The Qur’an For All Humanity
The Bounty of Food
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THE BOUNTY OF FOOD
Let man reflect on the food he eats: how We pour
down the rain in torrents and cleave the earth
asunder; how We bring forth the corn, the grapes,
and the fresh vegetation; the olive and the palm,
the thickets, the fruit-trees and the green pasture,
for you and for your cattle to delight in.
But when the dread blast is sounded, on that day
each man will forsake his brother, his mother and
his father, his wife and his children: for each one of
them will on that day have enough sorrow of his
own.
On that day there shall be beaming faces, smiling
and joyful. And on that day there shall be faces
covered with dust and veiled with darkness. These
shall (be the faces of) the wicked and the
unbelieving.
(The Qur’an 80:24-42)
Man is a creature who needs a continuous supply of
food for survival. The arrangement for food which
prevails on this earth on a large scale, has been done
