لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ
Laa yusminu wa laa yughnee min joo'
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
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Paradise & Hell
88:7Ayah 126
9 ayahs in Al-Ghaashiya are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
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neither nourishing nor availing against hunger.
Related Hadiths
I neither eat it, nor do I prohibit it.
"Neither the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) nor his family, ate their fill of wheat bread for three consecutive days until he parted the world."
The vow neither hastens anything nor defers anything, but is the means whereby (something) is extracted from the miserly person.
A family which has no dates will be hungry.
" We could not afford to eat to the fill even dates and water."
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