Cairo...???
Salaam,
Yes, believe it or not, the pictures below are from Cairo, from the Al-Azhar park to be specific, set up a few years ago by a $45m donation from our Ismaeli brethren...
Anyway, it was a beautiful park will all the standard things you would find in the west - over priced restaurant and cafe, lots of couples playing with each other and little kids falling into the water.
A World away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the city and a fantastic addition to Cairo - well done Ismaelis, well done!
Afterwards i went to Khan Al-khalili to do some more shopping and the usual again - lots of scantily clad women, lots of pervy guys checking the scantily clad women out, more kids falling over.
There's something about predictability i like.
A funny incident though - on one of the side streets whilst waiting for a bus, there was a girl nearby wearing ridiculously low cut jeans with her underwear sticking out..anyway this old woman goes over to her, and in a nice pleasant way asks her if she could kindly pull her jeans up and not show her underwear in public at which the girl, obviously embarrassed at this old woman telling her off, obliged. I thought it was hilarious (the telling off, not the underwear sticking out) and gave the old woman a big smile and thumbs up which i think she appreciated
Salaam
Yes, believe it or not, the pictures below are from Cairo, from the Al-Azhar park to be specific, set up a few years ago by a $45m donation from our Ismaeli brethren...
Anyway, it was a beautiful park will all the standard things you would find in the west - over priced restaurant and cafe, lots of couples playing with each other and little kids falling into the water.
A World away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the city and a fantastic addition to Cairo - well done Ismaelis, well done!
Afterwards i went to Khan Al-khalili to do some more shopping and the usual again - lots of scantily clad women, lots of pervy guys checking the scantily clad women out, more kids falling over.
There's something about predictability i like.
A funny incident though - on one of the side streets whilst waiting for a bus, there was a girl nearby wearing ridiculously low cut jeans with her underwear sticking out..anyway this old woman goes over to her, and in a nice pleasant way asks her if she could kindly pull her jeans up and not show her underwear in public at which the girl, obviously embarrassed at this old woman telling her off, obliged. I thought it was hilarious (the telling off, not the underwear sticking out) and gave the old woman a big smile and thumbs up which i think she appreciated
Salaam
posted by Me at
9:26 PM
3 Comments:
Beautiful, mashaAllah!!!
I thought Pakistan was getting bad (and it is), but at least you don't see girls showing their undergarments on the street... la hawla wa la quwatta illa billa...
By
bushraaa, at 12:32 AM
who are the ismaeli's are they like the shia
By
Anonymous, at 12:41 AM
Yeah, i thought it was funny at the time..but then about it afterwards, ut kind of sums up the situation here with the youth...its all about MTV and versace rather than Quran and Sunnah
Ismaelis - i think they're one of the 12 groups from the Shia...but their "unique" in that they have a head guy called the "Agha Khan"
to whom they have to give x% of their yearlly income and most Ismaelis are Very well off making the Agha Khan worth $5bn ish. Re fiqh...well i know they say drinking alcohol is OK and hijab isn't needed...says it all i think
Salaam
By
Me, at 9:15 PM
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