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Fruits, Vegetables, Trees And Plants Mentioned in the Qur'an 251

TREES
It is He Who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and
from it come the trees among which you graze your herds. (Surat an-
Nahl, 10)
Your Lord revealed to the bees: 'Build dwellings in the mountains
and the trees, and also in the structures which men erect. (Surat an-
Nahl, 68)
He said, 'It is my staff. I lean on it and beat down leaves for my sheep
with it and have other uses for it.' (Surah Ta Ha, 18)
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and everyone on the
earth prostrates to Allah, and the sun and moon and stars and the
mountains, trees and beasts and many of mankind? But many of them
inevitably merit punishment. Those Allah humiliates will have no one
to honour them. Allah does whatever He wills. (Surat al-Hajj, 18)
But when he reached it a voice called out to him from the right hand
side of the valley in the part which was full of blessing, from out of the
tree: 'Musa, I am Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (Surat al-Qasas, 30)
So he enticed them to do it by means of trickery. Then when they
tasted the tree, their private parts were disclosed to them and they
started stitching together the leaves of the Garden in order to cover
themselves. Their Lord called out to them, 'Did I not forbid you this
tree and say to you, "Satan is an outright enemy to you"?' (Surat al-
A'raf, 22)

PLANTS CITED IN THE QUR'AN

Olive and others
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth with it buds of all (plants), and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and from the
spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down, and gardens of
grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar.
Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen. There are Signs in that
for people who believe. (Surat an-An'am, 99)
It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, and palm-