• Verse of the week
    • eek "You who believe, act steadfast towards God, as witnesses for fairplay, and do not let ill-will toward any folk incriminate you so that you swerve from dealing justly. Be just: that is nearest to heedfulness ; ...
    • Shura (Consultation)
    • on) Name It is derived frog the sentence wa amru-hum shura baina hum of verse 38 implying thereby that it is a Surah in which the word shura has occurred. Period of Revelation Although it could not be known from any aut...
    • Four Agreements
    • 1. Be Impeccable with Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the di...
    • Online Books
    • and the World  Rabindranath Tagore http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/homewrld/index.htm 2-Stray Birds  Rabindranath Tagore [translated from Bengali to English by the author] http://www.sacred-texts.c...
    • TAJIKISTAN
    • TAN Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five-year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from theUSSR. A peace agreement among rival factions was signed in 1997, and implemented in 2000. ...
    • UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH
    • BAH http://www.ums.edu.my/ Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) was established on24th November 1994. His Royal Highness the Pertuan Agung proclaimed the establishment of UMS under Section 6(1) of the Universities and ...
    • 1- Fear and Trembling
    • ing  Soren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna H. Hong Is Going Beyond Faith Possible? Kierkegard first takes issue with the prevailing (i.e., Hegelian) notion that faith is something to be "transcended...
    • Types of worshipping God
    • Imam Ali (PBUH) said: One group worships God to be favoured with His blessings. This is the worship of....
    • Mark Twain
    • Twain (Nov. 30, 1835-April 21, 1910) It was in the West that Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, and although the landscape and characters of frontier life play only a small part in his writings, one can always detect a...
    • Holberg, Ludvig, Baron
    • ron    Related: Scandinavian Literature Biographies (loo´ve bنrōn´ hōl´ber) , 1684-1754, Danish dramatist, essayist, poet, and historian, apostle of the Enlightenment in Scandinavia. Born in Norway, he ...
    • Jonathan Swift
    • Swift  ( November 30 , 1667 - October 19 , 1745 ) Jonathan Swift was born on November 30 , 1667 (after his father's death) by English parents, and educated by his Uncle Godwin. After a not very su...
    • International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
    • ery 2 December 2003 The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is held on December 2nd to mark the anniversary of the adoption in 1949 of the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons a...
    • George Richards Minot
    • not (December 2, 1885-1950) George Richards Minot was born on December 2, 1885, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. His ancestor, George Minot, had migrated toAmerica in 1630, from Saffron Walden, England. His father,...
    • George Boole
    • le (11/2/1815- 12/8/1864) English mathematician who was the author of several classic works on mathematical logic . As a child, he taught himself Latin and Greek in the belief it would enable him to rise above his w...
    • World AIDS Day 2003 Dec 01 2003
    • 1 2003 Five people worldwide die of AIDS every minute of every day. HIV has hit every corner of the globe, infecting more than 42 million men, women and children, 5 million of them last year alone. World AIDS Day 2003 hi...
    • Sir John Ambrose Fleming
    • ing (Nov. 29, 1849_ Apr. 18, 1945) English electrical engineer. He was a leader in the development of electric lighting, the telephone, and wireless telegraphy in England and the inventor of a thermionic valve (the fir...
    • Amos Bronson Alcott
    • tt (November 29, 1799- March 4, 1888) Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut. He was an author , teacher , conversationalist, philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform . The ...
    • The Lion and The cougar
    • gar A pointed fable is told about a young lion and a cougar. Both thirsty, the animals arrived at their usual water hole at the same time. They immediately began to argue about who should satisfy their thirst first. ...
    • Ha-Mim (Worship-Bowing Down on ones knees)
    • ees) Name The name of this Surah is composed of two words, Ha-Mim and As-Sajdah, which implies that it is a Surah which begins with Ha-Mim and in which a verse requiring the performance of sajdah (prostration) has occurr...
    • Imam Sajjds Supplication in Bidding...
    • g Farewell to the Month of Ramadan O God, O He who desires no repayment! O He who shows no remorse at bestowal! O He who rewards not His servant tit for tat! Thy kindness is a new beginning, Thy pardon gratuitous ...
    • Eid ul Fitr
    • tr "O Allah! Bless us in the day of our Eid and our fast breaking and let it be the best day that has passed over us" Imam Ali Zainul Abedeen (A.S.) - Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya Eid is an Arabic word derived from r...
    • SYRIA
    • RIA Following the breakup of theOttoman Empire duringWorld War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Since 1976, Syr...
    • Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
    • ity http://www.jinnah.edu.pk/ INTRODUCTION MohammadAli Jinnah University is chartered by the Government of Sindh as a comprehensive institution, authorized to award earned or honorary degrees at all levels, fro...
    • 1-Religious Diversity:
    • ty: A Philosophical Assessment David Basinger Religious diversity exists whenever seemingly sincere, knowledgeable individuals hold incompatible beliefs on the same religious issue. Diversity of this sort is...
    • Hadith of the week
    • eek "No vessel is limitless except for the vessel of knowledge, which forever expands. If God has to humiliate a human being, he will deny him knowledge. No wealth equals to the mind, and no poverty equals to ign...
    • George Eliot
    • iot pseudonym for Mary Ann Cross, also Marian Evans, original surname Evans (22 Nov.1819-22 Dec.1880) Victorian writer, a humane freethinker, whose insightful psychological novels paved way to modern character portraya...
    • Friedrich Engels
    • ls (28 Nov. 1820-5 Aug. 1895) Friedrich Engels, the eldest son of a successful German industrialist, was born in Barmen on28th November 1820. As a young man his father sent him to England to help manage his cotton-...
    • Ferdinand de Saussure
    • ure  (26 Nov.1857-22 Feb 1913) Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for the structuralist school in linguistics and social theory. The whole line from Jakobson to Lévi-Strauss t...
    • Erasmus Reinhold senior
    • ior (22 Oct.1511-Feb.1533) He was born in Saalfeld on October 22nd, 1511. His father, Johann Reinhold, was first privy secretary of the last abbot in Saalfeld, Georg von Thüna, later both steward of the former Beded...
    • Daniel Sennert
    • rt  (25 Nov.1572- 21 July 1637) Father Occupation: Artisan His father, Nicolaus Sennert, was a shoemaker fromLaehn, Silesia. He was sixty-seven when Daniel Sennert was born. No firm information on financial status....
    • Claude Levi-Strauss
    • ss (28 Nov.1908-) Claude Lévi-Strauss is a French anthropologist who influenced a wide range of social and aesthetic studies from the 1960s on, through his advocacy of a method usually called structuralism . He w...
    • André Gide
    • ide (22 Nov.1869-19 Feb.1951) Gide was born in Paris, France on November 22 , 1869 . His father was a Paris University professor of law and died 1880. His uncle was the political economist Charles Gide . Gide was bro...
    • Peter Frederick Strawson
    • wson  (Nov. 1919 ) British philosopher, grad.Oxford. An influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy, he began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of ...
    • Norbert Wiener
    • ner  (26 Nov 1894 in Columbia, Missouri, USA- 18 March 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden) Norbert Wiener's father was Leo Wiener who was a Russian Jew. Because Leo Wiener was such a major influence on his son, we should giv...
    • Anders Celsius
    • ius (27 Nov.1701-25 April 1744) Anders Celsius , born inUppsala, was one of a large number of scientists (all related) originating from Ovanهker in the province of Hنlsingland. The family name is a latinised version o...
    • The Prayer That Was Answered
    • red The little room glittered with light from the butter lamps, arranged neatly on a low table in front of the shrine. In the light from the lamps one could pick out holy objects arranged on the shrine - the sacred ...
    • Islamic plan unveiled for Malaysia
    • sia Malaysia's main opposition party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), has unveiled its plans for an Islamic state, ahead of elections expected within a year. The document includes plans for implementing strict I...
    • Iranian Movie Awarded in Geneva Festival
    • val "Fifth Reaction" the last Tahmineh Milany's work has awarded the main prize of Geneva Festival. As IRNA reported the jury awarded this film the main prize because of its fine deceleration of women fight i...
    • Mumin (The Forgiving [God]
    • God] Name The Surah takes its name Al Mu'min from verse 28 implying thereby that it is a Surah in which Al Mu'min (the Believer of Pharaoh's people) has been mentioned. Period of Revelation According to Ibn 'Abbas and ...
    • The Night of Destiny
    • iny The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is quoted on page 265, Vol. 3, of al- Amin's work Miftahul Jannat, saying: "Allah has favored Friday over all other days, the month of Ramadan over all other months, and the Night o...
    • The Last Will of Ali ibn Abi Talib (AS)
    • Imam Alis (AS) last will to his sons Imam Hasan (AS) and Imam Hussain (AS) after the attempt on his life by a stab from Ibn Muljam: My advice to you is to be conscious of Allah and steadfast in your religion. Do ...
    • Martyrdom of Imam Ali
    • Imam Ali was assassinated in Kufa by the most evil of Allahs creation; Abdurrahman bin Muljim, a Khariji, on the twenty first of Ramadan year 40 A.H.; of an age of 63 year...
    • Imam Ali in the eyes of Non-Muslims
    • Ali was so popular even among the non-Muslims that when he died, all the Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians of Kufa, particularly their women and children who were personally looked after by Ali, l...