THE MIRACLE OF AL-QUR’AN (21)

(From Islamic Point of Views)
(Continuation from 10/6/2006)
c) The Bees

In al-Qur’an on surah An-Nahl 16: 68 states that,
“And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men’s) habitations.”

The bees in one kind of insects, which has stated in al-Qur’an with, had been said that it’s bringing the good news for mankind. This is because honey from the bees is so precious. The honey that made by the bees is from its effort with suck it from the various flowers. Van-Frish the winner of 1973 Nobel award through his research on the bees’ habit and its communications. He had explained, that when the bees found a new garden or the flower, it will return to its nest then told their friends with its own unique communication; dancing, it will describe accurately about the direction to the new place. In here too had been stated that the female bees (fa’sluki) and the worker bee’s have a responsibility to the Queen of bee (female bees). This knowledge has noticed since 300 years ago but Al-Qur’an had said it since 1400 years ago.


d) The life of Ants

Al-Qur’an had said that the ant’s is the amazing insects. Al-Qur’an describes that the ants can communicate among them very well, especially to avoid from the enemy.
Only the modern science experiment had revealed that the story from Al-Qur’an is true on the communication among the ants. Beside that, the shape of life of the ants is similar with human. Most of the similarity between the ants and human can see as follows:
i. The ant has buried the dead bodies.
ii. The ant has a manager, supervisor, and the workers and so on in its working culture.
iii. Rarely the ants will gather among them to socialize and they have a day market that can make them a barter deal with change their goods.
iv. The ants too can store their foods. If the foods getting wet, they will bring out the food too keep it dry, then stored it again.

Al-Qur’an had said it since 1400 years ago.