Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim
I pray Allah that these words find you in the Best of Health and Happiness and Enjoying Abundant Blessings from Our Saviour Allah. I am happy to write that I am the same. Al Hamdulilah!
Beloved Ikhwaan, you know I am a proponent of eating fruit where you can leave the seeds in a land that is fertile and minerally rich, right? Well, I was walking down one of my regular promenades and Wallahi! There was a small orchard of cherry trees, where I had, indubitably, sat and enjoyed my third favorite! Allahu Akbar!!!
I had never even seen a Cherry Tree before. So that was what I noticed first. The novelty of the tree itself! I went off the road to get a better look and actually FEEL it.
So, as I was investigating this beautiful specimen of arbor, I made my way up from the reddish bark of the trunk, to the limbs/branches to the leaves and on to the fruit, which were some cherries! It was an epiphanous experience.
So, I remember watching the Jackson 5 movie and Angie, as Katie remarked something like she never thought she would see a palm tree in her lifetime!
These types of statements resonate strongly with me. I lived on a street were there were three different varieties of Palm Trees growing just on my block!
None were date palms, however they used to bear a similar fruit that were a bit rounder and orange instead of yellow. Haqim told me our Brother Neighbor used to eat them. So, although they are not nearly as fleshy as dates, it was rather sweet.
You will not believe some of things I’ve seen. I dhakir and Al Hamdulilah for being chosen to be Muslimah!
I can share some of Allah’s Blessings with you all, My Beloved Ikhwaan, In Sha Allah.
If you are able, purchase some DATES from your local market. They will be in the produce section, most likely on the shelf, as I have never seen them in a grocery store unless they are dried.
Make sure that you get the ones that have SEEDS.
Although, the correct term is STONE.
I am still studying why we, Muslims, refer to the seed of a date palm, unlike any other fruit, as a STONE.
The article below refers to them as “bones,” kinda creepy. I prefer seed or pit to that.
The best fruit or food period that I have ever had in my life was that of a date palm.
I happened to visit the Farmer’s Market during the time of year when there were FRESH Dates, not dried. available. My only regret was that I did not purchase them all, as I have never again been so lucky.
Although, I was walking in New Orleans and came across some fruit bearing date palm trees. Of course, I was not physically fit enough to scale the tree and attain access to the choice fruit at the top of the tree but I found some good ones!
People were driving by, probably thinking I belonged in Bellevue, but I just shined them on as would anyone else who has the intelligence to pick up the gold that everybody else is trampling underfoot .
So, if you can’t find them locally (you may have to visit that peculiar store with the statues or pictures of elephants), try Amazon.
So, I have never taken advice from anyone except my great-grandmother when it comes to planting and I have not personally tried this method but plan to as I have not come across any palm leaves growing up in my stomping grounds.
How To Grow A Date Palm:
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