From The Pulpit | Spider web cocooned trees in Sindh Pakistan after Floods
(Images: Russell Watkins/DFID)
The 2010 Floods in Pakistan that caused devastation over a major part of the country, also brought about a strange phenomenon. Apparently, the flood waters caused millions of spiders to seek refuge in trees and other vegetation, where they proceeded to spin webs all around the trees. The trees (pictured in the images) look like huge cotton candy but are slowly dying.
An amazing side-effect of this phenomenon is that the webs are limiting the number of mosquitoes in the area, which given the stagnant water in the area should have been breeding in multitudes. Indeed it is a blessing of Allah (may He be glorified and praised) that after the hardships faced by the people, he has brought them protection for further disease through this amazing phenomenon.
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. (Quran 94:5-6)
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"Abu Ibrahym" Muhammad Aly Balagamwala (AKA DiscoMaulvi) joined MuslimMatters in March 2011 as a Writer and is currently the Team Lead for the Comments Team, while also serving as a member of the Social Networking and News Teams. Aly is an entrepreneur/industrialist who was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan where he currently resides. Aly graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in Textile Chemistry and somewhere in those 4 years became a practicing Muslim (May Allah reward the wonderful community of Raleigh, NC for that). Known in the Social Media / Blogging community as DiscoMaulvi, he occasionally writes on his personal blog From The Pulpit ... Sermons of DiscoMaulvi and has been associated with various Social / Dawah projects. He is easily accessible via Twitter or through his Public Page on Facebook where you can learn more about him and his other projects & activities.
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