Modern science has discovered and to some, confirmed that the earth is egg shaped. Other synonyms for its unique shape are, ovoid, pear shaped or piriform.
On the NASA government website we see this description:
Exactly how round is the Earth?
The shape of the Geode, as it is called, is nearly a perfect sphere, but because the earth is spinning, it is about 21.5 kilometers flatter at the poles, and bulged-out at the equator by about the same amount. There are also other ‘higher-order’ shape deviations which make the Earth slightly pear- shaped with a larger southern hemisphere surface area than in the northern hemisphere, but at a level of a kilometer or so in radial girth. The biggest effect, though, is its polar flattening. If you had a basketball to represent the Earth’s spherical average shape, the flattening would be 21/6500 = about 1/300 the radius of the basketball or 1/32 of an inch…give or take. From NASA:http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11818.html
The Muslim holy book, the Quran, stated this explicitly 1400 years ago:
Chapter/Sura 79:30, that is Sura Naziyat Aya 30 reads in Arabic ” WAL ARDS BAID ZALIKA DOHAHA”.
Ostrich egg
Now I will write word by word meaning of this Aya
WAL means AND
ARDA means EARTH
BAID means AFTER
ZALIKA means THAT
DOHAHA MEANS EGG SHAPED THING
Now see the English translation of the Sura 79:30“And the earth , moreover, hath he extended in egg shape.”
The origin of the verb, “Dohaha,” is found in the word (Ud-hiya), which means “egg of ostrich” -wikipedia
Geodesy(Study of the shape of earth)
It is important to note that over time, people and science have had varying views of the shape of the earth. These have ranged from flat, to round, to spherical, to oval, to oblate spheroid or ellipsoid. Needless to say, many have been entangled in the web of wrong descriptions. However not surprisingly some spiritual books had the peculiar shape dead right from the start.
It is important at this point to differentiate spherical, from ellipsoid/oblate spherical and then from egg shaped or pear shaped ovoid.
It was actually way back in 1958 that U.S. satellite Vanguard 1 discovered the Earth’s pear shape.
The Holy Quran correctly categorized that there were 11 planets in our solar system, with the sun and moon. The astronomers and scientists till recently could only observe 9 planets and this was taught in schools till recently when space science enabled the realization and addition of the ‘dwarf planets’, making a total of 11.
Note- the ancients could only see and hence only knew of 6 planets ( 5 + Earth). These were visible to the naked eye and were identified by their ‘orbit’ motion as compares to stars. See: WikiAnswers-Six Planets
12:4. When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me.
Are you wondering how many planets are in the Solar System? Until just a few years ago, there were 9 planets in the Solar System. However, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto is no longer a planet, so there are now only 8 planets in the Solar System.
The IAU decided that Pluto and Eris should be reclassified as dwarf planets. The asteroidCeres meets those requirements, so it’s a dwarf planet too .
So, how many planets in the Solar System? Until a new, large object is discovered out beyond Pluto, there are only 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets. (Total= 11)
UniverseToday
In a recent mnemonic competition, the winner at River View elementary school, Mont., Maryn won with this beautiful submission:
My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.
Really cute, other nice submissions included:
My Very Extraordinary Mother Carrie Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Each.
and- My Very Extraordinary Mother Can Jog Superly Under Nasty Particular Elves.
Maryn’s mnemonic will be published in a forthcoming National Geographic book, “11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System.”
To God the All knowing be the glory!
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Evidence of the accurate word for ‘Planet’ and not ‘Star’in Arabic text:
You may have been fooled as I was for a bit that it was our generation and the likes of Faraday or Thomas Edison that
Dendera Bulb, built to specification
developed the electric bulb, battery and electric technology. Or that space travel and exploration, and high tech engineering construction are unique to our age. This article demonstrates as I found out from a recent show on the History Channel, and as I was made to understand from reading the Quran that, as the Quran nicely puts it:
[Quran 40:21] Have they not traveled in the earth and seen how was the end of those who were before them? Mightier than these were they in strength– and in fortifications in the land, but Allah destroyed them for their sins; and there was not for them any defender against Allah.
them in strength: they tilled the soil and populated it in greater numbers than these have done: there came to them their apostles with Clear (Signs). (Which they rejected, to their own destruction): It was not Allah Who wronged them, but they wronged their own souls.
This clearly indicates to us that when we think we are the greatest civilization and most advanced, we need only travel to find out that greater and more advanced peoples inhabited the earth long before us and all ended abruptly in their arrogance.
Now here is the evidence:
Dendera Bulb in Egyptian Cave
1. Light Bulb technology.
Surprisingly, contrary to what you may have learned in school, the Africans in Egypt are clearly found to have developed this technology thousands of years before our generation. This was observed in temples of Dendera, where the caves were found as reported on the history Channel as having too low levels of oxygen to support lit torch light and pitch dark caves with no soot on the walls, yet perfect carvings that could not have been made in darkness. The picture above clearly depicts what is known today as the electric bulb, complete with the power cord, the transparent case, and the filament.
The resemblance of the Egyptian bulb with ‘modern’ ones is startling! The adventuring Europeans (Alexander the Great et al) came across ancient manuscripts on the manufacture of these technologies and secretly used these in directing their scientific revolution of re-discovery.
Now to use a bulb, some may argue that evidence of ancient batteries must exist. Thank God, we found some of these more than 3000 years old, in Baghdad-
Baghdad Battery
2. Baghdad Batteries
These batteries were discovered recently and are found to be perfect electric cells. In both cases as with all others skeptics argue that aliens introduced these technologies. I call so-called contact with aliens, the simple way of the religions/spiritualists. We the people of the religions Never attribute our success and prowess to ourselves, but always accept and acknowledge the very visible supernatural powers that aid us.
The aliens that helped build these fantastic, yet ordinary technological tools are no different from the aliens that inspired Albert Einstein.
From these pictures that speak louder than any words can, we realize immediately that the ancients
had so much development in technology, construction, exploration and development that contests the best we have to offer today. If we are similarly wiped out by some disaster, and our records lost, it will be just the same for new generations to prove that we developed to the level we did today. And skeptics will likewise argue that the appearance of our technology in our era was not possible by our thinking alone, and that we possibly did not achieve as much and even if we did, we must have been aided by aliens.
I can imagine generations in the future arguing about how we carved the portraits of the founding
Baghdad Battery Operation
fathers on the rock in USA. Seems funny, but that’s the same way we refuse to recognize the advances of generations past. Albeit better preserved than what we may leave behind.
They try to make you believe that so called ‘today’s scientific discoveries’ were made without Spirituality, whereas, in truth these discoveries are plagiarisms of better ones produced in the ancient past, in full spiritual harmony and acknowledgment. Little wonder, our technological era is the most environmentally harmful in earth’s history.
3. Construction technology
In building technology, there is no question that the structures left behind are even more advanced than many engineers today accept they can build in the time frame they were constructed.
Pumanpunku, has blocks of diarite stone, only cut-able by the tougher diamond, left behind that are so perfect and have such phenomenal straight, thin grooves, and other properties that make them architectural feats envied even in our time. So also do the structures of 17,000 year old Tiwanako. Images below.
We must realize our little impact and development, and put it in proper context and not be haughty, arrogant and as foolish as many who get so engulfed in their achievements and start thinking much of themselves, and less of God, the source, till they are wiped out of existence and their achievements are debated as those of aliens or as not what they clearly are.
The non believing scientific world with all their modern technology should justify why humans spend almost half of their lives in sleep. Before they figure out more complex things, galaxies and the likes, they should explain this simple thing that affects all of us… a most characteristic, essential activity we are engaged in through out our lives. What is the use of this if not a divine, non physical purpose. Why do we sleep?
Science no doubt professes to have so many answers, aided with their gadgets. So they should at the very least give an evolutionary justification to what we do almost half of our lives. That is significant, very significant!
Now here is the reason for my challenge, which actually stems from the Muslim Quran. The Quran says of sleep:
Quran 78:9and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death
Quran 39:42It is God [alone that has this power – He] who causes all human beings to die at the time of their [bodily] death, and [causes to be as dead], during their sleep, those that have not yet died: [44] thus, He withholds [from life] those upon whom He has decreed death, and lets the others go free for a term set [by Him]. In [all] this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who think!
Quran 25:47And He it is who makes the night a garment for you, and [your] sleep a rest, and causes every [new] day to be a resurrection.
Quran 30:23And among His wonders is your sleep, at night or in daytime, as well as your [ability to go about in] quest of some of His bounties: in this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who [are willing to] listen!
Upon coming across this, I immediately knew by inspiration that science had no explanation yet for half our lives, – the very essential part spent in sleep, and that evolution does not answer this need. A quick search revealed that I was absolutely right.
But even the most gifted scientist on the planet cannot explain why people sleep.
”It may be the biggest open question in biology,” said Dr. Allan Rechtschaffen, a sleep expert and a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Scientists’ ignorance about one of life’s most basic activities is not for lack of trying.
Fifty years of sleep research have ruled out some possibilities and yielded a variety of intriguing leads.
One of the best guesses science has yet given, is that sleep somehow allows the brain neurons rest. But you see, the reason science and evolution can not explain sleep is the simple question- why make a machine that needs to switch off/rest? Why not evolve in a manner, where you can work and progress in both the day and nocturnally? Why this unique activity that reduces our life time efficacy? Machines are made today that run 24hrs/day all year long. Why need rest?
This is the ultimate challenge. And I invite anyone and everyone to give a none spiritual, extra-earthly realm and dimensional answer to this essential question, or to deny the simple answer or give a reason for the denial of it as I present next.
Now let me explain the basic reality from the Religions Holy book- Quran.
In sleep, we die!
Let’s use the car example that is so often used in attempts to explain sleep. The body should be able to run as a special car driving, 24 hours a day, all several years long. Picture a car driving around. The car only rests, when the driver parks it and leaves. Once the driver is no longer in the car, the car, though capable and able is as dead. So the driver is the soul of the car, and the car, just a vessel. The car dies and is resurrected over and over. The reason it parks is not to rest, even though it cools down, etc at this time. These are not essential but just useful gains of the rest. The rest is a spiritual event, here the soul of the car exits the dimension of the car and enters another dimension. Hence it can easily be proven that sleep and death are two identical states, and there is an additional essence to man, other than the cells and networks that operate him.
If scientists re-channel their efforts on sleep to figuring out the quantitative and qualitative loss of an essence, the soul, while a person sleeps, realizing that the carcass left is just a breathing biological contraption. They will properly understand sleep, and the reality of our existence/life in the earthly realm and our attachment to our Creator/Controller.
Till then, I challenge them to provide evidence of a lack of this disconnection, to prove the functional dissimilarity between a sleeping man and a dead man, and to simply answer- why we sleep.
There is much more to be discussed on the ultimate gain of this recognition, which I shall present to all subscribers in the course of this challenge.
Dedicated to Richard Dawkins, the Pharaoh of the Atheists of our time!
Richard Dawkins admits the mathematical possibility of God… making him an Agnostic — not an Atheist. He also allows for Intelligent Design as long as we are looking for evidence of alien designers (not God). And he also can’t put a figure on the positivity of the ill-doctrine he promotes.
The 2006 Nobel award was given for the Big Bang theory described thus,- (I color coded to elaborate)
“…that the universe began billions of years ago as a tiny dot thatexploded into today’s huge system of stars and planets..” And Quran Science book – “..see that the heavens and earth were fused as one unit of creation , before We clove them asunder…” (Quran 21:30)
We easily see that this so called science discovery is an exact word for word plagiarism from Allah’s authoritative boastful, confident statement in the earlier Holy Quran Science book.
So it’s evident Scientists actually tapped the Big Bang Idea and our water origin from the 4th century Quran, to propose, promulgate, study and release the theories!
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Why is Prophet Mohammed not recognized by the Science committee at large (Many individual scientists do), and accorded His due respect for first publishing this.
He also first described in the Quran how the Universe continues to expand…they may have also stolen that from him/Quran.
Quran: It is We who have built the universe with (Our creative) power, and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it. (The Winnowing ways/Scaterers, 51:47)
The Quran goes further to first teach us with all confidence years before Science figured it out that all life began from water.
Quran 21:30Do the Unbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were joined together, before We clove them asunder? We made every living thing from water. Will they not then believe?
This is definitely the source of scientists research and theories on evolution:The Noble Quran, 24:45
And God has created every animal from water: of them there are some that creep on their bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some that walk on four. God creates what He wills for verily God has power over all things
“…New research shows that primitive cellular membranes assemble more easily in freshwater than in salt water. So although the oldest known fossil organisms were ocean dwellers, life may actually have developed in freshwater ponds….”
“….In fact, astronomers are currently examining the satellites of Jupiter, Europa and Ganymeade, and Titan, one of Saturn’s satellites, to see if they contain liquid water and the conditions which may give rise to life as we know it….”
There were many civilizations that were destroyed by floods or reigning down of hot magma and rain soot from eruptions. These cities were buried whole, they include the likes of ancient Naples and neighboring Pompey where the entire city was buried in eruption and new cities built above it. In re-building cities, Romans sometimes employed reinforcing blocks below to hold up the new cities. Recent scientific explorations have discovered several such amazing cities and entire states buried beneath new cities. Entire civilizations wiped out and replaced.
The Muslim Holy Quran clearly predicted and promised the discovery of these as we see here and in several other similar verses:
[Quran 40:21] Have they not traveled in the earth and seen how was the end of those who were before them? Mightier than these were they in strength– and in fortifications in the land, but Allah destroyed them for their sins; and there was not for them any defender against Allah.
[Quran 11.82] So when Our decree came to pass, We turned them upside down and rained down upon them stones, of what had been decreed, one after another.
[Quran 20.128] Is it not a guidance for them (to know) how many a generation We destroyed before them, amid whose dwellings they walk? Lo! therein verily are signs for men of thought.
It was initially assumed in ancient times that women were responsible for female children, later science figured that the man was sort of more responsible because he carried the Y(male) chromosome. Both these have been found to be wrong in absolute sense, in reality God(Allah) determines sex, but this is through a process of ‘prevalence’ of the contributing gametes by both the male and the female. The first known authentic documentation on this was provided by Prophet Muhammed(P) of Islam in Hadith(records of his narrations):
Hadith– While I was standing beside the Prophet Mohammed(P), one of the rabbis of the Jews came […] then said: “I have come to ask you about something no one on earth would know except a Prophet […]. I have come to ask you about the child.” The Prophet said: “The fluid of the man is white and that of the woman yellow. When they unite and the male fluid prevails upon the female fluid, their child is male (adhkaraa) by Divine permission. When the female fluid prevails upon the male fluid, their child is female (aanathaa) by Divine permission.” The Jew said: “What you said is true; you are truly a Prophet!” He turned and went away. The Messenger of Allah said: “This man just asked me about things of which I had no knowledge whatever until Allah had that knowledge brought to me!”
The Hadith above determines that participation of both parents is required to determination of sex.[1]
Recent advances in fertilization studies showed that sex determination is an electric phenomenon[2], the ovum has an electrical polarity cycle with a changing electrical charge ( positive , neutral , negative) , also Y-carrying sperm has a positive charge & X- carrying sperm has a negative charge .When the ovum is negatively charged , it unites with Y-carrying sperm with the positive charge and a male child is produced . When the ovum is positively charged , it unites with X- carrying sperm with the negative charge and a female child is produced . Thus , the coming child acquires the sex of the gamete (sperm or ovum) that has a positive charge .
According to basics of electricity, the positive charge is the prevalent or the stronger and this fact is in amazing accordance with the hadeeth of prophet Muhammad and proves not only the truth of this hadeeth , but also gives an evidence to his prophethood who had told these facts since 1500 years because in Arabic the term prevail means overcomes or conquers , and it becomes clear that the gamete that has the positive charge overcomes the negative one & the child will have the sex of the prevailing gamete . Thus , male and female share each other in determination of the sex of the coming offspring in accordance with the prophet’s hadeeth.
Although these scientific facts informs us about the way by which one sex is determined , this does not mean that we become able to have the child we desire , Allah , the Almighty , in the noble Qur’an said
“Unto Allah belongeth the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth .He createth what He will. He bestoweth female (offspring) upon whom He will, and bestoweth male (offspring) upon whom He will or He mingleth them, males and females, and He maketh barren whom He will . Lo!He is Knower, Powerful “( Al-Shura , 42 : Ayat 49-50)
Quran 15:26 “… And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape…15:28…And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape….” image from TAMU:
“…Two of the crucial components for the origin of life – genetic material and cell membranes – could have been introduced to one another by a lump of clay, new experiments have shown.
The study of montmorillonite clay, by Martin Hanczyc, Shelly Fujikawa and Jack Szostak at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, revealed it can sharply accelerate the formation of membranous fluid-filled sacs.
These vesicles also grow and undergo a simple form of division, giving them the properties of primitive cells. Previous work has shown that the same simple mineral can help assemble the genetic material RNA from simpler chemicals. “Interestingly, the clay also gets internalised in the vesicles,” says Leslie Orgel, an origin of life expert at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego, California. “So this work is quite nice in that it finds a connection between the mechanism that creates RNA and encloses it in a membrane….”
Quran did not just mention our coming from clay, but mentioned the particular type of clay! Montmorillonite (smectite) clay, a photoacoustic clay, clay that gives off sound from light (Quartz crystal property).
The interesting thing to note is that man has for centuries known and recognized the special quality and found a relationship with “smectite” aka- montmorillonite clay, a volcanic ash clay. This has long been widely used for medicinal purposes. Wikipedia:
“…Montmorillonite has been used in cosmetics and has reputed therapeutic effects. Indeed over 200 cultures have used the clay for medicinal purposes including the Ancient Egyptians, the Essenes and the pre-AztecAmargosians, and other natives of Mexico, South America and North America. Under the name Mengtuoshi San (????) it is still a popular and widely available treatment for diarrhea in China….”
It is obvious from this that man has via monotheism known forever the qualities of the clay we were made from. And science is once again the last to catch up on this. The evidence is from the Quranic verses above- 15:26 “… And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound…”
Man (and of course the Muslims from prophet Muhammed{PBUH}) always knew the quality of semectite clay (giving off sound). This clay, smectite, is nicknamed “montmorillonite” and “bentonite” in accordance to deposits found in France and Wyoming respectively.
“…Quartz crystal acts as a transducer. It can convert energy in the form of light into energy in the form of sound, or vibration ( and vice versa )…”
Allah is the greatest!, the Originator!
Scientists definitely embarked on this study from reading Al Quran, or talking with the illuminated.
“We will show them Our Signs on the horizon(geography, ecology, astronomy, space travel etc) and within themselves(genetics, Biochemistry, microscopy etc) until it is clear to them that it is the truth”,(Quran Surah Fussilat, 53)
He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He commenced the creation of man from clay; then He made his progeny from an extract of discarded fluid. (Qur’an, 32:7-8)
Allah knows best
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Healing and restorative properties of our ‘original’ clay diets:
When viewing the data about internal consumption of bentonite, keep in mind that the practice of natural medicine recognizes a far wider action with far less clay consumed than the information in this article presents. It is not so much the binding of mycotoxins ( or any other “digested” substance ) in the digestive system that one is after by utilizing clay internally for cleansing, healing, and general health purposes. Rather, it is the catalyst action of small amounts of clay, which begins at the moment the clay reaches the stomach.
Upon consumption, clay begins to restore the natural biological terrain of the entire digestive and elimination system, including adjusting the ph level; our experience with clay water reveals a greater PH level than the article suggests, ranging from 9 – 10 ( from tests with a natural desert bentonite ) . As a part of this process, the body’s own ability to maintain a proper bacterial balance is restored ( a normalization of bacterial counts results from the near-uniform reduction of bacterial populations ), and thus quality clay use can positively affect the body’s ability to digest food substances due to improved efficiency of the digestive system.
In particular, the effect that clay used internally has on the stimulation of the liver is often completely overlooked. Many scientific researchers stop at the realization that clays used internally are ( at first! ) inert and not adsorbed by the liver. However, in reality the clay stimulates the liver directly invoking a healing response that is easily observable with careful observation of long term use of small amounts of clay with those with chronic liver conditions.
Many of these effects remain largely unexplained but widely recognized. It is a good idea to remember that the healthiest peoples in the world consumed clay particles on a daily basis for their entire lives, generation upon generation, either through a clay-rich water source or through natural/cultural utilization of clays as a part of a normal diet….”
Article written- Monday, 3 November 2008
Quran:“Indeed, all things We created with predestination.” (Surat al-Qamar: 49) “When thou threwest, it was not thy act, but Allah’s.” (Surat al-Anfal, 17)
Bible:Exodus 9:16It does not therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed on all the earth.” 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.Also:Ephesians 1:4-6, Exodus 33:19, etc.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2008) — Contrary to what most of us would like to believe, decision-making may be a process handled to a large extent by unconscious mental activity. A team of scientists has unraveled how the brain actually unconsciously prepares our decisions. Even several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain.
This is shown in a study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, in collaboration with the Charité University Hospital and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin. The researchers from the group of Professor John-Dylan Haynes used a brain scanner to investigate what happens in the human brain just before a decision is made. “Many processes in the brain occur automatically and without involvement of our consciousness. This prevents our mind from being overloaded by simple routine tasks. But when it comes to decisions we tend to assume they are made by our conscious mind. This is questioned by our current findings.”
In the study, published in Nature Neuroscience, participants could freely decide if they wanted to press a button with their left or right hand. They were free to make this decision whenever they wanted, but had to remember at which time they felt they had made up their mind. The aim of the experiment was to find out what happens in the brain in the period just before the person felt the decision was made. The researchers found that it was possible to predict from brain signals which option participants would take up to seven seconds before they consciously made their decision. Normally researchers look at what happens when the decision is made, but not at what happens several seconds before. The fact that decisions can be predicted so long before they are made is a astonishing finding.
This unprecedented prediction of a free decision was made possible by sophisticated computer programs that were trained to recognize typical brain activity patterns preceding each of the two choices. Micropatterns of activity in the frontopolar cortex were predictive of the choices even before participants knew which option they were going to choose. The decision could not be predicted perfectly, but prediction was clearly above chance. This suggests that the decision is unconsciously prepared ahead of time but the final decision might still be reversible.
“Most researchers investigate what happens when people have to decide immediately, typically as a rapid response to an event in our environment. Here we were focusing on the more interesting decisions that are made in a more natural, self-paced manner”, Haynes explains.
More than 20 years ago the American brain scientist Benjamin Libet found a brain signal, the so-called “readiness-potential” that occurred a fraction of a second before a conscious decision. Libet’s experiments were highly controversial and sparked a huge debate. Many scientists argued that if our decisions are prepared unconsciously by the brain, then our feeling of “free will” must be an illusion. In this view, it is the brain that makes the decision, not a person’s conscious mind. Libet’s experiments were particularly controversial because he found only a brief time delay between brain activity and the conscious decision.
In contrast, Haynes and colleagues now show that brain activity predicts — even up to 7 seconds ahead of time — how a person is going to decide. But they also warn that the study does not finally rule out free will: “Our study shows that decisions are unconsciously prepared much longer ahead than previously thought. But we do not know yet where the final decision is made. We need to investigate whether a decision prepared by these brain areas can still be reversed.”
Journal reference: Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze & John-Dylan Haynes. Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience April 13th, 2008.
11/17/2008 A Hadith {Recorded narration of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)}:
Chromosomes
“..The wife of a man from the Ansar bore him a black child. He took her by the hand and went to see the Messenger of Allah. She said: “I swear by the One that sent you with the truth! He married me a virgin and I never seated anyone in his place since!” The Prophet said: “You speak the truth. You have ninety-nine strains and so does he. On the time of conception all those strains shudder and there is none but it asks Allah Most High to determine resemblance through it.” Source
76:2 We created man from a drop containing strains {nutfatin amshajin} to test him.
76:2 Inna khalaqna alinsana min nutfatin amshajin nabtaleehi fajaAAalnahu sameeAAan baseeran
The word ‘amshajin’ can be translated to show it means- ‘genes’. here
This Hadith clearly in simple terms teaches the following genetic principles:
1. Inheritable strains of equal numbers in both sexes.
2. Phenotypes arising due to these gamete contained and contributed strains/genes. 3. The Hadith also clearly describes ‘penetrance’, and the expression of genes/strains as not being absolute but varying (By Gods will) as science also agrees, though science regards this event ‘random’.
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In science they have discovered an equal number- 23 pairs of chromosomes in both men and women, totaling 46, with unique characteristics that randomly combine to determine the phenotypic appearances.
Islam clearly predated George Mendel and western science in figuring this out. I am sure the best way to categorize inheritable strains in cells is 99 classes, which will be preferable to the 46 chromosome groups as figured out so far in science. And this Hadith clearly describes the penetrance process, whereby the chromosomes ’shudder’ and are selected to express themselves by Allah’s (God) command selecting of the 99 inheritable strains to ‘turn on’ to determine the features of the offspring.
Islam also predates science in recognizing and describing genetic linkages and inheritable traits from the first man(Adam) through all generations.
Hadith:
Rabah ibn Qasir relates the Prophet said to him – upon him blessings and peace: “What child did you get?” He replied, “Messenger of Allah, what else? Either a boy or a girl.” The Prophet said: “Who does he resemble?” He replied, “Who else? Either his mother or his father!” The Prophet said: “None of you should say that. Truly, when the sperm-and-ovum drop settles in the uterus, Allah brings it every lineage between it and Adam. Have you not recited this verse? {Into whatsoever form He will, He casts you (rakkabak)}(82:8). Meaning, ‘threads you’ (salakak).”
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This Hadith describes confidently the fact that in every new being there are genes that can be traced to the first man/Adam. And that phenotypic characters and genes in this individual are not only linked to the immediate parents but all the way to Adam.
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Islam further predates Mendel in relating human patterns of inheritance to other species.
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 830:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
A bedouin came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “My wife has delivered a black child.” The Prophet said to him, “Have you camels?” He replied, “Yes.” The Prophet said, “What color are they?” He replied, “They are red.” The Prophet further asked, “Are any of them gray in color?” He replied, “Yes.” The Prophet asked him, “Whence did that grayness come?” He said, “I thing it descended from the camel’s ancestors.” Then the Prophet said (to him), “Therefore, this child of yours has most probably inherited the color from his ancestors.”
Islam First Defines Hybrid And Abnormality Sterility
Muslim and Ahmad narrate from Ibn Mas`ud t that when someone asked if the apes and swine of that time were descendants of the apish and swinish disfigurement of the Sabbath-breakers (Q 2:65, 5:60, 7:166) the Prophet MHMD replied: Allah Most High never gave offspring nor posterity to the deformed.
This is true in science today where it is known that people with chromosomal abnormalities do not reproduce.
Article from Soul Cysters.com
Now don’t expect the Medical business industry to tell you or lead you on how you can reduce menstrual cycle length and the associated pain and other disorders, because as we all know, pain relievers, pads and the prescription of these are a billion dollar global industry…one of the largest industries of all times.
Women call it “the Curse” with feeling and good reason – the monthly bleeding of menstruation, with its days of inconvenience, discomfort and pain, is the bane of women’s existence from menarche to menopause. So universal in our modern culture is this miserable experience that it is assumed to be inevitable. Doctors and the women’s media attempt to cast it in a favourable light with trite comments about “welcoming” it as the sign and sacrifice one makes in “becoming a woman”. Yet there is probably not a woman anywhere who wouldn’t gladly do away with it if she safely could!
In fact, menstruation as most of us experience it is neither natural nor healthy. Ovulation does not depend on it. And it can be changed very much for the better – even to the extent of not experiencing it at all yet remaining healthy and fertile. How this can be done has been known and written about by health practitioners for centuries, and practiced just as long by women willing to make the simple but significant lifestyle changes involved.
So why haven’t most of us heard about this before?
It is because the lifestyle improvements involved, although simple, are quite a change from most modern women’s habits of living and eating. No drugs or even nutritional supplements are required, but what is essential is the adoption of what health writer Leslie Kenton calls a “high raw way of eating”.
In practice this means that each meal contains more fresh, raw foods than cooked or processed foods; that animal product foods are eliminated altogether, along with salt, sugar, alcohol, refined fats and oils, most condiments, artificial additives and stimulating beverages. Many people say that they “would rather die than give up all that tasty stuff!” And indeed they will — after living years in increasingly poorer health, through menstruation and menopausal “symptoms”, and often ending with heart disease and cancer.
If you are a young woman and not yet experiencing the uncomfortable and worrying signs of hormone imbalance that increasingly plague women from the mid-thirties on, then you may baulk at making such as change. But think back to when you were a teenager, just after experiencing your first period – did you say, as so many do, “I’d do anything if I could get rid of these periods!” Certainly older women who have found out about the connection between diet and menstruation often say, “If I’d known this as a girl, I’d surely have changed – but I don’t have the determination and drive now.” They are literally worn out by decades of “the Curse”, drained of health, vitality and enthusiasm. Some of these women are probably thinking, “It’s not long until menopause – I’ll put up with it all a bit longer, then it’ll be over.” Unfortunately, only the bleeding will be over, often after years of miserably irregular menstruation. And the related signs of ill health soon become so dramatic they can’t be ignored: osteoporosis, cysts and tumors, and rapid ageing among them. At this point, older women may once again feel motivated to improve their lot, even if it does involve big lifestyle changes.
“Hemorrhage in the uterus is no more normal than is hemorrhage in the brain or lungs.”
Why do women menstruate – and what’s “normal” about it? During the days before a woman ovulates, the lining of the womb – the endometrium – thickens in preparation for a possible conception. If the egg released at ovulation passes through the womb unfertilized, the thickened endometrial tissues are not needed – and in a truly healthy woman, as in animals in their wild state, those tissues are mostly reabsorbed. What remains is expelled over a short period of time as a slight mucus discharge (2:28-29; 15:227).
The majority of women in modern cultures however, experience instead a copious disabling monthly bleeding – that neither their wild primate cousins nor humans living close to nature do (2:30; 15:232). Insightful doctors have long been aware that nature did not intend the ovulation cycle to be accompanied by cramping, nervous tension, or any of the long list of symptoms we’ve come to associate with “having a period” – let alone by the days of bloody flow we now accept as “normal”, but which they rightly call a hemorrhage:
“…menstruation…is a harmful hemorrhage involving the loss of vital fluid…. [The] conclusions of those [gynecologists] who have studied the subject are that, primarily and fundamentally, menstruation is a hemorrhage. NO authority on earth can successfully maintain that a hemorrhage is natural and normal, no matter in what part of the body it occurs.” (2:24)
“Hemorrhage is NOT a condition of health…. It is a pathological state and is always harmful and sometimes dangerous. Hemorrhage in the uterus is no more normal than is hemorrhage in the brain or lungs. It is less dangerous only because the uterus is less vital to the immediate welfare of the body.” (2:24)
It has also been long observed that not only do some apparently healthy women, even in our culture, never menstruate, but that non-menstruating women can be fertile and have healthy children. That is, ovulation does not require menstruation (2:28; 15:225). Natural Hygiene teacher Herbert Shelton noted this in his patients:
“I personally know one woman who is the mother of five children and she has never menstruated in her life. I know another who menstruated during her adolescent period, married a man who had changed his way of living to a truly natural life style, she joined him in his health regime and became a fine specimen of health and ceased menstruating. Thereafter she had three children, all delivered naturally and painlessly and never menstruated again in her life.” (2:28)
Menstruation as we know it IS common, so common it is “the norm”, and in that sense alone “normal”. But it certainly is not healthy – or necessary.
So why do most women in our society experience such bleeding episodes? A clue comes from animals. Wild relatives of the domestic animals do not menstruate. They have mating seasons – called heat, rut or estrus – which usually happen only once or twice a year. At this time the females ovulate and their genital organs become slightly congested and moistened with mucus in preparation for mating and likely conception (2:36-37). In the wild, nature has tied ovulation closely to the availability of food, and in times of scarcity estrus may not occur.
But in domesticated animals and animals kept in zoos who have constant access to unnatural and often concentrated food supplies, the picture is very different – these animals experience a periodic bloody discharge the equivalent of human menstruation. This is especially noticeable in normally plant-eating animals made to eat dry high-protein feed. When these captive animals are instead fed on the fresh natural plant foods they’d normally eat, the menstruation ceases.
“Experiments on animals have conclusively shown that the frequency of ovulation, and consequently estrus (corresponding to menstruation in humans), is a DIRECT function of diet. Over-feeding, especially on protein foods (and of the wrong kind of protein), has the tendency to accelerate (stimulate) the growth and bursting of the Graafian follicles [which produce the eggs] by creating an excess of follicular fluid. In women this results in menstrual discharge…. Undomesticated animals do NOT menstruate…. But under conditions of domestication or captivity, these sexual periods become more frequent, and the genital congestion attending them becomes more intense, until it finally manifests as a menstrual hemorrhage. It is now agreed by most observers that the cause of menstruation among domesticated animals is the food they receive at the hands of man. In other words, after the non-menstruating animal is captured, the pro-estrum becomes transformed into a bloody flow as a result of unnatural foods and artificial conditions of living.” (2:37)
Is the cause likely to be any different in humans? No. The effects of congestion on womb tissues and the fine capillaries, or arterioles, which nourish them are the same with all creatures who have those structures (15:230). And the key is live food.
What is this connection between diet and menstruation? What is actually happening in the womb to make it hemorrhage? A poor diet, with significant excesses of some nutrients and deficiencies of others, causes a breakdown in the transport of nutrients to and wastes from the cells throughout the body. Blood vessels become more porous, allowing fluids to seep out between the cells of the tissues creating congestion. Residues from improper digestion contribute to a state of body-wide poisoning, or toxemia. Dietary deficiencies and related hormone imbalance combine to increase the fragility of capillary walls so that under the increased pressure of unnatural congestion they rupture when the womb contracts to slough off the unneeded endometrial tissues after the unfertilized egg has passed through.
“It is now agreed by most observers that the cause of menstruation among domestic animals is the food they receive at the hands of man.”
Structurally the human body is designed for the same kind of diet that other primates eat. Our teeth, intestinal tract, digestive organs and their secretions are not those of a carnivore like the wolf, nor a herbivore like the cow – but of a frugivore, or fruit-eater, like the apes and most monkeys – whose natural foods are mostly fruits and vegetable matter.
Modern man’s diet however includes large amounts of protein foods from animal products and dried legumes and grains – none of which he can easily digest, and all of which leave his normally alkaline body in an acid condition. The body’s attempt to neutralize this condition by keeping the blood-calcium high results in badly disrupted mineral levels, with both calcium depletion from the bones and deposition of excess calcium in joints, blood vessels and organs (11:80-87; 5:178, 270-271; 7:196). On top of this, our high fat consumption clogs the blood vessels and leaves the blood thick with sludge, diminishing its ability to carry oxygen and nutrients (5).
The body is over-burdened by the task of dealing with excess protein and fats, with the large amounts of sugar and salt consumed daily, and with the often unavoidable external pollutants taken in day after day in modern living. Overwhelmed with this difficult-to-dispose-of debris, the body stores what it can’t eliminate in the fat cells and inside blood vessels, organs and joints, often walling off or “encysting” the rubbish. Debris from incomplete digestion builds up in the intestine and over-worked organs of elimination, blocking normal organ function. A condition of bodily poisoning exists.
This debris attracts trouble for the body – environmental poisons are stored in fat deposits or escape breakdown by the overworked liver and migrate to far-flung organs (including the brain) where the weakened body can’t deal with them. These poison-laden tissues and deposits themselves become feeding and breeding grounds for microbes and parasites, natural co-inhabitants in our bodies whose numbers get dangerously out of hand because the weakened immune system hasn’t the reserves to deal with them. Eventually, in desperation to survive, the cells revert to primitive forms which can function in virtual starvation conditions. Unfortunately for the body, the more primitive the cells become, the less they heed the “working rules” of the organ they belong to – they begin behaving independently, reproducing rapidly, amenable to no controls: the toxic-laden area becomes cancerous (3; 4; 5).
Most of us living the Western lifestyle and eating a modern diet with its excesses, deficiencies and adulterants, exist in a state of chronic toxemia. Our bodies try repeatedly to clean up the situation, with “colds”, “fevers”, and frequent discharges of waste-laden mucus. In the womb this commonly takes the form of a whitish discharge referred to as leucorrhea (literally “white flow”). Leucorrhea, like menstruation, is a “catarrhal” condition, a “down-flowing” of mucus due to chronic congestion and inflammation. It has been noticed that women who have profuse mucus discharges of this sort are also likely to have severe menstrual symptoms – and problems with constipation. Like other catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea occurs in an acid body clogged with the by-products of high protein consumption (2:23, 36).
The congestion and inflammation of toxemia cause tenderness and enlargement of the womb, with a raised blood pressure that puts a strain on the tiny capillaries of the endometrium. These – and all the body’s blood vessels – periodically become more or less fragile in response to ups and downs in the levels of the hormone estrogen and the nutrients vitamin C, bioflavonoids and beta-carotene (15:227-230; 13:109-110), all of which play roles in strengthening capillary walls.
An important function of vitamin C is to form and keep strong the jelly-like material called collagen, or “connective tissue”, that holds together all the cells in the body – including those in the walls of your blood vessels. Bioflavonoids, plant substances which always occur in natural foods with vitamin C, protect that vitamin and reduce the amount of it you need. A deficiency in the diet of the nutrients needed for collagen formation will result in weak, porous collagen and congestion of the tissues with foreign substances that seep through the weak capillary walls – including viruses, toxins, drugs, allergens, and wastes from improper digestion (8:123). This is what happens in the “water-logging”, or oedema, that swells ankles and fingers during pregnancy and as you age.
Almost no one in our modern culture gets enough of these essential nutrients from their diet. The amounts in processed foods and drinks are negligible – even their content in fruit, normally the richest natural source, is dramatically reduced after the fruit is picked and left to sit or in storage before eating. Except for those who make a point of daily eating plenty of fresh fruits, most of us exist in a condition of “subclinical scurvy” – with bleeding and diseased gums, easy bruising, poor wound and bone healing, eye problems, and poor immunity (8:122-125). And in women, this state intensifies menstrual bleeding.
Researchers have noticed that a good supply of bioflavonoids in particular seems to be essential for maintaining strong capillary walls. Commercial juices and most vitamin C supplements, which many rely on to keep their vitamin level up, don’t include bioflavonoids. In fact, even when people eat citrus fruits, one of the best natural sources of vitamin C, they often throw out the white part of the rind, the very part rich in bioflavonoids! So it’s not surprising that so many of us are deficient in these nutrients – nor that our blood vessel walls are weak (13:107-108).
Some research has also indicated that beta-carotene, the nutrient which becomes vitamin A during digestion, may play a similar role. A deficiency causes abnormal growth and early death of the cells in mucous membranes, such as those lining the womb, and the “accumulation of profuse debris” sloughs off and contributes to leucorrhea (8:56). It is suspected that beta-carotene may contribute in still unidentified ways to resistance to bleeding (15:228; 13:109-110). Not surprisingly, this nutrient is also often low in modern diets.
But there’s another angle to this story as well. Investigations have discovered that bioflavonoids and the hormone estrogen are surprisingly similar, even interchangeable in some of their functions – including in their use to strengthen blood vessel walls (13:108; 15:228-229). When the womb lining, the endometrium, is thickening each month, many tiny new blood vessels are created. Normally, these would be strengthened by bioflavonoids and related nutrients. But if blood levels of estrogen happen to be high, and/or the supply of bioflavonoids low, the estrogen may be used to strengthen the blood vessel walls instead.
At first glance this seems like a handy little substitution – but there’s a problem with using estrogen in the capillary walls. The body always tries to keep the level of estrogen in the blood stable. It can be at a constant low level or at an even high level, but whichever, the body’s aim is to keep it steady. When production of estrogen by the ovaries naturally drops around twelve days after ovulation, the blood level of estrogen drops. If it happens to fall too dramatically, the body will try to raise the level by withdrawing estrogen from blood vessel walls throughout the body, leaving them weak and porous. You may have noticed that at this time of month even a scratch bleeds more readily.
When this happens in the womb, the tiny arterioles of the endometrium are left in a very fragile state and are unable to stand up to the minute contractions involved in endometrial regression, let alone to any increased pressure due to toxic congestion and constipation (15:227, 230). They rupture on a large scale, and the endometrial tissues they were nourishing begin to die on an equally large scale. The means by which those tissues could have been reabsorbed is gone, and the lining, blood and mucus are shed in what we’ve come to call the “menstrual period”. As the ovaries again begin to produce more estrogen several days later, the bleeding slows and stops.
Two things are obvious from this: 1) that estrogen in the blood vessel walls would not be withdrawn if blood levels didn’t drop; and 2) that a plentiful supply of bioflavonoids and related nutrients would ensure they were used in capillary construction in the first place, instead of estrogen, thereby avoiding the risk of bleeding from estrogen withdrawal (15:229).
After menopause, this drop is naturally avoided with the steady low levels of estrogen produced. It can be unnaturally avoided before menopause by taking certain synthetic hormone drugs which keep it at a steady high level. But before menopause years, it is in facta natural part of the fertility cycle for ups and downs in hormone production to occur and no health benefit is gained from artificially controlling the hormone level. What is not natural however is to experience menstrual bleeding – and this can be eliminated by changing the diet to end the congestion of toxemia and ensure an abundant supply of the nutrients necessary for maintaining strong blood vessels.
What has to change in the diet in order to eliminate menstruation? Foods which contribute to toxemia are no longer eaten. Foods which build health, and especially strong connective tissue, without taxing the digestion are the only foods eaten. The body is helped to eliminate toxic wastes built up over past years of poor lifestyle and diet. Without doubt, the hardest part of this change for most people is the first one. It means no more eating foods which sludge up or acidify the body. This means eliminating animal products – meat, fish, dairy, eggs — refined sugars and salt, and dramatically reducing grain foods and even processed plant fats (oils). The diet essentially must become “true vegetarian”, or vegan, with a predominance of fresh raw fruits and vegetables rather than cooked. In particular, the greater the proportion of raw fruit in the diet, the less likely you are to have periods.
“Women who eat a vegetarian diet containing mostly raw food experience only brief periods, scarcely noticeable, with hardly any loss of blood. Dr. H. G. Beiler in his book, The Natural Way to Sexual Health, explains that women experience troublesome periods only because of the toxic condition of their blood brought about by the high fat and protein Western diet.” (5:298)
At least 50% and ideally more of every meal should be raw, and that eaten first. This is so that the enzymes present in the raw portion can help the body digest the whole meal, including the cooked portion.
Enzymes are protein molecules made by every cell and tissue in the body and used in every metabolic process. They break down food and transport nutrients; move cell wastes and prepare them for elimination; attach iron to red blood cells and phosphorous to bone and nerve tissue; dissolve blood clots and permit conception; and as part of the immune system, they attack and break down poisons and foreign substances in the blood and tissues (16).
All foods in their raw state – even meat — contain the enzymes needed for their own decomposition. If food is eaten uncooked, its own enzymes can digest up to 75% without drawing on the body’s reserves. Cooking food at 129°F (53°C) destroys all enzymes in it. If you eat a meal of such enzyme-dead food, your body has to bring enzymes from elsewhere to digest it. Among other things, this weakens the immune system. It’s been observed that after a meal of cooked food the blood’s white cell count rises because these cells are used to transport extra body enzymes to the digestive tract to help digestion. If those white blood cells had been needed in their normal role as part of the immune system defenses, ability to fight disease would temporarily suffer. After a meal of raw foods on the other hand, or after a meal of raw and cooked food in which the raw food is eaten first, this white cell rise is insignificant.
After years of eating mostly enzyme-empty food, the body’s enzyme reserves are seriously depleted. The organs involved – especially the pancreas, producer of many digestive enzymes – become enlarged from overwork, then exhausted, and finally fail altogether. Foods can’t be properly digested and end up fermenting in the digestive tract, producing toxins that are absorbed into the bloodstream and deposited in the joints and soft tissues. Conditions like constipation, blood diseases, bleeding ulcers, gout and arthritis appear.
“…binging on fresh, in-season fruits alone is somtimes enough to dramatically reduce the following menstrual flow.”
When we eat the plant foods our bodies were designed to handle, digestion is easy and efficient and creates very little waste. Of all the foods, fruits are the most palatable and most easily digested. They provide complete nourishment, including adequate protein, essential fats, minerals and vitamins. So fully usable is ripe fruit by the human body that the only waste products apart from fibre are carbon dioxide and water, completely non-toxic. On a high fruit diet, no constipation occurs; beneficial intestinal bacteria populate the bowel; the body remains in a desirable alkaline rather than acid state; the blood is pure and free of sludge and circulation and blood pressure are good; toxic deposits no longer occur – and the toxins and waste already stored in the body are gradually eliminated (3:137-138).
Fruits especially are rich in bioflavonoids. In fact, if a plentiful supply is available in the diet, so ready is the body to use these nutrients in building strong blood vessel walls that bingeing on fresh in-season fruits alone is sometimes enough to dramatically reduce the following menstrual period:
“British gynaecologist C. Alan B. Clemetson first became interested in the possibility of regulating menstrual flow with substances that occur in foods when a young Italian patient told him that she could easily cure her excessive menstrual bleeding by sucking lemons. It was a standard remedy for the problem in her home village, she said.” (13:107)
Clemetson thereafter suggested that his patients eat three fresh oranges daily, complete with the bioflavonoid-rich white pith – and many found that, while this alone did not end their periods, it kept them light (13:108).
Health practitioner Dr. George Starr White, author of The Emancipation of Women, or Regulating the Duration of Menses, believed that menstruation was unnatural and pathological. In his many decades of practice earlier this century he helped thousands of women to overcome this malady so that their cycles no longer involved bleeding, and he did this by getting them to change from eating heavy cooked food to living on raw foods (2:39).
Health researchers and writers Leslie and Susannah Kenton found the same thing happening to them after switching to a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables:
“Women on an all-raw or high-raw diet often report that menstrual problems such as bloating, pre-menstrual tension and fatigue improve greatly after two or three months. For some of them the improvement is so dramatic that they are not aware of their periods until they arrive. This is something we discovered ourselves and at first we thought we were unique. Then we spoke to numerous other women who said they had had a similar experience. Heavy periods become lighter – a period that lasts six or seven days can be reduced to as few as one or two. In some women, particularly those who do not eat meat, dairy products or large quantities of nuts, periods even cease altogether.” (13:107)
Here are some examples of what women of all ages have experienced on making the change to a healthier diet.
An American teenager in the 1980s:
“I was a complete vegetarian [vegan] by the time I was 15 (I’m now 18). My periods began to come less frequently (about once every three months) and then stopped altogether by about two years ago [that is, after about a year on a vegan diet]. My parents were really worried about this but I felt better than ever so I wasn’t too concerned. Mom took me to a gynecologist who did blood tests etc., and said I was ‘amazingly healthy’. But he said he could put me on the pill and get me started again! No thanks! I was getting around to thinking that, since I was feeling so great and not menstruating, perhaps menstruation was a symptom of a ‘disease’, rather than the old ‘normal, natural process’. I got to thinking that on my natural diet, I’d ‘de-domesticated’ myself and my body was behaving accordingly. So I tried an experiment about nine months ago. I ate dairy foods for a few days to see the effect. Sure enough, I got two periods after that. Since then, I’ve become increasingly confident that not menstruating is natural and that diet is the key. [i] eat fresh fruit, raw vegetables and sprouts, some nuts and seeds, and very little cooked foods except for some grains in winter occasionally.” (15:234)
A West Australian man referring to the Pritikin diet – the Pritikin “Regression Diet” is very high in raw foods:
“A lady friend of my wife has, since the age of puberty, experienced a heavy loss of blood during her period as well as premenstrual tension, but since going about 80% on the [Pritikin] diet, she experiences no premenstrual tension and hardly any blood loss.”(5:298)
Dr. G.S.White wrote of one of the many patients he “naturized” to a vegan diet:
“[She] flowed bright blood five or six days of each month [and] had such severe cramps that she could not hold her position as stenographer. [He treated her for six months, after which her] periods changed to half a day mucous flow with no blood at all. She was able to resume her work and did so for two or three years. She married and has had three daughters. Each of them had a mucous flow for about half a day each month and are in perfect health. One is married and had a healthy baby girl.”(15:233)
A young Californian woman in the early 1900s:
“Miss Olga Howe suffered severely with her menstrual periods, which lasted from seven to eight days, every 28 days. One of the first things she noticed upon changing from conventional living to a more healthful mode of life was that her suffering ceased and her periods were reduced to three days. During a year on raw foods her flow gradually lessened and this encouraged her to continue. In two years her flow ceased altogether. She says, ‘During this entire period I enjoyed better health than ever, and was much stronger.’ As a test she included cooked foods, butter and milk in her daily fare, and in one month her menses re-appeared. A return to raw food ended its appearance.” (2:39-40)
A 42-year-old American woman in the 1980s who was making the transition to a raw foods diet:
“When I launched into the all raw diet, my next period was eleven days late and the flow was half what it used to be. The following period was sixteen days overdue and a fourth of the usual flow. A few days of bingeing on cooked food would bring back a 28-day cycle, but with shorter and shorter binges, the flow decreased to a tenth and then only a spot. Once I realized that the cravings [for cooked foods] were occurring just before a period, I was determined to make it through this critical time. In April 1983, an emotional upset had me eating cooked food for several days; the period that followed in May lasted 6 days and was half the quantity of former years, convincing me that it is cooked food that causes women to bleed. I stayed fruitarian after that and haven’t had so much as a spot of bleeding in six months.”(9)
Are there any problems to be expected when switching to a high-raw diet? If coming from a traditional Western diet based on processed and cooked food heavy in protein and fats, plan to spend quite some time eating a TRANSITION DIET before settling down to a raw foods lifestyle. This can involve weeks to years, depending on how toxic you are to start with and how difficult you find dropping old habits. The reason is simple: toxin offloading can be unpleasant, especially if done all at once. Unless serious illness makes change urgent, you want to go through the process as gently as possible — and that means taking it slowly.
Eating only energy-laden easy-to-assimilate food like fresh fruit rests and heals the body to the point where it eventually feels up to the job of offloading some of the stored rubbish. This often quite toxic waste gets kicked back into the bloodstream from wherever it’s been deposited and circulates through the body on its way to the liver and organs of elimination for final breakdown and removal. During the time the toxins are in circulation you can feel awful, with aches, sweats, fevers and discharges as the body works to eliminate them.
If you decide to “go cold turkey” onto a high-raw lifestyle, you’ll get rid of the wastes fairly quickly, but the “cleansing crises” (there are likely to be several) can be uncomfortable. If you want or need to change your diet this quickly, do so with the guidance and support of a health practitioner who knows what to expect. This is especially true if your health is poor or you have a serious illness. Retreats where this kind of support is offered during several day to several week stays are ideal. Otherwise, plan on taking transition gradually and meeting the cleansing crises in smaller, gentler episodes rather than all at once. Some people barely notice them.
Begin by dropping out all some or all of the animal product foods, and adopt a vegan diet that at first uses familiar cooked vegetables, grain and legume foods as well as raw fruits and vegetables. You may find this stage more appealing if you incorporate Asian foods and flavours. Be careful not to overdo eating grains – a mistake many make on adopting the otherwise helpful Pritikin diet. Too many grain foods create an acid body and contribute to both arthritis and cancer. Don’t overdo use of oils either – they have their own serious health drawbacks (4;5) – and in Asian cooking vegetables sautéed in broth are just as tasty. Avoid the artificial substitutes for eggs or the concentrated vegetable protein “meat replacers” – stick to real, chemical-free whole food as much as possible.
Excellent sources of information and recipes for this stage are the books of Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, including Fit for Life, Living Health, and Fit for Life Cookbook. Have a look in the newsagents’ for magazines like New Vegetarian for further vegetarian and vegan food information.
Many women like to move through a vegan transition stage that includes lots of salads of vegetables and “vegetable fruits”. These are in fact true fruits – tomatoes, capsicum, cucumbers, etc. It’s easy to start off with vegan meals of cooked vegetables and a salad – and over time increase the salad portion while decreasing the cooked portion, all in tune with your own changing appetite. Because many of us start transition with some serious mineral deficiencies (how about iron-deficiency anaemia, after all those years of bleeding!), we often go through a stage of craving mineral-rich greens – which may well be the body’s instinct homing on what, at that stage, we need most.
After a while however, the taste buds “clear” and become newly sensitive to even very subtle flavours. This helps turn us off the strong-flavoured foods we used to eat and makes ripe fruit increasingly more appealing. Learn when different fruits come in season and choose just-picked local ones over those which may have been sitting in cold storage or shipped from afar. And of course, if possible choose organically or biodynamically grown produce. You’ll find yourself becoming more sensitive to all sorts of tastes and smells and able to detect many chemical traces in your food.
As you move towards a predominantly raw foods diet, several of the books by Leslie and Susannah Kenton offer excellent information and food ideas, including especially Raw Energy and Raw Energy Recipes. For information on the fruitarian lifestyle, read Essie Honiball’s I Live on Fruit; Ross Horne’s discussion of fruitarianism in Cancerproof Your Body; and back issues of the Fruitarian Network News (available from P.O. Box 293, Trinity Beach, Queensland, 4879, Australia).
If you are interested in in-depth study of how to regain health by supporting the body’s own healing ability with right eating habits, find out about the health system called “Natural Hygiene”. Best known through the books and teachings of Dr. Herbert M. Shelton and T.C. Fry, Natural Hygiene is also the foundation for the Diamonds’ work, and a good introduction can be found in Fit for Life. For more information, write to: The American Natural Hygiene Society, 12816 Racetrack Rd., Tampa, Florida 33625, USA.
It is entirely possible to live long and healthily on just fruit – radical as that seems. In the process of healing and ridding itself of old pollutants, your body will lose the fat it put on while carrying those toxins. You’ll drop most weight in the first few months after you start eating mostly raw fruits and vegetables. (Inclusion of grain foods or oils will slow weight loss down considerably.) Once the body has done a fair bit of healing and “housecleaning”, and is being sustained only on live foods, it starts to gain weight. If by this point you are eating a modest volume of fruit and leading a normally active daily life, you may gain several kilos and then stay steady at that “lean ideal”.
Yes, you will be leaner than people in our society are used to seeing – but you will not be “skin and bones” or look “anorexic”! You will not be carrying any “spare tires”, your muscles will be well-defined, your hair thick and healthy, your eyes and skin clear (and not prone to sun damage). Your sweat, breath, urine and stool will have no smell. You’ll sleep well – but at the same time will find you need less sleep than you used to – and you’ll awake with abundant energy which won’t disappear even during a day of working outdoors.
You can overeat on fruit – something that’s tempting to do during transition when summer fruits are in season and we’re still eating from appetite (mind) rather than true hunger. Overeating on fruit will put excess weight on, although it will be quickly shed once you stop. If you work out, you’ll increase muscle mass – and in fact a number of record-holding athletes eat mostly raw diets (5). If you stop doing muscle-building work, the added muscle will be quickly lost. You will feel fit and energetic on a fruit diet regardless of any extra exercise regime – but at the same time, you’ll feel more like using your body than ever before.
Ailments will disappear and you’ll notice you don’t “catch anything” anymore. And of course, menstrual bleeding will end along with its attendant problems, as will the “symptoms of menopause”. If you are a young woman who has had irregular ovulation or difficulty conceiving, your ovulation cycle will eventually regularise — and if you are not taking precautions, you may end up with an unexpected pregnancy!
This brings us back where we started our discussion; as Dr. Shelton wrote:
“The fact that the whole ovulation cycle can occur time after time without the loss of blood, and can and does this in so many cases, especially in women and whole tribes and races living ‘less civilized’, more natural lives, should cause us to doubt that menstruation is either necessary or normal. The fact that it is in the healthiest and strongest women that there is no loss of blood and that the loss of blood increases in proportion to the decline in physical vigor, should cause us to conclude that this, like all other losses of blood, is abnormal.”(2:30)
“Women can realize nothing but good from building such a high degree of health that this ‘normal’ hemorrhage becomes so ‘abnormal’ that it ceases.”
Quran19.9 He said: So shall it be, your Lord says: It is easy to Me, and indeed I created you before, when you were nothing. Gods name in Islam:Al-Khaliq (The Creator) He who creates everything from nothing and creates all things with the knowledge of what will happen to them.
We now see that science has finally acknowledged and adopted this fact: View Science article
Measurements taken using Jefferson Lab’s CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) are telling us more about how matter is produced from “nothing,” that is, the vacuum. Using the CLAS in Hall B, Daniel S. Carman of Ohio University and nearly 150 members of the CLAS Collaboration studied the spin transfer from a polarized electron beam to a produced Lambda particle. Their results were recently published in Physical Review Letters.
The CLAS experimenters collided JLab’s polarized electron beam into a proton target, producing a polarized Lambda (?0) and a kaon (K ). Physicists have long known that matter and anti-matter can be created when energetic particles strike one another. The new particles are not really created from “nothing.” They are created from the available kinetic energy of the colliding particles. Visualize a bowling ball hitting its rack of 10 pins so hard that the 10 pins turn into 11 normal pins and one “anti-pin.” Energy is conserved and so is matter; that’s why a new anti-matter particle is created each time a matter particle is created.
In a simple quark model of the reaction dynamics, a circularly polarized virtual photon strikes an oppositely polarized up quark inside the proton . The spin of the struck quark flips in direction and the quark recoils from its neighbors, stretching a flux-tube of gluonic matter between them. When the stored energy in the flux-tube is sufficient, the tube is “broken” by production of a strange quark-antiquark pair. Using this simple picture, the researchers could explain the angular dependence of the Lambda polarization if the quark pair was produced with the spins in opposite directions, or anti-aligned.
These anti-aligned spins could throw theorists into a spin. According to the popular triplet-P-zero (3P0) model, a quark-antiquark pair is produced with vacuum quantum numbers, and that means their spins should be aligned. These results imply that the 3P0 model may not be as widely applicable as was thought.
Winston Roberts, a theorist at Jefferson Lab and associate professor of physics at Old Dominion University, finds the CLAS measurement very interesting. “If they are right, it means we have to rethink what we thought we understood about our models for baryon decays,” he says. “The CLAS results may also be saying something about what we understand of baryons themselves — our knowledge of how to describe scattering processes such as the one they measure, or even that there may be oddities, peculiarities, dare I say ’strangeness,’ in the way strange quark-antiquark pairs are produced.”
The experimenters expect further reaction from theorists. “Polarized Lambda production is obviously sensitive to the spin-dynamics of quark-pair creation,” says Mac Mestayer, a JLab staff scientist, and one of the lead authors on the paper. “We eagerly await confirmation, or refutation, of the conclusions of our simple model by realistic theoretical calculations.”
Meanwhile, Carman adds, the researchers are planning further experiments. “Our group is continuing this exciting research by extending our arguments to test our picture of the dynamics in different reactions.”
These results show that we have much still to learn about the basic structure of the vacuum. One hundred years ago the vacuum was thought to consist of an “ether” through which light propagated as waves. Albert Michelson, Edward Morley, Albert Einstein and others disproved this hypothesis and the vacuum became an empty void. Twentieth century quantum field theories have now filled this once-empty space with virtual particles. It’s now obvious that a vacuum is not the cold, empty place it was once thought to be. JLab physicists and researchers are studying the spin of the produced quarks in hopes of understanding the vacuum better, as well as the matter that populates it.
Quran 15:26 “… And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape..”
In making reference to smectite, a quartz clay which has now been confirmed by scientists to be the most probable source of life.
Alexander Bell figured it out in 1880:
Alexander Graham Bell (1880) reported the photoacoustic effect for the first time writing: [1] “..thin disks of very many substances emitted sounds when exposed to the action of a rapidly interrupted beam of sunlight..” The sound production from those solid samples resulted from the absorption of the infrared part of the solar energy spectrum. (Source)
This is the amazing tale of how Pharaoh’s body was discovered and found to have drowned and been recovered, protected and preserved till date as was clearly stated in the Bible and confidently predicted in the Quran.
Read the story below-
“This day shallWe save you in your body, that you may be a Sign to those who come after you! But verily, many among mankind are neglectful of Our Signs” (Quran 10:92)
The French president for the purpose of running a laboratory and archaeological examinations on the mummy of the most notorious dictator that ever lived on Earth, he had the mummy imported from Egypt.
Upon arrival it was accorded a very royal welcome…the president himself and all ministers bowed in honor of the mummy.
When the ceremony ended, the mummy was carried to a specially-designed section at the Archeology Centre of France.
The final report of the scientists was released late at night stating that the remaining salt in the mummy was overt evidence that it was drowned in the sea, and the body was rescued very shortly where it was immediately embalmed to be saved.
The amazing thing still baffling Professor Maurice was how could this body possibly be safer than any other mummy despite being taken out of the sea up until this time.
As professor Maurice was writing his final report on what he thought would be a new discovery about saving Pharaoh’s body immediately after his death and embalming it,
Ofcourse the professor instantly denied such thing, saying that it’s impossible to discover this without the development of science and without using his high-tech and complicated laboratories and computers.
suddenly someone whispered to him that Muslims claim to know something about the drowning of this mummy.
To his surprise, he was told that Muslims believe in a book called “Quran” and this Quran narrates the story of Pharaoh’s drowning and ensures the safety of his body after his death as to be a Sign to mankind. The Professor couldn’t believe and started to wonder:
How can a book existed 1400 years ago speak about the mummy that was only found 110 years ago, in 1898 ??!!
How can that be possible while the ancient Egyptian heritage was discovered only a few decades ago and no one knew about it before??!!
The Professor sat down pondering on what he was told about the book of Muslims while his Holy Book narrates only the drowning of Pharaoh without saying anything about his body
“Is it possible that this mummy in front of me is the one who was chasing Moses ??!!”
“Is it possible that Muhammad knew this 1400 years ago ??!!”
The Professor couldn’t sleep that night till they brought him the Old Testament where he read: “the sea drowned Pharaoh and his army, no one else was left alive” He was surprised that the Holy Book didn’t mention about the destiny of the body and that it will be saved. Exodus 14:28, Psalm 136:15, Exodus 15:19
When the scientists were done with the mummy, France retuned it to Egypt , but Professor Maurice couldn’t rest for a moment since he was told that Muslims know about the safety of the body. So, he decided to travel and meet anatomy Muslim scientists and there he spoke about his discovery of the safety of the mummy after its death in the sea and so on.
One of the Muslim scientist stood up and simply opened the Quran and pointed to the Professor at one verse:
“This day shall We save you in your body, that you may be a Sign to those who come after you! But verily, many among mankind are neglectful of Our Signs” (Quran 10:92)
The Professor was struck when he read that and immediately stood in front of the crowd and said loudly: “I believe in Islam, I believe in Quran”
Then he went back to France with a different face he traveled with.
In France , he dedicated 10 years investigating the scientific discoveries and comparing them with the Quran and trying to come up with one scientific contradiction with the Quran. Finally he quoted one verse from the Quran to be his conclusion:
“No falsehood can approach it (this book) from before or behind it: it is sent down by One Full of Wisdom, Worthy of all praise” (Quran 41:42)
As a result of all years of his research, Professor Maurice wrote a book that shook all Europe , especially the scientists there
“Quran, Torah, Bible and Science:
A Study of the Holy Books in the Light of Modern Science”
I personally visited the Qairo Museum where the mummy is preserved and there you get astonished at the scenery of thousands of people from all over the world visiting the place everyday , unfortunately, many of the tourists there would think: “Woow, look at that! Amazing!! So nice to see people of all times!! Without realizing the intended lesson that Allah has kept this body a Sign to all mankind of anyone who denies Allah and His messengers.
ere it started to be tested by the greatest French archeological and anatomical scientists in order to discover more about such a great mummy. The scientists headed by Professor Maurice Bucaille, were trying to restore the mummy while Professor Maurice was mainly concerned with how the mummy died!
05/05/2007
Circumcision reduces the rate of HIV transmission by up to 60%! Studies proved this in Africa, and hence the World Health Organization met to introduce mass circumcision in Africa. The lack of circumcision in many people from Caribbean descent is part of what’s attributed to the high HIV rate in Brooklyn, New York.
Please advise everyone you know to go see a Physician and get this cheap, remarkable new aid against AIDS, which the Muslim, Christian and Jew, surprisingly kept faith in, believing it, if directed by the Creator, was ultimately to their benefit.
28 MARCH 2007 | PARIS/GENEVA — In response to the urgent need to reduce the number of new HIV infections globally, WHO and the UNAIDS Secretariat convened an international expert consultation to determine whether male circumcision should be recommended for the prevention of HIV infection.
Based on the evidence presented, which was considered to be compelling, experts attending the consultation recommended that male circumcision now be recognized as an additional important intervention to reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men. The international consultation, which was held 6-8 March 2007 in Montreux, Switzerland, was attended by participants representing a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, civil society, researchers, human rights and women’s health advocates, young people, funding agencies and implementing partners.
Intact
Virtually all: Chinese, Japanese, North Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Burmese, Thais
Hindu, Sikh, Parsee and Christian Indians
Scandinavians
Zulus, Shona, certain other African nations
most Melanesian and some Western Polynesian (Rennell, Bellona) peoples,
The great majority of: Europeans
men of the former Soviet Union
Central and South Americans
New Zealand Maori
Younger men of Britain and the Commonwealth, especially New Zealand and Australia
About half of: Malaysians (Hindu and Christian Tamils, Chinese and Orang Asli)
A significant minority of:
Americans, especially younger, Hispanic, and in the South West
Bangladeshis (20% are Hindu)
Cut
About 500,000,000 Muslims
More than 100,000,000 USAmericans
About 25,000,000 Filipini
Some tens of millions of older men of Britain
and the Commonwealth
Some tens of millions of African tribesmen
About 14,000,000 South Koreans
7,000,000 Jews
Some hundreds of thousands of Central and Eastern Polynesians
(Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau)
and Melanesians (Fiji, Vanuatu, parts of Solomon Islands and small parts of PNG)
Some thousands of aboriginal Australians,
mainly in the north and west. Source: http://newsrescue.wikidot.com/circumcision-reduces-hiv-risk
“…Sungbo’s Eredo has also been connected with the legend of the Queen of Sheba which is recounted in both the Bible and Koran. In the Old Testament, she is described as having sent a caravan of gold, ivory and other goods from her kingdom to King Solomon. In the Koran she is an Ethiopian sun worshiper named Bilqis involved in the incense trade who converts to Islam. Local legends link the Eredo to a wealthy childless widow named Bilikisu Sungbo. According to them, the monument was built as her personal memorial. Her actual grave is located in Oke-Eiri…”.
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Some quick research to substantiate this finding: 1. According to the songs of Solomon, she was Black.
2. The dating corresponds, Nigeria’s history of this wealthy Queen Bilkis is over 1,300 years old.
3. She was so influential that her grave which coincidentally is in a Muslim part of Ijebu land, Oko Eirie has been a pilgrimage site for centuries.
In conclusion, she was very wealthy and influential, for such a fortress 30Xs the size off Manhattan to be built in honor of her. There can only be one rich, ancient, dark complexioned, revered, Bilkis/Bilqis queen on one planet Earth. Sheeba, the one Islam named right on the mark!
References#1- Songs of Solomon 1:5
Dark am I, yet lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar,
like the tent curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not stare at me because I am dark,
because I am darkened by the sun.
#2- Archaeologists estimate that it took more than a million man-hours more to build the 100-mile wall-and-moat system around the kingdom of the childless matriarch named Bilikisu Sungbo, 1,300 years ago. http://www.worldhum.com/dispatches/i…eria_20070726/
#3- According to local lore, Bilikisu Sungbo was a fabulously wealthy queen who wanted to create a monument to her rule. The Eredo was built, enclosing an area 30 times bigger than Manhattan Island. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/356850.stm
#4- 2 Feb 2005 @ 02:20 by Jude Adebosoye Ogunade @81.199.93.149 : Bilikisu Sungbo: The Queen of Sheba?
Bilikisu Sungbo is the name I grew up to know about the Shrine in Eredo near Ijebu – Ode where I grew up. I was surprised to read in Arabic that Queen Sheba is referred to as Bilqis. Well Bilikisu is like the local pronounciation of Bilqis. So, was Queen Sheba really buried there…Please some achaeologists should do some work…And the Bilikisu story had been around before even the Hausas and the Fulanis brought Islam to the Ijebus… http://sandorian.us/newslog2.php/__s…245-000008.htm
“…Previous studies have shown that giving birth before age 25 and having many children protects against certain types of breast cancers, while delayed childbirth is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer…The most important finding of the new study is that breastfeeding seems to lower the risk of developing breast cancer that comes from having children later in life…”
As expected, and as the Prophets recommended. It’s so easy to live long and well, just obey the prophets, Quran, Bible, hadith etc. So easy, without waiting for slow, expensive, many a times retarded science.
Quran: Allah said, “The mothers shall give suckling to their children for two whole years.” (Al-Baqarah: 233)
The religions confidently preached early marriages, large families (this is certain in Islam) and lengthy breast feeding- 2 years. We notice Mary married and had Jesus very young, 11-16 years, and the prophet of Islam, Muhammed(P) too in his later years demonstrated marriage to a young mature girl…2
About early marriage. Is there an age limit?
The million dollar question is- Why delay, what’s the justification (other than maturity, physical and mental) and criteria for selecting a date/age when a woman can marry after she hits puberty? If a woman must not marry till say age 16, 17 or 18, why does God(Nature) make her fertile and give her eggs? Why does fertility self regulate and women’s menarche already vary automatically with environment and nutrition? Is this self regulation not already automated, when did it become mans duty to fix an age? We understand this is a good thing to do to avoid exploitation, but everyone must know that this choice is not backed by science, Nature or any religion. Nature has it that girls mature faster than men, and from Birth/as little infants they ‘play house’, they practice raising a family of dolls, feeding, bathing them etc. A woman is born with this skill, and though the western society education system makes it reasonable she waits to acquire professional independence. This is a choice and not a rule. And it actually puts females at greater risk, in addition to breast cancer, of more indecency, deadly STD’s, single parenthood, ‘bastard’ unfairly born children, etc.
Islam takes breastfeeding so seriously, the article referenced below goes further to say:
If the mother is not divorced, she should breastfeed her child as a religious obligation, not because she is the natural mother. If she is divorced, then nursing is dealt with as nafaqah (financial support), as established in the Shari`ah. Nafaqah of the child is the father’s responsibility. The father must give the mother compensation for her nursing. If she refuses to nurse, then it is incumbent upon the father to find and hire the child a wet-nurse. However, scholars make it mandatory upon the mother to nurse her child if the child refuses nursing by any other or if the father doesn’t have sufficient funds to hire a wet-nurse.
Article written 06/10/2008The Prophet of Islam directed believers not to sleep on their stomachs. Here is the quote from his life time/works-
Ya’eesh ibn Tihfah al-Ghifaari reported that his father said: “I stayed as a guest with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) with those of the poor whom he hosted. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came out in the night to check up on his guests, and saw me lying on my stomach. He prodded me with his foot and said, ‘Do not lie in this manner, for it is a way of lying that Allaah hates.’” According to another report, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) prodded him with his foot and woke him up, and said, “Do not lie like this, for this is how the people of Hell lie.” (Reported by Ahmad, al-Fath al-Rabbaani, 14/244-245; by al-Tirmidhi, no. 2798, Shaakir edn.; and by Abu Dawood, al-Sunan, Kitaab al-Adab, no. 5040, al-Da’aas edn. Also reported in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 2270-2271).
Now of course science didn’t until recently figure out all the issues with sleeping on the stomach. Some of these are-
Due to the weight of the spine, the number one recommendation by doctors to prevent and protect the spine and soft organs is not to sleep this way as the heavy spine sags unhindered as it squashes the internal organs “...You may want to avoid sleeping on your stomach, especially on a saggy mattress, since this can cause back strain and can be uncomfortable for your neck…”….1
More recently too, there was an epidemic so to say of babies dieing in their cots while at sleep, a kind of sleep monster phenomenon. After research and doctors collating data from many mothers to figure out what made infants suddenly die in their sleep it was discovered(after many deaths) that sleeping on the stomach was the single great cause of this SIDS(Suddenqq Infant Death Syndrome)…2
Mothers every where were advised to not put their infants to sleep on their stomachs any more, and prod them with a pillow. The medical profession celebrated their great discovery, great job won’t you say? Even though the religions prescribed the prevention of this years ago.
140,000 years after ‘Eve’ (Adam and Eve), about 70,000 years ago,
there was something they don’t know for sure what…probably the flood,
that shrunk Earth population to just a few in Africa, then these few
re-populated Earth.
It may not be Noah’s extinction, it may be one of the other extinctions God
told us categorically of in the Holy books.
Once again, religion came first with the fact that man went through what’s
scientifically called ‘a bottle neck‘ in our global growth.
Aren’t they catching up slowly? Good work. All that money is bringing them home slowly isn’t.
Science has discovered all properties of God as known and preached by religions. Initially when religions proposed properties and attributes like- ‘Omniscience’, ‘Omnipotence’ and ‘Omnipresence’, science refused to understand that these properties were practical. Albert Einsteins theory that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but only converted, was a beginning of science dealing with the possibilities outside their usual realm. If energy can not be created, how/where did energy one, alpha energy come about?
With modern quantum physics discovery, science has recently to their amazement experienced photons exhibiting the the ‘omni’ properties. So with their belief in the Big bang, that all was one, and all is still that one. And their knowing that all energy is one energy, nothing new added. And now their appreciation of particles having omni abilities. What’s left?
A recent study by Dr. Esra Tasali, an assistant professor of medicine, found that disrupting the deepest sleep periods rapidly resulted in reduction in ability to regulate blood-sugar levels.
The findings are reported in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [1]
The stages of sleep can be seen here-
The beginning 2/3rds has the most deep sleep during which we should not be disturbed as the study found, but the later 1/3rd we notice the sleep doesn’t go so deep any more and cycles stop at stage 2 and REM (Rapid Eye movement). Deep sleep is perhaps the most vital stage, as it is the first stage that the brain attempts to recover when we are sleep deprived. If we do not get adequate deep sleep, we experience the strongest effects of sleep deprivation.
Deep sleep allows the brain to rest and restore the energy we expend during our waking hours. Blood flow decreases to the brain in this stage, and redirects itself tos the muscles, restoring physical energy. Research also shows that immune functions increase during deep sleep.
REM sleep, or dream sleep, is also very important. This stage is associated with processing emotions, retaining memories, and relieving stress. [2]
Interestingly in Islam, the prophet Mohammed recommended waking up during this third stage of sleep, not the deep earlier 2/3rds, but after us sleeping till that third stage, to pray and meditate. [3]
I hereby predict and suggest with certainty, research toward proving the benefits of awakening during this 3rd NREM/ non deep sleep stage, to pray and/or meditate.
Expected conclusions are that this habit if practiced over time may accentuate and enhance the re-invigorative properties of the first stages of sleep, and further increase the benefits of these sleep stages, possibly prolonging the time spent in deep sleep in the first stages in people who practice waking to meditate, and enhancing the anti-diabetes property of the strengthened early sleep.
Dr Okasha El Daly of UCL’s Institute of Archaeology will reveal that Arabic scholars not only took a keen interest in ancient Egypt but also correctly interpreted hieroglyphics in the ninth century AD almost 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
It has long been thought that Jean-Francois Champollion was the first person to crack hieroglyphics in 1822 using newly discovered Egyptian antiquities such as the Rosetta stone. But fresh analysis of manuscripts tucked away in long forgotten collections scattered across the globe prove that Arabic scholars got there first.
Dr Okasha El Daly, of UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, explains:
“For two and a half centuries the study of Egyptology has been dominated by a Euro-centric view, which has virtually ignored over a thousand years of Arabic scholarship and enquiry encouraged by Islam.
“Prior to Napoleonic times little was known in the West about the ancient civilisation of Egypt except what had been recorded in the Bible. It was assumed that the world of the pharaohs had long since been forgotten by Egyptians, who were thought to have been incorporated into the expanding Islamic world by the seventh century.
“But this overhasty conclusion ignores the vast contribution of medieval Arabic scholars and others between the seventh and 16th centuries. In reality a huge corpus of medieval writing by both scholars and ordinary people exists that dates from long before the earliest European Renaissance. Analysis reveals that not only did Moslems have a deep interest in the study of Ancient Egypt, they could also correctly decipher hieroglyphic script.”
Following the Roman invasion of Egypt in 30 BC the use of hieroglyphics began to die out with the last known writing in the fifth century AD.
While Western medieval commentators believed that hieroglyphics were symbols each representing a single concept Dr El Daly has shown that Arab scholars grasped the fundamental principle that hieroglyphics could represent sounds as well as ideas.
Using his unique expertise in both Egyptology and medieval Arabic writers, Dr El Daly began a seven year investigation of Arabic writing on ancient Egypt.
“The manuscripts were scattered worldwide in private as well as public collections and were mostly not catalogued. Even when they were, they were often wrongly classified so I had to go through each one individually – it is not like researching in modern books with an index which you can check for relevant information,” says Dr El Daly.
“A specialist in only Arabic or Islamic studies reading these manuscripts would fail to grasp their significance to Egyptology. Conversely Egyptologists think that Arabs and Moslems had nothing useful to say about ancient Egypt, so there wasn’t any need to look at manuscripts that were mainly the domain of scholars within the disciplines of Arabic/Oriental studies.”
The breakthrough in Dr El Daly’s research came from analysis of the work of Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn Wahshiyah, a ninth century alchemist. Ibn Wahshiyah’s work on ancient writing systems showed that he was able to correctly decipher many hieroglyphic signs. Being an alchemist not a linguist, his primary interest was to identify the phonetic value and meaning of hieroglyphic signs with the aim of accessing the ancient Egyptian scientific knowledge inscribed in hieroglyphs.
“By comparing Ibn Wahshiyah’s conclusions with those in current books on Egyptian Language, I was able to assess his accuracy in understanding hieroglyphic signs,” says Dr El Daly.
“In particular
I looked at the Egyptian Grammar of Sir Alan Gardiner which has a sign list at the end, it revealed that Ibn Wahshiyah understood perfectly well the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphs.”
Dr El Daly added: “Western culture misinterprets Islam because we think teaching before the Quran is shunned, which isn’t the case. They valued history and assumed that Egypt was a land of science and wisdom and as such they wanted to learn their language to have access to such vast knowledge.
“Critically they did not, unlike the West, write history to fit with the religious ideas of the time, which makes their accounts more reliable. They were also keen on the universality of human history based on the unity of the origin of human beings and the diversity of their appearance and languages. Furthermore, there are likely to be many hidden manuscripts dotted round the world that could make a significant contribution to our understanding of the ancient world.
Dr Okasha El Daly is based in UCL’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the world’s largest collections of artefacts covering thousands of years of ancient Egyptian prehistory and history. On Wednesday 6 October UCL launches the biggest university fundraising campaign, Advancing London’s Global University – the Campaign for UCL, which will seek to raise £300 million over the coming decade, including £25 million to build a purpose built museum, the Panopticon, that will house UCL’s collections of Egyptology, art and rare books in an environment that preserves them for all to see.
The Panopticon, which means ‘all-visible’ in Greek, will be unlike any other museum in the UK because the entire collection will be on display and publicly accessible. Other highlights will include works by Durer, Rembrandt, Turner and Constable; an unrivalled collection of John Flaxman’s drawings and sculpture; the first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost and the George Orwell archives.
Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by University College London.
After numerous years of wasteful Darwinist racist scientific expensive research and erroneous mis-teaching in schools, scientists have finally accepted the single origin, one man= ‘Adam’, ancestor from the Middle East near Ethiopia, origin story that the religions upheld stubbornly yet confidently despite seeming overwhelming scientific evidence against it through the tormenting years of scientists ignorance.
Scientists/evolutionists used to theorize a racist multi-origin ancestor evolutionary story, with man, black and white having separate origins and ancestors having evolved separately from different ‘baboons’ in different parts of the world.
With the discovery of a much older than ever expected already well developed lucy in Ethiopia, scientists were forced to dump their multi-origin racist theory, and also their chronology was all reset to accomodate this finding which was consistent with what religions maintained, which is,- one Adam(Single ancestor) from Jerusalem/Palestine, which borders on Ethiopia and in the Pangea is the same continent and region. See Ethiopia and Jerusalem on Pangea map.
It is called, RSOH, guess what that means…’Recent Single Origin Hypothesis’. I burst out laughing, because what is recent for scientists, is the oldest fact the religionists have had, and tried to steer them towards for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_single-origin_hypothesis
What is cloning? Cloning is a rather recent scientific development, 20th century to be precise, whereby Scientists take stem cells from long bones, ribs and other good pro-gentitor cell sources, and nurture these into a new organism.
A good use of this ultra modern technology, is that we should be able to modify these stem cells to correct defects or change characteristics of the new repro-being. Since dolly, sheep, horses etc have been cloned, but man can not yet clone man. His biggest quest eludes him, scientists lack the capability.
Amazingly, the religion story taught man cloning. The first story of Adam and Eve has cloning in its best scientific definition.
The creator made Adam, a first man. Now, assuming the process of making man from organic matter took numerous stages over an evolutionary so to speak extended period. The best most logical way that scientists today if they made man, would make a partner for man, is by cloning from stem cells from long bones…or ribs, and making a few changes, the most simple changes would be deletions on/of chromosomes whereby you don’t make mutations and/or anything new really. A simple most reasonable way would be- deleting a ‘Y’ chromosome, and simply doubling the existing ‘X’ chromosome…to make this partner.
Does this tale read familiar?
Yes, the Eve story is a perfect idea introducer and instruction manual for scientists today on cloning. It’s so perfect it is the easiest way to teach the principles of cloning in schools.
– Get an Adam, take stem cells from his rib, make genetic modifications, simply by deleting the ‘Y’ chromosome and duplicating the already present ‘X’ chromosome. And voila, you have a female clone of man. The Creator could do it, but sorry, scientists have tried their best but do not have the keys to man cloning, their limit is animals that do not have souls.
So you see, the end and final goal of science is the beginning of religion.
See Leonardo Davinci representing scientists level of ignorance, drawing pre-moulded man, the ‘dwarf embryo’ supposed to grow like a tree in the testis and womb. Beside his picture on the right is Hartsoeker from the 17th century, also depicting the embryo as a pre-moulded miniature man in sperm. Religion meanwhile 1000s of years earlier had written categorically the facts Science now understands, that man is made not pre-moulded, but as fluid that later gets form, in stages, and the important fact that it is a combination of both fluids from man and woman, and not just man that results in the zygote, embryo and man..
See how 14th century Quran gave them the modern knowledge clearly since long before, had they used Quran earlier(they now do) science would now be 100 steps forward-
Quran
“Woe to man! What has made him reject (Allah)? From what stuff has He created him? From a nutfa (fluid-drop) He has created him, and then moulds him in due proportions.” (80: 17-19).
“then of that fluid-drop (nutfa) We created a leech-like clot” (23:14) .
“then We changed the Alaqa (leech-like clot) into a Mudgha (chewed-like lump) ” (23: 14).
on and on , with accurate modern medical chronological precision…
“then We made out of that mudgha (chewed-like lump of flesh) bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature. So blessed be Allah, the best to create.” (23: 14) .
And see this which conforms precisely with modern medicines categorization of embryological development into three unique characteristic stages-
“He creates you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness.” (39:6),
This below also shows how Moslems believe all this info is not unique to them but is the same info that the earlier prophets had before it got corrupted, and also points to religion categorically stating as fact that man is a combination of both male and female fluids and not just a result of the mans fluids, as science was misguided into thinking till the twentieth century. Listen(read) to this Jew interraction with Prophet Muhammed of Islam-
Imam Ahmed indicated in his book “Al Musnad” that a Jew passed by the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) while he was addressing his companions. Some people from Quarish said; “O Jew! This man proclaims that he is a prophet.” The Jew said: “ I will ask him of something no one knows except a prophet.” He asked the prophet (PBUH); “ O Mohammed! What is man created from? The Prophet (PBUH) said; “O Jew! Man is created from both: man’s fluid (nutfa) and woman’s fluid.” The Jew said; “This is said by those prophets before you.”
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR RESEARCH TO FEED BENEFIT OF FASTING IN LITTLE PILL
At last scientists think they have found the fountain of youth drug. And what is it? Well it is ‘fasting’. The simple format the religions have recommended for centuries. These scientists are spending millions to put a few of the benefits of fasting in an expensive pill. I say as the religions say, ‘just fast’, it’s cheaper, healthier, surer and has more benefits.
Excerpt from the multi-billion $ research lab featured on CNN and other media stations leading this study-
“…Sirtris pharmaceutical company has created a drug, SRT501, a proprietary formulation of reservation a compound found in red grapes and red wine, with improved bioavailability. SRT501 is the first small molecule to enter human clinical trials that is designed to activate SIRT1. These drug tests are expected to yield ‘fountain of youth’ drugs that will prolong life, by their effect on enzymes, sirtuins, which are similarly activated by fasting(caloric restriction)/adversity and improve mitochondrial functioning and cell metabolism, hence prolonging life. “A similar mechanism exists in simpler forms of life, making biologists believe that they are looking at an ancient strategy, formed early in evolution and built into all animals. The strategy allows an organism, when food is scarce, to live longer, postpone reproduction and start breeding when conditions improve”…“chemical or drug that would mimic caloric restriction in people by tripping the same genetic circuitry as a reduced-calorie diet does and give the gain without the pain(of fasting)..”
“Sirtuins are a recently discovered family of enzymes that promote normal cellular function. In particular, sirtuins improve the function of mitochondria which generate energy in cells. When organisms face adversity, sirtuins are activated as part of a natural process that maintains healthy function. Therefore, sirtuins are attractive drug targets which may be therapeutically beneficial for diseases in which mitochondria are dysfunctional, often observed in diseases of aging. These diseases include metabolic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and other mitochondrial disorders. Sirtuin therapeutics offer the potential for a novel class of drugs that can treat significant diseases of aging in a new way.”
Science, we are repeatedly informed by scientists, possesses a unique claim on truth due to its self-correcting nature. And this is certainly true in theory, although it is not difficult to demonstrate that scientific history is littered with a long list of honest mistakes, not-so-honest mistakes and outright lies.
And this merely refers to the cases of which we know, scientific frauds that have been caught and exposed. But even if we politely avert our eyes from this well-chronicled inability of scientists to live up to their scientific ideals – a nicety seldom granted to religious idealists – there is real cause to doubt the continued benefit of science to modern society, or even its right to a respectable place within it.
For the common belief in the beneficial nature of science rests on an underlying assumption that knowledge of all truth is desirable in all circumstances. But this is far from settled, as intellectuals from Plato to Daniel C. Dennett have frankly expressed their doubts on this score. Even lesser thinkers who have witnessed a child losing its innocent illusions or a family torn apart by the exposure of a long-hidden secret might well share this skepticism.
For if all knowledge is inherently good, then it is a moral imperative to scientifically determine the relative intelligence of Asians and Zulus once and for all. But is everyone really comfortable with the possibility of determining that men are, in scientific fact, intellectually superior to women? Or vice-versa? The cowardice of scientists regarding such controversial subjects, their nominal dedication to absolute scientific truth nothwithstanding, is powerful evidence of their lack of faith in the inherent beneficence of science.
Moreover, for a group of individuals claiming a right to act as a secular priesthood on Man’s behalf, scientists demonstrate an aversion for personal responsibility that would shame a child. Consider how the same militant atheists who claim that religious individuals are somehow responsible for the past actions of other religious individuals who do not even happen to share their beliefs simultaneously assert that scientists are not responsible for their personal actions even when those actions provide the means of mass murder or the motivation for embarking upon mass slaughter.
If “religion” is to be held culpable for the Inquisitions and the jihads, “science” is certainly no less culpable for the historical ravages of scientific socialism, the gassings of World War I, the National Socialist Holocaust, the fire-bombings of Tokyo and Dresden and the American abortion atrocity, to say nothing of the possibility of nuclear devastation as well as the inconvenient perils of global warming.
I have previously demonstrated that religion does not cause war. But even if it did, the number of Americans killed by medical science in the last ten years far exceeds the total number of Americans killed by war in U.S. history. If medical science can justly claim to have saved many lives, it must also take responsibility for the estimated 783,000 annual iatrogenic deaths it now causes every year.
Furthermore, the benefits of science are hugely exaggerated. Most of the advances in human technology are a function of the wealth produced by capitalism and human liberty, as may be seen in the retarded technological development in countries with no shortage of education and scientists, but handicapped by anti-capitalist, anti-libertarian ideology. Most inventors are not scientists and most scientists are not inventors; whereas Oppenheimer and Einstein gave us the nuclear bomb, Steve Wozniak gave us the personal computer and Al Gore gave us the Internet. It’s worth noting that the inventors of what is considered to be the most significant invention of the century, the silicon chip, were not scientists but electrical engineers.
Science advocates may argue that while scientists may not do much inventing, inventions are merely a practical application of the principles discovered by scientists. And while this is true in many cases, it is false in even more. From vulcanized rubber to the microwave oven, accidents combined with fortuitous observations by non-scientists have accounted for a surprising number of advances in human knowledge, advances to which the scientific method of hypothesis and experimentation may claim no credit.
Sciencists (those who believe in science as a basis for dictating human behavior, as opposed to scientists, who merely engage in the method), like to posit that Man has evolved to a point where he is ready to move beyond religion. A more interesting and arguably more urgent question is whether science, having produced some genuinely positive results as well as some truly nightmarish evils, has outlived its usefulness to Mankind.
Man has survived millennia of religious faith, but if the prophets of over-population and global warming are correct, he may not survive a mere two centuries of science.
A study from New Scientist.com 10/01/2007 and Journal of Psychiatry, conducted among Catholic nuns, priests and Christian brothers between 1994 and 2006 has yielded this enlightenment. Read
People who are meticulous and “finish what they start” may have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study involving Catholic nuns and priests.
The most conscientious and self-disciplined individuals were found to be 89% less likely to develop this form of dementia than their peers over the course of the 12-year study.
Robert Wilson at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, US, and colleagues followed 997 healthy Catholic nuns, priests and Christian brothers between 1994 and 2006. Early on in the study, participants completed a personality test to determine how conscientious they were.
Based on answers to 12 questions such as “I am a productive person who always gets the job done”, they received a score ranging from 0 to 48. On average, volunteers scored 34 points in the test.
Controlled impulses
Volunteers also underwent regular neurological examinations and cognitive tests. Over the lifetime of the study, 176 of the 997 participants developed Alzheimer’s disease. However, those with the highest score on the personality test – 40 points or above – had an 89% lower chance of developing the debilitating condition than participants who received 28 points or lower.
“These are people who control impulses, and tend to follow norms and rules,” Wilson told New Scientist.
Previous studies suggest that exercise and intellectual stimulation can decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. But the link between self-discipline and a reduced risk of the illness remained strong even after researchers discounted these factors from their study. Subjects still had a 54% lower chance of developing the condition.
Exactly why conscientiousness should have an impact on Alzheimer’s risk remains unclear, says Wilson. He notes that brain autopsies conducted on 324 of the study’s participants failed to resolve the mystery.
Alzheimer’s test?
Earlier work has linked the presence of plaques and protein tangles within the brain to Alzheimer. Yet, in general, the brains of those who scored highly on the conscientiousness test had as many plaques and protein tangles as those of subjects who scored lower.
Wilson suggests that more meticulous and conscientious individuals may have more active frontal brain regions, an area that is responsible for decision-making and planning. Increased activity in this region may perhaps compensate for a decline in function in other brain regions, he speculates.
Based on the new findings, doctors could perhaps consider certain patients at
greater risk of dementia, says Ross Andel at the University of South Florida, US. “This is a study about identifying people at risk,” he says.
Journal reference: Archives of General Psychiatry (vol 64, p 1204)
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