All animals and birds go by day or night, in the air, ground and sea to seek after provision.
Quran 34: 2
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[God] knows what [animal] goes inside the earth f and what [animal] comes out of it g, and what [birds] descend from the sky h and what [flying animals] ascend through it [seeking after provision]i, and He is the Most Merciful j, the Most Forgiving k.}
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f And He gives it its provision while it is in its place.
g Seeking after provision, and so He prepares for it its provision in time and place.
h Seeking after provision and livelihood.
i So that He prepares provision for each of these.
j To His creatures, for He prepared for them their provisions.
k To anyone compassionate and kind to His creatures.
Therefore, the animals which find their provision, while they are under the ground, are those living on roots of trees and plants.
While the animals which go out of the earth to seek after their provision, they are so many like the mouse, the snake, the rabbit, the lizard and others.
On the other hand, those which descend from the sky are the birds which eat seeds and others.
While those which ascend into the sky seeking after their provision are the bat which flies by night to eat the insects from the sky like the mosquito, the bug, the butterfly and others.
Among the most strange among creatures of God – be glorified – which I saw, and which receives its provision while it is in its place under the ground, is a small mammal like the rat called ‘Abu Amaya’ existing in [Iraq] the Nineveh Governorate in a village called ‘Abu Saif’ and also in the village of ‘Al-Khirba’.
Its length is three inches, walking on four limbs; it has neither tail nor eye. I did not believe that until I saw it with my own eyes and caught it with my hands and searched in his head, and I did not find it having eyes.
It is a quiet animal, does not hurt the one who catches it neither by its hands nor by its teeth. It lives on the roots of plants; it has teeth in its lower jaw by which it dig in the ground, and take out the dust by its hands and forms tunnels for it under the ground.
So blessed be God, the Lord of the worlds, the Creator of the creation, the Generous with His provision, Who provides for this blind animal in its place under the ground.
The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly.
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