Grains of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH)

It’s reported by Abu Hurairah that, “Allah never inflicts a disease unless he makes a cure for it…” (Sahih Bukhari).

Some of us may assume that this cure is always medical or herbal, but the hadith doesn’t state that. Two of the greatest cures Allah has given us for heart disease are foods that the Prophet (SAW) ate: whole wheat and barley.

Both of them provide multiple benefits in the fight against heart disease. They both lower cholesterol and increase proper elimination of wastes by the body. Moreover, they facilitate proper blood clotting and improve general circulation and cellular health.

When Sahl bin Sad was asked, “Did Allah’s Apostle ever eat white flour?” he replied, “Allah’s Apostle never saw white flour [from the time] Allah sent him as an Apostle till He took him unto Him.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

Modern science has long been against processed bread, even when they are supposedly “enriched.”

Cheraskin’s book “Diet and Disease” compares enriching white flour with “robbing someone in a dark alley of their clothes and wallet. And then giving them back their underclothes and bus money to get home.”

White flour has no nutritional value. Furthermore, it can leech vitamins and minerals from the body as well.

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This is because nutrient-void foods don’t supply all of the nutrients necessary for their digestion; hence, they must take the nutrients that are lacking from the body.

White flour can even mimic white sugar, creating problems for the hypoglycemic or diabetic person (Pritchard, Healing with Whole Foods).Whole Grain Wheat


According to nutritionists Jean Anderson and Barbara Deskin, whole-wheat flour, high in protein and fiber, is far superior in nutrition. Whole grain wheat contains a large amount of Vitamin E, mostly concentrated in its germ layer.

Research on the Vitamin E found in wheat discovered that of 31,000 people studied; those who ate whole wheat bread had a much lower risk of heart disease than those who ate white bread.

Michael H. Davidson, MD, president of the Chicago Center for Clinical Research, says that this is because the Vitamin E in wheat causes the liver to produce less cholesterol.

He found that subjects in his study who consumed ½-cup of wheat germ daily for 14 weeks saw their cholesterol levels drop by 7%.

Although wheat has undeniable health benefits, we need to be aware of the dangers of its overuse. Eaten daily, whole wheat can be detrimental to the health as it causes bloating. Also, it often encourages the growth of unfriendly candida albicanus bacteria in the colon. It can also encourage weight gain and cause allergic reactions in many people when overeaten.

It’s revealing that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) didn’t indulge in regular wheat consumption. Instead, he ate mostly barley and bread made from barley flour.

Abu Hazim narrated (in Sahih Bukhari) that he asked Sahl bin Saad: “How could you eat barely unsifted? He answered, “But we used grind it and then blow off its husk (of the barley).”

Barley is so easily digested that the Prophet even recommended that barley soup (talbinah) be used for all stomach ailments (Sahih Bukhari).

Possessing even more health benefits than wheat, barley is extremely high in calcium and protein, and is far less allergenic. It doesn’t encourage bloating or unhealthy bacterial growth; therefore, while wheat is healthful, barley is better for daily consumption.

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It’s one of the richest sources of tocotrienols. These are powerful antioxidants that reduce damage to the body from dangerous oxygen molecules called free radicals. Additionally, barley reduces the body’s production of cholesterol in the liver.

David Jenkins, MD, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto says, “Tocotrienols are potentially more powerful antioxidants than other chemical versions of vitamin E.” Barley is also a lot more affordable than most vitamin E supplements on the market.Furthermore, it contains lignana, found to prevent tiny blood clots from forming – perhaps providing a similar benefit to the popular “daily dose of aspirin” against heart disease.

Just one-half cup of barley contains half the daily requirement for selenium in the diet and almost twenty-percent of the USRDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) of Vitamin E.

Both of these are powerful allies in the fight against cancer. Barley also contains beta-glucan, a type of soluble fiber that forms a gel in the small intestine to which cholesterol binds. And it’s then excreted from the body. This gel-forming action also prevents constipation and colon cancer.

To get barley’s healing benefits, doctors recommend eating it in the same way that the Prophet (SAW) did.

Hulled barley (the husk loosely intact or “blown off”) is superior to processed barley which has been cleaned and scrubbed more than five times to create a quicker-cooking version that lacks most of the barley’s healthful fiber, minerals, and thiamin.