The Eternal Light
The sun itself gets light from your face; Why, then, is your face still veiled? The years pass…
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Ideal Schools of the Future
Physical setting Where the school is situated effects the quality of education it can provide. Ideally it should…
Those Responsible
He boys’ house-master said: ‘They have run away again. We warned them not to do it, but our…
Soldiers of Truth
Moths fly around the light of the inspired ones Whose hearts are as warm as the corona of…
Precise Timing in a Microcontroller and in the Universe
The 80C196KC is a 16-bit micro controller of the MCS-96 family produced by INTEL. It operates at 16…
The Quranic Consept of History and Western Philosphies of History
I wonder whether it is a scepticism to see a political purpose behind some philosophies produced in the…
A New Nuisance in the Post-Cold War Era: Ethnic Conflicts
With the collapse of the USSR, the concept of a New World Order began to be heard more…
Scientific Discoveries: A Novel Perspective
What do penicillin, Teflon, X-rays and insulin have in common? A prominent thinker of our age, while explaining…
Genetic Engineering: Quo Vadis?
It was only after Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park had become the most watched movie of all time that…
Al-Andalus: The Lost Civilization
How many people now know who Ibn Hazm, Al-Mu’tamid, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Ishaq al-Butruji were, or even where…
Outer space: Mankind’s new frontier
It is barely three and a half decades since the Soviet Sputnik entered orbit in 1957. It was…
A Mother’s Prayer
I was allowed to stay in hospital at my son’s bedside not as his mother but as a…
Man and Religion
At birth man has no conscious knowledge about himself or about the environment around him; nevertheless, he is…
Bishr b. Harith
All human beings are fallible, liable to err and to sin. This is true of even the most…
The Sun
Surely every person at some time looks up at the sun and moon and the brilliant stars and…