This document discusses plants mentioned in the Holy Quran, including their scientific names, parts used, and medicinal properties. It provides references to over 15 plant species found in the Quran, such as dates, olives, pomegranates, onions and lentils. The document aims to highlight the importance of plant taxonomy by exploring plants with religious significance as described in Islamic scripture.
4. WHAT IS TAXONOMY?
• It arise from two Greek words.
• “Taxis” mean “Arrangement” “Nomos” mean
distribution.
• It is sometime also known as systematics.
• Science of classifying organisms.
• Scientific names also given by the taxonomy.
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7. Plants Mentioned in Quran
• Approximately 21 Plant species belongs to
18 families are reported in Holy Quran.
• The plants mentioned in the Holy Quran
symbolize holy plants such as fig, olive, date
palm, and pomegranate or aroma plant such
as ginger, basil and camphor or nutritious
plant such as onion, garlic and lentils.
8. Zingiber officinale ()زنجبيل
• Arabic name: Zanjabil
• English name: Ginger
• Common name: Adrak
• Family: Zingiberaceae
• Part used: Root
• Distribution: Bangladesh,
Yaman,
Oman, India and Pakistan.
• Medicinal uses: Z. officinale use
in respiratory disorder, also has
immunomodulatory properties.
Ginger has an anti-
inflammatory property.
9. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 76. Ad-Dahr, Ayah 17
• And they will be given to drink
there of a cup (of wine) mixed
with Zanjabil(ginger),
10. Ficus carica
• English Name: Figs
• Common Name: Anjeer
• Arabic Name: Teen
• Family: Moraceae
• Habit & Habitat: A small tree
cultivated in poor soil.
• Part used: Bark, leaves, fruit.
• Medicinal uses: Remove kidney
and urinary bladder stone,
release intestinal pain, dyspepsia
and anorexia.
12. Allium sativum
• English Name: Garlic
• Common Name: Lahson
• Arabic Name: Soom, fum
• Family: Alliaceae
• Habit and Habitat: Annual
cultivated herb
• Part used: Rhizome
• Medicinal uses: Antidote, wound
healer, dog bite, paralysis,
digestive problems, asthma,
parkensis, intestinal pain, cough,
13. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 2.Al-Baqara, Ayah 61.
• “And when you said O’ Mussa We will
not have patience or We will not endure
on food (of) one (kind) so you pray for us
(to) your Lord he brings out for us
whatever sprouts or germinates (in) the
earth of its vegetables or herbs and its
cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils
and its onions”.
14. Allium cepa
• English Name: Onion
• Common Name: Piaz
• Arabic Name: Basal
• Family: Alliaceae
• Habit and Habitat: Herbaceous,
cultivated in the field
• Part used: Rhizome, leaves and seeds
• Medicinal uses: Antidote, Stomach
diseases, cholera, Diarrhea, throat
infection, common cold, cough, fever,
ear pain. It clears the face and skin
spots.
15. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 2.Al-Baqara, Ayah 61.
• “And when you said O’ Moses We will
not have patience or We will not
endure on food (of) one (kind) so you
pray for us (to) your Lord he brings out
for us whatever sprouts or germinates
(in) the earth of its vegetables or herbs
and its cucumbers and its garlic and its
lentils and its onions”.
16. Vitis vinifera
• Arabic name: Inab
• English name: Grape
• Hindi name: Angur
• Family: Vitaceae
• Distribution: Cultivated throughout Asia
• Part used: Fruits, leaves.
• Medicinal uses: Fever, constipation,
bronchitis, colds, blood pressure, diabetes,
tuberculosis, diarrhea. It relax body and brain
muscles, have cooling effects on body.
17. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 11
• With it He causes to grow for you the crops,
the olives, the date-palms, the grapes, and
every kind of fruit. Verily! In this are indeed
an evident proof and a manifest sign for
people who give thought.
• Surah 17. Al-Israa, Ayah 91
• “Or you have a garden of date-palms and
grapes, and causes rivers to gush forth in
their midst abundantly.
18. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 23. Al-Muminun, Ayah 19
• Then We brought forth for you
therewith gardens of date palms
and grapes, wherein is much
fruit for you, and whereof you
eat.
19. Cucurbita pepo
• English Name : Squash
• Local Name : Kaddo
• Arabic Name : Yakteen, Daba
• Family : Cucurbitaceae
• Habit and Habitat : Prostrate with
tendrils herb
• Part used : Fruit and leaves
• Medicinal uses : Arthritis, Headache,
fever, Madness, lungs infection, common
cold, kidney and liver disorder and heart
diseases
20. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• As-Saaffat, surah 37, ayah 146:
• “And We caused a plant of
gourd to grow over him”
21. Punica granatum
• Arabic name: Rumman
• English name: Pomegranate
• Hindi name: Anar
• Family: Punicaceae
• Distribution: cultivated
throughout Asia
• Part used: Bark, root, flower,
fruit
• Medicinal properties:
Anthelmintic, astringnent,
cooling, laxative.
22. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 55.Ar-Rahman, 66-68
• "In both of them (gardens) are two
springs, Spouting. In both of them
are fruit and palm trees and
pomegranates. So which of the
favors of your Lord would you
deny?“
23. Phoenix dactiylifera
• Arabic name: Nahal, Balah,
• English name: Date palm
• Common name: Kharjur
• Family: Areaceae
• Distribution: A native of North America,
Egypt & Arabic; now cultivated in Sindh
& Punjab. Part used- Leaves, flowers,
fruits, seeds.
• Medicinal properties: Asthma, chest
pain, cough, fever, diarrhea,
constipation, heart diseases, antidote,,
heart attack, wound healer.
24. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 36.Ya-Sin, Ayah 34
• And we have made therein gardens
of date palms and grapes, and We
have caused springs of water to gush
forth therein.
25. Olea europea
• Arabic name - Zaiytoon
• English name- Olive
• Common name - zaitun
• Family- Oleaceae
• Distribution - Found in Central Asian
countries
• Part used - Fruit and oil
• Medicinal properties:, toothache,
diabetes, blood pressure, headaches,
strengthen body muscles, slow down
aging, clear the blood, baldness.
27. Musa paradisiaca
• Arabic name: Mauz
• English name: Banana
• common name: Kelaa
• Family: Musaceae
• Distribution: Cultivated throughout
India. Srilanka, China.
• Part used: Roots, leaves, fruits and
stem.
• Medicinal properties: skin disease,,
burns, inflammation, bronchitis,
diabetes, dysentery.
28. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah 56. Al-Waqi'a, Ayah 29
• And among Talh (banana-
trees) with fruits piled one
above another.
29. Lens culinaris
• Arabic name: Adas
• English name: Lentil
• Common name: Masur
• Family: Papilionaceae
• Part used: Seeds
• Distribution: Cultivated
throughout the colder parts
of
• Medicinal uses: Used in
constipating, antibacterial,
Diarrhea, dysentery, tumors,
used for skin.
30. REFERENCE FROM
HOLY QURAN
• Surah Al-Baqra Aayat, 61 And
(remember)
• And (remember) when you said, “O
Musa (Moses)! We cannot endure
one kind of food. So invoke your
lord for us to bring forth for us of
what the earth grows, its herbs, its
cucumbers. Its fum (wheat or
garlic), its lentils and its onion.”
