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Discuss Latest News/Events / Egypt bus crash kills 50 children near Manfalut

« on: November 17, 2012, 09:58:24 AM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20375395

Fifty children aged four to six years old and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in central Egypt on Saturday, officials said.

The transport minister resigned in the wake of the crash near Manfalut, 350km (230 miles) south of Cairo.

The provincial governor said the man in charge of the crossing was asleep and had been arrested.

Egyptian roads and railways have a poor safety record.

An estimated 8,000 people die in car accidents each year in the country.

The head of the railway authority has also resigned.

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi ordered his ministers to offer support to the families of those killed, the state news agency reported.

"They told us the barriers were open when the bus crossed the tracks and the train collided with it," doctor Mohamed Samir told the Reuters news agency, citing witness accounts.

An eyewitness said the train pushed the bus about 1km (half a mile) along the track.

More than a dozen people were also injured.

Distraught families searched for the remains of their loved ones along the tracks, the Associated Press reported.

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Hadith Discussions / Sahih Bukhari - Vol. 1 & 2

« on: September 21, 2012, 05:44:36 PM »

Peace.

I've noticed that there is a high demand for some kind of collection of ahadith with "dubious" content. Well, I have some fairly good news for those members. I compiled a list possibly more than a year ago. I started reading the collection of Bukhari and copied every weird, insulting, contradicting, ridiculous, fairytale hadith. Once done, I shortened and translated each hadith to highlight only the obvious questionable part. Because as everyone who is familiar with Bukhari knows, some ahadith can be rather tedious.

To give you one short example:

Volume 1, Book 4, Number 170
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
saw Allah's Apostle when the 'Asr prayer was due and the people searched for water to perform ablution but they could not find it. Later on (a pot full of) water for ablution was brought to Allah's Apostle . He put his hand in that pot and ordered the people to perform ablution from it. I saw the water springing out from underneath his fingers till all of them performed the ablution (it was one of the miracles of the Prophet).

After edit:

Volume 1, Book 4, Number 170
the prophet put his hand in a pot of water and the people performed ablution from it. the water sprang out from underneath his fingers till all of them performed ablution.


Don't rejoice too soon, though. Collecting I did back then only for the first three and a half volumes (Bukhari consists of nine volumes). And because I didn't take long considering whether or not to include a hadith while collecting, many hadith got on the list that were not that interesting. So I had to throw out many ahadith afterwards while translating and giving it more thought. I already translated volume one and two; so these are ok. But volume three and the first part of volume four have not yet been translated and probably still have many ahadith that can be discarded. One more thing; in English I only have the ahadith with the full text, because I shortened the text only when translating to Dutch.

Anyway, I'll now post volume 1 and volume 2. If someone's interested in shortening each hadith him-/herself, feel free. I've been telling myself for a year now to, at least finish reading volume 4, but I never got to it. So I can't give no guarantees on volume 3 and volume 4.

Dutch: Wil je de onzinnige ahadieth uit de eerste pagina's van Sahih Boekhari samengevat en in het Nederlands? Stuur me dan een PM.


Abdelilah

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Projects / Conferences / Events / Conference In Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll (1935-2010) | Leiden

« on: December 10, 2011, 06:05:44 AM »

The aim of this conference is to present the latest developments in our knowledge of the early Islamic tradition concerning its nature and formation in the three first centuries of Islam. Looking at the Qur’an, Ḥadīth, sira as well as ahbar, this overview of recent debates and researches will allow us to evaluate the contribution of Gautier Juynboll in his life work to the field of literary criticism applied to this body of texts.

Thursday 15 (09.30-18.30 hrs) and Friday 16 December (09.30-13.00 hrs). Each contributor will present a 30 minutes paper followed by a discussion. For the programme and abstracts of the speakers, see here.


Abdelilah

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Off-Topic / E-readers

« on: August 31, 2011, 11:28:14 AM »

Peace.

I'm thinking of buying a Kindle (latest generation). It got excellent reviews. For me personally, it should allow you to transfer your own documents (incl. PDF) to it.

Anyone got experience with e-readers?


Abdelilah

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Forum Suggestions / Link to website

« on: August 27, 2011, 06:57:32 AM »

Peace.

The link to free-minds.org in the banner is removed. Now it simply links back to the forum homepage.

Can this be restored? Because it was really handy, and probably will generate more visits to the website too.


Abdelilah

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General Issues / Questions / A Compilation

« on: August 11, 2011, 08:40:26 PM »

Peace.

I wrote down all verses I came across with that talk about the fact that the god's scripture is clear, complete etc.
I'm not finished. I believe I can still add numerous others and probably remove some too, to make it more specific, concise.
If you want to check out the list: http://www.scribd.com/doc/62138856/verse-list

I plan to memorise the Arabic. So I put the English translation and the original side by side. I did this with all the verses.
Here's a sample to give you an idea: http://www.scribd.com/doc/62138844/eng-arab

P.S.: If the text is blurry on the webpage, simply download the file as PDF.


Abdelilah

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Off-Topic / El Clásico

« on: April 16, 2011, 08:35:29 AM »

Peace.

For those who don't know what I'm referring to: El Clásico (Wikipedia).

El Clásico enters new dimension:

Here We Go Again And Again...
David Roman - The Wall Street Journal

Four Battles, One War
Sid Lowe - The Guardian


Visca el Barça!

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Salat & Zakat (The Contact & Purification) / salaat ul fajr

« on: January 01, 2011, 04:04:13 PM »

Peace.

Hold the salaat at the zenith of the sun, until the darkening of the night; and the reading at dawn; the reading at dawn is witnessed.
17:78


There has been alot of discussion about this topic. But what I would like to know is how many actually wake up in the morning to read and study the great reading.
If you do, what are your experiences and how do you go about it?
If you don't, why not?

P.S.: to make sure there's no misunderstanding, by "salaat" I DON'T mean "ritual prayer".


Abdelilah

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Questions/Comments on the Quran / Relevant verses

« on: August 24, 2009, 01:38:24 PM »

Peace

I will make a couple of statements.
If someone could give me the relevant verses that would be greatly appreciated.
Here goes.

a) The great reading says it's an instruction book.
b) It also says following any instructions besides the god's is equal to committing idol-worship.
c) It clearly says the only unforgivable sin is idol-worship (shirk).

P.S. Are you willing to take the risk? (question to ahl-u-sunnah wa al-jama'a and ahl-ul-bait)


Abdelilah Arraudi

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Discuss Latest News/Events / Outrageous Strip Search of Woman

« on: February 02, 2008, 07:20:29 PM »

Peace,

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=53707&bw=
 

Abdelilah Arraudi