Ragistan Square in Samarkand- pre restoration. (230)

Registan Square complex in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. I took the pictures in 1968 long before the restoration began. This and other pictures to follow shows the result of a earthquake that hit the area in1966 and neglect on the buildings in the Registan Square. It is now restored and one can see the restored version om You Tube. Khaliq

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Masnavi of Rumi..Pain is a ....(Post 128)

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies; The kernel is soft when the rind is scraped off. O brother, the place of darkness and cold Is the fountain of Life and the cup of ecstasy. So also is endurance of pain and sickness and disease. For from abasement proceeds exaltation. The spring seasons are hidden in the autumns, If spiritual manifestations had been sufficient, The creation of the world had been needless and vain. If spiritual thought were equivalent to love of God, Outward forms of temples and prayers would not exist

Sufism and Islamic sprituality by professor Sayyed Hosain Nasr. (Post 154)

A link to a talk on Islamic spirituality and Sufism by professor Sayyed Hosain Nasr of George Washington University. He is regarded as an authority on Islam and Sufism. His under graduate degree is in physics and mathematics from MIT. Masters from Harvard in earth sciences and a PhD in history of science and philosophy also from Harvard in 1958. He has published about 50 books and several hundred articles. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VB5-l299Ikc&t=298s

Early Muslims, Eueope and far away lands (302)

The injunction of Islam to seek knowledge was taken seriously by the Umma. Muslims quite early in their history started to excel in science, philosophy, medicine and other fields. Here are a few names. Jabir Ibn Haiyan ( 722-800) known as Gebe r In Europe, is regarded as the father of chemistry. Al-Khwārizmī (780-860) known as Algorithmi* in Europe, invented Algebra and Algorithm . Al-Kindi (800-873) was a philosopher and a mathematician. On appointment by the Abbasides Caliph, he headed a team of translators who translated Greek Classics, works of science and medicine, from Galen into Arabic (from Arabic these works were translated into Latin and other European languages). Al Farabi (870-952) a philosopher, a scientist and a sociologist. There were no contemporaries in Europe; it was in the dark ages. People like Dante**(1265-1321), Leonardo de Vinci (1452-1519), Shakespeare (1564-1616) and others ca...

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