The Female Honeybee’s Abdomen and the Healing Power of Honey “Then eat from all the fruits and flit about the spacious paths of your Lord. There issues from within her abdomens a drink of varying colors, wherein is healing for the people. Verily in this is a sign for those who understand.” (Chapter The Honeybee, [...]

Creator of the heavens and the earth from nothingness, He has only to say when He wills a thing, “Be,” and it is. [Quran 2:117] The Arabic word “beda’a” means creation had a start in time. This word also connotes the fact that something is created not on a pattern previously designed of something but [...]

With power did We (I, your God) construct heaven. Definitely, We (I, your God) are expanding it. [Quran 51:47] Is the universe infinite? Or is it finite in a steady state? From the very beginning this has been a subject of debate between great minds. Hot debates and ratiocination of all kinds failed to clarify [...]

And the dawn as it breathes [Quran 81:18] The verb to breathe is a term originally used to describe the process in which many living organisms take in oxygen from their surroundings and give out carbon dioxide. But what has respiration to do with the dawn? Figure 1 What brings together these two seemingly incongruous [...]

Allah Almighty in the Quran makes very important scientific claims: He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days – and His Throne was over the waters – that He might try you, which of you is best in conduct. But if thou wert to say to them, ‘Ye shall indeed [...]

They do not know that Islam accords a very high status to knowledge and men of knowledge Western thought today is in the midst of a raging battle between religion and science. It is almost impossible for a western thinker today to accept the fact that there may be a meeting ground between religion and [...]

…And whomever He wills to send astray, He makes his mind narrow and strained as if he was ascending into the sky. [Quran 2:125] A person subject to spells of dejection and strain is likened to a person who is ascending to the sky. We know today that during ascension, atmospheric pressure gradually decreases, raises [...]

Do not these disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were an integrated mass, which We (I, your God) then split, and from water We (I, your God) made all living things? Will they not believe even then? [Quran 21:30] We deduce from the contents of this verse that it admonishes the unbelievers for [...]

The honey bee exhibits a combination of individual traits and social co-operation which is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. A glimpse into the nest makes it apparent why honey bees have fascinated us from the earliest days of scientific observations. The infrastructure of the nest and the perfectly uniform and functional comb, is composed of [...]