The quran miracles encyclopedia - the Camel
Do They not Look At the Camel
Do they not look at the
Camels, how they are made? [17] And at the Sky, how it is raised high? [18] And
at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? [19] And at the Earth, how it is
spread out? [20] Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
[21] Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. [22]
In these honored verses,
Allah ( Praise & Glory be to him) surpassed the camel upon all other living
creatures, and made the contemplation of how it was made prior to raising high
the sky, fixing firm the mountains, or spreading out the earth. Allah demanded
to make the contemplation of these creatures as the entrance to the pure belief
Allah's power and contrivance.
In this honored verse, the
Creator, who knows the secrets of his creatures, advises people to think and
contemplate in creating camels as a creature witnesses Allah's glory, power and
planning. We will realize the amazing facts science has revealed recently in
creating the camel which prove the forefront of the Holy Qur'an in indicating
such a miracle creature. This shows that the Holy Qur'an is the miracle book
that Allah has revealed to his prophet, Mohammed (Peace be upon him).
The
Scientific Miracles:
The first obvious matter in
camels is the external structure which shows astonishing and remarkable
evidences.
Camel's
Ears:
Ears are small and little
prominent. Hair covers them from each side to protect them of wind-blown sand.
They, also, have the ability to curve backward and stick to head if a sandy
wind is blowing.
Camel's
Nostrils:
They are two tight
slit-like surrounded by hair and have skin rims. These enable a camel to close
the nostrils in order to protect the lungs from particles of sand carried by
wind.
Camel's
Eyes:
They have a double row of
long eyelashes. They are similar to a trap in that they interlaced each other,
so they can protect the camel's eyes and keep out the sand.
Camel's
Tail:
It has hair on sides to
protect the back parts against wind-blown sand which is as annoying as
unceasing bullets.
Camel's
Limbs:
They are long in order to
raise the body high upon the dust rose in the air. Also, they help in its
agility and rapidity. The feet are reinforced with broad callous elastic pads
that spread when the camel is walking on sand. These enable a camel to walk
over the softest kinds of sand that are difficult for any other animal to move
on them. This feature makes the camel worth the title "Ship of the
Desert".
In many arid habitats, the
camel is the ideal way to pass through deserts. The caravan of camels, carrying
personal properties, burdens about 50-60 kilometers a day. Even cars can not
compete camels yet in rough pumpy deserts.
Camel's
Neck:
Allah ( Praise & Glory
be to him) creates a camel with a long neck, so it can reaches the plants down
on floor and leaves high on trees. Besides, the long neck of a camel raises the
head high upon filths, and enables a camel to stand erect with loads.
When a camel sits for
resting or stands to be prepared for traveling, its heavy body depends on the
callous pads on feet, and most weight depends on the thorax; by which it can
pulverize an animal or a person in case of lying down on them.
Theses pads are one of the
miracles that the Creator granted for this amazing animal. A camel's structure
helps in sitting on the harsh hot sand - which is often the only place for a
camel to rest on - so a camel can adapt to it and protect itself against any
harm.
The young camel is born
with those pads. They are permanent and hereditary, not like human beings'
shoes.
Camel's
Stomach:
The stomach has 4 sides,
and the digestive system is strong that a camel can digest anything other than
food in dry areas, like rubber for example.
A camel doesn't breathe
through mouth, nor pants even in high temperature or thirst. By this feature,
it can avoid water evaporation.
Conserving
Temperature in Camel's Body:
If it was extremely
necessary, only a little amount of sweat is dripped. This is referred to the
ability of a camel's body to adapt to living conditions in deserts in which the
temperature fluctuates from morning to evening.
A camel's body is covered
with thick hair which expels the heat, and keeps it out of skin. The system of
conserving temperature in a camel can make the temperature fluctuates 7 degrees
causing no damages. i.e. from 34oC to 41oC. A camel only sweats when the body
temperature is over 41oC. That happens only in certain time during the day. However,
at night, it releases the heat saved from sun's rays to the cold air without
losing any water drop. This mechanism can conserve 5 litters of water.
We should not forget to
compare this feature in a camel to a human being whose normal body temperature
is settled at approximately 37oC. If the temperature raised or fell down, this
will be a warning sign of an illness that has to be cured by effective
remedies. A human being might die if the body temperature reached one of the
two values that a camel can reach (34oC to 41oC).
Production
of Water by a Camel:
A camel produces water,
which contributes in enduring hunger and thirst, via fats stored in its hump
through a chemical process a man can not transcend.
It is known that the
oxidation of fats and carbohydrates only forms water and carbon dioxide, which
the body gets rid of by breathing out, besides forming a large amount of energy
necessary in continuing the biological activities.
Water produced by oxidation
of fats is similar to that formed by lighting a candle for example, in that
both give off steam that can be assured of its existence by putting a cold
glass slab over the candle's flame, so that water produced by burning condenses
on the slab. In camels, the source of water is the steam coming out with exhale.
A camel turns to most fats stored in its hump when food is rare or lacked.
Then, it burns fats slowly and the hump diminishes till leans to the side, and
becomes a hollow loose bag when hunger and thirst last long with the tired
traveling camel.
Allah's judiciousness in
the creation of camels is that the reserve of fats is very huge that surpasses
any other animal. This can be proven by comparing a camel to sheep which is
famous of huge fatty buttock that stores about 11 kgm of fats in, while a camel
can store up to 10 times more than that weight. (i.e. about 120 kgm).
Undoubtedly, it is a large amount that a camel uses in the metabolism and turns
it into water, energy and carbon dioxide. Therefore, a camel can spend about a
month and a half without drinking water.
However extreme thirst
attenuates a camel and makes it losing most of its weight. Though, it can go on
with life robustly till it finds fresh or salt water, so it quaffs abundantly
till quenching thirst. Moreover, camel's blood consists of Albumin enzyme in
amounts larger than other organisms. This enzyme increases the camel's
endurance of water. Camel's superpower ability to drink intensive salty liquids
is due to a special aptitude in the kidney to get rid of salt by excreting
highly intensive urine after retrieving water and taking it back to blood.
There are other secrets
that science could not reveal its judiciousness yet, but they would clarify
other patterns of miracles in the creation of camels as figured out by the
eloquent Qur'an.
Camel's
Milk:
It is one of the miracles
Allah specified to camels. Females can be milked 2 times a day for one year in
average. The daily average production of milk is about 5-10 kgm. The annual
average production is about 230-260 kgm. The components of the milk vary
according to the herd a camel belongs to, and vary from a female to another.
Also, they vary according to: plants or grass a camel eats, sorts and amounts
of water a camel drinks, seasons in which a camel was raised up, temperature of
environment, age of a camel, milking period, number of babies, hereditary
capabilities, and analyzing techniques used.
Although knowing the
components of camel's milk is very important, for the sake of a young camel or
a human being who drinks that milk, it, on the other hand, implies and deduces
the importance of such milk in the nutrition for a young camel or a human
being. Generally, camel's milk is red-like white, sweet and acrid. However, it
can be salty sometimes, or can taste like water. The variation of milk tastes
is due to sorts of plans, grass and water a camel gets in. PH -sourness
measurement- rises in fresh camel milk. If it is left for a while, sourness
will rise up quickly.
The proportion of water in
camel's milk reaches up to 84%-90% which has a great importance in preserving
life of young camels and populations in arid or dry areas. During milking
period, milked camel loses water in that milk during dry seasons. This might be
a normal adaptation as a camel can supply their babies and people not only with
nutrition, but also with liquids necessary to their living and surviving. This
reflects the grace and kindness of Allah (Praise & Glory be to him).
As water in milk produced
by the thirsty camel increases, fats are minimized from 4.3% to 1.1%. Generally,
the average proportion of fats in camel's milk ranges from 2.6% to 5.5%. Fats
are linked to proteins in camel's milk.
Comparing camel's milk to
cow's, buffalo's or sheep's, it was noticed that camel's milk contains a little
amount of short-chain fatty acids. Researchers found that the nutrition in
camel's milk is represented in the high concentration of volatile acids which
are considered the most important nutrious factor for a human being, especially
for those with heart diseases.
An amazing matter is that
Lactose in camel's milk remains as it was since the first month of milking
period for both thirsty and non-thirsty camels. This is a grace and mercy from
the Most High and All-Powerful to safeguard human beings and animals. Lactose
is a necessary type of sugar used as laxatives and diuretic medicines. It is,
also, important sugar composing newborn's food.
Beside the high nutrition
of camel's milk, it has many medical benefits and uses which makes it worth
being the unique nutrition that cattlemen in some areas depend on. This is a
grace of Allah, the Supreme.
The
Importance of a Camel in supplying with nutrition:
When Africa had dryness in
1984-1985, tribes in Kenya who lived on cows that halted milking were perished
-or about to perish- and most of them died while those who lived on camels
survived because camels were providing milk during dry seasons. Thus, raising a
camel has significant economical causes as future insurance. Specialists are
seeking to go deep into studying this animal in a world where resources of
supplies and energy vanish so quickly.
As previously explained, a
contemplating look over a camel has been convincing people, since the sent of
the Spirit of Faith, of the miracles in the creatures by an apparent way
witnesses the Creator's power. Also, well-versed scientists and researchers are
still finding new hidden miracles till today in this amazing animal which
increases the belief in the Creator's power, and achieves the harmony between
objective medical facts that scientist have revealed and what Allah said in the
Holy Qur'an.
A
comparison between a Camel and a human being:
Comparing a camel's capabilities
to a human being may clarify the uniqueness of miracles in a camel. Scientists'
experiments assured that a camel living on dry food can endure raging thirst in
hot summer for two weeks or more. But this would attenuate a camel so that it
might lose about a quarter of its weight during this period. To understand this
superpower, we should compare that to human beings who can not survive in such
conditions more than one or two days. If a person lost 5% of his weight, he
will not be able to control himself. If this percentage increased to 10 %, he
will be confused, lose hearing, and lose feeling of pain (This is a grace and
mercy from Allah in the destinies). However, if losing water exceeded 12% of
his weight, he will not be able to swell food; thus, can not survive even with
the existence of water without the assistance of helpers. In case of helping a
person about to die of thirst, helpers should give water in small amounts to
avoid the effect of surprising change in the proportion of water in blood. On
the other hand, a thirst camel can quaff abundantly without anyone's help to
retrieve in a few minutes what it has lost during thirst days.
Another feature of a camel
surpassing a human being is that a thirsty camel can quench thirst by any type
of water exists, even water of seas, or extreme salty or bitter swamps. This is
referred to a special aptitude in the kidney to get rid of salt by excreting
highly intensive urine after retrieving water to take it back to blood; while
any trial of helping a thirsty person with salty water would rush his death.
The most astonishing matter is that if a camel living in extremely savage
conditions of oppressive heat in deserts, it would consume a large amount of
water as sweating, urination and steam coming out with exhale. It almost would
lose a quarter of its weight without resentment because most of lost water was
gotten from the body's tissues and only a little water was gotten from blood,
so that blood can still run as a liquid distributing heat and vanishing it from
the body's surface. Otherwise, the temperature would rise surprisingly to an
extent that the camel's systems can not bear, especially the mind, which would
lead to death.
Therefore, we find the
honored verse: }Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? [17]{
represents a pattern of what can be achieved by science in all the scientific
and instinctive levels. There are no scientific facts or theories in the text,
but it has more than that. It includes the keys to reach these facts by fascinating
guidance from Allah, the All-Known who is well aquainted with secrets of what
He has created.
These are some standpoints
concerning miracles of the camel's creation from structure and feature aspects.
They can be realized by contemplating instinct by which Bedwins - who live in
deserts- were convinced of the miracles in the creation from the first moment.
Also, they show the Creator's power.
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