Page 50 - Beavers: Skilful Dam Constructors
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It is Allah
Who created
beavers
So you’ve learnt about beavers along with Karim. As
you’ve seen, thanks to skills possessed at birth, these
new friends of Karim can design buildings, which is in fact
quite a difficult and complicated task. Then they carry out
this plan with great skill. Unlike Karim’s sister, beavers do
not go to school, nor are they trained for years. But they
know exactly what to do, because there is a Supreme
Being Who teaches them all these things. This being is
Allah, Who created everything, including us.
Remember! A beaver could not have acquired the
skill to build dams by chance. It could not have made its
body just right for its needs. It could not have discovered
by itself the shape to build the dams so that they should
be strong enough to withstand the water pressure. And
more importantly, it could not have ensured other
beavers’ possessing the same skills.
There is one more point to note: Beavers could not
live if even one of the features they possess were
lacking. For example let’s consider their teeth. If their
back teeth, though not worn down, kept growing like the
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