When this comm first popped into existence almost two one-and-a-half years ago one of its weekly routines was The Prophet Friday Post. Each Friday I or serabut would make a post about one of the 25 Islamic prophets that are mandatory for Muslims to know. We covered the lot in 25 weeks, and though we pondered following that up with The Angel/Malaikat ( Read more... )

Hey-oh people. Sorry for the extreme lateness, but real life obligations + procrastination = totally my fault. Anyway, this here is the last of the Prophet posts, and so, I, as well as co-mod dachinchilla, welcome suggestions for the next round of postings. Angels? Famous Companions? The introduction to the various sects of Islam? :D

Onwards!

Prophet: the J ( Read more... )

Assalamualaikum and good day ( Read more... )

Zachariah lived on the old palm tree-ee/ Merry merry king of the desert he-ee/ Laugh Zachariah/ Laugh Zachariah/ How gay hetero-normative your life must be-ee /bastardised 'Kookaburra' song

Yes, impressed by my blasphemous creative retelling of the story of Jonah (and also because she's in the home stretch of her Masters), dachinchilla has assigned me the ( Read more... )

Hey. Me temping again this week. So sleepy. Will be brief.

Prophet: Yunus. Jonah.

He Is: That Dude Who Was in the Whale that One Time

Famous Next of Kin: Um. Help? A hadith in the Sahih Bukhari recounts the Prophet Muhammad referring to him as Yunus ibn Matta. So, that's be the dad's name, and not in fact, the Malaysian Tourism Travel Agency ( Read more... )

I have a presentation to make in a couple of hours and I have one word for you: MEH. So I am currently distracting myself by typing up this entry.

Prophet: Ilyas and Ilyasa'/Al-Ayas; aka Elias/Elijah and Elisha (wow, that's confusing)

They are: The Master and Apprentice. Although technically all Prophets are equal except Prophet Muhammad (to ( Read more... )

Cos dachinchilla's neck deep in schoolwork, and I got online late. :D Will make it short, as will have to leave home soon.

Prophet: Sulaiman aka Solomon (pbuh). Bonus Hebrew: Shelomoh.

He Is: That Dude Who Was Liek, omg, SMART.

Famous Next of Kin: Refer to previous post on David. The Quran says a lot about his wisdom and intelligence, and his (inherited/ ( Read more... )

Prophet: Daud aka David (pbuh)

He Is: The Once Common Metal-Bender And Later King.

Famous Next of Kin: Prophet Jacob is his ancestor somewhere; King Saul's daughter Michal is his wife; Prophet Solomon is his youngest son.

Pop culture image: Well, there's a reason people keep referring to the the imbalanced face-off between David and Goliath ( ( Read more... )

Prophet: Harun aka Aaron (pbuh)

He is: The One Who Was Moses' Brother.

Famous next of kin: Brother Prophet Moses, which means that he, too, is a descendant of Prophet Joseph.

Trailer: Ancient Egypt. The Israelite slaves. An arrogant Pharoah. The burning bush. Hey, haven't we been here before? Why yes, we have. Moses had already been chosen by ( Read more... )

Prophet: Musa aka Moses (pbuh)

Famous Next of Kin: Prophet Jethro was his father-in-law. Prophet Joseph was his great-great-(x?)-grandfather, I think.

He is: The One Who Took a Stroll In The Red Sea

Trailer: Ancient Egypt was ruled by a Pharoah, who wasn't very nice. He was mean to his slaves. Then he adopted one of them. The slave baby's name ( Read more... )