Asadulah

onsdag 14 maj 2008

What have we given to them?

It´s time to react against all this starvation and death all around the world. We will never solve the problem by giving some coins for sadaqa. God will ask us about what we've done for the helpless people, so what are we going to answer??!

Oh Allah, give us the strength to help the suffering people! And help us to help them followin your path! Ameen...

tisdag 13 maj 2008

Stridulation

Stridulation is the act of making sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts of the body. It is very common for many male insects to produce such of noise, specially by orthoperas as crickets, grasshoppers and locusts. There are also animals that use stridulation such as snakes, spiders, and birds. Recent studies by a small band of researchers show that even ants have the capacity to stridulate! One of the most known in the researching is Dr. Robert Hickling. In his homepage you may find more about him and his research (read also this article for more information.

There is something special about this "new discovery". It was already written for more tan 1400 years ago in the Quran. In surat an-Naml in the verse 18 it states that ants do comunicate, and warn the others in case of emergency. It says in the Quran:

"Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving" (Chapter 27, verse 18, Translation by Pickthal)