The World Of Islam

Medieval Islamic World's Scientific Inventions, Discoveries, & Contributions

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History of Masjid-E-Nabawi

2010-07-18T09:40:00.000+08:00

In every instance, the Muhajireen gratefully repaid their obligations to Ansaar.Immediately on his arrival in Madinah, Rasulullah 's first Divine urge was to build a Masjid. The vacant site adjoining the house of Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansaari (R.A.) was the ideal place. The young Ansaari orphans, Sahil and Suhailbin Amr Najjari, were the owners of this piece of land. The orphans and their guardian. Mu'aaz bin Ufra offered to donate the land for the Masjid. But Rasulullah preferred to buy it and Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.) immediately paid the agreed ten dinars for it.

A few graves of the idolatrous were leveled out and some date palms were cleared away. The building of the Masjid had a deep effect on the lives of the Sahaaba (R.A.) because Rasulullah personally worked like an ordinary artisan with them. The walls were of mud bricks and the up-right columns were shaped from trunks of date palms. The leaves of date palms were used for the roof. The Masjid had three entrances: one was 'Babul Rahmat' (gate of blessings); another was 'Babul Nabee'(gate of Nabee ) which is today known as 'Babul -Jibra'eel and the third entrance was at the rear of the building.

In the eastern section of the Masjid were the 'Hoojra' (private apartments) for the family of Rasulullah . One was for Hazrat Aisha binte Abu Bakr bin Abu Kuhafa (R.A.) and another or Hazrat Sauda binte Zam'ah (R.A.). In due course, Rasulullah sent Hazrat Zaid bin Harith (R.A.) and Hazrat Abu Raa'fe (R.A.) to Makkah with two camels and five hundred dirhams for provisions and expenses to bring Hazrat Fatima (R.A.), Hazrat Umme Kulthum (R.A.), Hazrat Sauda binte Zam'ah (R.A.), Hazrat Usaama bin Zaid (R.A.) and Hazrat Zaid (R.A.)'s mother Hazrat Umme Aymen (R.A.).
Hazrat Zainb binte Muhammed (R.A.) could not come as her husband, Abdul As ibn Rabi did not give her permission to go to Madinah.

Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.)'s family also arrived at about this time to Madinah and his daughter Hazrat Aisha binte Abu Bakr (R.A.) was with them. The family of Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.) stayed in the home of Hazrat Harith bin No'maan (R.A.) from the Banu Najjar clan. The nikah of Rasulullah to Hazrat Aisha (R.A.) had taken place in Makkah in the tenth year of Nabuwat after the demise of Hazrat Khadija binte Khuwaylid (R.A.). Hazrat Aisha (R.A.) was very young at the time. She went as a bride in the first year of Hijrat to Rasulullah when Masji-e-Nabawi was ready. Hazrat Aisha binte Abu Bakr (R.A.) was very intelligent and therefore derived great wisdom and learning in the company of Rasulullah , who loved her very dearly.

In later years, her knowledge and understanding of Islam in its pure form proved to be of great inspiration to the Sahaaba (R.A.) and the Tabi'een (successors of the companions of Rasulullah .) The sublime character of Hazrat Aisha (R.A.), her devotion to Rasulullah , her virtue, intelligence and eloquence was unparalleled in history. She was only eighteen years of age when Nabi passed away. She related 2210 Ahaadith (recorded words, actions and sanctions of Rasulullah . She passed away in Hijri 57 at the age of sixty five.

In one section of the Masjid, a raised platform was built for the Ashaab-as-Suffah- this a place made for those poor Muslim who had dedicated their lives to the cause of Islamic education; theology; preaching of Islam; memorizing of verses of the Qur'aan as and when revealed to Rasulullah ; compiling of the Adhaadith in its pristine form; recording of every action and deed of their beloved Rasulullah for posterity. Hazrat Abu Hurairah (R.A.) related that there were 70 Sahaaba who were the people of Suffah. He was one of them.

They were very humble and very often went without a full meal for the day. They never stretched their hands to anyone for charity, but labored to earn a living by collecting firewood and selling it in the market-place to provide food for all the Companions (R.A.)

When the Masjid was completed, the need arose for regular 'Jamaa'ah'. Rasulullah asked the Sahaaba (R.A.) to formulate some method of getting the Muslims together for salaah.

The Ashaab-as-Suffah volunteered to round up the Muslims for salaah, but this was time consuming and not effective. Other suggestions that came forth were: the beating of drums; the ringing of the bell like the Christians; the light of fire like the Zoroastrians; blowing of the horn like the Jews. Rasulullah rejected all these suggestions and Hazrat Bilal bin Rabah Habshi (R.A.) was asked to call out 'Assalaatu-Jaamiah' for the time being. In the second year of Hijrat, when the numbers in the Muslim rank were increasing the need was felt for more effective manner in which to call the Muslims for prayer.

One day, Hazrat Abdullah bin Zaid (R.A.) in his dream heard an angel instructing him on the wordings of the 'Azaan' (Call To Prayer). He related his experience to Rasulullah who in turn asked Hazrat Bilal bin Rabah Habshi (R.A.) to learn the words and call the Azaan. When Hazrat Umar (R.A.) heard the Azaan, he rushed up to Rasulullah and reported that he had also heard the same Azaan in his dream.

Hazrat Bilal (R.A.) became the first Muazzin in Islam. The powerful and melodious voice of Hazrat Bilal (R.A.), issuing from his strong lungs, resounded through the city of Madinah. The word of the Azaan: 'Allah is great! There is no God but Allah, Muhammed is the Rasul Of Allah ! Come to Salvation!' The words of the Azaan echoed in all the dwellings, and this caused every citizen to inhale with delight the refreshing scent of prayer.

At first the 'Qibla' in Madinah was towards Jerusalem, but later Allah commanded Rasulullah to face the Ka'bah and perform salaah, Allah says in Sura Baqara:
'We see the turning of your face to the heavens;
now We shall turn you to a Qibla that shall please
you. Turn then your face in the direction of the
sacred Masjid, and wherever you be, turn your face
in that direction'.
(Sura: Baqara v:144)

The calculation of years by the Muslims had begun from the first year of Nabuwat (Prophethood). However, immediately after the Hijrat of Rasulullah , the year became known as Hijrat the first year of Hijrat being the year of the arrival Rasulullah in Madinah. The name of the lunar months remained the same as were customary in Arabia before the advent of Islam. Muharram was the first month, followed by Safar, Rbi-ul-Awwal, Rabi-ul-Aakhir, Jamaadil-Awwal, Jamaadil-Akhir, Rajab, Sha'baan, Ramadhaan, Shawwal, Zilqa'dah and the last month Zil-hajj.

The Masjid-e-Nabawi was becoming the center of Islamic activity. The Muslims were zealously following the principles laid down by Rasulullah from time to time. The Sahaaba (R.A.) witnessed with great admiration the simple and solemn marriage ceremony of Rasulullah 's fifteen years old daughter Hazrat Fatima (R.A.) to his twenty year old cousin Hazrat Ali bin Abu Talib (R.A.). To raise the money for 'Mehr' (Dowry) Hazrat Ali (R.A.) sold his 'Zirrah' (chain armour) for 480 dirhams. For his part, Rasulullah gave his daughter a 'Jehaz'(dowry) comprising of a bamboo and reed bedstead; a quilt of date-palm leaves; one leather water bag; two grindstones and two earthen water pots.

Hazrat Ali bin Abu Talib (R.A.) lived with Rasulullah since childhood. Now, that he was married, he was given an apartment by Hazrat Harith bin No'maan Ansaari (R.A.), whose buildings were situated behind Masjid-e-Nabawi. As the need arose he donated all these buildings, one after the other to Rasulullah . These houses were to become the 'hoojarat' (apartments) of the family of Rasulullah Rasulullah turned his attention to the Muhajireen who were newcomers to Madinah. He did not wish them to become a burden and a liability to the ever hospitable Ansaar. He was also aware that not all the Ansaar were prosperous and wealthy. But the Muhajireen had sacrificed their land and homes, their families and friends, their valuables and made Hijrat for the pleasure of Islam.

Rasulullah assembled the Muhajireen and the Ansaar in Masjid-e-Nabawi and issued a proclamation.This was in the form of 'Mua'khaat'(brotherhood) which is hailed as one of the greatest gifts of Rasulullah to the future Muslims of the world. He ordained that they should pair off in couples consisting of a man of the Muhajireen and an Ansaar.

The degree of devotion attained by this brotherhood of religion was stronger than the ties of blood. All these men's hearts, united in the love of Allah were now nothing more than a single heart, beating in different breasts. Each man loved his brother better than himself, and an islamic brotherhood was established.

Among the brotherly unions, Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.) was taken by Hazrat Kharijah bin Zaid (R.A.); Hazrat Umar (R.A.) by Hazrat Uthman bin Malik; Hazrat Abu Ubaidah (R.A.) with Hazrat Sa'ad bi Muaz (R.A.) Hazrat Uthman bin Affan (R.A.) with Hazrat Aus bin Nijjar (R.A.); Hazrat Abudurrahman bin Auf (R.A.) with Hazrat Sa'ad bin Rabie (R.A.).

The Allah-fearing Muhajireen did not take undue advantage of all the facilities offered to them. On the contrary, they labored and persevered and were soon able to fend for themselves. Some Muhajireen borrowed just enough money from his 'brother' Ansar to begin trade. Later they were able to repay their loans and become independent and wealthy Muslims.

The Qur'aan refers to this 'Mua'khaat' as follows:
'Those who believed, and adopted exile and fought
for the faith, with their property and their persons, in
the cause of Allah, as well as those who gave
(them) refuge and aid, these are all brothers one of
another'(Surah: Anfal v:72)

When in later years, the Jews left Madinah, many of the properties and orchards were allotted to the Muhajireen and the proclamation on 'inheritance' during the Mua'khaat was repla

Amazing Tree

2009-04-30T07:00:00.002+08:00

At a glance you may be confused the above tree with a massive trunk with a 'Baobab' tree (which is renowned to possess the largest tree trunks of the world) but, this is yet another unknown specie which is seen in the close proximity of a hermitage deep in the dense forest in 'Andra Pradesh' in India.

Now have a close look at the bark and experience the unbelievable figures of creatures engraved in the surface of the entire tree trunk!!
Absolutely real!!!

The Place Above The Cloud

2009-04-29T11:16:00.003+08:00

Beyond of human mind...sometimes we wonder how powerful God creation may effect us in many way.

Ancient crystal decanter brings $6M Cdn at auction

2009-04-28T12:05:00.002+08:00

rare treasure from an ancient Islamic dynasty sold for more than $6 million Cdn at a London auction on Tuesday.

A 1,000-year-old decanter painstakingly hand-carved from a single, flawless piece of crystal sold to an anonymous buyer for about $6.1 million, including the buyer's premium for Christie's auction house.

Earlier this year, an auction house in southwestern England had mistaken the intricately crafted artifact for a mere 19th century French wine pitcher and given it a pre-sale estimate of less than $400.

However, once at auction, the slim-necked, gold-embellished decanter drew the attention of eagle-eyed collectors, who launched a bidding war that eventually drove up the price to approximately $400,000.

After the ewer was correctly identified, however, that sale was annulled.

According to Christie's, the ewer is "one of the rarest and most desirable works of art from the Islamic world."

The rock crystal ewer dates from the late 10th or early 11th century, and is one of only seven similar vessels known to have survived the court of Cairo's Fatimid rulers.

When the dynasty was overthrown, its members were forced to sell their treasures, including the rare, exquisite ewers.

Among the six others known to exist, one is held by London's Victoria and Albert Museum while another is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.

Article From : CBCnews.ca

Muslim Countries of Africa/Asia/Middle East/South East Asia: Circa 2000

2009-04-28T11:54:00.002+08:00

Today there are nearly 65 states or countries with significant or majority populations who are Muslim. They include some of the largest nations in the world in terms of population, such as Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Others are small countries like Qatar and Djibouti. Many are secular republics such as Indonesia, or monarchies such as Saudi Arabia, or so-called “Islamic states” such as Iran. Some are democracies, such as Malaysia. No majority Muslim state exists in Europe or the Americas. In almost all of those states where a majority of the population is Muslim, a belief in Islam serves as a common bonding among diverse inhabitants in politics and life. It is a source of faith and a significant foundation of social identity and community relations. Almost all of these Muslim states are also developing nations that have only recently emerged from European colonialism.

Religion in the world before Islam

2009-04-21T12:51:00.001+08:00

Previously, we discussed Politics in the world before Islam - the dominance of the Roman and Persian Empires, and the lands of Arabia lost between them. This article focuses on the religious influences dominant in the world before the advent of the Last Prophet (saw) and the final revealed religion to mankind.

By far the largest detriment to society in Rome, Iran and Arabia was the effect of the religious and moral ideas present at the time.

In the Roman Empire, religion was originally adopted from ancient Greece and beyond, and developed into a bizarre mythology centred around figures who were as fallible and selfish as any human but had superhuman powers. Later on, the Roman state adopted Christianity, but this didn’t really change the moral structure of society since it had been already defined by the pagan practices before it. In fact, instead of Christianity improving the pagan religious views held by the population, the ideas of Christianity became polluted with concepts like the trinity, which had filtered through from the previous faith. When Rome first adopted Christianity, the Emperor chose the four gospels of the Bible that most appealed to him from around 300 books and burnt the rest, effectively editing the religion to make it more suitable to the tastes of Rome. In other words the church had been drawn away from the original faith, becoming polluted and losing a large part of its ideology, and worse, violently oppressing those that stood against it, leaving the people without religious guidance or even the freedom to seek it.

The Sassanid (Persian) Empire was in a slightly different situation to Rome; a Zoroastrian priest initially founded it. Zoroastrianism, considered by many to have once been a revealed religion, was supposed to have been a beautiful, simple faith with logical beliefs. However, the position of the clergy in founding the empire and their influence upon rulers led them to deviate from the faith, most notably with the introduction of fire-worship. Over time the religion was altered and edited, just as Christianity was in Rome, to suit the purposes of the priests and nobles, who neglected the spiritual and instead looked for material wealth. In this way the Sassanid Empire’s state religion, as with Rome, had ceased to be a source of religious guidance to the people, who had become spiritually stranded as various groups fought over power or money.

Religion in Arabia was defined by the historical and spiritual influence of Hijaz. The most highly populated city in Hijaz was Mecca, founded centuries earlier by the Prophet Abraham (as) who built the Ka’bah and brought a pure and monotheistic faith to the region. Over time, as with faith in the Sassanid Empire, this pure religion was lost with the introduction of idols - first as intercessors then later as deities to be worshipped - until the Ka’bah had become filled by them and there were more than enough for one for each day of the year. The morals and collective intellect of the Arabs was overshadowed by the meaningless superstitious rituals in their religion - in which animals were tortured and mutilated, and people were humiliated to the extent that they would wear dirty rags and bones, or even bray like a donkey before entering a village to repel ‘evil spirits’. These pointless practices only served to stamp out the spirit of logic and reason within the people, depriving them of any mental development, and confining them to the prison of ignorance.

In Hijaz there was no system of law in place, and no government like Rome had, so the deterioration in morality seemed to have a greater effect. The decay was so strong that all kinds of awful rituals worked their way into common practice, such as the killing of baby girls at birth, and the treatment of women like possessions, or cattle to be abused and inherited against their will. Matters worsened until bloodshed, murder and pillage were considered worthy of praise. The good traits possessed by the pre-Islamic Arabs such as generosity, devotion, eloquence, sharp memory and bravery were brought to nothing before the overwhelming ignorance and immorality that ruled in their society.

The state of affairs before Islam was this: two faded superpowers locked in struggle over neighbouring lands, with all civilisation and progress present in them and in Arabia being blocked by political, moral and spiritual corruption. There was widespread disharmony and oppression as groups warred over wealth and power, and almost all faith (although initially pure and revealed) had become corrupted, and only made the situation worse.

The world was like a barren desert, dry, with barely any traces of life, but deep within its heart was the potential to bloom with the first coming of the rain. Allah sent his Last Prophet, the first of His creatures, the Best of His Creation and most beloved of His servants, may Allah’s blessings be upon him and his family, to the world at its darkest hour. When the meaning of religion had been all but lost, Allah, the Most Merciful, illuminated the world with His complete guidance in a perfect faith, revealed through a perfect man. And at the moment of the final prophet’s (saw) birth the whole world felt reverberations, spreading across the heavens and earth like great waves, indicating the great changes that were about to come.

Martrydom Epic of Imam al-Husain (’a)

2009-04-20T12:56:00.000+08:00

This is one of the best books about the story of Imam Hussayn in Karbala. It is amazing and the English is good. For anyone interested in this subject I would definately advise one to read it. The print is very difficult to find and if anyone knows where to buy it please let me know. It is available online on al-islam.org.

History Of Kaa'ba

2009-04-19T09:48:00.001+08:00

The other names of the Kaaba, are Bait ul Ateeq-which means, according to one meaning, the earliest and ancient. According to the second meaning, it means independent and liberating. Both meanings could be taken. Bait ul Haram-the honorable house. Scholars and historians say that the Kaaba has been reconstructed between five to 12 times.

Baytullah the House Of Allah

In the province of Hijaz in the western part of Saudi Arabia, not far from the Red Sea, there lies the town of Makkah. In the center of this town there is a small square building made of stones. The small, cubed building may not rival skyscrapers in height or mansions in width, but its impact on history and human beings is unmatched. Since time immemorial world travelers have known this town and this stone built house. This is Baytullah, the House of Allah. Its sanctity and antiquity is older than history itself.

The Baytullah\Kaaba is the building towards which Muslims face five times a day, everyday, in prayer. This has been the case since the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him & his family) over 1400 years ago. Literally, Kaaba in Arabic means a high place with respect and prestige. The word Kaaba may also be derivative of a word meaning a cube.

The other names of the Kaaba, are Bait ul Ateeq-which means, according to one meaning, the earliest and ancient. According to the second meaning, it means independent and liberating. Both meanings could be taken. Bait ul Haram-the honorable house. Scholars and historians say that the Kaaba has been reconstructed between five to 12 times.

Tradition goes that the Kaaba was ordained by Allah to be built in the shape of the House in Heaven called Baitul Ma'amoor. Allah in his infinite Mercy ordained a similar place on earth and Prophet Adam (p.b.u.h.) was the first to build this place. The Bible, in the chapter of Genesis describes its building when God ordained Abraham (p.b.u.h.) to erect a Shrine for worship when Abraham (p.b.u.h.) was ordered to go to the southern desert with his wife Hager (p.b.u.h.) and infant son Ishmael (p.b.u.h.). The Old Testament describes this building as the Shrine of God at several places, but the one built at Ma'amoor is very much similar to the one at Makkah. There is no doubt that it was referring to the stone built house at Makkah.

Holy Qur'an brought this story into the full light of history. Say: "Allah spoken the Truth: follow the religion of Abraham, the sane in faith; he was not of the Pagans." The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka: Full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings. (Holy Qur'an 3:95-96)

From the above verses Holy Qur'an firmly establishes the fact that Abraham (p.b.u.h.) was the real founder of the Holy Shrine.

Prophet Abraham (p.b.u.h.) built this House for devout worship to the only God. But within his lifetime people disobeyed his orders and began to put idols the Kaaba. Abraham (p.b.u.h.) had to clean the House of these idols and of idle worshippers. He told the people that this was a symbolic house of God. God does not live there; He is everywhere. People did not understand this logic and after the death of Abraham (p.b.u.h.), the people, out of reverence, filled the place with idols again. They thronged to this place annually and worshipped their personal gods, It was over Four Thousand years later that the last of the line of prophets.

Muhammad Ibne Abdullah (p.b.u.h.) entered Makka triumphantly, went inside the Kaaba and, with the help of his cousin and son-in-law Ali Ibne Abi Talib (p.b.u.h.) destroyed all the idols of Kaaba with their own hands. At one stage of this destruction of idols, the tallest of the idol Hubbol was brought down after Ali had to stand on the shoulders of the Prophet to carry out God's orders. The Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.) was reciting the verse from the Holy Qur'an "Truth hath come and falsehood hath vanished". This was done in the 8th year of Hijra, January 630 AD after the bloodles victory at Makka by the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.)

Historically when Abraham (p.b.u.h.) was ordered by Allah to build the Shrine for worship, he uncovered the original foundations of the Kaaba built by Adam (p.b.u.h.). Abraham (p.b.u.h.) with the help of his son Ishmael (p.b.u.h.) erected the new shrine on the same foundations. Originally it contained only four walls without a roof. Centuries later during the time of Khusayi who was the leader of the Tribe of Quraish in Makka a taller building was completed with a roof and a quadrangle wall around it to give it the shape of a sanctuary and doors all around the sanctuary walls. People entered through these doors to come to the Kaaba for worship.

It is now about 60 feet high, 60 feet wide from east to west and 60 feet from north to south. A door is fixed about 7 feet above ground level facing Northeast. A Black stone (Hajar al-Aswad) was fixed into its eastern corner. In front of the building was Maqam-e-Ibrahim, the arch shape gate known as that of Banu Shayba and the Zamzam Well. Just outside are the Hills called Safa and Merwa and the distance between the hills is about 500 yards. These days both of the hills are enclosed into the sanctuary walls with a roof over it.
The whole building is built of the layers of gray blue stone from the hills surrounding Makka. The four corners roughly face the four points of the compass. At the East is the Rukn-e-Aswad (The Black stone), at the North is the Rukn-e-Iraqi, at the west Rukn-e-Shami and at the south Rukn-e-Yamani. The four walls are covered with a curtain (Kiswa). The kiswa is usually of black brocade with the Shahada outlined in the weave of the fabric. About 2/3rd of the way up runs a gold embroidered band covered with Qur'anic text.

In the Eastern corner about 5 feet above ground the Hajar al-Aswad (The Black stone) is fixed into the wall. Its real nature is difficult to determine, its visible shape is worn smooth by hand touching and kissing. Its diameter is around 12 inches. Opposite the Northwest wall but not connected with it, is a semi circular wall of white marble. It is 3 feet high and about 5 feet thick. This semi circular space enjoys an especial consideration and pilgrims wait in queue to find a place to pray there.

The graves of Ismael (p.b.u.h.) and his mother Hager (p.b.u.h.) are within this semi circular wall (Hateem). Between the archway and the facade (N.E.) is a little building with a small dome, the Maqam-e-Ibrahim. Inside it is kept a stone bearing the prints of two human feet. Prophet Abraham (p.b.u.h.) is said to have stood on this stone when building the Kaaba and marks of his feet are miraculously preserved. On the outskirts of the building to the Northeast is the 'Zamzam Well' (this is now put under ground).

Pilgrimage

The fifth pillar in Islam is to perform Pilgrimage to Makkah once in a life time of each person if means allow him/her. That place was selected by Allah Himself He selected Makkah for Adam and Eve after coming from Heaven to live there. They were guided by Allah through the help of Angel Gabriel to build the first place of worship on this planet earth. That place is called Ka'aba.

Later in history, it was destroyed by flood. Allah sent Prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismail to rebuild the Ka'aba. Since that time Muslims have been instructed in the Qur'an that their pilgrimage place is Ka'aba in Makkah.

Muslims all over the world are being blessed by Allah, that Ka'aba has become a source of Unity five times a day. It is also a source of Unity during Pilgrimage (Hajj).

How Islam Invented A Bright New World

2009-04-18T11:59:00.001+08:00

We all know that thousands of familiar items were invented, discovered or created by Scottish ingenuity. The television, Tarmac, penicillin, radar and, more recently, Dolly the sheep are just some of them.

But how many of us realise that coffee, clocks, deodorant, the fountain pen, libraries, sofas, surgical instruments, toothpaste, chemistry, herbal medicine, town planning, vaccinations and even the crankshaft - among thousands of other inventions - have a claim to originate in the Muslim world between the seventh and seventeenth centuries?

Too many of us in the west are unaware of the enormous contribution Islamic scholars have made to our cultural and social life. In an attempt to shed light on this largely ignored "golden age" of scientific innovation, Salim al Hassani, chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation and emeritus professor at Manchester University, has created an interactive exhibition called 1001 Inventions, which opened yesterday at the Glasgow Science Centre.

The Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Babylonians also have claims to incredible creativity, but al Hassani's point is that the Islamic world's contribution is often sidelined. "If it had not been for Muslim inventions, we would not have had the Renaissance, nor present-day civilisation.
"Western history books tend to jump from Greek times to Newton and Einstein, so there's a huge gap of knowledge that needs to be filled in the interests of social and cultural cohesion, and even world peace."

This 1000-year gap is a fluke of history, not a conspiracy, he says. However, he believes the time has come for recognition and acknowledgment. "Because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the west, as an alien culture, society and belief system, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history."

The exhibition has a message for non-Muslims and Muslims alike. "In the post-9/11 era there have been tensions in world relations," says al Hassani. "I want non-Muslims to recognise their neighbours, but there is also a message here for young Muslims in Britain: recognise the contribution of your ancestors. These people expressed their religiosity through beneficial contributions to society and humanity.

"Young Muslims should also learn that great inventors were men and women, Muslim and non-Muslim, working in harmony together. This track record of co-operation over the centuries, although deeply rooted within early Muslim society, seems to have been forgotten. The 1001 Inventions project taps directly into that tradition by seeking to develop a better understanding between peoples and cultures."

Professor Robert Hillenbrand, director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, based at Edinburgh University, also believes the exhibition is timely. "The Arab world is one of the big four global players today, along with Russia, China and Japan," he says. "Scottish students are still choosing to learn French, but who do you think is going to run the planet in 100 years' time? Not the French."
Here, then, are 10 of the inventions for which we should thank the Muslim world

Camera obscura

Although the Greeks had written treatises on optics, it was the ninth-century polymath al Kindi who first laid down the foundations of its modern study, discussing how light rays came in a straight line and the influence of distance and angle on sight.
This was built on by Ibn al Haitham in the tenth century, and his Book of Optics is still quoted by professors 1000 years on. During his practical experiments he used the term al Bayt al Muthlim, which was translated into Latin as "camera obscura". His Book of Optics was translated into Latin by the medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona, and this had a profound impact on the thirteenth-century big thinkers such as Roger Bacon and Witelo, and even on the later works of Leonardo da Vinci.

Coffee

More than 1200 years ago, legend has it that coffee was discovered by Ethopian Arab goatherds when they noticed their goats became more lively after eating certain berries. These berries were boiled, and became known as al Qahawa. It was a Turkish merchant, Pasqua Rosee, who first brought coffee to the UK in 1650.

Clocks

In 1206, the mechanical engineer al Jazari, working for the Urtuq kings of Diyarbakir in Turkey, was commissioned to write a book on engineering. It described 50 mechanical devices, including the first water-powered astronomical clock, a programmable humanoid robot and the crankshaft.

Toothbrushes and toothpaste

In the sixth century, the Prophet Muhammad is described as believing bad breath and food bits in your teeth were unhygienic, and scrubbing his teeth with a twig of miswak before each prayer. Although the Chinese can lay claim to a sixteenth-century version of the toothbrush, miswak is still used today - and a Swiss pharmaceutical company has since discovered that it has antibacterial properties.

Deodorants

In his tenth-century medical encyclopaedia al Tasrif, the physician and surgeon al Zahrawi included a chapter devoted to "cosmetology" and elaborated on perfume and perfumed stocks, rolled and pressed in special moulds - like today's roll-on deodorants.

Libraries

Although the Greeks and Romans had houses of scrolls open to the public, they were not lending libraries. Muslims began producing books in the eighth century because they knew how to make paper and were encouraged to record all their experiments. The Abbasid Caliph al Ma'mun paid translators the weight of each book in gold that they translated from Greek into Arabic. This produced a vast stack of books. Mosque libraries were called dar al-kutub, or the house of books.

Chemistry

Many scholars give the title of the father of chemistry to Jabir, or Gerber, ibn Hayyan, born around 722, the son of a druggist from Iraq. His use of experimental method in alchemy is seen as influential to this day.

Fountain pens

Before pens as we know them today came other writing instruments, including the qalam or reed pen. The most sought-after reeds came from the coastal lands of the Arabian Gulf. Each style of script required a different reed, cut at a specific angle. Calligraphers usually made their own inks and kept the recipes secret.
The language of Arabic calligraphy belongs to the family of ancient semitic languages, the most famous of which are Kufic and Naskh. The Kufic script comes from the city of Kufa, Iraq, where it was used by seventh- century scribes translating the Koran. Calligraphy is still used today for writing the Koran.

Surgical instruments

In his medical encyclopaedia, the aforementioned al Zahrawi introduced a staggering collection of more than 200 surgical tools. Their design was so precise that they have had only a few changes in 1000 years, and it was these illustrations that laid the foundations for surgery in Europe.

Post and mail

In fourteenth-century India, couriers took messages to the Muslim sultan sitting in Delhi. A man carrying a rod with copper bells on the top would sprint as fast as he could for one-third of a mile, and on hearing the bells the next man would get ready to take the mail. It took only five days for a message to get from the eastern edge of India to the capital.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/

Who Was the First Scientist?

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"I am pleased to see your comment about the contributions of all the Muslim scholars, especially Ibn al-Haytham. I would add that he not only contributed to the field of optics, but also was the first person to insist on systematically testing hypotheses with experiments, earning himself a place in history as the first scientist. If your readers would like to know more about him, I would encourage them to read my new book Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist. It is the first full biography of the eleventh-century Muslim scholar known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen. "
Posted by Bradley to Cem Nizamoglu at 20 November 2007 10:43

We live in a scientific age. Millions of young people study science, thousands of universities teach it, and hundreds of publications chronicle it. We even have a cable channel devoted exclusively to its wonders. We are immersed in technology rooted in its discoveries. But what is science, and who was its first practitioner?
Science is the study of the physical world, but it is not just a topic, a subject, a field of interest. It is a discipline—a system of inquiry that adheres to a specific methodology—the scientific method. In its basic form, the scientific method consists of seven steps:
1) observation;
2) statement of a problem or question;
3) formulation of a hypothesis, or a possible answer to the problem or question;
4) testing of the hypothesis with an experiment;
5) analysis of the experiment’s results;
6) interpretation of the data and formulation of a conclusion;
7) publication of the findings.One can study phenomena without adhering to the scientific method, of course. The result, however, is not science. It is pseudoscience or junk science.
Throughout history, many people in many parts of the world have studied nature without using the scientific method. Some of the earliest people to do so were the ancient Greeks. Scholars such as Aristotle made many observations about natural phenomena, but they did not test their ideas with experiments. Instead they relied on logic to support their findings. As a result, they often arrived at erroneous conclusions. Centuries later the errors of the Greeks were exposed by scholars using the scientific method.
Perhaps the most famous debunking of Greek beliefs occurred in 1589 when Galileo Galilei challenged Aristotle’s notions about falling bodies. Aristotle had asserted that heavy bodies fall at a faster rate than light bodies do. His contention was logical but unproven. Galileo decided to test Aristotle’s hypothesis, legend says, by dropping cannon balls of different weights from a balcony of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He released the balls simultaneously and found that neither ball raced ahead of the other. Rather, they sped earthward together and hit the ground at the same time. Galileo also conducted experiments in which he rolled balls of different weights down inclines in an attempt to discover the truth about falling bodies. For these and other experiments, Galileo is considered by many to be the first scientist.
Galileo was not the first person to conduct experiments or to follow the scientific method, however. European scholars had been conducting experiments for three hundred years, ever since a British-born Franciscan monk named Roger Bacon advocated experimentation in the thirteenth century. One of Bacon’s books, Perspectiva (Optics) challenges ancient Greek ideas about vision and includes several experiments with light that include all seven steps of the scientific method.
Bacon’s Perspectiva is not an original work, however. It is a summary of a much longer work entitled De aspectibus (The Optics). Perspectiva follows the organization of De aspectibus and repeats its experiments step by step, sometimes even word for word. But De aspectibus is not an original work, either. It is the translation of a book written in Arabic entitled Kitāb al-Manāzir (Book of Optics). Written around 1021, Kitāb al-Manāzir predates Roger Bacon’s summary of it by 250 years. The author of this groundbreaking book was a Muslim scholar named Abū ‘Alī al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham.
Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham—known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen—wrote more than 200 books and treatises on a wide range of subjects. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch mathematics known as analytic geometry.
Ibn al-Haytham’s use of experimentation was an outgrowth of his skeptical nature and his Muslim faith. He believed that human beings are flawed and only God is perfect. To discover the truth about nature, he reasoned, one had to allow the universe to speak for itself. “The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them,” Ibn al-Haytham wrote in Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, “but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration.”
To test his hypothesis that “lights and colors do not blend in the air,” for example, Ibn al-Haytham devised the world's first camera obscura, observed what happened when light rays intersected at its aperture, and recorded the results. This is just one of dozens of “true demonstrations,” or experiments, contained in Kitāb al-Manāzir.
By insisting on the use of verifiable experiments to test hypotheses, Ibn al-Haytham established a new system of inquiry—the scientific method—and earned a place in history as the first scientist.
Bradley Steffens is the author of twenty-one books, coauthor of seven, and editor of the 2004 anthology, The Free Speech Movement. His Censorship was included in the 1997 edition of Best Books for Young Adult Readers and his Giants won the 2005 San Diego Book Award for Best Young Adult & Children's Nonfiction. His latest book is Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, the world's first biography of the eleventh-century Arab scholar known in the West as Alhazen.

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Al-Qahwa - Coffee

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Coffee was discovered by the Muslims sometimes around the 10th century. It was first used and cultivated in Yemen. Instead of eating the beans, the Yemenis boiled them creating the famous drink of “Al-Qahwa”. There is also consensus that the first users of coffee were the Sufis who used it as a stimulus to stay awake during late night Thikr (remembrance of God). Coffee spread to the rest of Muslims of Yemen and eventually to all the Muslim world through travellers, pilgrims and traders... (1001 Inventions Book, Page 12-13)

· 1.6 billions cups of coffee are drunk worldwide everyday… (http://www.muslimheritage.com/ )
· It was a Turk named Pasqua Rosee, a merchant in 1650 CE who first brought the coffee into UK (in Europe 1945) (http://www.muslimheritage.com/ )
· Coffee houses was an place of wisdom which scholars gathered to discuss and study ‘ilim’ (theology as well as science)
· Also today’s popular Coffee house trend like (from Lloyds Coffee House to) Starbucks, Caffe Nero etc. comes from the assimilation of this enlightenment
· The English word "coffee" first came into use in the early to mid 1600s, but early forms date back to the last decade of the 1500s. It comes from the Italian caffè and the French, Portuguese and Spanish café. These, in turn, were borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahveh, borrowed from the Arabic qahhwa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/)

· The origin of the Arabic qahwa (قهوة), is uncertain. It is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in southern Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of qahwat al-būnn, meaning "wine of the bean" in Arabic. (http://en.wikipedia.org/)

Noahs Ark

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To see the place where it is thought that Noah’s Ark came aground, go to Uzengili village, 25 km east of Dogubeyazit. Be sure to try the local dessert asure (Noah’s pudding), believed to have first been made by Noah’s wife from the last bits of food in the Ark.

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The Elephant Clock

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The elephant clock was a medieval Muslim invention by al-Jazari (1136–1206), consisting of a weight powered water clock in the form of an elephant. The various elements of the clock are in the housing on top of the elephant. They were designed to move and make a sound each half hour. A modern full-size working reproduction can be found as a centrepiece in the Ibn Battuta Mall, a shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Another working reproduction can be seen outside the Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle, Château des Monts, in Le Locle, Switzerland.

Mechanism
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The timing mechanism is based on a water-filled bucket hidden inside the elephant. In the bucket is a deep bowl floating in the water, but with a small hole in the centre. The bowl takes half an hour to fill through this hole. In the process of sinking, the bowl pulls a string attached to a see-saw mechanism in the tower on top of the elephant. This releases a ball that drops into the mouth of a Serpent, causing the serpent to tip forward, which pulls the sunken bowl out of the water via strings. At the same time, a system of strings causes a figure in the tower to raise either the left or right hand and the mahout (elephant driver at the front) to hit a drum. This indicates a half or full hour. Next the snake tips back. The cycle then repeats, as long as balls remain in the upper reservoir to power the emptying of the bowl.

Automaton

This was the first clock in which an automaton reacted after certain intervals of time. In the mechanism, a humanoid automata strikes the cymbal and a mechanical bird chirps, like in the later cuckoo clock, after every hour or half hour.

Passage of temporal hours

Another innovative feature of the clock was how it recorded the passage of temporal hours, which meant that the rate of flow had to be changed daily to match the uneven length of days throughout the year. To accomplish this, the clock had two tanks, the top tank was connected to the time indicating mechanisms and the bottom was connected to the flow control regulator. At daybreak the tap was opened and water flowed from the top tank to the bottom tank via a float regulator that maintained a constant pressure in the receiving tank.

Flow regulator

The mechanism employed a flow regulator, which was used here to determine the time when the clock strikes at hourly intervals. The hourly intervals were determined with the use of a small opening in a submersible float, which was calibrated to give the required rates of flow under different water rates.

The float regulator was later a common mechanism during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, when it was employed in the boiler of a steam engine and in domestic water distribution systems.

Closed-loop system

This appears to be an early example of a closed-loop system in a mechanism. The clock functioned as long as there were metal balls in its magazine.

20 Islamic Invention That Maybe You Don't Know

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"From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them" Published: 11 March 2006

1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.

2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

3 A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.

4 A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

5 Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

9 The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim.

10 Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

11 The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

12 The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

13 The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

14 The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi's book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

15 Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal - soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas - see No 4).

16 Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam's non-representational art. In contrast, Europe's floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were "covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned". Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

17 The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.

18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

19 Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo - a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

"1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World" is a new exhibition which began a nationwide tour this week. It is currently at the Science Museum in Manchester. For more information, go to http://www.1001inventions.com/.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article350594.ece

Rare picture of Holy Kaaba from ‘inside’

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See The Only Video Inside Kaaba

Creating Kiswa: The Cloth That Covers Kaaba

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Prophet Mohammad’s (SAW) Family Tree

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400 Year Old Islamic Treasure

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…a handwritten Koran in a bejeweled box that can fit into the palm of a hand…Valued at more than $10 million…

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Google Earth proves that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is right

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Google Earth proves that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is right
No human on earth can draw a straight line on the surface of the earth between two far cities except with the aid of detailed maps, made possible today due to airplanes, satellites, and knowledge of latitude, longitude, and land height. However, there was a person who had done this 1400 years ago. This person is the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

While the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was in Madinah Al-Munawarah, Allah instructed him that he should face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque in Makkah. From then on, it became the Qiblah for Muslims. And from then on, Islam was spreading. After the victory of (Fatih Makkah) people came and entered Islam. Then, the prophet (peace be upon him) started to sent the teachers to these people to teach them Islam. One of them Wabr ibn Yohanas Al-Khozaee whom the prophet (peace be upon him) sent to Yemen (Sana’a). He was ordered to teach people of Sana and to build them a Mosque by features the prophet (peace be upon him) had defined to him.

Al-Tabarani narrates in the Mu’jam Al-wsat saying:

Wabr ibn Yohanas Al-Khozaee said: the prophet (peace be upon him) said to me ‘ if you build the mosque of Sana’a, make it to the right of a mountain called Deyn’

To explain, Al-Hafez Al-Rahzey says in his book ‘The History of Sana’a) that the prophet (peace be upon him) ordered Wabr ibn Yohanas Al-Khozaee to build the mosque in Bathan park, from where is found a rock in Gamdan and face it to a mountain called Deyn

The prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him),1400 years age, ordered to build the mosque Sana’a facing Jabal-e-deen .If we use Google Earth and draw a straight line from the mosque Sana’a to the Qibla which is in Makkah, it will pass through the peak of jabal-e-deen and will end at the center of Kaba.

How could someone 1400 years ago have shown the exact direction for kaba from a far away city without using the new aids needed for such a process?

Of course this a miracle.

Flood In Mecca,Kaaba (1941)

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Numbers

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Muslims devised modern numerals, numbers 1 to 9 we use today in English, based on the use of the zero. Number 1 for example, had one angle, 2 has two angles, 3 has three and so on. The invention of these numerals resolved the problems faced by the Latin numerals…

Numbers (Text from 1001 Inventions Book, Page 67)

The footprint of the Prophet Muhammad

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Eggplant With The Name Of "Allah"

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Egg Shell With The Name Of "Allah"

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Mecca After 2010

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May Allah send all of us to see The Holy City with our own eyes… Ameen….

Jazakallah…

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