From Rib to Heart: The Divine Origin of Love
“In her eyes, he saw the first dawn of love — not possession, but reflection.” — Rumi
Blog Summary:
- Creation of Eve (Hawwa)
- Scientific Interpretation of creating from a rib
- Decoding the verses of the Holy Quran
- Anatomy of Human Ribs
- Spiritual Themes
When Allah placed Adam (the first male) in Paradise, he was complete in form but not in feeling — for even the heart needs its echo.
So from his side, near the heart, Allah shaped Hawwa (Eve- first female) — not just as a companion, but as comfort, as home
Creation of Eve (Hawwa)1
Allah expelled Iblis (Satan) from Paradise and placed Adam in it. Adam wandered through Paradise, surrounded by beauty, yet felt alone—because even the most beautiful place feels empty without someone to share it with. One day, as Adam slept, Allah created a woman from his rib. Adam woke up and saw her sitting beside him. Allah had made her to be his companion, close to his heart.
Adam asked her, “What are you?” She replied, “A woman.”
“Why were you created?” he asked.
“So you could find comfort in me,”2 she answered, a simple truth of love and peace.
The angels asked Adam, “What is her name, O Adam?”
Adam replied, “Hawwa.”
When they asked, “Why Hawwa?”
Adam said, “Because Allah created her from something alive.”
He gave her that name, and it echoed the life and love they shared.3
🔬 Scientific Interpretation
Regenerative Biology & Cellular Potential
Modern science supports the idea that any human cell can be used to clone or recreate complex tissues:
- Stem cells have shown that even a single cell has the full genetic code of the human being.
- Techniques like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) show that adult cells can be “reprogrammed” into any type of tissue.
- In cloning (like Dolly the sheep4), a full organism was made from one adult cell.
Decoding the verses of the Holy Quran
When Allah says He created Eve from Adam’s rib, it’s like He’s dropping a mind-blowing secret on us. Every cell in our body is a little miracle! If you could stretch out your DNA, it would reach all the way to Jupiter and back… a few times! 5And all of that is packed into the tiniest cells in your body — cells so small you need a microscope to even think about seeing them. It’s like having the most amazing technology inside of you, and you didn’t even need to sign up for it!
But wait, it gets crazier. DNA is like the ultimate hard drive — it holds every little detail about who you are. It’s like a super-powerful computer that’s way beyond anything we can build. The universe is like this huge instruction manual, and we’re all just trying to figure out how it works!
🌿 Anatomy of Human Ribs
Allah made her from his rib… not his head to boss him, not his foot to be stepped on—right from the side so she can elbow him when he’s wrong! 😄
“Allah said He made her from the short rib on the left side—so yeah, turns out even ribs got personality 😄! Looks like science just found out what the Qur’an already hinted… time to check the anatomy books!
- Humans have 12 pairs of ribs.
- Ribs 1–7: True ribs – directly attached to the sternum.
- Ribs 8–10: False ribs – connected to the sternum via cartilage.
- Ribs 11 & 12: Floating ribs – not attached to the sternum at all.
These floating ribs are the shortest and most flexible. So maybe Allah is talking about these ribs……….
🤲Spiritual Themes:
When Allah says He created her from the small rib, it’s not just anatomy—it’s poetry. The rib closest to the heart, curved not to be broken, but to embrace—just like she was made to be loved, protected, and held close.
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- Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 114 (Book of Marriage):
“Treat women nicely, for a woman is created from a rib, and the most curved portion of the rib is its upper part…” ↩︎ - “And among His signs is that He created for you from among yourselves mates that you may find rest in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy.”
Reference: — Chapter 30 (Surah Ar-Rum), Verse 21 ↩︎ - This story is elaborated in works like Tafsir Ibn Kathir, especially under the verses of Surah An-Nisa (4:1) and Surah Al-A’raf (7:189) ↩︎
- Dolly was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland using the technique of nuclear transfer, where the nucleus from a cell taken from her mammary gland was inserted into an enucleated egg cell. ↩︎
- Here’s the science behind it:
Human DNA: If you were to stretch out the DNA in every cell of your body, it would measure about 2 meters long. Considering the approximately 37.2 trillion cells in the human body, this means the total DNA length in an average human body is about 70 billion kilometers.
Distance to Jupiter: The average distance from Earth to Jupiter is about 778 million kilometers. So, if you were to stretch out the DNA from all the cells in your body, it could reach Jupiter and back around 100 times. ↩︎
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