An-Nahl 69: “And eat from all the fruits and enter the ways that your Lord made easy for you, make things (honey) for them, there is a cure in it for people.” Verily, there are lessons in this for those who contemplate.
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“And eat from all the fruits and enter the ways that your Lord made easy for you, make things (honey) for them, there is a cure in it for people.” Verily, there are lessons in this for those who contemplate.
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It is not difficult for Allah (swt) to create His creature to do the work that He created it to do. In this respect, the honey that the honey bee will make is not difficult for the bee. Because the bee's body structure is created to make honey. Just as it is not difficult for humans or animals to make large or small defecations with their feces, it is not difficult for the bee to transform the substances it collects from trees and flowers into honey in its body and place it in its honeycomb in its hive.
When this honey is put to the service of people, there are nutrients in it that people like and that are very powerful in terms of food for people and protective shields against diseases.
Medicines are made in nature from flowers. Bees, on the other hand, take the essence of these flowers and convert it into honey in their bodies and make honey in honeycombs. Allah, who has programmed this event in such a way, puts animals at the service of human beings and provides them with cures. By saying, "There are signs for a thinking people", Allah means that people should learn from these signs, be grateful for the sustenance they receive in the face of Allah's greatness, and know their Lord by believing in the existence of Allah.
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Surah An-Nahl, verse 69 says: Then eat of all the fruits and follow the grazing paths that your Lord has made easy for you. "Made easy": He programmed it into it. He built in that program, and accordingly that factory, into that bee, yes, built it into that bee. He created the factory; He created it in the bee's abdomen. The food it takes in, in its abdomen, inside that factory, whatever process takes place, whatever secretion is produced, with that secretion — just as in the human stomach that acid makes the food one eats both digested and broken down, separated into nutrients — likewise the honey factory He placed in its abdomen, from what the bee takes from the essences of flowers — what does it say?
Then enter the (?) grazing paths. That is, honey comes forth in which there is healing for people, it says. From the flowers it gathered from these trees, and what He placed in that creature — the acid in humans: what is it, then, in the honeybee, what does it secrete? This secretion — in (?) there is healing. Surely in this there is a great lesson for a people who reflect, it says.
So here Allah Almighty, that He Himself created these worlds with knowledge, is trying to prove to us here.
Let's read the verse once more. Then eat of all the fruits. Follow the grazing paths your Lord has made easy for you. Honey comes forth in which there is healing for people. Surely in this there is a great lesson for a people who reflect, it says.
For Allah Almighty, creating His creatures suited to the work they will do is not hard. For example, a crab — the crab walks sideways, He created it exactly for the task it will do. All creatures are created exactly for the tasks they will do. No creature struggles with its task, and if it did struggle, Allah would be ascribed attributes. To this secret of creation He has made certain people witnesses. Witnesses — not, of course, to how He creates. That is, that the creatures He creates are created for their task in the easiest way, without cause to complain — I am one of the people He has made witness to that.
This is the state of the pure nafs (nafs-i safiye). For Allah Almighty, creating His creatures suited to the work they will do is not hard. So the honey it makes is not hard for the honeybee. Because the bee's body is created to make honey. Just as people or animals (?) relieve themselves, major or minor, without strain, likewise for the bee, the substances it gathers effortlessly from trees and flowers to turn into honey in its body and place in the comb in its hive is not hard for the honeybee. This honey is put at people's service; in honey there are nutrients people enjoy, very strong as food, and against diseases a protective shield.
Medicines are made in nature from flowers. Bees take the essences of these flowers, turn them into honey in their bodies, and make honey in combs. Allah, who programmed this so, puts the animals at people's service and through them gives people healing. By saying there are lessons for a people who reflect, Allah wants people to take lessons from these and, thanking Allah for the provisions He gives (?), believing in Allah's existence, to know their Lord. Yes.