MAKKAH: "We could not see the Kaabah or the interior of the Grand Mosque but something just felt different when we stepped inside," said Esah Long, tears rimming her eyes.
The 72-year-old, who lost her sight following an illness when she was seven, recalled the first time she entered the Grand Mosque here with her husband, Abd Aziz Yusof, 73, who is also blind.
Islah Busakorn and his wife Widad stopped over in Kuala Lumpur visited our office
Islah Busakorn and his wife Widad stopped over in Kuala Lumpur on the way to Indonesia and visited our office just now . We are members of the International Union of Braille Quran Services and Islah always reads the Quran at the start of the IBQS meetings in Istanbul. Islah became a hafidz at the age of 11.
Ramadan gathering of 40 blind people at our office
Alhamdulillah today we held a Ramadan gathering of 40 blind people at our office . Ustadz Abbas read from a Braille Quran and his brother Ustadz Sharif read doa. We also gave them gifts for the Eid. The blind community in Kuala Lumpur is tightly knit and they all know each other.
The life of Shaykh Abdul Hamid Kishk
Who was Shaykh Abdul Hameed Kishk?
Sh. Abdul Hamid Kishk was potentially the greatest Islamic speaker of our era who had a voice that shook the Arab world.
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1933 and grew up as an orphan after losing his father as a child.
In his teenage years he suffered from a medical condition that eventually cost him his eyesight.
He completed the memorization of the Quran at ten years old and was exceptionally bright in Islamic studies.
He graduated from Al Azhar University at a young age and soon after became Imam of a local Mosque.
In 1957, he returned to Al Azhar as a lecturer in the faculty of theology.
Doctors restore vision to 121yo man, who’s happy ‘to read Koran again’
One of the oldest people on the planet, 121-year-old Appaz Iliyev from the Russian republic of Ingushetia, has got his sight back thanks to a successful surgery. Born in 1896, the man still works daily in his garden in the North Caucasus mountains.
The surgery on one of the oldest people alive was performed by doctors at a regional hospital in Ingushetia, Russian media reported Saturday citing local authorities. Iliyev, who had been suffering from cataracts, spent only one day at the hospital before returning to his village high in the mountains. At this stage, one of his eyes was treated, with specialists predicting a full sight recovery for their special patient, TASS reported.