Punctuate

Salaam...

Punctuate/Capitalize the following. Look in the comments for the answer:

that that is it is is that not it is not that is not

Salaam

Puzzle

Salaam

Look into the dot in the center and move your face to and from the screen in rapid succession. What do the shapes do?

Dua and Witr by Sheikh Mahir Al Muaiqily - 2008/1429

Salaam...

The title tells the rest

Salaam

Here's a nice recording I got from Dailymotion, the ending of Surah Fajr and some other surahs in 1414/1993:

Salaam

Surah Hud, Ayahs 6 to 83, by Sheikh Saud Ash Shuraim in Taraweeh Prayers at Al Masjid Al Haraam, year 1996/1417.

Click to listen or download.

Note: It is Real format (.rm audio) so you will need RealPlayer to play it. To download the file, right-click on it and select "Save Target As", or if you have a Firefox browser it'll give you the option.

Burj Al Mamlikah (Kingdom Tower)

Assalamu Alaikum

From Wikipedia:

Kingdom Tower (Arabic: برج المملكة‎) in Riyadh is the tallest skyscraper in Saudi Arabia. With a height of 302 m (992 ft), it is the 37th tallest building in the world. The tower is built on area of 94,230 square meters of land, while the whole center is built on a total area of 300,000 square meters. The tower is host to the highest mosque in the world.

The Kingdom Center is owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal, a prince of the Saudi royal family. It is also the headquarters of his holding company: Kingdom Holding Company. The total cost of the project was 1.717 billion Saudi Arabian Riyals and the contract was taken by Saudi Arabian El Saif and the Italian Impregilo S.p.A. Kingdom Center is situated in Al-Urubah Road between King Fahd Road and Olaya Street in the growing business district of Al-Olaya in Riyadh. Kingdom Center was the winner of the 2002 Emporis Skyscraper Award, selected as the "best new skyscraper of the year for design and functionality". A three-level shopping center, which also won a major design award, fills the east wing. The large opening is illuminated at night in continuously changing colors.

Al Hamdu Lillah, I have been there! Here are some pictures:

Note: that little arch at the top is where you get to go. It's kinda scary.


At night:




From Faisaliyyah Tower:




In the daytime, also from Faisaliyyah Tower:




From the bottom:




A reflection on the glass windows:




A view from the top:




A breathtaking view from the top at night:




Good Quality, a view from the top (it's the other side of the arch, so you can see Faisaliyyah Tower from here):




Note: It doesn't say in the article, but the building was started in 2000 and finished in 2002.
Salaam

A Recording

Assalamu Alaikum

Since everybody who posts Sheikh Shuraim recitations on their website or blog (including this brother and Abu Saud) has posted/uploaded/embedded this on their website/blog, I guess I will too:




Surah Fatiha and beginning of Surah At Toor, from Taraweeh year 1417 (1996), beautiful and emotional (very very emotional).

Some Jokes

Salaam: Just some jokes I thought I might share...

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How do you make a foolish person busy all day????

PUT HIM IN A ROUND ROOM AND TELL HIM TO SIT IN A CORNER.

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Teacher: If you had one dollar and you asked your father for another, how many dollars would you have?

Pupil: One dollar.

Teacher: You don't know your arithmetic.

Pupil: You don't know my father !

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Three men were in the hospital waiting room when the nurse rushed in and said to the first man, "Sir, you're the father of twins."

"Hey! Isn't that a coincidence!" he replied. "I work for the Minnesota Twins baseball team."

Later, the nurse came in and said to the second man, "Sir, you're the father of triplets."

"Gee!" the man exclaimed. "Another coincidence! I'm with the 3M Company."

The third man jumped to his feet, grabbed his hat and said, "I'm getting out of here. I work for 7-UP!"

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The English Language: Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?. Let's face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger, and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square. And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth. Shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth, If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the does a humanitarian eat? Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital; Park on driveways and Drive on parkways? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down; And in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible, and why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts, but when I wind up this observation, it ends.

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A man left the cold snowy streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.

Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before.

When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

Your Loving Husband.

PS: Sure is hot down here.

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Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices far."

So he leans over the basket and yells out, "Hellllooooo! Where are we?" (They hear the echo several times).

Two minutes later they hear this echoing voice: "Hellllooooo! You're lost!!"

One of the men says, "That must be a mathematician." Puzzled, one of the other men asks, "Why do you say that?"

He replies: "For three reasons. (1) he took a long time to answer, (2) he was absolutely correct, and (3) his answer was absolutely useless."

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This poem was written by Jon Saxton (an author of math textbooks).

((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0

Or for those who have trouble reading the poem:

A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven, plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and not a bit more.

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And finally......

A girl holding a baby walks into a drug store and asks the clerk if she can use the store's baby scale.

"Sorry, ma'am," says the clerk. "Our baby scale is broken. But we can figure the baby's weight if we weigh mother and baby together on the adult scale, and then weigh the mother alone, and subtract the second number from the first."

"Oh, that won't work," says the girl.

"Why not?" asks the clerk.

"Because," she answers, "I'm not the mother - I'm the aunt."

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Source: http://moonsighting.com/math_jokes.html

Salaam

Puzzle

What do you see in the picture? Look really hard. If you only see one thing, look in the comments.

Quran Flash

Assalamu Alaikum

I just got a link to a really cool website called Quran Flash from www.shuraim.net. They have an online Quran, and you can literally flip through the pages, magnify text, etc. Here's the link. If that doesn't work Copy and Paste this:
http://www.quranflash.com
I will have a link on the right-hand side of this blog. Note: The website is in Arabic, but they have English, too. Here's the English one link:
http://www.quranflash.com/en/index.html

Assalamu Alaikum

Salaam

Do NOT click this! Whatever you do! You'll regret it!

Creepy

Assalamu Alaikum, and Eid Mubarak again.

Creepy??

Look what happens when an American President gets elected in a year with a "0"at the end.
1840: William Henry Harrison (Wing) (died in office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican) (assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (Republican) (assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (Republican) (assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Republican) (died in office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) (died in office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (Democrat) (assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (Republican)(survived assassination attempt)
2000: George W. Bush (Republican) (long story....)

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker.......
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Creepy huh?

I got that from MoonSighting.com

Salaam

PS Don't run for President in 2060

Eid Mubarak!

Salaam and Eid Mubarak to all.

Eid ul Fitr was announced in Buffalo, NY, USA on October 1st, 2008. I went to Masjid An Nur for Salaat ul Eid, and it was pretty packed up. The following countries also announced Eid ul Fitr on October 1st 2008:

1. Algeria
2. Australia (actual sighting)
3. Canada
4. Egypt (calculations)
5. France
6. Indonesia (calculations)
7. Iran
8. Japan
9. Malaysia (calculations)
10. Mauritius (actual sighting)
11. Morocco (actual sighting)
12. Norway (30 days completed)
13. Oman (actual sighting)
14. Pakistan (actual sighting)
15. South Africa (30 days completed)
16. Spain
17. Sri Lanka (actual sighting)
18. Switzerland
19. Syria
20. Tanzania
21. Tunisia
22. UK (30 days completed)
23. USA

Source: MoonSighting.com

Salaam, and once again, Eid Mubarak