Page 12 - The Miracle in the Mosquito

THE MIRACLE IN THE MOSQUITO

behaviour that is really brought about by the command and inspi-
ration of God. God reveals in the Qur’an as follows:
What you serve apart from Him are only names which you
and your forefathers have made up. There is no mandate for
them from God… (Qur’an, 12:40)
Thus by not accepting the facts, they deceive themselves and
try to appease their consciences. They clearly feel the existence of
God and His attributes in their consciences, but they run away
from “reality” and deny the evidence of God. The reason for this
is explained in the Qur’an as follows:

When Our Signs came to them in all their clarity, they said,
“This is downright magic,” and they repudiated them
wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about
them. Consider the final fate of the corrupters. (Qur’an,
27:13-14)
God has spread boundless evidence of His existence before
the eyes of man. He has made manifest His eternal intelligence
and knowledge in His chosen beings. With His endless grace, He
gives unimaginable tasks to the most unexpected, humble, even
brainless creatures. As a result, many creatures, whether large or
small, from birds to reptiles, from whales to insects, exhibit unex-
pected behaviour and actions that fill people with admiration.
Such behaviours are surprising to most people. Even man, who
sees himself as an intelligent, knowledgeable and conscious being,
is humbled in the face of many of these skills (for example, the spi-
der’s ability to produce strands stronger than steel), and does not
even have the power to imitate them.
The subject of this book, the mosquito, is just one such crea-
ture, aspects of whose behaviour fill us with admiration. And al-
though it is the creature we may be most used to and encounter
most commonly, it is possibly the one we give the least thought to
and consider as worthless.

10