Archive -> July 9, 2005

Available, Koranic, promises

. . . Let’s see what the Koran (76:12-21) promises the righteous:

1. garments of silk
2. reclining on raised thrones
3. neutral weather, days won’t be hot, nights won’t be cold
4. bunches of fruit
5. silver plates and crystal glasses
6. a cup of wine mixed (with) zanjabil (ginger)
7. youth of perpetual freshness in green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade
8. bracelets of silver
9. a drink of wine

The word “silk” is “hariyrin” in Arabic and means, “dressed silk, wholly composed of silk.” Silk is animal fiber produced by certain insects as building material for cocoons and webs. This insect is called the silkworm which is a caterpillar of of the silkmoth, and the cocoon is the shell it constructs to protect itself during its growth from a caterpillar to a moth.

Because an emerging moth would break the cocoon filament, the larva is killed in the cocoon by steam or hot air so that the thread is preserved intact for commercial use which is made of one continuous white or yellow silken thread, averaging 1,000 yards. (silkworm cycle [illustration])

So now Muslims rejoice in the fact that they will be wearing silk garments that will be provided for them in paradise; however, at the expense of the homes and lives of one of Allah’s creations. Not only that, about 3,000 years ago the silkworm eggs were smuggled to Persia from which has become one of the largest producers of raw silk along with Red China, India, and South Korea. So, if silk is produced and manufactured in the Far East, the the silk that is mentioned in the Koran, which is mentioned many times in reference to paradise, is something that came from the home of an insect that lives and breeds here on Earth at a geographical point that is.

Excerpted from What Is God Doing For You? by Dr. Malachi Z. York