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| Abu_Sashimi |
| 02/23/03 at 19:09:04 |
| [slm] Check out these satellite aerial images of Makkah and Minnah during the recent Hajj season 1423. Click on the middle thumbnail in the top row of images: http://www.digitalglobe.com/gallery/index.shtml When the images load, click on the hi-res links to get really detailed satellite images... very clear Ma Sha Allah! (note: the images are huge! like 1.5-2 megs). There are some aerial satellite shots of other places, including some Muslim cities. |
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| AbdulBasir |
| 02/23/03 at 20:39:44 |
| [slm] Subhanallah, those images were well worth the wait, and quite a wait it was, considering I use a dial-up 24K BPS connection ;) Just seeing Mina like that again, seeing those unique mountains and the city of tents, it is as if I can smell its crisp air yet again and feel the gentle desert breeze...Reminds of one time in Mina where I went on top to one of the higher roads to get as high a view of Mina as I could; breathtaking to say the least... The amazing thing about the Mina picture is that it doesn't even begin to show all the tents in the city of tents. The picture should actually be used in any Hajj training course just to give the pilgrim an idea of how Mina and the Jamarat are set up. Speaking of which, what is also cool about this picture is that you can tell it was taken on Yawm-un-Nahr because you see the Jamarat-us-Sughra and Jamarat-ul-Wusta completely vacant but Jamarat-ul-Aqaba is crowded, so crowded in the very front that the people are actually blurred in that area!... Just as amazing is the picture of Masjid al-Haram; reminds me of all those times spent on its roof gazing down below...and to see the very spot where I stood during Taraweeh brings back memories... What is interesting about the Makkah picture is to see how vacant the courtyards out the Haram are, not to mention the Haram itself, no doubt because most of the people are in Mina. Judging by the shadows in the picture, it was taken in the early-mid morning, so you can just imagine that the Eid prayer has already been performed and that people in the picture are a combination of locals as well as earlybird Hajjis performing the Tawaf-ul-Ifadah. Notice how clustered the people are in the line extending peripherally from the Black Stone? And the shadow of the Kabah at this time of day completely obliterates our view of Hijr Ismail... What a picture, I can even make out the hotel I stayed in at Hajj at the very far right margin of the image! Thanks bro for the link...what memories it brings back...as if my PRDS, PHD and MD wasn't worse enough :'( wassalamu alaikum :) |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 02/23/03 at 21:39:47 |
[img]http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/albums/album04/b.thumb.jpg[/img] [img]http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/albums/album04/b.sized.jpg[/img] http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=album04&id=b&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php [img]http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/albums/album04/a.thumb.jpg[/img] [img]http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/albums/album04/a.sized.jpg[/img] http://tyo.ca/islambank.community/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=album04&id=a&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_phopo.php These 60-cm natural colour images of Makkah and Mina, Saudia Arabia, were collected by QuickBird Satellite on February 11, 2003. Approximately two million Muslims from more than 70 countries made the journey from Makkah to Mina, in accordance with the spiritual pilgrimage known as the Hajj that week. |
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| jannah |
| 02/23/03 at 22:25:52 |
| [wlm] Does anyone find it odd that they have many detailed satellite pics of important sites in, of all countries, Iraq and Iran available to the public?? |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 02/25/03 at 00:02:25 |
Well, Reminds me of something from the Qur'an about ...Them plotting and planning yet Allah is the best of planners... So they've taken all these pics and'll take some more. We can think of it as a form of Dawah. We can keep these pics and compare them with pics taken at later dates after well, after some man-mad, I mean, Man-Made catastrophic events take place, say a war. Hey, as David Ogilvy of Ogilvy and Mather says, '...Let your competitors pay your bills.' To my knowledge, their ain't no muslim owned operated satellite sharing these Hajj-Umrah-Muslim Country pics on the web, so we might as well use these ones. Now, if they'd only take satellite photos of downtown Toronto between the hours of 12 noon and 2 pm on Fridays so I could get a decent parking spot near the Masjid.... Oh the thing we muslim ummah go through when we don't own our own spy satellites... Tsk Tsk! ~ HiMY! ~ |
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| BrKhalid |
| 02/25/03 at 05:52:26 |
| Asalaamu Alaikum ;-) These pics are unreal. When you zoom in you can virtually recognise everything as if you were there!!! |
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