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NPR : Medieval Mosques Illuminated by Math

Historic buildings in the Islamic world are often covered with breathtakingly intricate geometric designs. Both artists and mathematicians have long puzzled over them, wondering how the patterns were created.

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Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough

SunniPath Blog - » UPDATE: Free Live Event with Shaykh Nuh Keller - Recording Now Available

Israel Hid Discovery Of Muslim Prayer Room In Jerusalem at The Black Iris of Jordan

It would be a little ironic that the more Israeli digs in that area in search of its ancient history, the more Islamic history it will unearth. This is, by the way, the same Mugrabi Bridge that has recently been controversial.

NPR : Chinese Muslims in the Year of the Pig

As the year of the pig begins in China, the government bans any mention of pigs in TV ads. Is it truly a newfound sensitivity to the nation’s Muslims, who make up about two percent of the population? Jackie Armijo, assistant professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhab, discusses the move with Liane Hansen.

Psychology Today: Sex by Schedule

The link between sexual behavior and your hormones, and why regular sex is good for you….

Subhan Allah.

“All you seek may be found in the sunna of Allah’s Beloved (Allah bless him and give him peace)

FrontPage magazine.com :: Jihad U by Patrick Poole

From the East Coast through the American Heartland to the West Coast, a rapidly growing and extremely popular Islamic studies program is bringing Wahhabi extremism and Muslim Brotherhood activism into mosques and Muslim student groups throughout North America. The Al-Maghrib Institute features motivational-style speakers, aggressive marketing, savvy use of the Internet and slick multi-media presentations as part of their for-college-credit courses leading to an Islamic Studies degree offered at mosques in at least thirteen cities:

We should complain against such coverage (though we shouldn’t expect any better from something like FrontPageMagazine). While one may not always agree with al-Maghrib Institute (to say the least), they are sincere fellow Muslims who are striving to do the good as best they can.

We should distinguish between disciplined disagreement–even firm–and playing into the agendas of those at enmity to the mainstream Muslim community.

Making PDFs with free software | Free Software Magazine

As demand increases for this format, many are wondering, what tools can be used to create PDFs with free software?

Fortunately, there are a variety of free software that is available to author PDF files. I’ll specifically highlight two packages that are easier to use and require less configuration. While the advantages of the uniform presentation are usually advantageous, I feel that the emphasis should be on the content, not the container.

All-in-One Sidebar | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. Click on the left edge of your browser window to open the sidebar and get easy access to all your panels. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide-out button and a toolbar, all of which can be extensively customized.

You can set the orientation to left or right, set the minimum, default and maximum width and the behavior on browser startup. Furthermore AiOS provides enhancements for many built-in features.

Enjoy a clear browser window, more toolbar space and much more…

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SunniPath Blog - » Divine Assistance Through Service of Humanity - A Reflection

Someone sent me this, from Imam Ahmad Zarruq’s Principles of Sufism:

Principle 41

Blind conformisn (taqlīd) is the acceptance of a teaching without
regard to the reputation of the teacher or to the methodology of the
teaching. It is absolutely objectionable because the person of blind
conformism is making a mockery of his religion. Emulation (iqtidā’) is
the acceptance of a teaching by taking in to consideration the
religiosity of the teacher and his knowledge. This is the method of the
jurisconsults of the schools of jurisprudence in following the founders
of their schools. Calling emulation “blind conformism” is figurative speech.

Discernment (tabaṣṣur) is the acceptance of a teaching by virtue of its
specific proof without being self-opinionated or disregarding the
teaching at its face value. This is the method of the masters of the
schools of jurisprudence and of the elite among the seekers of
religious knowledge.

Independent judgement (ijtihād) is proposing rules based on proofs
without reference to other authorities; then, if no previous principle
is to be considered as a precedent, the judgement is obsolute;
otherwise, it is limited.

A school of jurisprudence is that which grows stronger in a person’s
soul until he follows it. The general meaning of the above has been
mentioned in Miftāḥ al-Sa’ādah.

SunniPath Answers:
Can the existence of God be proven rationally?
Answered by Faraz Rabbani

Question: Is the existence of Allah and His attributes rationally provable with the mind without doubt - since iman is based on taklif.

Or is Allah’s existence just a guess that we take hoping it is true with a certainty (the Christian concept of “leap of faith.”)

Answer

CANADIANS SHOW LEAST BIAS TOWARD MUSLIMS at HAhmed.com

Canadians are least likely among citizens of 23 Western countries to be bigoted toward Muslims, according to a new international study that measured “Islamophobia” in each nation.

Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail : Instigator Blog

Your business is great. You’ve invented something better than sliced bread. You offer such an amazing service at such a great price that people should be knocking your door down.

And they might be. But they’re all asking for a proposal.

Proposals are a fact of life. We all do them, and we’re all trying to blow our prospects away.

But most proposals are bad. Here are 10 reasons why proposals fail

SunniPath Blog - » The Opening: Recording Now Available

The recording of the first Course Lens live event we had last weekend, The Opening: Understanding Surah Fatiha with Shaykh Sohail Hanif, is now available. You can view it here

SunniPath Blog - » Our response to the New York Times Article

On Sunday, February 4th, the New York Times published an Article
on its front page where the author, NEIL MacFARQUHAR, wrote “Last
year, a Sunni student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sent a
screed against Ashura to the Muslim Student Association’s e-mail
message list. The document had been taken off SunniPath.com, one of
many Web sites of Islamic teachings that Shiite students said regularly
spread hate disguised as religious scholarship.”

We sent a letter to the New York Times in response. Below is an expanded version of the letter

IslamOnline.net- Mixed Marriages in Iraq

With the continuing sectarian strife in several areas of the Iraqi capital, one

might be surprised to find that the cultured Baghdadi youth remain uninfluenced when it comes to marriage. Their choices will still include of someone from a sect or ethnicity other than their own.

Fethullah Gülen: A life dedicated to peace and humanity - Who Created God?

People with no inner spiritual life sometimes ask: If God created everything, who created God? The Prophet said that some people would ask this very question: “A day will certainly come when some people will sit with their legs crossed and ask: ‘If God created everything, who created God?’”

Georgia Mayor Converts to Islam at HAhmed.com

Mayor Jack Ellis has converted to Islam and is working to change his legal name to Hakim Mansour Ellis.

Ellis, 61, a Macon native who was raised Christian, said he became a Sunni Muslim during a December ceremony in the west African nation of Senegal.

Sexy for the Intellectuals: A Pope for the Melancholy Modern Age - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Why is a reactionary Bavarian anti-modernist in white robes so fascinating to the enlightened intellectuals among us? The riddle that is Joseph “Sepp” Ratzinger, aka Benedict XVI.

Psychology Today: Tiny Attractors: Boy Meets Girl

Boys and girls don’t simply prefer to stick with their own kind. Kids are fascinated by creatures of the opposite sex, but strongly averse to them. As in, “ewwwww.”

Read the article… consider, with it, the sunna of increasing separation between boys and girls from around 5 or 6 years; and encouraging that from age 7; and then making it the norm from age 10… Subhan Allah wa’l Hamdulillah

BBC NEWS | Business | Here is the US news from Bangalore

In a windowless office in central Bangalore, dozens of employees are arriving to work on the night shift.

They are journalists employed by the world’s biggest news agency, Reuters.

:. Dala’il al-Khayrat .:

Dala’il al-Khayrat, the most celebrated manual of Blessings on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) in history, was composed by the Sufi, wali, Muslim scholar of prophetic descent, and baraka of Marrakesh Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d. 870/1465)….