AVICENNA : Prince of Physicians

In Unani Medicine, the name of Hakim Ibn Sina, known to the West as Avicenna, towers head and shoulders above all others. Whereas Hippocrates is called the Father of Medicine, Avicenna has been called the Father of Modern Medicine. He is also called the Prince of Physicians.
Avicenna was born in 980 A.D. near Bokhara, an ancient center of culture and learning in Persia. As a child, Avicenna showed a prodigious intellect. By age ten, he had committed the entire Koran to memory. While still in his teens, Avicenna had learned all there was to learn from the scholars of Bokhara, and had mastered the art of medicine.
When Avicenna was only twenty-one, his father died. This traumatic event, coupled with the great political turmoil of the time, sent Avicenna on a period of constant wandering. He finally found refuge in the court of a prince in Hamdan, Persia, but even this wasn't enough to protect Avicenna from the whirlwind of political intrigue that surrounded him. He was even jailed on one occasion.

What they say about prophet Muhammed (pbuh)

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modem history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then-inhabited world; and more than that he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls…. His forbearance in victory, his ambition which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire, his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death- all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold: the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with the words. Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
- Lamartine
Histoire de la Turquie, Pans 1854, Vol. 11, pp. 276-77

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue. If ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.
- Bosworth Smith
Mohammad and Mohammadanism, London 1874, p 92.

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.
- Annie Besant
The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p 4

His readiness to undergo persecution for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his achievement all argue his fundamental integrity To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.
- W Montgomery Watt
Mohammad At Mecca, Oxford, 1953, p 52.

Muhammad, the inspired man who founded Islam, was born about AD. 570 into an Arabian tube that worshipped idols. Orphaned at birth, he was always particularly solicitous of the poor and needy the widow and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden. At twenty he was already a successful businessman, and soon became director of camel caravans for a wealthy widow. When he reached twenty-five his employer, recognizing his meet, proposed marriage. Even though she was fifteen years older, he married her, and as long as she lived remained a devoted husband. Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God’s word, sensing his own inadequacy But the angel commanded Read’. So far as we know, Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth: “There is one God.” In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his beloved son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred, and rumors of God’s personal condolence quickly arose. Whereupon Muhammad is said to have announced,’ An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human-being.” At Muhammads own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to become his administrative successor killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history: ‘If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But if it is God you worshipped, He lives for ever’.
James A. Michene
“Islam: The Misunderstood Religion,”
Reader’s Digest (Amencan ea.) May 1955, pp. 68-70.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.
Michael H. Hart
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History,
New York: Hart Publishing Company Inc. 1978, p 33.

I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind…. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet’s biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.
Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in ‘Young India,’1924.

“If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.”
“I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”
Sir George Bernard Shaw in ‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
“A silent great soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the world, the world’s Maker had ordered so.”
Thomas Carlyle in ‘Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,’ 1840

The good sense of Muhammad despised the pomp of royalty. The Apostle of God submitted to the menial offices of the family; he kindled the fire; swept the floor; milked the ewes; and mended with his own hands his shoes and garments. Disdaining the penance and merit of a hermit, he observed without effort of vanity the abstemious diet of an Arab.
Gibbon in ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ 1823

It was the genius of Muhammad, the spirit that he breathed into the Arabs through the soul of Islam that exalted them. That raised them out of the lethargy and low level of tribal stagnation up to the high watermark of national unity and empire. It was in the sublimity of Muhammad’s deism, the simplicity, the sobriety and purity it inculcated the fidelity of its founder to his own tenets, that acted on their moral and intellectual fiber with all the magnetism of true inspiration.
Arthur Glyn Leonard in ‘Islam, Her Moral and Spiritual Values’

What's up with Pokemon?

Pokemon perhaps became the most controversial entertainment product at this time. Game, film, doll, and his card the hard behaviour in the market in five last years. But later began to emerge the assumption that Pikachu and friends were the certain implement of the group's propaganda. How come could? This controversy emerged the first time when Los Angeles Times unloaded the article about the Saudi Arabia protest against all the Pokemon products, from game, the film, to the card. Pokemon was regarded as the Jewish conspiracy product and was forbidden to circulate in this country. What was the foundation of these charges? was found the picture of the star six that was the symbol zionisme at the same time the symbol of the Israeli country. Moreover, "Pikachu" words personally it seems meant "me was a Jew" in Japanese. But was not yet received by the comment from the Japanese embassy in Saudi Arabia about this last assumption. Or was among you that knew precisely the meaning these words? In the meantime "Pokemon" words personally it was suspected meant "the Lord was not available"," although Nintendo that the first time issued this product as hard as possible said that "pokemon" was the abbreviation from "pocket the sample". Pokemon also it was considered promoted the theory of the evolution, pushed gambling, that all of it that was compatible with the religious teaching.

Until this was not yet seen clear the response from the owner of Pokemon copyright and other related sides. That was clear, apart from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia also it was reported took the similar attitude. However, not all this was too excessive? The point of view anyone has been clearly different, and not to his place if one side forced him to the other side. Perhaps "pokemon" by his manufacturer really was meant as "pocket the sample", that by chance was liked by children and the adult, afterwards exploded and made the world be crazy about.

Now in Jordania, the leaflet anti Pokemon also spread almost all over the hands of the parents. His contents in part explained several meanings of words that were used in the Pokemon game. As Pokemon words personally, according to the leaflet came from the Suryaniya language, that meant "me was Jewish". There is still Pikachu words, that also came from the same language, meaning that "was Jewish true". Moreover, there were several words in this game that was significant the insult against Allah.

Although after being confirmed to several experts in the language, generally they refused the view that Pokemon words had relations with the Suryaniya language. Meaning that, the view that was included in the leaflet personally not necessarily was true him. But continue to several young men and nak-child Jordania carried out the mass burning action against things that contained the Pokemon picture. His problem indeed not only was related to meanings that not necessarily were true him that, the game pokemon evidently gave enough impacts of the negative in children's circle.

The Time magazine (on November 22 1999) in cover-story him mentioned: "POKEMON. For many kids it apostr s now an addiction: cards, the video games, toys, a movie." Is it bad for them? Poke-mania or madness would pokemon indeed produced addiction even addiction for children, this was ugly for them? And why this was discussed? Apparently that was ugly and was discussed was the content reality of the addiction, and this that will be discussed in the number of this paper.

Already many in met children brought these cards during to the school and to other places. Children were pushed to adhere to the strength supranatural than the strength from the Lord. Said also that even more cards that were brought will be increasingly big the strength that was received. Could not not we could conclude that pokemon became the idol in living they, became more important than the Lord.

The use of cards pokemon very potential opened the opportunity for the darkness power pressed children, at least, through the activities along with:

1. Attachments, realised and did not realise, to invisible matters available in recorders, the cassette, the book, the picture, the equipment, the game, et cetera.

2. Look for or gave big attention to the invisible strength and the mysticque statement.

3. Amazement to the invisible strength, the invisible statement, and matters of mystique in an general manner.

4. Avoided himself the reality, more relied dreamer.

5. Was interested and was enchanted to the violence, especially the violence that opposed law.

6. Meditation et cetera apart from knowing the Lord with true.

7. The worship or other matters that were linked with the worship of mystique.

Islam is the Light, says DS Game

Several months ago, Rachel Jones was startled one of his child's dolls that was 4 years old could whisper ordered "Islam Is The Light", and he became most startled when finding the same message also being received in game Nintendo DS property of his daughter.
Rachel said he presented the game was entitled Baby Pals to his daughter who was 8 years old on his value of the report that was good. However he did not suspect in this game also was gotten by the same message.
We were sitting in the kitchen, and my daughter that was greating played game this suddenly gazed at me and said that the leading figure of the baby in this game said something, so I saw him and found that this baby said "Islam Is The Light", Rachel explained.

Ordered that was met in the doll and game that was sent in the same voice. Nintendo gave rating E in game this, that meant to be able to be played by all the ages. In game this, the player could interact with their baby, gave him ate, asked him playing, or menimang him to sleep, but this Islam message only emerged in certain moments. While Nintendo delegation said game Baby Pals was made by the significant third party be free from their responsibility although game this under their licence.
Till at this time the manufacturer's side game Crave Entertainment still could not be questioned anything concerning this startling matter. Game Baby Pals could be bought in several places like Game Stop, Walmart.com, Amazon.com and Target.com.
Indeed Allah's method in sending the truth would Islam could go through the road anything, in fact that often was underestimated by us.

Islam Elevates the Woman's Status ?

A friend of mine is in a marriage where the husband preaches that in Islam,

1)The husband is the "King" of the household.
2)His duty is solely to provide for the financial needs of the family.
3) The wife and children cannot question his decisions or ask where he is going or why he needs to go out.
4) The wife must be obedient to her husband and serve him well.
5) The wife cannot go any where, even to get groceries, without the husband's permission.
6) the wife cannot answer back her husband in a defiant or reproachful manner.

So every day, my friend is cooped in the house... her husband comes home from work, spends about an hour at home ... then he goes out... and returns very late at night or in the early mornings and this happens every day of the week.. and on weekends he refuses to bring the family out saying he is too tired and just wants to laze at home...
If the wifes questions where he goes or what he does... she will be reproached as being a bad muslim wife...
The wife is highly educated with a U degree.. was holding a top managerial post befor marriage...but now has become subservient when she became a Muslim wife...

Is this correct ???

Whether in a Muslim or non Muslim marriage, I feel RESENTMENT ... is one of the main cause of relationships drifting apart.. ..specially resentment that has been harboured for too long.

It starts as a dissapointment...
If nothing is done about it, it turns to disgust....
Then, if still left unattended, it turns to anger ....
And if no effort is made to discuss or voice the matter out, then it becomes irreversible and by that time the couple would have drifted too far apart to hope for reconciliation... for by then they would have become like strangers to each other...

Happy are the couples who can be frank and open with each other .. who are able to view adverse comments constructively and not let their ego get in the way...

No hope for the couples in a relationship where the husband insists superiority at all times .. and worse still .. when he says that he did not make the rules.. Islam made the rules for the husband !!