As we begin the month of Muharram, it is important to remember the true purpose of the sacrifice by Imam Husayn at Karbala. Karbala is not meant to be a tragedy. No doubt, it brings us tears and causes us to reflect on Allah, but if it only brings us tears with no […]

Photographers in Hawaii crawled through a lava tube to capture rare pictures of baby spiders riding on their mother’s back. This is never-seen-before footage. Check it out.
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Duas.org, which is a great site in its own right, has a particularly excellent page on Qunoot (the optional/recommended du’a said before or after ruku, depending on […]

I’ve decided to consolidate my blogs. I’m just having too much trouble trying to maintain all of them. You can read more about it here. As a result, I’ll be posting more technology-related and work-related posts on this blog, in addition to my normal personal posts. Insha’Allah, this will make things […]

I’ve decided to call it quits on this blog. It’s simply becoming too much work to keep this blog up and running while I have another, much more successful blog to maintain. I will keep this site open and post relevant news about the Lanterntorch.net organization, but all personal, technology-related, and work-related posts […]

I’ve been meaning to post this for several days. Now, I finally have a moment.
When I speak of “group thikr” I am essentially referring to three methods of remembering Allah:
1. Certain phrases that have been prescribed in the Qur’an and through the prophetic Sunnah (such as saying subhanAllah, alhamdulillah, Allahu akbar - […]

Wives shouldn’t be allowed to tag husbands, but here goes…
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life
1. Grocery Bagger at a Supermarket
2. Tuxedo Salesman
3. Computer Technician
4. Librarian (Media Specialist) — this is my current job and only one I’ve ever liked.
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have
1. Star Wars, episodes 4,5,6
2. The […]

Novell has taken it upon themselves to survey GNU/Linux users (at least I assume that’s who they’re targeting) to find out what Windows apps should be ported to Linux (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16646.html).
“The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux,” […]

This has been quite a new year for LTNET. In the month of January, our server has been attacked at least 5 times. None of them brought the server down, but it was annoying. I’ll post more technical stuff at LTOS. I try to leave my “techie” stuff off of LTCOM […]

Bismihi Ta’ala,
On behalf of all upstanding Muslim men in the world, I categorically denounce any acts of harassment against Sunni Sister or ANY other sister (especially my wife). Apparently, some men were not born from women, do not marry women, and do not have female children. I, however, have all three, and would […]

LISNews has a very interesting story (http://lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/1349211&from=rss) about Osama bin Laden’s quote (or misquote) from a book causing its sales to skyrocket in the US and other western countries.
While it is amusing to image that Oprah’s Book Club must compete with Bin Laden’s Book Club, it does raise some serious questions.
1. A […]