Saintis Sahkan Kebenaran Al-Quran: Semut Pun Bercakap (video)

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Antara kisah-kisah yang menarik dalam al-Quran ialah kisah Nabi Sulaiman dengan semut. Kisah ini direkodkan pada surah al-Naml, ayat 15-19.

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Dan sesungguhnya kami telah mengurniakan ilmu pengetahuan kepada Nabi Daud dan Nabi Sulaiman; dan mereka berdua bersyukur dengan berkata: "Segala puji tertentu bagi Allah yang dengan limpah kurniaNya memberi kami kelebihan mengatasi kebanyakan hamba-hambaNya yang beriman".

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Dan Nabi Sulaiman mewarisi (pangkat kenabian dan kerajaan) Nabi Daud; dan (setelah itu) Nabi Sulaiman berkata: "Wahai umat manusia, kami telah diajar mengerti bahasa pertuturan burung, dan kami telah diberikan serba sedikit dari tiap-tiap sesuatu (yang diperlukan); sesungguhnya yang demikian ini adalah limpah kurnia (dari Allah) yang jelas nyata".

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Dan dihimpunkan bagi Nabi Sulaiman bala tenteranya, dari jin dan manusia serta burung; lalu mereka dijaga serta diatur keadaan dan perjalanan masing-masing.

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(Maralah angkatan itu) hingga apabila mereka sampai ke "Waadin-Naml", berkatalah seekor semut: "Wahai sekalian semut, masuklah ke sarang kamu masing-masing, jangan Sulaiman dan tenteranya memijak serta membinasakan kamu, sedang mereka tidak menyedari".

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Maka tersenyumlah Nabi Sulaiman mendengar kata-kata semut itu, dan berdoa dengan berkata:" Wahai Tuhanku, ilhamkanlah daku supaya tetap bersyukur akan nikmatMu yang Engkau kurniakan kepadaku dan kepada ibu bapaku, dan supaya aku tetap mengerjakan amal soleh yang Engkau redai; dan masukkanlah daku - dengan limpah rahmatMu - dalam kumpulan hamba-hambaMu yang soleh".

Selama ini, saintis berpendapat bahawa semut berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan signal-signal berbentuk kimia dan tidak menggunakan bunyi sebagai bentuk komunikasi mereka. Pendapat saintis ini adalah bercanggah sama sekali dengan ayat al-Quran seperti yang saya tunjukkan diatas kerana dalam ayat 16:18 dan 16:19, didapati bahawa semut bercakap (berkomunikasi dengan bunyi). Dan bunyi ini pula didengari oleh Nabi Sulaiman A.S. serta difahaminya dengan ilmu yang dikurniakan Allah S.W.T.

The Ants Are Talking

If you want to survive as an ant, you'd better get ready to make some noise. A new study shows that even ant pupae—a stage between larvae and adult—can communicate via sound, and that this communication can be crucial to their survival.

"What's very cool about this paper is that researchers have shown for the first time that pupae do, in fact, make some sort of a sound," says Phil DeVries, an entomologist at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana who was not involved in the study. "This was a very clever piece of natural history and science."

Scientists have known for decades that ants use a variety of small chemicals known as pheromones to communicate. Perhaps the most classic example is the trail of pheromones the insects place as they walk. Those behind them follow this trail, leading to long lines of ants marching one by one. However, the insects also use pheromones to identify which nest an ant is from and its social status in that nest. Because this chemical communication is so prevalent and complex, researchers long believed that this was the primary way ants shared information.

However, several years ago, researchers began to notice that adults in some ant genuses, such as Myrmica, which contains more than 200 diverse species found across Europe and Asia, made noise. These types of ants have a specialized spike along their abdomen that they stroke with one of their hind legs, similar to dragging the teeth of a comb along the edge of a table. Preliminary studies seemed to indicate that this noise served primarily as an emergency beacon, allowing the ants to shout for help when being threatened by a predator.

Larvae and young pupae have soft outer skeletons, which means their specialized spikes haven't yet formed and they can't make noise. However, as the pupae mature, their covering hardens into a tough exoskeleton like that found in adult ants. These older pupae do have fully functional spikes but were generally thought to be silent. -sciencemag.prg