65. Allah's Scientific Miracles In The Quran: The Female Honey Bee

Honey bees are an incredibly important species, with a structured society of different bee types. The female honey bee has many tasks, such as cleaning the hive, maintaining the larvae and young, feeding the queen and males, producing honey, constructing the honeycomb and guarding the hive. The male honey bee's only function is to inseminate the queen bee. In the Qur'an, Allah reveals that the honey bees are females, an unknown fact at the time of the Prophet Muhammad. This is just one example of the miraculous nature of the Qur'an. Notes: 110. Hayvanlar Ansiklopedisi-Bocekler (Encyclopedia of Animals-Insects) (Istanbul: C.B.P.C. Publishing Ltd./Phoesbus Publishing Company: 1979), 97. 111. Kazi, 130 Evident Miracles in the Qur'an, 68-69.