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shrubs cannot eat rice, fish, meat and insects. They do not have
mouths, teeth and hands like ours. They soak water through
their roots under the soil.
They consume carbon-di-oxide from the air and prepare their
food from the sunlight by their leaves. All these are their food.
We are human beings. We all breathe air (inhale and exhale).
The animals, birds and beasts also breathe air. No animal can
live without breathing air. A kind of poisonous air comes out
from our body when we exhale. This air is called carbon-di-
oxide. The trees and shrubs take this poisonous gas as their food
and they breathe out (exhale) oxygen, which we take when
breathing (inhale). No living being can survive without oxygen.
So, it is proved that man and animals are interdependent for
their survival. They help each other to sustain their lives.
What a great mercy of Allah is towards this creation! Carbon-
di-oxide acts as poison for our body but it is food for the trees.
Again, we for our survival breathe in the oxygen what the trees
breathe out. We get fruits, vegetables etc. through the trees and
plants. This way Allah rears us.
Allah, the Exalted, rears up various kinds of animals, beasts and
insects by providing various types of food. There are millions of
fishes and other animals in the canals, watery places, in the
rivers and in the deep seas. Allah provides their food by creating
soft grass and many other things underneath the water. They
live on these. Allah has proclaimed in the holy Quran saying:
"The responsibility of providing food for all the living things
on earth lies on Allah".(Surah Hud, V-6).
Religious Studies: Islam