Allah has mentioned in the Qur'an about some animals. I would like to share with you what are the animals and the significance behind this.
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Regarding the flight of birds the Qur'an says:
"Do They not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) sky? nothing holds them up but (the power Of) Allah. Verily in this Are Signs for those who believe."
[Al-Qur'an 16:79]
A similar message is repeated in the Qur'an in the verse:
"Do they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them Except (Allah) Most Gracious: Truly it is He that watches over all things."
[Al-Qur'an 67:19]
These verses stress the extremely close dependece of the birds' behaviour on Divine order. Modern scientific data has shown the degree of perfection attained by certain species of birds with regard to the performing of their movement. It is only the existance of a migratory programme in the genetic code og the birds that can explain the long and complicated journey that the very young birds, without any prior experience and without any guide are able to accomplish.
BEE
"And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men's) habitations; Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find withs skill the spacious paths of its Lord."
[Al-Qur'an 16:68-69]
Von Frisch received the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his research on the behaviour and communication of the bees. The bee, after discovering any new garden or flower, goes back and tells its fellow bees the exact direction and map to get there, which is known as 'bee dance'. The meanings of this insect's movement that are intended to transmit information between worker bees have been discovered scientifically using photography and other methods. The Qur'an mentions in the above verses how the bee finds with skill the spacious paths of its Lord.
SPIDER"S WEB
The Qur'an mentioned in Surah Al-'Ankabut,
"The parable of those who take protector other than Allah is that of the spider, Who builds (to itself) a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider's house- If they knew."
[Al-qur'an 29:41]
Besides giving the physical description og the spider's web as being very flimsy, delicate and weak, the Qur'an also stresses on the flimsiness of the relationship in the spider's house, where the female spider many a times kills its mate, the male spder.
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Consider the following Qur'anic verse:
"And before Solomon were marshalled his hosts- of Jinns and men and birds, and they were all kept in order and ranks.
At lenght, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said : 'O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush on you (under foot) without knowing it."
[Al-Qur'an 27:17-18]
researh has shown that the animals or insects whose lifestyle is closest in resemblance to the lifestyle of human beings are the ants. This can be seen from the following findings regarding ants:
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