It is the honeybee’s culture to fly out from its hive every day and reach places where flowers are available for it. The bee extracts nectar from the flower and returns to its abode. It pays no heed to anything else.

Where there are flowers, there are also other things like thorns; but the honeybee simply ignores the presence of those thorns and does not waste its time in complaining about them. It simply extracts the nectar from the flowers and returns to the hive.

This behaviour of the honeybee provides a symbolic lesson for man: ‘Live like the honeybee’. That is, extract what is good for you and leave what is unwanted. Do not waste your time in complaints and protests.

The Quran describes a true believer in these words: “The true servants of the Gracious One are those who walk upon the earth with humility, and when the ignorant ones address them, their response is, "Peace"; (25:63)