39. THE SACRED TREE
In the Holy Quran, the olive tree has been referred as the Sacred Tree. When the storm in the times of Sayyiduna Nuh was over, olive tree was the first tree to grow on the earth; and the first place where it grew was the mount Sinai where Sayyiduna Musa was privileged to converse with Allah . Olive tree has a very long life. According to some scholars, it survives for about three thousand years.
Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah Bin ‘Abbas has mentioned that there are many benefits in olive. It is used as fuel in lamps and it is also consumed as curry. It is also used for massage of the body and the head. It is also used in leather tanning. No constituent of olive is
useless. Even the burnt ash of it is used to purify the silk. It grows in the homes of the Prophets and in the holy lands. Seventy Prophets have prayed for blessings in it. Even Sayyiduna Ibraheem and the Beloved Prophet Muhammad have supplicated for it.
Allah mentions about this sacred tree as:
And created the tree that comes forth from Mount Sinai – that grows containing oil and curry for the eaters.
At another place, Allah has mentioned:
It is lighted from the blessed olive tree, which is neither of east not west.
Moral:
Olive is a tree bearing lot of blessings. Usually this tree may grow at any place without requiring any hard work. However, it is found abundantly in Syria and in the Arab peninsula, and the habitants of these areas also use its oil regularly. The people of Makkah Mukarramah use it so regularly that they even fry meat and fish in this oil. This oil is called [Zayt] in Arabic and the person selling it is called َ[Zayaat]. If available, the Muslims should use it for getting blessings as the Holy Quran has mentioned it as a
sacred tree and seventy Prophets have supplicated for blessings in it. Hence one should not be suspicious regarding blessedness of olive and since it has been declared ‘blessed’, there must be lot of benefits in using it.
Source: (QURANIC WONDERS) by ‘ABDUL MUSTAFA A’ZAMI.
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