Reading a research paper on the date palm and its benefits.
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The Shaykh : This is a research paper on the date palm and its benefits. I have compiled approximately one hundred benefits in total, starting with its dates and ending with its root. Some of these benefits I have taken from the words of the scholars of Islam, and some from reality. I began with the benefits of fresh dates, then unripe dates, then dried dates, then the pits, then the date stones, then the palm fronds, then the palm leaflets, the palm fiber, then the date cluster, then the fiber, then the root.
First: The benefits of fresh dates. They are numerous, as they benefit the mouth, the stomach, and the gums, strengthen them, stop diarrhea, uterine bleeding, and hemorrhoids, and they bind wounds.
The student: Wounds.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Binding wounds means applying them to the wounds.
The student: They are placed on the wounds and they bind them.
The Shaykh : Binding wounds, a bandage, fine, these are all good, but they need proof, evidence.
The student: This is the word of the doctors, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The doctors, where did you take this from?
The student: In Ibn al-Qayyim’s work, and in the words about herbs, your natural doctor, and treating with beneficial herbs.
The Shaykh : Fine, then, if Allah wills, you will explain it and clarify the references. This text is considered...
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the explanation is up to you, fine.
Second: The benefits of unripe dates. What is the difference between unripe dates and fresh dates?
The Shaykh : Fresh dates are the green ones that have not changed color.
The Shaykh : The green ones, yes, exactly, it needs to mention the difference.
The student: If Allah wills
The Shaykh : Yes, second: The benefits of unripe dates, as they dry out moisture, tan the stomach, stop the belly, benefit the gums and the mouth, and their most beneficial form is when they are soft and sweet, fine.
Third: The benefits of dried dates, and this is clarified by what is established in al-Bukhari and Muslim from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the hadith of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And it is established from him that he said: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1815Sahih (Darussalam), narrated by Ahmad and Muslim from the hadith of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), and in a narration by Muslim:
And among the benefits of dried dates: it strengthens the liver, softens the nature, increases virility, especially with pine nuts.
The Shaykh : And what is pine nuts?
The student: Pine nuts, this means a nut sold in the market.
The Shaykh : Well known?
The student: It is well known, fine.
The student: Raisins.
The Shaykh : How?
The student: No, O Shaykh, these are specific trees.
The Shaykh : Fine, it cures roughness of the throat, increases sexual strength, that is virility.
The student: This, this is another matter, this is the saying of some... This said with pine nuts and this said with other things.
The Shaykh : The important thing, in any case, it is repetition, it says this increases sexual strength with milk, and cinnamon.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine,
The student: Cinnamon is well known.
The Shaykh : Fine, you know, if Allah wills, it benefits the chest and the lungs, makes the body fertile, warms it, improves the complexion, kills worms if eaten on an empty stomach, and reduces acidity due to its alkaline salts, as it is a strengthener for muscles and nerves, and delays the signs of old age, and facilitates digestion if milk is added to it, as it benefits those suffering from anemia and chest diseases, as it benefits children and increases their weight, and benefits athletes and workers, and pregnant women, and preserves the moisture and shine of the eye, its shine!
The student: It means it makes its shine sweet, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, but what does its shine mean?
The student: It means
The Shaykh : It means it increases the shine or does it decrease it?
The student: It becomes clear in color, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: It shines, meaning it shines.
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, and it prevents bulging, and it fights and fights the film, and strengthens vision, as it strengthens the nerves of hearing, and calms the nerves generally, calms them, meaning.
The student: It means if his nerves are tense, they calm down a bit.
The Shaykh : Fine, then it is eaten for anger, fine, and it activates the thyroid gland, softens the blood vessels, moistens the intestines and preserves them from weakness and inflammation, and fights dizziness and double vision, as it fights laxity and laziness in those who are fasting, and it promotes urination and cleanses the liver, and washes the kidneys, and treats cough and phlegm, and tracheal inflammation, and bronchial inflammation, by making a drink consisting of fifty grams of dried dates, and fifty grams of raisins, and fifty grams of dried figs, and fifty grams of dried jujubes.
The student: Jujubes.
The Shaykh : Dried jujubes, and that is placed in a liter of water, then it is boiled on the fire.
The student: It is boiled.
The Shaykh : Or it is boiled on the fire, this is only in the last one.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Number twenty-eight.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Or... it did not happen to him.
The student: This is only.
The Shaykh : Only this, fine, this is not necessary, fine.
Fourth: The benefits of the pit. The pit has benefits, among them: it is ground or crushed and used as food for animals, this is one, and also we add that it is cooked without crushing and becomes food for the animal, and it increases the milk of livestock, I do not know if I mentioned it or not? The important thing is that people used to use it until recently, yes, they cooked it, and it is also said that the cooked water, which is in the position of... if a person who suffers from high blood pressure drinks it, it lowers the pressure, Allah knows best.
The student: It catches up.
The Shaykh : It catches up, but I do not have this, but it is the talk of people, and it is soaked in water for three days, then it is boiled with, it is boiled with milk, and it is eaten, does a human eat it?
The student: Yes
The Shaykh : We have not heard of a human eating the date stone.
The Shaykh : Except the saying of the poet:
So they became, and the pit was a world of their wedding, and not every pit is received by the poor.
The student: The pit, O Shaykh, if it is put in water, it becomes soft, it becomes tender, then after it is boiled, it becomes delicious to eat.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah, have you tried it?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : Fine, and the powder of some pits is used in treating gout, what is gout?
The student: Gout is a disease.
The Shaykh : A well-known disease, as it is used in clarifying, in clarifying water or waters.
The student: Waters.
The Shaykh : Look, it has two dots above it, O Zaki, in clarifying water that has some fine impurities.
The Shaykh : how
The student: It means the water has impurities, this pit protects it, yes, it clarifies.
The Shaykh : Yes, it absorbs.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah.
Fifth: The benefits of the date stones. The date stones have benefits, among them: it seals ulcers, meaning.
The student: The ulcers that are in the body, these.
The Shaykh : If a person eats it.
The student: It seals them.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah, and it benefits from spitting blood.
The Shaykh : I mean...
The student: The blood when it is spit, meaning, it prevents it, prevents spitting blood.
The Shaykh : I mean...
The student: It means the blood is spit, meaning it flows.
The Shaykh : Yes, the flow of blood, meaning, yes.
The student: It prevents it.
The Shaykh : Fine, if he puts it on it or how?
The student: If not.
The Shaykh : It means, for example, a person whose blood is flowing, he puts the date stones on it and wraps it, or eats it?
The student: Eats it and...
The Shaykh : It does not move this... fine, and it benefits from splitting of the belly, and it benefits from the dominance of yellow bile, yellow bile, meaning.
The student: This is a type of disease, yellow bile.
The Shaykh : A type of disease, as it benefits from the rising of blood.
The Shaykh : Rising, meaning.
The student: The blood when it rises in the body, of course.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: So if he eats this, it calms the rising.
The student: It means he does not cup,
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: He does not cup, he eats date stones.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right.
Sixth: The benefits of the palm fronds. The palm fronds have benefits, among them: First, ropes are made from them for the water channels.
The Shaykh : The water channels or the canals?
The student: The canals.
The Shaykh : The canals.
The student: The canals are called, meaning the water channels.
The Shaykh : Yes, they are the water channels, yes. And beds, beds.
The student: Beds.
The Shaykh : Yes,
The Shaykh : Beds are made from the palm fronds.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Strange
The student: Beds are made from them.
The Shaykh : Fine, and enclosures for sheep, and cages for pigeons and fruits, and baskets, look, this is the palm leaflets, do you have news that the palm fronds are put in baskets?
The student: No, no, the palm leaflets are baskets.
The Shaykh : No, these are the benefits of the palm fronds.
The student: Ask the brother Khalaf about it.
The Shaykh : Khalaf.
The student: Baskets.
The Shaykh : Even the baskets, fine, and desks, and chairs, yes, chairs, and tables, and trays on which bread or news is carried.
The student: Bread.
The Shaykh : It does not have a dot, bread after it is cooked, as bread is taken, fine, or is only bread carried on it, if dates are carried on it?
The student: It does not happen.
The Shaykh : Strange
The student: This, O Shaykh, is used by the people of al-Aqran.
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, it says, may Allah bless you, as it is taken as fuel, this is correct.
Seventh: The benefits of the palm leaflets or the palm fiber. Baskets are made from them.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : What are baskets?
The student: Baskets is the plural of basket.
The Shaykh : And He
The student: A container made from palm leaflets.
The Shaykh : It is the basket.
The student: No, it is not the basket.
The Shaykh : Basket, and baskets.
The student: Yes, *qafah* is the plural of *qaffah*, meaning it is larger than the *mudrib*.
The Shaykh : Ah, okay.
The student: This is Arabic, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Correct, correct. I haven't said anything yet, meaning they are not laughing; it is a difference in wording with agreement in meaning.
The student: The *qafah* is larger than the *mudrib*.
The Shaykh : And the fans, right? And the carpets and prayer mats, and the trash heaps and the plates. The trash heaps?
The student: Yes
The Shaykh : What are the trash heaps?
The student: The plural of *mizbalah* (trash heap).
The Shaykh : I did not ask you for the plural or the singular, but what is its meaning?
The student: The *mizbalah* is where they place things; they put soil in it, they put things in it, the people, the owners of the farms, they put them in it, for example...
The Shaykh : We call it a pit; it is larger than the basket.
The student: It is placed on the donkey and they put on it...
The Shaykh : Okay, good, yes. It says "and the trash heaps and the plates, and some head coverings, palm fiber, this."
The student: A palm fiber cap.
The Shaykh : Well-known, good. And it is used to roof houses, right? And it is taken as fuel, and used as a fence around the farms, good. As it is chopped and crushed.
First: The benefits of fresh dates. They are numerous, as they benefit the mouth, the stomach, and the gums, strengthen them, stop diarrhea, uterine bleeding, and hemorrhoids, and they bind wounds.
The student: Wounds.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Binding wounds means applying them to the wounds.
The student: They are placed on the wounds and they bind them.
The Shaykh : Binding wounds, a bandage, fine, these are all good, but they need proof, evidence.
The student: This is the word of the doctors, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The doctors, where did you take this from?
The student: In Ibn al-Qayyim’s work, and in the words about herbs, your natural doctor, and treating with beneficial herbs.
The Shaykh : Fine, then, if Allah wills, you will explain it and clarify the references. This text is considered...
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the explanation is up to you, fine.
Second: The benefits of unripe dates. What is the difference between unripe dates and fresh dates?
The Shaykh : Fresh dates are the green ones that have not changed color.
The Shaykh : The green ones, yes, exactly, it needs to mention the difference.
The student: If Allah wills
The Shaykh : Yes, second: The benefits of unripe dates, as they dry out moisture, tan the stomach, stop the belly, benefit the gums and the mouth, and their most beneficial form is when they are soft and sweet, fine.
Third: The benefits of dried dates, and this is clarified by what is established in al-Bukhari and Muslim from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the hadith of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever takes seven dates from the dates of al-Ha'lah in the morning, neither poison nor sorcery will harm him.
من تصبح بسبع تمرات من تمر العالية لم يضره سم ولا سحرA house without dates, its inhabitants will be hungry.
بيت لا تمر فيه جياع أهلهThe house in which there are dates, its people do not go hungry.
البيت الذي فيه تمر لا يجوع أهلهAnd among the benefits of dried dates: it strengthens the liver, softens the nature, increases virility, especially with pine nuts.
The Shaykh : And what is pine nuts?
The student: Pine nuts, this means a nut sold in the market.
The Shaykh : Well known?
The student: It is well known, fine.
The student: Raisins.
The Shaykh : How?
The student: No, O Shaykh, these are specific trees.
The Shaykh : Fine, it cures roughness of the throat, increases sexual strength, that is virility.
The student: This, this is another matter, this is the saying of some... This said with pine nuts and this said with other things.
The Shaykh : The important thing, in any case, it is repetition, it says this increases sexual strength with milk, and cinnamon.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine,
The student: Cinnamon is well known.
The Shaykh : Fine, you know, if Allah wills, it benefits the chest and the lungs, makes the body fertile, warms it, improves the complexion, kills worms if eaten on an empty stomach, and reduces acidity due to its alkaline salts, as it is a strengthener for muscles and nerves, and delays the signs of old age, and facilitates digestion if milk is added to it, as it benefits those suffering from anemia and chest diseases, as it benefits children and increases their weight, and benefits athletes and workers, and pregnant women, and preserves the moisture and shine of the eye, its shine!
The student: It means it makes its shine sweet, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, but what does its shine mean?
The student: It means
The Shaykh : It means it increases the shine or does it decrease it?
The student: It becomes clear in color, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: It shines, meaning it shines.
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, and it prevents bulging, and it fights and fights the film, and strengthens vision, as it strengthens the nerves of hearing, and calms the nerves generally, calms them, meaning.
The student: It means if his nerves are tense, they calm down a bit.
The Shaykh : Fine, then it is eaten for anger, fine, and it activates the thyroid gland, softens the blood vessels, moistens the intestines and preserves them from weakness and inflammation, and fights dizziness and double vision, as it fights laxity and laziness in those who are fasting, and it promotes urination and cleanses the liver, and washes the kidneys, and treats cough and phlegm, and tracheal inflammation, and bronchial inflammation, by making a drink consisting of fifty grams of dried dates, and fifty grams of raisins, and fifty grams of dried figs, and fifty grams of dried jujubes.
The student: Jujubes.
The Shaykh : Dried jujubes, and that is placed in a liter of water, then it is boiled on the fire.
The student: It is boiled.
The Shaykh : Or it is boiled on the fire, this is only in the last one.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Number twenty-eight.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Or... it did not happen to him.
The student: This is only.
The Shaykh : Only this, fine, this is not necessary, fine.
Fourth: The benefits of the pit. The pit has benefits, among them: it is ground or crushed and used as food for animals, this is one, and also we add that it is cooked without crushing and becomes food for the animal, and it increases the milk of livestock, I do not know if I mentioned it or not? The important thing is that people used to use it until recently, yes, they cooked it, and it is also said that the cooked water, which is in the position of... if a person who suffers from high blood pressure drinks it, it lowers the pressure, Allah knows best.
The student: It catches up.
The Shaykh : It catches up, but I do not have this, but it is the talk of people, and it is soaked in water for three days, then it is boiled with, it is boiled with milk, and it is eaten, does a human eat it?
The student: Yes
The Shaykh : We have not heard of a human eating the date stone.
The Shaykh : Except the saying of the poet:
So they became, and the pit was a world of their wedding, and not every pit is received by the poor.
The student: The pit, O Shaykh, if it is put in water, it becomes soft, it becomes tender, then after it is boiled, it becomes delicious to eat.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah, have you tried it?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : Fine, and the powder of some pits is used in treating gout, what is gout?
The student: Gout is a disease.
The Shaykh : A well-known disease, as it is used in clarifying, in clarifying water or waters.
The student: Waters.
The Shaykh : Look, it has two dots above it, O Zaki, in clarifying water that has some fine impurities.
The Shaykh : how
The student: It means the water has impurities, this pit protects it, yes, it clarifies.
The Shaykh : Yes, it absorbs.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah.
Fifth: The benefits of the date stones. The date stones have benefits, among them: it seals ulcers, meaning.
The student: The ulcers that are in the body, these.
The Shaykh : If a person eats it.
The student: It seals them.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah, and it benefits from spitting blood.
The Shaykh : I mean...
The student: The blood when it is spit, meaning, it prevents it, prevents spitting blood.
The Shaykh : I mean...
The student: It means the blood is spit, meaning it flows.
The Shaykh : Yes, the flow of blood, meaning, yes.
The student: It prevents it.
The Shaykh : Fine, if he puts it on it or how?
The student: If not.
The Shaykh : It means, for example, a person whose blood is flowing, he puts the date stones on it and wraps it, or eats it?
The student: Eats it and...
The Shaykh : It does not move this... fine, and it benefits from splitting of the belly, and it benefits from the dominance of yellow bile, yellow bile, meaning.
The student: This is a type of disease, yellow bile.
The Shaykh : A type of disease, as it benefits from the rising of blood.
The Shaykh : Rising, meaning.
The student: The blood when it rises in the body, of course.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: So if he eats this, it calms the rising.
The student: It means he does not cup,
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: He does not cup, he eats date stones.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right.
Sixth: The benefits of the palm fronds. The palm fronds have benefits, among them: First, ropes are made from them for the water channels.
The Shaykh : The water channels or the canals?
The student: The canals.
The Shaykh : The canals.
The student: The canals are called, meaning the water channels.
The Shaykh : Yes, they are the water channels, yes. And beds, beds.
The student: Beds.
The Shaykh : Yes,
The Shaykh : Beds are made from the palm fronds.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Strange
The student: Beds are made from them.
The Shaykh : Fine, and enclosures for sheep, and cages for pigeons and fruits, and baskets, look, this is the palm leaflets, do you have news that the palm fronds are put in baskets?
The student: No, no, the palm leaflets are baskets.
The Shaykh : No, these are the benefits of the palm fronds.
The student: Ask the brother Khalaf about it.
The Shaykh : Khalaf.
The student: Baskets.
The Shaykh : Even the baskets, fine, and desks, and chairs, yes, chairs, and tables, and trays on which bread or news is carried.
The student: Bread.
The Shaykh : It does not have a dot, bread after it is cooked, as bread is taken, fine, or is only bread carried on it, if dates are carried on it?
The student: It does not happen.
The Shaykh : Strange
The student: This, O Shaykh, is used by the people of al-Aqran.
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, it says, may Allah bless you, as it is taken as fuel, this is correct.
Seventh: The benefits of the palm leaflets or the palm fiber. Baskets are made from them.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : What are baskets?
The student: Baskets is the plural of basket.
The Shaykh : And He
The student: A container made from palm leaflets.
The Shaykh : It is the basket.
The student: No, it is not the basket.
The Shaykh : Basket, and baskets.
The student: Yes, *qafah* is the plural of *qaffah*, meaning it is larger than the *mudrib*.
The Shaykh : Ah, okay.
The student: This is Arabic, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Correct, correct. I haven't said anything yet, meaning they are not laughing; it is a difference in wording with agreement in meaning.
The student: The *qafah* is larger than the *mudrib*.
The Shaykh : And the fans, right? And the carpets and prayer mats, and the trash heaps and the plates. The trash heaps?
The student: Yes
The Shaykh : What are the trash heaps?
The student: The plural of *mizbalah* (trash heap).
The Shaykh : I did not ask you for the plural or the singular, but what is its meaning?
The student: The *mizbalah* is where they place things; they put soil in it, they put things in it, the people, the owners of the farms, they put them in it, for example...
The Shaykh : We call it a pit; it is larger than the basket.
The student: It is placed on the donkey and they put on it...
The Shaykh : Okay, good, yes. It says "and the trash heaps and the plates, and some head coverings, palm fiber, this."
The student: A palm fiber cap.
The Shaykh : Well-known, good. And it is used to roof houses, right? And it is taken as fuel, and used as a fence around the farms, good. As it is chopped and crushed.