Transliteration:( Summma kulee min kullis samaraati faslukee subula Rabbiki zululaa; yakhruju mim butoonihaa sharaabum mukh talifun alwaanuhoo feehi shifaaa'ul linnaas, innna fee zaalika la Aayatal liqawminy yatafakkaroon )
142. This means these bees can stay wherever they like and eat whatever they like. Thus, these honey bees fly a great distance in search of fruit and flowers, but they never forget their homes and return without any difficulty.Â
143. By "ways of Allah Almighty" is meant those ways which Allah Almighty has explained and informed to them.Â
144. Multi-coloured honey- white, yellow, red, green, black. The difference in the colour of the honey is due to the nectar sucked from different coloured flowers. Also, the honey of young bees is white, of medium bees is yellow and of old bees is red. The honey bees bring nectar sucked from a variety of fruit and flowers and spew it out in their homes (honey combs).
145. It is stated in Mathnawi Shareef of Hazrat Jalaluddeen Rumi (On whom be peace) the honey bee sucks the nectar from the flowers in the gardens and returns while reciting Darood Shareef on the Holy Prophet Â
Through the blessings of this pious act, there is cure placed in this honey, because Darood Shareef in itself is a means of cure. The Darood Shareef is taught to these bees in a natural way. The sweetness of this Darood is placed in the honey. Therefore, just as the blessings of the Darood converts the inspired juice of flowers into one of sweetness, likewise, if Allah Almighty wills, the blessings of the Darood will give our dull worship the sweet flavour of acceptance.
146. If Allah Almighty can accumulate nectar of different flowers in the honey through the honey bees, then is it beyond His power to put together scattered limbs of the dead and raise them back to life?
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Please refer to Surah Nahl ayat 68 which provides the complete commentary from verse 68 through 69.
(16:69) then suck the juice of every kind of fruit and keep treading the ways of your Lord[57] which have been made easy.” There comes forth from their bellies a drink varied in colours, wherein there is healing for men.[58] Verily there is a sign in this for those who reflect.[59]
57. “Follow the ways of your Lord” means work in accordance with the methods which have been taught to thee by Allah’s wahi for the smooth running of hive life. It is Allah’s wahi (instinctive inspiration) that has taught the bees how to build their wonderful factory with separate combs to rear brood, combs to turn nectar into honey, combs to store food, in short, separate combs to fulfill every aspect of hive life. It is wahi that has taught the bees how to organize themselves into a cooperative society for collective effort to run the factory with the queen and thousands of workers to perform a variety of specific tasks. All these things have been made so smooth for them by wahi that the bees never feel the necessity of ever thinking about it. They have been running smoothly their factory with their collective effort for thousands of years with perfect accuracy.
58. Though honey is a wholesome food with a sweet taste and has medicinal power as well, its latter quality has been mentioned only because the former is too obvious. It is used as a medicine to cure several diseases because it contains the juice and glucose of flowers and fruits in the best form. Besides this, it is also used in preparing and preserving other medicines because it does not rot. It also preserves other things from decay. That is why it has been used for centuries as a substitute for alcohol. And if the beehive is built at a place, which abounds in certain medicinal herbs, its honey does not remain mere honey, but becomes also the essence of that herb. It is expected that if bees are used methodically for extracting essence from herbs, that essence will prove to be much better than the one obtained in the laboratories.
59. This passage (Surah Al-Kahf, Ayat 48-69) contains proofs of Tauhid and life after death. These were necessitated, for the disbelievers and the mushriks were bitterly opposed to the Prophet (peace be upon him) mainly because of these two doctrines. The acceptance of the first doctrine demolished the whole system of life based on shirk or atheism because to acknowledge Allah to be the sole Provider, the Helper and the Protector left no room for the worship of any god or goddess. The proof of Tauhid is based on the observance of the structure of the cattle, the bees, the date palms and vineyards and their usefulness to mankind. Naturally the question arises: Who has designed these in the manner and for the purpose they have been created? The only obvious answer is that it is the All-Wise and All-Beneficent Allah Who has designed all these things for the benefit of mankind to produce such varieties of food that are so wholesome and so tasty. The Prophet, therefore, rightly demanded: When you yourselves admit, and you cannot but admit, that it is Allah alone Who has provided milk, honey, dates, grapes and the like, He and none but He is worthy of your worship, praise, gratitude and allegiance. Why do you then insist on making offerings to your self made gods and goddesses?
The second doctrine to which the disbelievers took strong objection was that there is surely the life after death. They were against this doctrine for its acceptance changed the whole moral system and they were not prepared to change their immoral ways. Their objection was based on the presumption that it was impossible to bring to life anyone after death.
They have been asked to observe that the barren land, which once had been covered with vegetable life, was again covered with it after rainfall and they have been watching such repetition of life year after year. That Allah, Who could so easily bring to life the dead vegetable, could do the same and bring to life all the dead without any difficulty at all.
[708]- i.e., delicious substances found by the bee.
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