Dates provide us with excellent health benefits and
high nutritional value. I realized the great benefits of dates and that’s why;
I used to eat them in a daily basis before my main meal. When I was young, my
father taught me to avoid eating an even number of dates since our prophet
(peace be upon him) used to eat an odd number of them (1,3,5… pieces).
Actually, I didn’t ask about the reason because I believe that anything
Mohammed (peace be upon him) recommended us to do is absolutely for our
benefit. Two years ago, I heard a man in a TV program said that there is a
study done by non-Muslims explains the reason of why it is preferable to eat
dates on odd numbers from the medical point of view. He said that people who
are suffering from diabetes and kidney problems shouldn’t eat (or eat very
little) dates since it will increase the sugar and potassium in their
bodies, hence have a negative impact on their health. The study discovered and
concluded that dates will be transformed in our bodies as sugar and potassium
in case of eating them on an even number; of course we need these elements but
if they are exceeding our bodies’ needs, it will affect our health adversely.
The AMAZING thing, he said that if we eat an odd number of dates, large portion
of it will be converted into carbohydrates which give energy. What I found it
interesting is that the purpose of what Mohammed (peace be upon him)
recommended us to do 1,400 years ago is just discovered before recent years.
I'm used to eat odd number, but didn't know why. It good to know
ReplyDeleteAmazing information...I used to eat but I don't know that I should eat odd number....
ReplyDeleteDo you have any references to such study?
ReplyDeleteBTW I failed to find something from Sunnah that prefers eating odd vs. even number of dates.
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لاَ يَغْدُو يَوْمَ الْفِطْرِ حَتَّى يَأْكُلَ تَمَرَاتٍ. وَقَالَ مُرَجَّى بْنُ رَجَاءٍ حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَسٌ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَيَأْكُلُهُنَّ وِتْرًا.
DeleteNarrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) never proceeded (for the prayer) on the Day of `Id-ul-Fitr unless he had eaten some dates. Anas also narrated: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat odd number of dates.
Sahih Bukhari
(The Two Festivals (Eids))
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 953
In-book reference : Book 13, Hadith 5
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ReplyDeletewhat type of carbohydrates is an odd number of dates transformed to ???glycogen?!, I'm interested to know how the body differentiates between an odd and an even number of dates! and I just can't see how eating 2 dates is worse than eating 29 or 19!!!
ReplyDeleteI've been searching for a research that backup your theory and non i found. There is no relation between odd numbers and how our body obsorbs dates, the only thing matters here is the quantity. But this doesnt mean that eating 4 dates is healthier than 9, not because its an odd number more like because our body can adjust to how much we ate and absorbs nutritions differently, yes there is a level that trigers different absorption mechanisms... But this has nothing to do with odd numbers,i am a muslim and maybe there is somthing about eating dates in odd number is healthier, but i'm sure we havent found it yet.
DeleteOdd numbers is sunnah and simulation of what our prophet used to do. There is no need to fabricate stories and unaccessible researches about that. If you are not muslim you will never convert to Islam for the good sake of odd number of dates. This is unlogic. Please don't make propaganda if you don't provide the original research and where did you get it ?
ReplyDeleteYes indeed...👍🏽
DeleteAll talk about a sctudy and a scientist but no one states the name of this scientist and this study, i checked in Arabic , in English in French...there is absolutely o name...Can anybody name who is this scientist?
ReplyDeleteIn a hadith in Attirmidhi and Abu Dawud narrated by Ali ibn Abi talib which talks about witr salah, it indicates from that Hadith that Allah loves witr(single or odd number).
ReplyDeleteThough in regard to breaking fast with odd number of dates
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said in Fataawa Noor ‘ala ad-Darb (11/2):
"It is not obligatory – and in fact it is not Sunnah – to break the fast with an odd number, three or five or seven or nine, except on the Day of Eid al-Fitr, as it is proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him and his family) would not go out for prayer on the Day of Eid al-Fitr, until he had eaten some dates, an odd number thereof. Apart from that, the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) did not seek deliberately to eat an odd number of dates."
http://www.ijabbr.com/article_34661.html
ReplyDeleteConclusion: There is no difference between ingestion of the odd and even number of dates fleshes from the glycemic point of view on the glucose level in fasting and postprandial states.
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If you eat odd number, e.g. 7 (recommended), they will generate blue light in your aura after digesting which protect you against Satan and invisible creatures. If you eat even number date, they would produce glycogen then caused diabetes if you keeping it on. Yes, Mohammad prophet is from God side to human beings!
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