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Miracles Of The Quran

THE ANGLES IN HONEYCOMBS

Your Lord revealed to the bees: 'Build dwellings in the
mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which men
erect. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the paths of
your Lord, which have been made easy for you to follow.'
From inside them comes a drink of varying colours, containing
healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (Surat an-Nahl, 68-69)

Working as a team, honey bees build hexagonal cells in their
hives and fill the cells with honey under the leadership of the Queen
Bee. Mathematicians have concluded that the hexagon is the most per-
fect and effificient shape these bees could have “chosen” for their spe-
cial work. For example, if the cells in the combs were pentagonal or oc-
tagonal, then their edges would not weld together perfectly.
Consequently, many parts of the comb would therefore remain used
and the honey project could be deemed to be inherently inefficient. But

through Allah’s Inspiration, bees store the greatest possible amount of
honey by building their combs in the form of hexagons.
These are the only verses of the Qur'an that mention bees,
honey and honeycombs. The abjad value of these verses is 720.
(By minor abjad calculation)
The total internal angles of the comb add up to 720 degrees.
Every cell in the comb is a hexagon. Each internal angle in
the cell is 120 degrees.
The number of clause (clauses) in Surat an-Nahl until this
matter is discussed is 120.

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