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When they came to the Valley of the Ants - which is [located] either in Tā'if or in Syria, and whose ants are either small or large - an ant, the queen ant, who had seen Solomon's hosts, said, 'O ants, enter your dwellings, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you while they are unaware!' - the ants are likened to rational beings in their use of the latter's speech.