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A comprehensive master plan to set up the Qur’anic Garden at the Education City is awaiting approval from higher authorities.
Vice chairman of Qatar Foundation, Dr Saif Ali al-Hajari said the approval would be followed by setting up the necessary infrastructure.
The “really huge” garden would be spread around the various buildings at the Education City. “So, we have to be careful,” al-Hajari said.
Prof Kamal H el-Batanoony, scientific adviser at Qatar Foundation, said “every day, a further step is taken, fresh value added, to the Quranic Garden project.”
“We have identified the plants mentioned in the holy book, prepared a database from the botanical, ecological and technical points of view,” he said. Seeds of many plants have been collected, besides cultivating plants like the “tooth brush tree” (Arak, Salvadora percica) and Sidr (Christ’s thorn, zizyphus spina-christi).
The officials said 19 plants are mentioned in the holy Qur’an and another 51 are referred to in Hadiths. Some plants have been referred to by different names. In fact, there are 30 verses in the Qur’an where plant names have been mentioned.
The Qur’anic plants include annuals, wild plants, perennial herbs, shrubs and trees. There are annuals like mustard, lentil, rice and wheat, bulbous plants like onion, leek and garlic, creepers and climbers like melon, large gourd, pumpkin and bottle gourd.
Also found mention are such tropical, Mediterranean and aquatic plants like sweet flag, saffron, ginger, aloe and sweet basil; shrubs and trees like tooth brush tree, henna and acacia.
Banana, fig, olives, date palms, pomegranates and grapes are also mentioned.The garden will be part of the landscaping and will blend with the existing elements. There will also be birds, insects and other living organisms thriving at the garden.
Al-Hajari conceded that the idea of a Qur’anic Garden originally came from the Unesco but Qatar was the first country to accept it and develop it.
Vice chairman of Qatar Foundation, Dr Saif Ali al-Hajari said the approval would be followed by setting up the necessary infrastructure.
The “really huge” garden would be spread around the various buildings at the Education City. “So, we have to be careful,” al-Hajari said.
Prof Kamal H el-Batanoony, scientific adviser at Qatar Foundation, said “every day, a further step is taken, fresh value added, to the Quranic Garden project.”
“We have identified the plants mentioned in the holy book, prepared a database from the botanical, ecological and technical points of view,” he said. Seeds of many plants have been collected, besides cultivating plants like the “tooth brush tree” (Arak, Salvadora percica) and Sidr (Christ’s thorn, zizyphus spina-christi).
The officials said 19 plants are mentioned in the holy Qur’an and another 51 are referred to in Hadiths. Some plants have been referred to by different names. In fact, there are 30 verses in the Qur’an where plant names have been mentioned.
The Qur’anic plants include annuals, wild plants, perennial herbs, shrubs and trees. There are annuals like mustard, lentil, rice and wheat, bulbous plants like onion, leek and garlic, creepers and climbers like melon, large gourd, pumpkin and bottle gourd.
Also found mention are such tropical, Mediterranean and aquatic plants like sweet flag, saffron, ginger, aloe and sweet basil; shrubs and trees like tooth brush tree, henna and acacia.
Banana, fig, olives, date palms, pomegranates and grapes are also mentioned.The garden will be part of the landscaping and will blend with the existing elements. There will also be birds, insects and other living organisms thriving at the garden.
Al-Hajari conceded that the idea of a Qur’anic Garden originally came from the Unesco but Qatar was the first country to accept it and develop it.
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