discovered in the last ten years.  The superior creation inside the mechanisms of protons and neutrons inside the atoms of cells and the quarks inside these is such as to amaze everyone, believer or not. The most important subject to think about here is that this perfect mechanism works smoothly without any interference by and out of the control of a human being, every second of his life. It is an explicit fact for people with intelligence and conscience that all these are created by Allah Who has superior power and knowledge and controlled by Allah. It is revealed in the verse:

“Everyone in the Heavens and earth requests His aid. Every day He is engaged in some affair. So which of your Lord’s blessings do you both then deny?” (Surat Ar-Rahman, 29-30)
 

A person who heeds his conscience as commanded in the Qur’an behaves scrupulously in earning Allah’s approval.  He always thinks in the way, “How can I earn Allah’s approval at the most?” He never seeks the approval of other people or thinks about his status in their sight. He completely turns to Allah.

On the other hand, some people live religion not by using their conscience, but as their forebears have advised by tradition and custom. They perform prayers, apply the things they memorized and content themselves to these. But it is impossible to live morality of religion without using one’s conscience. Such people have chosen a life style that seems to be “appropriate to religion” only because they are used to living like this, or because they don’t want to run counter to the community they live in. Therefore, such people have the logic of not “what I can do most for Allah”, but “what I can do more to make people believe that I’m religious.”

A person who heeds his conscience thinks how to perform his every prayer and action in the best way possible. He tries to find the most of everything as much as his strength and mind allows him, in order not to let any attitude or speech of his to pose a risk in the Judgment Day. Because he knows that he is going to get return for his actions in the Hereafter. Thus Allah warns people about this:

Perform prayer and give the alms. Any good you send ahead for yourselves, you will find with Allah. Certainly Allah sees what you do. (Surat Al-Baqara, 110)

An example of a person who seeks the best and the most in every task he does can be given from the Qur’an, as with the command “to tell the best of words” among believers:

Say to My servants that they should only say the best. Satan wants  to stir up trouble between them. Satan is an outright enemy to man. (Surat Al-Isra’, 53)

Someone who is aware of this command of Allah would say the best by using his conscience. He does not tell the first thing that comes to his mind by not caring.  On the contrary, he would perform the most impressive and influential speeches, and pay special attention not to hurt or offend other people. He chooses the words with which he thinks Allah will be pleased the most, and uses his conscience as a key to doing that.

In another verse Allah divides people into three groups with respect to their devotion to religion:

Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some of them wrong themselves; some are ambivalent; and some outdo each other in good by Allah’s permission. That is the great favour. (Surah Fatir, 32)

As it is revealed in the verse, some people do not live the morality of religion. And some of them live in a middle way since they are not able to use their conscience to the fullest. So they don’t abide by all the things that their conscience tells them, but only by some of them. They may not follow their conscience when it contradicts their interests. For example, they use only some of their time for religion, when they have the means to use all of their time and means. They don’t put serious effort to spread religion and good morality among people. They see themselves as religiously sufficient, as they perform some of the prayers and abide by the rights and wrongs. However, the most conscientious way to live is to choose and perform the most righteous and beautiful behavior within the rightful set of attitudes. Allah also praises those who follow the best of the words in the Qur’an:

Those who listen well to what is said and follow the best of it, they are the ones whom Allah has guided, they are the people of intelligence. (Surat Az-Zumar, 18)

The third group is composed of those who compete to achieve a finer, better behavior, so such people follow the commands of their conscience to the most.

Further they compete to perform good deeds. They throw themselves into every service and charity work. They never wait for someone else to do the work. On the contrary they put themselves forward and demand the work. Their conscience does not accept to aim for less when they have the means to do better.

Another example of choosing the best alternative possible can be given from the Surat an-Nisa. In the Surah, Allah commands us to consign things to people who have the authority and ability about the subject:

Allah commands you to return to their owners the things you hold on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with justice. How excellent is what Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (Surat An-Nisa’, 58)

The thing to be consigned can be a task, a responsibility or something of value that needs to be protected. For example, if the consignment in question is a piece of furniture, then to consign it to the most careful, honest and levelheaded person is the best implementation of the verse. When there is a task or responsibility to be given, the most knowledgeable, experienced person, shortly the person who can take this responsibility to the end in the best way possible must be chosen. Choosing a less talented or less knowledgeable person would mean that another interest might have been overseen. Closeness of a person in terms of blood line or gaining another interest in the future might have been considered instead of trustworthiness of the person. And this is the common course of actions in society. Relationships of interest are of priority. However, it is a command of the Qur’an to search for the best and the most right behavior in every subject.

As it is seen, conscience requires people not only to believe in Allah and to accept His existence, but also the engage in good deeds in order to earn His good pleasure and also to be very conscientious in performing these deeds. But a majority of people assume that it is sufficient to believe in the existence of Allah. Such people are revealed in some verses of the Qur’an as follows:

Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’ They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard against evil?’ That is Allah, your Lord, the Truth, and what is there after truth except misguidance? So how have you been distracted? (Surah Yunus, 31-32)

As seen in the verses above, these people believe in the existence of Allah, and even accept that Allah is the One Who gives them their livelihood, Who creates and kills them and that He is the Creator and Owner of all things. They use their conscience for that much of understanding and find it sufficient for their devotion. However, someone who uses his conscience at most can appreciate the Mightiness of Allah and so fears Him with a feeling of respect. This is a different kind of fear than the other forms of fear commonly known by people; the fear of losing the pleasure of Allah. The whole life of a person who possesses such a fear passes with the effort to earn the pleasure of our Lord. He knows no limits to getting closer to Allah. As a matter of fact, Allah gives the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) as an example in the Qur’an:

Who could have a better deen than someone who submits himself completely to Allah and is a good-doer, and follows the religion of Ibrahim, a man of pure natural belief? Allah took Ibrahim as an intimate friend. (Surat An-Nisa’,125)

A person who acts only with the guidance of his conscience makes an effort to understand and appreciate the Almighty Allah as much as he can and to become a close friend of Allah. However, since he can never be sure that he ensured the highest level of devotion or closeness, his desire and effort to achieve that continues till he dies.

So we may think about how “closeness to Allah” and “being a friend of Allah” can be achieved. And the key to that is our conscience.
 

In the world that we live in, a person comes across beauties wherever he looks. He observes the things that he sees with great admiration. The human body with its flawless Creation, millions of kinds of plants, the sky full of clouds tons in weigh and many more things are created in an aesthetic way to give pleasure to the soul. Many details that a person feels by his senses other than his sense of sight give him pleasure, whether it is a nice smell, a taste or a nice rhythmic music.

A fruit hanging from a tree branch appeals to everyone with its splendid smell and taste. Similarly the structure and colors of a flower at different tones are exceptionally delightsome. Or a beautiful human face wins the admiration of everyone. Or a nice house and a top model car are the means demanded in this world. A person admires these and much more during his lifetime and wants to own them. However, he becomes surprised after he looks at these things mentioned later on. Because he sees that all these beauties have lost their meaning and even turned into a condition that he does not even want to see.

For example, a fruit slowly begins to blacken in a little while after being picked, and loses its beautiful smell. Then it decays and beings to give off a bad smell. A person brings flowers, which attracts her with its vibrant colors and charming smell and puts them in a vase; but one day later the colors of the flowers begin to fade and lose its liveliness and freshness. After 2-3 days the flowers are all blackened and decayed. A person would have difficulty in even recognizing someone whom he thinks has the most beautiful face in the whole world, after 60 years. That beautiful person has grown old, her face is full of wrinkles and her hair is all white. In short, there is no trace of her previous beauty. The house is worn out, the car’s model is out of date and some parts of it tend to rust. As a result, everything that people see around have a tendency to wear out in a short amount of time.

This comes as “a natural process” to most people. But there is a very deep meaning hidden in here. Everything around us give us an important message by continuously being destroyed, getting old and decaying. This message is the fact that the world is a temporary and deceitful illusion.

The most important of all is that all of the animals, plants, human beings, meaning all living beings in the world are mortal. Another reason for someone not realizing this great fact is that new human beings and animals are born to replace the dead and new crops grow in nature every year. Someone who does not realize this truth values temporary things too much and risks a great deal for them. He lives with the desire to “own” the things he wants. But Allah is the only Owner of all. Living beings exist for as long as He wills and dies or disappears at the moment He wills.

Allah revealed several examples in the Qur’an for people not to be deceived by this specious side of the world and to think about this truth:

The metaphor of the life of this world is that of water which We send down from the sky, and which then mingles with the plants of the earth to provide food for both people and animals. Then, when the earth is at its loveliest and takes on its fairest guise and its people think they have it under their control, Our command comes upon it by night or day and We reduce it to dried-out stubble, as though it had not been flourishing just the day before! In this way We make Our Signs clear for people who reflect. (Surah Yunus, 24)
 

The relativity of time, discovered by 20th-century science, was revealed 1,400 years ago in the Qur’an.

For example, Allah emphasizes in several verses that the life of this world is very brief. Our Lord has informed us that the average human life span is as brief as “an hour of a single day”:

On the Day He calls you, you will respond by praising Him and think that you have only tarried a very short time. (Surat al-Isra’, 52)

On the day We gather them together—when it will seem if they had tarried no more than an hour of a single day—they will recognize one another. . . (Surah Yunus, 45)

In some verses, Allah reveals that time is much shorter than people imagine:

He will ask, “How many years did you tarry on the Earth?” They will say, “We tarried there for a day or part of a day. Ask those able to count!” He will say, “You tarried there for only a little while, if you did but know!” (Surat al-Muminun, 112-114)

In other verses of the Qur’an, it is revealed that time passes at different speeds in different dimensions. For example, it is stated that one day in the Sight of Allah is equal to one thousand human years. (Surat al-Hajj, 47)

Other verses on this subject read as follows:

The Angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is fifty thousand years. (Surat al-Ma‘arij, 4)

He directs the whole affair from Heaven to Earth. Then it will again ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the way you measure. (Surat as-Sajda, 5)

The Companions of the Cave, a group of believers to whom Allah refers in the Qur’an, were kept in a profound slumber for around 300 years. When Allah later woke them, these people thought that a very short period of time had elapsed, and were unable to estimate for how long they had slept:

So We sealed their ears with sleep in the cave for a number of years. Then We woke them up again so that we might see which of the two groups would better calculate the time they had stayed there. (Surat al-Kahf, 11-12)

That was the situation when we woke them up so they could question one another. One of them asked, “How long have you been here?” They replied, “We have been here for a day or part of a day.” They said, “Your Lord knows best how long you have been here.” . . . (Surat al-Kahf, 19)

In the following verse, Allah also reveals an important proof of the fact that time is essentially a psychological perception:

Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He asked, “How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?” Allah caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life. Then He asked, “How long have you been here?” He replied, “I have been here a day or part of a day.” He said, “Not so! You have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and drink—it has not gone bad—and look at your donkey so We can make you a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones—how We raise them up and clothe them in flesh.” When it had become clear to him, he said, “Now I know that Allah has power over all things.” (Surat al-Baqara, 259)

These verses reveal that time is relative rather than absolute. It varies according to perception and the observer, and that fact was revealed 1,400 years ago in the Qur’an.
 

The brine shrimp (Artemia) maintains its life only in natural salt lakes or human-made salterns. This environment with high rates of salt where only some red bacteria and a type of unicellular algae can live protects it against enemies. However, this environment cannot protect it against flamingos. You can see the brine shrimp or its relatives in everywhere that you see flamingos.

Artemia, which does not have any defense organ, easily falls prey to flamingos. Even though the living being seems to be defenseless at first sight, it is actually not so. Allah created a perfect system for these living beings to spread and reproduce.
 

Artemia’s flawless reproductive strategy

The eggs of artemias are covered with a very thick and flexible layer. Even if a mature artemia is eaten by a flamingo, flamingos are not able to digest the artemias in the egg sac. So the eggs can be carried to all the suitable locations on the migration paths of flamingos.

Artemias need flamingos since the very first day of their Creation. Because the artemia has neither the necessary waiting time process to develop its eggshell nor the amount of time needed to explore the flamingos. The diet of flamingos and the reproductory mechanisms of artemias are all created together in a single moment.

Eggs designed to endure even the most difficult conditions

Artemia normally maintains its active life in the santern at a degree of 6-35°C. However, most of the time the weather in santerns can be colder or hotter than this temperature range. So, how can artemias maintain their lives in the santerns under these variable conditions?

Mature shrimps begin to form their thick-walled, winter eggs beginning from the last days of autumn. These eggs can go through even the most severe winter periods. This is because the eggs miraculously produce a glycerin that acts as natural antifreeze in their bodies. The winter eggs can endure both cold temperatures at -273°C and hot temperatures at +100° C. (Harun Yahya, the Micro World Miracle)

These characteristics of eggs have ensured that artemias maintain their species to our day.

Artemia synthesizing hemoglobin by changing oxygen levels

Mammals and generally vertebrates choke to death when they stay in an environment with low oxygen levels. However, artemias do not have such problems. They can solve this problem through a special mechanism created in their bodily systems:

Artemia can maintain its life in extremely hot and salty waters where dissolved oxygen levels in water is very low and even on crystallized salt stacks, by its ability to regulate the density of hemoglobin (a molecule that carries oxygen in our blood veins like a truck) in blood. This mechanism is based on its ability to synthesize low levels of hemoglobin in densities of high dissolved oxygen and to synthesize high levels of hemoglobin in environments with low oxygen. This living being with these formidable characteristics does not have intelligence. It is surely impossible to claim that artemia has explored the glycerin that enables it to endure temperatures lower than 6oC or has designed the system to adjust the hemoglobin density and placed it in its body.

The only explanation to make about these characteristics of artemias is that Allah created this living being. Our Lord Who is the Owner of Everything and Who created everything as He wills, created these beings with different features. By this means, artemias are able to maintain their lives even in the most difficult conditions.

We have made it an Arabic Qur’an so that hopefully you will use your intellect. It is in the Source Book with Us, high-exalted, full of wisdom. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 3-4)
 

The brain contains a pea-sized organ that weighs around 0.5 grams (0.017 ounce) and, amazingly enough, supervises and regulates the entire body. Known as the pituitary gland, this most complex, flawless, and vital administrator distributes jobs to countless hormones and monitors each one, all of which have their own appointed tasks, without interruption.

We move our heads and arms, see, hear, smile, speak, and touch all at the same time. We remember what people have said to us and analyze things. All of the sensations that reach us and our movements take place by means of hormones. The pituitary gland enables hundreds of processes to take place simultaneously, flawlessly, and without delay. There is no question of any hormone running late; being unable to transmit the messages that reach them; or, apart from exceptional cases of sickness, of hearing what a person who is talking to us only after several minutes have passed; or of not feeling the sensation of being burned before the burn appears on our hands. This is because the tiny pituitary gland, which consists of protein, water, and fat, flawlessly carries out all of its tasks because Allah, the Lord of the worlds, wills it to do so.

Anything that any entity does occur only because of His will, for nothing is independent of His power and control. When Allah so wills, He manifests His Own might and greatness as He wills through a particular entity that He has created. Everything we see or do not see, but that we know about, is a separate manifestation of His infinite Greatness:

That is Allah, your Lord. There is no deity but Him, the Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything. Eyesight cannot perceive Him, but He perceives eyesight. He is the All-Penetrating, the All-Aware. “Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment. I am not here as your keeper.” (Surat al-An‘am, 102-04)
 

The universe’s dimensions and distances far surpass human understanding. Numbers that are very large in earthly terms are, in fact, minute when the universe as a whole is considered. For example, the universe is estimated to contain some 300 billion galaxies. Our own Milky Way galaxy, which is just one galaxy, contains about 250 billion stars. The diameter of the Sun, an average-sized star, is 103 times greater than Earth. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, is some 78,000 km (48,467 miles) distant from it.

Space and the billions of galaxies contained within it, the secrets of which are still a mystery, move in their determined courses and influence each other by means of enormous gravitational forces. With the giant scales involved in this magnificent universe, all of its contents act according to a destiny that has been determined for them. Each one’s movement, rotational speed, temperature, and distance has been determined in the Sight of Allah, Who creates a tiny creature, invisible to the naked eye, in the depths of the ground. The One Who appoints its destiny is also the One Who perfectly creates the giant stars and keeps them, as well as all that exists, constantly under His supervision. Allah demonstrates His might and greatness in both instances.

No matter what we may study on Earth and in the skies, we will always be confronted by His sublime and impeccable artistry. No entity can acquire any attribute by chance or maintain the existing order and balances by chance, for all of these are under the control of a sublime and boundless intelligence: Almighty Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
 

The ear of the Praying Mantis acts like an early intelligence system against bats ready to attack. By this means, the bug is able to immediately escape his enemy by an effective maneuver in spite of the speed of the bat.  This system in the Praying Mantis works like the electronic systems in war crafts. There can only be one explanation of such a complex system: Creation.

Dr. David Yager, one of the neurologists that examine the sound and hearing systems in living beings for many years in University of Maryland, found that a bug called the Praying Mantis had a very special hearing system that did not exist in any other living being. (Yager, D.D. and Hoy, R.R. (1986) The cyclopean ear: A new sense for the praying mantis. Science 213: 727–729) The latest experiments made on the bug have resulted that the hearing system of the creature is far more complex than previously thought.

The Praying Mantis is a bug that has only one ear. This single ear is in between the leg bumps on the bug’s chest. With this ear, they can hear sounds with high frequencies like more than 20.000 hertz that cannot be heard by human beings. This ultrasonic ear is a very effective early warning system against bats. Bats send sound waves around. These waves that hit the objects around them and return to the bat act like a sort of ultrasonic radar. This ultrasonic radar is very useful for finding their routes and searching for prey. The locations of moving creatures are easily determined by the bat.

The Praying Mantis also has a similar ultrasonic system and they can easily sense the existence of a bat with the use of these ultrasonic radars. The bat and the Mantis are like war pilots equipped with high technology, able to watch each other’s movements on the radar.
 

Scientists who examine these two creatures with superior creation realized that a bat attacking a Mantis has begun to emit signals with increasing frequencies as it got closer to the bug. And they observed that the Mantis kept its position, despite the oncoming danger, until the ultrasonic signals coming from the bat reached to a certain frequency. In the moment that both are in the air and the bat is about to crash the Mantis, the Mantis lunged downwards and ruled out the bat’s attach with a difficult dive. This sudden maneuver looks just like the maneuver a pilot makes when trying to escape from an oncoming war craft.

When the Mantis quickly comes down, it draws spiral lines in the air by turning in the air and keeps flying by finding its balance just before crashing the ground. The low maneuver ability of the bat prevented it from chasing it downwards.

The scientists, who observed this examined how the Mantis was able to make such a sudden dive. In order to understand what is going on with the hearing and nervous systems of the bug, they placed elect rots on the nerve cells of the bug. They swing the Mantis with elect rots on its head from the ceiling and let loose a bat. They measured up the signals sent from the hearing organ of the Mantis to the brain.

While observing the signal records, scientists found something very surprising. According to this, the hearing nerve is deactivated just before 300 milliseconds (millisecond is one in a thousand of a second) before the crash and the signals from the ear to the brain is cut off. (National Geographic; Praying Mantis Uses Ultrasonic Hearing to Dodge Bats, 19.10.2002) Following to halt of the signals, the Mantis begins the dive and is saved from being prey.

The scientists think that the auditory nerves in the ear give the command for a sudden dive.

Allah creates in a unique way

The Mantis’s ultrasonic ear that does not exist in any other living being is a perfect example of superior creation. The ear that turns the sound waves that come from the outside world into electric signals, the nerve cells that communicate these signals to the brain and the brain make the system work in complete harmony.

In order for the system of the bug to work, all organs have to exist in one and the same time, in a perfect manner and in complete harmony with one another. In the case of the absence of any one of these it is impossible for the system to work.

Allah Who created the world and millions of living beings in it from nothing and Who is the Lord of all that exist, created the Mantis bug with all the systems it possesses in a perfect manner. Allah reveals in the Qur’an:

“He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs. He does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly.” (Surat al-Furqan, 2)

Fake flowers of the forest: Mantis

As the Mantis bug protects itself against enemies with the use of this ultrasonic ear; it uses this superior characteristic also for hunting. The Mantis that preys on little bugs determines how far the living beings are from them through their ears. The Mantis camouflaged in a leaf motionlessly catches them with a sudden attack when the prey gets close.

They are known as the fake flowers of the forest because of their sophisticated appearances. For example, a type of Mantis called the Hymennopus opens up its bottom arms and raises its oval shaped tail up to imitate the leafs of a flower shaped like a crown. As a result, it cannot be distinguished from the flower it sits on. No doubt, the Mantis being such a superb expert of camouflage is not by coincidence. Allah created this living being, together with millions of other beings, with a special structure and brought into existence by the command of “BE.”
 

The nutcracker has the most powerful avian memory so far identified. Native to the large Rocky Mountains in North America and the Grand Canyon, it lives on pine nuts that are edible for only a few weeks in September. Therefore, it stores them for later consumption. The distance between the pine trees and the storage site may sometimes be as much as 20 km (12.4 miles). It buries the nuts by placing them in the hard soil in a single movement; sometimes it leaves a stone on top as a marker. Over the course of three hectic weeks, the nutcracker collects nuts constantly. As it flies, it remembers the land’s contours, the trees it has visited, and the rock faces, all of which it adds to its mental map.

The nutcracker has to remember where it has buried 100,000 nuts along a portion of the Grand Canyon that measures hundreds of kilometers throughout this short but productive period. This is how it survives for the rest of the year. During winter, it has to remember the markers like a photograph, because the snow changes the landscape and renders the markers invisible. Nevertheless, it manages to locate 90% of the buried 100,000 pine nuts.
 

It is impossible for a bird to know that the food it needs will not be available after a certain period of time and that it has to collect and hide enough to survive. How did it learn how much food to collect at which time, where to store it, and how to find all of the 100,000 pine nuts again under the snow? Yet it does all of these things flawlessly, for like all other living entities, it acts according to Allah’s inspiration. Only the supervision and assistance of its Creator and the One Who inspires it to do certain things enables it to find its stored food, which has become invisible, without difficulty.

This amazing creation of Allah, Who observes all created entities and showers unlimited, boundless, and unknowable mercy upon them at all times, is plain for all to see. The details exhibited in such a tiny bird once again reveals His Might and greatness in the finest manner possible.

How many creatures do not carry their provision with them? Allah provides for them, and He will for you. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (Surat al-‘Ankabut, 60)

When you look at these lines, an electric current traveling at 500 km per hour (310.7 mph) begins moving from your eyes to your brain by any of its 600,000 nerves. When the current is transmitted, you begin reading the lines before you.

The eye is linked to the brain by 600,000 nerves, which simultaneously receive and arrange 1.5 million messages at the same time and send them to the brain at 500 km an hour (310,7 mph). When you look at a single point, you actually see hundreds of different details that the eye distinguishes from all of the massages reaching it and then analyzes and forwards to the brain. While this book you are holding is quite close to you, the scene you see in the background is, at the same time, comparatively far away. And yet you see both of them with the same clarity, for not a single point in your line of sight is overlooked or unclear. No matter how detailed the view you are looking at is, even the image of a small ant that happens to be in your line of sight reaches your brain.

No camera or television could provide such a high degree of clearness, and so all man-made technology is inferior to the human eye. If people are deprived of this blessing, they will be unable to see anything until this system is restored. And that can only happen by Allah ’s choosing.

This special blessing, created for human beings while they are still embryos, is a gift from Allah, Who is always needed and from Whom aid may be hoped for at all times:

Say: “It is He Who brought you into being and gave you hearing, sight, and hearts. What little thanks you show!’ (Surat al-Mulk, 23)
 

Today there are many scientists who examine the structure of materials or living beings in nature and use them as reference to their work. Solidity, lightness, flexibility and chemical characteristics of the materials found in nature have led scientists to imitate the structure of these materials. Many materials and characteristics of living beings that we come across in everyday life grab the attention of scientist and these materials are studied to be imitated.

Lubrication system that prevents suffering pain while moving

Some of our bones that are constantly in action require a different kind of support with respect to the bones in immobile zones. We can give our joints as an example. In every move, the vertebrae that make up our spine, joints in our legs and hands turn on top of one another. Since they are constantly in action, they need supportive systems.

For example, when mechanical equipment is working, there is friction and corroding at the contact points of mobile parts. In order to prevent this, lubrication is required in every mobile mechanical system let it be a simple door hinge or a high-tech automobile engine. However, lubrication does not completely prevent friction, it only delays it.
 
Even though they move constantly during the course of one’s life, joints of human beings and animals do not require any maintenance or lubrication. Friction surfaces of the joints are covered with a thin and spongy layer of cartilage and there is a dense liquid under. From which point the bone pressures the joint, this liquid squirts from the pores and ensures the surface becomes slippery like oil. As it is seen, there is a completely perfect Creation for a human being to be able to move.

A very effective disinfectant: Tear

Tear, which most people assume to be “salty water that runs out when you cry”, is actually a very special liquid. Its first task is to protect the eye against microbes. The “lysozyme” enzyme inside is able to break up many types of bacteria and to kill microbes. The eye is protected against infections through lysozyme. This substance is even more effective than the substances inside strong disinfectants used to clean buildings from microbes. And how does such a strong disinfectant not harm the eye and on the contrary provide perfect protection? This is the superior artistry in Allah’s Creation. The tear is created in the most appropriate way with respect to its chemical structure. This perfect coordination that exists in every point of life, is also valid for the eye and tears.

There is also a lubrication system in the eye. This system prevents the eye that turns toward four different directions for one hundred times, from getting harmed as a result of these movements.

Protective Layer

Covering surfaces is very important in terms of ensuring protection against dirt and friction. It is especially important to do this against water leakages that can leak in and rot soft timbers. Many protective materials that people use in everyday life have already been used by living beings in nature heretofore. Timber cover is only one of these. The chitin layer that covers insects is one of the materials that set an example for covering timber surfaces.  Chitin is very light and thin, but also very strong and flexible to act like a skeleton. No water can leak in thanks to the special covering material on top. It does not leak the liquids inside the body to the outside.

Monumental Cleanness in the Swamp

The Lotus plant (white lily) grows in muddy and dirty environments but their leaves are always clean. This is because when even the smallest speck of dust reaches it, the plant immediately shakes its leaves and pushes the dust specks to specific points. The rain drops that fall on the leaf are directed towards these points and thus are made to sweep the dust there.

This characteristic of the Lotus plant has opened up new horizons for researchers about the design of the surface of a new building. Researchers have begun to work on building surfaces that clean the dirt by using rain water like the Lotus plant. As a result of this research, a German company called ISPO manufactured a coating material called Lotusan. This product launched in Asia and Europe is guaranteed to “keep itself clean for 5 years without the need for any detergent.” This silicon based coating dye called Lotusan imitates the Lotus plant from which it got its name as well as its system completely. According to this system, on the surface there are small bumps 5-10 micrometers (one in a thousand millimeters) high and 10-15 micrometers far from one another. As a result, there is a bumpy surface composed of wires and 0,1 micrometers wide. When looked from the outside, this shape of the surface that looks flat but in reality is bumpy as covered with wax, prevents the water drops to touch the surface and lets them flow down with the help of their own weight.

Many living beings in nature possess a variety of features that protect their surfaces. No doubt, the surface structure of the Lotus plant, the chitin layer in bugs, tears or the liquid that makes us move easily by preventing friction in our joints have not form on their own. It is the Almighty, All-Knowing Allah Who created them with all their features and with a perfect structure.

“He is Allah – the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.” (Surat al-Hashr, 24)
 

Every being Allah creates has flawless creations. For example, a fruit tree or any other plant possesses a level of intelligence, knowledge and technology so high that cannot be reached with the technology of today.

It is amazing that information hidden inside a seed contains everything about the plant it will form, its shape, structure, characteristics, colors or numbers of its leaves, if it bears fruit then the characteristics and structure of these fruits.

Beside the diversity of taste and smell, fruits are a miracle in terms of aesthetics. Their being suitable for one’s palatal delight, supplying what the body needs with the vitamins they possess is only some of the wisdoms of Creation in fruits. In addition, every fruit that has a specific taste and smell also has a very aesthetic appearance and attractive colors.

The “packages” of fruits such as orange and banana, regarded as mere fruit coat by most people, are tremendously beautiful and easy to peel.

The tastes and smells of fruits are also spectacular. For example, orange could have been tremendously bitter or it could have had a nice taste, but an awful smell. Its color could have been the color of mud. However, every fruit has the most beautiful color and smell that can be, and they produce these tastes and smells with the substances they gather from the soil. But soil has a smell far more different that all the fruits and it tastes bad. Yet trees digest the substances they require from this pile of mud and produce tastes and smells through chemical processing.

The smell and taste information in trees

There is also another miracle besides these. This miracle, which in reality is very complex, is the question of how these trees know these tastes and smells. Because, concepts like “good taste” or “nice smell” belong to people and a tree cannot know whether a taste or smell is good or bad by itself. It needs to possess aesthetic notions such as palatal delight and nice smell like human beings to know this. A human being needs to learn which combination he likes, which taste he prefers or what kind of anatomy his tongue has. After learning these, it is to do what we have just mentioned and perform a perfect chemical processing with the substances it gathered from the mud.

This flawless ability of the tree is not limited to smell, taste or color. Trees that look like a piece of wood, also know what kind of vitamins the human body requires and places those in the fruits they produce. And as we examine more closely, we see that this vitamin reinforcement is arranged according to seasons: fruits such as orange, tangerine, grapefruit in winter months contain much more vitamin C with respect to summer fruits. The purpose here is to supply people with vitamin C against cold.

Now how is it that a tree that looks like a piece of wood ‘knows’ all these?

If we tried to form tree leaves in an artificial environment, we would have to go into a great deal of effort. For once, it is impossible to produce the taste produced by the tree; there is no invention that grows fruits from soil yet. The only thing that can be produced with today’s technology is smell. We can produce the smell of a fruit after heavy processes in a laboratory. Perfumes are produced in this way. But perfumes are not completely artificial; all perfumes are produced using the nectars of plants with nice smells. Mankind does not have to ability to produce nice smells of trees or plants, in spite of all the intelligence and technology present. Therefore, in a fruit tree or a plant, there is a very high level of intelligence, knowledge and technology, which cannot be reached by mankind.

There is only one explanation of this situation: Almighty Allah Who has perfect and superior wisdom, infinite knowledge and power created the trees. One of the tasks of trees is to provide fruits for people and they accomplish this task with great success since the first moment that Allah created them. They bring out the most delicious and savory eatables of the world out of the brown-colored unsavory soil. Allah reveals in the verses:

“A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from which We bring forth grain of which they eat. We place in it Gardens of dates and grapes, and cause springs to gush out in it, so they may eat its fruits – they did not do it themselves. So will they not be thankful?” (Surah Ya Sin, 33-35)
 

“He Who created you and formed you and proportioned you” (Surat al-Qiyama, 38)

Why “spiral” shapes that exist throughout the universe are the structures that astronomers work on the most?

What is the vital importance of this mathematical layout in the universe?

Even though there are billions of celestial objects constantly moving, the fact that there is no collision between them clearly shows us that the universe was created with a special calculation and knowledge. Because each event that occurs in the universe and the results of these events can be understood not only through observation but also through mathematical and physical calculations. Thus, there is an order shaped by mathematical knowledge and the most important indicator of this is the geometric layout of the universe. As a geometrical shape, wherever it is revealed, has to be based on specific measures and calculations, it indicates the presence of a superior knowledge and order. Planets being in the shape of “sphere”, moving in their orbits shaped like “ellipse” and galaxies that contain millions of stars shaped as “spiral” or “elliptical” are some of the striking examples of the geometrical layout in the universe.

Equiangular Spirals Found in Galaxies

The most important geometric shape seen in the universe is the “spiral” layout. The spiral layouts of galaxies are the main structures that astronomers work on and examine the most. Since two thirds of the galaxies in the universe are in the form of spiral, this shape is the most common form of galaxy. A spiral galaxy rotates around itself constantly and in the meantime gravitation and centrifugal force are in balance. Because of this balance, billions of stars in the galaxy are not dispersed into space while the galaxy spins around, and stays together in an orderly way. The galaxy does not rotate to each side simultaneously like the wheel of a car. Its center rotates faster than the edges. As a result, it forms a spiral shape that expands outward from the center. Scientists, who examine this shape, have found that sensitive mathematical balances have emerged depending on the shape of the galaxies.
 
Structure like the Golden Ratio Found in Nature

The investigations reveals that the spiral arms of galaxies are density waves rotating at a fixed angular speed. This shows that the spirals of galaxies have the same geometrical basis as the equiangular spirals seen in nature. For example, astronomical investigations show that the Milky Way Galaxy, in which the Solar System is found, has the geometrical features of the equiangular spiral shape.1 Swedish astronomer Carl-Gustov Danver also investigated these special shapes of the galaxies and stated that these are logarithmic spirals (equiangular).2
 
How does the Spiral Shape Enable Balance?

The balance between the physical forces in the spiral-shaped galaxies is very astonishing. A galaxy grows by intensifying towards the mass center by the effect of gravitation. Since the increase in mass center also increases the gravitation here, the center of the galaxy, will begin to rotate more rapidly to compensate for the centrifugal force and gravitation. Moreover, the center rotating more rapidly also prevents the condensation of the center of mass. Therefore, for the whole system in the galaxy to stay in balance, there is the need for a special mechanism that slows down the particles in the center and speeds up the ones on the edges. This mechanism is made by the “equiangular spiral shape”. Because, equiangular spiral arms have the right shape for such a function.3

Allah creates out of nothing

As it is seen, many galaxies being in the form of equiangular spirals actually has a vital importance for these galaxies to physically stay in balance. It is amazing that the equiangular spiral shape based on the golden ratio in plants and marine creatures living in the seabed are also seen in most galaxies in deep space. Also the spiral seen in galaxies, just like the spirals in plants and shells of some animals, fulfils a very important function as they provide the structure to be balanced and compatible.

There is no doubt, that the order and balance in the universe have not gone wrong since the day that the universe existed is one of the evidences of Allah’s infinite power. Our Lord Who has the power to create everything in a complete and flawless way, also created the golden ratio in such a unique and functional way that this ratio brings a perfect aesthetic and functional beauty and balance to every system in which it exists in a way that arouses one’s astonishment. In one verse of the Qur’an, our Lord reveals that:

“Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the Sun and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both Creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.” (Surat Al-A‘raf, 54)

SOURCES:

1 J.P. Vallee, ‘The Milk Way’s Spiral Arms Traced By Magnetic Fields, Dust, Gas and Stars’, Journal of Astronomical Society, Volume; 454, s. 119-124
2  William Hoffer, ‘A Magic Ratio Recurs Throughout Art and Nature’, Orion, s. 36
3 J.P. Vallee, ‘The Milk Way’s Spiral Arms Traced By Magnetic Fields, Dust, Gas and Stars’, Journal of Astronomical Society, Volume; 454, s. 119-124
 

After a little while, we will be able to charge the batteries of radios, watches and cellular phones with a device, which we will plug into not a power plug but a box of sugar. This is not an assumption. A new potential provided by microorganisms with perfect Creation.

Today a number of methods are used for energy generation. Most of these are based on fossil based fuels such as coal and petroleum. Because coal and petroleum are not spread throughout the world, generating energy with these methods is not always possible. Besides, facilities that generate energy by using these need huge investments.
 
A method developed in the University of Massachusetts Amherts, is a candidate to solve all environmental and investment problems about energy generation. Professor Derek Lovley and researcher Swades Chaudhuri have generated electricity by using a characteristic in the Creation of bacteria with a scientific name called “Rhodoferax ferriredunces”. This microorganism generates electricity that can be transferred directly onto elect rots by using carbohydrates. The only side product manufactured during the generation process is carbon dioxide.

Lovley says these about the discovery they made: “Microscopic fuel cells that try to convert sugar into electricity are very profitable. In the past, only 10% of the fuel can be converted into electricity, this rate is over 80% now. Also, in previous methods used to convert carbohydrates into electricity, medium systems, which have a poisonous effect on people, were required. The organism that we found does not need a medium, because it attached itself directly on the surfaces of elect rots. This is one of the biggest advantages. People did this without a medium before, but conversion rates were less than 1%. In addition, it is a great advantage not to use any kind of poisonous substance in electricity generation.”

Bacteria carries out a series of chemical processes in order to generate electricity. Scientists summarize this process as “using the oxygen in iron oxide for oxidization of sugar and harvesting the resultant electrons.” Energy generated by this method has the capacity to “light up a 60 watt lane for 17 hours using a bowl of sugar.” Scientists can now generate electricity out of bacteria enough to make a calculator work. Lovley says that in case of using a receptor, to which better conductors and more bacteria can be attached, higher capacities of energy can be generated.

Food with carbohydrate is rich in terms of energy. There is such energy in the waste of Industrial organizations and houses. We benefit from food with rich energy for our bodily functions, but our current level of technology is not sufficient to use food to engage power plants. On the other hand, we are faced with waste as an environmental problem.

Scientists now learn methods from bacteria that will weight them off and make them useful. Rhodoferax bacteria teaches human beings who have the experience and technology of years, something that could never been achieved till now. In the face of this reality, there is the question of how they have this information. Of course it is not possible to accept that a single-celled being acts with consciousness and intelligence.

Bacteria “are capable of doing more than the activities of a laboratory”, according to a statement made by English Zoologist Sir James Gray. Gray’s statement about this subject is: “A bacteria is more complex than any unloving system known to human beings. In this world, there is no laboratory that can compete with the biochemical activities of this smallest living organism.”

It is the All-knowing Allah Who inspires bacteria to move in an intelligent way and carry out complex chemical activities. This matchless artistry demonstrated in a single cell is only one of the evidences of our Lord’s superior creation. Allah reveals in the Qur’an:

“…He is the Knower of the Unseen, Whom not even the weight of the smallest particle eludes, either in the heavens or in the earth; nor is there anything smaller or larger than that which is not in a Clear Book.” (Surah Saba’, 3)


SOURCES:

1-) http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn1122.html&dynoptions=doi1063386622
2-) http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation /IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3368,00.html
3-) http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation /IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3368,00.html
4- Bu araştırma ABD, Donanma Araştırma Bürosu ve Savunma Bakanlığına bağlı proje araştırma ajansı tarafından da desteklenmektedir.  
5- Sir James Gray, The Science of Life, chapter in Science Today, 1961, sf. 21
 

People’s skin is in constant contact with many things for varying lengths of time (e.g., clothing, watches, and furniture), and yet they do not constantly perceive their presence. There is a very important reason for this: after a certain length of time, the skin’s receptors grow used to whatever is touching the skin and stop sending the relevant signals to the brain. This marvelous system, comprised of countless flawless details, enables people to live without constant discomfort.

Were it not for this familiarization system, even such an ordinary matter as wearing clothes would become a major concern. The receptors’ constant perception would turn wearing clothes into a torment, and we would find it hard to perceive the signals from other things that we touched. People might concentrate forever on how much their socks were squeezing their ankles or on how their wristwatches were sliding up and down their arms. In such a situation, one could neither sleep nor rest properly. In short, life would become very unpleasant.

Just as the sense of touch is a blessing, our gradually decreasing awareness of it is also a blessing. A single detail makes human life easier and provides a significant degree of comfort. Evolutionists’ imaginary mechanisms have no consciousness that can direct the body to feel or when to get used to that feeling. Only the Sufficient, Almighty Allah, Who bestows this blessing and meets the needs of everything that exists, can do so:

Any blessing you have is from Allah. Then when harm touches you, it is to Him you cry for help. (Surat al-Nahl, 53)
 

The fact that conventional energy sources will soon run short according to many of the calculations, that this type of sources endanger the environment on a large scale in an irreversible way, that the need for conventional energy sources is increasing every day, that they remain incapable of nourishing developing technology, and most importantly, that oil is a scarce and expensive fuel...

All these reasons cause the search for new energy sources today. As a result of this, there is an increase in the diversity of new energy sources. The common aspect of these resources is that they do not bring about adverse effects to the environment in the short and long term. Here we have searched for you, one of those resources nominated by scientists as the most important energy source of the future, ‘biodiesel’, which is derived from vegetable oils…

Raw Material of Biodiesel: Canola Plant

Biodiesel, which has a very important place as it does no damage to the environment and lifts external dependence of national economies, is made from a small plant with a height that does not exceed one meter and with yellow flowers of which width is only 10 to 12 millimeters. This plant grows spontaneously in nature, is named "Canola". Canola plant that has very deep roots is extremely useful for the soil. The fact that one seed of canola contains 38-50% fat, 16-24% protein, is rich in terms of oleic and linoleic acid content and the boiling point of its oil is high (238° C) makes it an important oil plant. Oil obtained from canola is low in cholesterol, so heart-friendly.

In areas with inefficient irrigation facilities canola can be planted after planting wheat. The most important feature is that a purely natural fuel called biodiesel can be manufactured by mixing the plant's leaves used in the production of mustard, waste of animal fats or garbage such as processed waste like food waste. The biodiesel fuel produced completely natural. From 3 tons of canola plants, 1.2 tons of vehicle fuel can be manufactured.

Why is Biodiesel Fuel is Preferred?

Biodiesel energy source launched to the market in 1992 has a great potential in establishing a new sector. The main reasons for this can be listed below:
 

• Biodiesel can be used directly instead of fuel.
• It has the efficiency of a fuel close to diesel.
• It can be derived from animal and herbal oils.
• Energy agriculture (agriculture of plants used in energy production such as canola, soy) has the potential to result in employment and set up a market.
• It is an environmental fuel as it decreased carbon dioxide level by 78%.
• Biodiesel, which is an alternative fuel to environment-friendly diesel engine, is the cheapest alternative fuel that can be used in diesel engines.
• Since 1987, hazardous substances like lead, sulphur and paraffin are not used in this new fuel, which can be used in diesel engines without being processed, just like diesel vehicles manufactured in European countries and the USA.

The Scale of Air Pollution Caused by Diesel Fuel

According to the results of the research report published by the E.U.; in a study with the same amount of diesel and biodiesel diesel, diesel fuel consumption leads to 3.2 kg of CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions whereas biodiesel consumption leads to a decrease of 2 - 2.5 kg and the levels reaching 0.7 kg.

Advantages of Biodiesel

* It can be stocked in the stocking conditions of petroleum diesel.
* It can be manufactured in small facilities locally.
* Biodiesel prolongs motor life as it is a better greaser in comparison to petroleum diesel.
* Biodiesel is an easy to carry and stock fuel. In addition, it has a high point of enflaming (149°C). This value is 125°C for petroleum diesel.
* Rate of unburnt hydrocarbon is lower than petroleum diesel by 90% and carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons by 75-90%
* It removes dependence on import as production can be completely local.
 * By putting importance on canola and soy production, farmers produce the cheap diesel fuel that they need themselves and also economy is supported by increased strength and capacity of production.

Importance of Using Biodiesel for the Environment

Biodiesel is derived from chemical reactions of alcohol with vegetable oil. But the real thing that emphasizes biodiesel is that it can be produced from waste oils and organic waste. This not only reduces costs but also ensures that environmentally harmful substances are re-evaluated. Biodiesel can be used in any diesel engine as pure or after being mixed with gasoline. Experts state that even a mix of 20% biodiesel and 80% diesel would decrease carbon monoxide emissions that cause global warming by 21%, hydrocarbon emissions by 47%.

CONCLUSION

Biodiesel, as one of the renewable energy sources*, will be more on the agenda as an alternative to diesel fuel in the future as it contributes to the country's economy, to the decrease in the country's external dependence, to prevention of air and environmental pollution, to the protection of the world’s fossil fuels.

Like many blessings, solutions provided to us for energy problems are one of the blessings of Almighty Allah with His superior art of creation.

This plant, which our Almighty Lord with infinite mercy let grow in dry soil in the future, is seen as one of the solutions to the world's energy problems. The uniqueness of Our Lord’s creation is revealed in the Qur’an as follows:

 “He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens grow – you could never make their trees grow…” (Surat an-Naml, 60)
 

*What are Renewable Energy Sources?

Renewable energy is defined as the "energy source that is available in exactly the same condition the next day in nature's own cycle" is defined as. Fossil fuels widely used today, are non-renewable energy sources that end when burned. Though natural sources such as hydraulic (water), solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean currents are renewable energy sources as well as clean.

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Allah gives people knowledge and possibilities in a wide range of fields. For example, modern-day technology allows us to observe the formation of many things in a laboratory environment. However, some fundamental events can neither be brought about nor even observed in such an environment. One of these great blessings is water, which covers much of Earth and meets our most basic needs. During the Earth’s formation, water was created, and then its production period ended.

In order for hydrogen and oxygen molecules to create water, they first have to collide so that their bonds will weaken and enable the atoms that make up these molecules to combine into a new molecule: H2O (water). Such a collision can only occur at a very high temperature and energy level. As Earth does not possess a sufficiently high temperature to permit water’s formation, no new water can be formed. As stated above, all water that exists was created during our planet’s formation. In other words, its amount never changes. The water we drink and use is always exactly the same water, because it evaporates and then returns as rain. Allah has revealed this in His verses:

Have you thought about the water that you drink? Is it you who sent it down from the clouds, or are We the Sender? (Surat al-Waqi‘ah, 68-69)

If the water that Allah created in a ready state on Earth were to dry up and disappear, nothing could bring it back. If Allah willed to suspend the water cycle of evaporation, it would never rain again: All blessings come from Allah. It is Almighty Allah Who constantly places blessings at human beings’ disposal and Who creates them out of nothing.

We sent down a measured amount of water from heaven and lodged it firmly in the ground, and We are well able to remove it. (Surat al-Mu’minun, 18)
 

It takes just a few seconds to read a sentence. Yet if one of the body’s enzymes failed to work, it would take 1,500 years to read that same sentence. Enzymes activate cells and initiate and accelerate reactions up to 1010 (10 billion) times. In their absence, those cells that are waiting to go into action and perform many other reactions that keep you alive, even though they are unaware of each other and motionless, would start to die one by one before you even finished reading this sentence. As a result, you would die before you reached the end of this sentence.

Enzymes carry out all of a cell’s reactions. If they stopped working, it would be very difficult to restart them in a simultaneous and rapid manner. Despite today’s advanced medical science and impressive technology, scientists have failed to produce a comparable system. In fact, they have been unable to manufacture a single model that can perform reactions as quickly as enzymes. This shows that it is impossible for all of these miraculous proteins, which initiate and accelerate the body’s chemical reactions and perform vital functions (e.g., reproduction, control, and copying) to have come into being spontaneously as the result of unconscious events.

Therefore, one needs to reflect on the fact that Allah, Lord of the universe and all of its details, creates each person and his or her body’s enzymes:

Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the heavens and Earth and has showered His blessings upon you, both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating Book. (Surah Luqman, 20)
 

A mosquito can detect the presence of any living thing due to its highly sensitive heat receptors that perceive the heat given off by a living entity in different colors, according to the heat the entity emits. Since this perception does not depend upon light, a mosquito easily finds blood vessels even if the entity is in a dark room. In fact, its heat detectors are so sensitive that they can determine temperature differences of just 0.05 degrees Celsius.

Human beings have no such ability; Allah has bestowed it on this tiny creature—it is no larger than 1 cm (0.4 in)—so that it can find food and protect itself. Only Allah can create such a small and flawless heat-dependent mechanism in so tiny a creature and then bring it to life. Clearly, no one can claim that such a remarkable creature could have come into existence spontaneously as the result of chance.

Only Almighty Allah, Lord of the worlds, Who creates the mosquito’s sublime heat perception system, shapes and forms all things, and controls everything at all moments can do this:

What is in the heavens and in the ground belongs to Allah. We have instructed those given the Book before you, and you yourselves, to fear [and respect] Allah. But if you do not believe, what is in the heavens and in the ground [stills] belongs to Allah. Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy. (Surat al-Nisa’, 131)