Truth In Me
I have no desire
to fit in.
No plans
to walk with the crowd.
I have my own mind,
heart
and soul.
I am me
and it
has taken me years
to realize
how important that is.
Fatima Al-Fihri
Did you know the worlds first University was founded over 1000 years ago by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri? The al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez, Morocco, is still in operation today!
Source: Bayt AL Fann
The Blessed Tree
Over 1400 years ago Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and a Christian Monk named Bahira, met under the shade of a tree. That same tree was believed discovered still alive in the northern deserts of Jordan. The only tree alive in hundreds of miles of emptiness.
Source: Baytown AL Fann
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With Every Hardship, There Is Ease
When life's burdens weigh you down, know that the Creator never burdens a soul beyond its capacity. Trust in yourself and the Almighty's wisdom. With every hardship, there is ease. Keep moving forward, for you are stronger than you know.
- Ashraf Schneider
Ibn Tufail (Avatophail)
Ibn Tufail (Avetophail) (1105 – 1185) was an Andalusian polymath: a writer, novelist, philosopher, theologian, physician, and astronomer. He is most famous for writing the first philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan. He was an early supporter of dissection and autopsy
Born in Granada, he was educated by Ibn Bajjah (Avempace). He served as a secretary for the ruler of Granada, and later as vizier and physician for Abu Yaqub Yusuf, the Almohad caliph, to whom he recommended Ibn Rushd (Averroës) as his own future successor in 1169
Ibn Rushd later reports this event and describes how Ibn Tufayl then inspired him to write his famous Aristotelian commentaries: Ibn Tufayl told me, “you do it. I’m confident you can because I know what a good mind and devoted character you have, and how dedicated you are”
The Microscopic World Around Us
The Insane Biology Of: The Dragonfly
~ Beautiful Chemical Reactions ~
Eight types of beautiful chemical reactions are presented in this short video. For more information, please visit: BeautifulChemistry.net
Video & Editing Yan Liang (L2Molecule.com)
Chemical Reaction Design Xiangang Tao, Wei Huang, & Yan Liang Chemical reactions were shot at the Chemistry Experiment Teaching Center of USTC
Music Royalty-free audio clips from Maxon Cinema 4D Assets
© 2014 Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China © 2014 Tsinghua University Press
~ Knowledge ~
Unless you try to do something beyond What you have already mastered, You will never grow.
Art by: Evenlui Quote by: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote provided by: CZ
~ The Lost Libraries Of Timbuktu ~
Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford.
Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.
~ GIANT BAT CAPTURED ~ A gargantuan bat appears to have been caught by military personnel in the Philippines. This is probably some species of megabat, referred to as a flying fox. These bats can have wingspans close to 6 feet wide.
"If the mind of a woman wilts and dies, then the entire mind of a nation wilts and dies"
(Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian Author)
~ Mamihlapinatapai ~ Derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered[who?] one of the hardest words to translate. A slightly different interpretation of the meaning also exists: "It is that look across the table when two people are sharing an unspoken but private moment. When each knows the other understands and is in agreement with what is being expressed. An expressive and meaningful silence." It is also cited in books and articles on game theory associated with the volunteer's dilemma. The word consists of the reflexive/passive prefix ma - (mam - before a vowel), the root ihlapi (pronounced [iɬapi]), which means to be at a loss as what to do next, the stative suffix - n, an achievement suffix - ata, and the dual suffix - apai, which in composition with the reflexive mam - has a reciprocal sense. Yagán (originally Yahgan, but also now spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan), also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people. It is regarded as a language isolate, although some linguists have attempted to relate it to Kawésqar and Chon. Along with other Fuegian languages, it was among the first South American languages to be recorded by European explorers and missionaries[citation needed]. Yahgan was also spoken briefly on Keppel Island in the Falkland Islands at a missionary settlement. Tierra del Fuego (pron.: /tiːˈɛərə dɛl ˈfweɪɡoʊ/, Spanish: [ˈtjera ðel ˈfweɣo]; Spanish for "Fireland" or "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of 48,100 km2 (18,572 sq mi), and a group of many islands including Cape Horn and Diego Ramírez Islands. While initially discovered by Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1520, it was not settled by people of European descent until the second half of the 19th century at the height of the sheep farming and gold rush booms. Today, petroleum extraction dominates economic activity in the north of Tierra del Fuego, while tourism, manufacturing and Antarctic logistics are important in the south.
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