Dear Friends , Assalam-u-Alaikum, one post-doctoral Scholar (Dr Mukaila Alade Rahman, from Lagos State University, Nigeria ) joined my lab to perform research on how Holy Quran Memorization affects our memory, between 2016 and 2017. We performed detailed experimentation by obtaining MRI scans of more than 60 Huffaz etc, at Armed Forces Institute of Radiology (AFIRI), Military Hospital, Rawalpindi , thanks to Lieutenant General (Retd) Imran Majeed (VC, NUMS) and Major General Shamrez Khan (Commandant AFIRI). The funding for this project was obtained from TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences, Italy). The results were analyzed jointly with experts from University of Edinburgh, UK. The results show that memorizing Holy Quran makes our brains 'healthier' and less vulnerable to many memory related diseases!! I am glad that the results have now been published in a European Neurosciences journal (paper attached). This is a unique research, never performed any where in the world using MRI scans(to the best of our knowledge) , analyzing the structural information in the human brain with MRI! I am grateful to the whole of my research group who had been pivotal in this research study (www.miprg.com) ! It was a great Teamwork to convince volunteers for MR exams, transporting them to AFIRI and many other 'logistics', its never so easy at COMSATS!! I invite you to go through the paper, you will enjoy it Insha Allah. Also please share this very special research with your friends! Jazak Allah
- It is a story from 1282 Hijri, that is, 160 years ago. There was a noble and righteous woman named Munira in the city of Buraidah, Saudi Arabia. She intended to bequeath her jewellery to her brother before she died and instructed him to buy a shop from that money. Whatever income would come from this shop would be spent to fulfill the needs of masakeen. After her death, her brother sold the jewellery and bought a shop in the name of his sister, which was worth twelve riyals according to the currency of the period. He rented the shop and the rent money was used to attend to the needs of masakeen. This continued for nearly 100 years. After 100 years, the monthly rent of the shop had reached 15,000 riyals and through this money more things were provided for the needy. Then came the day when the Saudi government decided to expand the Mosque of Buraidah and decided to acquire land and shops within the vicinity of the expansion site. The shop of the deceased woman was within the bound...