These tiny insects have founded their lives upon distribution of efforts...

These tiny insects have founded their lives upon distribution of efforts, and close cooperation and perform tasks through understanding and contribution to one another. All of us have observed this close cooperation when they build a house or carry a burden. This insect knows instinctively and through its God-given intelligence, without going to college or majoring in agriculture, that in order to prevent the decay of seeds, they should be divided in two and actually does this.

If it notices that the seed is damp, it will take out the wet seed to expose it to sunlight and dry it. Furthermore, it constructs its house at a high altitude to keep it from being immersed in water. Could it be said that it performs such amazing things without guidance from a higher authority? Who is the instructor of this little insect?

From where it has learned such important lessons, and has founded its life upon them, that human could not have acquired unless they studied or learned through experience?[^1] Remarks by Imam as-Sadiq (‘a) Abu Shakir Deisan, who was one of the materialists, called on the revered Imam, “Prove the existence of God for me!” he said. As he posed this question, a boy was playing with an egg nearby. The revered Imam took the egg from the boy and turned to Abu Shakir and said, “Do you see this egg?

It has a fortress which is strong and firm. Inside this fortress, and beneath its walls, rests a thin layer and there are melted gold and silver inside it (the yellow and white fluids of the egg). But these two parts are never mixed [could it be said that these two parts with this special quality could have come into being on their own?]. “Abu Shakir, no one knows whether the chicken that is hatched from this egg, will be male or female.

And when the chicken emerges from the egg, it has beautiful colors. (For example, consider the colorful feathers of the peacock. What power has so beautifully painted the chicken?). Is painting a chicken or a peacock less important that painting a picture? Could it be ever said that these paintings have painters but these natural colorings have arisen by themselves?