Does the Qur’an predict the female nature of worker ants?
That the Qur’an addresses the ant as feminine is accurate, it is also accurate that the worker ants are females. However, contrary to what Muslims believe this idiom is not suggesting that the Qur’an describes a female creature. In a number of languages not only human female and males are referred to by their gender as male or female but entire species and objects are referred to as either male, female or neuter gender. In the Arabic language the ‘ant’ (naml) is simply generic female, it does not indicate natural gender or a biological female or male at least not in its singular and this particular ant is referred to as singular. For further study read: http://arabic.tripod.com/VocabAnimals.htm http://www.quran4u.com/Tafsiraya/027%20Naml.htm http://www.studyquran.co.uk/LLhome.htm This completely debunks and refutes the popular claim that the Qur’an predicts the discovery that worker ants are female.
