اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
اَعُوْذُبِااللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
*_Today’s Thought for the day is from Surah An-Nahl Ayah 69_*
*ثُمَّ كُلِىۡ مِنۡ كُلِّ الثَّمَرٰتِ فَاسۡلُكِىۡ سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلًا ؕ يَخۡرُجُ مِنۡۢ بُطُوۡنِهَا شَرَابٌ مُّخۡتَلِفٌ اَلۡوَانُهٗ فِيۡهِ شِفَآءٌ لِّلنَّاسِؕ اِنَّ فِىۡ ذٰ لِكَ لَاٰيَةً لِّقَوۡمٍ يَّتَفَكَّرُوۡنَ.(69)*
*_Then feed on all kinds of fruit and follow the ways made easy for you by your Lord. There comes forth from their bellies a drink of varying colours, in which there is healing for people. Verily in that there is a sign for people who reflect.(69)_*
اور ہر قسم کے میوے کھا۔ اور اپنے پروردگار کے صاف رستوں پر چلی جا۔ اس کے پیٹ سے پینے کی چیز نکلتی ہے جس کے مختلف رنگ ہوتے ہیں اس میں لوگوں (کے کئی امراض) کی شفا ہے۔ بےشک سوچنے والوں کے لیے اس میں بھی نشانی ہے.(69)
The Ayah demands the attention of the entire mankind to reflect upon the process of production of honey in a most systematic and programmed manner.‼️ *The bee sucks the juices from various fruits and flowers. This nectar is stored in a bag in its belly and is converted into honey, which it spits out and stores in the hive.* _To produce about 1 pound (0.5 kilogram) of honey requires 25,000 trips between the hive and flowers. In its whole lifetime, a little less than a year, a bee collects about 45 gm of honey. A pound of honey contains the essence of about 2 million flowers. The bee can fly out to long distances in search of food, at an average speed of 20-25 km/hour. She has to fly for distance as much as 10 km from the hive to collect the nectar. Every drop of honey which it prepares and stores requires it to go through very tiresome and difficult stages, but all these stages have *been made so easy by its Lord* that it is constantly busy in its work and goes to distant places in search of flowers and returns to its hive *without losing its way.* It sucks nectar from the fruits when their skin or rind has become soft or has split._ *Honey has different colours, red, white, yellow.* The honey varies in colour, taste and medical properties according to the kinds of flowers and fruits from which the bees suck the nectar.
*_Act of the Day is:_* to ponder and reflect upon this sign in the creation of the little bee, which Allahﷻ has inspired and taught in this wondrous manner, and shown it places where it can find food, then come back to the hives which the bees build in the way that Allahﷻ has taught them.‼️ Apart from being a tasty and useful food, honey is also a remedial prescription for various diseases.
— Allahﷻ, by causing rains to come down, gives new life to dead lands. Winding through the impurities of feces and blood, HEﷻ makes pipelines of pure and pleasant milk flow for us. On date-palms and grape-vines, HE ﷻ grows sweet fruits from which we make all sorts of syrups and preserves. Through a tiny little living creature with a poisonous bite, HE ﷻ provides for us what is an excellent combination of food, drink, taste, flavor, and cure. Thus all these points to the perfect power of Allahﷻ and calls people to turn to Tawheed.
*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us the ability to ponder and reflect and remain grateful to HIM through our Obedience. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen._*
JazaK Allâhu khair!