Salt
Then he said, ‘If people knew what is in
the salt they would not need an antidote
with it.’ “
Dates
“Verily, Allah inspired to Musa Ibn Imran
(a.s), ‘Start [your meal] with salt and end
it with salt, for in salt is a medicine for 70
ailments. The least of them are craziness,
leprosy, pain of the throat and the molars
and the pain of the stomach’ ." – Prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w)
Imam Baqir (a.s) added to this, that 70
types of pains exit out of your body if you
start and end your meal with salt. But not
only that, it has been narrated; that the
angels attend a meal to which salt is present
on the table.
The last thing we want to mention about
salt is that it can be used as an antidote.
This can be concluded out of a story that
Imam Baqir (a.s) narrates about the Holy
Prophet (s.a.w):
“A scorpion stung Prophet Muhammad
(s.a.w). So he shook it off.
Then he said, ‘Allah cursed you, for no one
is safe from you, neither a believer nor a
disbeliever.’
So he called for some salt and he put it on
the place of the sting.
Then he squeezed it with his thumb until
it dissolved.
As we know from Surat Al-Maryam, Allah
(swt) fed his beloved servant Maryam (a.s)
dates just after she had received Jesus (a.s).
Keeping that in mind it is no surprise that
the Ahlul Bayt (a.s) narrated that dates are
the best food for a woman after she gave
birth. They will restore her energy and cure
her faster than any other kind of medicine.
But it is not only after birth that dates are
beneficial. It was also narrated that the
child of a mother who eats dates during
pregnancy will be patient and pious.
About the general benefits of dates the
Ahlul Bayt (a.s) narrated, “Eat dates, for
indeed in it is cure from diseases.”
It was also narrated by them that “Whoever
eats 7 dates when he wakes up before
eating anything [else], neither poison nor
magic nor shaytan would hurt him that
day."
Also eating seven dates kills the worms in
the stomach according to them (a.s).