Day: August 5, 2023

Supplication of Blessings on the Prophet Mohammed
Can Turn Something Bitter Into Sweetness

One day the Holy Prophetَ,
peace and blessing be upon him,
asked a bee as to how they make honey?

The bee replied.
that they go out into the garden
and collect nectar
from the flowers in their mouths
and fly back to the hive and release it,
and that becomes honey.

The Holy Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him,
then said to the bee,
“but nectar have different tastes,
some are bitter some are sour –
how does it become so sweet?”

The bee replied,
“God has taught us
after collecting the nectar
to recite supplication of blessings upon you
until we reach our hive;

so the sweetness in the honey
is a divine gift
from the supplication of blessings
we recite upon you,
that turns something bitter
into such sweetness.”

– Recorded in the Mathnawi
of Mawlana Rumi قدس سرہ العزیز