Can Ants Speak?

What are they saying? Scientists study ants to determine how they communicate. (1) Science has recently discovered that ants can speak. It is the truth stated in the Quran 1400 years ago... Interesting point. Videos worth watching.

 09/08/2009 - ABC NEWS

   

WHAT DOES QURAN SAY ABOUT ANTS?

[27:18] When they approached the valley of the ants, one ant said, "O you ants, go into your homes, lest you get crushed by Solomon and his soldiers, without perceiving."



         

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WHAT DO SCIENTISTS SAY? (2)

 Advances in audio technology have enabled scientists to discover that ants routinely talk to each other in their nests. Most ants have a natural washboard and plectrum built into their abdomens that they can rub together to communicate using sound.

 Using miniaturised microphones and speakers that can be inserted unobtrusively into nests, researchers established that the queens can issue instructions to their workers. The astonished researchers, who managed to make the first recordings of queen ants “speaking”, also discovered that other insects can mimic the ants to make them slaves. Rebel's large blue butterfly is one of about 10,000 creatures that have a parasitic relationship with ants and has now been found to have learnt to imitate the sounds as well as using chemical signals.

Die and Resurrect. Possible? (WATCH)

"The heart stops, the breathing stops. For all practical purposes you'd assume that it was dead."

"He produces the live from the dead, and produces the dead from the live, and He revives the land after it had died; you are similarly resurrected." (Quran 30:19)

Here we see a video from North America. There are frozen frogs and they literally solid freeze four to six months. The common wood frog displays a rare trait called freeze tolerance. When the mercury falls, the animal becomes, to the eye and touch, a frog- shaped ice cube.

 "Two-thirds of their body water, or more, freezes," explained Jack Layne, a biologist at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. "The heart stops, the breathing stops. For all practical purposes you'd assume that it was dead."



 


God is wise and almighty. He is the source of life. He gives the life in need of nothing, no cause...

In reality, the frog's metabolism slows to a crawl, and its body temperature drops to between 21° and 30° Fahrenheit (–6° and –1° Celsius). The amphibian's heart and brain cease to function.

Introduction to Usul al-Fiqh / Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

Instructor: Dr Mohammed Akram Nadwi (Oxford University)
Date: Saturday 9th October 2010 Time: 9:30AM - 6:00PM
Venue: Cambridge University - Mill Lane Lecture Theatres
Mill Lane Lecture Theatres - Room 1, Cambridge University
8 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX

The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons

When Baghdad opened its gates as the new capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, the prime site in the city was occupied by the royal library. Both the city and the library, completed around 765, were built by Caliph al-Mansur, who devised a method for measuring the circumference of the Earth and was second in a long line of Abbasid caliphs who valued thought and learning above all else. The Abbasids created, shaped and developed one of the most rich and fertile periods of science in human history.

The library was officially called “the House of Wisdom”. It was a monumental structure, accommodating translators, copyists, scholars, scientists, librarians and the swelling volumes of Persian, Sanskrit and Greek texts that flooded into Baghdad. Not surprisingly, it became a magnet for seekers of knowledge from across the Muslim empire.

Jonathan Lyons tells the story of the House of Wisdom, the caliphs who supported it and the people who worked there, at a riveting, breakneck pace. In quick succession we meet scholars such as al-Khwarizimi, the illustrious Muslim mathematician and founder of algebra, the geographer al-Masudi,