Tuesday 2 July 2013

Fruits Mentioned in the Holy Quran


In holy Quran many fruits, vegetables and drinks have been mentioned. These foods items should be included in the daily diet patterns to stay healthy and fit. Quran only embraces things that are worth mentioning and beneficial to humans. Many Quranic verses can be found that have mentioned the name of fruits and drinks and highlighted their important in nutrition. Scientific studies have further confirmed there nutritional value hence leaving no space for uncertainty. Here’s a list of fruits along with related verses mentioned in the Quran.
Dates
“and shake towards you the trunk of the palm tree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates” [Chapter 19: verse 25]
Fruit
“And for them there is fruit, and for them there is what they ask for.” [36:57]
Corn and Grapes
“and in the earth there are tracts side by side and gardens of grapes and corn and palm trees having one root and (others) having distinct roots-- they are watered with one water, and we make some of them excel others in fruit; most surely there are signs in this for a people who understand.” [Chapter 13: verse 4]
Grains
“The likeness of those who spend their wealth in the Way of God, is as the likeness of a grain (of corn); it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains. God gives manifold increase to whom He pleases. And God is All-Sufficient for His creatures needs, All-Knower.” [Chapter 2: verse 261]
Herbage, or Abb , Fig and Olives
“he causes to grow for you thereby herbage, and the olives, and the palm trees, and the grapes, and of all the fruits; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect.” [Chapter 16: verse 11]
“i swear by the fig and the olive” [Chapter 95: verse 1]
Buckthorn (lote tree)
“But they turned away (from the obedience of God), so We sent against them Sail Al-'Arim (flood released from the dam), and We converted their two gardens into gardens producing bitter bad fruit, and tamarisks, and some few lote-trees.” [34:16]
Palms and Pomegranate
“and he it is who produces gardens (of vine), trellised and untrellised, and palms and seed-produce of which the fruits are of various sorts, and olives and pomegranates, like and unlike; eat of its fruit when it bears fruit, and pay the due of it on the day of its reaping, and do not act extravagantly; surely he does not love the extravagant” [Chapter 6: verse 141]
Mustard seed
O my son! If it be (anything) equal to the weight of a grain of mustard seed, and  though it be in a rock, or in the heavens or in the earth, God will bring it forth. Verily,  God is Subtle (in bringing out that grain), Well-Aware (of its place). [31:16]
Cucumbers, Garlic, Lentils and Onions
“and when you said: o musa! we cannot bear with one food, therefore pray lord on our behalf to bring forth for us out of what the earth grows, of its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions. he said: will you exchange that which is better for that which is worse? enter a city, so you will have what you ask for. and abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, and they became deserving of allah's wrath; this was so because they disbelieved in the communications of allah and killed the prophets unjustly; this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.” [Chapter2: verse61]                          
Gourd
“And We caused a tree of gourd to grow over him.” [37:146]
Banana
“and banana-trees (with fruits), one above another” [Chapter 56:verse 29]

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