People use different techniques to make their agriculture productive. Scientists have developed techniques such as crop spraying and chemical fertilizers to increase production.

They have also managed to raise crops all year round by means of greenhouses.

Yet there is another creature which has been engaging in agriculture and employing these techniques for even longer.

These are leaf-cutter ants. They have been agriculturalists for millions of years.

They also perform this difficult job by stages, thanks to an incomparable division of labour and planning.

The first link in the production chain are the worker ants that serve outside the nest.
These ants work non-stop day and night, cutting leaves from trees and wild plants growing in the forest.

The second job is carrying the leaves they have cut back to the nest. These tiny workers are stronger than one can possibly imagine.

To make a comparison, what these ants do is the equivalent of a man running 1 kilometer in 2.5 minutes with a 250 kilogram load on his back. No human being could ever do that.

Ants work in an astoundingly planned and organized manner. They have to carry leaves to their nest to carry out agriculture. That is why that job has to be done with no interruptions.

Ants build multi-track highways to make transportation easier. Even more interesting, there is an organization responsible for the maintenance and repair of that road system, just like we have.

The organization exhibited by ants contains features that go far beyond any human imagining.

Some 500,000 ants act like a single brain while all this is going on.

This giant organization is capable of stripping all the leaves from a large tree in a single day.

Ants tirelessly cut all kinds of plants, even flowers.

When one compares the size of ants to that of human beings, the thickness and length of the leaves they cut down are the equivalent of heavy planks or even a tree trunk.

We use special equipment to cut down trees. So how do the ants manage this? The answer to that again reveals a miracle of creation God has endowed the ant with a cutting mechanism that is a true miracle of design.

The cutting mechanism consists of two separate blades. The blades are coated with zinc to make them extra sharp.

The cutting mechanism possesses an astounding system. A special organ under the ant's head gives off high-frequency sound waves These are forwarded by the blades to the leaf, and make it more brittle and easily cut. Covering metal blades with alloys to make them sharper is a method used by human beings. But the people who do that possess intelligence and reason, and the system was developed as a result of special research in laboratories.

Yet ants have no idea that a material known as zinc even exists. There is a highly intelligent design in these little creatures' bodies.

The same thing applies to the system that makes the leaves easily cut by means of sound waves. The ant can have absolutely no idea that high frequencies make things more brittle.
Neither is there any doubt that such a complex system cannot have come about by chance. There is only one explanation for the existence of such a perfect system. The system was consciously created.

Ants were brought into being by God, and the cutting mechanism and all their other features were given them by Him. That is stated in a verse from the Qur'an:

"My Lord encompasses all things in His knowledge so will you not pay heed? "(Qur'an, 6: 80)

How is it that every ant knows from the moment of its birth what job it has to do? How is it that creatures with no powers of reason can possess a more organized and social society than human beings do? How is it that 500,000 ants can act like a single brain for a common purpose?

All these questions point us in the direction of one important truth. What these unreasoning creatures manage to do is clear evidence that God has created them and given them the features they possess.

God's might and the art of His creation are to be seen in all living things. Ants are just one of the countless manifestations of God's art of creation in the world.
In one verse, God says:

"Everyone in the heavens and earth belongs to Him. All are submissive to Him." (Qur'an, 30: 26)