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How can one reconcile the Quran's description of the spider's web as its home with the fact that the spider does not live in its web but only uses it for hunting?

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The custom of the Imams was to rebuke those who pursued ambiguities, admonish them, and refrain from discussing with them, just as Umar ibn al-Khattab did with Sabigh, and Malik ibn Anas did with the one who asked about the modality of Allah's 'istiwa' (ascension) over the Throne, where he said: "The 'istiwa' is not unknown, the modality is inconceivable, belief in it is obligatory, and asking about it is an innovation." As for websites specializing in ambiguities, they are the ones that discuss them, whereas our website specializes in fatwas. And the fact that spiders use what they weave for hunting does not contradict the noble verse in the slightest; it is a observable fact mentioned in traditional books of zoology. Naming the spider's web a 'house' does not necessitate that it lives in it forever without ever leaving it.

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