Those who take protectors other than Allah have taken a very flimsy and unreliable support. Their likeness is the like of a spider that span a web and took it for a house, while the house of spider is relatively the most infirm of houses.

      The spider silk is strong enough from the point of relativity, but in our actual world they are flimsy and infirm, and a breeze, a small flame or a rain may ruin the whole construction. Each animal or insect may have a house, but none of them are as flimsy as that of spider web. True that it is a resting place, and a hunting snare, for the spider; but in comparison to the other nests, like that of an ant or a bee, its far weaker a place, and unreliable a support.

      Those who rely on gods other than the true, and only one God, they have relied on the house of a spider which is limp, frail, and unsubstantial.

      Although the spider web has been a parable and proverb to show something infirm, yet in itself it is one of the wonders of creation, that studying it will remind us of the grandeure of our Lord.

      It has been said that the silk of spider is made of viscous liquid which is made in its abdomen; a small amount of which is span by the spider to some five hundred meters of the silk. The silk is said to be stronger than a thread of the same thickness made of iron.

      The form and the structure of the web is also wonderful. It seems to be like the sun which is surrounded by her rays. Scholars have recognized some 20 thousand kinds of spiders so far, all of them having their own particularities.

      In the next verse (NO-43) we read:-

      And these similitudes we coin for people, but none understand them except those with knowledge.''

      This implies that without enough knowledge, it is not easy to apprehend the wonders of creation that may show us the Infinite Mercy, Grace, and Beauty of our Compassionate Lord.