O ants, enter your homes so that you do

not be crushed
For centuries philosophers thought that only humans were rational while
animals only followed instinct. Actually this false belief was so entrenched in
Arabs that they included it in their grammar, referring to humans as rational (
)and all other animals, plants and inanimate objects as irrational () .
However today scientists have confirmed that animals do not act by instinct
alone, as Arabs thought, but rather animals have their own logic and
communication systems, that is, they make rational decisions like humans but
at a much lower scale... However the Quran did not make the mistakes of the
Arabs, instead it says that ants have their own logic and do communicate with
their own species:
[Quran 27.18] Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant
said, "O ants, enter your homes so that you do not be crushed by
Solomon and his soldiers while they do not feel it."
Here it is clear that the ants do have their own logic and do communicate
between themselves however we do not understand their language. The
Quran reemphasizes the ants rationality by changing the grammar to the
rational mode. Actually the Quran says that all animals
How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that those
ants have their own language?
Not only the Quran says that animals communicate with each other but also
that they are nations just like humans are nations:
(Quran 6.38} There is no land animal nor a bird that flies with wings who are
not nations like you. We didn't miss a thing in the Book then to their Lord they
will be gathered.
Today we are certain that animals live in communities and have their own
languages but 1400 years ago this was crazy.

The Quran also says that all animals glorify Allah but we cannot comprehend
their languages:
(Quran 17.44} The seven heavens and the Earth and everyone in them glorify
Him [Allah]; and there is nothing that doesn't glorify HIM thankfully; but you
(humans) do not understand their glorification. He is Compassionate, Merciful.
(Quran 16.49-50) And to Allah kneels what's in the heavens and what's on
Earth, of land animals and angels, and they act with no arrogance; 50 They
fear their Lord above them and they do what they are ordered.
Just like animals rational is so weak relative to us that we labeled them as
irrational, God created other superior beings whose rational is so much
advanced relative to us that they could easily label us as irrational.
(The Christian Bible erroneously claims that there are four legged
insects Leviticus 11:20. It also claims that there is an animal that has "flames
stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. Its breath sets coals ablaze, and
flames dart from its mouth". Job 41:19-21)
( Quoted from: http://www.speed-light.info/miracles_of_quran/ants.htm)