Page 57 - Wonders of Allah's Creation

Isn’t it neat? Could you have made such neat
hexagons side by side without a ruler?
Furthermore, take a blank piece of paper and start
to draw hexagons from one end of the paper while

a friend starts to draw from the other. Were you
able to come up with a neat honeycomb shape,
right in the middle of the paper, without leaving
any spaces? You weren’t able to, right? This is
something that even adults are unable to manage.
Your teachers, parents, even your grandparents
would not be able to achieve such a task. To be able

to do this, you would need some instruments and
you would have to do very complicated
calculations. However, the tiny bee, even when it is
just 12 days old, can make such a perfect
honeycomb. What's more, it does this without using
any instruments.
All the bees start making hexagonal honeycombs
from the corners, and meet in the middle. You

might have noticed that the honeycombs are the
same height. How can a bee manage such tasks
that even humans are not able to carry out and
with such excellence? You see Allah is the One Who
lets the bee do these things. Allah has created the
bee with this talent.

The responsibilities of the worker bee are not
just these. Among its duties, until it is 3 weeks old,
are storing royal jelly and pollen in the
honeycombs, keeping the beehive clean and
throwing dead bees and garbage outside the
beehive. During the last stage of its 3-week duty, it
starts its last task of serving as a security guard
and protecting the beehive from enemies. When the

three weeks are over, the bee becomes skilled
enough to collect royal jelly, pollen and water.

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