I read some
amazing facts in a news letter edited by one of my local
Moulanas.. which I would like to share with you...........
* The Majority of muslims do not live in the middle East. The
most populous muslim country is Indonesia, the 4th largest
country in the world with 184 million muslims
* 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 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 (pbuh) 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
Ebrahim and Ismail (pbu them both). 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 (pbuh). The location of the well was revealed to him in
a dream.
* It was only in 1932 the Kiswah (cloth of the Kabba) was
wholly made by Saudis (citizens of Saudi Arabia).
* The roof top of our prophet's (pbuh) 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.
*Aadam (A.s) was 30 Ziraa tall. Ziraa is a measurement and one
Ziraa is approximately half a metre.
In
the Name of Allah, Most
Gracious, Most Merciful