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In the Name of Allah,
The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

give their lives for it, just as human parents do for

their own young.
Weak and helpless baby animals can only survive if they
are protected by strong adults. Their parents never neglect
them and untiringly take on every responsibility for them.
Some parents even do this when their young are still in the egg.
The most savage animals have great compassion for their
young and protect them from danger at the cost of their own

lives. Crocodiles carry their young in their mouths; birds collect
branches and twigs to make nests, chirp shrilly to warn the
flock of danger, and pretend to be wounded in order to draw an
enemy’s attention to themselves; zebras place themselves be-
tween a young zebra and its enemy; penguins sit on their eggs
without moving for months and, during snowstorms, carry
them between their feet without eating any thing.
Such types of behavior are amazing examples of self-sacri-
fice. But since animals have no intelligence, consciousness, or

awareness, we can understand that Allah inspires these things
in them. Allah, the All-Merciful and Most Merciful, makes wild
animals serve their young. All animals show wonderful exam-
ples of self-sacrifice and feed their young with a great sense of
duty. In His mercy, Allah supplies all animals with the food
they need. These are just a few of the millions of proofs we will
see when we look at the lives of animals.

The crocodile, one of the most savage animals in exis-
tence, pays great attention to its young. After the young hatch,
the mother carries them in her mouth to the water. Until they
can look after themselves, she carries them in her mouth or on
her back. Her mouth is the most secure place for them, for it is

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