camouflage. As a vital function, the transparent sleeping
bag protects the fish from moray eels, one of its bitter ene-
mies. Moray eels have an excellent sense of smell and can find
their prey with it. However, the protective sheath of the parrotfish pre-
vents the moray from perceiving its scent. The moray does not notice the
fish in the sheath even if it bumps into it while passing by.
This being the case, one must ask the following questions: How did parrot-
fish obtain this protective sheath that they use at night? How do they know
that their leading enemy hunts by means of its sense of smell? How did they
discover a substance so essential in obstructing the moray’s sense of smell
so enabling them to spend the night in safety?
Obviously, one cannot expect a fish to decide to produce a chemical in its
body and then to cover itself with this substance. Nor could such a thing
have developed spontaneously through time. Parrotfish could not con-
sciously plan to produce such a substance and could not make up such a
system in their bodies of their own volition; neither could a parrotfish that
lived 1,000 or 10,000 years ago.
It is a clever method of camouflage that the body of the fish is covered with
gelatin, which is totally suitable for protecting the fish from its enemy. It is
obvious that such a feature could come into existence only as a result of the
marvelous creation of Almighty Allah, the Lord of all the worlds and
the Creator of all things.
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