prepared for cooking food, a liver to which its refined portion is conveyed, veins and channels through which it reaches the extremities, and intestines into which the heavy residue of food settles before being expelled from the lower body.

Allah, Mighty and Majestic, also says in the verse:

“Then do they not look at the camels—how they are created? (17)” [Al-Ghāshiyah: 17]

This is among the most readily accessible forms of evidence that an intelligent person can grasp, without extensive investigation into how things are made or the strain of intricate reasoning. It is addressed to the Arabs: an Arab customarily rides his mount to nearby places in pursuit of his needs, or sets out upon it on journeys to distant places, as is common in their lands. When alone in such a place, he sees nothing but a sky above him, an earth beneath him, a mountain to his right, another to his left, and the mount he is riding. When he reflects on these things, he perceives the marks of workmanship and the subtlety of wisdom—in the benefits Allah has brought together for him within them—and recognizes that their Maker is subtle and fully aware, knowledgeable and powerful, wise and all-knowing.

It has also been said that camels were singled out for mention from among all other animals because livestock fall into four categories: those used for milk, for riding, for food, and for carrying loads. Camels combine all these qualities.

He, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:

“Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, the alternation of night and day, the ships that sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah sends down from