Imam Jafar al-Sadiq

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Just consider a man’s voice and conversation, and the constitution of the organs concerned therewith. The larynx, which produces the sound, is like a tube while the tongue, the lips and the teeth mould the sound into letters and words.Don’t you see that a person who loses his teeth cannot reproduce the sound of the letter ‘s’; he who gets his lips cut cannot pronounce ‘f’, while a thick tongue cannot give the sound of* ‘r’?. A bagpipe resembles it a great deal. The larynx is comparable to the pipe and the bag into which air is blown, corresponds to the lungs containing air. TheRead More →

Imam Jafar al-Sadiq

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Just consider the ingenuity and balanced design underlying the production of organs and systems in pairs or as single units. just consider the head which is created a single unit and it is but just appropriate not to have created it in more than one unit. A second head would have been only an additional weight, quite unnecessary, seeing that one piece comprises all the senses needed for man. Two heads would have meant two parts for men. So, if he used only one for talk, the other would have been redundant. To have used both simultaneously for the same talk would have been meaninglessRead More →