Al Salamo Alaikom Wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh


I was searching for English translation of Quran on google to back up a comment in an earlier post when i found this website 

http://transliteration.org/quran/home.htm

it opened the same page when i typed   www.transliteration.org

This website is amazing .... it offers translation of Quran  to many lagnauges ( not just english, french and usual european languages....... there are many other languages........ there are translations to Chinese and Japanese ! ) ... and it also containts the arabic words written in english letters so you can read them...... and you can listen to each ayah while you read it.

Ibn Mas’ud has been working on a little project utilizing the google maps api to make a Qibla direction locator. It works almost exactly like google maps except that it displays an overlay pointing towards the Qibla. The direction in degrees from true North is also given at the bottom of the page. Another nifty feature is a map-in-map view much like pic-in-pic view found on most new TV sets. As this is pretty much a work in progress, I’m sure you’ll notice many bugs. Please do let me know.

Head on out and take a look for your self.

 

Qibla Direction using the Sun :

The most reliable method to determine the direction of the Qibla is by looking at the Sun. Every year, because of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the inclination of the axis of rotation to the Ecliptic, the Sun is directly ABOVE THE KABAH only two times.

1. May 28 at 9:18 am (GMT) [12:18 pm local Makkah time], and
2. Jul 15 at 9:27 am (GMT) [12:27 pm local Makkah time].

Similarly, the Sun is BELOW THE KABAH (in Makkah) only two times.

1. Jan 13 at 9:29 pm (GMT) [00:29 am local Makkah time], and
2. Nov 28 at 9:09 pm (GMT) [00:09 am local Makkah time].

The direction toward the Kabah can be easily determined by finding the direction towards (or away from) the Sun at the instants when the Sun is ABOVE (or BELOW) the KABAH.

The Qibla direction would be TOWARDS THE SUN, at the instant WHEN THE SUN IS ABOVE THE KABAH. The Qibla direction would be AWAY FROM THE SUN, (in the direction of the SHADOW of a vertical rod) at the instant WHEN THE SUN IS BELOW THE KABAH.

The only obvious requirement is that the Sun should be visible at that instant. Nearly half of the world would be able to see the Sun at these times. The other countries would not be able to see the Sun, because the Sun would be below their local horizon, at those times.

For more details you can visit Dr. Mohib N. Durrani’s website who details his findings of over 8 years on this matter. Dr. Durrani is the National Coordinator (Since 1987), for Astronomical Information for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Islamic Shura Council of North America, Shariah Scholars Association of North America (SSANA). The algorithms used in most of the qibla direction programs found on the net including the one used in Qiblalocator.com use Dr Durrani’s mathematical formula.

salam alaykum,
just wanted to share this site. i got a new computer with vista and i'm checking out all the sidebar apps and i found this one. i'm also going to see how it works on my pda.

Allah hafiz.

http://www.zoosware.com/

1) Mobile Holy Quran for iPhone
2) Mobile Holy Quran for Vista Gadget
3) Mobile Holy Quran for Web

Also note that our Mobile Holy Quran for XP/Vista is now FREE for download http://www.zoosware.com/QuranWindows.html

I know this is a far shot, but is anyone out there planning to take Introduction to Islamic Law and/or Introduction to Hadith Methodology this semester at SunniPath? They give discounts to groups of 5+, so it's worth a try.

you guys may already know about this but thought i'd share... 

www.altmuslim.com

http://www.meccaone.org/

in case anyone is interested. i listened to an interview with Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir on here... i havent had time to check out the site but figured i'd share anyway...

salams everyone... i just wanted to throw some links up here ... 

free lectures to download
http://www.islamonline.net/English/Islamic_Audio/index.shtml
http://www.sacredlearning.org/general_talks.htm
http://www.tariqramadan.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=86
http://zaytuna.org/multimedia.asp

articles
http://zaytuna.org/articles.asp
http://www.isna.net/services/library/khutbahs/

clothing 
http://www.shukronline.com

bookstore
http://islamicbookstore.com (these guys are fast!) 

happy Juma'a!

Ela-Salaty is a new Arabic program helps you to remember times of prayer. Also helps you to mention of Allah and has many other advantages. The new on this program that it has a modern beautiful interface, Grapping advices and news from Internet by using RSS technology, support skins, downloadable Azan audios, control windows by add system commands before and after Azan. Ela-Salaty is quite different from any program of the same category.

For those of you who like my new site http://www.muslimaday.com

It's a photo of a Muslim each day, from all over. The latest shows a muslim with a pinkish mohawk. fun.

There is an LJ feed now, check it out: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/muslim_a_day/

Add it, and enjoy :)

Asalaam Alaikum and Bismi Allahi arrahman irrahim...

i just found this website!! how awesome! 
http://www.duas.org/index.htm
Duas

and this is worth repeating... 
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/
Compendium of Muslim Texts