Physiology - Blood Circulation and the Production of Milk
The Quran was revealed 600 year before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the circulation of the blood and 1000 year before William Harvey brought this understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the process of digestive absorption, a verse in the Quran describe the source of the constituents of milk, in conformity with these nations.
To understand the Quranic verse concerning the above concepts, it is important to know that chemical reactions occur in the intestines and that, from there, substances extracted from food pass into the blood stream via a complex system; sometimes by way of the liver, depending on their chemical nature. The blood transports them to all the organs of the body, among which are the milk-producing mammary glands.
In simple terms, certain substances from the contents of the intestines enter into the vessels of the intestinal wall itself, and these substances are transported by the blood stream to the various organs.
This concept must be fully appreciated if we wish to understand the following verse in the Quran:
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Verily in the cattle there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of what is inside their bodies coming from a conjunction between the contents of the intestine and the blood, a milk pure and pleasant for those who drink it. [16:66] Translation of this Quranic verse is from the book “The Bible, the Quran and Science” by Dr Maurice Bucaille. The book was writtein in 1976.
And in cattle (too) ye have an instructive example: From within their bodies We produce (milk) for you to drink; there are, in them, (besides), numerous (other) benefits for you; and of their (meat) ye eat. [23:21]**
The Quranic description of the production of milk in cattle is strikingly similar to what modern physiology has discovered.
re: The Quran & Modern Science - Compaltible or Incompatible - Part - 1 "PHYSIOLOGY"
Peace queer,
The text in blue are the verse from thy Holy book 'Quran'. These verses don't explains how the milk is produced but its says that there is a lesson, sign, clue and an evidence of the wisdom power, mercy and kindness of the Creator.
Moreover pure and pleasant, drinkable 'milk' in between the excrement and blood in the belly of the animal, but each of them goes its own way after the food has been fully digested in its stomach. The blood goes to the veins, the milk goes to the udder, the urine goes to the bladder the feces goes to the anus. None of them gets mixed with another after separating and none to them affected by the other.
Now those who don't believe may analyize with the help of modern science about how the milk production is in a cattle? To know that the book 'Quran' compatible or not compatible with modern science.
Maybe or maybe not 'Galen of Pergamon had blood circulation mapped out before or Ibn Nafees of not but that wasn't the topic of this thread.
In this article I find it amazing that it makes these statements:
For every litre of milk the cow makes, more than 400 litres of blood must travel around the udder to deliver the nutrients and water for making milk.
**The grass then passes to the fourth stomach, called the abomasum, where it is digested. The digested grass then passes through the small intestine, where all the essential nutrients the cow needs to stay healthy and strong are absorbed, and some are transported to the udder.
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Unlike humans who only get nutrition to all cells in the body in one way … Ruminants will take nutrients from blood and directly from the intestines as well.
