Perseids Meteor Shower

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Perseids Meteor Shower
OP - August 12, 2009, 04:07 PM

So looks like those jin are up to no good again, every year allah has to drive them away using meteors! (Surah 72:8-10 and various hadith)
You'd think they would smarten up and try to evade those shooting stars that follow predictable and obvious routes to earth!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/12/perseid-meteor-shower

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Now for some real science,
who is watching the shower?

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Reply #1 - August 12, 2009, 07:17 PM

lol I thought of that too when I saw this on the news.

Meteor Showers are awesome, though!
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Reply #2 - August 12, 2009, 07:39 PM

These are the sort of things that really wind me up about being a closet ex-muslim. When people talk about stuff involving shooting stars and djinns, I really want to point out how ridiculous it actually is, but I can't!

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Reply #3 - August 12, 2009, 08:23 PM

Things like djinns are the least annoying for me to listen to. The social attitudes some muslims have force me to bite my lip in frustration, I could care less if they believe in fairy tales. I'm not sure I'm dealing too well with Ramadan being just ten days away either.
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Reply #4 - August 12, 2009, 08:34 PM

I know what you mean, that really annoys me as well. Another thing that really annoys me is indoctrination of little kids. When I hear little kids talking about Islam that makes me annoys me to the point of anger.

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Reply #5 - August 12, 2009, 09:10 PM

Yes, I agree. The most infuriating thing I've experienced is my sister who says she is raising her children muslim so they can have a choice to be muslim or not when they are older! I don't get her logic at all, I don't know how she sees teaching them Islam and only Islam as giving them any choice. She doesn't even believe in it herself.
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Reply #6 - August 12, 2009, 09:18 PM

When I got involved with Islamia School, I did it originally to make sure I got my kids in to the school, I wanted to give them a strong sense of identity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4184319.stm
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Reply #7 - August 12, 2009, 09:37 PM

Quote from: Diem on August 12, 2009, 04:07 PM
So looks like those jin are up to no good again, every year allah has to drive them away using meteors! (Surah 72:8-10 and various hadith)
You'd think they would smarten up and try to evade those shooting stars that follow predictable and obvious routes to earth!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/12/perseid-meteor-shower

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Now for some real science,
who is watching the shower?

Do you want to meet, JINN?

Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return (to the path). (al-Baqarah 2:18)
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Reply #8 - August 13, 2009, 08:15 AM

I saw them last night from our house roof top with my kids and the kids they were like..... WOW! But maybe because I let them stay late this one time!

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Reply #9 - August 13, 2009, 08:19 AM

I gotta find out of there are any down my way. Not sure if we get Perseids this far south. It'd be cool to see them.

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Reply #10 - August 13, 2009, 08:53 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XTBrYWrey0&feature=related

I wonder if the Stone-Throwing-Birds that happened to Mecca and mentioned in Quran was a meteorite shower that actually hit the earth?

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Reply #11 - August 13, 2009, 08:54 AM

Good thought. It's certainly a plausible way for such a legend to start.

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Reply #12 - August 13, 2009, 02:28 PM

Too bad they didnt save the kabaa the second or third time around.

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Reply #13 - August 13, 2009, 02:42 PM

Wish I had seen them... I love anything that has to do with astronomy. xD
But it was too clouded here. =(

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Re: Perseids Meteor Shower
Reply #14 - August 13, 2009, 11:15 PM

You only see them in places like Pakistan. Or that's where the stories come from!
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