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An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later. I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it. His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics." The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages. Here is the story almost nobody tells you. He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it. Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years. Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science. Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment." That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance. The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation. He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes. The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics. The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught. Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework. Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham. The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him. He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

Can I ask you a favor? Don't stop talking about Palestine.

I still cannot process what I heard today… it felt like stepping into something unreal. What is happening here must be told exactly as it is, because staying silent is no longer an option. I went with my friend to a nearby camp to document the spread of rats, but what we found was far beyond a simple report. People there do not sleep at night. They stay awake for hours, watching over their children, afraid that the rats might reach them. Fear has become part of their daily lives, and exhaustion is written on every face. Rats enter the tents through small openings, attacking the little food people have, tearing their clothes, and sometimes reaching their bodies while they sleep. I saw injuries and signs of infection, and I heard stories that are impossible to bear. One of them was about a bride preparing for her wedding, only for a rat to destroy her clothes… small details that reveal the scale of this tragedy. There are no means to fight this, no poison, no solutions. The situation is getting worse day by day, and we are heading toward a real catastrophe. We need urgent intervention, we need caravans and safe shelter to protect people… because what is happening here is no longer bearable.

كتب طبيب من غزة 💔 اليوم، عُثر على جثة جارنا مدفونة ومتحللة. كان قد أُصيب ونزف لمدة ثلاثة أيام خلال عملية النزوح الاخيرة من شمال غزة. عندما أدرك أنه لن ينجو وأنه لا سبيل للوصول إليه، غطى نفسه بالتراب على قدر ما استطاع ودفن نفسه وهو ساجد. والآن، وُجدت عظامه في وضع السجود. عُثر على جثته بجانب شجرة اختار لها مثواه الأخير. ترك علامة لأهله - خاتمه مربوط فوق التراب بخيط وغصن صغير من الشجرة ليسهل عليهم العثور عليه.

A 6 year old kidnapped beaten and returned with missing organs. The horror is beyond our worst nitemares

@LeadHead0 @JMNewsNetwork_ Or how paranoid and insecure you clowns are. You felt you needed to take time out of your day to post this pathetic response. The bar is low, you have helped to prove it.

@JMNewsNetwork_ Do not be so fooled when one person says one word that's Islamic. This is not a big deal. This only shows how easily swayed and low the bar is for Muslims today.

The famous American actress Anne Hathaway is causing a big stir after saying the phrase "Insha'Allah" in Arabic during her talk about her future, and she said: ‘I want to live a long and healthy life, Insha'Allah.’

@MehekCooke It wasn’t closed before you dumb bitch.

Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil. The credential class should be embarrassed into silence.

@Nate_Null @TageForHart Kindel on your face.

@TageForHart Savoie is 4 years older than Ben Kindel and Kindel outscored him at 18, Savoie will be out of the league within the next 5 years, total bust

One is playing on the top line with the greatest hockey player in the world and only put up 37 points. The other is Centering the third line and drives his own offense often times playing with rotating wingers and put up 54 points AND is far better defensively. Next. #LetsGoOilers #Sabrehood

As a non Muslim, if you watch this and still choose not to believe that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the final messenger, then all I can say is “It’s not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts” Qur’an 22:46

@USAmbUN The dirt under her pinky toe after a day on the beach has more honor than you and your entire lineage, you treacherous treasonous scumbag. GFY.

This fawning celebrity profile of antisemitic bomb-thrower Francesca Albanese manages to ignore all the ways she's sabotaging the UN's mission of peace, from trying to debank Americans to eliminating their jobs, all just for doing business with Israel. She even calls Israel a “threat to humanity.” This happens under a UN banner that Americans fund — so we sanctioned her for doing us harm. POLITICO's @DaniellaCheslow and @KarlMathieson (who just deleted his account for antisemitic tweets) unethically reached out at the last possible second and claimed they were just doing a story about the sanctions. Why is POLITICO running cover for this anti-American, anti-Semitic zealot?

@johnny_col38660 @Orlando71156528 Eat a fucking dick, your corrupt empire will not survive the next decade you piece of shit.

Te voy hacer una analogía Imagínate que llevas 35 días peleando con Tyson y cada día te dan una paliza, un dia, logras tocarle la cara a Tyson y lo celebras como una gran victoria Estás reconociendo que la superioridad de Tyson es tan grande , que nunca esperaste poder tócalo Eso pasa con Irán y USA Gracias por tu admiración a USA , seguimos y seguiremos siendo superiores

Instante preciso en el que los misiles iranies, entran por el culo del F-15 gringo y lo derriba. 👏 👏 👏

@Jamesward588173 @jalalayn @shaunking Our Ummah has a lot of wahin, it’s very sad. We are all to blame, we have lost our sense of truly being an Ummah.

@jalalayn @shaunking Jalal just cannot help himself, once again he continues to destroy his credibility.

Syria should be so ashamed. Letting Israel use your land to attack Lebanon is so ugly.

@Jamesward588173 @jalalayn @shaunking Who the F are you? Talking about Jalal’s credibility, what the hell have you done for the Ummah? Shaun King is a good man, meaning well, ignorant tweet. You Assadists foam at the mouth, the ENTIRE MUSLIM world should be fighting Israel including Muslim diaspora communities.

@shaunking This is occupied Syrian land. The government has not enabled this.

@mattbilinsky @DanBilzerian @mattforney I think you need some urine to drink Matty. F you and the filthy state of Israel, cancer on this earth. Piss on you and every proud genocidal Israeli.

@DanBilzerian @mattforney You’re not Muslim but you are an ass kisser of Muslim terrorists so what’s the difference?

I stand with PATRIOT Randy Fine against the broke Muslim convert, sex pest, drug addict, and disloyal dual citizen Dan Bilzerian

Today I met my university professor… the doctor who once taught me Organizational Behavior. I approached him with a smile and said, “How are you, doctor? I hope you are well.” He looked at me with tired eyes and replied, “I’m not well… who are you?” I felt embarrassed and said gently, “You don’t remember me? I’m Mohammed… you taught me at the university.” His answer shocked me: “Which university? Which course? When?” I froze. I started wondering… did I mistake him for someone else? Or did he lose his memory? Or did the war take something from his mind? I couldn’t continue the conversation. I left quietly, feeling that I had just met a man who looked like my professor… but wasn’t him anymore. When I returned to my tent, I called a friend who studied with me and is related to him. I asked him what happened. He paused… then said: “He is the only survivor from his family. Their house was bombed… everyone was killed. Since that day, he hasn’t been the same. It’s like he lost his mind… the shock broke him.” I was devastated. I wished I hadn’t left him standing there alone. I wished I had hugged him… sat beside him… He once taught me, and I loved him like a father. War doesn’t only destroy homes… it breaks minds, shatters souls, and leaves people alive… but lost. May God ease your pain, doctor. Please keep him in your prayers. 💔

Saudi YouTuber Maher Musalli’s account was deleted after he posted a powerful video about the Gaza massacres—one that challenges mainstream narratives and sparks important debate. He deserves support, and this message deserves to be hear Share it so his voice reaches the world.

No child should have to stand in line like this just to eat while billions are spent on war.