Path To Paradise

Ameen

Allāh جل وعلا says in the Qur’ān,

وَاِنَّ لَـكُمۡ فِىۡ الۡاَنۡعَامِ لَعِبۡرَةً​ ؕ نُّسۡقِيۡكُمۡ مِّمَّا فِىۡ بُطُوۡنِهٖ مِنۡۢ بَيۡنِ فَرۡثٍ وَّدَمٍ لَّبَنًا خَالِصًا سَآئِغًا لِّلشّٰرِبِيۡنَ‏ 

“And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies - between excretion and blood - pure milk, palatable to drinkers.”

[Surat An-Naĥl (The Bee) 16:66 - سورة النحل]

وَ اِنَّ لَـكُمۡ فِى الۡاَنۡعَامِ لَعِبۡرَةً​ ؕ نُسۡقِيۡكُمۡ مِّمَّا فِىۡ بُطُوۡنِهَا وَلَـكُمۡ فِيۡهَا مَنَافِعُ كَثِيۡرَةٌ وَّمِنۡهَا تَاۡكُلُوۡنَ

“And indeed there is also a lesson for you in cattle. We provide you with drink out of what they have in their bellies; and you have many other benefits in them: you eat of them.”

[Surat Al-Mu'minūn (The Believers) 23:21 - سورة المؤمنون]

Abdullāh ibn Masūd (may Allāh be pleased with him) narrated: The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said,

عليكم بألبانِ البقرِ ، فإنَّها ترُمُّ من كلِّ الشَّجرِ ، وهو شفاءٌ من كلِّ داءٍ

“Upon you is (to drink) cow’s milk for it eats from all kinds of plants and the milk is a cure for every disease.”

[Silsilah as-Sahīhah 1943]

Abdullāh ibn Masūd (may Allāh be pleased with him) narrated: The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said,

تداوُوا بألبانِ البقرِ فإني أرجو أن يجعلَ اللهُ فيها شفاءً فإنها تأكلُ من الشَّجرِ

“Take medical treatment with cows milk, for indeed I hope that Allah makes in it a cure, for verily it eats from every plant.”

[Graded Hasan (good) by Shaykh al-Albāni in Sahīh al-Jāmi’ 2929]

Imām Ibn-ul-Qayyim (may Allāh have mercy on him) said,

“Milk in general is the most beneficial drink for the human body due to the nutritive and sanguineous elements contained in it, and its being habitual to the state of childhood, and its suitability for the original nature (fitrah). And in the two books of Saheeh, we find that that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) was offered a cup of wine and a cup of milk. He looked at them both and then took the milk. Then Jibreel (alaihis salaam) said, “Praise be to Allāh who has guided you to the fitrah (the original nature of man)..”

[Zād al-Ma’ād 3/354]

And he also said,

“Cow’s milk nourishes the body, makes it fertile, productive. It releases the abdomen in moderation. It is the most moderate and excellent of all milks, between sheep’s and goat’s milk, as to its thinness, thickness and fattiness. In the Sunan, from the hadith of Abdullāh ibn Masūd (marfu’) [that the Prophet (ﷺ)] said, ‘See that you drink cow’s milk for they ruminate upon all the herbage’.”

[Zād al-Ma’ād 3/355]