Animals and Birds: Submitting Creatures 6:38

Animals and Birds: Submitting Creatures*

6:38 All the creatures on earth, and all the birds that fly with wings, are communities like you. We did not leave anything out of this book.** To their Lord, all these creatures will be summoned.

*6:38 Animals were among the creatures who took advantage of God’s offer to repent after committing the original sin (see the Introduction).

**6:38 All information relevant to our eternal life of the Hereafter is contained in the Quran. The true believers accept, without hesitation, God’s assertion: “We did not leave anything out of this book.” The importance of this statement, and similar statements, is reflected in the fact that each of them consists of 19 Arabic letters (Appendix 19).

How are the birds and animals communities like us?

We can learn from their behavior and therefore better understand our own behaviors.

Chimpanzee Communities (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)