HIYA ALL, ENGINEER HERE LIVING IN DUBAI
Im currently working on a design and build job and doin my masters
in Project Management.
Some pics below of my mom, dad. Oh and theres an oldie of me when i
was little (look at me trying not to blink LOL). (For more recent
pics of me and my younger bro and sis soon, have a look in my
photos)
I consider myself lucky cause God knows Ive had my share of close
calls, in all aspects of life I have a lot to be thankful for and I
know it will never be enough.
Meet my Mom (pretty lady below) and Winner of Sheikh Hamdan Bin
Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences
Winner for Original Research Paper Published in the Emirates
Medical Journal
Dr. Maha Abdel Hadi
Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
King Fahd Hospital of the University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
From Outside UAE - Winning paper - 1
"A positive margin in breast biopsy remains a surgical challenge."
- Finding microscopically positive margins after breast lumpectomy
is generally an indication for re-excision. However, many
re-excision results are inaccurate or negative, thus not
contributing to disease control but may increase patient morbidity.
This attempts to re-evaluate our experience if mastectomies were
justified in positive or close margins, and to set standard
guidelines in the management.
online source:http://www.hmaward.org. ae/site/2006-uaeaward.php
Favorite quotes:
"God is Greater"
Find out why: (http://www.submission.org/God -names.html)
"what doesnt kill me, only makes me stronger" & "no! im not a
terrorist"
A wise man once said : "Terrorists
have no religion": Singh
IANS
"Terrorists have no religion or faith," he said. "They do not
belong to any community. No community or religion can and should be
blamed for irresponsible and violent acts of a few individuals of
that community or religion. Terrorists have to be dealt with as
terrorists per se." Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
yesterday.
Speaking at the Harish Chandra Memorial National Seminar on
Terrorism, Law and Development on the eve of Law Day, Manmohan
Singh also made it clear that while dealing with terrorism security
forces should make every effort to ensure that innocent citizens
are neither harmed nor subjected to undue harassment.
Extract: Gulf News Published: 26/11/2006 12:00 AM (UAE)
So What Does Islam Say about
Terrorism?
Uri Avnery has the answer here
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/c ontent/view/full/35741
Islam, a religion of mercy, does not permit terrorism. In the
Qur?an, God has said:
_ God does not forbid you from showing
kindness and dealing justly with those who
have not fought you about religion and have
not driven you out of your homes. God loves
just dealers. _ (Qur?an, 60:8)
The Prophet Muhammad _ used to prohibit soldiers from
killing women and children,2 and he would advise them: { ...Do
not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.
}3
From the Prophets
Sayings:
On stressing importance of respecting ones Mother:
A man came to the Prophet
Muhammad _ and said: ?O Messenger of God! Who among
the people is the most worthy of my good companionship??
The Prophet _ said: { Your mother. } The man said: ?Then
who?? The Prophet _ said: { Then your mother. } The man
further asked: ?Then who?? The Prophet _ said: { Then your
mother. } The man asked again: ?Then who?? The Prophet _
said: { Then your father. }1
On how women should be treated:
Prophet Muhammad _said: { The best among you are those who
are best to their wives. }4
From Gods Words
(Quran)
_ Your Lord has commanded that you worship
none but Him, and that you be kind to
your parents. If one of them or both of them
reach old age with you, do not say to them a
word of disrespect, or scold them, but say a
generous word to them. And act humbly to
them in mercy, and say: ?My Lord, have
mercy on them, since they cared for me when
I was small.? _ (Qur?an, 17:23-24)
{ O people! Your God is one and your forefather (Adam)
is one. An Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab
is not better than an Arab, and a red (i.e. white tinged with
red) person is not better than a black person and a black
person is not better than a red person,1 except in piety. }2
_ (Remember) when the angels said: ?O
Mary, God gives you good news of a word
from Him (God), whose name is the Messiah
Jesus, son of Mary, revered in this world and
the Hereafter, and one of those brought near
(to God). He will speak to the people from his
cradle and as a man, and he is of the righteous.?
She said: ?My Lord, how can I have a
child when no mortal has touched me?? He
said: ?So (it will be). God creates what He
wills. IfHe decrees a thing, He says to it only,
?Be!? and it is.? _ (Qur?an, 3:45-47)
_ ...They said: ?We killed the Messiah Jesus,
son of Mary, the messenger of God.? They
did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but
the likeness of him was put on another man
(and they killed that man)... _ (Qur?an, 4:157)
For more Visit
http://www.islamway.com/mohamm ad
http://www.islam-guide.com
Or
download the book on Islam Guide at:
http://www.islam-guide.com/isl am-guide.pdf
Extracts from the book:
?The way it was explained tome is that Muhammad was a very
ordinary man. He could not read, didn?t know [how] to write. In
fact, he was an illiterate. And we?re talking about twelve
[actually
about fourteen] hundred years ago. You have someone illiterate
making profound pronouncements and statements and that are
amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I personally
can?t
see how this could be a mere chance. There are too many
accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind
that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to
these
statements.?
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the Department
of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology,
and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Formerly, he was
Professor of Ob-Gyn and the Chairman of the Department of
Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee,
USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility
Society.
He has received many awards, including the Association of
Professors
of Obstetrics and Gynecology Public Recognition Award
in 1992. Professor Simpson studied the following two sayings of
the Prophet Muhammad _:
{ In every one of you, all components of your creation are
collected together in your mother?s womb by forty days... }1
{ If forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God
sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing,
vision, skin, flesh, and bones.... }2
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad _
extensively, noting that the first forty days constitute a
clearly
distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He was particularly
impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those
sayings
of the Prophet Muhammad _. Then, during one conference, he
gave the following opinion:
?So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
_) that have been noted provide us with a specific time table
for the main embryological development before forty days.
Again,
the point has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers
this
morning: these hadeeths could not have been obtained on the
basis
of the scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of
their
writing . . . . It follows, I think, that not only there is no
conflict
between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion can guide
science by adding revelation to some of the traditional
scientific
approaches, that there exist statements in the Qur?an shown
centuries
later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Qur?an
having been derived from God.?
3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor Emeritus of
Anatomy
and Developmental Biology at Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, for 22 years he was
Professor of Anatomy, the Chairman of the Department of
Anatomy,
and the Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute. He was also
the President of the Teratology Society. He has authored more
than 200 publications. In 1981, during the Seventh Medical
Conference
in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Johnson said in the
presentation of his research paper:
?Summary: The Qur?an describes not only the development
of external form, but emphasizes also the internal stages, the
stages
inside the embryo, of its creation and development, emphasizing
major events recognized by contemporary science.?
Also he said: ?As a scientist, I can only deal with things
which
I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and
developmental
biology. I can understand the words that are translated to
me from the Qur?an. As I gave the example before, if I were to
transpose myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and
describing things, I could not describe the things which were
described. I see no evidence for the fact to refute the concept
that
this individual, Muhammad, had to be developing this
information
from some place. So I see nothing here in conflict with the
concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was
able
to write.?1
Here is an article i read on www.gulfnews.com. it was
interesting cause it was so true, media is a very strong tool and
knowingly its being used to sway peoples emotions and thoughts and
influence our views and decisions lets not get sucked into their
mind games.
It was Published : 23/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)
and titled Nationality dictates media coverage By Linda S.
Heard, Special to Gulf News
A 23-year-old South Korean resident of the US carefully plans
and executes an attack on students and teachers at Virginia Tech
leaving 32 dead. A week later, the story still makes newspaper
headlines.
Seung-Hui Cho's life history is dissected on Oprah. NBC
faithfully airs the killer's prepared multi-media package. American
Idol judge Simon Cowell comes under fire for raising his eyebrows
following a contestant's expression of sympathy.
President George W. Bush attends a House Correspondents' dinner
but leaves his jokes at home out of respect for the dead. Britain's
Sky News holds a minute's silence. Pundits on network after network
ask why, a question that was oddly verboten vis- -vis the attacks
on September 11, 2001.
Two days after the campus shooting, car bombs took the lives of
more than 150 innocents in Baghdad. The media gave this incident
slightly more than a passing mention.
Nobody bothered to find out the exact number of dead or their
names. A video message from the killers, even if one existed, would
never be broadcast. Nobody interviewed their grieving relatives.
Nobody stood in respectful silence. And, nobody asks why.
On Friday, a disgruntled Nasa employee took two of his
co-workers hostage. One survived. The other was shot dead. This
incident was given prominence in the news for two days. A
newly-landed extraterrestrial being familiar with the English
language might be forgiven for believing that some people's lives
are worth more than others purely dependent on an accident of birth
or acquired nationality. He, she or it might also wonder why the
word "terrorist" is attached to some killers but not to others.
It's interesting that Seung-Hui Cho appears to have escaped the
"terrorist" tag even though terror is exactly what he wanted to
inflict on his wealthy co-students, whose fancy cars and trust
funds he so bitterly envied. He was even dressed for the part.
Instead he is termed variously as "a gunman", "a student" or a
"killer". An army of psychologists speculate on whether he might
have been autistic or lonely.
There is little press speculation as to why marines murdered 24
civilians in Haditha, including woman and children or why their
superiors covered up the tragedy.
It's also interesting that while the Virginia Tech shooting is
being labelled a "massacre" in The Boston Herald, Reuters, the
Telegraph, the Israeli paper Arutz Sheva and others, there is
little mention of a massacre at Haditha.
Going back a few years, an article in Arutz Sheva titled "CNN
and the media jihad" written by Jack Engelhard perfectly
illustrates these double standards. Engelhard writes "Think Jenin,
that fraudulent 'massacre' that was swallowed whole by the media
Jihad".
In April 2002, the Israeli army entered Jenin, a Palestinian
refugee camp, demolishing homes and killing 52 people, according to
a UN report. Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State, visited
Jenin and reported back that a "massacre" had not taken place.
So what do we learn from these comparisons?
Firstly, it seems the term "terrorist" is reserved mainly for
killers who happen to be Muslim. Timothy McVeigh, who, in 1996,
destroyed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, is usually called
a bomber or mass murderer. The perpetrators of Columbine were
labelled disturbed children or "shooters". Secondly, when the US
military kills civilians as it did in Fallujah, Tel Afar, Al
Mahmudiya and Haditha, the carnage wrought is never referred to as
a massacre. When the US air force incinerated 408 women and
children seeking refuge in a Baghdad air-raid shelter in 1991 this
was never termed a massacre either.
And thanks to academic and media collusion few of today's
youngsters are aware of one of the greatest massacres in history
the US/UK bombing of Dresden during the Second World War, which
flattened the German city and buried up to 135,000 civilians.
What happened at Virginia Tech is shocking, senseless and
painfully tragic. As America grieves the loss of its brightest and
best, the media has a duty to get the story out. However, it also
has a duty to apply the same reporting standards to all
perpetrators and victims of similar crimes.
In fact, it is so biased as to be hardly credible. Why, for
instance, are most people aware of the name Corporal Gilad Shalit
while they cannot even name one of the 10,000 Palestinians,
including dozens of young children, being held in Israeli jails?
Why is the Israeli PR machine given a platform while the
Palestinians are excluded from airing genuine grievances?
The media should strive to be more even-handed. It should agree
on empirical definitions for "terrorist" or "massacre", which
should not depend on the nationalities, religions, ethnicities or
jobs of either perpetrators or victims. Until then we should remind
ourselves of the power of words and the influence they have over
our own perceptions of events.
Was Cho a terrorist or a societal misfit? You decide.
Linda S. Heard is a specialist writer on Middle East
affairs.
She can be contacted at lheard@gulfnews.com.
ONE OF THE MINOR SIGNS OF
JUDGEMENT DAY
Killing
Hadith 4 has predicted that human blood will come to be taken
lightly. This is in keeping with an increase in killing (which is
indicated in other ahadith), for it is conceivable that under such
circumstances, there will be little punitive action against the
murderers.
"By He in Whose hand is my soul! The world shall not pass [away]
before there comes upon people a day in which the murderer will not
know why he has murdered, nor will the murdered one know why he has
been killed."
Another narration by Ahmad clarifies that this killing is amongst
the Muslims, and that it will be on account of the people's minds
at that time being absent.
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http://webpages.marshall.edu/~ laher1/sughra.html
http://www.inter-islam.org/fai th/Majorsigns.html
