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soldiers drowned! That island was in fact not a piece of land; it was a huge fish Rārkāl which is found in the Indian Ocean. Naturally, by the grace of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, this fish is so gigantic that it looks like a small island when it appears on the surface of the water! So we have just learnt that the Rārkāl fish is extremely tough bodied that is why the tent pegs were hammered into its body which did not affect it but when the fire was set here and there, this caused severe inflammation and the giant fish dived into the water to extinguish the fires. Eventually, the people staying on this ‘living island’ drowned.
(‘Ajāib-ul-Ḥaywānāt, pp. 229 with some changes)
Zāmūr is a small fish. It very much likes the human voice, therefore, whenever it comes across a boat, it starts moving along the boat to please itself with listening to the human voice. When it sees a huge fish coming towards the boat for an attack, it quickly springs into its ear and keeps twitching for a long time, thus experiencing severe pain the huge fish is compelled to change its direction from the boat and rushes towards the shore to hit its head onto a stone, when it finds a big stone, it starts beating its head against the rock till it dies. Due to this virtue of this little fish, the fishermen feel affection for and keep feeding it. They release it whenever it is caught in the net. (Ḥayāt-ul-Ḥaywān, vol. 2, pp. 6)
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