Then you shall eat from every fruit, so seek the path your Lord has made easy. From its stomachs will emerge a liquid that has different colors, wherein there is a healing for the people. In that is a sign for a people who will think.
Translation endnotes
[16:69] Besides containing numerous vitamins and nutrients, honey is also considered a medicine for some allergies. Pure natural honey is known to be the only food that will never spoil; thus it is called "miracle food." In low humidity, no organism can live in it and it never decomposes. If it crystallizes, warming it up and mixing it will restore its original texture. Bees are superb architects and engineers; they design and manufacture their honeycomb in hexagonal shapes, which provide optimal efficiency in using wax. Bees are brilliant pharmacists; they produce medicine called honey and poison made of acid and alkaline in their labs. Bees are excellent navigators and talented choreographers; they communicate the distance, the amount, and the direction of flowers, by dancing. Bees are admirable citizens; they work together with thousands of other bees in overpopulated hives in peace and harmony. Bees have great work ethics; they work hard and do not cheat each other. Bees are both pilots and suicide stinger jets; they strike bravely those who occupy their territories. (Fortunately, they are incapable of protecting their hard-earned product from being stolen by us). This little insect, with so many qualities bestowed by its Creator, provides us with many signs and lessons. The Bible contains numerous references to honey and bees. It is found in rocks, (Deuteronomy 32:13; Psalms 81:16); woods (1 Samuel 14:25-26); and strangely, in carcasses of dead animals (Judges 14:8). Its sweetness and nutritional value is praised (Proverbs 16:24; 24:13; 25:16,27); was eaten together with other nutrients, including locusts (Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6); was used as a religious offering (2Chronthians 31:5); and honey was likened to wisdom and nice words (Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 24:13-14); to the word of God (Psalms 19:10; 119:103); and to the lips of a strange woman (Proverbs 5:3). Also, see Leviticus 2:11; Genesis 43:11; 1Kings 14:3; Ezekiel 27:17