Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Welcome to my Utopia

I wrote a story named 'Welcome to my Utopia' and want to share it with my you. First learn about the 'Utopia' word and then read the story. 


Utopia, means a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature.

                                 Welcome to my Utopia
Last year when we moved into our new house called “Pink Palace”, I was getting bored. My father advised me to explore this house which was 200 years old and said that you need to look around.

Roaming around the house I discovered a little locked door at a corner of stairs. I checked the key drawer and found a pink key written ‘Utopia’. I unlocked the door with the key. After it I opened the door and entered into a beautiful land. It was full of different kind of creatures. I saw a tree saying ‘Utopia’ word written on it and nearby there was a sign board on which all information about Utopia were written. It said that no evil exists here. Although everybody speaks their own language they understand each other well.

From that sign board, I knew that the person who sees the ‘Utopia’ first will be the owner of it. I was confused either I am the first comer or not?
I shouted “hello! Is anyone here?” Suddenly the tree with the information spoke:’ why are you shouting son!’
I asked him “am I the first comer in Utopia?”
Tree replied: ‘Yes son you are the first comer and you are now owner of Utopia’.

I was very happy to listen that. The tree told me that Utopia is full of fairies, puffballs, pixies, funny dwarfs, Flay birds, glowing flowers, mermaids, merboys, giant water lilies, giant beautiful snails living in water, Flower girls, Flower fairies, Bubble gulls, fairy boys, fairy mermaid, Fairy cry babies.

I asked if I live here for long my mother would be worried about me. The tree advised me to not worry as ‘one day of Utopia is equal to the one second of the real world. So it won’t take much time to visit Utopia and by the time I can reach my own house very shortly’

I asked where I should stay. The tree told me that Utopia only has Flower houses. So I planned to discover the whole Utopia.
I called a Magical carriage to ride on it and it flew in the air. First I met the flower fairies and talked to them. Then I went to see the merboys. After that I went to see the mermaids, puffballs, pixies and the glowing flowers on the land. At the river I saw giant water lilies;
I also saw the Dolphins, Flower girls and fairy mermaids. I didn’t go to the caves of bubble gulls because they were sleeping and I also didn’t meet the flay birds because they were busy flying. I saw cry babies and fairies.

After that journey I was very tired. It was my time to leave so I waved everybody at Utopia and promised them that I will come to Utopia frequently.
I kept my visit to Utopia a secret and from that day till now I am never bored staying at our new house “Pink Palace’.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Explore the facts and history of muslim heritage

Muslim Heritage is the site which tells the participation of muslims in science, technology, arts and civilization. There are many helpful, informative and useful posts which can be useful for Islamic history students.

Mission: "To raise global awareness on the importance and relevance of Muslim Heritage and its mostly unaccounted contribution to current world civilization."

Few post titles are:

- Dam Construction in the Islamic Civil Engineering
- Astronomical Observatories in the Classical Islamic Culture
- Education in Islam - The Role of the Mosque
- Islamic Automation: Al-Jazari’s Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

And each and every article has more article links so there is a lot of information which you cannot get from other sites.

Why this site was was created and why is is based on work for Muslim Heritage?

Site answers it:

'A vast repository of knowledge and historical data on the critical role of the Muslim contribution to science, technology and world civilization is available in library archives throughout the world. This knowledge if comprehensively extracted, documented and popularized, would provide stronger intellectual foundations for Muslims to begin to reassert their identity as major pioneers of human civilization.

There are a few centers of learning, scattered throughout the world, that have done excellent research work on Muslim heritage and have collated valuable source materials. There is however no project that has set out to catalog and centralize all these sources of Muslim heritage and make it available globally in a popular format.

Through the advancement in Internet technologies, FSTC (Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization) has the facility to allow global access to this new Muslim heritage database, including source materials, 3-D recreated models of Muslim technology and an online community of scholars and contributors.

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