أرصاد أرضية

It's Ramadan, the last ten days of Ramadan are getting into me and I saw very very impressive Videos... The speaker is one of the few that grab my attention and has a subtle mesmerizing way of presenting what he obviously loves and the subject that he tackles is huge its "Literary Aspects of the Quran" add to that the fact that Arabic is not his mother tongue and was not born in an Arabic speaking family... He probes the power of the Quran in its original wording and touches on how miraculous it is by its own wording... The beauty of his work is that it is addressed non-Arabic speaking audience and he does a very good job at it... Listen to this guy Arabic or not he is unbelievable and by the way... He travelled the road from Muslim to Atheist to Muslim as well and speaks of his experience on "The Deen Show"... I'll post a link about it in another post soon... But this is one of the best I have ever heard Arabic speaking or not this is something worth you...

Speaking of Islamic Banks, the word "Islamic" should be fairly simple to comprehend, anything that is Islamic would involve "helping people go to heaven". But I guess this is only my naive understanding and it is definitely not shared by the board members of current Islamic banks/financers in Jordan. They probably think of all the Shari'a compliance regulations, they look so closely that they overlook the core essence of Islamic teachings. Now if the nature of an institute is commercial I can understand that all you care about is getting as much money as you can with the lowest risk on planet earth, while taking advantage of people's beliefs. So why would all "Islamic" Financing Institutes in Jordan, charge the highest rate, ask for down payments of 40% (20% if you are connected -wasta-) and must have two Government/Public Shareholding Company Employees to act as loan sponsors (one if you are connected -wasta-)!? Having too many complications is...