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Adnan Oktar

themselves. We'll provide various examples to invite your careful con-
sideration. By "consideration," we don't mean a superficial glance, but
to ponder upon the answers to the questions of why and how these
creatures accomplish such extraordinary things and establish such a
disciplined social life.
In the course of a day, many questions enter people's minds, and

they must ponder them to think of solutions. They may wonder about
work, school, office or classmates, family and personal matters that
concern everyone, about the characters in a film they saw, individuals
they met on the street or events they read about in books or saw on tel-
evision. They think about what to cook for dinner and what he had
gone through in the past. But with all these things occupying their
minds, people should think correctly and effectively. They must ask
questions and think if they are to find answers. And so, the examples
of termites given in this book and the questions they raise should urge

you to think and consider. In many verses in the Qur'an, God stresses
how important it is that people think about the creatures and events in
their environment as evidence for faith:
Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-
Merciful, the Most Merciful. In the creation of the heavens and

earth, and the alternation of the night and day, and the ships
which sail the seas to people's benefit, and the water which God
sends down from the sky – by which He brings the earth to life
when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of every kind
– and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds sub-
servient between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people
who use their intellect. (Surat al-Baqara: 163-164)

Termites are just one species out of millions, from which thinking
people can glean some important truths.

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