Pomegranates In Islam & Its Proven Benefits/Cures

The pomegranate is one of the fruits of Paradise. 

Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):

“in them (both) will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates”[ar-Rahmaan 55:68]. 

 

Ibn Katheer (may Allah have mercy on him) said: 

The date-palm and pomegranate are singled out for mention because of their superiority over other fruits. Tafseer Ibn Katheer (7/507)
 

It was narrated by Ibn ‘Adiyy in al-Kaamil (7/543), and via him by Ibn ‘Asaakir in Tareekh Dimashq (56/186), via Muhammad ibn al-Waleed: Abu ‘Aasim told us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn ‘Ajlaan, from his father, from Ibn ‘Abbaas, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say: “There is not one of your pomegranates but it is pollinated with a grain from the pomegranates of Paradise.”
 

It should be known that the fruit of Paradise resembles the fruit of this world in name only; as for its reality, there is a great difference between the two, the extent of which is known only to Allah.
Ibn Jareer at-Tabari (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated in his Tafseer (1/392), with a saheeh isnaad from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allah be pleased with him), that he said: Nothing in Paradise resembles anything in this world, except in name. According to another version: There is nothing in this world of that which is in Paradise, except names.
And Allah knows best.

Health Benefits / Uses / Cures:

۩    Most powerful anti-oxidant of all fruits
۩    Potent anti-cancer and immune supporting effects
۩    Inhibits abnormal platelet aggregation that could cause heart attacks, strokes and embolic disease
۩    Lowers cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors
۩    Lowers blood pressure
۩    May have benefits to relieve or protect against depression and osteoporosis
۩    Anti-Inflammatory
۩    Help Fight Prostate Cancer
۩    Useful Against Breast Cancer
۩    May Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease
۩    May Help Treat Erectile Dysfunction
۩    Help Fight Bacterial and Fungal Infections

۩    May Help Improve Memory
۩    Stomach cough
۩    Hepatitis
۩    Muscle pain
۩    Heart and liver diseases
۩    Piles
۩    Eye diseases
۩    Dental problems
۩    Oral diseases
۩    Diarrhea and dysentery.
 

Pomegranate in Holy Quran:
 

۝  And it is He who sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby the growth of all things. We produce from it greenery from which We produce grains arranged in layers. And from the palm trees – of its emerging fruit are clusters hanging low. And [We produce] gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet varied. Look at [each of] its fruit when it yields and [at] its ripening. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe. (6:99)

 

۝  And He it is who causes gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of [each of] its fruit when it yields and give its due [zakah] on the day of its harvest. And be not excessive. Indeed, He does not like those who commit excess. (6:141)
 

۝  In both of them are fruit and palm trees and pomegranates. So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? (55:68-69)