A few water bird and many song and game birds are vegetarians feeding on seeds...

A few water bird and many song and game birds are vegetarians feeding on seeds, berries, fruit and other parts of plants. The carvorous land birds are chiefly insects or rodent, eaters. The greatest value of birds to Man is their insect-eating habits. Without them to control the teeming insect population who destroy crops and spread diseases, Man could hardly survive upon the earth! Birds also eat tremendous quantities of weed seeds, in this way keeping down the spread of undesired plants.

The carnivorous birds are a check on the rodent population which are a source of spreading disease. A more obvious and direct value lies in the food products derived from poultry and water-fowl. The bird population of the world numbers about 8600 species.

FOR MORE DETAIL PLEASE CONSULT INTERNATIONAL AND BRITANICA ENCYCLOPEDIAS TRANSLATOR'S NOTE) In the third verse of the above group (NO.80), the immediate reference is to another important bounty of Allah, and that is our home and hearth, and the resting place in which we may repose day or night:ِ ``And Allah has for you rooms from the skins of cattle that you may find them light, the day you decamp and the day you stay.'' The Arabic, ``BAIT'' which is usually translated to house or home, is from the root word, ``BEITOOTEH'' which means to live and rest for the night, and hence the connotation of the word which is house, home, or room, in which man reposes his night.

Then mention is made of our fixed or unfixed rooms or tents as places for the night rest. Man in his journeys will need temporary dwelling, like tents [ 493 ] which in the life time of our prophet, the best of the tents were made of leather or the skin of animals. Tents are most easy to carry when moving, and easy to pitch during halts.

Therefore Bedouins and nomads of Arabs, and other countries, who lived in the deserts; when decamed to pasturise their animals, made use of tents, and particularly those made of leaders if they could afford. Besides the tents, the verse makes also a mention of other uses and profits of the animals:ِ ``....

And of their wool, and of their fur, and of their hair, you make temporary furnitures and provisions for using in a limited period of time.'' The wool of sheep, the hair of goat, and the fur of camels, are woven into fabrics. Beautiful clothes are knitted from the fibers by the artistery and inventions, and discoveries of Man, but the intelligence and faculty and knowledge of Man are the direct gifts of God.