Page 101 - For Men of Understanding

IT SEES
360 DEGREES
AROUND

Another extremely interesting
feature of the jumping spider is its
skill in seeing. Many living
organisms, including human beings,
can only see a limited space with
their two eyes and are unable to see
behind them. However, the jumping
spider can see everything around
itself including its back with its four
pairs of eyes located on top of its
head. Two of these eyes are
extended forward from the middle
of the head like test-tubes. These
two big eyes (called A.M. eyes) can
move from right to left, and up and
down in their sockets. The other
four eyes on the sides of the head
cannot perceive the image
completely, yet can detect every
movement around them. In this
way, the animal can easily identify a
prey behind it.
A drawing shows the spider’s scale of vision.

The ability of the jumping spider's
eyes to see independently from each
other helps the animal perceive
objects more rapidly. In the pictures,
the dark eye looks at the camera, and
the light eye looks elsewhere. It is a
wonder that the jumping spider has
eight eyes and an angle of vision of
360 degrees whereas other creatures
have only two eyes. Certainly, the
animal has not, by itself, "thought"
that this would be more useful and
thus produced additional eyes, or
these eyes did not originate
coincidentally. The animal has been
created by Allah with all these
features.