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Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Highest Mosque in Tallest Building
The worlds tallest building opened in a blaze of fireworks, parachute jumps and shooting streams of water from the world's tallest fountain. At a cost estimated at $1.5 billion, the Burj Khalifa took five years to build, is more than 160 floors high and has comfortably surpassed the previous record holder in Taiwan, the Taipei 101. More than 12,000 people will occupy its 6 million square feet, zooming up and down in 54 elevators that can reach speeds of 40 miles an hour. It will have the world's highest mosque, on the 158th floor; the world's highest swimming pool, on the 76th floor; the highest observation deck, on the 124th floor; and the first hotel by the fashion designer Armani. Burj Khalifa also claims to hold several other world records, including: tallest free-standing structure in the world (previously held by Toronto's CN Tower); elevator with the longest travel distance in the world and most number of stories in the world. Click HERE to read full article.
Ingenious Devices
The idea of using water pressure to achieve automation reached its pinnacle in the development of clocks. The need to know what time to pray was a crucial spur in Islam to the development of water clocks which could keep the time through day and night. Water clocks such as that of al-Zarqali in Toledo (11th century) became the wonders of the age. One extraordinary device is a water clock in the shape of an elephant, designed by an engineer called Badi al-Zaman al-Jazarj and illustrated and described in his Book of Ingenious Devices (1206). The elephant clock combined water principles' from Archimedes with an Indian elephant and water timer, Chinese dragons, an Egyptian phoenix, a Persian carpet and Arabian figures. Click HERE to read full article.

Re-engineered Elephant Clock at the Ibn Batuta Mall in Dubai.

2009 MODEL. IMPROVED COLOR DIGITAL QURAN WITH 10 RECITERS.

ALLAH. Large Faux Canvas Frame.

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My ChildrenÕs Stories from the Quran (Ten Colouring Books) Box-1

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All humans are dead except those who have knowledge ...
     and all those who have knowledge are asleep except for those who do good deeds...
     and those who do good deeds are deceived except those who are sincere...
     and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Imam Shafi, Muslim jurist (767 CE - 820 CE)

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