Greatest Inventions by Muslims.

[Afnan Hafiz]

Assalamu Alaikum , Dear Brothers and Sisters of Islam!

It is in our knowledge that Muslims in the earlier times were really intelligent and genius personalities. Many scientific theories have been given by Muslim Scientists like Jabir Bin Hayyan and Musa al-Khawarizmi .
Due to negligence, Muslims have stopped to use their intellect and therefore, now the west has started to prosper in fields of knowledge.

Many of you may not know what was invented or discovered by Muslims, so I have created this thread, in order to enhance your knowledge about Muslim Inventors and Scientists.

Of course we know about Albert Einstein , Isaac Newton , Galileo etc , but do we know about Abbas Ibn Firnas , Al-Jazari and Al-Zahrawi?? NO?

No problem! I will mention a few of the greatest inventions by Muslims in this thread, but if you want to contribute, do not hesitate

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

COFFEE

The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia , when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century, it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffe and then English coffee.

 

[student8]

This is a model of the "self-moving and combustible egg" of the Syrian Al-Hassan er-Rammah and is believed to be the earliest known rocket propelled torpedo. Crude sketches and a description of it appear in Hassan's Arabic manuscript, The Book of Fighting on Horseback and with War Engines, completed in A.D. 1280.

It is not known if he ever built the device. The two pans connected together were filled with an incendiary mixture and the whole was propelled by two rockets. As the rockets were ignited, the device was aimed toward an enemy ship. When it struck, the enemy ship was to catch fire and be destroyed. The model was built especially for the National Air and Space Museum and donated to the Museum in 1976 by the George Marsden Design Company.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Parachute

A thousand years before the Wright Brothers, a Muslim Poet, astronomer and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird.. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a signifacant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes or so but crashed on landing- concluding that he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Shampoo

Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why we perfected the recipe for soap. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics , to the Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash..
Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened '' Mohamed's Indian Vapour Baths' on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings, George IV and William IV.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

REFINEMENT

Distillation , the means of separating liquids through their differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir Ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today- liquefaction, crystallization, distillation, purification,oxidization, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulfuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and spirits. Ibn Hayyan emphasized systematic experimentation and was the founder of of modern chemistry.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Crank-shaft

The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of he machinery in the modern world., not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called Al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 '' Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'' shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the Father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

 

[AtemisDelta]

 

[QuantityPewPew]

Circumcision of Women (Female genital mutilation)
To make sure women really dont get ANYTHING out of the relationship. Well done.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Circumcision of Women (Female genital mutilation)
To make sure women really dont get ANYTHING out of the relationship. Well done.

Assalamu Alaikum. I did not really get what you meant here. Could you please elaborate? Jazakillah.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Quilted Armour

Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim World or whether it was imported there from India or China. But certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by the Saracen Warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafting of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation- so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

 

[abdxyz]

Circumcision of Women (Female genital mutilation)
To make sure women really dont get ANYTHING out of the relationship. Well done.

“FGM”: The Latest Attempt to Dehumanise Muslims

Moments after the vitriolic attack by the Daily Mail against Muslim families going to Legoland, it seems that the hate industry has swiftly moved on to something else to dehumanise Muslims. In a seemingly last-ditch attempt, clutching at straws, the latest attempt to demonise Muslims has been in scapegoating local scholar, Dr Haitham al-Haddad for “supporting FGM” (female genital mutilation), by carefully redacted statements of Islam’s Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) and Juristic traditions. The proximity of the two campaigns could be indicative of (i) a coordinated attack against Muslims, (ii) some opportunistic bloggers trying to make a name for themselves, or (iii) simply gullible Samaritans deluded into thinking they’re fighting villains. Either way, normally I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt to new bloggers/journalists on the scene, apparently teetering on the edge of Islamophobia; but when they’re sharing notes with the likes of the EDL and the Daily Mail, they must be exposed.

So why is the latest attack against Dr Haitham al-Haddad an attack on Muslims? Simply put, he’s been lied about, mentioned alongside controversial “bogeymen” to stir up hatred and to top it off, dehumanised for articulating simple, mainstream Islamic beliefs as part of his job as a scholar and a teacher. Most of the lies against him he has clarified for himself here. However, I wanted to clarify this new FGM curve-ball that came out of the blue.

History behind FGM classification

Before the most recent classification by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the practices of Female Genital Cutting were divided into harmless and harmful. The harmless version was what was known as the “ritual nick”, or “sunna circumcision” (khitān in Arabic). This is when a small incision is made in the prepuce, the female equivalent of the male’s foreskin. Medical experts call this as harmless as ear piercing, and generally attach no medical benefit or harm to it. Ironically this is said to be much lighter than the male circumcision. The harmful type of cutting—which the Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) incidentally forbade, as well as the consensus of all Islamic jurists—involves removal of parts of the genitals, and is of varying degrees, which leads to a plethora of medical problems especially since they are not normally done in hygienic environments.

In 1994, a doctor who was collecting data in Sudan suggested that this traditional classification was redundant, since no one in her experience (confined to Sudan and nearby areas) performed the ritual nick. As a result of this and no doubt other factors, eventually the harmless ritual nick became a footnote and was subsumed as a harmless sub-type of a sub-type of FGM. This, as well as arguably sloppy legislation in many countries, has led to the reality we see today, that the ritual nick, despite being harmless and less extensive than male circumcision, is also considered FGM by some. Although there are medical experts contesting this in academic and public policy circles, it is not something that has ever been encouraged by Dr Haitham al-Haddad or any other western scholar I am aware of in our context, due to its non-obligatory nature Islamically combined with the problems that accompany it being classified as FGM according to most western countries.

Clarity and nuance

As can be seen from the history behind it, it should become clear to any reader who is not blinded by a hatred of Islam and Muslims, that the demonisation of Dr Haitham al-Haddad (or any other Muslim for that matter) on grounds that they “advocate FGM” is nothing less than ludicrous. This is especially so since in the full video of a fiqh lesson on the rulings pertaining to children, a few minutes of which was taken out of context and uploaded separately by an Islamophobe, the sheikh explicitly mentions that actual FGM is completely forbidden according to Islam. In the whole video it is also clear that the sheikh is not speaking from his own opinions, but quoting the Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) verbatim, as well as a host of other classical and contemporary jurists.

Those that are hell-bent on dehumanising Muslims frequently take statements that are carefully redacted from hadiths wildly out of context, and pass them off as statements by Muslim scholars, in an attempt to demonise and vilify them. Another example of this is the hadith, “A man should not be asked “why” he hit his wife,” which has a particular context (and limit) to it when applied in counselling of marital disputes. Yet another example is the stating of the well known criminalisation in Islam, of public acts of sodomy (in front of at least four sane, righteous Muslim witnesses) in an Islamic state. Those who try and stir-up hatred of Muslims try to incite LGBT activists against us, by conveniently translating this as a blanket “criminalisation of homosexuals”!

A sad result of all this desperate shooting from the hip in throwing allegations of homophobia, sexism or racism left, right and centre, is that mud sticks. No matter how many times lies and misinformation is clarified – you still get people trying to push these tired, out-dated allegations. It’s no surprise to see the Islamophobia world’s finest players turning up in an article or two in the most vile papers. People like Raheem Kassam of the Henry Jackson Society project “Student Rights”, who is probably mad that their own anti-Muslim hate preachers are banned from entering the country. Or maybe they’re just bored after student unions across the country have uniformly condemned and shunned them, and supported counter campaigns against them by real students.

Unfortunately, nuance seems to be nearly extinct in our 150-character-or-fewer, 30-second-or-less sound bite culture. My main message is about these Islamophobes. If they have no shame, then they may lie, misrepresent and incite hatred against us as they will. As for the neutral readers – now you know the real story, I hope. Just take a look at some of the threatening comments in the articles demonising Dr Haitham al-Haddad, or the death threats underneath the YouTube video embedded in it, and ask yourself who the real hate preachers are.

Source: http://www.islam21c.com/politics/fgm-the-latest-attempt-to-dehumanise-muslims/

 

[abdxyz]

Circumcision of Women (Female genital mutilation)
To make sure women really dont get ANYTHING out of the relationship. Well done.

80% of Muslims around the world do not practice FGM.

Islam advocates women’s rights to sexual pleasure.

The prophet Mohamed did not have his daughters undergo FGM.

FGM is practiced within all religions. To be more specific, it’s practiced by Christians, Muslims, Jews, animists and non-believers.

FGM precedes all major religions as it was a practice that first started in Pharaonic Egypt.

FGM depends on the traditions practiced by communities, rather than on the religion of a community group – for example, in the Niger 55% of Christians are affected by FGM, compared to 2% of Muslims.

Despite all of the above, there are certain patriarchal religious figures who advocate FGM for the purpose of controlling women.

Source: http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk/Default.asp

Mr. Bigot and islamophobe-------please get your history right before posting
PEACE.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

80% of Muslims around the world do not practice FGM.

Islam advocates women’s rights to sexual pleasure.

The prophet Mohamed did not have his daughters undergo FGM.

FGM is practiced within all religions. To be more specific, it’s practiced by Christians, Muslims, Jews, animists and non-believers.

FGM precedes all major religions as it was a practice that first started in Pharaonic Egypt.

FGM depends on the traditions practiced by communities, rather than on the religion of a community group – for example, in the Niger 55% of Christians are affected by FGM, compared to 2% of Muslims.

Despite all of the above, there are certain patriarchal religious figures who advocate FGM for the purpose of controlling women.

Source: http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk/Default.asp

Mr. Bigot and islamophobe-------please get your history right before shouting.
PEACE.

Well... May Allah bless you for clearing my confusion! AMEEN

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Circumcision of Women (Female genital mutilation)
To make sure women really dont get ANYTHING out of the relationship. Well done.

I don't know why you posted this in this thread. Please remember, even if you don't like or 'KNOW'' about a certain religion. you can't insult it like this openly. Ok, I understand that you and others don't like some teachings of some religion but that does NOT mean you can say a thing before clarifying it first, against it. We muslims know and Believe that Islam is the perfect religion and there is no fault in it. It is flawless. So, Sir, if you are kind enough, please understand Islam and Muslims first and then present your views as kindly and politely as possible. May Allah guide us all! Ameen

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

“FGM”: The Latest Attempt to Dehumanise Muslims

Moments after the vitriolic attack by the Daily Mail against Muslim families going to Legoland, it seems that the hate industry has swiftly moved on to something else to dehumanise Muslims. In a seemingly last-ditch attempt, clutching at straws, the latest attempt to demonise Muslims has been in scapegoating local scholar, Dr Haitham al-Haddad for “supporting FGM” (female genital mutilation), by carefully redacted statements of Islam’s Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) and Juristic traditions. The proximity of the two campaigns could be indicative of (i) a coordinated attack against Muslims, (ii) some opportunistic bloggers trying to make a name for themselves, or (iii) simply gullible Samaritans deluded into thinking they’re fighting villains. Either way, normally I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt to new bloggers/journalists on the scene, apparently teetering on the edge of Islamophobia; but when they’re sharing notes with the likes of the EDL and the Daily Mail, they must be exposed.

So why is the latest attack against Dr Haitham al-Haddad an attack on Muslims? Simply put, he’s been lied about, mentioned alongside controversial “bogeymen” to stir up hatred and to top it off, dehumanised for articulating simple, mainstream Islamic beliefs as part of his job as a scholar and a teacher. Most of the lies against him he has clarified for himself here. However, I wanted to clarify this new FGM curve-ball that came out of the blue.

History behind FGM classification

Before the most recent classification by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the practices of Female Genital Cutting were divided into harmless and harmful. The harmless version was what was known as the “ritual nick”, or “sunna circumcision” (khitān in Arabic). This is when a small incision is made in the prepuce, the female equivalent of the male’s foreskin. Medical experts call this as harmless as ear piercing, and generally attach no medical benefit or harm to it. Ironically this is said to be much lighter than the male circumcision. The harmful type of cutting—which the Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) incidentally forbade, as well as the consensus of all Islamic jurists—involves removal of parts of the genitals, and is of varying degrees, which leads to a plethora of medical problems especially since they are not normally done in hygienic environments.

In 1994, a doctor who was collecting data in Sudan suggested that this traditional classification was redundant, since no one in her experience (confined to Sudan and nearby areas) performed the ritual nick. As a result of this and no doubt other factors, eventually the harmless ritual nick became a footnote and was subsumed as a harmless sub-type of a sub-type of FGM. This, as well as arguably sloppy legislation in many countries, has led to the reality we see today, that the ritual nick, despite being harmless and less extensive than male circumcision, is also considered FGM by some. Although there are medical experts contesting this in academic and public policy circles, it is not something that has ever been encouraged by Dr Haitham al-Haddad or any other western scholar I am aware of in our context, due to its non-obligatory nature Islamically combined with the problems that accompany it being classified as FGM according to most western countries.

Clarity and nuance

As can be seen from the history behind it, it should become clear to any reader who is not blinded by a hatred of Islam and Muslims, that the demonisation of Dr Haitham al-Haddad (or any other Muslim for that matter) on grounds that they “advocate FGM” is nothing less than ludicrous. This is especially so since in the full video of a fiqh lesson on the rulings pertaining to children, a few minutes of which was taken out of context and uploaded separately by an Islamophobe, the sheikh explicitly mentions that actual FGM is completely forbidden according to Islam. In the whole video it is also clear that the sheikh is not speaking from his own opinions, but quoting the Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) verbatim, as well as a host of other classical and contemporary jurists.

Those that are hell-bent on dehumanising Muslims frequently take statements that are carefully redacted from hadiths wildly out of context, and pass them off as statements by Muslim scholars, in an attempt to demonise and vilify them. Another example of this is the hadith, “A man should not be asked “why” he hit his wife,” which has a particular context (and limit) to it when applied in counselling of marital disputes. Yet another example is the stating of the well known criminalisation in Islam, of public acts of sodomy (in front of at least four sane, righteous Muslim witnesses) in an Islamic state. Those who try and stir-up hatred of Muslims try to incite LGBT activists against us, by conveniently translating this as a blanket “criminalisation of homosexuals”!

A sad result of all this desperate shooting from the hip in throwing allegations of homophobia, sexism or racism left, right and centre, is that mud sticks. No matter how many times lies and misinformation is clarified – you still get people trying to push these tired, out-dated allegations. It’s no surprise to see the Islamophobia world’s finest players turning up in an article or two in the most vile papers. People like Raheem Kassam of the Henry Jackson Society project “Student Rights”, who is probably mad that their own anti-Muslim hate preachers are banned from entering the country. Or maybe they’re just bored after student unions across the country have uniformly condemned and shunned them, and supported counter campaigns against them by real students.

Unfortunately, nuance seems to be nearly extinct in our 150-character-or-fewer, 30-second-or-less sound bite culture. My main message is about these Islamophobes. If they have no shame, then they may lie, misrepresent and incite hatred against us as they will. As for the neutral readers – now you know the real story, I hope. Just take a look at some of the threatening comments in the articles demonising Dr Haitham al-Haddad, or the death threats underneath the YouTube video embedded in it, and ask yourself who the real hate preachers are.

Source: http://www.islam21c.com/politics/fgm-the-latest-attempt-to-dehumanise-muslims/

Oh wow! I don't believe this. May Allah protect Islam and Muslims from such things! Ameen. Thank you very much for clearing this confusion of mine. I never knew these things were happening.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

POINTED ARCH

The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed fromIslamic Architecture. It was much stronger than rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger , higher , more complex and grander buldings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow silts, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Aly Emran ***amd*** Faizan Muhammmad Tkp Nafis Daiyan fantastic girl forbidden rose 1357911 sumaiyarox:) omalik10 Shabeena Zinedine Sanzaied shazmina and others.... Do contribute and let people know what Muslims contributed to science, philosophy, astrology and modern devices.

 

[Afnan Hafiz]

Surgery

Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called Al-Zahrawi. His scapels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon.
It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stiches dissolves away naturally and that it can also be used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it.
Muslim doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

 

[Aly Emran]

Aly Emran ***amd*** Faizan Muhammmad Tkp Nafis Daiyan fantastic girl forbidden rose 1357911 sumaiyarox:) omalik10 Shabeena Zinedine Sanzaied shazmina and others.... Do contribute and let people know what Muslims contributed to science, philosophy, astrology and modern devices.

Sure will do
But atm it the night of prayers
And JazakAllah for the tag afnan