470. Ants also have intelligence .
In this verse (27:18) of the Quran it is being conveyed, the ants sensed beforehand the danger of being trampled upon by the forces of Prophet Sulaiman and warned the other ants about the same.
If the ants are intelligent enough to sense the movements of humans yet they are killed by being stamped at the feet of men. Why can they not avoid death as they did when Prophet Sulaiman and his men crossed them, is the question that may be raised by some.
Whatever the ants sensed at the time of Prophet Sulaiman, the same is being done by the ants even now.
They did not sense Prophet Sulaiman arriving as a single individual but as a person leading a force.
When a huge force is mobilised, it is natural for them to create vibrations all along their path especially when accompanied by an army of elephants and horses. Scientists have now discovered that ants have the ability, intelligence to sense the movement of such forces towards the particular direction.
The following is the discovery by the scientists.
New York: Scientists have discovered that ants, a group of tiny organisms, could sense the occurrence of an earthquake a day in advance. But man has not invented till today a device that could point out precisely the occurrence of a quake.
A science department researcher by the name of Gabriel Berberich conducted a study on tiny red ants along with his associate at the University of Duisburg in Germany for a period of three years using a specialized video camera. In his final report submitted regarding this research he mentions, these tiny ants in ordinary days spend most of the day time collecting food, and spend their night resting in their ant colony. But at the time of quakes occurring, they are found to vacate their colonies the previous night itself, and return to their colonies when situations return to normal, the gases that are released before the quake, and certain movements of the earth’s tectonic plates prompt the ants to leave their habitat. If the same behavior of the ants, of responding to vibrations on the inner parts of the earth has been divulged some 1444 years ago, it could only be the message from Almighty God.
Normally sensing the arrival of a force of soldiers could be understood, the question by the skeptics is, how could the ants specifically pinpoint the identity of Prophet Sulaiman and his forces.
Whether ants or any other non-human beings for that matter cannot identify a human by his name.
But the great God had granted Prophet Sulaiman a vast kingdom, where he had power over the satans, and had the ability to talk to birds and other creatures. (Verse 27:16) of the Quran.
In verse 27:20 of the Quran, we find the fact that Prophet Sulaiman spoke the language of the birds with the hud-hud bird.
He spoke with the various creatures that existed within the jurisdiction of his rule. There is no surprise in the fact he was recognized by the ants within his rule.
There is no wonder in the fact the ants sensed Prophet Sulaiman because if anybody in that region could march along with a huge force, it has to be Prophet Sulaiman
