For many years atheists used to
criticize this likening, but the scientific researches had proved the accuracy
of the verses of Qur’an …
Allah almighty says”The likeness of those who take Auliya' (protectors and
helpers) other than Allah is as the likeness of a spider, who builds (for
itself) a house, but verily, the frailest (weakest) of houses is the spider's
house; if they but knew.”[ Sûrat Al-‘Ankabût(The Spider)-verse41],this is a
wonderful verse to prove the greatness of the holy Qur’an and to be a clear
reply on atheists who claim that the Qur’an is a human made.
Here, we will see that house of the spider is weak not only from the
construction point of view but also from the social side.
Spider house is weak
House of the spider is definitely the weakest as all creatures build strong
houses to afford bad weather but the spider builds its house in the open area
where it is exposed to rain, wind and moisture. And we can find the strangest
kind of spiders is that one which lives in water.
this kind of spiders lives under water and gathers bubbles and use this bubbles
to fill the house and it can breath through that house , there are small
capillaries which cover its body to help in gathering the bubbles…look at the
house which is consists of bubbles that can be destroyed under any
circumstances!!!
The water spider lives under water and it builds the house by bubbles so it is
so weak as it lasts only for hours or days then it is destroyed by any outside
factor , after that the spider builds another house and so on , the water spider
lives alone all of his life.
The weak engineering
Most of creatures and insects build its houses in 3D design, but the spider
build it in 2D or flat and it get affected by temperature, moisture and wind so
the spider may eat its own house to produce another threads to rebuild the house
again!!!!
Scientists are thinking to gather large amount of spiders’ threads to use it as
a protection shields or in the planes industry but they have to gather large
number of spiders in one place to produce that amount of threads, the problem is
that spiders start to eat each other as they don’t like cooperation or
Sacrificing.
The weak family
Mother may eat her husband or sons or any other spider ……!!!!It is only a
separated life which is similar to the life of the atheist who only believes in
his or her life. That is clear in the life of people in western countries where
you find mother and father denies there sons as there is no social communication
between any of them.
The social life is weak
All of us know about the society of bees or ants or locusts …..The only creature
that lives alone in non-organized societies is the spider. Spider is selfish
where ants and bees may defend each other to death.
The marriage is weak
Some species of the spider have very strange life where the wife eats the
husband after marriage! So, the husband may run away.
What a miserable marriage. Scientists say that the phenomenon of spider is
unique in the life of all living organisms.
Threads are weak
Scientists say that spider’s thread is stronger five times than the steel!
Despite that it can easily destroyed, why? Because spider is not able to produce
thick threads rather it produces so thin threads as it is ten times thinner than
the hair of the head.
Hence, if Allah almighty said “the frailest (weakest) threads”, here a
scientific error will be identified but He almighty says:” the frailest
(weakest) of houses is the spider's house” and this is the precise expression.
Allah says:” And who is truer in statement than Allah?”[ Sûrat An-Nisâ’(The
Women)-verse87]
A photo by the microscope for the glands of the spider which produces the silk
through special proteins, that silk is in a liquid status and then becomes solid
after exposure to air, spider is a magnificent engineer but unfortunately its
engineering is so weak
The similarities between the atheist and the spider
• There are 37000 kinds of spiders on earth and scientists are not able to
imitate the threads of the spider as that creature has got a magnificent
engineering technique in building and designing, exactly the same as atheist who
used to do a perfect work in this life but in the hereafter all of his or her
works will equal nothing as Allah almighty don’t accept none of those
works.Allah says: (And We shall turn to whatever deeds they (disbelievers,
polytheists, sinners, etc.) did, and We shall make such deeds as scattered
floating particles of dust)[ Sûrat Al-Furqân(The Criterion)verse 23])
• Scientists say that there is a contradiction in the threads of spider as it is
very strong but its house is very weak. the same as atheists as you find them
are contradicted in their thoughts , when you ask them who created the universe
, the answer is no one or the coincidence but if you told them that no one did
produce the car , indeed they will consider it as a fun!!!!!!!
• The sight power of spider is limited to only few centimeters, exactly like the
atheist who just sees this life as all things and don’t put the hereafter in his
calculations.
• Spiders are aggressive and ravenous creatures and may hurt others by its
poison…. The same as atheist who used to distribute his or her poisons (wrong
thoughts and disbelieving) between people.
The thickness of the thread is between 0.001- 0.004 millimeter and it is elastic
as it may expand to 140% of its length. Scientists say that thickness of the
thread is 30 times less than the thickness of the human hair , if you want to
imagine the relation between human hair and spider thread
Spider life and atheist life
My beloved, we will examine some western statistics which produced by the
atheists themselves to compare between the weak life of spiders and the weak
life of atheists who believe only in this life and who used to consider the
Satan and money as the leaders and gods.
The black widow is one of the most dangerous kinds of spiders as it eats her
husband after the sexual intercourse …what a miserable creature
Do you know that in America, each year there are 300000 Cases of rape (American
ministry of justice)[1] and there is a rape every two minutes
[2]!!!!!!!......this society had lost all social relations… exactly as the
spider.
Do you know that 17.6% of the American women were exposed to rape minimum one
time in life! And 20% of them are children who are less than 12 years old!!!!And
quarter of the university students in America exposed to raping during their
studying in university (fisher 2000).
And every 15 seconds there is a raped woman in America (sexually or
physically)by a friend or a colleague, also 20% of girls are raped in the
teenager period[4]. also raping children is estimated by thousands of cases in
that first world according to recent statistics. !!!
Summary
We can summarize the miracle of that holy verse”The likeness of those who take
Auliya' (protectors and helpers) other than Allah is as the likeness of a
spider, who builds (for itself) a house, but verily, the frailest (weakest) of
houses is the spider's house; if they but knew.” as following:
1. The holy verse mentioned that the female spider builds the house not the male
as Allah says: “who builds (for itself)” not who builds for himself. This
scientific reality wasn’t known 1400 years ago at the time of the descending of
the Qur’an.
2. The weakest house in the whole nature is the house of spider and this
scientific fact wasn’t known at that time.
3. The holy verse determined in a clear sentence that the weakest is the house
not the thread which is considered to be a miracle which testifies that this
book was descended from Allah the almighty and it is never a human made.
Thanks Allah for the blessing of Islam.
References:
[1] (Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence
Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,
November, 2000).
[2] (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) calculation based on 2000
National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.
Department of Justice).
[3] (UN Study On The Status of Women, Year 2000).
[4] (New York Times, 8/01/01).
[5] National Geographic.
[6] R.F. Foelix, Biology of spiders, Oxford university press, 1996.
[7] The Wonders of Spider Silk, www.earthlife.net
[8] A SPIDER'S WEB, The University of Houston's College of Engineering,
www.uh.edu