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08/09/2023

50 GOLDEN RULES FOR LIFE.

1. Never shake hands at anyone without standing up.
2. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
3. If they trust you a secret, keep it.
4. If they lend you a car, return it with a full tank.
5. Do things with passion or don't do it at all.
6. When you shake your hand make it firm and look that person in the eye.
7. Live the experience of traveling alone.
8. Never turn down a peppermint pill, the reasons are obvious.
9. Take advice if you want to grow old.
10. Come eat with the new person at school/office.
11. When you text someone and you're angry: finish, read it, delete it, and rewrite the message.
12. At the table you don't talk about work, politics, or religion.
13. Write your goals, and work on them.
14. Defend your point of view but be tolerant and respectful to others.
15. Call and visit your relatives.
16. Never regret anything, learn from everything
17. Honor and loyalty must be present in your personality.
18. Don't lend money to someone you know won't pay you back.
19. Believe in something.
20. Tend your bed when you wake up in the mornings.
21. Sing in the shower.
22. Care for a plant or a garden.
23. Keep an eye on the sky every chance you get.
24. Discover your skills and exploit them.
25. Love your job or leave it.
26. Ask for help when you need it.
27. Teach someone a value, preferably a small one.
28. Appreciate and thank the one who extends your hand.
29. Be kind to your neighbors.
30. Make someone's day happier, it will make you happier too.
31. Compete with yourself.
32 Treat yourself at least once a year
33. Take care of your health.
34. Always greet with a smile.
35. Think fast but speak slow.
36. Don't talk with a mouth full.
37. Polish your shoes, cut your nails, and always keep a good look.
38. Don't put your opinion on issues you don't know.
39. Never mistreat anyone.
40. Live your life as if it were the last day of it.
41. Never miss a wonderful opportunity to remain quiet.
42. Recognize someone for their effort.
43. Be humble, even though not all the time.
44. Never forget your roots.
45. Travel when you can.
46. Give up the step.
47 Dance in the rain.
48. Seek your success without giving up.
49. Be fair, stand up for those who need you.
50. Learn to enjoy moments of loneliness.

08/09/2023

The father of modern chemistry

"Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān is thought to have been born in Tus, Persia (modern day Iran). Jābir – whose name is commonly latinised to Geber in the west – was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, pharmacist and physician.

Jābir proposed the mercury-sulfur theory, whereby metals differ from one another due to their varying proportions of sulfur and mercury. Unlike the elements we think of today, these names referred to certain principles, for which the element was the closest approximation in nature; sulfur characterised combustibility, and mercury metallic properties. Jābir wrote “the metals are all, in essence, composed of mercury combined and coagulated with sulphur… they differ from one another only because of the difference of their accidental qualities”.

The use of experimentation in chemistry was Jābir’s greatest legacy. He is credited with using over twenty types of now basic chemical laboratory equipment, including the alembic and retort, and also describing many chemical processes, including crystallisation and distillation. He is believed to have discovered aqua regia, a mix of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid, which has the ability to dissolve gold, in the process of helping to justify alchemists’s search for the philosopher’s stone. Jābir also introduced several utechnical Arabic terms, such as Alkali , into the scientific vocabulary.

It was Jābir’s recognition that experiments are vital to science that transformed the mystical practice of alchemy into what would become modern chemistry."

Credit: Fudiyya Primary, Secondary and Tahfiz Centre Zaria City.

07/09/2023

On this day, September 04, 973 CE,
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni known as “Al-Biruni” was born in Khwarizm (now Uzbekistan).
Al-Biruni was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
He was the first to obtain a simple formula for measuring the radius of the Earth 🌏.

07/09/2023

Ibn Khaldun 🇹🇳 (27 May, 1332, Tunisia)
was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages. He is considered by many to be the of , , , and studies.

He made major contributions in the areas of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.

He also achieved high political office, serving as Prime Minister of Egypt, and saw active military service.

He is best known for his Muqaddimah (Prolegomena), the first book of his world history that won him an immortal place among historians, sociologists, and philosophers.

Ibn Khaldun also spent nearly two months in the company of Timur, the founder of the Timurid Empire who treated him with respect.

The scholar used his years of accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

He is generally considered the greatest Arab historian as well as the father of sociology and the science of history.