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The Work of Allah: Sea Star

Allah almighty says “The Work of Allah, Who perfected all things” (An-Naml:88). Many creatures Allah (swt) has created to glorify him follow his commands, and for us to think of Allah’s (swt) complicated designs to be a reason to believe that Allah (swt) is the one and only God.….

There is a strange creature that lives in the ocean, it is known as a “Sea Star”; there are about 1500 types of Sea Star. Allah (swt) supplied this creature with tube feet; each of which consists of a cuplike sucker which helps it attach to coral and rocks. It is able to attach and release each sucker individually; this helps it to move about. It has numerous arms and a mouth, but lacks a brain. Its food mainly consists of small fish and microbes.
Some species have more or fewer than five arms. One of the amazing things about this creature is that when it loses one of its arms, a new one will grow to ******* the lost one. Moreover, the lost arm will grow to regenerate an entirely new Sea Star. This is one way that this amazing creature is able to maintain its population.
Allah (swt) almighty supplied this creature with sensory neurons on its arms that enable it to feel, taste, smell, and to distinguish dark from light. Glory to Allah (swt) almighty who guides this creature in the sea darkness and supplies it with belongings to find its sustenance! Allah (swt) almighty says in the Quran “And so many a moving creature carries not its own provision! Allah provides for it and for you. And He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower” (Al-Ankabut:60).
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel

Source: Encatra