Hello there, after doing some research, I have just found a new scientific miracle in the Quran! Here's it:
Ants' Exoskeleton in the Quran!Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not." Quran [27:18]We all can obviously notice here that the Quran used the word
"crushed", and the word that is translated as crushed is
يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ.
The word
يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ is the same as the word
حطم. The difference is just that the word
يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ is the form of the word
حطم[ in reported speech and plural.
Let's look at what lisaan al arab said about the word
حطم.
http://lisaan.net/search/%D8%AD%D8%B7%D9%85(حَطَمَــهُ) مِنْ بَابِ ضَرَبَ أَيْ كَسَرَهُ (فَانْــحَطَمَ) وَ (تَــحَطَّمَ) . وَ (التَّحْطِيمُ) التَّكْسِيرُ. وَ
حطم الــحَطْمُ كَسْرُكَ الشَّيْءَ اليابِسَ، حَطَمْــتُه فانْــحَطَمَ، والحُطَامُ ما تَــحَطَّم من ذلك. وقِشْرُ البَيْضِ حُطَامُه.
If we looked carefully, we will find out that the word
حطم means كسر
And if we translated the word كسر. We mostly get break, crash, and crush
http://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-en/%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%B1/As you can see that all these definitions are used for solid things, so the Quran is saying that ants are a solid things? No! It turns out that ants have a very strong skeleton. This skeleton is called exoskeleton, and it's mostly made of
chitin. Unlike humans, ants have their skeleton outside, that is why it's called exoskeleton. Ants' exoskeleton is actually very solid and strong. they are capable of lifting a weight many times it's own weight, so imagine having a very solid and strong armor sticking to you, even if you have organisms inside. You'll still make a "crushing" sound, and you would still get crushed because of your armor that is part of you, so ants will get crushed because of their exoskeleton that is part of them! A robot would still be considered crushed even if it had some real organisms inside!
Another thing, the Quran used the word crushed instead of squashed. This should be referring to something. Normal people would have used يسحقنكم instead of يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ , because يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ is used for solid things. Is there anyone who believed that ants are a solid things 1400 years ago?
Again the Quran was proved to be God's true word! Isn't it amazing how these scientific miracles are hidden waiting people to discover them, even myself didn't notice that this word contain a scientific fact!
