Some learned people argue that shellac is permissible just as honey which is the excreta of bees is permissible?

Answer

The laws of the Shariah are the products of Wahi, not the products of man's reasoning. Tell them to eat the real excreta of the lac bug. They should not eat it after subjecting it to a process to produce what they call 'shellac'. Tell them we eat the real 'excreta' of the honeybee because Allah Ta'ala says in the Qur'aan that the 'excreta' of the Bee is a wonderful ni'mat for us, but the same Allah Ta'ala's Shariah states that insects and any part of insects are Haraam.

Tell them to eat the excreta in its original form of all insects and of cockroaches and of flies because we consume the 'excreta' of the Bee in its original form, not in any 'shellac' form. Tell them to drink the urine of the cow because milk and urine, both come from the stomach of the cow according to the Qur'aan. There is only a difference of colour and odour, but the Qur'aan says that the milk comes from between blood and faeces. So tell them to consume the blood and the faeces too of the cow. All of this najaasat becomes 'halaal' in terms of their corrupt logic. We only now need Sanha's halaal certificate for halaalizing all the excreta, urine, blood, etc.