Begin with the full passage, then use the reading diagram to trace its image or contrast.
مَثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَوْلِيَآءَ كَمَثَلِ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ ٱتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا ۖ وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ ٱلْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ ٱلْعَنكَبُوتِ ۖ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew.
Marmaduke Pickthall · Quran 29:41
The comparison begins with taking protectors besides Allah.
A spider builds a house.
The verse calls it the frailest of houses. This is a comparison about reliance, not a claim about material tensile strength.
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Al-Tafsir al-Muyassar compares reliance on protectors besides Allah with a spider’s house that cannot provide the hoped-for protection.
Al-Tafsir al-Muyassar ↗Original concise English paraphrase of the retrieved Arabic commentary.
Keep the stated comparison in view rather than turning it into a modern materials-science claim.
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