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  • In our tradition, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon, is sitting with a young companion of his by the name of Ibn Umar and others who are elders when a spadix of a date-palm tree was brought to him.

    Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 14 - Wrestling with Arrogance Imam Khalid Latif 2011

  • Ibn Umar says that everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas and I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others.

    Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 14 - Wrestling with Arrogance Imam Khalid Latif 2011

  • Quran 41:53, and It is He Who sends down rain from the skies: with it We produce vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green crops, out of which We produce grain, heaped up at harvest; out of the date-palm and its sheaths come clusters of dates hanging low and near: and gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates. ...

    Peter Ochs, Ph.D.: Scripture, Science And Self In Islam Ph.D. Peter Ochs 2011

  • Herodotus mentions date-palm trees growing "in great numbers over the whole of the flat country" of ­ancient Babylon.

    Single Servings Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

  • In our tradition, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon, is sitting with a young companion of his by the name of Ibn Umar and others who are elders when a spadix of a date-palm tree was brought to him.

    Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 14 - Wrestling with Arrogance Imam Khalid Latif 2011

  • Quran 41:53, and It is He Who sends down rain from the skies: with it We produce vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green crops, out of which We produce grain, heaped up at harvest; out of the date-palm and its sheaths come clusters of dates hanging low and near: and gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates. ...

    Peter Ochs, Ph.D.: Scripture, Science And Self In Islam Ph.D. Peter Ochs 2011

  • Ibn Umar says that everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas and I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others.

    Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 14 - Wrestling with Arrogance Imam Khalid Latif 2011

  • Its turf was a mountainous region, not the date-palm Iraq of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, but a zone of rolling foothills set against snowcapped peaks.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • 'A comb, the hair knotted on it, and the outer skin of the pollen of the male date-palm.'

    TEXAS FAITH: Should the Pentagon have "disinvited" Franklin Graham? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • She could smell the mist from the grass sprinklers on the center ground and the flowers blooming in the window boxes of the motel at the intersection, a watered date-palm oasis in the midst of a desert, a reminder that a person always had choices.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

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