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The Secret of Honey |

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One day, Sayyidinā Rasūluᵓllāh ﷺ saw a bee and asked it how honey is made. The bee replied that they of out to gardens and collect pollen and nectar from the flowers in their mouths, and then fly back to the hive and release it, and that makes honey.

Sayyidinā Rasūluᵓllāh ﷺ then said to the bee, “But the nectars have different tastes… some are bitter and others can be sour. But how do these become sweet?”

The bee replied, “Allāh ﷻ has taught us to recite ṣalawāt upon you after we collect the nectar, until we reach our hive. The sweetness of the honey is the blessing of the ṣalawāt we recite upon you that turns something so bitter into such sweetness.”

—al-Mathnāwī | Shaykh Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī