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D make a spring gush out from the earth for us; or
have a garden of dates and grapes which you
DABBATUL ARDH (SEE BEAST make rivers come pouring through.’ (17:90-91)
OF THE EARTH) Make an example for them of two men. To one of
them We gave two gardens of grape-vines and
DATE PALM surrounded them with date-palms, putting be-
tween them some cultivated land. (18:32)
Would any of you like to have a garden of dates
The pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a
and grapes, with rivers flowing underneath and
date-palm. She (Maryam) said, ‘Oh if only I had
containing all kinds of fruits, then to be stricken
died before this time and was something dis-
with old age and have children who are weak,
carded and forgotten!’ (19:23)
and then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to
(A voice called out to Maryam,) ‘Shake the trunk
come and strike it so that it goes up in flames? In
of the palm towards you and fresh, ripe dates will
this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you, so
drop down onto you.’ (19:25)
that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
Pharaoh said, ‘Do you believe in him before I
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from
have authorised you? He is your chief, the one
which We bring forth growth of every kind, and
who taught you magic. I will cut off your hands
from that We bring forth the green shoots and
and feet alternately and have you crucified on
from them We bring forth close-packed seeds,
palm trunks. Then you will know for certain
and from the spathes of the date palm date clus-
which of us has the harsher and longer lasting
ters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and
punishment.’ (20:71)
olives and pomegranates, both similar and dis-
By means of it We produce gardens of dates and
similar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and
grapes for you, in which there are many fruits for
ripen. There are Signs in that for people who be-
you and from which you eat. (23:19)
lieve. (6:99)
Are you going to be left secure amid what is here,
It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated
amid gardens and clear springs, and cultivated
and wild, and palm-trees and crops of diverse
fields and palms with supple spathes? (26:146-
kinds, and olives and pomegranates, both similar
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and dissimilar. Eat of their fruits when they bear
We place in it gardens of dates and grapes, and
fruit and pay their due on the day of their harvest,
cause springs to gush out in it. (36:34)
and do not be profligate. He does not love the
And We have decreed set phases for the moon,
profligate. (6:141)
until it ends up looking like an old palm spathe.
In the earth there are diverse regions side by side
(36:39)
and gardens of grapes and cultivated fields, and
And We sent down blessed water from the sky
palm-trees sharing one root and others with indi-
and made gardens grow by it and grain for har-
vidual roots, all watered with the same water.
vesting and soaring date-palms with layered
And We make some things better to eat than oth-
spathes, as provision for Our servants; by it We
ers. There are Signs in that for people who use
brought a dead land to life. That is how the
their intellect. (13:4)
Emergence will take place. (50:9-11)
And by it He makes crops grow for you and
In it are fruits and date-palms with covered
olives and dates and grapes and fruit of every
spathes. (55:11)
kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people
In them are fruits and date-palms and pomegran-
who reflect. (16:11)
ates. (55:68)
And from the fruit of the date-palm and the
Whatever palm-trees you cut down, or left stand-
grape-vine you derive both intoxicants and
ing upright on their roots, it was done by Allah’s
wholesome provision. There is certainly a Sign in
permission in order to disgrace the deviators.
that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
(59: 5)
They say, ‘We will not believe you until you
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