A015
Surah: 047 - Ayah: 015
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47:15
Q509 The four rivers of paradise are extolled in the wise Qur’an (47:15). Among them is the pure and clear river of honey. Physical honey is also praised medicinally. The Qur’an also mentions in (16:68-69) how the bee continues to receive innate guidance. Could you recommend a book of material science which provides important information about the bee and honey?
A509
- There is a Burushaski proverb which translates: “When the teeth were sound and healthy there was no bread, when the bread became available the teeth have disappeared!”*
- Honey is a sweet and viscous liquid food produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. The nectar is ripened into honey by the inversion of the major portion of its sucrose sugar into the sugar’s levulose (fructose) and dextrose (glucose) and by the removal of excess moisture.
- For its annual consumption a middle sized beehive requires four to five hundred pounds of honey.
- Bees have to make twenty thousand journeys to the fields and gardens to produce one pound of honey.
- For commercial production honey is acquired from apiaries. The colour and the fragrance of honey depend on the kind of flowers from which nectar is extracted.
This verse has been referred 6 times.