The Kaaba and its Antipode

An Antipode is the spot on the exact opposite side of the earth from a particular point. There's a formula for calculating it, but I've saved you the trouble! :D


(To see the Antipode in google maps, just search for: 
-21.422509,-140.173826  @-21.422509,-140.173826)


You'll see I've marked out the Kaaba too, and that the antipode is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near French Polynesia it turns out, but not on an island (from what Google Maps will show). If you can get a boat to hold still, you can pray in any direction from that spot! You might even be able to make Tawaaf! :P

Canadian Hijabi: Hadith

I saw this hadith on Canadian Hijabi's Blog (http://nazia-canadianhijab.blogspot.com/) , and couldn't help but go "awwwwwwwwwwww!" :')

""When a husband and wife look at each other with Love, Allah looks at both with Mercy" [Bukhari 6:19 & Tirmidhi 14:79] What a BEAUTIFUL Hadith. I absolutely love this! Masha'Allah."


Yup, she sums it up pretty well!


Check out her blog, she's got some interesting posts there, many of which answer some common questions like "Why don't men wear hijab?" (http://nazia-canadianhijab.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-men-dont-wear-hijab.html) and "Why a muslim woman is not allowed to marry a non-muslim man?" (http://nazia-canadianhijab.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-muslim-woman-is-not-allowed-to.html)

Weight of the Human Soul

A Physician by the name of Duncan McDougall attempted to measure the weight of a soul by measuring the weight of a human before and after death. It turns out, when a person dies, they lose about 3/4 of an ounce, or 21 grams. Now, killjoys have called this insensible loss; basically, some kind of unexplainable evaporation. Here's what I propose though. If a soul really does weigh 21 grams, shouldn't there also be an unexplainable GAIN of 21 grams at the instant a foetus gains it's soul? See, it's easy enough to say "oh, the loss was due to some kind of rapid perspiration" since the human body excretes stuff all the time without our conscious effort: sweat, oils, air... but we have a lot of control over what enters our body: nose, and mouth, and clearly nothing would be entering these area's of the mother. A sudden gain in the same weight, then, would be a very clear indicator that the soul does indeed have mass.

See this link for more information on the experiment:

http://www.lostmag.com/issue1/soulsweight.php