What's Your Prayer Worth?
Wouldn't it be nice if one prayer could make up for a week's worth of missed prayers? For instance, you attend an islamic freedom fighter bomb making seminar and a wayward explosion puts you into a coma for a couple of years...
How would you ever catch up on those 5 prayers a day? That's about 3700 missed prayers!
I stumbled upon this handy guide to islamic prayer values. So, as a gesture of goodwill to any muslim readers we may have, I thought I'd blog it:
So, my muslim friends, the next time you are unable to pray for any length of time, catching up is just an airline ticket away!
Assalamu alaikum!
(Cross-posted at Al Salibiyyah)
How would you ever catch up on those 5 prayers a day? That's about 3700 missed prayers!
I stumbled upon this handy guide to islamic prayer values. So, as a gesture of goodwill to any muslim readers we may have, I thought I'd blog it:
Not all mosques are the same. Allah grades a mosque based on its location. Here is what Allah says about the merit points (these merit points are exchangeable on the resurrection day).
§ 1 prayer in Mecca = 100 000 prayers in an ordinary mosque; 1 prayer in the Medina mosque of Muhammad = 10 000 prayers; 1 prayer at Bait al-Muqaddis = 1 000 prayers…(Ghazali, p.1.192)
§ Pray in an ordinary mosques = 25 times prayer in house; Jame mosque = 500, Al-aqsa = 50 000, Medina = 50 000, Mecca = 100 000 times…(Mishkat, 2.98)
§ One prayer in Muhammad's mosque (in Medina) is better than 1000 prayers in any other mosques, except the Kaba mosque…(Sahih Bukhari, 2.21.282)
So, my muslim friends, the next time you are unable to pray for any length of time, catching up is just an airline ticket away!
Assalamu alaikum!
(Cross-posted at Al Salibiyyah)
Did You Hear The One About The Butt Bomber?
Bwahahahaha! Those whacky jihadists...
I'd hate to be one of his virgins in paradise...
(Hat Tip: The Jawa Report)
(Cross-posted at Al Salibiyyah)
A SUICIDE bomber tried to kill a Saudi prince by detonating TNT hidden up his BACKSIDE.
Fanatic Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri, 23, blew himself up - but his intended victim escaped with minor injuries.
I'd hate to be one of his virgins in paradise...
(Hat Tip: The Jawa Report)
(Cross-posted at Al Salibiyyah)
Happy Friday, Y'all!
Alright... I'm car-crashing the previous video. You can still see it beyond the fold, but if you're looking for something funnier, go no further:
Bad dog! BAD DOG! (Language warning towards the end. You can cut it off after the big moment if you want.) Continue reading »
Bad dog! BAD DOG! (Language warning towards the end. You can cut it off after the big moment if you want.) Continue reading »
Happy Friday, Y'all!
Man, I haven't done one of these in forever.
In an attempt to make your weekend as uplifting as possible, here's a timely reminder that no matter what you're looking for, the government can do it.
(Thanks to Oregon Guy. If you ask me, the only thing this video is missing is a whole pile of dancing bureaucrats. Seeing how wealthy bureaucrats are becoming, how can they not dance?)
In an attempt to make your weekend as uplifting as possible, here's a timely reminder that no matter what you're looking for, the government can do it.
(Thanks to Oregon Guy. If you ask me, the only thing this video is missing is a whole pile of dancing bureaucrats. Seeing how wealthy bureaucrats are becoming, how can they not dance?)
Baby Mohammed Wets Alot
A happy Tuesday chuckle to y'all, courtesy our good friends over at TNOYF, the creators of other fine Mohammed Brand products:
Friday is Hyde Day!
I meant to post this little snippet of the awesome show we went to in Baltimore last night, but I've been swamped with work all day. So, without further ado, here's VAMPS, horsing around with their guitars during the intro to "Midnight Celebration." (Not that you can really hear anything through my horrific microphone, of course...)
Better late than never, I say.
Anyway, I'm going to be cramming for a final all weekend, so I'll be seeing y'all around. Hope you and yours have an excellent time! Continue reading »
Better late than never, I say.
Anyway, I'm going to be cramming for a final all weekend, so I'll be seeing y'all around. Hope you and yours have an excellent time! Continue reading »
You Can Have My Cheetos When You Pry Them From My Cold Dead Hands!
URGENT! Brady Campaign has released the following statement about THIS story: "Each day in America more than 80 people die from Cheetos® and another 200 are wounded but survive with clogged arteries. This level of lethal and traumatic snacking is much higher than other developed countries.
This tragedy will continue unless we adopt strong, sensible Cheetos® laws to make it harder for dangerous people to get their hands on the popular snack."
"First and foremost," said an unidentified Brady Campaign spokesman, "We should try to keep Cheetos® out of the hands of those who should not have them, including criminals and children."
The Brady Campaign statements are referring to an incident that took place on the evening of June 21st, 2009. Cpl. Kevin Roddy, of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department, was the first on the scene. According to his report:
...the pair became "involved in a verbal altercation" with each other "at which time Cheetos potato chips were used in the assault."
"There was evidence of the assault," the report read, "however no physical marks on either party and the primary aggressor was unable to be determined."
Where I come from, we call this a "food fight."
Someday, Maybe Today
Born in Tehran during the turmoil of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Nazanin Afshin-Jam's family was forced to leave all their worldly possessions behind and flee to freedom, when her father had been jailed and tortured by the Revolutionary Guard under the new regime. Awaiting execution, it was the family's escape to Europe that saved them from political persecution. Faced with adversity so early in life, the revolution impacted her core.
Throughout Nazanin's life, she has found solace in the music that surrounds her. Her mother inundated their family with music flowing constantly in the house from her incredibly eclectic music collection. Her constant world travels and cultural awareness have molded her musical acuity to span a spectrum broader then most are ever exposed to. Blessed with the voice of angels, Nazanin whisks audiences away on a musical journey around the world with her debut album,"Someday".
A Cool Way To Get A Headache
All morning, I've been checking out the stereograms at deviantART.
I now have a raging headache, a thousand yard stare, and my glasses no longer improve my vision.
Cool.
Having trouble viewing the image in 3-D?
Continue reading »
I now have a raging headache, a thousand yard stare, and my glasses no longer improve my vision.
Cool.
Having trouble viewing the image in 3-D?
Continue reading »
Spiders On The Moon
What began as a glimmer in the mind's eye for one robotics researcher has grown into a national endeavor for Team Italia, one of 17 groups competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.
"Team Italia has evolved," said Piero Messina, president of the Naples-based International Association for the Aerospace Culture (AICA) that is coordinating Team Italia.
Messina helped pull together all the major Italian aerospace and engineering universities, as well as the two largest Italian aerospace companies, to support the race to land a robot on the moon by 2012.
The idea to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize crystallized around the vision of Alberto Rovetta, a professor of robot mechanics at Politecnico di Milano.
Rovetta's designs for lunar robots resemble skittering spiders or crabs that could deploy as a swarm of mobile cameras and sensors on both legs and wheels.
Such unorthodox designs may help the team seize the Google Lunar X Prize, which requires teams to land a robot on the moon, move at least 1,640 feet (500 meters) and beam high definition views back to Earth.
(Source)
Internet Party
Well, Brian came back early, so Snappedshot couldn't host the party as planned. Google took the opportunity to host it's own party (and we weren't even invited!)
But we do have video:
But we do have video:
