A Few Interesting Things About Islam & Muslims!

[Kolombo]

*There are more muslims in India than the combined population of Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.


*The following English words are borrowed from Arabic: Algebra, Zero, Cotton, Sofa, Rice, Candy, Safron, Balcony. And even 'alchohol' derives from Arabic : al-kuhl meaning powder. These are just a few mentioned here.


*The first treatise on smallpox and measles was written by Abu Bakr alrazi (c.864-925,known to Europe as Rhazes). (Due to this) Inoculation agianst smallpox became a common practise in muslim lands. Despite this , Scientific text book credit the invention of a smallpox vaccine to Edward Jenner.(1749-1823).


*Early Oxbridge students studied books written by muslims on mathematics, medicine, chemistry, optics and astronomy.


*Adelard of Bath (a city in the UK) was a leading scholar of the middle ages. what made him famous was translating the word of muslim scientists from Arabic to latin!


*The 1860 city records of Cardiff (UK) show a masjid in operation in a converted building at 2 Glynrhondda St. Yemani sea men on their trips between Aden (in Yemen) and Cardiff founded this masjid.


*The first purpose built masjid is claimed to be in Woking (South of England) with money provided by the ruler of Bhopal, in India (the Shah Jehan masjid was built in 1889).


*The Islamic calender is based on the phases of the moon, with it being approximately 11 days shorter than the 365 days of the year in the Julien calender. Hence, the dates of our festivals move through the year.


*The grand doors of our prophets (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) masjid in Medina weigh 2 and half tonnes each! Enormous quantities of "sag wood" was gathered from all over the world and shipped to the united kingdom to be dryed in computerised furnaces (the traditional drying process would have taken many years!). Even then , it took 5 months to dry the wood! the wood was then shipped to Barcelona (Spain), Where the main body of the doors where made. And finally the French even paid their little part, as the brass ornamentation was carried out in the city of Roi (France). Next time you visit the holy masjid, keep this entire in mind!


*The Zam Zam well came into existance at the time of prophets Ibrahim and Ismail (alayhum salam). It then "dissapeared" for nearly 26 centuries (2600 years) due to the certain events and was rediscovered and dug by the grandfather of our beloved prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam). The location of the well was revealed to him in a dream.


*It was only in 1932 the Kiswah (cloth of the Ka'bah) was wholly made by Saudis (citizens of Saudi Arabia).


*The roof top of our prophet's (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) masjid in Madina is disigned to be strong enough to carry addtional floors in the future.


*The black stone (as it is known), Cannot really be described in full, because the parts we touch with our hands and "Kiss" , are eight small pieces, the biggest of which is the size of a date.


*Adam (alayhis salam) was 30 Ziraa tall. Ziraa is a measurement and one Ziraa is approximately half a metre.

[Gifted]

WOW

[Basra-]

How about the science of the architecture behind the egyptian pyramids not unravelled yet? That is amazing i think! Islam is the ONLY right religion in my estimation!

[Gatspy]

*Adam (alayhis salam) was 30 Ziraa tall. Ziraa is a measurement and one Ziraa is approximately half a metre.

SubxanAllah, thats amazing.

Basra, the Pharoahs were not Muslims, they were pre Islam.

[Basra-]

Gatsby


I resent that igregious corrections.

[surrender]

bisinka basra, thats just out of order.

[American-Suufi]

bisinka basra, thats just out of order.

You are saying this like you are better than basra. You sound like an automated ramadan suxur caller, saying fuck? can't comprehend.

[*Nobleman*]

*Adam (alayhis salam) was 30 Ziraa tall. Ziraa is a measurement and one Ziraa is approximately half a metre.[/quote]


Subxnallah, 15 meters tall. Now its rare to find a man over 2 meters

[siren]

The last Small box breakout.....Somalia!

[Abtiga]

Amazing facts.


I like this one among others from Kolobmo's Quoted Facts:

*The grand doors of our prophets (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) masjid in Medina weigh 2 and half tonnes each! Enormous quantities of "sag wood" was gathered from all over the world and shipped to the united kingdom to be dryed in computerised furnaces (the traditional drying process would have taken many years!). Even then , it took 5 months to dry the wood! the wood was then shipped to Barcelona (Spain), Where the main body of the doors where made. And finally the French even paid their little part, as the brass ornamentation was carried out in the city of Roi (France). Next time you visit the holy masjid, keep this entire in mind!

We must indeed keep in mind the contribution of others to the prophet's mosque and be corteous to them





Here is my addition to the Interesting Islamic Facts

A- Muslim Flight Attempt before Wright Brothers.

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.

Please note how a CRATER ON THE MOON is named after this muslim man Just beautiful.


B- The Father of Modern Chemistry

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 iltration. As well as discovering uric and nitric acid, he ted the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other mes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

More to quote inshallah. Very useful topic.

[Kolombo]

Abti,

Thx for the contribution!

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Some facts on the Quran...(if the below facts are wrong the error lies in the author and from me in copying this, if it is right, it is from Allah subhaanawataallah):

* The Holy Quran has 30 parts
* The Holy Quran has 114 surahs
* Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem is repeated 114 times in the Quran.
* All except for Surat 'Al Tawbah' start with Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem.
* Surat Al Namel, No. 27 has Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem in its body
* Al-Baqarah is the longest surah in the Quran
* Al-Kawthar is the shortest surah in the Quran
* Milk is the best drink mentioned in the Quran
* Honey is the best food thing mentioned in the Quran
* The best month is Ramadan
* The best night is the Night of Power in Ramadan (Laylat al Qadr)
* The most disliked thing by Allah, although being halal, is Divorce
* Surat Yaseen is the HEART of the Quran
* Surat Al-Ikhlas is considered 1/3 of the Quran
* Quran was revealed over 23 years: 13 in Mecca and 10 in Madina
* Surat Al-Dahr was revealed in respect to Ahlul Bayt, the Prophet's family, May Allah be pleased with them.
* Surat Al Nissa speaks about laws of marriage
* Whoever reads one letter of the Quran gets 10 Rewards
* Reading 1 verse in Ramadan is equal to reading the entire Quran in other months
* Ramadan is the Spring of the Holy Quran
* The Quran will intercede for people who recited it on Judgment Day
* The Quran will complain of people who didn't recite it on Judgment Day

[Abtiga]

You are welcome Kolombo. Nice information about the Quran. Btw, I suspect the list has only partial facts and not all facts or Hadith based information about the Quran. Correct me if I am wrong but I thought

* Surat Al Nissa speaks about laws of marriage

and some Inheritance laws??


Thanks bro, keep them coming. This is useful.

[Abtiga]

Another Technology invention and refinement by Ancient Muslims

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.

This guy had 50 inventions among them Elementary robotics, Combination Lock, Water Valves and etc.

Hi belated five to Our Honorable Engineer Al-Jazari

[FAH1223]

* Reading 1 verse in Ramadan is equal to reading the entire Quran in other months

Subxanallah

[SummerRain]

*The first treatise on smallpox and measles was written by Abu Bakr alrazi (c.864-925,known to Europe as Rhazes). (Due to this) Inoculation agianst smallpox became a common practise in muslim lands. Despite this , Scientific text book credit the invention of a smallpox vaccine to Edward Jenner.(1749-1823).

I didnt know that. I'm actually pissed Muslim scholars let the credit go to Jenner. I wonder how many more diseases and their cures are mentioned inthe quran and is humans will ever live long enough to discover about all of them.