A short and sweet post today. This is one of my favourite football stories, and, as the festive season approaches, it had to be told! Until the 1950s, it was very common for a full league programme to be played on Christmas Day in England, something we would never think of in the modern era On December 25th 1937, Chelsea were… Read More »
Al-Bīrūnī, in full Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī, (born Sept. 4, 973 CE, Khwārezm, Khorāsān [now in Uzbekistan]—died c. 1052, Ghazna [now Ghaznī, Afg.), Muslim astronomer, mathematician, ethnographist, anthropologist, historian, and geographer. Al-Bīrūnī lived during a period of unusual political turmoil in the eastern Islamic world. He served more than six different princes, all of whom were known for their bellicose activities and a good number of… Read More »
The missile research and development program (Urdu: پاکستان پروگرام برائے مطالعہ و ارتقائے میزائل) was the Pakistan Ministry of Defence secretive program for the comprehensive research and the development of guided missiles. Initiatives began in 1988 Benazir Bhutto Government in a direct response to equivalent program existed in India and was managed under the scrutiny of the Ministry of Defence in close coordination with the other related institutions. On moral grounds, no chemical weapons were developed as the program… Read More »
Mahram is an Arabic term derived from ‘haraam’ which literally refers to something which is sacred or prohibited. In the terminology of Islamic Fiqh, a non-Mahram is a person with whom marriage is generally permissible. A Mahram is an unmarriageable person with whom marriage is totally unlawful at all times on the basis of kinship, whether he or… Read More »
Below are patterns for each of the six kinds of reading questions. Each pattern includes a description, the typical phrases or language we see in text or on tests, and strategies to help identify the kind you are looking at. I. COMPREHENSION Comprehension means understanding or mentally grasping the meaning of something. The answer to a comprehension question… Read More »
A 16-Year Old boy said to his mum..Welcome back to Knowledge Power. Our today’s topic is How to increase the beauty of the face. These days, beauty is everything. Beauty is not encompassed within a certain circle of traits, however, we do know the general basis of the attribute that is widely preferred by the population. It is important… Read More »
A 16-Year Old boy said to his mum..Welcome back to Knowledge Power. Our today’s topic is How to increase the beauty of the face. These days, beauty is everything. Beauty is not encompassed within a certain circle of traits, however, we do know the general basis of the attribute that is widely preferred by the population. It is important… Read More »
The Prophet ﷺ is buried in the Sacred Chamber, along with two of his most faithful companions and the first two caliphs of Islam, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Umar ibn al-Khattab. The Sacred Chamber was once the house (hujra) of his wife Aisha – the house in which he was staying in at the time of his physical… Read More »
A crowd of Libyans fired guns in the air and chanted slogans in support of Muammar Qaddafi at a rally in the city of Sirte on Monday. Isn’t it kind of dangerous to shoot bullets into the sky? Yes … well, probably … maybe … it kind of depends. The Explainer is far from being the first to ask this… Read More »
A Kerala man and the ‘Mehr’ he gave his wife went viral for all the right reasons. Ijas Hakim gifted his wife 100 books as Mehr for their wedding. This Kerala couple and their book Mehr is giving the Internet progressive couple goals. The lucky girl Ajna Nizam received 100 books that she wanted to read. How did… Read More »