Ants being crushed, a scientific miracle in Noble Quran
الإعجاز فى كلمة (يحطمنكم بالقرآن العظيم)
In Noble Quran, chapter 27 (Chapter of Ants or Surat Al-naml ) the type of injury inflicted upon ants is described in Arabic as Yahtemannakom (يحطمنكم)
QUR'AN CHAPTER 27:
AL-NAML (THE ANT, THE ANTS)
Verse 18
27:18 Hat-taa idhaa ataw 'Alaa waadin namli qaalat namlatuy yaa ay-yuhan namludkhuluu masaakinakum* laa yaHTiman-nakum sulaymaanu wa junuuduhuu wa hum laa yash'Uruun
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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
Until when they came to the valley of the ants, a she ant exclaimed, "O ants, enter your houses - may not Sulaiman and his armies crush you, unknowingly."
Yusuf Ali:
At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said: "O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it."
Pickthal:
Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving
This means being crushed or broken.
This is consistent with science as the hard skeleton of ants is external, called exoskeleton.
The material of exoskeleton is the like the material of snails & being crushed rather than squashed.
This is an image of ant with its external part looks like glass
حَتَّى إِذَا أَتَوْا عَلَى وَادِي النَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَانُ وَجُنُودُهُ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
(18) النمل
يتضح دقة اللقظ القرآنى (يحطمنكم) فى الآية أعلاه –حيث إتضح إن هيكل النملة الصلب خارجى و يتكون من مادة
شبيهة بمادة القواقع و هى تتحطم كالزجاج و لا تسحق كسحق الدودة مثلا
و أنظر معى للصورة أدناه لترى شكل الهيكل الخارجى للنملة الذى هو أقرب للزجاج