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COMPOSITION OF THE HUMAN BODY

Just like any other Muslim, Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) also believed that human beings were made from the earth, but no one could dream either during his lifetime or after his death of what he has said about the composition of the human body. If anyone has said anything in this connection he must have heard it from him or from one of his students.
He said that whatever is in the earth is also in the human body, but of all elements four are in very large quantities, eight elements in small quantities and eight elements in minute quantities.
Henry Bergson, the French philosopher, said that every atom, which exists from the time of the creation of the world or the universe has knowledge of everything that exists on the surface of earth. Just like the atoms, every cell of the human body knows what is in the world. It also knows the history of mankind from the beginning of the world till today. Gaining access to the boundless field of the subconscious mind has been called by him as “The Leap Of Life.” He said that the Leap of Life of a genius is much higher than that of an ordinary person. He can make use of the knowledge which lies in the human cells.
Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was either endowed with divine knowledge of the Imamate, as Shias believe, or his subconscious mind was linked to his conscious mind, as some people think, or else his “Leap of Life” was very big, as Bergson has said. Whatever may be the case, he was the only person among his contemporaries as well as those, who came after him, who had knowledge of the human body.
Twelve and a half centuries after his death his theory is confirmed today by science and there remains no doubt about its soundness and accuracy. What he did not do was to mention the names of elements which are present in the human body.
There are 102 elements in the earth and all of them are present in the human body. Some of them are in such small quantities that it has not been possible to discover their exact proportion.
His statement that what is in the earth is in the human body is not important and proves nothing. Anyone who believes that man was made from the earth must also believe in that. What proves that he was a genius is his theory that out of all the elements which are in the human body four elements are in large quantities, eight in small quantities and another eight in very minute quantities.
The above theory has been proved to be quite correct. The four elements, which are in large quantities in the human body, are Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. The eight elements which are in small quantities are: Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Iron and Chlorine. The other eight elements which are in very minute quantities are: Molybdenum,
Cobalt, Manganese, Copper, Zinc, Fluorine, Silicon and Iodine.

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