These simple tasks would have absorbed all mans power...

These simple tasks would have absorbed all mans power, without leaving any hands spare for arts and professions. Besides that, man would suffer strain and face troubles in achieving his living affairs. O Mufadhdhal! Just consider the constitutions of the following three kinds of living beings, and the merits with which they are endowed.

Man, having been ordained to possess intellect and reason to undertake such professions as carpentry, masonry, smithy, sewing, etc., has been endowed with broad palms and thick fingers to enable him to grasp all types of tools necessary for these professions. The carnivorous animals, having been ordained to live on game, have been gifted with soft palms and claws to enable them to catch their preys**.** They are suitable for hunting but unfit for professional arts.

Herbivorous animals, having been ordained neither for professional arts nor for hunting, have been gifted, some with slotted hoofs to save them from the hardness of the ground while grazing, while others have solid round hoofs to be able to stand squarely on the ground for better fitness as beasts of burden. Carnivorous animals in their constitutional composition have sharp fangs, hard claws and wide mouths to serve them in their nutrition on meat so that they are constituted accordingly.

They have been armed with such tools and implements to serve them in hunting. And you see that birds have beaks and claws to help them in their particular tasks. If such claws were given to non-hunting animals, they would have been worse than useless; for they neither hunt nor eat flesh. And if the carnivorous animals were given hoofs instead of claws, they would have failed to secure their necessities.

Dont you see that all these kinds of animals are gifted with exactly the things appropriately in consonance with their needs to maintain their survival? Now, look at the quadrupeds how they follow their mothers. They neither need to be carried nor to be nurtured as is the case with human babies. This is so because the mothers of those young ones do not posses the tools which human mothers have.

Human mothers possess kindness, love and the knowledge of the art of nurture with specialised hands and fingers to lift them. They are so constituted as to help themselves in all manner of work. You see the same thing in birds, for example the young hens, partridges and grouse, that they begin to pick up corn and move about as soon as they are hatched from eggs.