"And your Lord inspired the bee, saying: 'Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect.

"Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

These verses mention God's favor and bounties to Man; the speech turns on the BEE and HONEY, drawing our attention to how the little creature in such a mysterious way, fulfills God's order, and performs the duty assigned to him!

1. INSPIRATION (Wahi)
"And your Lord Inspired the bee..."
"Wahi" literally denotes inspiration through instinctive urge created by Allah i.e to induce, or to put a message into the mind or heart by God. The instinct of creatures too, is some sort of "WAHI" that they receive from their Creator.

In Surah Zilzal verse 5, it is said that Allah 'revealed or inspired (awha)' to the Earth. The Mother of Musa was inspired (Awhayna) to suckle Musa in surah al-Qasas: 7.

Whosoever receives "Wahi (inspiration)" does not become the Messenger of Prophet of Allah.

Wahi, in its wider sense, is applicable to any knowledge or action (of a conscious being) which is not obtained by observation and experience. Therefore, here in this verse the Bee's instinct is referred to as God's inspiration (Wahi). Now-a-days, man has much more information about the wonderful civilization of Bees than he had before. The way the Bee builds its wonderful home or honey-comb, with its hexagonal cells, and so geometrically perfect, upon the hills, on the trees, or even among the habitations of men, is one of the wonders of nature!

2. THE WAYS OF GOD
...'Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect.

"Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)."

Bees have divided themselves in various groups of workers. Each group's duty is to do a certain part of work to complete the whole process. As an instance of this, early in the morning, a group of researcher bees, in the vanguard of the honeybees get out of the hive to find the best rose-gardens and flowery fields. They then return to report to other bees what they have discovered. Researchers mark out the way to the flowery field or farm that have suggested so that their colleague may easily find the way out: " .... And follow the ways of your Lord easily."

3. THE PLACE IN WHICH HONEY IS MADE
"... There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think."

The bees drew the nectar by their labium, and pass it into their honey stomach which is a wonderful little factory. In that factory with the help of salivary enzymes, the cane sugar in the nectar is converted: (1)into," DEXTROSE" which is a kind of crystalline sugar (C6H21O6), occurring in many plants and in the animal organism.

(2)Besides that, the small factory produces a second type of crystalline sugar out of the nectar which is called," LEVULOSE" or fruit sugar, occurring with difficulty in the honey, and in the most of the sweet fruits. It is produced by inversion of," SUCROSE".

Upon returning to the hive, the bee gushes back the partially processed nectar into a cell of the comb. It is worthy of note that this SURAH was revealed in Mecca where there was no plantation or flowers, nor bee and honey!

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BEE-HIVE? During day light hours in the summer, the BEE-HIVE is a scene of intense, yet orderly activities. A constant stream of workers pass in and out of the hive entrance. Those who enter are laden with pollen. THE MASS OF MICROSPORES IN SEED PLANTS WHICH IS USUALLY IN THE FORM OF FINE YELLOW FLOUR and nectar. Those leaving, are headed for flowers where they can pick up new loads. They sometimes travel to long distances from their hive in order to reach a particular kind of flower! Sometimes as far as 8 miles! The field workers are very hardy and active and tirelessly go about their task so much hard that soon their wings become tattered, and within a few months they become old and weak and worn out.

Young workers serve as apprenticeship within the hive on indoor tasks, then they spend a few days near the hive entrance, getting their bearings, trying out their wings and defending the colony if necessary. Bees have no defensive soldiers as certain kinds of ants do have.

In times of danger workers are drafted to fight intruders, and they usually sacrifice their lives by giving their single sting. The interior of the hive has little waste space. The bulk of the hive consists of hanging combs of six-sided cells in vertical rows in the two, placed back to back. Between the rows in the hanging comb, are narrow passage ways, barely large enough for a bee to squeeze through. The smallest cells are used as nurseries for worker LAVAE, and pollen storage. Larger cells function as nurseries for drones, and as bins for honey. Drones are the males of the honeybee. They have no sting and gather no honey. They live on the labors of others. The largest cells are royal suites in which the future queen will born. The workers who carry on the routine courses of the hive, each perform a special task. Some are housemaids, keeping the passage ways clean and free of litter.

They also clean and polish each cell before an egg is placed in it. Others are nursemaids, taking care of the new born bees. Each of the helpless, blind, and limbless larvae, stretches its head with open mouth, waiting to be fed with pollen and honey, brought from the storage bin by the nursemaids! This never ending task is tremendous, for, the young bees have incredible appetites. Each larvae increases its weight 1500times in six days! On the seventh day it stops eating and a cap is placed over the cell, and the larvae constructs a cocoon (i. e. an envelope largely of silk).Then from the cocoon it will emerge as an adult bee! Other workers serve as carpenters and repairmen, building new combs and cells, as the population of the hive increases and new storage bins for mounting the influx of pollen and nectar.

The queen bee does not rule the hive in the usual sense. She is carefully looked after however, since upon her depends the future existence of the community. The queen is actually an egg-laying machine, producing hundreds of thousands of eggs in her lifetime of three or four years. At maximum production, she can lay about 1800 eggs a day! There is usually only one adult queen in the hive at a time. {QUOTED FROM INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA}

Allah is great. created man from a drop of sperm.

4. THE COLOURS OF HONEY
"...There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour..." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

The colour of honey depends on the flowers from which the nectar was taken. The honey may have a dark brown colour if it is produced from buck wheat and heather nectar. The light-coloured aromatic honey is produced from clover, orange, thyme, and sage nectar. We know that colour increases beauty, shows the food or drink delicious, and incites the appetite and interest for a food.

5. HONEY IS A HEALING MEDICINE
"...wherein is healing for men..." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

Vegetables and flowers are the main sources of many medicines and drugs, and generally have some sort of curative quality, most of which are still unknown to Man. Experiences have shown that, honey too, has many medical benefits and is endowed with many preventive and curative properties:

Honey is easily attracted by the blood, and serves to refine it.

It prevents infections in the stomach.

It serves to control and regulate sleep.

It is a cure for constipation.

Honey cures coughing, and is used in curing ulcer of abdomen and duodenum.

6. REFLECTION FOR MAN
"...Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

Scientists have labored to replicate some of abilities of this little creature, Bee. A project called Green Brain Project is aims to recreate a complete European honey bee (Apis mellifera) brain on a computer.

Prof James Marshall writes:
"Bees and all other insects are miracles of engineering which we are nowhere near equaling..."If we could even recreate a fraction of their abilities in a robot system then we would have made a tremendous advance" .
www.bbc.com/news/technology-32216463

Morris Metterling the author of the great work on HONEY BEE has said:

" If to-day the BEES perish suddenly; their death will cause more than a million kinds of our plants, flowers, and vegetations to die and destroy! This is because honeybees are essential for the pollination of many cultivated fruits, including apple cherry, plum, and pear. They also pollinate berries and clover.

Allahu Akbar..lah aollah wala kuwata illa billahi

Really learnt a lot from this. It's really been long I took honey. Funny enough honey bee and honey is all I think of now.
Jazakallahu khairan for sharing

"....The way the Bee builds its wonderful home or honey-comb, with its hexagonal cells, and so geometrically perfect, upon the hills, on the trees, or even among the habitations of men, is one of the wonders of nature!"

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King and Queens Of This World Can Not Make The Best Honey


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JazakAllahu Khayran

Very educative

JazakumLlahu Khayra to the OP and Empiree for their submissions.

Almighty Allah will increase ya knowledge

A very nice thread

JazakumullahuKairan @Op

Allahu akbar

May Allah bless us all

Alhamdulilah robil alemen for being a Muslim

Allihamdulilah robil alameen

Empiree:
..."The way the Bee builds its wonderful home or honey-comb, with its hexagonal cells, and so geometrically perfect, upon the hills, on the trees, or even among the habitations of men, is one of the wonders of nature!"

Ma sha Allah brother. Mathematically the angles of each of these hexagonal cells is 15degrees to each other. Very accurate, says the Mathematicians. And scientifical findings is if even 1 angle is 14.9degree, it will affect the balance of the honey-comb.

Love those Bee pix.

Mashallah!

jazakallah khair

ALLAHU AKBAR

Allahu akbar…

What a wonderful creature its.

Note: The highlighted, confirms that honey is not just "brown" in colour, it can be white, grey, black, green or even yellow. Based on the statement "a drink of varying colour"

I knw my 1N'lnd friend who had argued wit me here once upon a time that the QUR AN was brought by 1 Nomad Arab illiterate is on wit this verdict as well. Anyway this n many more of this kinda had always bn the wonders of My Glorious Religion " islam"

I thank Allah for havin a proofabl/ undiluted and Evergreen blissfl Scripture wit me .

@AlbadirJazaakumul laahu khaer.

Jum a mubaarak[ quote author=AlBaqir post=32793166]4. THE COLOURS OF HONEY
"...There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour..." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

The colour of honey depends on the flowers from which the nectar was taken. The honey may have a dark brown colour if it is produced from buck wheat and heather nectar. The light-coloured aromatic honey is produced from clover, orange, thyme, and sage nectar. We know that colour increases beauty, shows the food or drink delicious, and incites the appetite and interest for a food.

5. HONEY IS A HEALING MEDICINE
"...wherein is healing for men..." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

Vegetables and flowers are the main sources of many medicines and drugs, and generally have some sort of curative quality, most of which are still unknown to Man. Experiences have shown that, honey too, has many medical benefits and is endowed with many preventive and curative properties:

Honey is easily attracted by the blood, and serves to refine it.

It prevents infections in the stomach.

It serves to control and regulate sleep.

It is a cure for constipation.

Honey cures coughing, and is used in curing ulcer of abdomen and duodenum.

6. REFLECTION FOR MAN
"...Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think." {Surah Nahl: 68 - 70}

Scientists have labored to replicate some of abilities of this little creature, Bee. A project called Green Brain Project is aims to recreate a complete European honey bee (Apis mellifera) brain on a computer.

Prof James Marshall writes:
"Bees and all other insects are miracles of engineering which we are nowhere near equaling..."If we could even recreate a fraction of their abilities in a robot system then we would have made a tremendous advance" .
www.bbc.com/news/technology-32216463

Morris Metterling the author of the great work on HONEY BEE has said:

" If to-day the BEES perish suddenly; their death will cause more than a million kinds of our plants, flowers, and vegetations to die and destroy! This is because honeybees are essential for the pollination of many cultivated fruits, including apple cherry, plum, and pear. They also pollinate berries and clover.[/quote]

Allahu Akbar..Masha Allah Op

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّه and Jazakumullahu Khair

Jazakallahu Khairan

barakallahu fihi bro al baqir...

Honey Pie! A million+ bees cling to world record breaker

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