The date palm and the date mentioned in the Holy Quran
Therin is fruit and date-palms, producing spathes (enclosing dates) Ch. Rahman verse 11. Peace, I went back to the Holy Quran and continued researching the pages of Surah Yasin (chapter 36) I came across the very next verse refers where Allah guides in our nutrition after verse 33 which if you remember was guiding us in the very first step of nutrition. The grain as the staple in our diet. I reached the following verse. 36:34 "And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines, and We make springs to flow forth in it" Holy Quran I started looking for all the verses in the Quran that referred to the date palm and found the following: Surah Rahman 55:11 Therein is fruit and date-palms producing spathes (enclosed dates); Ch 18:18 Surah Kahf (The cave) Set forth to them the parable of 2 men for one of them We provided two gardens of grape-vines and surrounded them with date-palms; in between the two We placed corn fields Ch 2 Surah Baqara (The cow) ...