الجمل صحراء .. والصحراء جمل .. كتاب في سبيل موسوعة علمية .. الدكتور أحمد ذكي

A camel is a desert... and the desert is a camel

You look at the camel, and you see that he is present,
picture . Then another image appears in your imagination with this image that you cannot prevent from appearing, that is the image of the desert.

They are two related images.
You may see a camel walking in the streets of the city, on slippery slopes, and find something sticking out.

The camel is the son of the desert, and the desert is its home. The Arabian Desert is his first home. Its camel, in the annals of science, is called the Arabian Camel, and it has one hump. It is one of two species of one genus, the second type is the two-humped camel. ‏

(The dromedary camel, son of the desert. It is in the records of scholars, in Latin: Camelus Dromedarius)

The desert can praise its beauty as long as it praises, and it is beautiful in spite of its wealth. The wealthy person goes out to it with his horses and his men, servants and modesty, and a comfortable bed and plenty of food. He says poetry laughing. But the desert is different for its poor inhabitant. It is a livelihood that is not fixed on land, so the Bedouin begins to feel it wherever the rain falls. He carries his family and his flock to him, and the camels are carried by them, and he hunts for this little livelihood he has, and he hunts for it.

In the past, the desert used to combine harsh living and war. The Bedouins said a lot of poetry. You read (Dewan of Enthusiasm), by Abu Tammam, and you find most of it resolute and demanding, and various elegies.
This is the camel's home, and its share is the share of its owner.

The camel was created to live in the desert

And creatures adapt to their homelands.
The desert is sand. It is cultivated little, and a lot of it
The rough one. Then water, which is in short supply.

- Camel in the sand

Because of the sand, it was lighter.
And the slippers are feet. The feet, as their Creator made them in all creation, both breasted and non-breasted, bear five toes. Some fingers are joined in some parts, and complete in others, according to need. The camel had the third and fourth toes growing on its feet, and they were equal, and each one carried a hoof.

Nails are included in the first diagram, so they may remain, even for memory, when they are not needed. We remain indicative of the bond that must not be broken.

The bones of these feet splayed open, and I wore a wide glove made of soft flesh that softens when one steps on the sand, grips it and stays firm.

Among all that was the slipper, the desert shoe. I remember prisoners of war who walked for so long that their feet bled. They wrapped them in the remains of soft, worn-out dresses that were used as slippers for their feet.

- The camel and the desert rose

It is grass. The camel eats whatever it finds.
If he did not find it, he found a rough, thorny plant.
So he ate it.

The desert has the potential for hunger. This is why the camel, when hunger threatens it with death, eats everything it finds. He then eats fish, meat, bones, and even skin.

The camel's stomach, like the stomach of every ruminant animal, consists of reservoirs. The camel's stomach consists of three cupboards, not four.

One of the designs of creation is to harmonize an animal with its environment. The camel carrying a hump on its back is made of muscle and fat. It increases meat and fat from food, when it is plentiful and delicious. Even when the camel sets out on a journey, and food deprives him of his power, and hunger almost warns him of his extinction, the body will find, in the fat it carries in its hump, food that will prolong its life for days.

- The stomach of ruminants in general
It is the four storehouses, the rumen. The quiver. With coils. Hollow .

The ruminant animal begins to eat as much grass as it can, without delay, until its belly is full. Then he goes to one side, reassured and calm, to begin ruminating; . In this, food is transferred from the rumen
The hood, which mashes the food, turns it into morsels, and throws it into the mouth, just as a person vomits. In the mouth, bite after bite is crushed. Then it goes back down to the stomach, to the third closet, which contains the scrolls. This sends what arrives to the fourth treasury. But it only allows fine food to pass through it, and traps the coarse food. In the fourth tank, digestion takes place and is completed.

There is wisdom in all of this, a rule of moral planning that is not hidden from the observer. All of these ruminants are hunting predators. Therefore, it is necessary for her to eat whatever she finds, when she finds it, as soon as possible, and eat as much of it as she can, then seek a safe place, and there she does what fear prevents her from doing to her food, such as chewing and mashing it, before swallowing it.

Many ruminant animals have been domesticated over the centuries, and domestication is safe, but that custom has remained in place, for history, and as a precaution. Who knows, perhaps after domestication it will become impossible.