Won't you write this idiot at NASA?

[جوري]

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In the far courtyard one sees the Ka'ba, a large marble structure containing the Black Stone, worshiped by Mohammed's followers as having fallen from Heaven (it is actually a dark meteorite). This IKONOS image shows the Mosque and the rectangular structure, around which the people circulate.

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_13a.html

I hope a large number of you will become vocal and write the a$$h**es at Nasa.gov, if this is actually their site and not some hijacked address.
That Muslims don't worship a blackstone, follow Mohammed nor can they prove that the black stone is a metorite, I am not aware that Saudi Arabia has let kuffar desecrate al masjid al haram to run their tests on the stone's composition.
tell them to stop propogating the bull on the net, it is enough they have fox news.

thank you and jazakoum Allah khyran
I hope a few of you will write so it isn't just me..



I got a failed delivery just now for the email I wrote
The following message to <[email protected]> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
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I am so angry you guys, after the huge email I composed, a supposed Govt. website has this sort of bull **** presented as facts.
Astghfor Allah al3li il3atheem

[shible]

May be we need to find some pro hackers who would help us in sending the mail

i think they planned it in such a way that we first need to become a member to drop even a mail

it is all written by some nowise guy. who knew nothing abt ISLAM. and this is just a publication which can be editted only by the owners and for any suggestion we need to be either a direct or indirect member of this site

maybe u should try to mail to this address

[email protected] <[email protected]> for the website management

or

Direct any questions concerning Tutorial Content to the Primary Author: Nicholas M. Short, Sr. email: [email protected]

[Muezzin]

By all means, write in, but do be polite please. Otherwise yet another stereotype will be reinforced and... it would just be plain rude.

[MartyrX]

When I get home I'll do some investigation on the site and email address. I don't want to do any of that from work.

[Trumble]

Before anyone gets too worked up about "the a$$h**es at Nasa" I've seen plenty of comments presented as fact on these boards regarding religions other than Islam (and indeed astronomy!) that are just as ignorant.

A polite e-mail should do the trick, and I'm sure they will correct it. :sunny:

[جوري]

which boards his or LI? I have written him a very polite email yesterday with this in it

The material of the Black Stone has not been precisely determined. It is sometimes classified as lava and sometimes as basalt. The reason for this difficulty is that its visible surface is worn smooth by hand-touching, etc.1 Its estimated diameter is approximately 12″2. Its colour is reddish black with red and yellow particles.

It is reported that when the Prophet Muhammad (P) entered Mecca as a victorious leader, there were 360 idols around the Ka`abah3. The Prophet(P) then had the Forbidden Sanctuary (the precinct around the Ka`abah proper) cleansed of all these idols and proclaimed Monotheism in its true, most elevated and pristine form. Thus saying that “Muslims worship the Black Stone as an idol” is clearly the most absurd thing ever pronounced in the history of mankind.

From a physical perspective, therefore, the Black Stone does not have any special significance or importance. Umar(R), later to become the second Caliph of Islam, is reported to have said that he fully realized that the Black Stone was merely a stone and thus had no power of its own to harm or benefit anyone4.

As for the reasons as to why we have the Black Stone in the wall of the Ka`abah, we read about the following reasons, that

(a) it symbolizes the starting-point during the circumambulation of the Ka`abah, thus facilitating the remembrance of the number of circumambulations.
(b) at this point, the Muslims, who are close to the Ka`abah (during their circumambulation) touch the stone, while those who are away from it, raise their hands towards it, symbolizing the renewal of their pledge of allegiance with the Lord of the Ka`abah. In this symbolic expression, the Black Stone is taken as a symbol of an oath on the hand of God.5

Refer, for example, to the profile sketch of the Black Stone given by Ali Bey: Travels, Vol. ii (London 1816), p. 76, to note its surface hollowed out in undulations. [back]
See al-Batanuni, al-Rihla al-Haziah, Cairo (1329 AH), p. 105 [back]
See Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 583 (Muhsin Khan’s tr.) [back]
See this statement in various narratives, such as: Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 26, Numbers 667, 675 (Muhsin Khan’s tr.); Sahih Muslim, Book 007, Number 2914 (Abdul Hamid Siddiqui’s tr.); Sunan an-Nasa’i (Arabic version), Vol. ii, p. 38, etc. [back]
See the details of this point in M. Hamidullah, Introduction to Islam, paragraph 181/a, Karachi 1969 [back

which I had gotten from the web, asking him to correct the misinformation, but the email was returned undelivered.
I wonder if his is a legtimate govt. website? since handing out misinformation would carry a huge liability. This isn't a blog, or some random hate mongor website I'd have ignored it!

cheers

[Ninth_Scribe]

I hope a large number of you will become vocal and write the a$$h**es at Nasa.gov, if this is actually their site and not some hijacked address. That Muslims don't worship a blackstone, follow Mohammed nor can they prove that the black stone is a metorite, I am not aware that Saudi Arabia has let kuffar desecrate al masjid al haram to run their tests on the stone's composition. tell them to stop propogating the bull on the net, it is enough they have fox news.

You Go Girl - I love it when you get fired up!!! I get like that myself

It seems silly to have to remind cientists of the rule: to ASSUME makes an ASS of U and ME (ASS-U-ME). Besides (correct me if I'm wrong), but wasn't it Muhammed who said it was just a rock? Will try to access email accounts, but they're probably just old addies that have been closed. I have the same problem when I try to respond to university publications. The email accounts that are on the publications are almost always obsolete.

Great to see you back on the forum

The Ninth Scribe

[جوري]

scriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibe so good to see YOU. I feel insta happiness, how have you been? was just thinking of you..

I am really glad to see you back..


peace!

[H@fiz Aziz]

calm down?

[*WhisSPeR...*]

LOL..

subhanallah..we worship only one god, and believe Muhammed was his messenger.

where do these people get their knowledge from?

[MuslimWays]

LOL..

subhanallah..we worship only one god, and believe Muhammed was his messenger.

where do these people get their knowledge from?

probably from the most knowledgeable person they know... George W. Bush.

[MartyrX]

LOL..

subhanallah..we worship only one god, and believe Muhammed was his messenger.

where do these people get their knowledge from?

Fox news probably.

[Keltoi]

Whoever wrote this was probably mixing the pre-Islamic history of the Ka'ba with its present Islamic function.

[Woodrow]

their home page is a bit odd. It does not look like anything "Officially" NASA

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Source:http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Homepage/Homepage.html

[islamic]

It's not really NASA, it's only anti-Islamic site to make people think it's from NASA and to not see the truth, or . . to not see the lie written by them.

[truemuslim]

Fox news probably.

werent u non-muslim?

[MartyrX]

werent u non-muslim?

I was undisclosed for awhile.

[snakelegs]

are you allowed to use ___.gov in you're url if you're not a gov't agency?
it does look pretty strange.

[MartyrX]

I would think not, but it's always possible theres some sort of work around to everything. I'll keep doing checks on the site, but haven't really found anything useful yet.

[Keltoi]

Well, I would say it seems fairly clear that this site isn't "officially" NASA.