Write for An-Nuur Magazine 2017

Write For An-Nuur Magazine 2017

HOW DO LIARS GET TO SLEEP? A RESPONSE TO THE SHAMEFUL “OAU MUSLIM COMM AND MSSN” BROADCAST ON SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE 1

 

By: Balogun I.A

The hijab of the Muslim woman has always evoked a great deal of emotions with the Muslim populace. It could be as little as the headscarf or as much as the niqab covering the face. So when people throw up issues around it, many more issues are sure to crop up. Cue the unintelligent reactions of CAN to the judgments granting Muslim kids the right to wear the hijab in schools. This is why the ill-advised revisionist who brought up the sad case of the sisters using the niqab who have suffered untold oppressions over generations in OAU has been able to sell his story of innuendoes. 

The summary of the true story of niqab in OAU is told by Professor Rogers Makanjuola; arguably OAU’s most liberal and listening VC in recent history in his memoir: ‘Water Must Flow Uphill’ in two strong sentences; the last being the key one here.
“It is very likely that some of the protesting members of staff, Christians of extreme views, also had religious motives behind their objections. THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WAS ALSO AGAINST THIS FULL VEILING.” (Page 212)
That settles that.
Now, isn’t it a reflection of the comedy of the MSSN tragedy that they would turn around to create such silly excuse for the Imam and some members of the Muslim Community that: “the community felt the population of lecturers and students who were Muslims were few and it was not yet time to start the use of niqab”! So, that is an excuse to fight those who seek to obey Allaah and His Prophet to the level of their commitment? So ‘stop obeying Allaah till we have enough numbers’! Brothers and sisters, that’s what MSSN has become; a despicable ensemble ready to sacrifice anything in order to serve their group’s interest! A travesty! We never argued against the need to have more students and staff, we just never saw why that should be more paramount than supporting those who seek to obey Allaah even in the midst of great tribulations. How absurd that the MSSN felt obeying Allaah will prevent us from attaining worldly good?
Little wonder then that the Brother Hadiyat AbdulRazaq Ajao, a former IVC coordinator and serial MSS leader expressed regrets over fighting for the niqab then. He stated this at a secret gathering for a kangaroo executive council being mooted by the unholy alliance between MSS and OAU Muslim Community in 2010. Note that the spread of this repulsive article I am responding to has also been traced to his person. He is unknown to many, still soured and scarred by his double failed quest to become the Ameer of MSSNOAU recently. I can understand someone running as far back as 2001 to bring an indictment against a people looking forward already beyond 2016. One is fixated on the past, comprised of individuals well past their prime; granddads claiming to be leaders of a “students” body; while their supposed adversaries are young, vibrant, dynamic boys and girls ready to give their all to soar the kite of the Islamic call beyond groupism and sectarianism.

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Eat Under the sea || Ithaa Undersea Restaurant

 

Have you ever wondered how cool it would be to eat your food under water with fishes and other aquatic life swimming around you? If yes, then you are lucky to be reading this because a restaurant of that nature is in existence.

Secured five meters below sea level at the Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa, the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant is a mostly acrylic building that only seats 14 people. Offering a 270-degree panoramic view to its customers, Ithaa was designed and constructed by M.J. Murphy Ltd., a design consultancy based in New Zealand.

Opened in 2005, Ithaa charges a premium for its meals, but they might cost less than one would expect for an underwater dinner. They start in price at about $120 US for lunch for hotel guests. The restaurant serves contemporary fusion Maldivian cuisine with Western and Asian influences. Advance reservations are necessary.

To enter the restaurant, visitors climb down a spiral staircase in a thatched pavilion at the end of a jetty. They enter the building, which has a curved roof like a tunnel, from above. Designed by the Kuala Lumpur National Science Centre, the building qualifies as the world’s largest aquarium tunnel.

After completion in 2004, Ithaa was taken to the Maldives on the back of an ocean-going barge. It took 16 days to arrive. It is estimated that the restaurant, which is placed in extreme conditions, will only last for 20 years.

www.atlasobscura.com/places/ithaa-undersea-restaurant —-edited by An-Nuur

Grab a ‘Risky Burger’ before class!

As a university student you might not always have enough time to cook a proper breakfast and since you have been advised (from health tips) that not eating breakfast is unhealthy, why not grab a quick easy to make breakfast. The all popular ‘risky burger’ (don’t mind the name it’s totally safe).

Ingredients: 2 Eggs, bell pepper (ata rodo), tomatoes, onion, smoked fish (shawa preferably), salt, ½ of one cube of ‘Maggi’, vegetable oil, and Bread (no sliced bread allowed).

Procedure: – Manually grate the peppers, tomatoes and onions together. (Electric blender not allowed)

-Break eggs into a bowl and whip.

-Add manually grated pepper sauce into the whipped egg.

-Shred in the smoked fish.

-Add salt and the ½ cube of Maggi and then mix thoroughly.

– Put frying pan on fire.

-Add two spoons of vegetable oil and let it heat up enough to fry.

-Pour the egg mixture into the frying pan and fry

-Lower the heat (be careful if you are using gas or hot plate lest you scoop out black fried eggs. I can’t cry for anybody).

-Slice the bread into two (however, do not slice through completely).

– Fill in the bread with the fried egg mixture.

– Take the filled in bread back to the frying pan (on low heat ooo, enh ehn) and press one of the sides with the a frying spoon till it is brown and toasted

– Turn the other side of the bread and repeat the same. You should have flat bread

There you go ‘Risky Burger’

www.estheradeniyi.com/2015/07/risky-burger-recipe  — edited by An-Nuur

Radio Phone or Cell Phone? How your cell phone works

A big secret that the cell phone companies have been keeping from the world is that a cell phone is nothing more than a radio. It is a complex radio, but still a radio. In order to really understand the way a cell phone works, we must discuss some of the cell phones history for just a moment.

Back around the early 1950s’, cell phones were really only used in automobiles. But these mobile-radio-phones were about as common as cruise control in post-World War II cars. They were literally like driving around with an entire telephone company in one’s car. And to make things worse, they only worked in cities.

In select urban areas, there were large, central antennas that were specifically allocated for these radio-phones. Each car that had a radio-phone required a big antenna that could transmit at least 40 or 50 miles. Since radio technology itself was only in the building phase, only about 25 channels were available for private use. So basically only 25 people could be talking on their radio-phones at the same time.

And in cities like New York and San Francisco, this was a problem. For there were more than just 25 people who had radio-phones in their cars.

The Cell Approach

The solution to this problem was to divide each city up into small divisions, or “cells”. The technology behind cells have changed dramatically over the years, just as cell phones have, but now most standard cells are about 10 square miles large. They are usually in the shape of a hexagon. Nowadays, every individual cell has its own base station, rather than only one for an entire city.

And now cell phones are made to be low-power transmitters (either 0.3 watts or 6 watts), which is much lower wattage than in past decades. This means that the same frequency can be used in the same city, at the same time, but in different cells.

Think of it like an ice cube tray. The cell phone transmitting towers don’t spill their transmissions that far out of their own cells. They may spill slightly into the most adjacent cells, but not into cells more than one cell away. Usually each separate carrier, (Airtel, MTN, Etisalat, etc.) have their own control office in each major urban area called the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO). This is where they control their respective towers. This office also connects all of the cell-phone calls to the land-line phones.

But what happens when one moves from cell to cell?

Relax; this was all taken into consideration. Each modern cell phone (meaning it was created in the last 20 years or so) has special codes programmed into them.

The most important code is the system identification code or the (SID). It’s a five digit code that the NCC gives to each different cell phone carrier. When a cell phone is turned on, whether it’s making a call or not, it’s picking up the SID that is being transmitted from the closest cell phone tower. The phone’s personal carrier is also transmitting its SID to the phone on specific channels that the phone programmed to listen for.

But if it can’t pick any of them up, the dreaded “NO SERVICE” message appears on the display. However, when the carrier can pick up the phone, you’re in luck. It’s connected!

Once You’re Connected

Now that the phone is connected, calls can be sent and received. In addition to the SID being sent back and forth between phones and towers, there is a registration signal that is also being sent. This is so the carrier’s MTSO always knows where its customers are, should someone dial their phone. When someone calls a cell phone, the MTSO finds where the phone is at and connects to it by finding a common frequency, in the cell, that the phone is in. It verifies the SID number and then, your friend can finally ask you “Where are you?”

When in Roaming

When a cell phone is not found on its carrier’s MTSO, it may still be close enough to a different carrier’s tower that can use the same channels (most of them can). The cell phone realizes that it is connecting to a different SID (meaning its carrier has no towers in the area or that none of them are on local network) that means the phone is, gulp, and roaming. But this is most important when you are moving from cell to cell, such as when you are riding in car. The tower notices that your signal is dying as you move to the boarder of its cell. In the same instance the tower in the cell you are traveling to realize that the signal is getting stronger. With a little help from the MTSO, the two towers switch call to a different frequency in just milliseconds. And VOLIA, you can keep talking! In the Cell phone business this is called a hand-off.

By Robert D. Keith — edited by An-Nuur

Did You Know?

• Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their skin. No two tigers ever have the same stripes.
• Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
• Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. They are also one of the three mammals that undergo menopause – the other two being humpback whales and human females.
• Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions.
• Bats are the only mammals that can fly
• There are one million ants for every human in the world. These resilient creatures also never sleep and do not have lungs.
• Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
• Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
• Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and their wings can beat at up to 80 times per second.

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill

When the funds are low and debts are high

And you want to smile but you have to sigh

Rest if you must but don’t quit

 

Life is full of twists and turns

As every one of us sometimes learn

And many a people turn back

When he might have won had he stuck to it

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow

 

You may succeed with another blow

Success is failure turned inside out

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt

And you never can tell how close you are

It may be near when it seems afar

So stick to Allah and try your best

And even if things still don’t work out

Turn back to Him

www.thesilverpen.com — edited by An-Nuur

Dear Freshman

Dear freshman,

Each and every stepping stone along the way

Has led up to this most important day

The day you get to University

While everyone is left wondering

“Where in the world all the time went?”

In the meantime, in between time

We’ll do what everyone does

And worry, worry, worry

The whole year through

We’ll worry

Are you eating right?

Staying up all night?

Showing up for classes late?

Getting along with roommates?

Praying Salah regularly?

Do you have too much to do?

Are you making friends and having fun?

Are your assignments getting done?

One thing we know for sure is

You have all the” Help of Allah”

To make it through these next few years