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As a family, the mother cheetah and her offspring are
very attached to one another. The mother performs many self-
less acts while rearing her young. In order to feed them, she of-
ten goes hungry, losing nearly half her weight. If she must, she
will even give her own life for her kittens. For example, a lion

is a great threat to baby cheetahs. Without hesitation, the
mother will throw herself into the lion's path and, putting her
own life in jeopardy, she draws the lion's attention away from
her young to herself, giving them time to run away. This kind
of altruistic behavior calls for consideration.
If this mammal were, as the evolutionists propose, a crea-
ture that assembled itself by chance through untold genera-
tions and by acting with selfish concern only for its own sur-
vival, we would expect it to flee and desert its young. Yet the

cheetah does not do this, but confronts the lion and, if neces-
sary, gives up her own life. Surely, it is Allah Who gives moth-
er cheetahs this exemplary sense of self-sacrifice.