Berries

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN OUR POWER EXCEPT OUR OWN THOUGHTS.

IT IS IN VAIN TO EXPECT OUR PRAYERS TO BE ANSWERED, IF WE DO NOT STRIVE TO CORRECT OUR KNOWLEDGE BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NOBLE QURAN AND THE SUNNAH OF PROPHET MUHAMMED (PBUH)

BERRIES LINKED TO IMPROVED MEMORY

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT CONSUMING A DIET RICH IN BERRIES MAY HELP IMPROVE BRAIN FUNCTIONING AND MEMORY. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED BY SCIENTISTS WHO TESTED THEIR THESIS ON RATS. RESULTS SHOWED RATS THAT CONSUMED BERRIES PERFORMED BETTER ON MEMORY EXERCISES AND HAD HIGHER LEVELS OF DOPAMINE. THOUGH THE FINDINGS ARE ENCOURAGING, MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THESE RESULTS APPLY TO HUMAN BEINGS AS WELL.

IN BOTANY, THE BERRY IS THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF SIMPLE FLESHY FRUIT; A FRUIT IN WHICH THE ENTIRE OVARY WALL RIPENS INTO AN EDIBLE PERICARP. THE FLOWERS OF THESE PLANTS HAVE A SUPERIOR OVARY AND THEY HAVE ONE OR MORE CARPELS WITHIN A THIN COVERING AND VERY FLESHY INTERIORS. THE SEEDS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMMON FLESH OF THE OVARY. 

IN THIS SENSE, THE TOMATO IS A BERRY AND THE STRAWBERRY IS NOT; RATHER, EVERY STRAWBERRY ON A STRAWBERRY PLANT MAKES 1 BERRY AS A WHOLE. OTHER EXAMPLES OF BOTANICAL BERRIES INCLUDE THE GRAPE, DATE, AVOCADO, PERSIMMON, EGGPLANT, GUAVA, UCHUVA (GROUND CHERRY) AND CHILLI PEPPER. THE FRUIT OF CITRUS, SUCH AS THE ORANGE AND LEMON, IS A MODIFIED BERRY CALLED A HESPERIDIUM. THE FRUIT OF CUCUMBERS AND THEIR RELATIVES ARE MODIFIED BERRIES CALLED "PEPOES." A PLANT THAT BEARS BERRIES IS REFERRED TO AS BACCIFEROUS. 

IN COMMON PARLANCE AND CUISINE, THE TERM "BERRY" REFERS GENERICALLY TO ANY SMALL, SWEET FRUIT; IN THIS SENSE, THE STRAWBERRY IS A BERRY AND THE TOMATO IS NOT. OTHER BERRIES IN THIS, BUT NOT THE BOTANICAL SENSE INCLUDE AGGREGATE FRUITS SUCH AS THE BLACKBERRY, THE RASPBERRY AND THE BOYSENBERRY. 

THESE FRUITS TEND TO BE SMALL, SWEET, JUICY AND OF A BRIGHT COLOUR CONTRASTING WITH THEIR BACKGROUND TO MAKE THEM MORE ATTRACTIVE TO ANIMALS THAT DISPERSE THEM AND THUS SCATTER WIDELY THE SEEDS OF THE PLANT.  

WHEN YOU REMEMBER ME, IT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE CARRIED SOMETHING OF WHO I AM WITH YOU, THAT I HAVE LEFT SOME MARK OF WHO I AM ON WHO YOU ARE. IT MEANS THAT YOU CAN SUMMON ME BACK TO YOUR MIND EVEN THOUGH COUNTLESS YEARS AND MILES MAY STAND BETWEEN US. IT MEANS THAT IF WE MEET AGAIN, YOU WILL KNOW ME. IT MEANS THAT EVEN AFTER I DIE, YOU CAN STILL SEE MY FACE AND REMEMBER MY VOICE AND SPEAK TO ME IN YOUR HEART. FOR AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER ME, I AM NEVER ENTIRELY LOST. IF YOU FORGET ME, PART OF WHO I AM WILL BE GONE.

TO GET SOMETHING YOU NEVER HAD, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING YOU NEVER DID.'  WHEN GOD TAKES SOMETHING FROM YOUR GRASP, HE'S NOT PUNISHING YOU, BUT MERELY OPENING YOUR HANDS TO RECEIVE SOMETHING BETTER.  CONCENTRATE ON THIS SENTENCE... 'THE WILL OF GOD WILL NEVER TAKE YOU WHERE THE GRACE OF GOD WILL NOT PROTECT YOU.'