When the world pushes you to your knees, your are in the perfect position to pray.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Poem: Words Unsaid.
Words Unsaid!
people come and people go,
in your heart the memories flow,
you miss them bad and have regrets,
why didnt they hear the words unsaid.
your heart is like an open book,
but they didnt even give a look,
your feelings remain just unread,
you miss them bad and have regrets,
why didnt they hear the words unsaid.
in your heart the memories flow,
you miss them bad and have regrets,
why didnt they hear the words unsaid.
your heart is like an open book,
but they didnt even give a look,
your feelings remain just unread,
you miss them bad and have regrets,
why didnt they hear the words unsaid.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Poem: No time to Pray
"Pray"
I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Muslim duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Quote of the Day - William Osler
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
20 Greatest Invention by Muslim Scientist
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 .
01 Coffee:
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.
01 Coffee:
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.
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