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Science & Faith

Science & Faith
by Allahma Iqbal

Once Science said to Faith:

"My eye can see all that is in this world;
The Entire world is within my net.
I am only concerned with material things,
What have I to do with spiritual matters?
I can strike a thousand melodies,
And openly proclaim all the secrets that I learn."

Faith said:

"With your magic even the waves in the sea are set ablaze,
You can pollute the atmosphere with foul, poisonous gases.
When you associated with me, you were light,
When you broke off from me, your light became fire.
You were of Divine origin,
But you have been caught in the clutches of Shaytan.
Come, make this wasteland a garden once again.
Borrow from me a little of my ecstasy,
And in the world set up a paradise.
From the day of creation we have been associates,
We are the low and high tunes of the same melody."

Lalat

Mengikut riwayat Bukhari dari Abu Hurairah, nabi bersabda, “Apabila lalat terjatuh ke dalam bekas minum salah seorang antara kamu, celuplah dan kemudian buanglah lalat itu kerana pada sebelah sayapnya mengandungi penawar dan di sebelah sayapnya yang lain mempunyai penyakit.”

Kejadian Manusia

Firman Allah :

“Kemudian air mani itu Kami jadikan segumpal darah, lalu segumpal darah itu Kami jadikan segumpal daging, dan segumpal daging itu Kami jadikan tulang-belulang, lalu tulang belulang itu Kami bungkus dengan daging. Kemudian Kami jadikan dia makhluk yang (berbentuk) lain. Maka Maha Sucilah Allah, Pencipta Yang Paling Baik” (Al Mu’minuun:14)

Posisi Tidur Terbaik

Diriwayatkan daripada Barra? bin ?Azib r.a: Sesungguhnya Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda:
Maksudnya: ?Apabila kamu hendak tidur di tempat pembaringan kamu hendaklah kamu berwuduk seperti wuduk untuk solat. Kemudian hendaklah kamu baring di lambung kanan kamu. (Hr Bukhari dan Muslim)

Hadis ini mengajar kepada umat Islam supaya baring pada lambung kanan. Adapun tidur dengan cara yang lain adalah seperti berikut:-

Tidur dengan meniarap

Dr Zafir al-Attar berkata:

“Seseorang yang tidur meniarap di atas perutnya selepas tempoh yang tertentu akan merasai kesusahan untuk bernafas kerana beratnya gumpalan belakang badan yang besar yang menghalang dada daripada meregang dan mengecut ketika menghembus dan menyedut nafas. Kedudukan seperti ini juga menyebabkan kesukaran pernafasan yang boleh mengganggu jantung dan otak.”

Pengkaji dari Australia telah menyatakan bahawa berlaku peningkatan kematian kanak-kanak kepada tiga kali ganda apabila mereka tidur meniarap dibandingkan jika mereka tidur di lambung kanan atau kiri.

Majalah “Times” telah menyatakan bahawa kajian di Britain telah menunjukkan peningkatan kadar kematian mengejut kanak-kanak yang tidur meniarap.

Tidur meniarap adalah dilarang oleh Islam. Abu Hurairah r.a telah meriwayatkan hadis dari Rasulullah s.a.w . Baginda melihat seorang lelaki meniarap. Lalu baginda bersabda:

Maksudnya: “Sesungguhnya ini adalah cara baring yang dimurkai oleh Allah dan Rasulnya.” (Hr Tirimizi dan Ahmad-hasan lighairihi)

Abu Umamah r.a berkata: Nabi s.a.w lalu dekat seorang lelaki yang tidur meniarap di Masjid. Lalu baginda memukulnya dengan kakinya dan berkata:

Maksudnya: ?Sesungguhnya ini adalah cara baring yang dimurkai oleh Allah dan Rasulnya.? (Hr Tirimizi dan Ahmad-hasan lighairihi)

Abu Umamah r.a berkata: Nabi s.a.w lalu dekat seorang lelaki yang tidur meniarap di Masjid. Lalu baginda memukulnya dengan kakinya dan berkata:

Maksudnya: ?Bangunlah kamu dari tidur dan duduklah sesungguhnya ini adalah cara tidur ahli neraka jahannam.? (Hr Ibnu Majah)

Tidur menelentang

Dr Zafir al-Attar berkata:

Tidur menelentang akan menyebabkan pernafasan dengan mulut kerana mulut akan terbuka ketika menelentang disebabkan mereganngnya rahang bawah.

Sepatut dan seeloknya hidung yang bernafas kerana ia terdapat bulu2 dan hingus yang menyaring udara yang masuk dan banyaknya saluran darah yang disediakan untuk memanaskan udara.

Bernafas dengan mulut lebih menyebabkan seseorang itu terkena selsema di musim sejuk dan juga menyebabkan keringnya gusi yang akhirnya menyebabkan radang.

Tidur mengiring ke kiri

Tidur mengiring ke kiri pun tidak elok kerana jantung ketika itu dihimpit oleh paru kanan yang mana ia lebih besar dari paru kiri. Ini akan memberi kesan pada tugas jantung dan mengurangkan kecergasan jantung lebih2 lagi kepada orang yang sudah tua. Seperti mana perut yang penuh ketika itu akan menekan jantung.

Perbandingan diantara tidur mengiring ke kanan dan tidur mengiring ke ke kiri 

Kajian yang telah menunjukkan bahawa makanan yang lalu daripada perut kepada usus berlangsung di antara 2.5 hingga 4.5 jam apabila orang yang tidur mengiring ke kanan. Manakala orang yang tidur mengiring ke kiri memerlukan masa di antara 5 hingga 8 jam bagi proses yang sama.

Tidur yang terbaik…

Tidur yang terbaik adalah dengan kedudukan mengiring ke kanan kerana paru kiri lebih kecil daripada paru kanan. Ini menyebabkan jantung menanggung benda yang lebih ringan. Hati juga akan dalam kedudukan tetap stabil dan tidak tergantung. Perut akan bertenggek di atasnya dengan baik. Ini memudahkan untuk mengosongkan makanan dari perut selepas proses penghadaman.

15 Amazing Facts About The Human Body

1. The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.

2. The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).

3. A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

4. Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four times as much as concrete can support.

5. Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip

6. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away – in a lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.

7. When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.

8. The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.

9. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.

10. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.11. In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.

12. A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

13. A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

14. The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.

15. The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity to create a new life.

Sources: Reader’s Digest Book of Facts

The Sensation of Skin Pain

It was commonly believed, for several centuries, that the body is all sensitive to pain.  It was not clear then that there were specialized nerves in the body responsible for transporting all kinds of pain and other sensations, until recently when anatomy has discovered the role of specialized nerve endings in transporting all different kinds of pain.

The most significant nerve sensations in the human body are:

·         The sensation of touch: the corpuscles responsible for such sensation are called Meissners and Merkels corpuscles.

·         The sensation of pain: this is transported by the nerve endings in the skin.

·         The sensation of heat: this is the responsibility of Ruffini cylinders corpuscles.

Taking skin burns as a distinct cause for the skin sensation of pain, burns can be divided into 3 types: 

1-     Burns of first degree (sun burns): these affect the epidermis causing swelling and moderate pain.  The phenomena of redness, swelling and pain usually disappear within two to three days.

2-     Burns of second degree: epidermis and dermis are injured.  In such a case, a detachment occurs between epidermis and dermis, causing the collection of secretions between these two layers. The injured person suffers from severe pain, and excessive increase of pain sensation, due to irritation of exposed nerve ending particularly after the outburst of blisters.  The skin starts to heal within 14 days as a result of the process of renovation and inversion under the skin.

3-     Burns of third degree: the whole skin thickness is burned and perhaps the injury may reach the muscles or the bone.   The skin loses elasticity and becomes rough and dry.  In this case, the injured person does not feel much pain, as nerve endings have been damaged almost 

Figure 1For 3rd degree burns, the nerves at skin are completely destroyed and there will be no longer feeling of pain

The Quran states ; “Those who reject our signs, We shall cast into the fire; as often as their skins are roasted through.  We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the punishment; for Allah is Exalted in power; Wise.” (Quran 4:56)

(إنَّ الذٌينّ كّفّرٍوا بٌآيّاتٌنّا سّوًفّ نصليهم نّارْا كٍلَّمّا نّضٌجّتً جلودهم بدلناهم جلوداَ غيرها ليذوقوا العّذّابّ إنَّ اللَّهّ كّانّ عّزٌيزْا حّكٌيمْا)  (النساء56).

Allah did not say “as often as their skins are burned”, as burning could be partial, but He rather said: “as often as their skins are roasted through”, i.e., totally burned with all nerves of sensation and pain.  So, He the Almighty associated between the sensation of pain and the skin when roasted and burned totally, thus losing its structure and function.  When sensation of pain is lost, a new fully composed and functional skin is replaced, where the nerve ending responsible for the painful sensation of heat and burn perform and function to make the unbeliever taste the punishment of being burned with fire over and over again.

What about intestines ..?

Anatomy has discovered that small intestines are the longest part in the digestive system, of about 5 meters long. The walls of intestines consist of 3 layers:

1-     The external stratum (serum stratum): its membrane is soft and wet due to the secretion of a serum liquid.

2-     The medium stratum (muscular stratum).

3-     The internal stratum (mucosa stratum): it consists of a mucosa plate and circular or ring folds full of villi, and contains intestinal glands and lymphatic vesicular.

It has been found out that the abdominal cavity is lined with the peritoneum which is fed through the wall nerves feeding the skin, and the muscles of chest and abdomen. These nerves are affected by touch and heat.  The viscera have no nerves for pain or sensation.  Therefore, when the abdominal wall is anaesthetized locally, and the abdomen is open, no sensation of pain or disturbance is felt in the intestines if held, cut or even burned.  But when the intestines are cut or perforated for any reason, its contents come out into the cavity surrounding the viscera, and which is rich in sensitive nerves, the pain is then very severe and the abdomen of the patient is in a state called Board Like Rigidity.  It is an emergency surgical state that requires an immediate operation.

In Quran, Allah the Almighty says about the torment of hell fire; “such are given to drink boiling water, that tears their bowels asunder.” (Quran 47: 15)

(وسقوا ماءَ حميماَ فقطع أمعاءهم ( محمد : 15

The Holy Quran threatens the unbelievers of hot water that tears their bowels. The reasoning underlying this threat has recently become evident.  It has been discovered that intestines are not affected with heat. But if they are cut, hot water therein comes out into the peritoneum which is fed through the wall nerves feeding the skin, and the muscles of chest and abdomen.  These nerves are affected with touch or heat, so the hot water, after intestines are cut, causes the highest degrees of pain.

So the outer torment felt in the skin, is different from that felt in the inner intestines, due to the difference in the nature of skin structure.  The feeling of former torment cannot be maintained unless the roasted skin is exchanged with a new layer, while in the case of intestines, torment is felt only by cutting the intestines with hot water.  Torment is yet continuous: “As for the unbelievers, theirs shall be the fire of Gehannam (hellfire); they shall neither be done with and die, nor shall its chastisement be lightened for them,  even so We recompense every ungrateful one.” (Quran 35:36)

( والذين كفروا لهم نار جهنم لا يُقضى عليهم فيموتوا ولا يُخففُ عنهم من عذابها كذلك نجزي كل كفور) سورة فاطر- 36

Thus the Quranic scientific miracles are crystallized.  Feeling of pain as perceived in medical facts are very much compatible with the statements of the Holy Quran.

This man is uttering the Islamic creed (Shahaadah) and declaring that he is becoming a Muslim. This occurred during the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference which was convened in Riyadh. He is Professor Tagata Tagasone, formerly Head of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Shiang Mai in Thailand. He is now the Dean of the College of the Medicine at the University. 

We presented to Professor Tagasone some Quraanic verses and Prophetic Ahadeeth which deal with his specialization in the field of anatomy. He commented that they also had in their Buddhist books very accurate descriptions of embryonic developmental stages. We told him that we were very anxious and interested to see those descriptions and learn about these books. A year later, Professor came to King Abdul Aziz University as an outside examiner. We reminded him of the statement he made one year before, but he apologized and said that he in fact had made that statement without ascertaining the matter. However, when he checked the Buddhist books he found that they contained nothing of relevance to the subject.

Upon this we presented to him a lecture written by Professor Keith Moore about the compatibility of modern embryology with what is contained in the Quraan and the Sunnah and we asked Professor Tagasone if he knew of Professor Keith Moore. He replied that he knew him of course, adding that Professor Moore was one of the most world-renowned scientists in that field.

When Professor Tagasone studied this article he also was greatly astonished. We asked him several questions in his field of specialization. One of the questions pertained to modern discoveries in dermatology about the sensory characteristics of the skin.

Dr. Tagasone responded: Yes if the burn is deep.

It was stated to Dr. Tagasone: You will be interested to know that in this book, the Holy book the Quraan, there was a reference 1400 years ago which refers to the moment of punishment of the unbelievers by the fire of Hell and it states that when their skin is destroyed, Allah makes another skin for them so that they perceive the punishment by a fire, indicating knowledge about the nerve endings in the skin, and the verse is:

"Those who reject our signs. We shall soon cast into the fire; as often as their skins are roasted through. We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the chastisement: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise" (Quran 4:56).

So do you agree that this is a reference to the importance of the nerve endings in the skin in sensation, 1400 years ago?

Dr. Tagasone responded: Yes I agree. This knowledge about sensation had been known long before. Because it says that if somebody does something wrong, then he will be punished by burning his skin and then Allah puts a new skin in him, cover him, to make him know that the test is painful again. That means they knew many years ago that the receptor of pain sensation must be on the skin, so they put a new skin on.

The skin is the center of sensitivity to burns. Thus, if the skin is completely burnt by fire, it looses its sensitivity. It is for this reason that Allah will punish the unbelievers on the Day of Judgement by returning to them their skins time after time, as He, the Exalted and Glorified, said in the Quraan:

«"Those who reject our signs. We shall soon cast into the fire; as often as their skins are roasted through. We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the chastisement: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise"» (Quran 4:56).

We asked him the following question: ‘Is it possible that these verses came to the Prophet Muhammad, (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), from a human source?
Professor Tagasone conceded that they could have never come from any human source. But he still asked about the source of that knowledge and from where could Muhammad have possibly received it? We said, From Allah, the Most Glorified and Most Exalted. Then he asked: But who is Allah? We replied: He is the Creator of all that is in existence. If you find wisdom then it is because it comes only from the one Who is Most Wise. If you find knowledge in the making of this universe, it is because the universe is the creation of the One Who has all the knowledge. If you find perfection in the composition of these creations, then it is proof to you that it is the creation of the One Who Knows Best. And if you find mercy, then this bears witness to the fact that it is the creation of the One Who is Most Merciful. In the same way, if you perceive creation as belonging to one unified order and tied together firmly, then this is proof that it is the creation of the Only Creator, May He be Glorified and Exalted.

«"This is no less than a reminder to (all) the worlds. And you shall certainly know the truth of it (all) after a while."» (Quran 38:87-88).

Source : Quran and Science

Abu Hurayrah - The Father of Kittens

   Abu Hurayrah, famous as a companion of the Prophet (saw) and a major narrator of his sayings. Was given the nickname Abu Hurayrah (literally father of Kittens) by the Prophet because he used to care for a small male cat. ("Cat" word comes from the Arabic word qit/Hirra but a tiny male cat is called hurayrah, or thus In Arabic, hirra means cat and hurayra means a kitten.)

   Also Legend has it that the reason Sayyiduna Muhammad (saw) loved cats so much was that his life had been saved by one. A snake had crawled into his sleeve and refused to leave. A cat was called and asked the snake to show its head, in order to discuss its departure. When the snake finally appeared, the cat pounced on it and carried it off.

   There is also a legend about this in which a cat saved the Prophet's life from a deadly snake. The story is narrated by Annemarie Schimmel as follows: "There are variants of the story of how Abu Huraryra's cat, which he always carried in his bag, saved the Prophet from an obnoxious snake, whereupon the Prophet petted her so that the mark of his fingers is still visible in the four dark lines on most cats' foreheads, and, because the Prophet's hand had stroked her back, cats never fall on their backs" (A. Schimmel, Deciphering the Signs of God, Albany, NY, 1994).

   The cat is such a clean animal that according to authentic narrations one may make ablution for Prayer with the same water that a cat drank from. Yet, it is known that some people nowadays have opposed the traditions of the Prophet by taking up the evil practices of torturing and poisoning cats.

   In Islam, the punishment for such actions is severe. Islam holds a special place for cats as lovable and cherished creatures, and mistreating a cat is seen as a serious sin. Al-Bukhari reported a hadith regarding a woman who locked up a cat, refusing to feed it and not releasing it so that it could feed itself. The Prophet Muhammad said that her punishment on the Day of Judgment will be torture and Hell.

   There are many records of the Prophet's love for cats and his relationship with them. "The prophet's fondness for cats is often referred to, and whether or not the hadith that ‘Love of cats is part of the faith' is genuine, it reflects the general feeling for the little feline."

   It is believed that you will suffer no harm if you drink from the cat’s water provided no impurities are seen in the cat’s mouth. In another story from the hadith, it is stated that a when a cat ate a pudding put down during prayers, the person who was in charge of the pudding ate from the same place as the cat and Prophet (s) said this was alright as the cat is not unclean and is "one of those who go around amongst us".

   The Prophet of Islam was once performing ablution (Wudhu) for prayers from a pot of water. A cat passed there and turned its eyes at the pot of water with a thirsty look. The Prophet realised at once that the cat was very thirsty, so he stopped the ablution (Wudhu) and placed the pot before the cat. Only after the cat had fully quenched its thirst, did the Prophet resume the ablution (Wudhu).