16.Honey in quran and hadith A Lecture By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK Province Peshawar

5.  The Glorious Quran is in perfect harmony
with the established science about the
bees. Also honey, as I linked above, was
proven to be a healing medicine by science
today, and Allah Almighty mentioned this fact
about honey 1,400 years ago, a "healing for
men" ( ‫للناس‬ ‫شفاء‬ ‫فيه‬.) Again, here are some of
honey's medical benefits

6.  Female honey bees are worker and do most
of the jobs. Male bees are called drones and
don’t do work except mating with Queen.
Queen lays egg 600-1500 per day and can
live 3-4 years while workers only 6 weeks in
Summer and 4-9 months in Winter. Worker
bees are smaller in size than male and queen.
Male bees are medium and Queen bees are
the largest in size

8.  One worker bee produces in average 1/12
teaspoon honey in her entire life. 1 standard
teaspoon is 5 ml or 5 gram of water. But for
honey this weight will be 8 gram(App). A
professional beekeeper keeps 1 million bees can
get 8/12 x 1,000,000 = 666,667 gm = 667 Kg.
This amount is for one round. If you consider 6
round in a year total production of honey will be
667 x 6 = 4000 Kg or 4 Ton. This quantity is
approximate & average production of
professional beekeepers per year as I saw.
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9.  Honey bees fly 15 miles per hour and usually
travel for honey 3 miles in every direction from
their hives. They use their own language to
communicate with each other. Their language is
dancing and scents. While a honey bee find some
source of honey anywhere she will inform her
fellow. Their types of Dancing indicates a specific
message. For example, if she find honey source
her mode of dancing will express that and also
show the location by curving her body in
measure of angle.

10.  The worker bees, those who gather pollen
and make the honey, are actually all females.
The male bees do not make honey. This was
only known recently. However 1400 years ago
the Quran refers to bees that generate the
honey as females (the Arabic grammar is in
the female mode):

11.  It is generally known that honey is a
fundamental food source for the human
body, whereas only a few people are aware of
the extraordinary features of its producer, the
honeybee.

13.  As known, food source of bees is nectar,
which is not possible to be found during
winter. For this reason, they combine the
nectar collected in summer time with special
secretions of their body, produce a new food
substance, which is honey, and store it for
the coming winter months.

14.  It is noteworthy that the amount of honey
stored by the bees is much more than their
actual need. The question which comes to the
mind is why this "excessive production",
which seems to be a waste of time and
energy is not stopped? The answer to this
question is hidden in the verse which states
that the bee is "taught" so by the Lord.

15.  Bees innately produce honey not only for
themselves but also for the human beings. As
a matter of fact, bees, like many other beings
in nature, are offered to the service of man.
Just like the chicken laying at least one egg a
day although it does not need it, or the cow
producing much more milk than its offspring
needs.


16.  Bees usually have to fly long distances and trace large
areas to find food. They collect flower dust and honey
constituent within a range of 800 m. from their hive.
The bee which finds the flowers flies back to the hive
to inform others about their place. But, how will this
bee describe the place of the flowers to its friends in
the hive? By dancing!… The bee returning to the hive
starts to make some sort of a dance. This dance is a
means of expression used to tell other bees the
location of the flowers. This dance repeated many
times by the bee, includes all the information about
the inclination, direction, distance and other details
of the food source that enable other bees to reach it.


17.  Your Lord revealed to the bees:
"Build dwellings in the mountains and the
trees, and also in the structures which men
erect. Then eatfrom every kind of fruit
and travel the paths of your Lord, which have
been made easy for you to follow." From
inside them comes a drink of varying colours,
containing healing for mankind. There is
certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.
(Qur'an, 16:68-69)

18.  Honey contains 80% sugars and 20% water
(moisture). While honey is processed
moisture is kept between 18% – 22%. To
produce one pound of honey, all the female
bees in the colony must visit 2 million
flowers, fly over 55,000 miles. One
tablespoon of honey provides 60 calories &
contains 11 gm of carbohydrates + 1 mg of
calcium + 0.2 mg of iron + 0.l mg of vitamin
B + 1 mg of vitamin C

19.  Usually a single honey bee
will visit 50-100 flowers on
one trip. Honey includes all
the substances necessary to
sustain life. Beekeepers
can make up to 400 pounds
of honey per year from a
typical full
size beehive. Remember,
Honey never spoils or
rotten. 1 ounce of honey
can be fuel for a honey bee
to fly around the world.
Honey bees collect sugary
nectar from flower or
similar plants

20.  Honey bees have two stomach,
one for digestion of own food
and other is to bear nectar
from flower. They collect
nectar and water, keep in that
stomach and return to the
beehive. While nectar in the
stomach Natural chemical from
head glands mixed with
nectar. And finally they put it
in empty honey comb. Actually
nectar of flowers become
honey inside the stomach of
honey bees. When they keep
this honey in the honey comb
it has excess moisture. So it
needs few days to evaporate
that excess moisture.

21.  As I told before, moisture
must come between 18%
– 22%. Commercial
beekeepers don’t want to
keep the honey long time
in the hive. Because they
want to produce more
honey. So,
they extract honey
before the time required
to evaporate naturally.
And they make this
evaporation manually or
with automated machine.

22.  In Sahih Bukhari we
read that the Prophet,
may the mercy and
blessings of God be
upon him, said: “Honey
is a remedy for every
illness and the Quran
is a remedy for all
illness of the mind,
therefore I recommend
to you both remedies,
the Quran and honey.”


23.  In Bukhari (Volume 7: Book 65), Aisha
narrates that, "Allah's Apostle used to love
www.onislam.net - 29 - sweet edible things
and honey." He also attributed many healing
powers to honey.