(a process by which green
plants and other organisms turn carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and
oxygen, using light energy trapped by chlorophyll)
Pick
up a leaf and look at it closely. Although it appears quite ordinary, what you
cannot see are the wide-ranging and magnificent chemical processes that enable
it to carry out photosynthesis. Its countless factories, which are invisible to
the naked eye, accomplish in seconds a process that is so sublime that
scientists equipped with the most modern laboratory facilities cannot replicate
it. This chemical process, which is performed very quietly by a usually
unnoticed part of creation, is one of the main reasons why humanity is still
present on this planet.
Every
square millimeter of each leaf contains around 500,000 chlorophylls, the
magnificent molecules that are necessary for photosynthesis. Were we able to
examine this molecule, a great many more details would become apparent. For
example, the entire photosynthesis process that takes place inside this
particular molecule occurs within one ten-millionth of a second. In other
words, the complex process initiated by the light reaching a leaf’s water and
then activating the relevant subatomic particles and changing their orbits is
repeated 10 million times a second. In addition, this process takes place
separately in each chlorophyll molecule.
If
Allah willed chlorophyll molecules to cease their activities or the wavelength
of the light reaching the leaf to change, no means of locating another source
of oxygen would exist. If photosynthesis stopped, there would be no other way
to convert into oxygen the carbon dioxide that human beings and animals exhale.
It would be illogical to expect a chlorophyll molecule, which is essential for
continued life, to come into being and set about cleaning the air and giving
rise to nutrients all by itself. The fact that a plant can consume carbon
dioxide and release oxygen is a great miracle. This extraordinary system is a
great blessing and astonishing work of Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
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