ll roads lead to Bihar’s town with a view, Patna, July 15, 2009<http://syedmdasadullah.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/all-roads-lead-to-bihar%e2%80%99s-town-with-a-view-patna-july-15-2009/> July 17, 2009
*Taregana* is buzzing with activity. The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), the US space research and exploration agency, has declared after 20 years of research that this nondescript town, 25 km south of Patna, is the best location on earth from which to watch the largest solar eclipse of the century on July 22. NASA has also listed it among the best places from which to observe the stars. Aryabhatta (476-550 AD) had figured this out a long time ago. The 200-km-wide shadow of the eclipse will cover places as distant as Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh in India: Prof Vikrant Narang, AstronomerThe famous 6th Century astronomer-mathematician from India’s Golden Age — who first proposed that the earth rotates on its axis and developed the concept of zero — had located his observatory at the sun temple that existed in Taregana (literally, song of the stars) then. Following unknowingly in his footsteps, scientists, tourists and eclipse chasers from across the world suddenly want to visit Taregana. The problem: Taregana does not have hotels or other facilities to receive so many guests. The solution: The Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation will put up tents and temporary cottages to cope with the rush. The July 22 eclipse, which will begin at 5.29 a.m., will be the longest in the 21st century and last 6 minutes and 39 seconds. It will not be surpassed in duration till July 13, 2132, ie, 123 years from now. “The 200-kilometer-wide shadow of the eclipse will cover places as distant as Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh in India and extend to China and Japan. It will be most intense in and around Taregana’s Sun Temple (built recently on the location of the one that existed in Aryabhatta’s time),” said Professor Vikrant Narang, an astronomer associated with the Space Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators, a non-governmental organisation working to popularise science among the masses. Scientists from NASA, the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Indian Space Research Organization will start arriving in Taregana from July 17. They will stay at the local hospital where the rooftop is being converted into a temporary observatory. Many others are expected to stay in Patna and drive down to Taregana very early on July 22 to view the eclipse. Source: Hindusatan Times http://syedmdasadullah.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/all-roads-lead-to-bihar%E2%80%99s-town-with-a-view-patna-july-15-2009/ > > > Does the Hadith have a Solid Historical > Basis?<http://syedmdasadullah.blogspot.com/2009/07/does-hadith-have-solid-historical-basis.html> > > All Muslims, even including those who champion the Hadith, accept the fact > that after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, false hadith reports about or > attributed to the Prophet Muhammad "mushroomed" into hundreds of thousands. > The compilations that were made more than two centuries after the Prophet's > death were done after sorting through mountainous piles of individual hadith > reports. Bukhari, for example, made a selection of some seven thousand > traditions (including repeated ones) out of reportedly six hundred thousand > he found in circulation – roughly one out of every one hundred. That means > that he discarded all but a tiny fraction of the hadith in circulation as > false. This factor alone leaves open the question whether his selection has > been foolproof. -- *Abdur Rab* > > *Editor's note*: This is all the more important at a time when Jihadis are > stealing our children away from us and turning them into sacrificial goats > in their war of supremacy over other sects on the basis of patently > concocted and fabricated Ahades. One of the funniest I found in a manifesto > of a Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir-based terrorist organization Al-Badr claiming > that the Prophet (PBUH) said that Jihad against India is Jihad-e-Afzal, that > is greater in importance and reward than even the Jihad against the Meccan > enemies of Islam that the Prophet himself fought. But apparently our > children, some of them even the most highly educated and intelligent ones > are not able to differentiate between a correct and a fabricated Hadees. The > moment you ascribe a quotation to the Prophet, it acquires a certain > sanctity in the eyes of a devout Muslim. However the knowledge of the fact > that authentic compilers like Bukhari and Muslim discarded hundreds of > thousands of Ahadees should help Muslims understand that they just cannot > attach much sanctity to Ahadees unless they find that they are merely > elaborating an injunction of the Quran while maintaining the same spirit > inculcated into us through the Quran. This makes Mr. *Abdur Rab's* study > very valuable. > 1 Comments > More..<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1550> > > > http://syedmdasadullah.blogspot.com/2009/07/does-hadith-have-solid-historical-basis.html > -- > Syed Asadullah > > Asad Farooqui responds to Maulana Nadeemul Wajidi’s view of > Hijab<http://syedmdasadullah.blogspot.com/2009/07/asad-farooqui-responds-to-maulana.html> > ** > > The one defence of this inhuman practice of the Burqa, making Muslim women > one-eyed creatures, is the Aya 53 of Surah Al-Ahzab. Obviously, the > Maulana doesn't seem to understand or is probably being mischievous when he > ignores the fact that this Aya only came to teach good manners to the > uncouth and illiterate Bedouins among whom Islam came to begin with and > addressed them directly in the first instance. > > … but to stretch it to justify the inhuman practice of putting women under > the leash of the burqa is truly a travesty of Islam. It amounts to demeaning > and belittling the great religion of Islam which came in the world to > liberate and not to enslave humanity. > > But the Maulana is so grateful to Allah for making him an 'Islamic scholar' > that he doesn't want to leave anything to Him. He makes his own lexicon of > what is good and what is bad and in his own imaginary world keeps > manufacturing a 'unanimous' opinion of 'Islamic scholars'. -- *Asad > Farooqui* > 3 Comments > More..<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1547> > Posted > By Asadullah Syed > > > > -- > Syed.Asadullah > > > > -- > Syed.Asadullah > -- Syed.Asadullah -- Syed.Asadullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. 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