The God showcasing the flawless orchestration of our world. It has been my gateway to comprehending not only the intricacies within and around me but also discerning the Divine presence resonating in every atom and entity.
From the genesis of my being, a timeless adage has resonated, its true meaning veiled in mystery. “Jis Rab ko tum dunya bhar m dhundhty rehty ho, wo tumhary hi andar basta hy!”(The God you seek all over the world resides within you) —a sentiment both enigmatic and compelling. As the sands of time slip through my grasp, the layers of this aphorism unfurl, revealing a profound verity about our existence.
In the odyssey of growth and self-discovery, I’ve unraveled the intricate tapestry of life, marveled at our mortal vessels, and recognized the binding essence shared among all living creatures.
It urges us to contemplate our ceaseless pursuit of external certainties, often overshadowing the profound cosmos dwelling within us. This introspective sojourn sheds light on how, as humans, we frequently navigate the world unaware of the awe-inspiring realities concealed within the depths of our souls.
As a student of science, I’ve come to realize that there exists a seamless harmony between the empirical and the ethereal. Science, in its elegant revelations, continually unveils the artistry of a Higher Power, The God showcasing the flawless orchestration of our world. It has been my gateway to comprehending not only the intricacies within and around me but also discerning the Divine presence resonating in every atom and entity.
Indeed, affirming “Khuda har jagah hy” requires not just sight, but a profound inner vision cultivated through science’s enlightening embrace.
For example, people who don’t know how our organ systems work may be living a normal life, but they won’t ever be able to live a life without excitement and awe if they ever know how effortlessly food travels from the oral cavity all the way to the intestines and how all the acids and enzymes perform their action on the smallest of food particles to make them even smaller!
How the fist-sized heart generates its own impulse from the SA node and how the minute Purkinje fibres distribute that impulse to all of the heart, and that too 60–100 times a minute!
How the blood from the toes reaches the heart located at a height from that toe against the force of gravity! How our eyes process everything we see and how all the colours are absorbed into our eye and only one colour gets reflected, which makes us see different colours!
How the lungs filter about 11000 litres of air per day!
How the muscles coordinate with the nerve impulses and the calcium ions leaving and entering the sarcoplasmic reticulum so squarely!
How the message from the receptors travels to the sensory, inter-, and motor neurons and then to the effectors to give a response, and this pathway takes less than a millisecond!
How the kidneys have such an advanced tubular system along with the countercurrent exchange so that there is no mistake in excretion! How the smallest of ants have the most complex excretory and reproductive systems coiled beautifully inside their minutest bodies!
How does each cell of the biggest whale get enough oxygen from the blood? How do carnivorous plants get their nitrogen requirements fulfilled by eating small insects and reptiles and trapping them in their teeth-like faces?
How does the redwood tree, which is about 350 feet high, manage to transport water from the deepest vertical roots to the cells at the tip of the last leaf of the tree through the xylem?
Not only this, but if we go deeper in chronological order, it is so awe-inspiring to see how the skin has receptors, the receptors have cells, and the cells have tiny organelles that make proteins, perform cellular respiration, transport things in and out of the cells, and what not!
Each cell, which is barely about one millionth of a metre in diametre, has a dense nucleus in the centre containing DNA, which is so coiled that if it is opened and laid straight, it could be wound around the solar system twice!
How each DNA has 3200,000,000 nucleotides how each nucleotide contains three different types of molecules how each molecule has many different types of atoms how each atom contains a gigantic empty space, and how in the centre of that empty space is a small, densely dotted area called the nucleus, which contains neutrons and protons, and how each neutron and proton contains quarks, and how each one of the quarks has an entirely undiscovered universe inside them!
To many of the readers, it may seem like science fiction, but this is what we are deaf, dumb, and blind to. This is what makes us believe that there is a superpower, The God who made all this with so much precision that even one exchange of the quarks in a neutron will collapse the whole world upside down!
More surprisingly, this passage is not even 0.01% of the discovered information about our world, and more than 90% is still the undiscovered universe, which isn’t able to be reached right now! While writing this down, the only thing I can think of is how weak we humans are.
Just a small inconvenience in our lives makes us so distressed that we forget there’s a God. We should only focus on what’s in our control and give our best to what we love and what we’re passionate about, and then we should blindly leave it to the God who made the smallest of bacteria and the biggest of galaxies!
This article is jointly authored by Miss Madina Memon and Dr. Abdullah Arijo.