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The spider

العنكبوت

The likeness of those who take protectors besides God is the spider that takes a house, and the frailest of houses is the spider's house, if they only knew; the surah of the Spider is named for this parable.

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Animals and mercy

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Mentioned in
Qur'an 29:41

People and things also explored

The birds of the elephant· Anam (livestock: camels, cattle and sheep, and their rulings)· The ant· The apes· Awqas (the gaps between the prescribed amounts of zakat on camels, cattle and sheep, and whether zakat is due on them)· The bat· The bear· The bee

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
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The birds of the elephant

God sent against the People of the Elephant flights of birds pelting them with stones of baked clay, leaving them like straw eaten up, when they marched to destroy the Kaaba in the Year of the Elephant.