Food Eaten in the Afterlife
- philhoraia
- Mar 31, 2023
- 3 min read
In this post we shall be looking at what is promised in the afterlife, beginning with the denizens of the Jannah.
S 2:25 And give good news to those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds that theirs are jannat, rivers running beneath them. Every time they have been provided with therefrom from fruit as a provision they have said: This is the one we were provided with before. And they have been given similar to it. And theirs therein are purified husbands and they abide therein indefinitely.
S 38:51 Reclining therein they call therein for much fruit and drink.
S 43:73 For you therein is much fruit; of it you eat.
S 44:55 They call therein for every fruit, secure.
S 47:15 A similitude of the Jannah which the fearers have been promised. Therein are rivers of water that is not stagnant and rivers of milk whose taste has not changed and rivers of wine, delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clarified honey and theirs therein of all the fruits and forgiveness from their lord like those who abide indefinitely in the fire and have been given to drink boiling water and it has cut their intestines up.
S 52:22 And we have supplied them with fruit and meat of what they desire.
S 55:52 Therein are of every fruit, two pairs.
S 55:54 Reclining on beddings, their linings of istabraq, and the fruits of the two jannat are close.
The two Jannat?
S 55:68 Therein are fruit and date palms and pomegranates.
Isn't the pomegranate a fruit?
S 56:20 And fruit of what they select
S 56:21 And bird meat of what they desire
S 56:32 And much fruit
In verse 29 we read: And talh mandud
Talh is thought by some to refer to the banana, but it is also thought to be an error and signifying some kind of thorny tree.
As Allah, so we are told, wants the hereafter, and should it get into the Jannah, would it eat what the others would supposedly eat?
The food of the denizens of hell:
S 88:6 They have no food but from dari’.
They would consume nothing but dari'.
S 69:36 Nor food except from ghislin.
They would consume nothing but 'ghislin', translated by some as 'pus'.
S 37:62-68 Is that better as a lodging or the zaqqum tree? /We made it a fitnah for the wrongdoers. /It is a tree that comes out in the root of the jahim. /Its spathes are as though they were devils’ heads. /And they eat from it and fill the bellies with it. /Then they have upon it a mixture from boiling water. /Then their return is to the jahim.
Their return would be to the jahim, hell? Aren't they already in hell?
We now take a look at a hadith.
"When the news of the arrival of the Prophet (ﷺ) at Medina reached `Abdullah bin Salam, he went to him to ask him about certain things, He said, "I am going to ask you about three things which only a Prophet can answer: What is the first sign of The Hour? What is the first food which the people of Paradise will eat? Why does a child attract the similarity to his father or to his mother?"...As for the first meal which the people of Paradise will eat, it will be the caudate (extra) lobe of the fish-liver. ..."
In Legends of the Jews, Chapter 1, we read:
"Like leviathan, so ziz is a delicacy to be served to the pious at the end of time, to compensate them for the privations which abstaining from the unclean fowls imposed upon them." Legends of the Jews index
Abdullah bin Salam is a Jew and the Jews had a notion of eating in Paradise.
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