{
 "id": "concept/gnat",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "gnat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "البعوضة",
  "en": "The gnat",
  "ur": "مچھر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لا يستحيي الله أن يضرب مثلاً ما بعوضة فما فوقها، فالمثل بالصغير لا ينقص من الحق شيئاً والكافرون يسألون ماذا أراد الله بهذا مثلاً.",
  "en": "God is not ashamed to set forth a parable of a gnat or of anything smaller; an example drawn from the smallest creature takes nothing from the truth, while the disbelievers ask what God could mean by it.",
  "ur": "اللہ مچھر یا اس سے چھوٹی چیز کی مثال بیان کرنے سے نہیں ہچکچاتا؛ چھوٹی سی چیز کی مثال حق میں کمی نہیں کرتی جبکہ کافر پوچھتے ہیں اللہ کا اس سے کیا مطلب ہے۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-browser",
  "nature-insect"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "animals-and-mercy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "natural",
  "sources": [
   "source/tanzil-quran"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Nature Explorer seed record (docs/plan/34-nature-browser.md); worded from the cited Qur'an ayahs and hadith collections",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-2-26",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/ababil-birds",
  "concept/anam",
  "concept/ant",
  "concept/apes",
  "concept/awqas",
  "concept/bat",
  "concept/bear",
  "concept/bee"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}