When Musa (A) was asked by Fir‘awn to introduce his Lord...

When Musa (A) was asked by Fir‘awn to introduce his Lord, he replied, قَالَ رَبُّنَا الَّذِي أَعْطَى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلْقَهُ ثُمَّ هَدَى Our Lord is He Who gave to everything its creation, then guided it (to its goal) [Ta Ha, 20/50]. Animals and birds have an acute sense of direction by which they accurately navigate distances. During the course of their lives, birds use this mysterious sense to easily move between their nests and remote feeding places without ever losing their way back.

The knowledge that every creature possesses is a bounty that has been placed in its essence and the majesty and grandeur of creation is amply manifested by these wondrous abilities that we see in different creatures. Migratory birds sometimes travel across hundreds of kilometres to reach their destination, where they live for a long time before flying back along the same route until they unerringly return to their starting point. What kind of compass do these birds use, that is so faultless and…