PLANTS

36. Plants ~ 108 ~ The Qur’an repeatedly mentions plants as special blessings of God. Here are some verses in this regard: Mentioning the initial stage of creation the Qur’an states that “after creating the earth God drew out therefrom its water and its pasture” (79:31). Water and vegetation are closely related to one another as without water vegetation cannot come into existence. This precious vegetation is available nowhere in the vast expanses of the universe but on earth. That is why the existence of the living things too exist only on earth, because the existence of life is not possible without vegetation. A verse in the Qur’an is as follows: “Then let man look at his food (and how we provide it) for that we pour forth water in abundance. And we split the earth in fragments. And produce therein grain, and grapes and the fresh vegetation, and olives and dates, and enclosed gardens, dense with lofty trees, and fruits and fodder, a provision for you and your cattle” (80:23-24). This shows that God has made the vegetation as special food for both men and animals. Through