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Planck Telescope Discovery : More Galaxies!

From: PressTVGlobalNews | January 12, 2011 - Scientists at the European Space Agency say they've discovered hundreds of thousands of more galaxies, containing countless trillions of stars. The numbers are mind-boggling.

Press TV's Mark Votier has been trying to make sense of them.

Awesome : Lesley Hazleton- Islam is misunderstood.

officialhdr | December 15, 2010 - seeking the truth herself, and for revealing her learnings in front of a big audience. Of course the main media would ignore this.

Lesley Hazleton explores the Qur'an and finds much that is quite different from what is reported in commonly cited accounts.

A psychologist by training and Middle East reporter by experience, British-born Lesley Hazleton has spent the last ten years exploring the vast and often terrifying arena in which politics and religion, past and present, intersect

Why Do People Convert To Islam?

marmadani | January 04, 2011 - BBC Radio 5 Live

More and more white British people are converting to Islam. That's according to research by Swansea University - it estimates there are now 100-thousand converts in the UK. What drives people to make such a change in their belief, lifestyle and - in some cases - their dress?

Tazkirah : As the current year comes to and end and we start a new year.

Prophet Muhammad  reminds us,  "There are two of God's favors that are forgotten by many people: health and free time."

As the current year comes to and end and we start a new year, the following verses of the Quran reflect on the importance of time.

    Your Guardian-Lord is God, Who created the heavens and the earth in six eons, and is firmly established on the throne (of authority): He covers the night as a veil over the day, each seeking the other in swift succession: He created the sun, the moon, and the stars, (all) governed by laws under His command. Is it not His to create and to govern? Blessed be God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds! - (Quran 7:54) 

    The number of months in the sight of God is twelve (in a year) - so ordained by Him the day He created the heavens and the earth; of them four are sacred: this is the ever-true law [of God]. So wrong not yourselves therein, and combat the Pagans all together as they fight you all together. But know that God is with those who restrain themselves. - (Quran9:36) 

    Are they, then, not aware that they are being tested year-in, year-out? And yet, they do not repent and nor do they learn a lesson (from it). - (Quran 9:126) 

    He it is Who made the sun a shining brightness and the moon a light, and ordained for itphases that you might know the computation of years and the reckoning [of time]. God did not create it but with truth; He makes the signs manifest for a people who have knowledge. - (Quran 10:5) 

    We have made the Night and the Day as two (of Our) Signs: the Sign of the Night have We obscured, while the Sign of the Day We have made to enlighten you; that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the number and count of the years: all things have We explained in detail. - (Quran 17:12)

    He will say: "What number of years did ye stay on earth?"   They will answer: 'We have spent there a day, or part of a day; but ask those who [are able to] count [time]..." He will say: "You stayed not but a little,- if you had only known!   Did you, then, think that We created you in mere idle play, and that you would not have to return to Us?."  - (Quran23:112-115) 

    By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),  Verily Humankind is in loss,  Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy. - (Quran 103:1-3)

Courtesy  : IslamiCity