>> Saturday, December 24, 2005

Roar

I put together an easy chart to indicate a few of the effects of Tiger Woods on golf. It’s simply phenomenal.


+Tiger finished the 2005 season with a record gain of $5,262,552, a jump from $5,365,472 last year to $10,628,024 this year.

By the way, I was snooping around some older e-mails and bumped into a job offer forwarded to a portal. This particular one caught my attention:

Position:
Imam of the Grand Mosque of Istanbul (time: Sultan Sulaiman al Qanuni (the Lawgiver, otherwise known as the Magnificent in Europe who ruled Ottoman Turkey between 1520AD-1566AD)
Requirements:
1. To have mastered the languages of Arabic, Latin, Turkish and Persian
2. To have mastered the Qur'an, the Bible and the Torah
3. To be a scholar in Shari'ah and Fiqh
4. To have mastered physics and mathematics up to teaching standard
5. To be a master of chivalry, archery, dueling and the arts of Jihad
6. To be of a handsome countenance
7. To have a strong melodious voice


I doubt that similar requirements (with modernization of some of the medieval skills) would apply in choosing the Imams in Mecca or here in Masjid Negara. It shows how sophisticated the Islamic civilization was in its golden years and how far we are in slacking up. I’m not even close to any of the requirements: I'm terrible at physics or maths, studied Arabic without much success and neither do I have a melodious voice nor of a handsome countenance.

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