Easy home made Ras Malai

 

Ingredients for dough:

Milk powder – 1 cup
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Flour – 3 tbsp
Oil – 2 tbsp
Egg – 1 ½
Make soft dough with milk powder, oil, baking powder, flour and lightly beaten egg. Make small balls and flatten them.
Ingredients for Milk:
Sugar – 1 cup
Milk – 1 litre
Khoya or mava – 125gm
Green cardamom – 2
Pistachio, almond – as required
Method
In a pan, boil milk with sugar and green cardamom. When sugar dissolves, add khoya, mix well. then dry milk balls and cook on low heat until size doubles.
When done, let it cool. Garnish with chopped pistachio and almond.

Chitral Dastan by Mustansar Hussain Tarar.

Chitral Dastan By Mustansar Hussain Tarar

No Bake Fudgy Brownies

By

Zarnak Sidhwa

 

Recipe Ingredients

• Condensed milk 1 can(14 ounce)
• Chocolate chopped 2 oz
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Chocolate cookie crumbs 2 ¼ cup
• Sprinkles or nuts ¼ cup

Recipe Method

1. Grease and line an 8 inch square pan.
2. In a pan over low heat combine the condensed milk and chocolate, cook and stir just until boiling.
3. Reduce heat cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes or until mixture turn thickens.
4. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
5. Stir in 2 cups of cookie crumbs. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
6. Sprinkle with remaining cookie crumbs and sprinkles or nuts press down gently with a spatula.
7. Cover and chill for 4 hours or over night. Cut into squares.
8. Store covered in refrigertor.             

Chocolate Twix Cake

By Shireen Anwar

This mouth-watering "Desserts" recipe for Chocolate Twix Cake can be prepared in 30 minutes and serves 2-4 people.

Recipe Ingredients

Eggs 4
Sugar 4 ounce
Flour 3 ounce
Coco 1 ounce
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Ingredients for ceramal
Sugar 1 cup
Water 1/4 cup
Cream 1 cup
Marie biscuits crushed 2 cups
Ingredients for butter icing
Butter 3 ounce
Coco 1 tbsp
Icing sugar 1 cup heaped
Hot water 1 tbsp
Ingredients for chocolate sauce
Chocolate 2 ounce
Cream 2 tbsp
Butter 1 tsp

Recipe Method

Make sponge cake bake in a 9 inch pan, cut cake into 3 parts, spread butter icing on 1 part, sprinkle with crushed biscuits, pour ceramal sauce, cover with second layer of cake, repeat layer, spread with 3rd layer of cake, cover cake with butter icing then melted chocolate.
Method for ceramal sauce
Put sugar and water to melt when golden add cream and cook till thick.
Method for butter icing
Beat butter and icing sugar till light and fluffy add coco powder mixed with hot water into a paste.
Method for chocolate sauce
In a sauce pan add chocolate, cream and butter, cook till thick.

WTC 7 (3rd tower) Collapse on 9-11 Facts

dedicated to those who died on 911 and those who died in Afghanistan due to 911.

Everyone remembers the Twin Towers exploding at 9:59AM and 10:28 AM EDT on September 11, 2001. Comparatively few people can recall that there was a third massive skyscraper, also a part of the World Trade Center, which fell very rapidly to the ground on that day. This was World Trade Center Building 7.¹

One reason that few remember WTC Building 7’s collapse is that after September 11^th it has been treated, both in the media and in The 9/11 Commission Report, as if it didn’t happen.

WTC 7 Map Structure

“The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the afternoon September 11^thwas reported as if it were an insignificant footnote… most people never saw video of Building 7’s collapse… Incredibly, it is virtually impossible to find any mention of Building 7 in newspapers, magazines, or broadcast media reports after September 11^th.”

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“The Commission avoids another embarrassing problem – explaining how WTC 7 could have collapsed, also virtually at free-fall speed – by simply not mentioning the collapse of this building.” ³

The collapse of Building 7 at 5:20PM EDT was in itself a major event; the sudden and unexplained fall to earth of a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper is certainly news. Why has there been almost no mention of this in the U.S. media, and why was there no mention of Building 7’s collapse in The 9/11 Commission Report? These are questions of great significance, and they cry out for answers. To be able to approach any kind of explanation, however, first some pertinent and verified facts of the Building 7 aspect of 9/11 need to be scrutinized.

The following eleven facts have been compiled from the research of reputable sources – those who have dared to question and have devoted innumerable hours into discovering what really happened on 9/11.

FACT 1:

WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers, and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concretestructure.⁴

FACT 2:

WTC Building 7 – on its 23^rd floor – housed an Emergency Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11^th, Mayor Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center – with its clear view of the Twin Towers – but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75 Barkley Street.” WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission.⁵ Late 2001 was the time of “the height of the investigation into Enron, so the majority of Enron’s SEC filings were likely destroyed when World Trade Center 7 came down.”⁶

FACT 3:

WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or significant debris on September 11^th. It had been evacuated after the planes hit the towers. By the afternoon of September 11^th, there were a few small fires of unknown origin evident in the building, and these small fires could be seen in only a few of the hundreds and hundreds of windows in the building.⁷

FACT 4:

On September 11, 2001, at 5:20PM, EDT, World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly and rapidly collapsed. Beginning with the penthouse, all 47 stories of it imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds.

FACT 5:

On September 16^th, NASA flew an airplane over the World Trade Center site, recorded infrared radiation coming from the ground, and created a thermal map. The U.S. Geological Survey analyzed this data, and determined the actual temperature of the rubble. This map shows that five days after the collapse of Building 7, the surface temperature of a section of its rubble was 1,341º F.⁸ This high a temperature is indicative of the use of explosives.

“WTC 7’s rubble pile continued to smolder for months.”⁹

FACT 6:

Fire Engineering magazine is the 125-year-old paper-of-record of the fire engineering community. Bill Manning, editor-in-chief, wrote an Editor’s Opinion in the January, 2002 edition. His editorial, $elling Out the Investigation, pointed out that destruction of evidence – the hurried removal of rubble which should be examined by investigators – is illegal.

He also issued a “call to action”. To quote excerpts:

“For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial evidence that could answer many questions … is on the slow boat to China …”

“I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation, NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.”

“Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the ‘official investigation’ blessed by FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half baked farce [emphasis mine] that may have already been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members – described by one close source as a ‘tourist trip’ – no one’s checking evidence for anything.”

“The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.”

“Firefighters, this is your call to action. …contact your representatives in Congress and officials in Washington and help us correct this problem immediately.” ^{10 11}

FACT 7:

In May of 2002, FEMA published their report #403 titled World Trade Center Building Performance Study. This report claims that the fires caused the building to collapse, but that the specifics of how this is supposed to have occurred “…remain unknown at this time.”¹²

FACT 8:

The collapse of WTC Building 7 shows five characteristics of a controlled demolition:

1. It “dropped directly into its own footprint in a smooth, vertical motion”;
2. It “collapsed completely in less than seven seconds”;
3. “Dust streamed out of the upper floors of Building 7 early in its collapse”;
4. “WTC 7’s roof inverted toward its middle as the collapse progressed”; and
5. “WTC 7’s rubble was mostly confined to the block on which the building stood.”¹³

FACT 9:

“Larry Silverstein is a rather large player within the realms of 21^st Century real estate, finance, and politics.”¹⁴ He “…had taken out a long lease on the World Trade Center only six weeks before 9/11. In a PBS documentary entitled ‘America Rebuilds’, originally aired in September of 2002, Silverstein made the following statement about Building 7:

‘I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse.’” ^{15 16}

FACT 10:

“It is inconceivable that anyone could be running around placing explosives in exactly the right places all within seven hours. In fact, implosions take a minimum of two weeks and up to two months to plan and place the charges. The fire department of New York does not even train their personnel to do controlled demolition. They are done by highly skilled experienced specialists who plan and test far ahead.”¹⁷

FACT 11:

“… [George W.] Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, were principles in the company [Stratesec, formerly named Securacom] that was in charge of security for the World Trade Center, with Walker being the CEO from 1999 until January 2002.”¹⁸

In summation:

A major aspect of 9/11 has been excluded from the entire U.S. media after September 11^th, and was also omitted from The 9/11 Commission Report. This was the sudden fall to earth, on September 11^th, 2001, of World Trade Center Building 7. Not hit by airplane or significant debris, 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower, and with just a few small fires burning within it, at 5:20PM EDT this massive concrete and steel-framed 47-story skyscraper imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds. Its rapid implosion had all of the characteristics of a controlled demolition, and the World Trade Center leaseholder, Larry Silverstein, stated in so many words that the building had been collapsed by demolition. It takes weeks, if not months, to prepare the demolition of a building as large as WTC 7; this implosion could not have been engineered and implemented in seven chaotic hours on September 11^th. Therefore, a question emerges:

Who had the means and expertise to engineer such a demolition and acquire needed materiel, and who had access to WTC Building 7 PRIOR TO September 11, 2001 in order to place the explosives?

 

article taken from ISLAM—World's Greatest Religion

Qandhari nan

Traditional Food particularly Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, involves the use of mild aromatic spices, nuts and more healthy then other cuisine. Kandahari Naan also is a traditional recipe of northern side. It is the combination of sugar, dates and coconut.
Qandahari Naan ;
Cook dates in ½ cup of water, then apply this water on naan with brush and bake. Mix coconut, yellow food colour, raisins and sugar.
Method:
Mix flour, salt, yeast, sugar, oil and make soft dough with warm milk. Leave on warm place until it doubles in size. Then roll, fill coconut mixture, give them ball shapes again, cover and leave for some time. Then roll in oval shapes, apply dates water with brush and cook in oven or tandoor.

Ilahi teri chokhat per

Ilahi teri chokhat per bhikari ban ker aya hoon,

Sarapa faqr hoon, ijz-o-nadamat saath laya hoon,

 

 Bhikari woh ke jis ke paas jholi hai na payala hai,

Bhikari woh jisey hiras-o-hawas nay maar dala hai,

 

 Mata-e-deen-o-danish, nafs ke hathon se lutwa ker.

Sakoon-e-qalb ki daulat hawas ki bhent charha ker,

 

 Lutta ker sari poonji ghaflat-o-issyan ki daldal mein,

Sahara lene aya hoon tere kaabay ke aanchal mein,

 

 Gunahon ki lipatt sey, kaynat-e-qalb afsurda,

Iraaday muzmehehal, himmat shikasta hoslay murda,

 

Kahan say laoon takat dil ki sachi tarjumani ki,

Ke kis jhanjhal mein guzri hein ghariyan zindagani ki.

 

Khulasa yeh ke bus jull bhun ker apni roo-sayahi sey

Sarapa faqr ban ker apni haalat ki tabahi sey,

 

Tere darbar mein laya hoon apni ab zaboon-haali,

Teri chokhat ke laeq har amal se hath hein khali,

 

Yeh Tera ghar hai ye Tere mehr ka darbar hai Maula

Sarapa noor hai, ik mohbat-e-anwaar hai Mola.

 

Teri chokhat ke jo adab hein, main unn se khali hoon,

Nahi jis ko saleeqa manganey ka, woh sawali hoon

 

Zuban ghalt-e-nadamat dil ki na’kas tarjumani per,

Khudaya reham meri iss zaban-e-ijz-zabani per,

 

Ye ankhein khushk hein, Ya Rabb inhein rona nahi aata,

Sulagtay daagh hein dil mein jinhein dhona nahi aata.

 

Ilahi teri chokhat per bhikari ban kay aaya hoon,

Sarapa faqr hoon, ijz-o-nadamat saath laya hoon,

 

Ek punjabi nazm...

میں کی کیتا ہاسے  ہاسے

لے  بیٹھی آ ں  پریت  دی کھاری

    ہن چکاں  تے  بھا روں ڈردی 

نہ چکاں  تاں  قولؤں  ہاری  

Great inventions by great muslims

01 Coffee:

The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.

02 Pin-Hole Camera:

The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

03 Chess:

A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe – where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10 ^th century – and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.

04 Parachute:

A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn’t. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles’ feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing – concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing.
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

05 Shampoo:

Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders’ most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not
wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

06 Refinement:

Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today – liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

07 Shaft:

The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

08 Metal Armor:

Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders’ metal armour and was an effective form of insulation – so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

09 Pointed Arch:

The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe’s Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe’s castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world’s – with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V’s castle architect was a Muslim.

10 Surgery:

Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon.
It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it.
Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

11 Windmill:

The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

12 Vaccination:

The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

13 Fountain Pen:

The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

14 Numerical Numbering:

The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi’s book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi’s discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

15 Soup:

Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal – soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas – see No 4).

16 Carpets:

Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam’s non-representational art. In contrast, Europe’s floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were “covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned”.
Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

17 Pay Cheques:

The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.

18 Earth is in sphere shape?

By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, “is that the
Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth”. It was 500 years before that realization dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth’s circumference to be 40, 253.4km – less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

19 Rocket and Torpedo:

Though the Chinese invented salt-petre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a “self-moving and combusting egg”, and a torpedo – a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

20 Gardens:

Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

 

تھے تو آباء وہ تمھارے ہی ۔ ۔ ۔ پر تم کیا ہو؟

ہاتھ پہ ہاتھ دھرے منتظرِ فردا ہو

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