Food and eating

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

• As-Saaffaat 37:66✦ skyread

  فَإِنَّهُمْ لَءَاكِلُونَ مِنْهَا فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنْهَا ٱلْبُطُونَ

  And indeed, they will eat from it and fill with it their bellies.

• Al-Mursalaat 77:42✦ skyread

  وَفَوَٰكِهَ مِمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ

  And fruits from whatever they desire,

• At-Tur 52:22✦ skyread

  وَأَمْدَدْنَٰهُم بِفَٰكِهَةٍ وَلَحْمٍ مِّمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ

  And We will provide them with fruit and meat from whatever they desire.

• Adh-Dhaariyat 51:27✦ skyread

  فَقَرَّبَهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ

  And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"

• Al-Maaida 5:113✦ skyread

  قَالُوا۟ نُرِيدُ أَن نَّأْكُلَ مِنْهَا وَتَطْمَئِنَّ قُلُوبُنَا وَنَعْلَمَ أَن قَدْ صَدَقْتَنَا وَنَكُونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ ٱلشَّٰهِدِينَ

  They said, "We wish to eat from it and let our hearts be reassured and know that you have been truthful to us and be among its witnesses."

• Al-Waaqia 56:53✦ skyread

  فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنْهَا ٱلْبُطُونَ

  And filling with it your bellies

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:79✦ skyread

  وَٱلَّذِى هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِى وَيَسْقِينِ

  And it is He who feeds me and gives me drink.

• Adh-Dhaariyat 51:57✦ skyread

  مَآ أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ

  I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me.

• Al-A'raaf 7:19✦ skyread

  وَيَٰٓـَٔادَمُ ٱسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ فَكُلَا مِنْ حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

  And "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat from wherever you will but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."

• Al-Insaan 76:8✦ skyread

  وَيُطْعِمُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِۦ مِسْكِينًا وَيَتِيمًا وَأَسِيرًا

  And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive,

• Al-Kahf 18:62✦ skyread

  فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَا قَالَ لِفَتَىٰهُ ءَاتِنَا غَدَآءَنَا لَقَدْ لَقِينَا مِن سَفَرِنَا هَٰذَا نَصَبًا

  So when they had passed beyond it, [Moses] said to his boy, "Bring us our morning meal. We have certainly suffered in this, our journey, [much] fatigue."

• Al-Waaqia 56:21✦ skyread

  وَلَحْمِ طَيْرٍ مِّمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ

  And the meat of fowl, from whatever they desire.

• Al-Anbiyaa 21:8✦ skyread

  وَمَا جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ جَسَدًا لَّا يَأْكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ خَٰلِدِينَ

  And We did not make the prophets forms not eating food, nor were they immortal [on earth].

• Al-Muminoon 23:20✦ skyread

  وَشَجَرَةً تَخْرُجُ مِن طُورِ سَيْنَآءَ تَنۢبُتُ بِٱلدُّهْنِ وَصِبْغٍ لِّلْءَاكِلِينَ

  And [We brought forth] a tree issuing from Mount Sinai which produces oil and food for those who eat.

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