Is it a miracle or normal way of speech?
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People use 1668-69 as miracle and claim that Qur'an tells us that in communities of honeybees, only the females are workers and it is only recent when science has also approved it.
I have noticed in many languages when we talk about bees or honeybees we use female verb forms for them and in the same way Qur'an has used them. I would like to know that in normal Arabic language do people use male verb for honeybees? If yes then we can take 1668-69 as miracle otherwise its the normal way of speech. Please comment.
Peace all, Hamsa
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People use 1668-69 as miracle and claim that Qur'an tells us that in communities of honeybees, only the females are workers and it is only recent when science has also approved it.
I have noticed in many languages when we talk about bees or honeybees we use female verb forms for them and in the same way Qur'an has used them. I would like to know that in normal Arabic language do people use male verb for honeybees? If yes then we can take 1668-69 as miracle otherwise its the normal way of speech. Please comment.
Peace all, Hamsa
Salam
In arabic we always refer to the single bee and single ant as females
however if we talk plurel then for both we refer to them as musculine
Salam
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PEace Be Upon You
Interesting ... but why would it be any less of a miracle if the Arabic word for honeybee is feminine?
Anyways, I always thought it was the males who do all the work and the Queen bee just eats that royal jelly they make for her and gets fat and pregnant lol
Which would work with the Arabic language naturally i guess ... many bees working = masculine, singular queen bee = feminine
but then what happens when you wanna talk about one singular male bee lol
you just say nahl? -
Salam
In arabic we always refer to the single bee and single ant as females
however if we talk plurel then for both we refer to them as musculine
Salam
Peace and Thanks Ahmed!
salam all, Hamsa