THE MIRACLE IN PLANT LEAVES

Have you ever wondered;

Who produces the oxygen we breathe at every moment?
How the delicate temperature balance on Earth is maintained?
How the balance of the gases on Earth remains fixed without changing?
Or, how you obtain the solar energy essential to life?
Did you know that it is plants that work to provide all these things for
you, without ever making a mistake?
Plants, which occupy such an important place in human life and of which
there are more than 500,000 varieties, are a great treasure Allah has
provided for our benefit.
Plants are the source of the fresh air we breathe, the foods we need to
survive, and the energy we consume.
They are also the source of stunning vistas, impressive scents, and eyecatching colours.
Plants possess photosynthesis systems that convert light into nutrients.
These mechanisms constantly produce energy and oxygen that purify the
air and maintain ecological balances. In addition, these mechanisms
produce such aesthetic properties as taste, scent, and colour. Together
with these features, plants are special living things that reveal the infinite
knowledge and artistry of Allah, our Creator, and exhibit His affection
and compassion for human beings.
Using the intelligence and the understanding bestowed on us by Allah,
all honest people can see the miracles He displays before our eyes.
We, therefore, need to look at them through the eyes of reason and of
wisdom.
Allah reveals the proofs of Creation in plants in a verse:
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We
bring forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth

the green shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed

seeds, and from the spathes of the date palm date clusters
hanging down, and gardens of grapes and olives and
pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. Look at their fruits
as they bear fruit and ripen. There are signs in that for people
who believe. (Surat al-Anam, 99)
The Factory That Manufactures Vital Energy
The energy that the Sun sends to the Earth in one day is nearly ten
thousand times greater than the daily level of energy required by all of
mankind.
Developed countries spend large sums of money researching methods on
how to store this free energy from the Sun.
Researchers discovered an astonishing fact. It was realised that plants
possess a perfect system for storing solar energy.
This system in plants is known as photosynthesis.
Plants carry out photosynthesis through the solar cells in their structure.
These cells convert solar energy into chemical energy, thus producing
carbohydrates, the basic food source of all life.
Carbohydrates are fundamental sources of food that either directly or
indirectly meets the energy requirements of all living things.
There is no need to eat plants to obtain this energy.
Since animals eat plants, human beings can obtain that same energy
through consuming animal products.
For example, sheep eat grass, and thus take the energy-charged molecules
in grass into their own bodies.
Therefore, the energy contained in these molecules is transferred into
animal tissues.
Human beings then take this energy, which reaches plants from the Sun,
and from them then enters animals, and use it in their own bodies.

As we have seen, by whatever means they obtain it, all living things use
the energy provided by solar energy by way of photosynthesis.
Through photosynthesis, plants supply us not just with nutrients, but also
with a large part of the substances we use for fuel in our daily lives.
Fuels such as petrol, coal, and natural gas, for instance, are sources of
energy in which solar energy is stored through photosynthesis.
The same applies to the wood we burn as kindling.
Just in terms of this substance, it is clear how photosynthesis is vitally
important.
Understanding photosynthesis and the mechanisms involved in it is also
very important for scientists.
If this process can be fully understood, it will be possible to increase food
production, make the most efficient use of nature, extract the maximum
benefit from solar energy, develop new drugs, and design faster and
smaller machines that run on solar energy.
However, we must immediately make it clear that we still do not know
enough about photosynthesis to be able to produce systems that store
energy by replicating this process.
And yet, photosynthesis is a very simple matter for a leaf with no mind or
consciousness.
Human beings, with their intelligence, training, and advanced technology,
are unable to replicate this system. It is astonishing that hundreds of
trillions of leaves have all been carrying out photosynthesis for billions of
years.
Plants have carried out this process uninterruptedly since the day they
were first created.
This means that everywhere with any vegetation has a factory that uses
solar energy to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water.
Unknown to you, the tomatoes you eat, the parsley in your salad, and the
ivy growing out on the veranda are all engaged in constant production.

This is the result of Omniscient Allahs love for human beings.

Allah created plants in a form so as to make them serve humanity and all
living beings.
Leaves have been implementing this flawless system for millions of years
that we, with all our modern technology, are still unable to fully
understand.
In one verse of the Quran, Allah tells us that it is impossible for human
beings to create even a single tree from nothing:
He Who created the heavens and the Earth and sends down
water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant
gardens grow you could never make their trees grow... (Surat
an-Naml, 60)
The Harmony in the Universe
Allah has created the whole universe with infinite knowledge and artistry.
All the systems that combine to give rise to life on the Earth, work
together in complete harmony as a result of this matchless Creation.
Every system and structure, from the stars in space to electrons revolving
in a single atom, is either dependent on or complementary to one another.
Photosynthesis occupies a very important place in this sublime Creation.
Using soil, water, air, and the Sun, unconscious plant cells take specific
quantities of minerals and water from the soil and manufacture food for
human beings.
With the energy they obtain from sunlight, they break these components
down and recombine them in such a way as to produce nutrients.
There is intelligence, consciousness, and planning in every single phase
of this process summarised here in the very briefest terms.
This amazing system in plants is clearly a source of life specially created
for the benefit of living things.

As we have seen, there is perfect harmony between green plants on Earth

and solar energy.
This harmony gives rise to a food source essential to the survival of all
living things, and therefore, also to the survival of human beings.
Our attention is drawn to this subject in another verse from the Quran:
Say: Who provides for you from the heavens and Earth?
Say: Allah. It is certain that one or the other of us, either we
or you, is following guidance or else clearly astray. (Surah
Saba, 24)
How Does the Factory in Plants Work?
When we examine leaves under powerful microscopes, the creative
artistry of Allah appears before us in all its glory.
The structures inside a single leaf can be compared to the tools we use in
our daily lives.
When we magnify the details of the leaf still further, we encounter an
automated food factory with pipes in a constant state of activity,
chambers constructed for particular processes, and workers running about
non-stop.
A pipeline that spreads over the whole plant, like a net, allows raw
materials to reach the production units and allows the product emerging
from the production units to reach the plant tissues.
As this pipeline raises the water obtained by the plant, it also sends the
sap produced in the leaves to internal regions for the nourishment of the
whole tree.
These channels not only carry vitally important fluids, but also serve as a
skeleton for the tree and the leaf.
This is a marvel of Creation since this cannot even be seen in structures
erected by human beings who use load-bearing elements such as
columns, beams, and the like and are then built separately from the
buildings water facilities.
Plants contain a Creation marvel in which both needs are met together.

Every plant leaf is a marvel of Creation created with infinite knowledge

and artistry.
If any leaf, just a few millimetres thick, were to be enlarged to the size of
a factory so that we could wander around inside it, we would be amazed
at what we saw.
Let us take a small parsley leaf as an example.
We would see a highly developed pipeline extending to every part and
more than twenty facilities that produce and store chemical substances.
We would also encounter energy plants that ceaselessly convert solar
energy into sugar, solar panels that initiate this process, and ventilation
centres that we come across at every point.
As well as all of this, we would see a very powerful security and
communications system and a giant chemical facility, the roles of many
parts of which are still a mystery even to scientists.
This system, which can immediately be seen to be fully equipped, the
workers in it, and all the materials and products used by it are the work of
a very superior mind and knowledge.
Yet, plants have no central nervous system and no brain to control it.
Therefore, each part of the plant develops independently of the others,
despite which all the components and tissues exhibit an unbelievable
harmony and co-operation.
We still do not fully understand how the cells inside the plant
communicate and how they give rise to different tissues.
The way that the chain of commands that emerges as these different
structures are formed also remains a mystery.
The Fine Details in the Factory
Both in terms of their general structure and also when examined
microbiologically, leaves exhibit very detailed and complex systems
specially created to ensure maximum energy production.

In order to produce energy, the plant has to obtain heat and carbon
dioxide from the outside world.
All the structures in leaves have been arranged in such a way as to obtain
these two elements without difficulty.
Leaves have broad external surfaces.
This enables the exchange of gases needed for photosynthesis to take
place with ease.
The leafs flat shape means that all its cells are close to the surface.
This, in turn, means that the exchange of gases is facilitated and that solar
rays can reach all the cells engaged in photosynthesis.
If, instead of a flat and thin structure, leaves came in any other
geometrical shape, or else had a meaningless and haphazard form, then
photosynthesis could only take place in those regions in direct contact
with the Sun.
This would mean that plants would be unable to produce sufficient energy
and oxygen.
One of the major consequences of this would be a lack of energy on
Earth.
And the Creation in leaves is by no means restricted to their shape.
Leaf tissues are highly sensitive to light which causes them to always turn
in the direction of the light.
The way that plant leaves always face the direction from which solar rays
reach them can easily be observed in potted plants.
Leaves are plants nuclear energy production facilities, and are factories
that produce nutrients, and are also laboratories in which crucial reactions
take place.
When we examine the structure of leaves, we can see just how important
these laboratories are.

The greater the surface area of the leaf, the greater its ability to work. For
example, plants with broad leaves tend to grow in dense tropical rain
forests.
There are very important reasons for this.
It is difficult for sunlight to reach everywhere in equal quantities in
tropical rain forests made up of densely packed trees.
This makes a greater leaf surface area essential in order to trap that light.
In these areas where sunlight penetrates the area very little, it is vitally
important for leaf surfaces to be very large if plants are to produce
nutrients.
By way of this feature, tropical plants obtain sunlight from various angles
in such a way as to make the greatest use of it.
In contrast, plants in dry, harsh environments have small leaves.
That is because, under such climatic conditions, the main disadvantage
facing plants is water loss. And, as leaf surface area increases, so does
evaporation, and thus water loss.
For that reason, the light-trapping leaf surface has been created in such a
way as to enable the plant to conserve water.
Leaf restriction reaches a peak in desert environments. Cacti, for
example, have thorns instead of leaves. In these plants, photosynthesis is
carried out in the fleshy body. The trunk is also where water is stored.
However, this by itself is not enough to control water loss. No matter
how small a plants leaves may be, water will still continue to be lost
through its pores.
A mechanism to balance evaporation is therefore essential. Plants possess
a means of regulating excess evaporation, which they do by means of
controlling the aperture of their pores, expanding or contracting this.
Trapping the light necessary for photosynthesis is not the only function
performed by leaves. The way that they also trap carbon dioxide in the air
and transmit this to where photosynthesis is made is equally important.

Plants perform this duty by means of the pores on the leaves.

Pores: A Flawless Creation
These microscopic holes on the leaf surface are responsible for heat and
water transfer, and for obtaining the carbon dioxide required for
photosynthesis from the atmosphere.
Known as pores, these holes have a structure capable of opening and
closing as necessary.
When the pores are opened, the oxygen and water vapour between the
leaf cells are exchanged for the carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis.
Production leftovers are thus expelled, and substances that are needed are
taken inside to be used.
One of the interesting things about the pores is that they are generally
found on the underside of leaves. This means that the negative effect of
sunlight is reduced to a minimum.
If the pores, which expel water from the plant, were on the upper sides of
leaves, then they would be exposed to the sunlight for long periods of
time.
In that event, if the plant were not to die from the heat, the pores in its
body would constantly give off water, meaning that the plant would die
from excessive water loss instead.
This special creation in the pores prevents the plant from being harmed
by water loss.
There is also a very fine detail in the structure of these pores, which have
been specially arranged in the light of all the relevant factors in the
external environment.
We know that the external environment is constantly changing: humidity
levels, temperature, gas levels, air pollution, etc.
The structure of the pores in the leaves is such as to be able to adapt to all
these variables.
This can be clarified by means of an example.

In plants such as sugar cane and maize, which are exposed to high
temperatures and dry air for long periods of time, the pores remain
entirely or partly closed throughout the whole day in order to conserve
water.
But, these plants also have to absorb the carbon dioxide needed for
photosynthesis in the daytime.
Under normal circumstances, the pores should be wide open in order to
permit this.
Yet this is impossible, because in that case the plant would constantly lose
water due to the fact that its pores were open, and it would soon die. This
means that the pores have to remain closed.
But this difficulty has been overcome.
Plants, such as sugar cane and maize that live in hot regions use chemical
pumps in order to be able to absorb carbon dioxide into their leaves, even
if their pores are closed.
If these chemical pumps were absent for a while, then the plant would be
unable to manufacture nutrients, since photosynthesis could not be
performed, and it would therefore die.
This shows the impossibility of these complex pumps in the leaves
gradually coming into being by chance.
Like all the others, this system in plants can only function when all its
components are fully present.
Therefore, it is impossible for the pores in plants to have evolved by
chance.
These pores, with their very special structure, have been created by Allah
in such a way as to fulfil the most delicate task.
Evolutionists Illogicalities
Plants contain many complex structures, squeezed into a minuscule space
with the most highly accurate calculations.

The leaf is just one of these structures.

All the complex structures in leaves have been operating with the same
perfection for millions of years.
So, how have these systems been squeezed into such a small space?
How do the complex characteristics in leaves come about?
Is it possible for such a perfect and matchless system to have emerged
spontaneously?
Let us see the impossibility of this by looking at the theories proposed by
evolutionists on the subject.
One of the theories concerning the emergence of leaves put forward by
evolutionists is the telome theory. According to this theory, leaves
were developed as the separate branches of supposed primitive veined
plants fused and flattened out.
However, the extraordinarily complex system in just one of the trillions
of leaves on Earth is enough to prove the illogical nature of this claim.
Furthermore, this theory is so groundless that it can be demolished by just
one or two questions:
- Why did these branches feel the need to fuse and flatten out?
- By means of what process did this fusion and flattening come about?
- What were the coincidences that led branches to turn into leaves with
completely different characteristics?
- How is it that thousands of varieties of plants, trees, flowers, and
grasses emerged from supposed primitive veined plants?
- Why was the need for such a variety felt?
- How were these simple veined plants able to come into being out of
nothing?
To date, no evolutionist has been able to give a logical and a scientific
answer to any one of these questions.
And it is, of course, impossible for them to do so.
Only one other possibility therefore remains.

Like all other living things, plants emerged in a single moment, fullyfledged and perfect.
In other words, Almighty and Omniscient Allah created them.
A Call to Reason
Throughout the course of this film we have been considering some of the
extraordinary features of leaves and have briefly touched on the subject
of photosynthesis. The aim in providing this information was to show that
these living things and the systems they possess could not have come into
being by chance.
Plants are entities with no hands, eyes, or brains; plants lack such features
of consciousness and reason as decision-making, lack the use of free will,
and lack the possession of knowledge.
Yet, as we have seen, the characteristics of plants and the functions they
perform require enormous intelligence and consciousness.
Indeed, plants all over the world successfully carry out processes, in as
little as a billionth of a second, whereas rational, conscious, and
knowledgeable human beings with advanced technology cannot replicate
nor even understand such a process.
Of course, plants have been behaving under the inspiration of Omniscient
Allah, our Creator, ever since they were first created.
Every plant cell, and even every atom, is told what to do moment-bymoment. This fact is made clear in a verse from the Quran:
It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the Earth the
same number, the Command descending down through all of
them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all
things and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge.
(Surat at-Talaq,12)