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Allah
The Almighty said to Maryam (Mary) (Peace be upon her):
(And
shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree:It will let
fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.)
Many Hadiths told about the
favours and benefits of dates.
 The
prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) used to break his fast with some
fresh dates before praying, and here appears the prophetic
guidance: When fasting, a person relies on the sugar stocked
in his body and especially that is stocked in the liver. The
sugar obtained from the food taken just before starting the
fast (i.e. ALSUHUR) lasts for six hours and then the body
uses the sugar kept in the liver. When a person breaks his
fast with dates, rich in monosaccharides, those arrive
quickly to the liver and then to the blood which carries the
nutrients to the other organs, whereas the person who fills
up his stomach with food and drinks needs 2 to 3 hours to
his intestines to absorb the sugar.
Dates
and milk are a complemented complete food and numerous
Bedouins live on dried dates and goats’ milk but are fit,
healthy and less susceptible to chronic and malign
illnesses.
(1)
Dates also strengthen and increase the
contraction rate of the uterus during the delivery and this
is why Allah said to the pure lady Maryam:
(And
shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will
let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.)
It was reported that
the Prophet (PBUH) said:
“Feed
your women with dates as those who are fed with dates will
have forbearing children”
Aisha (may Allah be
pleased with her) said: the prophet (PBUH) said:
“Indeed
in dates?? there is a cure”.
Reported by Muslim (14/3) and Ahmad (6/152)
It is a Sunna to
break the fast with dates. The Prophet (PBUH) said: “
Whoever finds dates should break his fast with them and the
one who does not should break his fast with water because it
is pure”
Science has proved the benefits
of dates, some of which are:
The active contents:
1)
Dates contain a high percentage
of carbohydrates which are the main source
of energy, as well as glucose and fructose
2)
High content of vitamins that
protect from Pellagra
3)
Contain calcium, which is
essential in bones formation.
4)
High content of iron and
phosphorus.
In addition to their content of
spadix:
1)
Sucrose
2)
Proteinic complexes of a high
nutritional value
3)
Phosphorous, calcium and iron
4)
Vitamins B &D
5)
Rennin that is important for
blood vessels flexibility
6)
Estrogens: the hormones that
stimulate the ovaries and help in the formation
of the ovule.
Medical and
health benefits of Dates:
1)
Help in the treatment of Anaemia
thanks to their iron content
2)
Treat heart diseases as they
contain iron
3)
Treat constipation as they are
rich in Fructose
4)
Active against Allergy as they
contain Zinc
5)
Stop the haemorrhage during
pregnancy they contain vitamin K and Tannin
that acts as a contracting agent
6)
Can be used in renal failure as
they contain vitamins B1, B2& B6 and
fructose
7)
The basic salts they comprise
reduce acidity and heart burns
8)
Prevent dizziness and fainting
thanks to some elements like: Carotene
9)
Help in preventing the growth
and spread of cancer cells as they contain
Magnesium and calcium
10) Dates mimic the
regenerating system in the body as they contains
phosphorous and other important
mineral elements as well as vitamins
11)
The flour of
dried dates and their kernels help in treating asthma and
airways
constriction .(2)
Dates and the protection from
poison and envy:
It
was reported by Abu Naaim, Abu Daoud, Al Hakem, Al Imam Al
Tarmithi and mentioned in The book of Al Imam Al Thahabi
“The
Prophetic Medicine”
that the Prophet (PBUH) said:
“ The one
who eats 7 dates in the morning will be protected that day
from poison and envy”
Concerning the first part i.e.
poisons: Scientific experiments found that when poisoned,
there is an increase in an enzyme produced in the liver that
acts as an anti poison. If the levels of this enzyme are
measured after being poisoned they would be high whereas
when taking 7 dates daily for a month, the levels of this
enzyme were found to decrease and return to normal, and if
this is followed for a year no increase will result from
being poisoned and this means that at that point the body is
cured and protected against poisons.
For this reason, when the
Prophet (PBUH) ate from the poisoned lamb in Khaibar -Allah
told him that the shoulder part was poisoned- the prophet
had the 7 dates that morning and so the poison did not
affect him but was kept underneath the skin in the fat layer
and the Prophet did a venesection (Hijama) to remove it.
TELEPATHY, a British scientific
organisation researched the Hadith saying that the pressed
dates are a cure from poison; research was also done in the
King Fahd Ben Abd Alaaziz University and all experiments
agreed with the Hadith.
Through some experiments
conducted on humans, it was found that people who are
exposed to poisons such as those who deal with lead in
butteries industry and suffer from the problem of Cadmium,
which is a heavy element and causes renal failure which
results in various serious problems, can avoid that risk by
taking 7 dates in the morning. For those who took the dates
no detoxification elements were found in the liver and there
is a 120 researches published on that.
In
this same field the Jewish researcher Goldman found that 7
dried dates will make the heavy metals when inside the body
form complexes some of which are kept beneath the skin and
some get solvated and expelled in the excrement and urine.
his operation is called
detoxication or anti-poison which is done from pvessed date.
Concerning magic:
The Telepathy group, who publish
its findings in a periodic named “Telepathy”, analysed the
spectra of the digested pressed dates and found that it
gives a blue colour which remains for 12 hours. They said
also that the eye is the one which is bewitched, so magic is
not a change in the nature of things but is a an imagination
and the eye is what being bewitched exactly as Allah said in
the Holy Koran:
(
Said Moses: throw ye
(first). So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the
people and struck terror into them: for they showed a great
(feat of) magic.) SURAH
AL AL A`RAF (16).
And said about Moussa (Moses)
(PBUH)
At last
they found that the eye gets bewitched and that this magic
force affects all the colours except blue, and so having 7
dates in the morning protects the person from magic and from
envy... (3)
Translated by R.C
Sources:
(1)
Treating with herbs and prophetic medicine by Dr Abd Al
Basset Mohammad Assayed the professor in microbiology in the
Egyptian University
(2)
Kingdom dates website
(3)
A program with Dr Abd Al Basset on Aljazeera Channel on
04/12/2003. |
