PERFECTION, OPTIMALITY, INCOMPARABILITY
13.1.1 CONCEPTS
Allah’s creation is perfect. Allah is the best
creator, ahsan al kahliqin (2:138 & 37:125). He perfected everything He made, kamal al khalq (27:88 & 95:4). He made
humans in the best image, ahsan suurat (40:64 & 95:4). The process of perfection went through four stages: creation, khalq;
making due proportions, taswiyat; balancing, ta ‘adil; and making the best image, taswiir. The biological perfection
was created and not evolved. Every living and non-living things was created perfect de novo. All what Allah created has a
purpose (23:115). This applies to the whole organism or its constituent tissues and cells. Order, nidhaam; harmony; and perfection, kamaal,
are part of predestination, qadar, and are not accidental. Denying the existence
of a creator is an intellectual and mental aberration that is incompatible with logic because perfection and harmony could
not arise by chance. The constant physical laws, sunan al kawn, operate in both
inanimate and biological systems. Every human is unique and is different from everybody else, a testimony to the power
of the Creator. The human is created in the best and optimal fashion, ahsana taqwiim (95:4)
and all biological systems are optimal. Change is governed by natural laws, sunan llah. There is a balance between constancy
and change. The Qur’an challenged humans and other creations to create the like of Allah’s creation and proved
them incapable of facing the challenge (7:191 & 25:35-36). Cloning, genetic engineering, and selective breeding are not
de novo creations and can not be compared to Allah’s creations. No human or any other being can create new life, ‘ajz
al shuraka ‘an al khalq (7:191 & 25:35-36). Human actions are imperfect.
13.1.2 MANIFESTATIONS: ANATOMY
Perfections of perfection and optimality are found in all medical disciplines. In anatomy, for example,
parity in general (11:40 & 51:49), parity of gender (92:3 & 78:8), parity of organs (12:84 & 111:1), symmetry,
both circular and lateral symmetry, laterality of left and right (7:17 & 84:7-8), adaptation of structure to function,
consistency and predictability, and orderly change (staged, anticipated, and protective measures against mistakes).
13.1.3 MANIFESTATIONS: PHYSIOLOGY and BIOCHEMISTRY
Manifestations of perfection and optimality in physiology,
biochemistry, & pharmacology are: the human organism functioning as a single entity (MB2018), correlation between
anatomy and physiology, repeatability/replicability, specificity, specialization, complementality, co-operation, a hierarchy of importance, information processing/perception, reserve
capacity in organs and compensation for overload. The complex human organism has few basic building blocks: amino acids, monosacharides, and fatty acids. The discovery
of the periodic table of elements is one of the strong indicators that there
is order in the universe. Metabolism of new synthetic molecules is a miracle of creation
that needs appreciation. The finding that synthetic molecules can be metabolized by the biological systems indicates
the existence of a unifying scheme of creation based on sunan al laahi fi al kawn.
13.1.4 MANIFESTATIONS: MICROBIOLOGY and PARASITOLOGY
13.1.5 MANIFESTATIONS: BIOSTATISTICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
Manifestations of perfection and optimality in biostatistics
and epidemiology are consistency & predictability, inference and causality, and probability.
