Imam Al-Sadiq

things without knowledge and purpose and its actions are correct and wise, then they should
know that these actions belong to the Wise Creator and what they call nature is His Law
which He has decided for all His creation.
I (the author) say: Consider carefully the words of the naturalists. They have adopted the
same idea since the time of al- Sadiq, peace be on him, to the present day, as if they had not
understood this decisive answer for their claims or they had ignored it to insist on
stubbornness and unbelief.
Indeed, the Imam has limited nature between two ideas: either it has knowledge, wisdom, and
ability or otherwise. If they admit the first idea, then this is what we prove for the Creator So,
there is no difference between them and us except the name. And if they admit the second
idea, then the acts of nature should be disorderly. there is no estimation and arrangement in
them like the person who has no ability to understand, see and hear, but we feel that all things
in this world are based on knowledge, wisdom, power, and arrangement. Therefore, these acts
do not belong to blind, deaf nature, and nature is a thing other than Allah, the Knowing, the
Almighty, and the Creator, Besides nature is Allah's Law in His creation, not an independent
thing from the Creator of the universe.
Then the Imam, peace be on him, came back to his first speech. He spoke about the arrival of
the food to the body and how the purified food moves from the stomach to the liver through
thin veins which join them. They have been created like the refinery for food. Then the thin
veins make the food blood. Then the blood circulates all around the body through the veins
prepared for that. Then the Imam spoke about the distribution of the blood all over the body
and about the waste materials as if the Imam were a peerless doctor in medicine and a skillful
scientist who spent his life in surgery. Rather, through this explanation, the Imam has
discovered the blood circulation which the Europeans claim that they have discovered.
Indeed, the Imam discovered it before them in about twelve centuries.
Then the Imam spoke about the formation of the bodies and their growth phase by phase and
about the qualities of man, which Allah has given for him to distinguish him from animals.
Then he mentioned the senses which Allah has given for man and the advantages of their
present shapes and their different functions. Then he spoke about the single and the double
parts of the body and the reasons why Allah has created them in such shapes. Then the Imam
spoke about the blessings- like food and water which He has created for man and about their
various creation, so they do not resemble each other.
The Imam, peace be on him, went on speaking to the point: if you saw man's statue engraved
in a wall and a person said to you: That statue over there has appeared automatically; no
maker has made it, would you accept his viewpoint? So, why do you refuse his viewpointabout
this statue and accept it about the living man who speaks?"