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why is there a universe?

objective enquirer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:41:11 GMT

no law of nature could explain why there are any laws of nature...

Hijamah - The Prophet's pbuh Sunnah

cupping2010 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:39:51 GMT

[b]"I did not pass by any group on the night of Al Isra (night ascension), except that they said to me, 'Oh Muhammad, tell your Ummah to do Hijamah.'" Ibn Majah, 3477[/b]

Assalaam Alaikum

Dear Brothers and Sisters we perform Hijamah and we are based in London.
This is a sunnah practice and is used to maintain general well being.
It also treats illnesses from hair loss to diabetes, weight loss, arthriris and back pain.
We also have trained women for female patients.
Also provide ruqiyah.
Provide home visits aswell throughout the country.

Example of Hijamah performed specifically on head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIV-VpihmU

Contact me on 07912862449
cupping2010@live.co.uk

[b]Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet (peace be upon Him) said, "Healing is in three things: A gulp of honey, cupping (Hijama), and branding with fire (cauterizing)." But I forbid my followers to use (cauterization) branding with fire."
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Hijama is an Arabic word meaning ‘sucking or vacuum’. Originally Hijama was known as ‘cupping’ because of the use of cups as therapeutic tools. The horn or cup was heated to create a negative pressure and this was mostly used to draw out blood and pus, but later, it was found to be effective in treating other diseases and over time developed into a therapeutic method.

Benefits of Hijama Therapy

The strengthening and stimulating effects of Hijama therapy make it successful in treating the following conditions: cellulite, weight loss, fatigue, period pain, constipation and diarrhoea, headaches, back pain, arthritis, injuries, asthma, anaemia, depression and emotional problems, atrophy, sciatica, common cold and flu, skin problems, emotional problems, depression and much more.

Immunity, Detox, Muscles spasms

Traditional medicine tells us that all pain is due to stagnation of blood and Qi. The cups used in Hijama create a wonderful pulling power that reduces pain and enhances the mobilization of the immune system, stagnated blood and Qi (energy life force). Hijama therapy is effective in treating some clinical manifestations of external pathogens that are fighting at the level of the skin. Symptoms like high fever, a cough with thin yellow phlegm, wheezing and thirst are helped with Hijama. It also relieves the symptoms associated with stagnation of body systems and fluids that can be the result of lack of movement, injury, stress, lack of blood, Qi or the invasion of cold into the body and joints. Hijama can be applied to specific dysfunctional points of the body like what is done in acupuncture. After a short time the patient will feel warmth and pain will be reduced.

Hijama treatment releases toxins with minimal additional stress to internal organs and it directly de-acidifies tissues, enhances blood circulation, stimulates the immune system and reduces stress as it releases chemicals in the body that reduce stress and depression. It also facilitates a sufficient flow of nutrition to the affected tissues and stimulates the flow of blood and lymph and so improves blood and lymph flow, and activates the function of the organs.

Performing Hijama on the corresponding organ points is used to treat disorders such as liver and kidney problems, respiratory diseases, digestive disorders and some gynaecological disorders. It can also be used to treat muscle spasms especially in the back. It is useful in treating painful joints, stomach-ache, vomiting and diarrhoea. Since Hijama stimulates the flow of blood it helps to treat blood stagnation, poor circulation, and asthmatic conditions.

It is important to have Hijamah performed by someone who is qualified to do it. Unfortunately many Hijamah practioners are not well-trained and often perform Hijamah incorrectly. Above all, it needs to be done in a clean environment with the practioner wearing gloves and ensuring everything is kept as sterile as possible. Hijamah is very safe, but a patient's medical and medication history is important to consider, which is often neglected by many practioners.

Hijamah is not just recommended to treat particular ailments, but there is reward if performed with the niyyah (intention) of reviving a Sunnah. In fact, many Muslims have Hijamah performed regularly for this very reason. RasulAllah pbuh said "Whosoever has revived one of my sunnah, has in fact loved me. And the one who has loved me, will be with me in Paradise."

By having Hijamah performed, and telling others, it can be changed from a forgotten Sunnah in to a commonly practiced one. Not only does this have physical benefits, but strengthens one's love for the Sunnah of RasulAllah pbuh.

Our aim inshAllah is to help revive this Sunnah, and see it alive in the lives of many Muslims in the coming years. Please contact us to get more information, or advice about treating particular conditions or just to have Hijamah performed to revive a Sunnah in your own life.

Contact me on 07912862449
cupping2010@live.co.uk

Finally, it is important to always keep in mind that Shifa is from Allah Ta'ala alone. Please make dua that this important Sunnah is revived in our Ummat.

JazarkhAllah Khair

Richard Dawkins admits to intelligent design

Asif. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:56:46 GMT

The statement which Dawkins has made in this video has totally exposed of what he really is. He said that a civilization at really advanced level could have started life on earth.

civilization does not consist of one but it consists of many creatures. As for monistic belief,they only believe in one god.

Dawkins believes that it was a advanced civilization,that started life, in other words thousands of creatures or gods.

This is exactly what the idol worshippers believe.

Earthquakes,a sign for qaymat.

Asif. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:46:36 GMT

I found this thread on a another forum really interesting,so i thought id share it. Have a read through.

[url]http://wakeupproject.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=7833[/url]

Miracle! Hz. Abbas Alamdar's (A) Shrine soaked in fresh water.

Zarb e Ali — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:15:09 GMT

Imam Ali's (A) Force of Attraction

Zarb e Ali — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:28:57 GMT

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Har qaum raast

Zarb e Ali — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:17 GMT

[center]Har qaum raast raahay, deen-e wa qibla gaahay,
Mun qibla raast kardam, bar samt kajkulaahay.
Sansaar har ko poojay, kul ko jagat sarahay,
Makkay mein koyi dhoondhay, Kaashi ko koi jaaye,
Guyyian main apnay pi kay payyan padun na kaahay.
Har qaum raast raahay, deen-e wa qibla gaahay.....[/center]

[center][img]http://www.angelfire.com/sd/urdumedia/images/harqom.gif[/img][/center]

[center]Every sect has a faith, a direction (Qibla) to which they turn,
I have turned my face towards the crooked cap (of Nizamudin Aulia [A])
The whole world worships something or the other,
Some look for God in Mecca, while some go to Kashi (Banaras),
So why can’t I, Oh wise people, fall into my beloved’s feet?
Every sect has a faith, a Qibla.[/center]

By Ameer Khusro (A)

HAJJ in 1953

Zarb e Ali — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:37:28 GMT

More Information on this...

funkychick987 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:53:29 GMT

Salaam, I hope you are in best of health and emaan. I have been looking at some Islamic courses and have come across some that are starting me for and my brother and was wondering if anyone has more info on these and what they mean too! LOL. :)

Aalima course for women (what does Aalima mean)

Darsa e nizami course for adults (whats does Darsa e Nizami mean)

Figh un Nisa (what does this mean)

These course are taking place in SM Building under Mufti Qazi Hassan Raza (does anyone have any info on him) as would like to know abit about him before me and my brother start. Jazaka'llah

Mental Illness As An Origin Of Atheism

Zarb e Ali — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:31:54 GMT

Sigmund Freud
David Hume
Bertrand Russel
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thomas Hobbs
Voltaire
HG Wells
Friedrich Nietzsche
Madelin Murray O'Hare

What do these influential atheists of the last 4 centuries have in common? Each and every one of them had either an absent, abusive or weak father.

Holding atheists to Freud's own theory (including Sigmund himself), it's ironic that these pillars of modern atheism are merely projecting their own irrational, behavioral dysfunction upon the rest of normal society, society which for the most part was and is theistic. Further, it would appear as an extension of Freud's “Oedipal” complex, the desire to kill the father, a form of primitive reasoning that occurs between the ages of 3 and 5 in order to fully own the other parent. Instead of physically killing their father, atheists simply want to kill the idea of a heavenly Father. In this case, their atheism is not grounded in good reasoning or even scientific evidence (something atheists seem to demand from others), but on a primitive, childish, irrational compulsion.

It can be inferred that modern atheism has it's roots in the philosophies of the above-named dysfunctional individuals who had absent, abusive or weak fathers. Interestingly, the same has been said of homosexuality. The above named pillars of atheism of the last 4 centuries exemplify how psychoanalysis is a better explanation for atheism than reason and rationality.

Does this mean that atheists today, or all atheists, are irrational or that atheism is irrational? No. What it means is, the claim that belief in god, gods or God is irrational does not fit the data, especially since most normal theists are not dysfunctional and do not demonstrate latent Oedipal complexes. Belief in a god, gods or God has been normative and a characteristic of what it means to be human, and in many cases occurs in people who come to that conclusion based on sound reasoning. Let's hope that most atheists are not as mentally ill and delusional as they would try to project on others who do believe in God or are otherwise religious.

The-Dajjal

Asif. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:38:39 GMT

Salaam alakum!

The story of Dajjal

1

In current times, we all know how close we are to Qiyamah and many of the signs are rapidly materialising in front of our eyes.
Muslims At Work sent a short email about Dajjal

The Story of Dajjal
Narrated by Tameem al-Daari Radhi Allahu Anhu

Faatimah bint Qays Radhi Allahu Anha narrates: Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam completed the Salaah and sat on the mimbar.
He was smiling and he said: “Let each person remain where he had performed Salaah.” Then he said: “Do you know why I called you together?”
The Sahabah replied: “Allah and His messenger know best.”

Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: “By Allah, I did not call you together for any recommendation or for a warning. I have called you together because Tameem al-Daari was a Christian and he came, swore allegiance and became Muslim, and told me something which conforms with what I had told you about the Dajjaal. He told me that he sailed in a ship with thirty men of Lakhm and Judhaam and they were tossed by the waves of the sea for a month. Then they arrived at an island just as the sun was setting. They boarded a small rowing-boat and reached the island. They were met by a beast whose body was covered by so much of hair that they could not distinguish his front from his back.
They said: ‘Woe to you, what are you?’
It said: ‘I am al-Jassaasah.’
They asked: ‘What is al-Jassaasah?’
It said: ‘O people, go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you.’

The narrator says: ‘When it took the name of a man before us we were afraid that it might be a Shaitaan (devil) so we quickly left until we entered the monastery, where we found the biggest man we had ever seen. He was bound strongly in chains. His hands were tied to his neck and his legs bound from the knees to the ankles with iron chains.

We said: ‘Woe to you, who are you?’
He said: ‘You will soon find out about me. Tell me who you are.’
They replied: ‘We are Arabs who had set sail on a ship, but the sea became wild and the waves tossed us about for one month. Then they brought us to this island of yours. We used rowing-boats and landed on this island. We were met by a beast with a great deal of hair. He was so hairy that his front could not be made out from his back. We said: ‘Woe to you, what are you?’ It said: ‘I am al-Jassaasah.’ We said: ‘What is al-Jassaasah?’ It said: ‘Go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you.’ So we came rushing to you and we fled from it because we could not be sure that it was not a devil.’
He (the chained person) asked: ‘Tell me about the date-palms of Baysaan.’
We said: ‘What would you like to know about them?’
He said: ‘I am asking you whether these trees bear fruit.’
We said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘Soon they will not bear fruit.’
He then said: ‘Tell me about the lake of Tabariyyah’
We said: ‘What would you like to know about it?’
He said: ‘Is there water in it?’
They said: ‘There is a great deal of water in it.’
He said: ‘Soon it will dry up.’
Then he said: ‘Tell me about the spring of Zughar (which is in the south of Syria).’
They said: ‘What would you like to know about it?’
He said: ‘Is there water in the spring and do the people grow crops with the water of the spring?’
We said to him: ‘Yes, there is plenty of water in it and the people grow crops with its water.’
He said: ‘Tell me about the Prophet from the unlettered. What has he done?’
We said: ‘He has left Makkah and has settled in Yathrib (Madinah).’
He said: ‘Do the Arabs fight against him?’
We said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘How did he deal with them?’

We told him that he had prevailed over the Arabs in his vicinity and they had become obedient to him.
He said to us: ‘Has that really happened to them?’
We said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘If this is so then it is better for them that they show obedience to him. Now I will tell you about myself. I am the Dajjaal and soon I will be given permission to emerge. I will come out and travel in the land, and will I not leave any town without staying for forty nights, except Makkah and Taybah (Madinah). These are both forbidden to me. Each time I will try to enter one of them, I will be confronted by an angel with a sword in his hand, who will stop me from entering. On every route towards each of these two cities there will be angels guarding it.’

Faatimah Bint Qais says: Then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam struck the minbar with his staff and said: “This is Taybah, this is Taybah, this is Taybah,” meaning Madinah. “Did I not tell you this before?”
The Sahabah answered: ‘Yes.’
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: “I liked the story of Tameem because it conforms with what I had told you about him and about Makkah and Madinah. Beware, he is in the Syrian Sea or the Yemeni Sea. No, rather he is in the east, he in the east, he is in the east,” and he pointed towards the east with his hand. (Sahih Muslim)

Interview with ex demon worshipper,Roger Morneau.

Asif. — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:15:00 GMT

I have posted 4/16 parts,but you cant watch all the rest of youtube by just following the links.

(Part 1)

(part2)

(part3)

(Part4)

What about philosophy in Islam ?

musafiratun — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:46:47 GMT

Salaam 'alaykum to all.
I would like to know what is the place of philosophy in Islam ? A lot of people are confused about it, especially when we're talking about tasawwuf...
I do personaly think that philosophy and tasawwuf are not really going together, as some are so proud of their reflexion and are going too far with all their logic and stuff...

Don't know if you inderstand my question, bu hopefully you will.
Jzk.
Wassalaams.

To infinity, and beyond!

Faraz Hassan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:30:44 GMT

Salaam O alaikum,

Out of curiosity, did anyone watch Horizon today?

Today’s show was about Infiniti – its mathematics and subsequent implications for our universe. I found it very stimulating, and I really recommend it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qszch/Horizon_20092010_To_Infinity_and_Beyond/

I as an individual I prefer to stay away from maths as much as I can; I think I’m allergic to it. However, as I’ve furthered my studies it’s become somewhat of a necessity.... for the first time however, I was truly enthralled by mathematics through the concept of “infinity”; it’s actually quite simple; a child could understand it:

We have our numbers

1,2,3,4,5.........

And these go on forever, without stopping. However, what does it actually imply?

For example, we have a list of numbers going up to infinity:

List a) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14.....to infinity

Now, let us have another list BUT this time we only have half the numbers - the even numbers going up to infinity:

List b) 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28......to infinity

Both lists go up to infinity; however list “a” has both odd and even numbers whilst List “b” has only even numbers.

So which list is bigger?

The infinite hotel

Presume now that we have a hotel with an infinite number of rooms ALL fully booked. Could you as an individual book a room even though they are all fully booked?

Yes, each person would have to move one room up so as to vacate room 1, and you could theoretically stay in room 1 although the hotel is fully booked.

What if an infinite number of guests wanted to book a room at a hotel with an infinite number of rooms ALL of which are fully booked; could they all move in as well?

Well, the infinite number of individuals already booked in could move into all the odd numbered rooms so as to vacate the even numbered rooms for the infinite number of guests to move into. So yes it’s theoretically possible.

A couple of interesting points, I think you’ll agree.

What does the concept of “infinity” imply for our universe? This is the best bit – youll have to watch it and find out!

western media spreading islam

Asif. — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:40:57 GMT

As weird as it sounds,the western media has played a big part in spreading islam and for it being the fastest growing religion.

The clear agenda of the of the groups which control the media is against islam and they are in their efforts to accomplish their goal,doing all they can to degrade and warn people against it.

But infact all they are doing is spreading it and spreading it to the corners which it would never of reached,and by the grace of allah(swt) it will.

In todays society people are too busy to even pay attention to something such as religion so they never really get around to researching it.
But when it get bought to their attention to many times,then their is a urage of curiosity which leads them to research and embrace the truth.

Take 9/11 for example,it was claimed to be done by muslims,which led people curious to why muslims would do such things , and it led more then 20 americans to embrace islam due to the curiosity of the event of 9/11.

(They plan,Allah plans and allah is the best of planner.)

Wa Salaam

Free Will - Fact or illusion ?

technocore — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:07:48 GMT

Laws of this universe were established when existance initiated. Matter & Energy came into existance. Every event that ever took place or will take place, from ground zero onwards, is caused by a fixed pattern of, sequence of collecsions, between atomic/subatmoic particles.
For example, hydrogen atoms gathered togather & collided in a cluster. Eventully the bonds and collisions gew so strong that atoms split & fused thus forming stars.

This collision was not random but followed laws of dynamics after the "first" particles of matter came into existance. Their motion, direction, speed determined the events that are taking place today and will take place till existance is extinguished.

Amongst all this carefully planned phenominon are humans who have free will to choose. What is choice. A specific pattern of neurons firing electro-chemical discharges, based on the same laws of atmoic/subatomic sciences, which existed from beginning, using previously established bonds (memory/experiance stores in brain in the form for links between neurons).

Although to us, this product of electro-chemical bahaviour appears to a "choice" that we are making by ourselves. I[b]s it an illusion that we are making the choice or do we determine which neuron spikes at what time, interval or conditions ?[/b]

If anyone here has the experiance of a web chat with an AI (Artificial Intellegance) BOT (programs which can chat with people), they will understand what I mean by illusion of intellegence/free will. It appears you are talking to a normal person but in reality its a program responding from a massive database of responses in accordance with specific sequence of words used in your statment. (try it http://www.personalityforge.com/botlist.php, these are basic free AI bots, reall complicated ones are hard to determine).

Sultan Baho says : No Eman Without Ali (a)

Zarb e Ali — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:58:24 GMT

[size="4"]Haq Baho, Haq Sach Baho[/size]

Love: Is it blind or does it make us blind?

Mohammad Mobasher — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:14:12 GMT

Well?

The Message (film review)....

the information minister — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:58:20 GMT

Salam

Here is a pleasant review of the film 'The Message' on Rotten Tomatoes (the review website).

I have read other reviews in the past but not as generous as this one.

http://oldschoolreviews.com/rev_70/message.htm

Salam

Our world may be a giant hologram

mudasir — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:47:00 GMT

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true

* 15 January 2009 by Marcus Chown
* Magazine issue 2691. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.
* For similar stories, visit the Cosmology Topic Guide

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.

Susskind and 't Hooft's remarkable idea was motivated by ground-breaking work on black holes by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge. In the mid-1970s, Hawking showed that black holes are in fact not entirely "black" but instead slowly emit radiation, which causes them to evaporate and eventually disappear. This poses a puzzle, because Hawking radiation does not convey any information about the interior of a black hole. When the black hole has gone, all the information about the star that collapsed to form the black hole has vanished, which contradicts the widely affirmed principle that information cannot be destroyed. This is known as the black hole information paradox.

Bekenstein's work provided an important clue in resolving the paradox. He discovered that a black hole's entropy - which is synonymous with its information content - is proportional to the surface area of its event horizon. This is the theoretical surface that cloaks the black hole and marks the point of no return for infalling matter or light. Theorists have since shown that microscopic quantum ripples at the event horizon can encode the information inside the black hole, so there is no mysterious information loss as the black hole evaporates.

Crucially, this provides a deep physical insight: the 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole - not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Susskind and 't Hooft extended the insight to the universe as a whole on the basis that the cosmos has a horizon too - the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe. What's more, work by several string theorists, most notably Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has confirmed that the idea is on the right track. He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary.

According to Hogan, the holographic principle radically changes our picture of space-time. Theoretical physicists have long believed that quantum effects will cause space-time to convulse wildly on the tiniest scales. At this magnification, the fabric of space-time becomes grainy and is ultimately made of tiny units rather like pixels, but a hundred billion billion times smaller than a proton. This distance is known as the Planck length, a mere 10-35 metres. The Planck length is far beyond the reach of any conceivable experiment, so nobody dared dream that the graininess of space-time might be discernable.

That is, not until Hogan realised that the holographic principle changes everything. If space-time is a grainy hologram, then you can think of the universe as a sphere whose outer surface is papered in Planck length-sized squares, each containing one bit of information. The holographic principle says that the amount of information papering the outside must match the number of bits contained inside the volume of the universe.

Since the volume of the spherical universe is much bigger than its outer surface, how could this be true? Hogan realised that in order to have the same number of bits inside the universe as on the boundary, the world inside must be made up of grains bigger than the Planck length. "Or, to put it another way, a holographic universe is blurry," says Hogan.

This is good news for anyone trying to probe the smallest unit of space-time. "Contrary to all expectations, it brings its microscopic quantum structure within reach of current experiments," says Hogan. So while the Planck length is too small for experiments to detect, the holographic "projection" of that graininess could be much, much larger, at around 10-16 metres. "If you lived inside a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring," he says.

When Hogan first realised this, he wondered if any experiment might be able to detect the holographic blurriness of space-time. That's where GEO600 comes in.

Gravitational wave detectors like GEO600 are essentially fantastically sensitive rulers. The idea is that if a gravitational wave passes through GEO600, it will alternately stretch space in one direction and squeeze it in another. To measure this, the GEO600 team fires a single laser through a half-silvered mirror called a beam splitter. This divides the light into two beams, which pass down the instrument's 600-metre perpendicular arms and bounce back again. The returning light beams merge together at the beam splitter and create an interference pattern of light and dark regions where the light waves either cancel out or reinforce each other. Any shift in the position of those regions tells you that the relative lengths of the arms has changed.

"The key thing is that such experiments are sensitive to changes in the length of the rulers that are far smaller than the diameter of a proton," says Hogan.

So would they be able to detect a holographic projection of grainy space-time? Of the five gravitational wave detectors around the world, Hogan realised that the Anglo-German GEO600 experiment ought to be the most sensitive to what he had in mind. He predicted that if the experiment's beam splitter is buffeted by the quantum convulsions of space-time, this will show up in its measurements (Physical Review D, vol 77, p 104031). "This random jitter would cause noise in the laser light signal," says Hogan.

In June he sent his prediction to the GEO600 team. "Incredibly, I discovered that the experiment was picking up unexpected noise," says Hogan. GEO600's principal investigator Karsten Danzmann of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, and also the University of Hanover, admits that the excess noise, with frequencies of between 300 and 1500 hertz, had been bothering the team for a long time. He replied to Hogan and sent him a plot of the noise. "It looked exactly the same as my prediction," says Hogan. "It was as if the beam splitter had an extra sideways jitter."
Incredibly, the experiment was picking up unexpected noise - as if quantum convulsions were causing an extra sideways jitter

No one - including Hogan - is yet claiming that GEO600 has found evidence that we live in a holographic universe. It is far too soon to say. "There could still be a mundane source of the noise," Hogan admits.

Gravitational-wave detectors are extremely sensitive, so those who operate them have to work harder than most to rule out noise. They have to take into account passing clouds, distant traffic, seismological rumbles and many, many other sources that could mask a real signal. "The daily business of improving the sensitivity of these experiments always throws up some excess noise," says Danzmann. "We work to identify its cause, get rid of it and tackle the next source of excess noise." At present there are no clear candidate sources for the noise GEO600 is experiencing. "In this respect I would consider the present situation unpleasant, but not really worrying."

For a while, the GEO600 team thought the noise Hogan was interested in was caused by fluctuations in temperature across the beam splitter. However, the team worked out that this could account for only one-third of the noise at most.

Danzmann says several planned upgrades should improve the sensitivity of GEO600 and eliminate some possible experimental sources of excess noise. "If the noise remains where it is now after these measures, then we have to think again," he says.

If GEO600 really has discovered holographic noise from quantum convulsions of space-time, then it presents a double-edged sword for gravitational wave researchers. One on hand, the noise will handicap their attempts to detect gravitational waves. On the other, it could represent an even more fundamental discovery.

Such a situation would not be unprecedented in physics. Giant detectors built to look for a hypothetical form of radioactivity in which protons decay never found such a thing. Instead, they discovered that neutrinos can change from one type into another - arguably more important because it could tell us how the universe came to be filled with matter and not antimatter (New Scientist, 12 April 2008, p 26).

It would be ironic if an instrument built to detect something as vast as astrophysical sources of gravitational waves inadvertently detected the minuscule graininess of space-time. "Speaking as a fundamental physicist, I see discovering holographic noise as far more interesting," says Hogan.
Small price to pay

Despite the fact that if Hogan is right, and holographic noise will spoil GEO600's ability to detect gravitational waves, Danzmann is upbeat. "Even if it limits GEO600's sensitivity in some frequency range, it would be a price we would be happy to pay in return for the first detection of the graininess of space-time." he says. "You bet we would be pleased. It would be one of the most remarkable discoveries in a long time."

However Danzmann is cautious about Hogan's proposal and believes more theoretical work needs to be done. "It's intriguing," he says. "But it's not really a theory yet, more just an idea." Like many others, Danzmann agrees it is too early to make any definitive claims. "Let's wait and see," he says. "We think it's at least a year too early to get excited."

The longer the puzzle remains, however, the stronger the motivation becomes to build a dedicated instrument to probe holographic noise. John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle agrees. It was a "lucky accident" that Hogan's predictions could be connected to the GEO600 experiment, he says. "It seems clear that much better experimental investigations could be mounted if they were focused specifically on the measurement and characterisation of holographic noise and related phenomena."

One possibility, according to Hogan, would be to use a device called an atom interferometer. These operate using the same principle as laser-based detectors but use beams made of ultracold atoms rather than laser light. Because atoms can behave as waves with a much smaller wavelength than light, atom interferometers are significantly smaller and therefore cheaper to build than their gravitational-wave-detector counterparts.

So what would it mean it if holographic noise has been found? Cramer likens it to the discovery of unexpected noise by an antenna at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1964. That noise turned out to be the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the big bang fireball. "Not only did it earn Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson a Nobel prize, but it confirmed the big bang and opened up a whole field of cosmology," says Cramer.

Hogan is more specific. "Forget Quantum of Solace, we would have directly observed the quantum of time," says Hogan. "It's the smallest possible interval of time - the Planck length divided by the speed of light."

More importantly, confirming the holographic principle would be a big help to researchers trying to unite quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity. Today the most popular approach to quantum gravity is string theory, which researchers hope could describe happenings in the universe at the most fundamental level. But it is not the only show in town. "Holographic space-time is used in certain approaches to quantising gravity that have a strong connection to string theory," says Cramer. "Consequently, some quantum gravity theories might be falsified and others reinforced."

Hogan agrees that if the holographic principle is confirmed, it rules out all approaches to quantum gravity that do not incorporate the holographic principle. Conversely, it would be a boost for those that do - including some derived from string theory and something called matrix theory. "Ultimately, we may have our first indication of how space-time emerges out of quantum theory." As serendipitous discoveries go, it's hard to get more ground-breaking than that.

Check out other weird cosmology features from New Scientist

Marcus Chown is the author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You (Faber, 2008)
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Santa or Satan

Asif. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:51:27 GMT

WHAT DARWINISTS CLAIMED, WHAT HAPPENED

yusuf2010 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:39:08 GMT

[b]
Piltdown Man:
What Darwinists said[/b]:
Darwinists said it was the greatest evidence of the imaginary evolution of man. It was displayed in British Museum for 40 years as the ancestor of man.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
Piltdown man turned out to be the greatest paleontological hoax in history. The hoax find consisted of fragments of a 500 year-old orangutan jawbone mounted on a human skull of today. The teeth were rasped and the skull was worn out by potassium dichromate.

[b]Coelacanth:
What Darwinists said: [/b]
Darwinists said it was an extinct transitional form from sea to land with lungs and feet that were about to form.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
Living Coelacanths are caught various times in our day. What they called the lung was understood to be an oil sac while the so-called feet were fins. It was understood that it was a deep-sea fish which could not survive in shallow waters.

[b]Lucy:
What Darwinists said: [/b]
It was claimed to be one of the earliest so-called ape ancestors of man.

[b]What Happened:[/b]
The examinations on the fossil revealed that, all its features, including its gait, were peculiar to chimpanzees, certifying that Lucy was a chimpanzee.

[b]Ida:
What Darwinists said: [/b]
95 percent of its fossil remains are preserved intact, revealing that it is an utter lemur. Darwinists declared to be the “ancestor of man” since it had bendable thumb and nails.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
It was understood that bendable thumb and nails were features peculiar to primates and that the fossil in question was an extinct lemur. Darwinist scientists described the depiction of this fossil as an evidence for the evolution of man as “buffoonery”, “media circus”, “a source of shame”, “nonsense” and “a stalemate for evolution”.

[b]Horse Series:
What Darwinists said: [/b]
Darwinists claimed that 50 million years ago horse of our day descended from a four–nailed living being the size of a fox. To verify this claim, they, in their own way, formed a sequence of extinct living beings that had by no means any interspecies connection. They formed the horse series by aligning short-to-tall living beings with decreasing nail-numbers.

[b]What Happened:[/b]
Due to the recently uncovered fossils the horse series were amended many times. At last it appeared that horse series were a hoax made up of living beings with different nail numbers dating back to different dates. With the discovery of a 47 million-year-old horse skull the hoax was revealed.

[b]Archaeopteryx:
What Darwinists said:[/b]
Darwinists claimed that Archaeopteryx is a transitional form from dinosaurs to birds since the fossil has nails on its claws and teeth in its mouth.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
As Science and many Darwinists confessed, it emerged that the Archaeopteryx is a bird with perfect flying abilities. Besides, perfect bird fossils that lived in the same period with Archeaopteryx were also uncovered. Liaoningornis and Confuciusornis, are perfect birds that lived in the same period with Archaeopteryx.

[b]Industrial Melanism
What Darwinists said:[/b]
Darwinists claimed that around the onset of the Industrial revolution in England, the light-colored peppered moths on the barks of the trees that had darkened were hunted by birds, that dark-colored peppered moths were selected by natural selection, which provides an evidence for evolution.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
When it became clear that during the daylight peppered moths never came out and settled on barks but hid in the unseen interior parts of the trees some examinations were conducted. These examinations revealed that dark-colored peppered moths were placed on tree-barks by H.B.D. Kettlewell, a Darwinist biologist.

[b]Neanderthals:
What Darwinists said: [/b]
Darwinists claimed that Neanderthals were a more primitive human race.

[b]What Happened: [/b]
It is proved today that Neanderthals were no different from human beings of today. They had the same life, intelligence, language and civilization.

Deen and Duniya OR Duniya and Akhirah?

Mohammad Mobasher — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:01:45 GMT

"Deen aur duniya" is more common in Urdu language than "Duniya aur akhirah".

Which should be regarded as the correct notion?

Deen and Duniya - implies that Duniya is not part of Deen

Duniya and Akhirah - implies that the two are a classification of Deen

As-Şamşām álā Mushakkiki fī Āyāti Úlūmi’l Arĥām-Embryology Book by Alahazrat

islamicbro — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:40:21 GMT

Salam,

I hope all is well with my Yanabi family :)

Long time since I've posted but I recently came across researching on Imam Ahmad Raza Khan's works and because his Urs Sharif is near on 25th Safar, thought that it would be a good time to know more about his contributions to the various sciences he studied.

I know someone has posted similar links but I would like my respected Yanabi users to read this particular pdf booklet on embryology:

http://razanw.org/data/13-English/13A-alahazrat_books/embryology.pdf

It is worthy of seeing the simple yet descriptive way Alahazrat utilises his expertise knowledge to answer a question and quoting from Quranic ayats and using various exact scientific disciplines to proof an important divine injunction.

It also shows Alahazrat Far-sightedness and depth of breadth in such a small treatise.

Wasalaam.

P.S I am somewhat distraught that some people are not posting positive contributions of our great ulama and bicker more over petty issues. Thats one reason why I dont post as much now on here (too many threads become hot debates whether intentionally or unintentionally).

and sorry for those who have put down or refuted Alahazrat [b]FAUZ-E-MUBEEN[/b] treatise, I understand the many advances of todays sciences and not everything a scholar says is daleel for us but I dont like some users accused others of giving Alahazrat semi god status. People are at different levels of understanding and we should use our adab to talk as such as Imam Ghazali rightfully expresses:

[b]"speak to others according to their Aql (intellect or faculty of reasoning)"
[/b]

Forgive me but I intend no harm but sincere and humble request at helping each other to unearth the great mines of knowledge that are scattered like gems and pearls across the globe for all to benefit and see the richness and diversity of our culture of Islam.

Wasalaam.

Allah(SWT) in the bible

Asif. — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:19:41 GMT

Naqshbandis belong to Imam Hassan

Zarb e Ali — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:33:31 GMT

How University Betrays Students

Zarb e Ali — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:08:46 GMT

[size="3"]I'd only send my son to university if he had no talent.

He is going anyway, for the social life and the certificate. I warn him that after studying the Humanities and Social Sciences, he won't be able to think independently or absorb information that doesn't fit his programming.

The modern university is not devoted to truth, quite the opposite. Repressive fe-manism is rampant on campus but that is just a symptom of a more profound problem.

Modern Western "culture" is based on the fraudulent assumptions of the "Enlightenment," an intellectual movement dating from the Eighteenth Century. This in turn was the product of the Illuminist program to create a new(secular) world order by denying the existence of God and immutable natural and spiritual laws.

In practice this means Arts students study a bunch of atheists who are presented as if they were Gods. Their professors act as high priests.

Like deaf men tuning a piano, they try to explain the human condition without any reference to the Creator, Design or man's Divine Spirit.

They portray mankind as a forlorn animal in an amoral world, characterized by a merciless struggle for survival.

They celebrate human "freedom" by which they mean the freedom to reject God's Order, indulge animal appetites, and create an alienated and dysfunctional personal reality.

Illuminism is the Luciferian doctrine of Freemasonry. (Communism is another product of Illuminism. All leading Communists were Freemasons.) The mortar board that university graduates wear is a symbol of Freemasonry. Black gowns symbolize the occult. Arts students are unwittingly and gradually being inducted into a Luciferian/Communist cult.

God represents moral and spiritual absolutes like love, truth, goodness, harmony and justice. Belief in their reality is essential for our healthy development. While our culture pays lip service to them (this is how fraud works), it is frankly devoted to their demise.

DYSFUNCTION BY DESIGN

Modern education and culture is designed to make us dysfunctional. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion confirms this. The Protocols is not an anti-Semitic diatribe. (They say it is because they don't want you to read it.) It is the blueprint of the New World Order, which is now in place.

Someone like Baron James Meyer Rothschild or Adolphe Cremieux wrote and revised it between 1855-1895 for a Masonic Secret Society, the Illuminati. The Illuminati represents a continuation of the feudal alliance of Jewish bankers and European aristocrats. The Illuminati created and financed Communism.

The Illuminati is bound by a devotion to Lucifer, the rebellious angel who defied God and said man will define reality. He is called "the bringer of light." Now do you understand the "Enlightenment"? The super rich want to be God and reshape reality to fit their interests. To do this, they need to sever our links with Reality, i.e. God (absolute truth, love and justice.)

Their means are unlimited, so are their ambitions. Here are some relevant statements from Protocol 16.

"In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism, the universities, by re-educating them in a new direction."

"We must introduce into their education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order."

"Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism.... it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the goyim. " (Protocol 2)

"We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us..."

We shall turn them into "unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them..."

Let me remind you of a passage from a 1930's Communist manual on brainwashing. "In the United States we have been able to alter the works of William James, and others, ...and to place the tenets of Karl Marx, Pavlov, Lamarck, and the data of Dialectic Materialism into the textbooks of psychology, to such a degree that anyone thoroughly studying psychology becomes at once a candidate to accept the reasonableness of Communism."

"As every chair of psychology in the United States is occupied by persons in our connection, the consistent employment of such texts is guaranteed... Educating broadly the educated strata of the populace into the tenets of Communism is thus rendered relatively easy." (II, Ch. 11)

BOW DOWN BEFORE "GREAT MEN"

Students encounter "The Cult of Great Men" the pantheon of modern pretenders who have usurped God's place.

Their every utterance is treated as Holy Writ. Scholarly articles are devoted to words that later turn out to be typos. In a graduate seminar, I witnessed a student read a list of filthy obscenities that had been censored from William Faulkner's novel "Sanctuary." After each expletive, the other students gasped with horror as though a religious artefact had been desecrated.

Professors are the overpaid priests of this secular cult. They have a vested interest in maintaining its shibboleths. They initiate students into a lifelong habit of mental servility. All knowledge comes from Great Men. Students can only aspire to analyse their meaning. A professor once told me I had failed because "only great men can say things like that."

The students' state-of-mind becomes passive and disoriented. He struggles to reconcile contradictory world-views.

One day I had an awakening. Don't these "great men" live in the same world?

Isn't it the one I live in?

Dare I think for myself?

Dislocation takes place in time as well as space. By continually studying the past, the student thinks nothing remains to be done. No manifestos remain to be written, no Bastille needs to be stormed.

While the world cries out for leadership, the new generation is buried in musty manuscripts writing footnotes to dead men.

EDUCATION SERVES ITS PURPOSE

As you've gathered by now, a Humanities education is not intended to uplift or empower. The world is owned and run by a secretive banking cabal and their inbred allies. Its goal, in the words of Cecil Rhodes, is to "gradually absorb the wealth of the world." Naturally it must obscure this plan. They want to make students their tools. Professors who don't play the game are fired.

If you haven't noticed, universities are not places of invigorating inquiry and debate. They are stagnant backwaters that reek of moral compromise and disillusionment.

Mankind is groping in the dark. "All we know is the wind that blows," Thoreau wrote. Our false confidence is based on material progress and technology, which Thoreau calls "improved means to unimproved ends."

"We have turned the brainless head of the goyim with progress," says the Protocols(XIII). With the exception of "material inventions" progress "like a fallacious idea, implies a departure from truth in all cases."

In other words, the Illuminists have infected mankind with the illusion that they are building a humanist utopia based on reason, when in fact they are constructing a neo feudal tyranny. This is the essence of "globalism" and the principle behind world events.

In conclusion, God is a Spirit or state of consciousness where ideals of justice goodness truth and love are self-evident. The Illuminists' first priority is to destroy Christianity and belief in God. They have to sever humanity from its metaphysical moorings in order to substitute a false reality conducive to their rule.

Humanities education today is a placebo, a substitute for a true education. It is a pretext for indoctrination, acceptance of which qualifies you for employment.

The world will not be saved by acts of God but acts of men representing God. Our duty is to take these ideals seriously in our personal lives and bring them into the world. The cost of rejecting God is to become slaves of very bad men.[/size]

What would be different if Islam was not a part your life?

Tahir Riaz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:41:28 GMT

It’s been a while since I started a discussion of my own. Now the topic which I want to promote or rather want you to contemplate on is:

What would be different in your life if Islam was not a part of it?

Please exclude the rituals which are quite obvious omissions. It’s about the personal level, would you behave, act differently? Would that change you as a human being?

I will post on this as well as soon as I can’t get some time

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zzalsam6 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:05:26 GMT

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We might have thought we have heard about the Seerah of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)before, but have we? If the Seerah we have heard before is just a story to us, and nothing more, then we have not truly heard it. If our eyes do not shed tears pondering over his life, then we do not truly know him. If our spirits and moral character are not uplifted learning from his life and example, then we have not experienced the Seerah.

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Religious criticism

razmer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:38:13 GMT

The other day I was having a conversation with Miss Qadri on a very interesting thought that was presented by Sunni Revolution in one of his threads about the personal opinion of Our Holy Prophet. At a point we reached a limit where I was afraid to say something and I kinda felt like an apologist and tend to lean on my faith rather than question and rationalise.

Fear is instilled into us when it comes to religion. There is this hard core belief that limits should not be tresspassed. So where does that leave Reason?

I came to realize that no matter what there comes a point that the fear that was rooted in me as a child surfaces and leaves me hopeless. I have grown to believe that I am a muslim 'cause I was born one. With all the justifications that I might find for Islam's supremacy I would have done so for any religion or belief I was born with.

Marx said that religion is 'opium of the people'. As legit said in another thread it is our self-conciousness. Religion is a man's understanding, a man who either has not found himself yet or has lost himself during the journey of his life. Marx thought that religious criticism was the prerequisite of all criticism. So it leaves me hopeless because if I fear and cannot jump over my so-called boundaries how honest I am to myself as an individual. And perhaps that mirrors in our society?

Is God's omnipotence a contradiction?

Everlasting devotion — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:54:45 GMT

Asalamualaikum

Well I came across an interesting theory in philosophy the other day and thought I would pose it to the Yanabi members.

Let's say that God is all powerful and possesses the power to do ANYTHING which is conceivable to humans. Then, is God capable of creating a stone that even HE himself cannot lift? If he cannot lift it then he is not omnipotent and if he can lift it then there still remains a loophole in his omnipotence because he is not able to create a stone which is heavy enough.

What do people think about this? I have a few theories but would like to hear your replies first.:)

:hehe:

Leaving Ali alayhis salam

Zarb e Ali — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:28:36 GMT

[size="3"]"Whoever leaves Ali, leaves me, whoever leaves me, leaves Allah"

[Kanz ul Ummal, hadith numbers 32974 - 32976, narrated by Abdullah ibne Umar {through two chains} and Abu Dharr Ghaffari (ra).[/size]

Hazrat Ali's Conduct of Wars

Zarb e Ali — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:52:57 GMT

[size="3"]Ali's instructions for the conduct of war

Ali was a successful and skilled military general. Some of the instructions that he issued to his Generals and the army about the conduct of wars are on record, and show his great military insight.

Instructions to his son Muhammad Hanifa

At the Battle of Siffin, Ali entrusted the flag of command to his son Muhammad Hanifa. Ali issued him the following instructions: "O son, let mountains move from their places, but you should not move from the place that has been assigned to you in the battlefield. Install your feet firmly on the ground as though a nail has been driven into it. Let your one jaw of teeth rest firmly on the other jaw. Keep an eye on the rear of your enemy. Enter the battle with firm determination that you have sold your head to God. With all this, always think that success lies in the hands of God. Above all never raise your hand against the sick, women, the aged, and children. Even if they abuse you, it behooves you to give them refuge. Never mutilate the limbs of the enemy or any other person. Give decent burial to the dead bodies of your enemies."

Instructions to the Generals of the border forces

Ali issued the following instructions to the Generals of the forces in operation in the border areas: "It is the duty of the Officer Commanding that if he has attained a high office, he should not thereby change his attitude to his subordinates. On the other hand, the greater the bounties that God has conferred on him, the greater should be his kindness to the people under his charge. It is your right on me that, except for war, I should not keep any secrets from you. It is incumbent on me that but for the matters enjoined by the Shariah, I should consult you in all affairs of the State, and should not deprive you of any of your right. If I protect your rights, it is obligatory on you that you should obey me, and should not hesitate to respond to my call for action. Do not be overawed by the difficulties that stand in the way of the vindication of Truth. If you do not act accordingly, you will lower yourself in my estimation, and you will be liable to be called to account for your lapse. You will have to face punishment on that score. Take note that I will not spare you, and will not allow you any concession. As I deal with you, you should in turn deal with your subordinates on similar lines. Such mutual understanding will keep the affairs in order."

Treatment for the rebels

Ali issued the following instructions to a General in the matter of the treatment to be accorded to rebels: "If the rebels repent and return to obedience, then accept their repentance and do not be harsh with them. If they persist in their revolt, and are not prone to listen to reason, then suppress them with the aid of the people who are loyal to you. See that you depend only on these people who are sincere to you. Do not care for those who are in different. It is better not to own a person who is not with you whole-heartedly. It is better that such men should remain sitting and should not stand up."

Instruction to the army

Ali issued the following instructions to the army: "When you camp in the battlefield, your camp should be at the base of a mountain, a hillock, or on the bank of a rivet or canal, so that this may insure your safety. Post guards at the top of the mountain, hillock or any other strategic place, so that the enemy may not attack you while you are unaware. Keep in mind that the vanguard of the force and its scouts are like the eyes and ears of a person. Make suitable arrangements for securing intelligence. See that there is no disunity in your ranks. When you are in camp, or on the march, behave as one body. Make proper arrangements for watch and ward during nights. Your guardsmen should remain alert. You should be watchful even in your sleep, and you should wake up and take up arms at the slightest indication of danger."

Strategy for crisis

In the case of a crisis, Ali laid down the following strategy to be adopted: "If in a battle there is a critical time, and you have to fall back, do not forget to make such retreat a step for attacking the enemy again with redoubled force. Do not lose heart. Be stout hearted. Be prepared. Keep swords ready. Suppress voices. Maintain silence for that is the way to overcome a crisis."

Prayers of Ali

When starting operations in a battle, Ali would pray to God in the following terms: "O God, our hearts are inclined to You. Our heads bow before You. We look to You for help. We are fighting in Your Way, against the people who are fighting for selfish ends. We seek Your aid. All victory belongs to You."

*Alayhis Salam [/size]

Why does Allah send humans to Earth when He knows there's problems in dunya?

Seat Belts On — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:27:33 GMT

This thing or question came to my mind a couple of days ago and I kept asking myself whether its a right or wrong thing to put a topic on it on forum, but before I felt may be I shouldn't but now I decided I might as well, all because I've realised the answers to my question.

So as it is, I was talking to myself in my mind and thinking about why does Allah send humans to Earth when He knows there's so much problems, troubles and suffering in the world and that the human being will be facing these problems and at first I don't think I seem to understand but then it clicked and I realised its because of two things: 1. because we are created to worship Allah and 2. because we are to be tested. These two answers gave me satisfaction to my question or concern. I'm glad the cloudness over my question is now cleared and I can see why Allah creates humans and sends them to Earth despite of the suffering and corruption in the world.

Anyone else want to share their comments...

Truth and Falsehood.

Zarb e Ali — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:16:30 GMT

The Prophet (s) Said:"Shortly after me, discord and hatred will arise among you, when such a situation arises, go and search out Ali because he can separate the truth from falsehood"

Kanzul Ummal, volume 2 page 612

Religion and God

razmer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:52:25 GMT

Thanks to Friedrich Nietzsche the modern world got this very interesting idea of a dead God. His modern scientfic world was unable to have a clear idea of a religious faith. Consequently it lead me to wonder the relationship between religion and God.

Over the years I have encountered many intellectuals separating God from a structured religion. Even Einstein believed in a greater force that controlled the universe but did not hung on the belief that it interfered/defined our lives and actions.

To be honest with the passage of time I have come to feel that it is religion that is dying. Or perhaps a new kind of religion is taking shape in which the individual stamps much of religion into morality and leave out the unwanted portion going with a much adaptable God who would not judge rather undertsand and appreciate them.

And anyways, in our lives religion and even God is shaped into the moral norms of the socities. We pick and chooose what fits our needs and wants.Our God wants what we want.

So what bothers me is with the passage of time has religion and God parted ways or will they? For, to be honest, the adherents of islam or any relgion for that matter are sadly hypocritical, self contradictory, concieted and honestly disappointing.

The character of Rasoolullah (sallallahu alaihi wassallam)

Fading Light — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:39:48 GMT

Many books have been written on the subject. Books which are not available to the wider muslim/non muslim public which may be interested to learn more. There may be afew threads already created in this forum but could be difficult to find amongst the vast number of posts and threads created. I felt that it would be easier for everyone if all can be posted into one topic.

How would you best describe the character of Rasoolullah (sallallahu alaihi wassallam)?

Can you post your views aswel as narrations which display them.

We have many posts from users regarding votes for the 'best man in history' or 'best personality ever'. How about giving your reasons for selecting The Prophet with narrations?

Looking forward to seeing your posts.

Prophet (pbuh) Preached Islam but asked no Reward except..

Zarb e Ali — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:49:39 GMT

[size="3"]Imam Jalaluddin Suyuti (RA) relates that the Prophet's elder grandson Imam Hasan ibn Ali (a.s.) said in one of his sermons: "I am of the Ahlul-Bait' whose love Allah has made obligatory for every Muslim .

And then he recited this same verse: "Say (0' Muhammad) I do not ask of you any reward for it (preaching the message), but love for my near relatives (Ahlul-Bait)…". Holy Qur'an (33:33)[/size]

It should however be noted that the Qur'an does not mean mere sentimental ties of the Muslim communities with the Prophet's Household but stresses a deep and heartfelt love, the true expression of love by the Muslims can best be displayed by following the high examples set by the Ahlul-Bait, applying their teachings and guidelines in our daily behaviour.

The King and His Four Wives

YoungBrother — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:14:34 GMT

As Salaam Alaikum

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
in the name of Allah, most Compassionate, most Merciful

The King and His Four Wives

Read This Carefully.

Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much and was always showing her off to neighboring kingdoms. However, he feared that one day she would leave him for another. He also loved his 2nd wife. She was his confidant, and was always kind, considerate and patient with him. Whenever the King faced a problem, he could confide in her, and she would help him get through the difficult times.

The King's 1st wife was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and kingdom. However, he did not love the first wife. Although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her! One day, the King fell ill and he knew his time was short. He thought of his luxurious life and wondered, "I ! now have four wives with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone."Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I have loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?"

"No way!", replied the 4th wife, and she walked away without another word. Her answer cut like a sharp knife right into his heart.

The sad King then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!", replied the 3rd wife. "Life is too good! When you die, I'm going to remarry!" His heart sank and turned cold.

He then asked the 2nd wife, "I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?" "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!", replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave." Her answer came like a bolt of lightning, and the King was devastated.

Then a voice called out: "I'll leave with you and follow you no matter where you go." The King looked up, and there was his first wife. She was so skinny as she suffered from malnutrition and neglect. Greatly grieved, the King said, "I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!"

In truth, we all have 4 wives in our lives: Our 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it will leave us when we die.

Our 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth. When we die, it will all go to others.

Our 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for us, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave.

And our 1st wife is our Soul. Often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power and pleasures of the world. However, our Soul is the only thing that will follow us wherever we go.

I read this story on another forum (the one that cannot be named) and thought I'd share it on here.

What does Islam say about the pyramids?

skr — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:15:51 GMT

Salam brothers & sister. This is my first ever post on her so please be gentle and forgive me if I say anything to offend Islam or you

I recently visited eygpt and went to see the pyramids of Giza. What a fabulous and intriging place
i'm very very curious about what islam mentions about the pyramids and of the people of that time

if anyone can enlighten me please do

I will inshallah return with more questions about Islam as my aim is to get closer to my religion

Wasalam

sister S