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body of the ant in this form and who inspires the job it is doing. To say
that the ant can figure out these duties on its own and serves as a door-
man without running out of patience and without giving up, would cer-
tainly not be a sensible explanation.
Let us think: Why would an ant want to be a doorman? If it had a
choice, why would it pick the job, which is the most cumbersome and
that requires the most sacrifice? If it did have such a chance, it would
certainly pick a job that would provide it with the most comfortable en-
vironment and the best service. The choice, in fact, has come about with
the determination of Allah. And the doorman ant performs its duties in
full obedience. Only the creator of the ants may have designed such a
perfect colony life to show the striking side of His art and given partic-
ular duties to the ant colony which abides by this system.
According to the theory of evolution, however, the ants should be
developing in every respect and they should be trying to get into a caste
where they could live a lot more comfortably. However, the doorman
ants make no effort in this direction and they perform their inspired jobs
faultlessly throughout their entire lives.

Expert Ants

The organization, specialization in certain fields, and communica-
tions in the ant world is almost as successful as among human beings.
This is true to such an extent that human beings are patterning their sys-
tems today on the harmonious system of the ants. The excerpt below il-
lustrates this point:

Computer experts today are trying to reproduce in laboratories the col-
lective behaviour forms of ants in robots. Instead of very advanced pro-
grammes, they are focusing on robots that cooperate devising between
themselves on the basis of "simple" information elements. In these stud-
ies, the basic principle is the same. Instead of forming a highly advanced
robot, the intention is to develop a herd of robots that are less "intelli-
gent" but which will undertake the most "complex" tasks, just as the ants
do in the ant colony… These robots will not be very advanced from the
point of "intelligence" when taken one by one, but they will achieve the
division of labour by collective action motivation. This will be possible
because they will have the capacity to exchange the simplest information

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