http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a pamphlet online by Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamanei called "Al Tawhid and its Social Implications." It discusses the natural result of a Tawhidi world view from the viewpoint of society and humanity's relationship with all others. It emphasized a point which I find valuable; that ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2008/09/15/al-tawhid-and-its-social-implications/ Basic layout/design complete! InshaAllah the new address to the blog is: http://www.whatheblog.com. Please update your links, because I will not be updating this anymore. I keep this as is, but please continue to visit the new blog. It is still under development stages, so any suggestions, etc would be perfect:). Edit: ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/19/new-blog-is-up-whatheblogcom/ I will be revamping the entire blog in the upcoming weeks. I will use a different blogging system. There will also be many new features. For example broader categories catered towards a bigger audience and possibly a different url or domain. So stay tuned... :) http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/15/total-revamp/ I get at least 5 of these types of email a day (for work)... it can get annoying :) Hi all, Does anyone have one or two extra mice that are CD45.1 positive (also known as Ly5.1 positive). Our order from JAX is only coming at the end of the month. Thanks http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/06/work-email/ As the moon moved through the stages of the eclipse, George Lovely took this series of images from which he created a montage. (source: BBC) http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/04/the-lunar-eclipse/ I apologize for the delay. I am really swamped with work and life, so please bear with me. We all strapped up in our gear. I had my double-layered kufi, and the others had thier own stuff. We were too excited to think logically and we were extremely late. The sun ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/02/grand-canyon-adventure-part-2/ I wrote a letter in response to Parvez Ahmed's ( board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group) and I received a generic response and I replied again. Here are the set of emails (in order). A Naqvi To: pahmed@cair.com Brother Ahmed Salaamun 'akaykum wa ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/21/cair-article-comment/ The Canyon trip was indeed an adventure. I am inshaAllah going to blog on it. I don't have time to blog all of it, so I'll divide it into parts I guess. For the sake of confidentiality I will use fake names (Sam, Albert, Kemp, Abbas, Bernstein). This is not ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/21/grand-canyon-adventure-part-1/ I recently interviewed Dr. Shahid Alam, the author of "Challenging the New Orientalism." Here is an excerpt: Q: After being featured on “Jihad Watch,” being blacklisted by David Horowitz and being accused of being “un-American” by Bill O’Reilly, what was your motivation for publishing the book knowing that you may be ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/20/interview-with-dr-shahid-alam/ Will be going to Pheonex for the masjid program there, inshaAllah on friday and then camping and hiking the Grand Canyon (18 or so miles - don't ask how I will survive). Hence, I will not be updating 'till I reurn (Monday, inshaAllah). http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/15/trip/ The great Muslim divide has has taken shape in the United States. There was an article (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/us/04muslim.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26eiQ3D5059Q26enQ3D783e875fdbbd422fQ26exQ3D1171256400Q26partnerQ3DAOLQ26pagewantedQ3Dprint&OP=62eb560fQ2FD9ApDQ3CQ24Q2Az5Q24Q24ByDyZZQ2BDZyDZQ25DQ7CzDZQ25tQ7Cz4ltQ26JBt4) written by Neil MacFarquhar on the NY Times entitled Iraq’s Shadow Widens Sunni-Shiite Split in U.S., where he talks about the tension and discrimination primarily against the Shi'a Muslims. To a certain extend ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/12/the-great-divide/ InshaAllah, I will return in due-time with regular updates. http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/05/soon/ The revolution of Husain (pbuh) was an Islamic movement spearheaded by one of the great leaders of Islam. The principles and laws of Islam demanded that Husain (pbuh) act to warn the Ummah of the evil situation which it was in, and to stand in the way of the deviating ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/01/21/the-revolution-of-husayn-a/ a fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced/size copy of the whole" http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/01/16/a-cool-fractal/ Something really annoying is when I inform people of what I do (DNA analysis), and what field I work in (bioinformatics/biotechnology/bioengineering) and the first question they ask is, "Can you clone me?" or "So did you clone any people?" It was funny at first, but now its annoying, no offense. ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/01/12/no-i-cannot-clone-you/