The Qur’aan was
revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the
circulation of the blood and 1,000 years before William Harwey brought this
understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was
known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the
process of digestive absorption, a verse in the Qur’aan described the source of
the constituents of milk, in conformity with these notions.
To understand
the Qur’aanic verse concerning the above concepts, it is important to know that
chemical reactions occur in the intestines and that, from there, substances
extracted from food pass into the blood stream via a complex system; sometimes
by way of the liver, depending on their chemical nature. The blood transports
them to all the organs of the body, among which are the milk-producing mammary
glands.
In simple terms,
certain substances from the contents of the intestines enter into the vessels
of the intestinal wall itself, and these substances are transported by the
blood stream to the various organs.
This
concept must be fully appreciated if we wish to understand the following verse
in the Qur’aan:
“And
verily in cattle there is A lesson for you.
We give you to
drink Of what is inside their bodies, Coming from a conjunction between
the contents of the Intestine and the blood, A milk pure and pleasant
for Those who drink it.”
[Al-Qur’aan
16:66] [1]
“And
in cattle (too) ye Have an instructive example: From within their
bodies
We produce (milk) for you To drink; there are, in them, (Besides),
numerous
(other) Benefits for you; And of their (meat) ye eat.”
[Al-Qur’aan
23:21]
The Qur’aanic
description of the production of milk in cattle is strikingly similar to what
modern physiology has discovered.
[1] Translation of this Qur’anic
verse is from the book “The Bible, the Qur’an and
Science”
by Dr. Maurice Bucaille.
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