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The Glory That Was Baghdad
Baghdad's scholars developed a theory of how disease is spread through germs, and they were the first to quarantine patients in hospital wards. They were also advanced in ophthalmology, inventing a surgical technique for removing cataracts from the human eye with the use of a hollow needle—1,000 years before Europeans first employed similar techniques.
Cover your head
Such is the high nobility of the turban that we are told even the angels wore it. Of the Qur'anic verse, "Your Lord shall help you with five thousand angels bearing marks" (Surat Ali 'Imran, verse 125), Ibn 'Abbas, the greatest of the early exegetes, said: "The signs are that they wore turbans."
Don't ignore the "oppressed."
Al-Tahawi reported from Ibn Mas'ud that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "A person was ordered to be lashed a hundred times in his grave. He continuously asked Allah to decrease his punishment until only one lash remained. His grave was totally filled by fire. When the fire was removed, he regained consciousness and asked, 'Why was I lashed?' He was told, 'You offered a prayer once without proper purification, and you passed by an oppressed person but you did not help him'."
Are Arabs preferred over others?
It is obligatory on a Muslim to believe that Arabs are preferred over other nations because there is a proof for it. However, this is not one of the pillars of our religion such that if someone rejected this, they would be considered outside of Islam. But if one does reject this, one has sinned for not believing in it because it is an affirmed matter according to a clear rigorously authenticated hadith. Also, this issue is not something that is commonly known among most Muslims, so for this, one should not hasten to blame one who disagrees with it. It is necessary, rather, to tell him about the issue. ( How do we reconcile this with the Last Sermon ?) What do you think ?
Triple Filter Test
During the golden Abbasid period, one of the scholars in Baghdad, the capital of Muslim caliphate at that time, was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great scholar and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"
Thought 4U: Christianity and Islam are not at war with each other. There is nothing about them that makes them organically opposed to each other. In fact, they have more in common with each other than they do with any other of the world’s faiths. Besides Christianity, Islam is the only other religion that recognizes Jesus. It is the only other religion that gives honor to his mother Mary. Both Muslims and Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah that was promised to come, and both faiths believe that he will return towards the end of time for the purpose of defeating AntiChrist and of sitting in judgment of the living and the dead. And, more importantly, they both are, in their true forms, universal in their scope and do not adhere to any supremacist themes.
