ONLY FEMALE BEES PRODUCE HONEY

"And Your lord inspired the bee, to build your dwellings in hills,
ontrees, and in (human's) habitations. Then, to eat of all the produce
and follow the ways of your Lord made easy. There comes forth from
their bodies a drink of varying colour, wherein is healing for men:
Verily, in this is a sign for those who give thought."(The Quran,
16:68-69)
The imperative "build" above is the translation of the Arabic word
"attakhithi", which is the feminine form (Arabic grammar unlike
English, differentiates between the sexes). The feminineform is used
when all of those it refers to are female, whereas the masculine is
used when a group consists of at least 1 male.
Therefore the Quran is in fact saying "build, you female bees.."
A swarm of bees , which collect honey and build the hive, are female only.
Thus, the phrasing of this command is in agreement with the scientific
fact that male bees do not partake in the construction of the hive.
Microscopes were not invented until 1610, when Galileo inventedone of
the first microscopes almost a thousand years after Prophet Muhammad
(peace be upon him). It is only Allah, the Creator of all things, who
revealed such details over 1,423 years ago. This one word of the Quran
is sufficient to prove that Quran is from non other than Allah!
Obtained from The Islamic Bulletin, August 2000 Issue, San Francisco, USA.

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Don't abandon this jewel

'Umar (RA) became unconscious after he was stabbed, and according to
Al Miswar bin Makhramah,it was said: "Nothing would wake him up except
the call to prayer, if he is still alive." They said to him, "The
prayer has finished, O Chief of theFaithful!" He woke up andsaid, "The
prayer, by Allah! Verily, there is no share in Islam for whoever
abandons the prayer." He performed theprayer while his wound was
bleeding. [Sifat as Safwah 2/131, As Siyar 5/220]
After ar-Rabi` bin Khaytham became partially paralyzed, he used to go
to the mosque helped by two men. He was told: "O Abu Yazid! You have
been given permission to pray at home." He said, "You havesaid the
truth, but I heard the caller hearld, 'Hayya `ala al-Falah (Come to
success)', and I thought that whoever hears this call should answer it
evenby crawling." [Hilyat al Awliya 2/113]
O Muslims! Do not leave Salah. Do not lose the value of vowing down in
front of your Lord to tell Him that nothing is greater than You, oh
Allah!

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THE MYSTERY OF IRON

"Indeed We have sent Messengers with clear proofs, and sent down with
them the Book and the Balance, that mankind may observe justice; And
We sent down (Nazala) iron, in which is (material for) mighty power,
as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is
that will help, unseen, Him and His Messengers, for Allahis full of
strength, exalted in might." (The Quran, 57:25.)
It is remarkable that the Holy Quran uses the word Nazala for iron,
stating that it was sent down to earth. Geologists now agree that the
entire energy of our solar system is not sufficient to produce one
atom of iron. Additionally, they state that four times as much energy
as that of our solar system would be needed to make one atom of ironon
the surface of earth. The geologists thus conclude that iron is an
extra-terrestrial material that came to earth from some other planet.
The word Nazala to the early commentatorsof the Holy Quran was one the
mysteries of the Holy Quran. Recent advancement of knowledge has
changed this mystery of the Holy Quran to a fact of science. Who
besides Allah,Glory be to Him, could have such absolute knowledge
which excelsand encompasses all levels of human knowledge?

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HUMANS WERE CREATED IN STAGES

Only 60 years ago, researchers confirmed that man does not come into
existence all at once, but rather he passes through stages of
development one after another. However, the Holy Quranalready has this
information.
Shaykh al-Zandaani said, we met an American professor, one of the
greatest American scientists, whose name was Professor Marshall
Johnson, and we told him that it says in the Quran that man is created
in stages. When he heard this, he was sitting down, but he stood up
and said, "Stages?" We said, "That was in the seventh century CE! This
Bookcame and said, man was created in stages." He said, "That is
impossible, impossible." We told him, "Why do you say that?" This Book
says (interpretation of the meaning):
"He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation
in three veils of darkness" (The Quran, 39:6)
"What is the matter with you, that[you fear not Allah (His
punishment), and] you hope not for reward (from Allah or you believe
not in His Oneness).While He has created you in (different) stages"
(The Quran, 71:14)
Then he sat back down on his chair and after a few moments he said,
"There are only three possibilities. The first is that Muhammad had a
huge microscope through which he managed to study these things and he
knew things that the people did not know, and he saidthese things. The
second is that this happened by accident, it wasa coincidence. The
third is that hewas a Messenger from God." We said, "With regard to
the first idea, that he had a microscope and other equipment, you know
that a microscope needs lenses, and lenses need glass and technical
expertise and other equipment. Some of this information can only be
discovered with an electron microscope which needs electricity, and
electricity needs knowledge which should have been acquired by an
earlier generation. It is not possible for this knowledge to have been
acquired all at once in a single generation; the previous generation
would have had to strive hard in developing science and transmitting
it to the next generation, and so on. But for this to be the work of
one man, with no one coming before him or after him, either in his own
land or the neighbouring lands for the Romans, Persians and Arabs were
ignorant and had no such equipment, for one man to have all these
instruments and tools which he did not pass on toanyone else this is
not possible." He said, "That's right, it would be very difficult." We
said, "And for itto have been an accident or coincidence, what would
you think if we said that the Quran did not mention this fact only in
one verse but in several verses, and that it did not refer to it in
general terms but that it gave details of every stage, saying that in
the first stage such and such happens, in the second stage such and
such happens, in the third stage and so on. Could that be a
coincidence?" When we explained to him all the details of those
stages, he said, "It is wrong to say that this is an accident! This is
well-founded knowledge." We said, "Then how do you explain it?" He
said, "There is no explanation except that this is revelation from
above!"

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