Honey is a natural food that is the greatest blessing of Allah Almighty. Honey bees visit not thousands but millions of flowers and then collect the nectar of the flowers. They collect the nectar of the flowers and store it in honeycombs. In this way, bees prepare sweet and flavorful honey for us humans. Bees travel to thousands of flowers and then collect the nectar of different flavors from these flowers and bring it to their honeycomb. In this honeycomb, the bees collect honey. Today we have obtained honey from large bees. These bees were making honey from some queens on our tree. And since it is summer, a lot of honey had accumulated in the honeycomb because bees also fight with humans. Whenever a bird or human goes to the honeycomb, these bees sting that person and attack others. We called an expert to cut the honeycomb and he cut the honey. He charged us three thousand rupees, but he cut the honeycomb very skillfully and not a single drop of honey was wasted. The honey we cut was applied to the honeycomb, which I am showing you in today's pictures. When we cut the honey and brought it home, the first thing we ate was the honeycomb, which is also called wax or chocolate wax. It tasted very delicious.
We ate the honeycomb, which is chocolate-like, and it felt like we were eating bubble gum made of honey because it sticks to the teeth like gum, so it was very enjoyable to eat. When we ate the bee hive, we carefully extracted the honey from it. When we extracted the honey from the honeycomb, it was full of honey, but some bees were still on the hive. When we were extracting the bees from the beehive, many bees started buzzing at us while extracting the honey. We realized that these bees would attack us again, so we took the beehive containing the honey into the room and then washed the yard with water so that the bees could not smell the honey. When an hour passed, we brought the beehive out again and we killed the bees that had died on it. Cleaned and then extracted honey from the honeycomb. I also want to write here that whenever you extract honey from the honeycomb, clean it thoroughly and remove it. There should not be any piece of wood or piece of honeycomb or dead bee in it because this would quickly spoil the honey.
Here I also want to write that this honey that we have harvested today is wild honey and wild honey is very valuable and it was produced by wild bees because in our area bees produce honey on some house trees and some bees produce honey by sitting on orange trees. Thus, there is an area near our area, the village of Pai Khel and the village of Suaz. These areas are surrounded by mountains, so the people here also hunt mountain bees and wander in the mountains to find honey and then the mountain honey is sold to other people in the market. But I also want to write here that honey is harvested in different seasons, in summer, winter, spring and autumn. But the honey that is harvested in summer and spring is the most valuable honey. Apart from that, when the plum trees bloom and these flowers bloom in spring, the honey that is produced from these spring flowers is the most valuable. It is more valuable, but honey of any season is very useful and expensive. In our area, some people also sell jelly honey, and second-rate or fake honey is also harmful to health. Always try to eat honey that has been extracted before your eyes.
Honey harvesting is also an art and it is harvested by those who have experience because ordinary people cannot harvest honey because people are afraid of bees. The sting of bees is poisonous and whoever is stung by a bee becomes ill or his body starts to burn. But I have seen that people who are experts are not afraid of bees and at any height where bees have prepared a hive to make honey, they climb to the height and take down the honey and bring it back. The honey we harvested today was harvested by a 10-year-old child and his father was training the 10-year-old child how to climb a tree and then what precautions to take before climbing the tree and then going to extract honey from the hive. That child climbs the tree with great courage and takes down the honey and I also want to write here that this child only had a bite on his mouth. She was wearing a net, and she had her own clothes on her body. Apart from that, she had not taken any other precautions. When we moved away from her, and when she approached the beehive, the bees became angry and started flying around. We hid in the room, so collecting this honey was also a brave act.
We brought the honeycomb home and then we cleaned it. My children and the whole family ate the honey. Then we extracted the honey from the honeycomb with great care. We took a fine muslin cloth and placed the small honeycombs in this fine muslin cloth and then pressed them firmly. Then the honey came out of the honeycomb and started collecting through the muslin cloth in a large container. In this way, we separated the honeycomb from the honeycomb with the fine muslin cloth and in this way we collected a large amount of honey.
When we took the honey out of the honeycomb and collected it in a large container, then we poured the honey from the large container into a plastic bottle and collected it. I also want to tell you here that the plastic bottle that was there can hold about two liters of water. In this way, we filled three bottles with two liters of honey. In this way, the total weight of the honey was about three and a half kilograms. If we check the price of pure honey in the market, the price of one liter or one kilogram of honey is 3 thousand Pakistani rupees. In this way, we collected about three and a half kilograms or three and a half liters of honey and now we have stored it in bottles. Honey is a very useful food for health in the winter season. Whether it is small children, old people or sick people who have an itchy throat or a cold, consuming honey in winter is very beneficial for health. In addition, I also want to tell you that in the winter season, the prices of honey reach the sky and then pure honey is very difficult to obtain. This way we have preserved pure honey for the winter season, which we have harvested before our eyes and enjoyed a lot.
You are seeing in these pictures how we are extracting honey from the honeycomb and then we are storing the honey in a plastic bottle. I want to give a suggestion here. This is not a suggestion, but a tip. That tip is that whenever you store honey in any container, there should be no water in that container. If even a drop of water gets in the bottle, your honey will spoil quickly. Therefore, whenever you use any container or bottle to store honey, first clean the bottle thoroughly and completely dry any water that is on it. When the water is completely dry, then you can store the honey in it.
These are large pieces of honeycomb that are filled with honey. Now look at the color of the honey, it is completely brown and this is an indication that this honey is very pure honey and is made by bees from the juice of the best herbal flowers and the juice of various fruits.
You can see in the pictures that we have a thin muslin cloth and we put pieces of honeycomb in this cloth and then press the cloth. Honey is falling from the bottom of this cloth into a large container and the honey is being stored in this large container. In this way, whenever you separate honey from the honeycomb, take a thin muslin cloth and then press it firmly. The honey that comes out of the honeycomb will be completely clean and transparent.
This was the process that I shared with you, how we made honey, which is a natural food from Allah, which is prepared by small bees from the nectar of flowers. We all want to eat honey, be it summer or winter, whatever the season, honey is a safe food that beautiful bees collect and suck the nectar of flowers and prepare honey for us after months of hard work.
You see a yellow bucket and the bucket is full of honeycomb and then you see a plate with it. I have cut the honeycomb and placed it on this plate and I am now testing this honey. Its taste is very beautiful and delicious. The aroma is also wonderful and this is a beautiful gift from Allah that Allah created bees and now the bees are producing honey for humans.
You see in the pictures that I am now eating honey and this is a honeycomb in which honey is stored. When I put this honeycomb in my mouth, a very sweet and fragrant honey came out of it and the position of my mouth and my body became completely refreshed. If this honeycomb in which honey is stored is eaten, its taste is exactly like chocolate and bubble, so in this way it is also very safe for health. If you eat this honeycomb, your stomach will also be healthy. But keep in mind that you have to eat the honeycomb in which there are no baby bees, but rather the part in which honey is collected.
This was a beautiful honey story, how we harvested honey and then how we preserved it, cleaned it, why. And I also want to tell you that the people of our area hunt for wild honey and the people of mountain bees hunt for honey in the dense forest and then sell it in the market. So, I also want to tell you that honey is a very valuable medicine and food. If you have a stomach ache, then if you eat honey, your stomach ache will be completely cured. If you are a diabetic and suffer from any disease in which you are prohibited from eating sweet things, then I tell you that if you eat honey, you will not be harmed at all. But you probably have to eat a little. It is not that you have to eat a lot of honey. Rather, you can eat one to two spoons of honey daily. If the doctor has forbidden you from eating sweet things, wild honey tastes different from mountain honey. And the bees that produce honey in the gardens and fields It has a different taste, but some people also prepare honey artificially, which is a very wrong method. You should probably not eat it at all. So use honey. Eat honey and make your life beautiful. You have honey safe with me and our whole family will eat honey in winters. If you want to make honey syrup and drink it, you can also use honey as syrup. If you drink green tea or ginger tea, you can also mix two tablespoons of honey in ginger tea and green tea. In this way, if you are a patient of cholesterol or triglycerides, you can drink green tea mixed with one lemon and two tablespoons of honey, you will get a lot of benefit. Thank you very much to all of you.