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The cat..

⏺The cat asks for sustenance alone..
Its path contains the claw and the fang
⏺If it comes to him easily, then with it..
Otherwise, he will resort to rape and rape
⏺The cat has fathers and is curious..
He has understanding, intelligence, and long patience.

I said I will write in the cat.
My friend said: Is there any knowledge left in the cat that people do not know, and it is the closest animal to them?
And stick it to them morning and evening?
I said: How many claws does a cat have?
He answered and made a mistake
I said: How old is the cat?
He answered and made a mistake
I said: How many times does a cat give birth?
He answered and made a mistake
I said: Does he eat vegetables?
He answered and made a mistake
I said: How many years does a cat live?
He answered and made a mistake
I said: Which is older, the cat or the human?
He answered and made a mistake

I said: Does the cat get sad and happy, does it cry and laugh?

Here he opened his mouth, laughed, and thought the question was a joke?

After this, I decided that the cat was a topic worthy of writing. I start writing in Al-Qat, but I do not know which door to enter from, as the doors are many and different, and people’s goals in Al-Qat are different.

- Cat is a common name among nations

The linguist begins his concern about the cat with its name. cat? Where did he come from? And in what language? As he searches, he soon realizes that it is a name that was found long ago in more than one language, as it was never in Arabic. It appeared in ancient Roman Catus, and in Italian today it is Gatto, in German it is Catze, in English Cat, in French Chat, and in Nubian the cat was called Cadiz a few thousand years ago.

This frequent similarity between these names of the cat has a meaning for historians. Understanding this and other things, they believe that the cat was wild and wild in Nubia, then they domesticated it. The ancient Egyptians domesticated it more than 5,000 years BC and sanctified it, and from there the cat moved to Europe and the East. And his name moved with him.

In mentioning the Egyptians and their reverence for the cat, we mention that cats’ share of humanity, in all ages, was not the same. The ancient Egyptians sanctified them, and the people of Europe in the Middle Ages burned them, especially the black ones, on the belief that witches were impersonating their bodies.

And the Prophet said: A woman entered Hell because of a cat that she had trapped, but she did not feed it, nor did she let it eat from the vermin.

Among today's men there is someone who twists the cat's neck when he catches it stealing, but it only steals because it is honorable to seek lawful sustenance.

Among the nations today are those who have cats as lodgers in their homes. They are part of the family and receive a stipend of food. Factories made food for cats, and their owners announced it in their newspapers and television, just as they made it for humans. A bounty of livelihood may be a blessing to those who do not have a bounty of livelihood.

- The place of cats in animal ranks

The animal world is part of his interest in cats, the connection that exists between their types. For him, animals are like a musical scale, each tone has a place, and from its melodies he creates art that delights the minds and vibrates as strongly as it vibrates the ears.

The animal world, as it classifies animals to the rank of carnivores, includes cats, dogs, hyenas, bears, and sea seals.

Then he goes back to dividing these again and reports them
To the cat family, Family Felidae.

You think that this category is limited to our house cats, and here you are making a big mistake. In science, the lion is a cat, Felis leo, the tiger is a cat, Felis tigris, and the leopard is a cat. A wild cat is a cat, of course, and so is a domestic cat.
You do not need a zoologist to tell you that these animals are grouped into one family, the cat family. It is enough for you to stare at the face of a tiger, then at the face of a house cat, to realize the close resemblance between them: a resemblance that you find in the piercing gaze, in the round face, in the long mustaches and short ears. You let your face wander with your eyes throughout the body, so the resemblance never weakens: colored, striped and spotted skin. Foot and claw. the tail . Sitting and lying down.

The similarity is confirmed by going into details and describing character. I will describe the cat below, so you should remember the way I describe the cat: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, and the like. Calling this species the cat species, and calling its members, such as the lion, the tiger, and the cat, the cat, leads to great confusion.

Frankish scientists escaped this confusion by taking the Latin name Felis, which means cat in Latin, as a scientific name for the members of this species. The lion elephant is a lion, the tiger elephant is a tiger, and the cat elephant is a cat.

We deserve to take the name feline (which is cat in language) as a name for the members of this family, as opposed to the Latin word felis, to avoid confusion, so we say the feline family.

And so did Prince Mustafa Al-Shihabi, and so we scientifically call the lion the feline lion, and the feline tiger the leopard.
and so on .

(The cat, which is a member of the feline family. This is a picture of the ordinary domestic cat, short-haired. Its fur is striped and spotted. It is white, black, grey, orange, and a mixture of these.)

(The cheetah is a member of the feline family and is black in color. Compare it with the cat: the close look, the round face, the short ears, the nose, the mouth, the whiskers, the spotted fur.