THINGS TO PONDER

The Cry

2011-12-26T17:09:00.001+08:00

Similarities between Lincoln & Kennedy

2006-06-13T21:35:00.000+08:00

History Lesson

Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

What I Learned From Noah

2006-05-10T22:52:00.000+08:00

Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark...

ONE: Don't miss the boat.

TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat.

THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.

SIX: Build your future on high ground.

SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.

EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile.

TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals

Can you read this ?

2005-09-06T22:35:00.000+08:00

This is the test the cambridge used 2 conclude their research. Inside it u will find the explanation...

Can you raed tihs?

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Rearrange the Letters

2005-07-24T23:12:00.000+08:00

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

Lessons in Logic

2005-07-17T13:52:00.000+08:00

Practice makes perfect.
But nobody's perfect.
so why practice?

If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?

Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Money is not everything.
There's Mastercard & Visa.

One should love animals.
They are so tasty.

The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.

"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep .

There should be a better way to start a day
Than waking up every morning .

The more you learn, the more you know.
The more you know, the more you forget.
The more you forget, the less you know.
So... why learn ?

A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station.
What more can I say...

12 OR 13 MEN ??

2005-06-05T20:02:00.000+08:00

Watch Carefully !

Fido Puzzle

2005-05-28T01:37:00.000+08:00

Believe It Or Not!

2005-05-01T19:51:00.000+08:00

* A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

* A snail can sleep for three years.

* All Polar bears are left-handed.

* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

* Cat's urine glows under a black light.

* China has more English speakers than the United States.

* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

* Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

* Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

* "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

* If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

* If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

* Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

* More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month.

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

* Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

* Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

* Starfish haven't got brains.

* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

* The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

* The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

* The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

* The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

* The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

* You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

* You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Ever Wonder...?

2005-04-12T02:46:00.000+08:00

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why do you click on start to exit Microsoft Windows?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Why the airport is called the terminal if flying is so safe?

Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

Why is the blackboard green?

Why are boxing rings square?

Why is it called pineapple, when's there neither pine nor apple in it?

Why is it called eggplant, when there's no egg in it?

Why do they call it your "bottom", when it's really in the middle of your body?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't
point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why is it good to be a Daddy's girl, but bad to be a Momma's boy?

Why is it called ‘free gift’ when all gifts are free?

Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?

What do you call male ballerinas?

What is a male ladybug called?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

How can something be new and improved? if it's new, what was it improving on?

What color is a chameleon on a mirror?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,
then what is baby oil made from?

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

If your feet smell and your nose runs, are you built upside down?

If you stole a pen from a bank then would it still be considered a bank robbery?

If Practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice?

If superglue is so good, why doesn't it stick to the side of the tube?

If a bus station is where a bus stops, and a train station is where a train stops, why do I have a work station on my desk?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

Does anyone actually kill two birds with one stone?

Don't you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their "practice" ?

The word "therapist" is the same as the words "the" and "rapist" put together?

When you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you,
but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window.

The ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep all have the same tune.

You can prick your finger but your can’t finger your prick.

WHY ???

2004-03-10T16:38:00.000+08:00

Why a Jew can grow his beard and he is just practicing his faith and he has his freedom?

But when Muslim does the same, he is an extremist and terrorist!

Why a nun can be covered from head to toe and she is respected for devoting her self to God?

But when Muslimah does the same she oppressed and they are reactionary!

When a western women stays at home to look after her house and kids she is respected because of sacrificing herself and doing good for the household?

But when a Muslim woman does so by her Will, because Islam don't prevent Muslim women from work they say, "she needs to be liberated"!

Any girl can go to university wearing as she need and have her rights and freedom?

But when Muslimah wears Hijab they prevent her from entering university!

When a child dedicates himself to a subject he has potential.

But when he dedicates himself to Islam he is hopeless!

When a Christian or Jew kills someone religion is not mentioned, but when Muslim is charged with a crime, it is Islam that goes to a trial!

When someone sacrificing himself to keep others life, he is a noble one and all respects him.

But when a Palestinian do that to save his son from being killed, his brother's arm being broken, his mother being raped, his home being destroyed, and his mosque being violated. He gets the title of terrorist! Why? Because he is Muslim!

When there is a trouble we accept any solution? Only if the solution is in Islam, we refuse without having a look at this solution.

When someone drive a perfect car in a bad way no one blame the car.

But when any Muslim make a mistake or treat people in a bad manner - people say "Islam is the reason"!

Without looking to the tradition of Islam, why people believe what the newspaper say.

But question what the Quran say!

For a Flash presentation of this, go here.

The 3 Questions

2003-06-26T15:06:00.000+08:00

There was once a man who was an enemy to Islam. He had three famous questions that no person could answer. No Islamic scholar in Baghdad could answer his three questions...thus he made fun of Islam in public. He constantly ridiculed Islam and the Muslims. One day a small boy, who`s age was 10, came along and heard the man yelling and screaming at Muslims in the street. He was challenging people openly to answer the three questions.

The boy stood quietly and watched. He then decided that he would challenge the man. He walked up and told the man, "I will accept your challenge".

The man laughed at the boy and ridiculed the Muslims even more by saying, "A ten year old boy challenges me. Is this all you people have to offer!"

But the boy patiently reiterated his stance. He would challenge the man, and with Allah`s help and guidance, he would put this to an end. The man finally accepted.

The entire city gathered around a small "hill" where open addresses were usually made. The man climbed to the top, and in a loud voice asked his first question.

"What is your God doing right now?"

The small boy thought for a little while and then told the man to climb down the hill and to allow him to go up in order to address the question.

The man says "What? You want me to come down?"

The boy says, "Yes. I need to reply, right?"

The man made his way down and the small boy, age 10, with his little feet made his way up.

This small child`s reply was "Oh Allah Almighty! You be my witness in front of all these people. You have just willed that a Kafir be brought down to a low level, and that a Muslim be brought to a high level!"

The crowd cheered and screamed, "Takbir"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!"

The man was humiliated, but he boldly asked his Second question... "What existed before your God?"

The small child thought and thought.

Then he asked the man to count backwards. "Count from 10 backwards."

The man counted..."10, 9 ,8 , 7 , 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,0"

The boy asked, "What comes before 0 ?"

The man: "I don`t know...nothing."

The boy: "Exactly. Nothing was before Allah, for He is eternal and absolute."

The crowd cheered again...."Takbir!"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!!"

The man, now completely frustrated, asked his final qestion. "In which direction is your Allah facing?"

The boy thought and thought.

He then asked for a candle. A candle was brought to him. The blessed child handed it to the man and asked him to light it.

The man did so and remarked, "What is this supposed to prove?"

The young boy asked, "In which direction is light from the candle going?"

The man responded, "It is going in all directions."

The boy: "You have answered your own question. Allah`s light (noor) goes in all directions. He is everywhere. There is no where that He cannot be found.

"The crowd cheered again...."Takbir!"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!"

The man was so impressed and so moved by the boy`s knowledge and spirituality, that he embraced Islam and became a student of the young boy.

So ended the debate.

Who was the young boy?

The young boy was one of our leaders and one of the greatest scholars, Imam Abu Hanîfa (Rahmatullah Alaiyh).

I Am Thankful...

2003-05-19T17:40:00.000+08:00

1. For the husband who snores all night, because he is at home asleep with me and not with someone else.

2. For my teenage daughter who is complaining about doing dishes because that means she is at home and not on the streets.

3. For the taxes that I pay because it means that I am employed.

4. For the mess to clean after a party because it means that I have been surrounded by friends.

5. For the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat.

6. For my shadow that watches me work because it means I am out in the sunshine.

7. For a floor that needs mopping, and windows that need cleaning because it means I have a home.

8. For all the complaining I hear about the government because it means that we have freedom of speech.

9. For the parking spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means I am capable of walking and that I have been blessed with transportation.

10. For the noise I have to bear from my neighbours because it means that I can hear.

11. For the pile of laundry and ironing because it means I have clothes to wear.

12. For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I have been capable of working hard.

13. For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I am alive.

Beautiful One Liners

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1. Give Allah what’s right – not what’s left!

2. Man’s way leads to a hopeless end – Allah’s way leads to an
  endless hope.

3. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

4. He who kneels before Allah can stand before anyone.

5. In the sentence of life, the Devil may be a comma, but never
  let him be the period.

6. Don’t ever put a question mark where Allah puts a period!

7. When praying, don’t give Allah instructions – just report for
  duty.

8. Don’t wait for six strong men to take you to the mosque.

9. We don’t change Allah’s message – His message changes us.

10. When Allah ordains, He sustains!

11. WARNING: Exposure to Allah may prevent burning!

12. Plan ahead – it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

13. Most people want to serve Allah, but only in an advisory
   position.

14. Suffering from truth decay?? Brush up on your Quran.

15. Exercise daily – walk with Allah!

16. Never give the Devil to ride – he will always want to drive.

17. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.

18. Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming
   back!

19. He who angers you, controls you.

20. Worry is ! the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

21. Give Satan an inch and he’ll be a ruler.

22. Allah doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

23. Read the Quran – it will scare the Hell out of you.

A Simple But Good Argument

2003-04-30T21:33:00.000+08:00

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair and his beard cut as always. He started to have a good conversation with the barber who attended to him.

They talked about many things and various subjects. Suddenly, they touched on the subject of God.

The barber said: "Look man, I don't believe that God exists as you say so."

"Why do you say that?" asked the client.

"Well, it's so easy, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be no suffering nor pain. I can't think of a God who permits all of these things."

The client stopped for a moment thinking but he didn't want to respond so as to prevent an argument. The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just then he saw a man in the street with long hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut and he looked so untidy).

Then the client again entered the barber shop and he said to the barber: You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How come they don't exist?", asked the barber.

"Well I am here and I am a barber."

"No!" the client exclaimed. "They don't exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that man who walks in the street."

"Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not come to me."

"Exactly!" affirmed the client. "That's the point. God does exist, what happens is people don't go to Him and do not look for Him that's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."