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can a baby kangaroo one centimetre long know the right nipple
              that would meets its needs?", "How has the mother kangaroo
              placed milk in her four nipples with such different ingredients?"

              What is more, the milk the new-born baby sucks is hotter than the
              other milk from the other nipples. Their ingredients are also
              different. This being the case, how did the mother kangaroo

              manage to heat this milk? How has she added the necessary
              ingredients to this milk?

                 Remember, it is not the mother who has accomplished all these
              things. The mother kangaroo does not even know that the milk
              issuing from the nipples is different. It is unlikely that she could

              compute the temperature of the milk produced by her nipples. She
              cannot manage to provide each nipple with different kinds of milk.

              She cannot even know that they are different. She is only a                49
              kangaroo living under Allah's watchful care. Her baby's needs are
              taken care of by Allah. Our Lord, the All-Compassionate and Most

                                 Merciful, has placed the most appropriate milk in
                                       the most appropriate place for the babies,
                                                   that is, in the mother's pouch.

                                                      A baby kangaroo spends its
                                                    first six and a half months in
                                                    this pouch. After spending the

                                                    next eight months both in the
                                                     pouch and outside, it leaves

                                                       it once and for all.
                                                          Meanwhile, before the
                                                        first joey leaves the pouch,
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