The dung-beetle
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the dung-beetle · Abū al-Mayt · a dung-beetle · al-jaʿl · jaʻal · juʻal · ابو الميت · الجعالة · الجعل
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The scarab or dung-beetle, named for its greed as one of the animal traits mixed into human nature.
In it is the greed of the dung-beetle and the pig, the ruinousness of the wolf and the leopard, the harmfulness of the scorpion and the snake, the lust of the cock and the ass, and the craving of the camel and the ox in eating;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The dung-beetle of the verse that makes Wabār a byword for never arriving.
Ḥimār He called a dung-beetle that cannot find its way to its resting-place — out of baseness, until it can find its way to Wabār
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The beetle behind the clan name Banū Juʻal, bearing the kunyah Abū al-Mayt and named among the animal names given to Arab children.
And with them Umm Ḥubayn is the locust, Umm ʻAwf the dove, Umm Mahdī the hen, Umm Ḥafṣ the hoopoe, Abū al-Mayt the dung-beetle, Abū al-Ṣarāt the louse, Umm ʻUqbah the serpent and Umm Yaqẓān the scorpion — and so on.
Al-Jāḥiẓ says in the *Book of Animals*: