Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 51
UNDATED 51 UNDATED Honey and Diabetes The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, mentioned the disease of dia- betes and said: This caused me great distress. Doctors have declared sweets very harmful for a diabetic person. Today, I was thinking about this when the thought occurred [to me] that the various sug- ars available in the market are often made by immoral, sinful people, so it would not be surprising if they are harmful, but honey is prepared under God's wahi [revelation]. Therefore, its properties would certainly not be like other sweets. Had it been like them, then شِفَاء لِّلنَّاسِ ]ahealing for the peo- ple] would have been said for all sweets. However, only honey has been explicitly mentioned in this regard. So, this distinc- tion is an argument in favour of its advantages. Since its prepa- ration is regulated through the means of wahi, therefore the bee that sucks the nectar from the flowers would certainly extract only the beneficial ingredients. With this idea in mind, I mixed some keorha² with a bit of honey and drank it. Soon after that, I felt much improvement to the extent that I even found myself able to walk around and then took the men of the house and went to the garden and offered 10 rakʻāts of Ishraq³ Prayer. 1. Sūrah an-Nahl, 16:70 [Publisher] 2. A plant (Pandanus odoratissimus) with a strong-scented flower that is native to South and South East Asia. [Publisher] 3. Ishraq Prayer is a voluntary Şalāt performed between sunrise and before Zuhr. [Publisher]