Comments on: Naked People…Making Buildings?!?!? (pictures below) http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/naked-peoplemaking-buildings-pictures-below/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:02:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Inner _ peace http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/naked-peoplemaking-buildings-pictures-below/#comment-264 Inner _ peace Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:33:22 +0000 http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-264 Asalamu Alaikum, SubhanAllah - As a Muslim and an Architecture student I was NEVER comfortable or happy with this show of power that the Emirates, particularly Dubai with its lofty buildings has been showing. Its lacking the essence of deen, its purely material. And I have also known about this hadeeth for a while now but had come across it again recently. Then today I was reading in the text "Modern Architecture" by Kenneth Frampton and read the follwing: "Skyscrepers of a much greater height are equally symptomatic of our 'society of spectacle', in which cities compete with each other for the dubious honour of realizing the world's tallest building. As of now Dubai, although hardly a city, is the leading contender, with its 160-storey Burj Tower..." pg. 345 It almost made me cry. Its one thing to know it and see it around us. And another thing to see that its acknowledged world wide and that its not only the muslims linking it with the signs of Qiyamat. Its THERE... May Allah (s.w.t) protect us all from shirk, and from the torment of Hell-fire and make us among the ones under the shadeon the day of Judgement. Ameen Jazak Allah khairan for sharing brother, we always need these reminders. Wasalam Asalamu Alaikum,

SubhanAllah – As a Muslim and an Architecture student I was NEVER comfortable or happy with this show of power that the Emirates, particularly Dubai with its lofty buildings has been showing. Its lacking the essence of deen, its purely material.
And I have also known about this hadeeth for a while now but had come across it again recently.

Then today I was reading in the text “Modern Architecture” by Kenneth Frampton and read the follwing:

“Skyscrepers of a much greater height are equally symptomatic of our ’society of spectacle’, in which cities compete with each other for the dubious honour of realizing the world’s tallest building. As of now Dubai, although hardly a city, is the leading contender, with its 160-storey Burj Tower…” pg. 345

It almost made me cry. Its one thing to know it and see it around us. And another thing to see that its acknowledged world wide and that its not only the muslims linking it with the signs of Qiyamat. Its THERE…

May Allah (s.w.t) protect us all from shirk, and from the torment of Hell-fire and make us among the ones under the shadeon the day of Judgement. Ameen

Jazak Allah khairan for sharing brother, we always need these reminders.

Wasalam

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]]> By: Tamim http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/naked-peoplemaking-buildings-pictures-below/#comment-109 Tamim Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:56:20 +0000 http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-109 I have heard, from a friend of mine who is working in Dubai, that Dubai actually does not have a lot of money and is in fact in a lot of debt. Since they have little, if any, oil this is not a source of revenue like other Arab countries. This rapid development is an effort to make money through real estate development and tourism. Their construction of superlative structures is probably to attract tourists. No one is going to a theme park in the Middle East or to see an apartment building, but many people want to go to the largest theme park in the world and want to see the tallest building in the world. I have heard, from a friend of mine who is working in Dubai, that Dubai actually does not have a lot of money and is in fact in a lot of debt. Since they have little, if any, oil this is not a source of revenue like other Arab countries. This rapid development is an effort to make money through real estate development and tourism. Their construction of superlative structures is probably to attract tourists. No one is going to a theme park in the Middle East or to see an apartment building, but many people want to go to the largest theme park in the world and want to see the tallest building in the world.

]]> By: Amatullah http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/naked-peoplemaking-buildings-pictures-below/#comment-108 Amatullah Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:45:39 +0000 http://wannabescholar.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-108 Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon...wow. Scary and sad at the same time. I wonder what would happen if they sent that money to Africa instead. It's like they have so much money, they just don't know what to do with it...subhanAllah. (Dubailand. haha.) Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon…wow. Scary and sad at the same time. I wonder what would happen if they sent that money to Africa instead. It’s like they have so much money, they just don’t know what to do with it…subhanAllah.

(Dubailand. haha.)

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