Prison Break 3

I just finished watching the last 3 episodes of prison break season three. Waited quite some time to get all the episodes. It was superb lah, every second grabs my attention man! Kept me at the edge of my seat. Such a clever pot with unsuspected twists everywhere. Their plan to escape from sona via the tunnel kind of failed but in that failure Michael and whistler managed to escape, while the guards were still distracted.

Poor lechero got shot in the chest and my favourite villain of all time simply just had to sinisterly capitalize on the THE MOST opportune moment, by pretending to rescue a gunshot wounded lechero only to make use of him to send in money, US$ 50 000, and then kill him. Smart, I like that one. The dying lechero could only shake his head in utter disgust for T-Bag, and told him to execute his Machiavellian move swiftly, via pillow suffocation. T-Bag, now with the money, made himself King Of Sona, how ingenious!

The final episode was really fantastic. The genious Michael Scofield managed to outsmart Susan B aka Gretchen into making the exchange in a public, yet highly secured place, the Museum of Antiquities. That way ensures Susan enters without any hidden pistols. Once the exchange is done, Michael intentionally triggers the alarm just so to lock them all in. I tell you, it’s a really good thriller lah season 4 MUST come out SOOOOOOON!!!

The last part was really touching, LJ Burrows gave his uncle Michael a piece of rose flower polygamy, the same one he had given to Sarah in season one. That just brought back memories of her, it was just soo touching, that very instant…and saddening and enraging to think that she got her head and body separated all thanks to Gretchen.

This series is just full of conspiracies all over the place, people trusting each other solely for their own survival, only to betray and backbite when the moment comes, just so to gain some small incentives.
I LOVE PRISON BREAK!

Precious Gems

Three books by western scholars about al-Qutb Ar-Rais, Sidi Ahmad Ibn Idris ra. So rare, so not readily available, so expensive if available, out of print.

1)The Letters of Ahmad Ibn Idris (Hardcover)by Ahmad Ibn Idris (Author)

2)The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idris: A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis : Four Arabic Texts With Translation and Commentary (Islamic History and Civilization) (Hardcover)by Bernd Radtke (Author), John O'Kane (Author), Knut S. Vikor (Author), R. S. O'Fahey (Author)

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60 years and a statement

not many people are aware of this, taught it would be good if i were to share:

We must not minimize the seriousness of the grave sin of rejoicing, or appearing to rejoice and making a festival on the terrible Day of Blasphemy, that they call: "Yom Atsmaut" (Israeli Independence Day). The day that the members of the conspiracy against G-d and His Messiah, established their Kingdom of Atheism over the Jewish People, by uprooting the Holy Torah and the Faith. At that time, the shedding of blood of myriad's upon myriad's of Jews began.

This is much worse than accepting idolatry, because they not only accept it, but celebrate and rejoice in the terrible rebellion against G-d and His Holy Torah. There are many sinners and even deniers of the Faith, whose hearts trouble them, because they are not serving G-d, but they are unable to stand up against temptation and against deceitful ideologies that confuse them. However, those who rejoice in this sin, are guilty of much worse, blasphemy.

May the Merciful save us from them and from their followers, and strengthen our hearts and enlighten our eyes in His Torah and in His Service.May His name be blessed.

Va'Yoel Moshe, vol 2 chap. 157, by The Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar ZT”L


lesson to take home: don't heed the rhetoric calls of puritans who exhort the hatred of Jews as a people. that is NOT ISLAMIC. Don't listen to "self-proclaimed salafis", wahhabies etc. Search for authentic Shuyukh who are close to God

Venitian ikhwan!

We had the pleasure of hosting an ikhwan from venice, Bro Nicola Isa Abd Haqq Benassi,23 years of age, who converted to islam 2 yrs ago, at the hands of Shaykh Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini who was born to a Japanese muslim woman and Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini. This story of the Pallavicinis is just sooo interesting.

We had dinner after mgrb at joo chiat, and I had a light moment and wonderful sharing by Brother Isa,who speaks fluent Italian and French, and Arabic. He told me his story. He was born a catholic and converted to islam just a yr ago, studying islam and Arabic at venice and Milan under the tutelage of shaykh yahya pallavicini. And we joked around, askin him whether or not he is married and he is not. We told him in Singapore there are a lot of good muslimahs. Haha

with Bro Isa Abdal Haqq Benassi

Anyways, I asked him about adaptation, from cathoicism to islam.
He said something to this effect;
It is quite natural for me because both come from God and I am still worshipping the same God.

And I asked what about the Trinity?
He said in theology trinity and tauhid is different and incompatible and he accepts that tauhid is the correct one.

Then I asked how did you come to accept the Prophet saw?
He said I didn’t know abt islam or the Prophet saw until about a yr ago when I started reading up, I even do not know that I would be in Singapore today to visit the zawiya of Sidi Abdul Rasyid bin Muhammad Sa’id al-linggi. But I see the Prophet, u know he is the Seal of all messengers, as the final synthesizer of all the monotheistic religion. Almost as saying “if there is such a thing as the Old and New testament, then there is such a thing as the LAST AND FINAL TESTAMENT and that is the Quran.

Lai yushibanaa illa maa kataballahu lanaa, HUWA MAWLANA.

And I asked him again, what made you come to Islam?
He said it was his search for a spiritual master and he found Shaykh Yahya Pallavicini.

I interrupted, aren’t bishops and the Pope spiritual masters?
He said only by name, not practice. He met Pope Benedict the 16th and couldn’t feel the attraction to a master as he felt for Shaykh Yahya and Shaykh Abdul wahid pallavicini. MasyaAllah!

One of the things he mintak kirim bawak balik ke italy is the kain pelekat, haha.

Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini, Shaykh Yahya’s father, was among the first ever recorded Italian musim. He travelled to Egypt and converted to islam and was initiated into the Syazili Order of Shaykh Abu Hasan Asy-Syazili. Then he experienced a spiritual opening to look for his Guide. So he travelled far and wide until word came to him of a famous Shaykh in Singapore. He came to Singapore and attended the zawiya and majlis of Sidi Abdul Rasyid bin Sidi Muhammad Sa’id Al-Linggi, seorang anak melayu yang sangat sangat diakui kealimannya ,kesolihannya oleh para guru-guru beliau di hijazz.

Anyways, Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini was attracted to Sidi Rasyid and then took baiah under him. And Sidi Abdl Rasyid gave him, one of four who received the ijaza from sidi Rasyid to propagate the tariqah ahmadiah idrisiah to Italy. Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini returned to Italy and founded the COREIS and the Al-Wahid Mosque in Milan, the Ahmadi zawiya there, hopefully I get to visit one day amin!

When, February 2006, Yahya Pallavicini, imam and vice-president of the CO.RE.IS., was invited to become a member of the Council for Italian Islam set up by the Ministry of the Interior, one of the main aims of the Comunità Religiosa Islamica (COREIS) Italiana was realized — that is, the provision of a face and official status for Islam in Italy. It is almost twenty years since Pope John Paul II invited the representatives of all the world religions to gather in Assisi. The Islamic authorities also included Shaykh ‘Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini, who was the inspirer and catalyst of the group of Muslim intellectuals who in 1993 founded the Associazione Internazionale per l’Informazione sull’Islam, which was transformed into the CO.RE.IS. Italiana in 1997
http://www.coreis.it/home%20page%20in%20inglese.htm

His father, Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini, embraced the Muslim faith in 1951, like many other European intellectuals at that time who adopted Islam in the wake of the French metaphysician René Guénon. In the course of a long of a voyage in the East, he joined the Sufi confraternity Ahamadiyyah Idrissiyyah Shadhiliyyah, which is in sharp contrast to the sectarian Wahhabi Islamism that still dominates Saudi Arabia. He later became head of the confraternity in Italy. In Assisi, in 1986, Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini took part in the prayer meeting among the leaders of the religions called together by John Paul II. His dream is to build in Milan "a little Jerusalem that would see the children of Abraham united in prayer: Jews, Christians, and Muslims." His unshakable faith is that Islam is "the ultimate and definitive expression of that primordial tradition that founded, confirms, and vivifies the earlier revelations." http://www.acommonword.com/index.php?page=media&item=314

Since then, the Pallavicinis saw the conversion of some 50k Italians to islam packaged with the idrisi tradition, to such as extent that practically every Italian muslim today is an Ahmadi, and no, by that they are not the infamous ahmadis associated with mirza ghulam ahmad of british india. Ahmad is one of the Most Exalted names of the Prophet alaihi afdhalasalatu wassalam. Which is why in surah saff, when jesus was prophesying about the Prophet Muhammad saw, he said “good news of a messenger who will come after me, his name is AHMAD.” Ahmadurrasulullah, muhammadurrasulullah

with dr ahmad hassan malibari, slalu nyakat aku

afther dinner, we had isyak at an ikhwan's place and then off to masjid kassim for zikir. Bro isa is just 2 years muslim yet he was the imam for our isyak, impressive! we were served durian puffs, kinda awkward for bro isa but makan jugak!

Bro Isa and Ust Hasbi, Khalifah tariqah di Singapura

the old-timers

Sidi Ahmad ibn Idris, may Allah sanctify his soul, was a syazili before receiving instructions to establish his own tariqah when he met nabi saw secara suri(yaqaza).

Sidi ahmad idris punye khalifah pertama ialah sidi Ibrahim ar-rasyid dan selepas itu sidi Muhammad ad-dandarawi.

Sidi Jamaluddin al-linggi pula mengambil tariqah ini daripada sidi Muhammad dandarawi. Antara anak sidi jamaluddin ialah sidi Muhammad sa’id bin jamaluddin al linggi, a close friend of al gwath habib nuh al habsyi. Sidi Muhammad sa’Id dapat perintah rasul supaya sebarkan ajaran ke tanah jawi.

Anaknya, Mufti negeri 9 sebelum ini, Tuan Shaykh Ahmad bin Muhammad sa’id, pernah menjadi khalifah bagi tariqah ni. Shaykh Ahmad bin Muhammad sa’id al linggi adalah abang kepada sidi Abdul Rasyid bin Muhammad said al linggi.

Sekarang mufti N9 is Sohibus Samahah Tuan Mufti Shaykh Murtadha bin Shaykh Ahmad bin shaykh Muhammad said al linggi, abang kepada Sidi Faiz bin Shaykh Ahmad bin shaykh Muhammad said al linggi.

So its really very recent, just 5 generations away from sidi ahmad ibn idris al fasi.

And it’s very interesting to have ikhwan from Europe with unfamiliar names such as benassi, pallavicini, salvatore perhaps?

Tuan Mufti Shaykh Murtadha bin Shaykh Ahmad bin Shaykh Muhammad Said al Linggi

Tuan Mufti and Shaykh Hisyam at a sufi conference in Morocco

Shaykh Yahya Pallavicini and Pope Benedict XVI

Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini-extreme left

Shaykh Yahya

Shaykh Yahya's visit to mjd kassim 24 June 2007

Shaykh Abdul Wahid Pallavicini and Pope John Paul II

i miss those times...

ns has its own story.but whatever it is, i sure do miss those time while i still hold my pink ic, i miss those times in school, those lepak sessions kat maner2 kedai mama, and many2 more lah. now my medic course is ending soon, feels like ns is ending soon but then again, dream ah dream. the medic course so far has been great, very informative plus much more welfare than tekong. a lot of funny things and jokes with the sarjans too.

one classic one:
sgt: OI! today friday leh! bookout day still wanna do stunts?!huh! move like donkey! shout like donkey!

we all just laughed, Jern, inna ankaral aswaati la shoutul hameeeer eeee horh! hahaha

i miss school, so fun

with jc buddy zamir chew

my cracko-in-the-nuts class, 06S32

Awestruck!

I attended Dr Jeffrey Lang’s(a math professor at University of San Francisco) lecture at HDB Hub on Saturday and I told myself I’ve gotta blog about it immediately when I come back, lest I miss out some points. Well, as an intro, the topic was Journey to islam - his personal journey to islam

And so he began by giving us some background of himself – he was raised a catholic, had a very amiable, caring, magnanimous mother who expressed her religiosity through kindness to all those around her as she was a nurse, had a father who was an alcoholic and as with most other heavy alcoholics, his father too was abusive.

In his early teenage years, he started asking questions such as these “why would a Just Creator allow my good mother to suffer?” His family problems apparently didn’t improve and so this led him to weaken his faith and belief in God, and he became an atheist at the age of 16.

During the years to come, he became friends with some muslims who were not religious, ie they never prayed etc. He began asking them questions about Islam but those muslim friends of his were kind of uncomfortable conversing about religion as they themselves were not religious. So those friends gave him a copy of the Quran.

Dr then opened the first chapter and read surah al fatiha. He said the first few verses were like a hymn of praise, something like the Song of Solomon. And then he read the next few verses that asks for guidance and said, how opportunistic! First you praise Him and then ask favours from Him! At this juncture, Dr already can start to feel the ingenuity behind the literature. So what favours were asked for? The guidance to the straight path(sirat al mustaqeem). Ok.

Then he read the next surah, al-baqarah. ‘dzalikal kitaab…’
“That is the book...” At this stage, Dr was like, “wow! I was just asking for guidance and You told me That is the book?!” sort of like “You have immediately answered me” kind of feeling. But again, why the word THAT? It is like I am holding the Book in my hands and you tell me THAT is the book? And Dr gets the idea that the Author intends to converse.

Dr read on, until verse 30 where Allah says :
2:30 And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: wilt Thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.

From this, Dr understands that Allah wants Man to be His representatives, or viceroys. And somehow Dr agrees with the question that the angels were asking “why create Man who will cause bloodshed?” Bear in mind Dr has a personal touch to this question because of the childhood years when his father was abusive. Why not just create angels who praise You?

2:31 And He taught Adam all the names, then showed them to the angels, saying: Inform me of the names of these, if ye are truthful
From verse 21, Dr understands that Man is better than angels in that Man have intellect, capacity to reason.

2:35 And We said: O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and eat ye freely (of the fruits) thereof where ye will; but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrongdoers.
2:36 But Satan caused them to deflect therefrom and expelled them from the (happy) state in which they were; and We said: Fall down, one of you a foe unto the other! There shall be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a time.

What was so special about that tree? Apparently nothing much, it is just God’s instructions. When Adam erred and ate from that tree, he was sent to earth, not so much as a punishment, for God was not angry! God even gave habitation and provision! How could this be a punishment?! And then Dr referred to 2:30 where God says I want to establish Viceroy on Earth.

So again, why the incident about eating from the tree? It is God’s way of teaching Man about making reasoned choices, exercising the free will, so that we be ready to be viceroy on earth.

Now here starts the fun part;
2:33 He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names, and when he had informed them of their names, He said: Did I not tell you that I know the secret of the heavens and the earth? And I know that which ye disclose and which ye hide.
Dr admits that reading the Quran is like reading maths, you’ve got to take it word by word and pay careful attention. One thing that I personally find very intriguing about the Quran is that it is full of meaning, both outwardly and inwardly, when the quran appears to be telling something directly, there is always an indirect meaning and when the Quran tells indirectly, there is always an exoteric, direct meaning. The Quran is simply miraculous, no tafseer about the Quran can ever be complete, plus it is also common for sufis to come up with different content everytime they do tafsir on one same verse. EVERY letter has its own secrets.

Anyways, Dr was focusing on “And I know that which ye disclose and which ye hide.” What was it that the angels disclose and what did they hide? They disclosed Man’s tendency to create disaster and concealed Man’s potential to do good.

So Dr said something like “I’ve always dwelled on my father’s bad actions but not on my mother’s kindness, there is that flipside.”

And as Dr continued reading the Quran, he realized that the Quran wants Man to have qualities such as these, in order to be good: merciful, just, kind, compassionate, wise, rational etc. of course this mini list is not exhaustive.
Again the Dr was asking why should Man, as the viceroy, have these qualities? Dr also made a mini compilation of God’s Attributes mentioned in the Quran and found them to be as follows: The Merciful, The Compassionate, The Just, The Wise etc

Get the picture? Man is the REPRESENTATIVE of God, and was created in His Image.God breathed the soul, part of Him, to Man. And when Man attains those qualities above, Man will draw close to God, and come to know Him! Subhanallah! This is exactly the central message of tasawwuf! I was immediately reminded of the book “The Name and The Named” by Shaykh Toysun Bayrak. God says in hadith qudsi ‘I was a hidden treasure, and I desire to be known, so I created creation’ and in another hadith, “man ‘arifa nafsah, faqad ‘arifa rabbah” he who knows himself knows his Lord. This is maarifatullah, exactly the same thing al-ghazali elucidates in his kimiya as-saadah. It all links up and make sense now! The Purpose of Creation and everything!

I must admit, I was amazed, awestruck. I guess most of the time I was unconsciously gaping at this reality. Dr Lang, a professor of mathematics, figured out or perhaps received, such a profound understanding while reading the Quran for the first time.
I couldn’t help but to ask “what is this? Is this how You work? So subtle, so soft, so gentle, so beautiful…”

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.

Awrad

Awrad of the Most Distinguished Ahmadiyyah Idrisiyyah Order of
Al-Qutb Ar-Rais, Sidi Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Fasi

Fatihatul Awrad

O God, I seek to approach Thee before each and every breath, look and glance which the people of the heavens and the people of the earth cast – everything which is in Thy knowledge, that which is and that which was, I approach Thee before all these.

Tahlil Khusus

There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God; in every glance and every breath, to the number that only God’s knowledge can comprehend.

Salawat Azhimiyyah

O God, I ask Thee by the Light of the Face of God, the Great,
Which fills the pillars of the Throne of God, the Great,
And because of which exist the worlds of God, the Great,
To call down blessings upon our Mawlana Muhammad, whose majesty is Great,
And upon the kin of the Prophet of God, the Great,
In proportion to the sublimity of the Essence of God, the Great,
In every glance and in every breath, inasmuch as they exist in the knowledge of God, the Great,

Being an everlasting prayer as God Himself is Everlasting and Great,
Being an exaltation of the truth of your message, Mawlana Muhammad, whose virtue is Great,
Likewise, grant peace to him and his kin.

Unite him with me, just as Thou unite the spirit with the soul, externally and internally, awake and asleep,
And make him, O God, a solace for my soul in all of life’s moments in this world and before the End,
O God the Great.

Istighfar Al Kabir

I seek pardon of God, the Great; of whom there is no god save He, the Living, the Subsisting, the Forgiver of sins, the Sublime and the Revered.

I seek repentance from all acts of disobedience – all of them, from sins and guilt and from every sin I have committed willfully, by omission, openly and secretly, by word and by deed, in my every movement, my tarrying, my thoughts, my every breath, always and forever eternally; from the sin of which I know and from the sin of which I know not, inasmuch as His knowledge encompasses them and which the Book records and the pen indites; inasmuch as the omnipotence (of God) searches them out and the will of the ink of the words of God disclose them.

Just as it behooves the sublimity, the beauty, the perfection of the Face of our Lord, just as our Lord enjoins and approves.

Seminar: Our Beloved Mustafa

MasyaAllah, truy an enlightening one indeed. the event kicked off with beautiful Qasidah recited by Ustaz Umar Mawlana's group, Qaafilah Zikrullah. I can tell you that from the very beginning, the qasidah was captivating! Accompanied by rhythmic gendang beats, it was so full of energy and very alive. Excellent performance!

Then somewhere in the niddle of the qasidah, the entire room stood up for the arrival of Mawlana Shaykh Afeefuddin Jailani. This is good adab for a qualified guide, we ought to be seeing more of these.

Anyways, an array of speakers touched on issues close to heart about the Holy Prophet, upon whom be peace and salutations of God aplenty. All of us were exhorted to emulate the noble, exalted and transcendant character of Sayyidina Muhammad, alaihi afdhala salatu wassalam, for he was sent for the purpose of perfection of character, for makarimal akhlaq. And to love him, with all our heart...and to show the whole world what a figure of mercy and compassion is the Prophet!

There was this blind old man who sat at the end of an alley, every morning when the Prophet saw passed by the alley, he saw would make a point to feed the blind old man, in the most gentle of ways, he would soften or crush the bread first. The old, blind man then also took pleasure in confiding, complaining to the Holy Prophet about how evil was this man whom he got to know as Muhamamad. He would say things like 'Muhammad is a magician!A troublemaker!'. All these while not realising that the one feeding him, showing compassion to him was Muhamamad saw.

After The Prophet's death, his friend, Abu Bakar, continued with this practice of feeding the same old blind man. But the old blind man refused to be fed this time, for he knew that the previous feeder was kind and gentle with his ways and he told Abu Bakar " You are not the one who used to feed me,"

Abu Bakar could only afford to say as such "Of course I am not, and I can never be like him in his exalted character, for the one who had been feeding you all these while was MUHAMMAD, the Messenger of God!"

Asyhadu allaailahaillah, wa asyhaduanna muhammadar rasulullah!

and then there was the recitation of the burdah. The burdah is truly is a masterpiece in its poetry and literature. Consisting of 10 chapters and 160 verses, all of which end with mim, it is a truly moving piece. Though, to be honest, i am not a person of literature, the immense love for the Prophet in the burdah is simpy overwhelming. All these years most of us recite the burdah almost artificially, without thorough consideration of its meanings. But yesterday was different, the brief commentary on the burdah was enough to make one appreciate Imam Busairi's immense love for the Beloved saw. Almost like a romance novel...marvellous...

to end the day, we had diba'i led by Shaykh Zakaria Bagharib who was, as usual, super passionate about the maulid haha. and then the last 2 speeches. a blessed and worthwhile gathering indeed!

Sallallahu alaika wa sallam, Yaa RasulAllah, fii kulli lamhatin wa nafasin 'adada maa wa si'ahu 'ilmullah...

Scientists of Faith who lived in the past

Honesty speaking, it does not take much for any individual to see the Glory of God whilst studying His Works,ie His Creation. And such an idea had been conveyed to us a long time ago in the Quran when God says 'We WILL show them Our Signs in the horizons and within themselves."

God Almighty is Az-Zahir, the Manifest, The Overt, and so too are His Signs scattered all over His Creation.

Continuing on with the flow of logic and the assertion above, there can not be any other conclusion but this:
True science, ie Truth, must point to God.

One immediate lesson here: believers ought to study science to fully appreciate His Wonders and Majesty

Ever since the separation of the church from the state and the crisis during the Dark Ages which had shed negative light on religion as a whole as being anti-progressive, backward, ritualistic, dogmatic,demagogic and superstitious, science has been the subject of heated debate, with believers on one side and atheists on the other.

Atheists have become convinced that anything to do with God is not the truth and that only science should illuminate our lives, hence the names Illuminatus, Illuminati etc.

However, God has His own Ways.

At the dawn of the 21st century, latest discoveries in science in practically every field are continuously pointing to the existence of an Omnipotent Creator.

To quote a few of those fields(i will not go in depth, just briefly)

Biominimetics
The field that makes us realise how architecturally advanced the design in animals are, many of which are far more superior than our inventions

Molecular Biology
How the cell, once deemed basic and simplest, is a huge complex organisation thriving with mechanisms and activities. It is also accepted as a law that all cells come from preexisting cells.
They have also realised that information encoded in the DNA is never a tangible, materia one. Information in DNA exists in the form of the RELATIVE positions of the bases A,T,C and G to each other.

Paleontology (fossils,study of)
The Cambrian Explosion, a prehistoric period of time when many of today's existing life forms appear all of a sudden, Fully-Formed.And after millions of years, bees (and also others) today are still bees just as they were millions of years ago.

Astronomy
The Big Bang and the inevitable conclusion that the Universe came into existence from a point of singularity of no dimensions.

Quantum Physics
The new realization that the constituents of atoms, such as protons and electrons, are all composed of packets of energies,and are thus surprisingly 'empty', quarks and the likes of it. Light as being the intermediary between energy and matter, the nature of Light as something immaterial, neither a particle nor a wave as we know it.

Mathematics
The special properties of the non-prime number 1, its apllication and significance in the binary system that runs all computers, in logarithms, arithmetics, calculus etc

The perception that occurs in the Brain
How it is very perceptionistic and illusionary, how the sights that we see, the sounds that we hear are actually just copies of the original and not the original itself. The original that stimulates, ie light, triggers a stimulus which then sends nervous impulses via neurones to be perceived in the brain. Note that the light itself is not the one being perceived. Light has never penetrated your skull to shine on your brain. Colours are accepted to be something that only our brains perceive, they are not real.

Chemistry
How particles, when combined in specific combinations, can produce everything material! The number of electrons, proton numbers, bondings etc. Optical isomerism which employs the principle of relfection in a plane or on a point, the dualtity of MIRROR images. How our bodies can react very differently to two compounds of the same chemical formula but with different structural isomerism, different orientation in 3D space etc.

These and many more, can only baffle the mind and leave us with no choice but to Glorify the One behind the Transcendent Ingenuity.

Albert Einstein, who is one of the most important scientists of the last century, was also known for his faith in God. He did not hesitate to defend that science could not exist without religion. As he put it:
I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame

Responsible for many groundbreaking discoveries, Max Planck believed in an "all-powerful intelligence which governs the universe."126 Max Planck said that the Creator of the order in the universe is God and elaborated on his belief in God with these words:
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.

Albert Einstein called Maxwell's achievement "the most profound and most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." He was strongly opposed to evolution, and was able to develop a thorough mathematical refutation of the famous "nebular hypothesis" of the French atheist LaPlace. He also wrote an incisive refutation of the evolutionary philosophies of Herbert Spencer, the great advocate of Darwinism. In a letter he mused that the scientist of faith has an obligation to conduct such work as will benefit religion.

Louis Pasteur is one of the greatest figures in the history of science and medicine, chiefly because of his establishment of the germ theory of disease, and his strong opposition to the theory of evolution. He was the first to explain the organic basis and control of fermentation, and as his research led him further and further into bacteriology, he isolated a number of disease-producing organisms, and developed vaccines to combat them - notably the dreaded diseases of rabies, diphtheria, anthrax, and others - as well as the processes of pasteurization and sterilization.
Pasteur, who was a firm believer in God, was the object of fierce opposition because of his resistance to Darwin's theory of evolution. He was a defender of the compatibility of science and religion, which he would often emphasize in his writings. As he put it:
The more I know, the more does my faith approach that of the Breton peasant (i.e., the faith which is serene, complete, unquestioning) Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Having refuted the theory of evolution with his discovery of the principles of inheritance, Gregory Mendel further believed that God had created the world, and that blind chance could not be responsible for the outcome.

Michael Faraday was a scientist who believed in the existence of a Creator, and that science and religion are in harmony. Because one God created the world, he believed, all of nature must be interconnected as a single whole. Based on this idea, he concluded that electricity and magnetism must be interlinked.

Isaac Newton communicated the reason underlying his zeal for scientific endeavor with the following words, in his famous work Principia Mathematica:
...He (God) is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is …eternal and infinite; …he endures and is present. He endures forever, and is everywhere present; and, by existing always and everywhere, he constitutes duration and space... We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things... [W]e reverence and adore him as his servants…

Robert Boyle, father of modern chemistry, founder of Boyle's Law of Gases, PV=nRT, said: "Remember to give glory to the one who authored nature… Use knowledge to bring good to mankind."

An eminent figure in the history of science, Blaise Pascal was also a deeply spiritual man. He referred to the eternal power of God when he said that God is the Creator of everything from mathematics to the order of the elements.

As a scientist, Johannes Kepler also believed that the universe was created by a Creator. When he was asked why he practiced science, he said "I had the intention of becoming a theologian... but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'heavens declare the glory of God'".
The life of Kepler, who believed that God's glory was manifested in everything He created, is an example to how successful and broad-thinking a scientist who admits that there is a divine purpose in nature can be. "Who gave white bears and white wolves to the snowy regions of the North, and a food for the bears the whale, and for the wolves, birds' eggs?" asked Kepler and then replied: "Great is our Lord and great His virtue and of his wisdom there is no number: praise Him, ye heavens, praise Him, ye sun, moon, and planets, use every sense for perceiving, every tongue for declaring your Creator. Praise Him, ye celestial Harmonies, praise Him, ye judges of the Harmonies uncovered: and thou my soul, praise the Lord thy Creator, as long as I shall be: for out of Him and through Him and in Him are all things, both the sensible and the intelligible; for both whose whereof we are utterly ignorant and those which we know are the least part of them; because there is still more beyond. To him be praise, honor, and glory, world without end."

Muhd Izharul Haqq is now 8 mnths old!

he's even fatter now, and i've made a new resolution;

I wil bite his cheeks everytime i see him khekhe.
here are some of his pics i love!