Page 85 - The Miracle In The Seed

Seed Dispersal

Any plant that produces many delicious fruits is an attractive source of nutrition
for animals, who can disperse its seeds over a wider area. The relationship be-
tween ants and the seed pictured is an example of this. The Creator of this har-
monious relationship is God, Who directs the whole affair.

This harmony must have been specially arranged, because this
plant’s very first seeds had no other mechanism by which to rep-
roduce. If it hadn’t been able to attract the attention of ants, there
would be no likelihood of its continued existence. (And if the ants did-
n’t exist, they would have no way to survive.) But the reality that this
plant's existence shows us is plain to see. The consciousness behind
this perfect harmony is neither the plant’s nor the ants’. The supreme
source of this consciousness is God, Who knows the characteristics of
these two life forms and has created them in harmony with each other.
God makes known how every living thing is submissive to Him in a
verse of the Qur’an:
Everyone in the heavens and Earth belongs to Him. All are submis-
sive to Him. (Qur’an, 30:26)