“… and shake toward yourself the trunk of the palm tree, it will let fall upon you FRESH, RIPE dates. So eat and drink and cool your eye. And if you see of any man, so say ‘Truly, I, I have vowed to the Merciful a fast, so today I shall speak with no human being’. Then she came to her people carrying him. They said ‘O Mary, truly, indeed, you have brought something unheard-of. O sister of Aaron, your father was not an evil man, nor was your mother a prostitute’. Then she pointed to him. They said ‘How shall we speak with one who was a boy in the cradle’. He said ‘Truly, I am a slave of Allah. He gave me the Book and made me a Prophet, and made me blessed wherever I was…’”

The Holy Quran, Surah Maryam/Mary 19:25–31

A young, flexible date palm with ripe fruits similar to the one described in the Holy Quran, under which Jesus was born.

“… On the third day upon the birth of Jesus Christ, the blessed Mary stepped out of the cave, went into a stable, and laid her boy in the manger… Joseph remained in the place with Mary for three days… On the third day of the journey, when they continued onward, it came to pass that the blessed Mary became weary from the great heat in the desert, and when she saw a palm tree, she said to Joseph ‘In the shade of the tree I would like to rest a little’. So Joseph led her to the palm and let her descend from the pack animal. When the blessed Mary sat down, she looked up to the crown of the palm and saw that it hung full of fruits. So she said to Joseph ‘I wish one could fetch from the fruits of the palm’. Then the child Jesus, who sat joyfully in his mother’s lap, said to the palm ‘Incline your branches, tree, and refresh my mother with your fruit’. So at this call the palm bent its top down to the feet of the blessed Mary and they gathered the fruits from it… Then it stood up and a clear, fresh, bright spring burst forth at its root. When they saw the spring, they rejoiced and quenched their thirst —she, the pack animals, and the cattle. For this they thanked God.”

From the Gospel of Matthew

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