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My Short Qur’an Course at Baseerah Institute

My experience completing a three month short Qur'an course.

It had been six years since I graduated. Six years since I sat in a classroom or was given any homework. That changed when in January my friend, Warda, encouraged me to take a short three-month course that Baseerah Institute was offering back in January 2022. I was apprehensive; three months? I had originally planned to do a month-long course in Ramadan Dawrah-e-Quran – a brief yet comprehensive…

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Curiosity Activities with Kids

Curiosity Activities with Kids

Children are curious beings. Using their senses of vision, hearing, touch, feel and tasting they are constantly gaining new experiences of the world around them. In a world that is increasing becoming attached to a screen on an electronic device, it’s hard to get by rich experiences of one-on-one interactions, opportunities for real play and communication. By standards, 0-2-year-olds should have…

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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.

Five future impacts

Temperatures will reach 1.5C above 1850-1900 levels by 2040 under all emissions scenarios

The Arctic is likely to be practically ice-free in September at least once before 2050 in all scenarios assessed

There will be an increasing occurrence of some extreme events "unprecedented in the historical record" even at warming of 1.5C

Extreme sea level events that occurred once a century in the recent past are projected to occur at least annually at more than half of tidal gauge locations by 2100

There will be likely increases in fire weather in many regions

[kaalbela]

Bandhani (Hindi: बांधणी, Gujarati: બાંધણી) is a type of tie-dye textile decorated by plucking the cloth with the fingernails into many tiny bindings that form a figurative design. The term bandhani is derived from the Sanskrit word bandh which means "to bind or "to tie"). Today, most Bandhani making centers are situated in Gujarat and Rajasthan in India and Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan. Earliest evidence of Bandhani dates back to Indus Valley Civilization where dyeing was done as early as 4000 B.C. The earliest example of the most pervasive type of Bandhani dots can be seen in the 6th century paintings depicting the life of Buddha found in the caves of Ajanta.

The process involves dyeing a fabric which is tied tightly with a thread at several points. Dyeing is done by hand and bright primary colours like red, yellow and green are predominantly used. A meter length of cloth can have thousands of tiny knots known as bheendi. These knots form a design once opened after the dye has dried.

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THE LONGEST WAY 1.0 - 350 days of hiking through China - TIMELAPSE

Christoph Rehage walked 4500km in 2008 through China. The video is a timelapse of his incredible journey. The idea of this journey, video content & quality and the final result is mesmerizing. Inspirational journey. Check out these links for further reading into Christoph’s journey.

https://thelongestway.com/

https://christoph.bio.link/

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Classification of Architectural Styles

Architecture Style Through the Ages

There are schools of thought associated with particular type of building or creation designed by different architecture. It’s very interesting to know how architecture reflects the architect’s thought, environment, cultural and religious influences. An excellent article on architecture through the time periods and their features and characteristics. Very intrigued by some some creations:

1.  Casa Malaparte

2. Villa Savoye

3. Fallingwater

Please see  20 Beautiful Axonometric Drawings of Iconic Buildings

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[foodffs]

4 Make-Ahead Smoothie Recipes

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Is this how you roll?

[abdulllahma]

once you stop looking, things find you

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Where the lost things go?

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2021-02-27

Plum Blossoms

Canon EOS R6 + RF85mm f1.2L

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[cair--paravel]

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice. Literally, ‘library of high water’, this bookshop floods during Venice’s acqua alta, so the books are all kept safe in floating vessels, such as gondolas, boats and bathtubs.

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Zakat

Zakar is farz and an essential part of Islam, so much that it has been given the status of being a pillar of Islam. Comes right after faith and prayer, followed by fasting and pilgrimage to Makkah. Zakat means to “purify”. It is a means to give in the name of Allah, obligatory on every Muslim who has attained gold worth 87.48 grams (7.5 tola) or silver 612.36 grams (52.5 tola) or wealth equal to…

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[nadeemarouh]

‘Don’t beg for sympathy from a cruel world, rise and resist’

Soa’afat, Jerusalem. شعفاط، القدس

Credit: unknown.

[nearlyheadlesspeeves]

How would you feel if your neighbour just marched up to your door and said “get out”

or you found your neighbour in your backyard and you ask him what he’s doing and he says “well if i dont take it someone else will. this house is mine now”

and while this was happening to you, someone deletes your social media accounts, making it difficult for you to reach out to the world for help…

Well. Its actually happening. This very moment.

look up Sheikh Jarrah, Palestine.

[arabian-batboy]

For everyone in occupied Palestine: we are all praying for you.

For everyone outside occupied Palestine: look at this tweet whenever Western/American media start reporting on Israel “responding to terror attacks from Gaza” or when Western/American politicians, who have been silent on the violence Palestinians have suffered all month long, finally come out of their hiding to start talking about how Israel has the right to “defend themselves.”

[spideyyeet]

21 Palestinians are dead. 9 are children. Israel purposely targeted a civilian-heavy area. The worst case scenario has become a reality. They’re attacking Gaza, which Israel has completely closed off from the world. Nobody can get in or out. And now they’re bombing it. All because Palestinians have been protesting Sheikh Jarrah. Israel has always used two things to suppress Palestinians from protesting their fascist regime—Al Aqsa & Gaza. Now they’re officially attacking both💔🇵🇸🕊

[tawbah]

Seen on a wall in Masjid Al-Aqsa:

A nation whose commander is Muhammad ﷺ will not kneel.

[saba-hussaini]

Dua for Palestine 🤲🏻 🇵🇸 🤍