By:
Dr Zakir Naik
“And thy Lord taught
the Bee To build its cells in hills, On trees, and in (men’s) habitations; Then
to eat of all The produce (of the earth), And find with skill the spacious
Paths of its Lord.” [Quran 16:68-69]
Von-Frisch received the Nobel Prize in 1973
for his research on the behaviour and communication of the bees. The bee, after
discovering any new garden or flower, goes back and tells its fellow bees the
exact direction and map to get there, which is known as ‘bee dance’.
The meanings of this insect’s movements that
are intended to transmit information between worker bees have been discovered
scientifically using photography and other methods. The Quran mentions in the
above verse how the bee finds with skill the spacious paths of its Lord.
The worker bee or the soldier bee is a
female bee. In Soorah Al-Nahl chapter no. 16, verses 68 and 69 the gender used
for the bee is the female gender (fa’slukî and kulî), indicating that the bee
that leaves its home for gathering food is a female bee. In other words the
soldier or worker bee is a female bee.
In fact, in Shakespeare’s play, “Henry the
Fourth”, some of the characters speak about bees and mention that the bees are
soldiers and that they have a king. That is what people thought in
Shakespearean times. They thought that the worker bees are male bees and they
go home and are answerable to a king bee.
This, however, is not true. The worker bees
are females and they do not report to a king bee but to a queen bee. But it
took modern investigations in the last 300 years to discover this.
Source: The Quran And Modern Science- Compatible
Or Incompatible?
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