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Ants – Linguistic Gems from The Qur’an

A whole surah is dedicated to the tiny creatures called ants. What is so important about these insects, what does this surah (chapter) teach? A brief summary has been written of the importance of the ants in the following article.

The article starts with how an ant called out to others when it saw danger approaching within the article explanation of the ant hierarchy is also mentioned. It goes onto show one of the many miracles of the Qu’ran, the structure of the ant skeleton. A non-muslim scientists became muslim due to what was written in the Qu’ran on his conquest of trying to disprove the ayah (verse).

Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, “O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not.”