Ramadan article: Wonders of the Ant

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

-Continued from yesterday

The intelligence of the ant is also bewildering, when they carry seeds to their homes, they break them so that they do not sprout. If the seed is of the type that sprouts when split, they split it into four pieces. If the seeds are moistened or get wet and the ants fear they may spoil, they take them out [to dry] in the sun and then return them. This is why you sometimes find a lot of broken seeds outside an ant home, and if you return a little while later you wouldn’t find one seed.

Another aspect of their intelligence is that they do not build a nest except on high ground in order to protect themselves from being drowned by running water, so you wouldn’t find an ant nest at the bottom of a valley, rather you would find it on top or above the water level.

In attesting for their intelligence, it is sufficient what Allah the Majestic, the Elevated, stated in His Book: what an ant said to a group of ants when it saw Sulaimaan(Solomon), peace be upon him, and his troops:

{O ants! Enter your dwellings, lest Sulaimaan and his hosts should crush you, while they perceive not.}

So its advice, though summarized, consisted of these ten [categories of speech] and this is why Sulaimaan was amused by its speech, smiled and asked Allah to enable him to be grateful for the blessing that He bestowed upon him when he heard the ant’s speech. Do not think that this level of intelligence is far fetched for a whole nation/species that glorifies their lord, as was authentically related that the Prophet said:

“One of the prophets rested under a tree and was bitten by an ant [he removed the sting?] and then burnt down the ant hill so Allah revealed to him: Just because one ant bit you, you burnt down a one whole nation [of ants] that glorify [their lord], because of one ant.”

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