Mohammed Hussein @ElmEdge

admin for author of Seeking A Life Balance and How Malaysia Missed 7 Chances at Nation Building.

[Mohammed Hussein @ElmEdge @SALB_Book]

History seems to be repeating itself in Malaysian politics. Will the outcome be similar or different? Dato Onn Jaafar left a party he helped establish to form a multi racial party at a time when his ideals were not shared by others.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The UN inquiry’s findings that genocide is being carried out by Israeli authorities and security forces in Gaza - as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes - and additionally war crimes in the occupied West Bank - is due to what the inquiry found was the deliberate targeting of children - and it is horrifying reading. The details of the targeting are chilling. Children. Killed. Wounded. Tortured. Starved. Raped. On a mass scale

[It's Ahmad @AhmadX_Official]

In 1879, a simple Egyptian peasant woman named Mubarka Khafaji from a village in Kafr El-Sheikh married a farmer, Ibrahim Atta, who worked for daily wages. Due to financial hardship, he divorced her even though she was in the final months of her pregnancy.

Mubarka moved with her mother and brother to Alexandria, where she gave birth to her son, Ali Ibrahim Atta. She made a firm decision to do everything possible to raise and educate him in the best way.

She had countless reasons to despair and grow bitter toward men, but she did not. She could have forced her son into child labor selling tissues at traffic lights, but instead she worked as a cheese seller in the streets of Alexandria to support him.

She enrolled her son Ali in the Ras El-Tin Primary School. After he completed primary education, his father came to take him away to make him work with only a basic certificate.

But Mubarka’s dreams were much greater. She secretly moved her son from the roof of her house to the neighboring roof and fled with him to Cairo, enrolling him in the Khedivial School in Darb El-Gamamiz. She worked for a family in order to fund his education.

Ali excelled in his studies and was admitted to medical school in 1897, graduating in 1901.

Fifteen years later, Sultan Hussein Kamel fell seriously ill, and doctors were unable to diagnose his condition. Dr. Othman Ghaleb suggested the name of Dr. Ali Ibrahim. He successfully performed a critical surgery, after which he was appointed as the Sultan’s chief surgical consultant and personal physician, receiving the title of "Bey."

In 1922, King Fouad I granted him the title of "Pasha."

In 1929, Dr. Ali Pasha Ibrahim became the first Egyptian dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Fouad I University (Cairo University). He later became the university’s president.

In 1940, he was appointed Minister of Health. In the same year, he founded the Egyptian Medical Syndicate and became its first president. He also served as a member of the Egyptian Parliament.

His mother was: An uneducated, rural, divorced peasant woman.

Yet she raised a son who changed history.

The reform of any society begins with a mother.

Salute to every mother who is a true school of life.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

A man whose family are killed by the israelis in Gaza, says sorry to be boring, but while you’re watching the World Cup, we are being killed

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.

Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.

Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.

Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.

At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.

This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.

What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

[It's Ahmad @AhmadX_Official]

A Miracle at the Prophet’s Mosque.

When the decision was made to install the same radiant white marble on the floor of Masjid an-Nabawi (PBUH) that had graced the floors of Masjid al-Haram, a profound miracle unfolded.

Muhammad Kamal Ismail was the first engineer entrusted with the monumental task of designing and executing the expansion projects of the Two Holy Mosques. Despite repeated insistence from King Fahd, he refused to accept any remuneration for his engineering designs and architectural supervision. He would say, "Why should I take payment for this work? How will I face Allah on the Day of Judgment?"

He married at the age of 44. His wife gave birth to a son but passed away shortly after. From that time until his death, he remained devoted to the worship of Allah. He lived to the age of one hundred, yet shunned worldly fame and media attention, serving the Two Holy Mosques in quiet anonymity.

The story of how he acquired the special white marble for the Haram is itself deeply moving. This unique stone, which beautifully absorbs heat and keeps the floors cool even in the scorching heat, was found in a small mountain in Greece. Engineer Kamal traveled there and signed an agreement to purchase nearly half the mountain. After the deal was finalized, he returned to Makkah. The marble arrived and was successfully installed in Masjid al-Haram, adorning both the Mataf (the area around the Ka'bah) and the outer courtyards.

Fifteen years later, the Saudi government decided to use the same marble for the flooring of Masjid an-Nabawi. When King Fahd instructed Engineer Muhammad Kamal to source the identical marble, he became deeply worried. The only place on earth where this stone existed was Greece, and they had already purchased half the mountain.

Kamal returned to Greece and met the CEO of the same company. When he inquired about the remaining marble, the CEO replied, "We sold it shortly after you left. It has been fifteen years now."

Heartbroken, Kamal stood up to leave the meeting. As he was departing, he met the office secretary and asked if she could help trace the buyer of the remaining marble. She told him it would be difficult to find old records but requested his phone number and hotel details, promising to try. He gave her the information and left, planning to return the next day.

Before leaving the office, Kamal thought to himself: "What need do I have to search for the buyer? Allah Himself will make arrangements."

The very next day, just hours before his flight, he received a call: the address of the marble buyer had been found. Kamal made his way back to the office, his heart heavy with anticipation. When the secretary handed him the company details, his heart skipped a beat. He took a deep breath in awe.

The company that had purchased the marble was Saudi.

Kamal immediately boarded a flight to Saudi Arabia. He went straight to the company’s office and met the Director of Administration. When he asked what had become of the white marble imported from Greece, the director said he didn't recall and called the stock department. The reply came: "The entire quantity is still here. It has never been used."

At that moment, Engineer Kamal wept like a child. He narrated the entire story to the company's Saudi owner and presented him with a blank cheque.

"Fill in any amount you wish," he said, "but please hand over all the marble to me."

When the Saudi owner learned that this marble was destined for Masjid an-Nabawi, he refused to take even a single riyal.

He said with deep emotion, "Allah had this marble purchased through me, and then made me forget about it. It is clear that this marble was always meant for the Prophet’s Mosque (PBUH)."

SubhanAllah.

A beautiful reminder of how Allah orchestrates even the smallest details for His beloved places and His sincere servants.

[𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐝𝐢 @Mahdii_365]

Ayatul-Kursi = the greatest verse in the Qur'an. Recite it after every fard prayer & before sleep for protection from shaytan till morning.

"Allah! There is no god except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer..." [2:255]

Make it your daily shield.

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

A man was seen carrying his elderly parents on his shoulders during tawaf at the Kaabah ❤️..... May Allah reward him with Jannah

[Mohammed Hussein @ElmEdge @SALB_Book]

His departure left a gap in Malaysia's leadership that was never filled and Malaysia went on a path that he was trying to avoid. 70 years down the road, we are still grappling with the same elephants in the room. Will things change now? Only time will tell.

[Mohammed Hussein @ElmEdge @SALB_Book]

History seems to be repeating itself in Malaysian politics. Will the outcome be similar or different? Dato Onn Jaafar left a party he helped establish to form a multi racial party at a time when his ideals were not shared by others.

[FCPA Billow Kerrow @BillowKerrow]

10 SIMPLE RULES TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

The Prophet ﷺchanged the world in 23 years without a phone, planner, or productivity hack and never never burned out.

Here are 10 rules from sunnah which can fix our life :

1. He slept immediately after Isha. narrated by Aisha (RA): “He disliked sleeping before it and talking after it.” (Bukhari) • Preserves energy • Optimizes circadian rhythm • Builds willpower for Tahajjud Your night begins after Maghrib not after midnight.. Most people destroy focus by what they do after Isha, not in the morning.
2. He woke up before Fajr. Why? Because barakah lives in the early hours. “O Allah, bless my Ummah in its early mornings.” (Tirmidhi) • Mental clarity • Willpower reserves at peak • Soul and strategy synced.
3. He anchored his day around Salah. Not tasks. Not goals. Not dopamine. “Indeed, prayer has been decreed at fixed times.” (4:103) Prayer wasn’t a pause, it was the planner.
4. He ate with precision and intention."A few morsels to keep the back straight…" (Ibn Majah) • 1/3 food • 1/3 water • 1/3 breath Gut health = clarity Simplicity = barakah.
5. He took mid-day naps (Qailulah). “Take a nap, for Shaytan does not nap.” (Tabarani) • Enhances memory • Boosts energy • Prepares the body for night worship Even 20 minutes of rest can reset your nervous system.
6. He ﷺminimized talking only when needed. “speak good or remain silent.” (Bukhari) Aishah (RA): “The Messenger’s speech was clear, concise, and comprehensive. He didn’t speak unnecessarily.” (Abu Dawud) Impact: Saves mental bandwidth. Every extra word is a leak of willpower.
7. He began everything with Bismillah. “Every important matter not begun with ‘Bismillah’ is cut off from barakah.” (Ibn Hibban, Hasan) Barakah is the highest productivity multiplier.
8. He delegated + built systems. 42 scribes. 12 governors. 9 military commanders. (Fath al-Bari) He didn’t do everything himself. He focused on what only he could do. You scale by systematizing not doing it all.
9. He was consistent. “The most beloved deeds to Allah are the consistent ones, even if small.” (Bukhari 6465).
10. He guarded his first hour and last hour with dhikr. “The Prophet ﷺwould remember Allah when he woke and before he slept.” (Bukhari 6324) Your start and end control & everything in between with Allah.

Dr Aisha Dahir
Nigeria

[Daily Reminders. @NsubugaHajji]

If We Never Sinned, We Would Be Destroyed, Why _ Abu Bakr Zoud.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A Oxford PhD student got flagged for submitting AI-generated work.

His advisor called it the most sophisticated research process he had seen in 20 years.

The student had not used AI to write a single word.

Here is the workflow that got him reported.

He starts every essay with a diagnostic he calls brutal. He dumps his rough argument into Claude and asks one question: what are the three weakest logical jumps in this reasoning, and where would a hostile examiner attack first? The AI does not write his essay. It destroys his draft, and then he rebuilds from whatever survives.

Most students using AI are doing the opposite. They hand Claude a topic and ask it to write. He hands Claude his thinking and asks it to find every place where that thinking falls apart. The difference between those two approaches is the difference between outsourcing your brain and sharpening it.

The second step is the one that made his advisor go quiet. He uploads the five most important papers in his field alongside his draft and asks Claude what claims in his argument contradict or oversimplify what these authors actually found. Most PhD students cite papers they have skimmed once. He cites papers he has been forced to genuinely reckon with, because Claude keeps catching the places where he got them wrong.

The final move is almost unfair. Before he submits anything, he pastes his conclusion and runs one more prompt. He asks what a philosopher of science would say is missing from this argument and what assumptions he is making that he has not defended. His essays come back from reviewers with phrases like unusually rigorous and demonstrates rare critical depth, and his committee has no idea that the depth came from a machine asking him harder questions than any human in his department was willing to ask.

The academic integrity hearing lasted three hours. The panel asked him to rebuild his methodology from scratch in the room. He opened his laptop and showed them exactly how the workflow ran, prompt by prompt. They did not just clear him. They gave him the highest grade in the department's history and asked him to present the process to faculty.

Here is what that story actually means. What took most PhD candidates six months of back-and-forth with advisors, he was compressing into a single session because he had figured out something almost nobody else has. AI does not make your thinking better by replacing it. It makes your thinking better by attacking it faster than any human critic ever would.

He was not using AI to write. He was using it to think harder than he could alone.

The tool is the same one everyone has. The workflow is the part nobody is teaching.

[Yaqeen Institute @yaqeeninstitute]

This du'a fulfills every need you have, known and unknown.

Watch "The Most Comprehensive Du'a Ever Narrated" by Dr. Omar Suleiman: https://t.co/k4EzC00fjN

[Hadi Azmi @amerhadiazmi]

'Assassins', in which I walk the audience through the trial of the two women accused of killing North Korea's Kim Jong-nam has been nominated for Outstanding Investigative Documentary at the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Awards!

The film is ironically not available in Malaysia.

[fbdaddy @fergalb45]

@warsurv Israel under Netanyahu and the USA under Trump are a bigger threat to global stability than Iran ever will be

[SHowardAI | Systems Architect @Topcut504]

Humanity keeps getting dragged toward catastrophe by small people with outdated minds and oversized authority.

They call it leadership.
It is usually ego, inertia, ideological rot, and systems that let old thinking make irreversible decisions for millions.

The problem is not age alone.
It is unaccountable power in the hands of people too intellectually stagnant to be trusted with the future.

I wrote about this here: https://t.co/y7WMnzqGJy

[Wellcom Every One @Rehmanholland01]

@UsDefenceForce We pray to Allah Almighty that from the day he died until this world ends and as long as the name of Allah Almighty remains in this world and the hereafter, this man will continue to burn in the fire of Hell, Amen, Amen.
🙏

[Mohammed Hussein @ElmEdge @SALB_Book]

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