The medicinal and cosmetic uses of olive products are truly astounding. While it has always been promoted as being beneficial in lowering cholesterol levels (Assmanm and Wahrburg), it is now increasingly being linked to lowering blood pressure. Since the 1950s, the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, have been extolled. In the Mediterranean culture вЂњit has served as everything from money to medicines for several thousand yearsвЂќ (Zwingle, 1999). The olive, like the date, holds great value in ancient and modern culture. The Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) is reported to have said: вЂњTake oil of olive and massage with it вЂ“ it is a blessed tree.вЂќ (Darimi, 69:103). Health benefits of olives have been propounded in Prophetic medicine. The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: вЂњEat olive oil and use it on your hair and skin, for it comes from a blessed tree.вЂќ (al-Tirmidhi, 1775) There is great significance of olives and its oil in Hadith. Indeed, in that is a sign for people who give thought. He causes to grow for you thereby the crops, olives, palm trees, grapevines, and from all the fruits. The olive tree, one of the blessings of the plant kingdom, not only has nutritional, medicinal and cosmetic value it also fulfils a religious function as a sign (ayah) of Allah(SWT). And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly star lit from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Indeed, He does not like those who commit excess.вЂќ ДЄnother verse highlights the luminescent property of olive oil, powerfully illustrated in the Noble QurвЂ™an:ДЄllah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. Eat of its fruit when it yields and give its due on the day of its harvest. One of the mentions was in the following ayat: вЂњAnd He it is who causes gardens to grow, trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Olives have been mentioned seven times in the QurвЂ™an. Olive is considered a вЂњblessedвЂќ fruit in Islam and apart from it being a good source of nutrition, it is also used as a health food and has its usage in вЂњruqyah treatment.вЂќ Olive and its tree has been mentioned a number of times both in the Quran and hadith. Apart from the Date fruit, olives are also considered of utmost importance in Islam. Olives are the gift from heaven ( Jannah) to mankind. Verily, We have certainly created man in the best of stature. By the fig and the olive and Mount Sinai, And this city of security.

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