In several Islamic narrations, it is said that there was a jinn named Muhbar who loved the Prophet Muhammad very much.
One day he saw his wife crying, after being asked, it turned out that she was sad because there was a jinn named Musfir who insulted the Prophet along with the Quraysh, Muhbar was very angry, he chased Musfir to the hill between Safa and Marwah, then finished him off because of his defense of the Prophet.
The next day, Muhbar met the Prophet as a form of loyalty, he entered the idol of Hubal, then exclaimed: “Indeed, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
The Quraysh were so angry that they destroyed their own idols. Because of his courage and loyalty, the Prophet then gave Muhbar a new name; “Abdullah bin Abhar.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nWb2jU-79cg&si=SvniULtDrsRkqEJ2author and Islamic history researcher Salim Khan (author of The Golden Age of Islam and many more) unpacks the extraordinary life of Ibn al-Haytham — the 10th-century polymath from Basra who challenged Aristotle and Ptolemy, invented the pinhole-camera experiment that proved the true nature of light, and wrote a seven-volume treatise on optics held in the same regard as Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
We go deep into the part of his story most people don’t know: how a failed engineering project to dam the Nile landed him under house arrest by a Fatimid caliph, how he feigned madness to survive, and how he turned over a decade of imprisonment into his most important scientific work. We also confront an uncomfortable truth — how the Latinization of Muslim scientists’ names (Ibn Sina to Avicenna, Al-Khwarizmi to Algorizmi, Al-Razi to Rhazes) quietly erased their legacy from the story most of us were taught.
This isn’t a history lecture. It’s a challenge to Muslim youth to reclaim a spirit of relentless questioning that built the Golden Age of Islam — and ask why we stopped.
author and Islamic history researcher Salim Khan (author of The Golden Age of Islam and many more) unpacks the extraordinary life of Ibn al-Haytham — the 10th-century polymath from Basra who challenged Aristotle and Ptolemy, invented the pinhole-camera experiment that proved the true nature of light, and wrote a seven-volume treatise on optics held in the same regard as Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
We go deep into the part of his story most people don’t know: how a failed engineering project to dam the Nile landed him under house arrest by a Fatimid caliph, how he feigned madness to survive, and how he turned over a decade of imprisonment into his most important scientific work. We also confront an uncomfortable truth — how the Latinization of Muslim scientists’ names (Ibn Sina to Avicenna, Al-Khwarizmi to Algorizmi, Al-Razi to Rhazes) quietly erased their legacy from the story most of us were taught.
This isn’t a history lecture. It’s a challenge to Muslim youth to reclaim a spirit of relentless questioning that built the Golden Age of Islam — and ask why we stopped.
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 