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came; the dam burst; and it has never been repaired since. This was a spectacular crisis: it may have been preceded
and followed by slow desiccation of the country. (34.16)
3813 "Arim" ( = Dams or Embankments) may have been a proper noun, or may simply mean the great earth-works fined
with stone, which formed the Maarib dam, of which traces still exist. The French traveller T.J. Arnaud saw the town
and ruins of the Dam of Maarib in 1843, and described its gigantic works and its inscriptions: See Journal Asiatique for
January 1874: the account is in French. For a secondary account in English, see W.B. Harris, Journey Through
Yemen, Edinburgh, 1893. The dam as measured by Arnaud was two miles long and 120 ft. high. The date of its
destruction was somewhere about 120 A.D., though some authorities put it much later. (34.16)
3814 The flourishing "Garden of Arabia" was converted into a waste. The luscious fruit trees became wild, or gave place to
wild plants with bitter fruit. The feathery leaved tamarisk, which is only good for twigs and wattle-work, replaced the
fragrant plants and flowers. Wild and stunted kinds of thorny bushes, like the wild Lote-tree, which were good for
neither fruit nor shade, grew in place of the pomegranates, the date-palms and the grape-vines. The Lote-tree belongs
to the family Rhamnaceae, Zizyphus Spina Christi, of which (it is supposed) Christ's crown of thorns was made, allied
to the Zizyphus Jujuba, or ber tree of India. Wild, it is shrubby, thorny and useless. In cultivation it bears good fruit,
and some shade, and can be thornless, thus becoming a symbol of heavenly bliss: lvi. 28. (34.16)
53:14 - Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass: 5093
5093 For the Lote-tree in its literal meaning, see n. 3814 to xxxiv. 16. The wild Lote is thorny; under cultivation it yields good
fruit and shade, and is symbolic of heavenly bliss, as here and in lvi. 28. (53.14)
53:16 - Behold the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)
56:27 - The Companions of the Right Hand what will be the Companions of the Right Hand?
56:28 - They will be) among lote trees without thorns 5237
5237 Lote-trees: see xxxiv. 16 n. 3814. (56.28)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 7.514
Ibn Abbas
Narrated by
Allah's Apostle drank milk and then rinsed his mouth and said, "It contains fat." The Prophet added: -I was raised to the Lote
Tree and saw four rivers, two of which were coming out and two going in. Those which were coming out were the Nile and
the Euphrates, and those which were going in were two rivers in paradise. Then I was given three bowls, one containing
milk, and another containing honey, and a third containing wine. I took the bowl containing milk and drank it. It was said to
me, "You and your followers will be on the right path (of Islam)."
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 355 Narrated by
Qays ibn Asim
I came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) with the intention of embracing Islam. He commanded me to
take a bath with water (boiled with) the leaves of the lote-tree.
LOVE:
2:177 - It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces toward East or West; but it is righteousness to
believe in Allah and the Last Day and the Angels and the Book and the Messengers; to spend
of your substance out of love for Him for your kin …
177 As if to emphasise again a warning against deadening formalism, we are given a beautiful description of the righteous
and God-fearing man. He should obey salutary regulation, but he should fix his gaze on the love of God and the love
of his fellow-men. We are given four heads: (1) our faith should be true and sincere; (2) we must be prepared to show
it in deeds of charity to our fellowmen; (3) we must be good citizens, supporting social organisation; and (4) our own
individual soul must be firm and unshaken in all circumstances. They are interconnected, and yet can be viewed
separately. (2.177)
3:14 - Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women and sons; heaped-up hoards
of gold and silver; horses branded (for blood and excellence); and (wealth of) cattle and welltilled
land. Such are the possessions of this world's life; but in nearness to Allah is the best of
the goals (to return to). 354
354 The pleasures of this world are first enumerated: women for love; sons for strength and pride; hoarded riches, which
procure all luxuries; the best and finest pedigree horses; cattle, the measure of wealth in the ancient world, as well as
the means and symbols of good farming in the modern world; and broad acres of well-tilled land. By analogy, we may
include, for our mechanized age, machines of all kinds,-tractors, motor- cars, aeroplanes, the best internal-combustion
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