There's a surah in the Quran that was revealed for one specific feeling.
Not grief. Not fear.
Not loneliness.
It's the feeling you get when you're doing everything right, and nothing is working. And Allah's response will break you.
Baca benda ni, saya teringat kisah Nabi Yunus AS. Orang selalu rujuk kisah nabi yunus dengan tema "even in the depths of darkness, there was still light"
Yunus AS dibelenggu tiga kegelapan. Malam. Laut dalam. Perut Ikan. Gelap. Pekat. Zulumat.
Berhari² baginda tak makan--
Panduan Niat Puasa Enam Syawal & Puasa Qada
Rebutlah ganjaran besar yang dijanjikan bagi mereka yang berpuasa enam hari di bulan Syawal, sebagai kesinambungan ibadah selepas Ramadan.
Semoga perkongsian ini membantu dan memudahkan urusan ibadah kita semua.
#ustazwadiannuar #uwakongsi
Five days of bad sleep can drop your effective IQ by 15 points, according to sleep researcher Stanley Coren’s analysis of multiple studies. That takes someone with average intelligence down to the threshold where learning becomes genuinely difficult.
The molecular reason is wild. Your brain prepares blueprints for building memory proteins on a 24-hour schedule. But it only actually builds them when you sleep. Skip the sleep, and the construction crew never shows up.
Two 2019 studies in Science, from the University of Zurich and LMU Munich, mapped this in mice. Every day, brain cells shipped molecular blueprints to their synapses (the tiny gaps where neurons talk to each other) in two batches: one before waking, one before sleeping. The pre-sleep batch carried instructions for proteins that repair and strengthen those connections. When researchers kept the mice awake, the blueprints still arrived on schedule. But the cells never built the proteins. A companion study found sleep deprivation shut down 98% of the protein activation cycles at those synapses.
A 2016 Penn study found that just 5 hours of sleep loss cut the activity of the brain’s main protein-building switch in the hippocampus (the memory center) by 55%. That alone blocked long-term memory formation. But when researchers restored just one protein in the chain, the mice formed memories normally even while sleep-deprived. The fix was that specific.
The damage is physical too. A separate 2016 study in eLife found 5 hours without sleep activated a protein that cuts apart the scaffolding holding brain connections together in the hippocampus. Three hours of recovery sleep rebuilt them.
A 2024 University of Edinburgh team found that 6 hours of sleep deprivation didn’t reduce total synapse count, but reduced the variety of connection types. The remaining synapses recycled proteins more slowly, a pattern the researchers said looks like aging brains.
Then there’s the Alzheimer’s angle. A 2019 Washington University study in Science found sleep deprivation doubled levels of tau (the protein whose tangles are most closely tied to Alzheimer’s cognitive decline) in mouse brain fluid. In humans from the same lab, one night of total sleep deprivation raised tau in spinal fluid by 50% and beta-amyloid (the other Alzheimer’s protein) by 30%. Chronic sleep deprivation in the mice caused tau tangles to spread to new brain regions within four weeks.
One in three American adults sleeps fewer than 7 hours a night, per CDC data. That’s roughly 83 million people whose brains are shipping protein blueprints every night with nobody there to build them.
A couple in India has ten daughters and keeps trying until finally the eleventh child is a son. That’s how much daughters are valued. But when parents are old, sick, and need round-the-clock care, suddenly daughters are “naturally more nurturing.”
Daughters are expendable when lineage is at stake, but indispensable when labor is required. Unwanted at birth. Essential at burnout.
Sons are for inheritance, names, and social applause. Daughters are for bathing frail bodies, managing medications, absorbing guilt, and being told it’s their duty.
It’s a neat arrangement. Girls are liabilities until they become free caregivers. Then they’re priceless. Rejected for legacy. Recruited for labour.
Denied value when they ask for love, education, or inheritance, but summoned without question when it’s time to serve.
And Indian society calls this tradition. Hypocrisy.
Weston A Price literally expanded the upper palate arch of a down syndrome teen by ½ half inch using a palate expansion rod.
This led to the sphenoid bone shifting properly, Especially near the sella turcica, where the pituitary gland sits.
- > Expansion of the sella turcica and better oxygenation to the pituitary gland stimulated pituitary gland.
He literally grew 3 inches in four months, developed whiskers and his genitals developed from those of a child to a man.
The boy was intellectually impaired pre-expansion IQ of a 4 year old. After the palate expansion. He could read, count money, and travel alone which is significant frontal cortex development.
Interesting AF.
Martyr Abu Obaida: Huthaifa Samir al-Kahlout's master's thesis titled:
The Holy Land
Between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The full thesis can be read here:
https://t.co/edEFZjn4oW