Analysing on Book review by Nasra

JABIR IBN HAYYAN:


Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan ibn Abdullah was born in Tus, Khorasan. The date of his birth is disputed, but most sources give 721 or 722. He was the son of Hayyan al-Azdi, a pharmacist of the Arabian Azd tribe who emigrated from Yemen to Kufa during the Umayyad Caliphate.
Jabir's father Hayyan had supported the revolting Abbasids against the Umayyads, and was sent by them to the province of Khorasan to gather support for their cause. He was eventually caught by the Ummayads and executed. His family fled back to Yemen, where Jabir grew up and studied the Koran, mathematics and other subjects under a scholar named Harbi al-Himyari. After the Abbasids took power, Jabir went back to Kufa, where he spent most of his career.
In Kufa he became a student of the celebrated Islamic teacher and sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. It is said that he also studied with the Umayyad prince Khalid Ibn Yazid. He began his career practising medicine, under the patronage of the Barmakid Vizir of Caliph Haroun al-Rashid.

Contributions to chemistry
Jabir is mostly known for his contributions to chemistry. He emphasised systematic experimentation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science. He is credited with the invention of many types of now-basic chemical laboratory equipment, and with the discovery and description of many now-commonplace chemical substances and processes - such as the hydrochloric and nitric acids, distillation, and crystalization ¬ that have become the foundation of today's chemistry and chemical engineering.
He was a prominent Islamic alchemist, pharmacist, philosopher, astronomer, and physicist. He has also been referred to as "the father of Arab chemistry"
He wrote more than 200 books including 80 books on chemistry such as the Kitab Al-Ahjar ("Book of Stones"). The Books on Balance
The date of his death is given as c.815 by the Encyclopوdia Britannica, but as 808 by other sources.

Reference: Al-Shakeel, Ali Jumaan. Chemistry in Islamic Civilization. (Cairo: Dar al-Shuruq, 1989).

Allama Iqbal - (Qistina)

I had reviewed a book on a Muslim scholar named Iqbal, titled Iqbal: The Poet Philosopher of Fifteen Century Hijrah by the author, Muhammad Hamid. Allama Iqbal was born in the last quarter of 19th century when western culture and intellectual traditions were having a control over the minds of the people all around him. This period was 20 years after the tragic year, in 1857, whereby the last emperor of the Indian Muslim had been sent to exile and that year was also a great depression for Muslims all over the subcontinent. The effects from the depression, such as Quran was not used as a main source, civil and criminal codes were enforced by the British, and many more were still taking place when the time of Iqbal. Realizing the sad situation, Iqbal later on raised out a slogan “Back to Quran”. Of course, there were so many objections by the West, and also by the people who had already got used with the West styles before Iqbal came. Few of Iqbal’s teachings or main points of arguments were; opposed mysticism, broke all the idols of inferiority complex, Quran as a reference all times, and many more.
After been reading the book, I had personally come out with my own analyses. In my opinion, Allama Iqbal was extremely conscious about the intellectual crisis of Muslim youth whom had been dominated by the Western ways of thinking. If these youths do not realize this problem and adopt any new path because of the lack of understanding of Islam, it would be a disaster not only for them, but also for the whole Muslim Ummah. The problems that had occurred in Iqbal’s time are almost the same with current situation, whereby Muslims do not take Islam is the way of life. As a poet, Iqbal tried to create a taste for knowledge and various academic movements. To me, it was very unfortunately that Iqbal’s efforts remain hidden or have not been highlighted properly most probably due to his field of interest.

Analysis on book review by Soleha

From my analysis about Salman El-Farsi story of life, I believed that everyone was created with “fitrah” (natural instinct) to find out the true in religion. We should be thankful to God as we are born as a Muslim. In contrast, Salman El-Fersi had to seek in order to find out the truth. Salman had converted from Zoroastrian to Christian and finally to Islam, the religion that he was seeking in his life. He never surrendered in seeking knowledge until he found the most satisfied in his heart. In my opinion, Salman was success in meeting Prophet because he never gives up with the difficulties and believed that God was always with him. Once he has found Islam, he devoted all his life towards the religion. I pray may Allah S.W.T make it possible for all of us to benefits from Salman El-Farsi story of life.

“Salman El-Farsi (Salman the Persion), A Short Story of His life by Sayed A.A Razwy

BOOK REVIEW *SOLEHA*

Salman El-Farsi was born around 568 A.D Jiyye, Persia (Iran). His Persian name was Rozeba.. Salman was from a rich and an influential family. He was a brilliant child and exhibited interest in gaining knowledge. Salman was first a Zoroastrians and he used to be a priest in a fire-temple. He began to lose interest as he found many unanswerable questions in his religion.

One day, Salman El-Farsi was asked by his father to handle a business at country-house. During his journey, he found Christians and he then converted to Christians. He was being tortured by his father because of the conversion. With helped of Christians friends, Salman managed to get rid from his father and he went to Syria.

After leaving Jiyye in Persia, Salman lived in several places. He discovered about religious knowledge and he felt Christians was not the religion that he was looking for. It was in Ammuria that he heard for the first time about the new Prophet in Makkah. After several difficulties such as being past from one master to another master, Salman finally managed to meet the Prophet personally. He converted to Islam, the religion that he was searching throughout his life. After Salman got the freedom, he was with the Prophet at all times. He strived towards Islam. After the death of Prophet Muhammad, Salman was appointed by Ali ibn Talib as the governor of Madaen in Iraq. He governed Madaen with the true message and mission of Islam. However, within three months, Salman died in A.D 656, at the age of 88 years old.

Among his contributions in Islam were as the translator of Quran into Persian language, contributed in the battle of Khandaq and in the battle of Badr. May Allah S.W.T blessed Salman El-Farsi’s life.

Philippine & Dexter (by Soleha)

In Philippine, Muslims are the minority. Just like in Thailand, the minority are being discriminated and oppressed economically and socially. Muslims in Philippines are not represented in which their rights are being taken. The thing is that countries that Muslims are the minority, they have always being called “terrorist” after the September 11 incident in America. Conflict in Philippine can also be related to Conspiracy Theory as being discussed in class. Basically, although most Philippines realize everything that is bad happen is because of the government, they always wanted to express it to Abu Sayaf.

One thing in Philippine that I noticed from the TV series that being published in my country, corruptions are everywhere. The rich people always being portrays as the one who owns power the poor people always being oppressed by them.

For the presentation, I don’t think Dexter had done it well. He was nervous because he didn’t prepare that much. Yes..he has strength because he can just speaks. But to be honest, I cannot catch what he wanted us to know about Philippine. Forget to bring pendrive?? Weird reason..he supposed to prepare all things as he already knew that he will be the presenter. But the good thing was he has an attempt to answer audience’s questions although most of the answers went here and there. Overall, I think Dexter should be more prepared. Good luck for everything..!!!

Landmark speech by JOHN F.Kennedy ( By Nasra)

BIOGRAPHY:

On NoveOn November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
mber 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history. In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.


The background of the speech :

The inauguration ceremony is a defining moment in a president career, and no one
knew this better than John F.Kennedy as he prepared four his own inauguration on jan 20.1961.
It was a particularly created piece of oratory that dramatically announced a generation change in the W.H and called on the nation to combat “tyranny, poverty, disease and war it self . John.F.Kennedy like Eisenhower, suggestions of money spent on modern weapons can be better utilized to solve social problems. The recommends that inspections and control of arms can be used to gain trust amng powerful nations. The realizes that this increased military production will not benefit the world in proposes.
Furthermore, the issues which concerned Kennedy were the (old war between U.S and the Soviet Union about the battle for supremancy in sporce in the minds of newly liberated nations, civil rights such as racial equality, and the humanity such as against porerty ,disease and threat to all humanity represented by the worlds nuclear arsenals.
The promotes communication as a root to problem-solving rather than the run of war “”ask not what or country can do for you.and ask what you can do for your country,
Because of those reasons he comes out with the speech that called the nation to be active citizens and fights against, tyranny, diseas and war.


Style of the speech:
IN my opining i think the speech of JOHN F.Kennedy is informative and persuasive speech because he likes Eisenhower, suggestions of money spent on modern weapons can be better utilized to solve social problems. The recommends that inspections and control of arms can be used to gain trust amng powerful nations. The realizes that this increased military production will not benefit the world in proposes.


MY OPINION ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY:

He was good man very strong he use to take care of the human rights and the peace in united state and some dreams the he hope to make it true and he didn’t want to war to happen ,that’s why the killed him his enemy ,and also he want it give good life to all the citizens in united state and equality between them .
He is one of the great men in the history of united start that we still remember all he works and lovely things to the country.

My Opinion:

My opinion about this group who give fully good job and was very interesting presentation and we get more knowledge about the topic that we didn’t had enough ideas and information also ,the way the collect the material from books, articals, case studies and internet was very successful and useful also ,that’s why I would like to thank each one of the members for their job and I hope we as the rest of the student get more knowledge and information and method from them and I will like to say all the best for them.

Hugo Chavez's speech!

Review on Hugo Chavez.

Hugo Chavez is a person who is very firmed and disciplined. This might happen because of the family background as well, whereby his father and mother were the ex school teachers. A brief background of Hugo Chavez, he was born on July 28th 1954 in Sabaneta, State of Barinas. He was later on continued his studies in Military Academy with a degree in Engineering in 1975. After he finished his degree, Hugo Chavez had furthered his masters in Political Science, but according to the head of the department in the university, Chavez didn’t finish up the master and the reasons why are still unknown until now.
In my opinion of this great leader, Hugo Chavez really is one outspoken person. He speaks when he knows that he is at the right path. He puts his people in his first list to give happiness to and really against the unjust and discrimination by the United States. This is the reason why he could simply call or label the U.S President, George W. Bush as the “devil” in his speech in front of the rest of the world. Hugo Chavez has been the President of Venezuela for almost 10 years till current.

Speech.

The speech basically talks about two major points that Hugo Chavez had highlighted. The first issue is about condemning George W. Bush, the President of United States while the second issue is about the United Nations. Regarding the first issue, Chavez had mentioned that George W. Bush was talking nonsense about peace to the world. Bush could only see everyone around the world as extremists and all the U.S wants is only wars, attack here and there – all for the sake of the people in that country, the Americans. In the second issue, Chavez had argued about the functions and purposes of the existence of United Nation (UN). He could see that United Nation doesn’t have any functions because it is controlled by the powerful United States.

The Second group - presented on Martin Luther King.

About the group who presented on Martin Luther King, they started with an excellent and creative introduction. The sketch had attracted the audiences to put their focus more and it was left to them to understand the messages behind the sketch. The basic idea of the acting parts from the members of the group – Nashrul, Soleha, Julida, Tasnim, Nasra, and Eyllia - was about the “white” and “black” groups’ differences and conflicts. The African American was being discriminated and called as slave by the white people. That was basically what Martin Luther King had experienced, and later he came out with the speech titled “I Have a Dream”. That speech had been acting out by two of our friends, Nashrul and Tasnim and they had done a great job. The voice thrown was very clear and they were energetic when giving out the speech. For the rest, they had delivered their points understandably and the message had reached the people’s hearts and mind.

About Group 3's Presentation..!!!!

Opinion on Group’s Presentation

The third group had presented about Hugo Chavez’s UN speech. I think it was a moderate presentation and maybe they could improve on in terms of making it more interesting instead of just presenting the content. However, I have no problem about the content. They had presented it in detail to make the audience understand about the topic..but for me, the most interesting part was by Ummi Khairani. Qistina and Miranti were also good enough because it was easy to understand them..and the rest...it was also okay actually. Overall, good presentation but still, several parts can be improved on. Good luck and hope u guys enjoy working in group..!!!

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King

Opinion on background of the speech
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King was a speech that being presented on “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” on 28th August 1963. In our opinion, the speech was able to bring significant because it was made in front of many Americans who attended the march.During the occasion,King talked about "I Have a Dream" speech in which he emphasized o the hopes on the Civil Rights movement in America during 1960s.
"I have a dream that this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident,that all men are created equal."..I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
We believe that the speech was strong enough to give impact to the audience. King talked his dream in a most diplomatic style without hurting any sides of people.


Speech Style
In our opinion, I Have a Dream can be categorized as an informative and persuasive speech. The great speech by King was remembered until today because it brings significant to the audiences. The speech talked about a person’s dream to establish justice in the world as well as to open people’s eyes on the unequal treatment towards African American during 1960s. King believed that everything was created equally and no one should be discriminated without reasons. Besides that, the speech also gives some form of inspiration because it leads to the change of behavior and emotion. King was able to influence people by the content of I Have a Dream Speech.


Opinion on the Particular Personality
Based on the speech, we believe that Martin Luther King possess great personality needs to a good leader. People tend to inspire on his words and thus they were willing to change their behavior and thought. Besides that, King was also a credible leader because he had courage to take action and made people believe in him. As a leader, King was really concerned to establish integrity among his people. What we inspired most was he used non-violent to grab people’s attention and thus changed their mentality.


Review on Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was a famous civil rights, born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January 1929. His wife was a lady named Coretta Scott. King’s father and grandfather were both Baptist preachers, actively involved in the Civil Rights movement. King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After considering careers in medicine and law, he entered the ministry. While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau. King used to be a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
There were several contributions contributed by Martin Luther King such as protest against bus segregation, influenced black students in a “student sit-in” from his book, “Stride Toward Freedom 1958”, freedom riders campaign, advocating non-violent student sit-ins and March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and so on.
Martin Luther King involved in many struggles in order to establish justice between black people and white people. He traveled the country making speeches and inspiring people to become involved in civil rights movement. He also urged economic boycotts. He argued that African American had also considerable economic power. King always stressed the importance of the ballot. He argued that all Americans had rights to involve in political force.
I have a dream was a speech by Martin Luther King during a great success on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28th August 1963. During the occasion, there were several speakers delivered their speeches and King was the final speaker and made his famous I Have a Dream Speech.

Sister Hatice.. (Qistina!)

Salam everyone..i know i've not been posting any posts lately..was so busy, fixing major emotional problems here and there. Hehe..and now i'm back!

Miss Hatice..talked about Sierra Leone. Well i dont know much about the country, but from what i've heard and learnt from the previous class and her presentations, i found out that the main factor that leads to the conflicts is the environmental issues. The majority of the people in that country is Muslims and one thing everyone should know about is, Sierra Leone is a very rich country, especially because of the diamonds. But yet, it has become the port for the West to get slaves from that country because they have been separated for a long time when the rebels try to fight for the environment.

For Hatice, the good points about her presentation are well-prepared and confident. As what our Madam had said over and over again, to gain the confidence is when you know that you are well-prepared. Both come together. She had made a good eye-contact and also face expressions. Unfortunately, the music that she put during her throughout her presentation was a bad idea. She could put it as the introduction, but not the whole presentation. She spoke too fast and read her long slides too much and lastly there was no ending of the presentation.

Well done Hatice, and we all wish you best of luck in your future undertakings! =)

Turkey & Miss Wahida (prepared by Soleha)

Salam… Welcome back with new spirit after several days mid-break..!!!!

Today’s informative speech was presented by sister Wan Wahida. She was talking about the Republic of Turkey. The capital city of Turkey is Ankara and most of the Turkish are Muslims. The first President of Turkey was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

As we all familiar with, the main issue in Turkey is about Islam and Secularism. Although there are many Muslims, Turkey is in conflict as the government practices secularism in governing its citizen. It is weird that even though Muslims are the majority, they are still fighting to practice their religion…and again…why this thing happens..?? It is because the elite and the non-elite established by previous pre-occupier.

A conflict that is still being debated in Turkey is about the issue of wearing scarf in public area. All students in government in schools and universities are forbids to wear scarf. The issue is still debated in order to protect the covered women’s to attend university.

In terms of the presentation, congrats Wahida..!! I liked your voice projection because it was very clear..and also your power point..it impressed me when you first started with it..it was simple but nice... However, I also suggest that you should minimize the slides text so that you can focus more on the audience. Next time avoid from reading too much from the slides yaa..?? Anyhow..congrats and good luck in whatever you do..!!!

BANGLADESH & MISS NISRIN !!!!! *NASRA*

Republic of Bangladesh is located in South Asia.It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Myanmar to the far Southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south.It a the most densely populated countries in the world and has a high poverty level.it is the world's largest producer of jute.The people of Bangaldesh are basicaly democratic minded,non-ciommunal and value good neighborly relation.There is a major conflict in the country which is internal and external conflict.The internal conflict basicaly included political and rise of Islmic military.The both group leaders are women.



Nisrin!!!!! in term of presentation well done, but you need to be more confidence also you need to improve your voice pith and eye contant with your audiance.congoratlation good job.

SOMALIA & MISS JANNAH !!! *NASRA*

Republic of SOMALIA is located in East Africa. it is one of the Arab lauge.Somalia is country that 100% are Muslim.They became independent in 1960.In Somalia there are many tribes that lead civil war happend in 1993 president Cilnton-Commander in Chief of the US military.A war against Aideed in an attempt to build a nation from a fragmented society.The major conflict came between two subclans of the Hawiye clan.They kill each other.The sad things there is that both side are muslim they are kill one another.The somalian lives without government for 17 years antil Mahakim islami came to power 2006 because of that Ethiopia try to help the old government to come to the power because of that 5,960 civilan fatalities occurred in the capital of Mogadishu in 2007. Also, the group claims that 7,980 civiians were wounded and over 700,000 displaced from their homes due to the continuing war between the Somalian government and the islamic insurgency.



JANNAH!!! for me you well done in term of presentation it was good i like it you was confidece,but you need to improve more in eye contant and body movementand you need to attract your audiance.congratlation good job!!!