. It is only feasible for a submitter to believe from this example. The disbeliever cannot see this as a sign until the real thing happens, i.e. the Day of Resurrection, and then it is too late to believe and receive the rewards of righteousness.
This happens because human tends only to believe in what they see. Once again, God tells us in the Quran:
…He created everything in exact measure; He precisely designed everything. [25:2]
But the human being tends to believe only what he sees in front of him. [75:5]
Ijaz Chaudry / England
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The salamander is a reptile which is from the same family as newts. At first sight this animal is in no way different from any other amphibian. Its features are a distinctive, smooth moist skin that is richly supplied with mucous glands, a head, thorax and abdomen with the tail tapering at the end.
One might be deceived by these apparently ordinary features, and overlook its amazing capability when injured.
If this animal loses one of its legs, the whole leg regenerates, with all tissue and bone. The scientific explanation for this phenomenon is the reversal of the process of degeneration of tissues. Each individual cell remembers the process of growth at birth and performs this function once again to recreate the whole leg.
The human embryo has a similar ability, whereby tissues divide and grow into different specialized tissues like bone, blood, brain cells, etc. The ability of tissue to grow in this way is lost at the time of birth.
However, if a human severs the tip of his/her finger, the finger will grow it again. This is contradictory to what we have learned earlier, i.e. that tissue cannot regenerate in humans. However, God tells us in the Quran:
Does the human being think that we will not reconstruct his bones? Yes indeed; we are able to reconstruct his finger tip. (75:3-4)
These verses are a reminder of the Day of Resurrection, when we shall be brought out of dust, alive and with all of our faculties. The reconstruction of the finger tip is an example where the human imagination must stretch beyond what is logical to us today.