Page 316 - In The Name Of Allah, The All-Merciful And Most Merciful

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

and feel maternal and other types of compassion

for their young. Such self-sacrifice is only one proof of
Allah’s name as All-Merciful and Most Merciful.

Some mothers must leave their young behind in their
communities at great risk until they are weaned. Many animals
look after their young for days, months, or sometimes even
years, giving them food and a warm nest, and protecting them

from wild animals. Some birds feed their young between four
and twenty times an hour. Female mammals have other re-
sponsibilities. When they are producing milk, they must eat
more nourishing food and therefore hunt more frequently. In
spite of this, the baby gains weight and the mother loses
weight.
Baby birds come out of their eggs blind
and without feathers.

The chicks are
looked after by Baby birds are de-
their parents fenseless but devel-
until their feath- op from day to day,
ers grow and thanks to the spe-
they can move cial care they re-
on their own. ceive from their
parents by Allah’s
inspiration.

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