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Sunday, September 23, 2018

September 23, 2018

Ships and Mountains Analogy in the Quran and Science

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Back in the 1500s, when the famous physicist and astronomer, Galileo, first championed the idea that Earth revolved around the Sun, he was called a raging lunatic and convicted of heresy by the church. He, Galileo, was then sentenced to life imprisonment and died under house arrest around 9 years later. But if a 10 years old tells his science teacher that same fact today, nobody even bats an eyelash. So what has changed?
Lots of things!
The world has evolved new technologies that help us more accurately understand astronomy. So poor old Galileo was not insane, he was simply before his time. Now scientists have more advanced tools and gadgets that can help them avoid meeting the same fate as Galileo but sometimes their claims still make us double-take when we first hear them especially if we do not have a background in science and physics.
Let's look at an example:
Two different scientists, in their published work, Tom Garrison and Micheal Allaby both compared mountains to ships. Mountains are those tall massive structures that protrude out of the earth in such a stately solid way and ships sailing in the open water sound like an odd coupling but the physical law of buoyancy developed by the Greek Mathematician Archimedes would say otherwise. This is because of the driving force behind both the ships and the mountains is one and the same and it's called Buoyancy.
Now the word buoyant or floating is something difficult to understand and visualize when we think of mountains. Guess what happens when a surface of a mountains gets covered by a thick sheet of ice?
To answer this question, let's look at the following analogy.
When the ships floating in the ocean are loaded with cargo, then the ships sink and travel deeper into the water than it was before getting loaded. Similarly, when a thick sheet of ice accumulates on a surface of a mountain, it sinks into the mantle under its weight.
Now, what happens to the mountain after the removal of the thick sheet of ice from its surface? In much the same way as a ship rises again after the removal of cargo, the Earth's crust will rise again in response to the reduced load on the mountain.

We know all this today from the research conducted by scientists such as Tom Garrison and Micheal Allaby in 2013-14 but flashback fourteen centuries ago when the Quran was revealed and we find that it makes the same analogy in chapter 42 verse 32 when it says:
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Then in Surah Ar-Rahman verse 24, GOD says;
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How in the world could a book revealed that long ago possibly contain accurate scientific analogy and information in the glaring absence of the necessary scientific tools and proofs at that time? The only possible answer to the question is that the Quran is the book of the CREATOR of the universe who is ALL-KNOWING.
What makes the Quran even more astonishing than that is modern scientists have used some of the exact same analogies that were first written in the Quran over 1400 years ago. So who says religion and science have to at odd!

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

September 11, 2018

Basic English Phrases for Daily Communication

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If you want to get better at English then it is a good idea to learn English Phrases rather than sticking to English grammar along with vocabulary. Because, if you know 100 words as vocabulary, you might not be able to make ten grammatically correct sentences but if you know 100 phrases then perhaps you could make 1000 correct English sentences. 

An important thing to remember while working at your English communication skills is to never try to translate from you Mother language. All you need is to use the given sentences according to a situation. You do not need to bother about their meanings in your Mother language.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

August 30, 2018

Compliments| Direct Objects and Indirect Objects

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The most basic order of a sentence in the English language is
Subject + Predicate
And if we break it down further, then the basic order of a sentence is
Subject + Verb + Object.
And those objects are called compliments because these are the words that complete the meaning of a verb.
There are two types of compliments in the English language.
  • Direct Object
  • Indirect Object

Direct Objects

Direct Objects are super easy to spot because their position is very regular. These objects always follow transitive action verbs and answer the questions: what or whom. Their general formula is
Subject + Verb +What/Whom.
Subject + Verb + Direct Object.
For example,
Rayyan and Ali play tennis in the court.
Rayyan and Ali = Subjects; play = verb, which is our action verb which needs another word to receive the action in order to complete the meaning of the sentence, called transitive verb.
Now we can ask our "Direct Objects" questions.
Rayyan and Ali played what? Tennis = Direct object.
Let's look at another example of Direct Object.
Adriana loves singing more than anything else.
Again Adriana = Subject; loves = verb; Adriana loves what? Direct Object = singing.
Example:
She is wearing her beautiful clothes.
She = Subject; wearing = verb. What is she wearing? Beautiful clothes = Direct Object.
Example:
He hates dogs.
He = subject; hates = verb; He hates whom? Dogs = Direct object.

Indirect Objects

Indirect objects are very easy to spot as they are found after the transitive verb and before the direct object.
Transitive Verb ------ Indirect Object ------ Direct Objects

Indirect objects answer the questions; To whom, for whom, and to what.
Let's look at the following examples.
She gave my friend a gift.
The object has been given is a gift and it was given to MY FRIEND.
She = Subject; gave = verb; what did she give to my friend? A gift = Direct Object; 
She gave a gift to whom? Friend = Indirect Object.
This sentence can also be written as
She gave a gift to my friend.
There is no difference in meaning between the two sentences but the last one does not contain an Indirect Object. Do you know why? To understand, look at the "POSITION" of the word friend; is it where it needs to be in order to be considered an Indirect Object?
No, it is not!
In fact, it is just a part of a prepositional phrase and cannot be an indirect object.



Sunday, August 26, 2018

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

August 14, 2018

Scientific Miracles of Quran | Perfect Orbits in the Universe

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Before the invention of the telescope and discovery made by Copernicus, it was thought that the Earth was stationary and was at the center of our solar system while Sun and all other celestial bodies move around it.

However, in1500 Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that all the planets, involving Earth, actually revolved around the stationary Sun which was at the center of our solar system. Although this model was not perfect because it could not describe the path of revolving planets around the Sun. In other words, it could not define the shape of the orbits but It provided a ground for other scientists to work on.

Later on, the shape of the orbits was determined by Danish astronomer Kepler. He determined that the planets revolve around the stationary Sun in elliptical orbits rather than circular ones. These revolutionary discoveries showed that the Sun was in the center of our solar system and that it was stationary.

However, it had not been yet discovered that Sun moved in its own orbit. This discovery was made by an Italian scientist Galileo who is credited with the creation of optical telescope which could magnify an object twenty times. By observing the movement of sunspots, Galileo discovered that the Sun also rotates on its own axis and each revolution takes about an Earth month. The sun not only rotates but down the road, it was also discovered that it also orbits the center of our galaxy.

To conclude, each celestial body swims in its orbit or path defined for it. And this fact was discovered only a couple of centuries before.
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What about if I tell you about the BOOK which described the same Scientific Fact 1400 years ago.
Yes! The Quran mentioned the motion of celestial bodies and their orbits at the time when the science and technology did not exist even by name. 
The Quran says:

“The sun runs through its course, this course is pre-estimated for it by the Almighty, the All-knowing". (Surah Yaseen: 38)

"It is He Who created the Night and the Day and the Sun and the Moon: all (celestial bodies) swim along each its rounded path (Orbit)". (Surah Al-Anbiyaa: 33)


"It is not permitted to the Sun to catch up the Moon nor can the Night outstrip the Day: each just swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law)". (Surah Yaseen: 40)

In the first verse, it has been stated clearly that the course of the Sun is pre-estimated and according to the science, the Sun's speed is 750,000Km/hr, it's the speed with which orbits the galaxy.
The Quran also discussed the rising points of the Sun in the following verse:


"The Lord of the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them - and the Lord of the easts (Sun's rising points)". (Surah As saffat:5)

It is understood from the verse that the Sun has more than one rising points. If you observe the rising points of the Sun with respect to your home, you will see that it changes at different points throughout the year. It seems to float on the eastern horizon as you can see in the animation given down. 
From this explanation, if we think justly we will have to conclude that the Quran cannot be a book of any human because if it were so, then such scientific facts could not have been mentioned in it at the time when there was no science. How could a person who existed 1400 years ago know these facts on his own? 
We've to accept that it is possible only with the help of Someone Who is All-knowing, Who is the Creator of the Universe and that the Quran has been sent down by Him. If someone is still not willing to accept these facts then one must justify one's objection.

Sunday, August 12, 2018

August 12, 2018

Astronomical Animations and Simulations

Astronomy is the branch of physics which discusses celestial bodies. It focuses on the origin of the objects and their evolution. To understand and visualize different terms and phenomena related to this field, Astronomical Simulations and Animations can be really handy

Below is the list of Astronomical Simulations that cover the vast field of the universe. In order to play these simulations and animations, you need flash player.

Basic Motion and Ancient Astronomy
Small Angle Approximation Simulation
Heliacal Rising Simulator
Big Dipper Clock Simulation

Coordinates and Motion
Meridional Altitude Simulator
Declination Ranges Simulator
Ecliptic Simulator
Union Season Demonstrator
Azimuth and Altitude Demonstrator
Daylight and Nighttime Simulator
Earth's Tilt Simulator
Longitude and Latitude Simulator
Celestial Equator Demonstrator
Path of the Sun Simulator
Sun Motion on the Celestial Sphere
Sun's Motion Demonstrator
Sun's Rays Simulator
Seasons Simulator
Coordinate System Comparison Demonstrator
Daylights Hours Explorer Simulator
Antipodes Simulator
Celestial and Horizon System Comparison
Sidereal and Solar Time

Reference: Astronomy Education

Sunday, July 29, 2018

July 29, 2018

How to identify adjectives clauses


A clause has a subject and a verb. An adjective clause is a dependent or subordinate clause which performs the same function as an adjective. As an adjective always modifies a noun or a pronoun, similarly an adjective clause also modifies a noun or a pronoun in a sentence. 
Most of the adjectives clauses start with relative pronouns and these are only five in the whole language. These are:
  • Who 
  • Whose
  • Whom
  •  That
  • Which
And on occasion, they start with subordinating conjunctions called relative adverbs such as Where, Where. I suggest you memorize these relative pronouns and relative adverb as they are very little in numbers. Because the adjective clauses often start with the relative pronouns, they are also called relative clauses.
 Let’s look at some of the examples.
The book that I’m studying has been written by Alama Tahir-ul-Qadri.
As I said, an adjective clause often begins with the relative pronouns. In the sentence, can you spot any of them? 
Let’s first find it and them the whole clause.
In this sentence, “that” is the relative pronoun, and then we can find the rest of the clause for subject and verb. Our whole adjective clause is “THAT I AM STUDYING”, where “I” is the subject and “studying” is the verb.
Notice that if we eliminate the relative pronoun, we are left with two independent clauses:
  1. The book has been written by Alama Tahir-ul-Qadri.
  2. I’m studying.
Both the clauses have the subjects and the verbs. It is the relative pronoun which makes the one clause dependent on the other. Now let's look at the function of the adjective clause we've just spotted.
The function of the Clause
As we know adjectives are always adjacent to things they modify unless they are predicate adjectives. Based on this information, we can say there is the only thing our adjective clause can possibly modify is the word “BOOK”. It can also be verified using adjective questions.
Which book? The one I’m studying!

Examples of Adjective Clause
Let’s look at another example.
Students who work hard often get good marks.
First look for the relative pronoun and that is “WHO”. We can find the rest of the clause by finding and eliminating the main clause which is “STUDENTS OFTEN GET GOOD MARKS”. All the rest is our adjective clause: WHO WORK HARD.
You might think that there is no subject in our adjective clause but in this case, the relative pronoun “WHO” is the subject of the sentence. Now let’s look at the function of our relative or adjective clause.
If you note, there are two nouns in the sentence that are “STUDENTS” and “MARKS”. Now the questions is: Which of the two nouns is being modified by our adjective clause?
There should be a no problem figuring it out as there is only one noun adjacent to our adjective clause and that is “STUDENTS”. You can also test it through adjective questions.
Which students? Who work hard!

Two girls I have coached have participated in the finals
In the sentence, we cannot see any relative pronoun but does that mean there is no adjective clause in it. Let’s see!
If I break the sentence, I can see two distinct clauses. But how do I know this? I know this because the subject of the sentence “GIRLS” is followed by the pronoun “I” which are both subjects and only one verb. So there have to be two clauses:
  1. Two girls have participated in the finals
  2. I have coached
Which one of the two is the main clause and which one is subordinate? Well just think for a moment what the sentence is all about. It is about the two girls participated in the finals; therefore it is our main clause. Also the subordinate clause “I HAVE COACHED” is capable of modifying the noun of our main clause.
Which girls? The one I coached!
To summarize, if you do not see the relative pronouns or adverb in a sentence where you are asked to spot an adjective clause, then fear not, as you have got the way discussed above to figure this out.
Types of Adjective Clauses
Adjective clauses have two types
  • Essential or Restrictive Clause
  • Non-essential clauses. or Non-restrictive Clause.
Essential clauses cannot be removed without changing the basic meaning of a sentence.
  1. I visited the Banjosa’s picnic point, where the lake had an enchanting view.
  2. I visited the city where the prices were very high.
Both sentences have adjective clauses starting with the same relative pronouns but only one of them is essential, however.
If we eliminate the adjective clause from the first sentence, then what do we lose? Off course, nothing as everyone knows that the Lake of Banjosa has an enchanting view. Therefore, this clause is non-essential or non-restrictive.
In the second sentence, we lose the important information about the city if we eliminate the adjective clause. Since, we cannot say that the prices are always high or something that is always true, therefore, we need this clause. It is the essential or restrictive clause.
  • The match, which was played yesterday, ended in a tie.
  • The match that was played tomorrow ended in a tie.
The two adjective clauses in both the sentences are “WHICH WAS PLAYED TOMORROW” and “THAT WAS PLAYED TOMORROW”. Both are almost exactly alike, then how we can tell the difference?
In the first sentence, the adjective clause provides us just extra information, it is the non-essential clause. In the second sentence, the adjective clause provides important information. You can understand it by assuming that there had been more than a match. Here’s a tip:

Non-essential clauses often begin with the word “WHICH” and enclosed in commas. Essential clauses often begin with “THAT” and do not have commas around them.