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Dua and remembrance to be said at any time #9

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْأَرْبَعِ، مِنْ عِلْمٍ لَا يَنْفَعُ، وَمِنْ قَلْبٍ لَا يَخْشَعُ، وَمِنْ نَفْسٍ لَا تَشْبَعُ، وَمِنْ دُعَاءٍ لَا يُسْمَعُ

Translation

O Allah, I seek refuge with You from these four: from knowledge that does not benefit, from a heart that does not get humbled [to Allah], from a soul which is never satisfied and from a supplication which does not get answered.

Transliteration

Allaa-humma in-ni a‛oodhu bika mi-nal arba‛, min ‛ilmin laa yanfa‛, wa min qalbin laa yakh-sha‛, wa min naf-sin laa tashba‛, wa min du‛aa-’in laa yusma‛

In Brazil, the dolphins that team up with local fishermen have their own accent. For over 160 years, wild dolphins have been helping humans catch more fish by signaling when they should cast their nets. Because they use their own unique whistles even around other dolphins, scientists think they may be trying to distinguish themselves as ‘the ones who help humans.’ 

Bill Murray once took a cab and found out the driver, who played the saxophone, never got to practice his instrument because he worked 14-hour days. Murray forced him to pull over, traded places with him, and drove the cab around while the cabbie played his sax in the back seat.

BM: “I said, ‘When do you practice?’”

Cabbie: “I drive 14 hours a day.”  

BM: “Well, where’s your sax?”

Cabbie: “In the trunk.”  

BM: “Pull over and get in the back, I know how to drive a car. ”

“Not only did he play all the way to Sausalito, which is a long way, we stopped and got barbecue. He [wound up] playing in what some would call a sketchy, weird place in Oakland at 2:15 in the morning. I was like, ‘Relax, man, you’ve got the [bleeping] horn! We’re cool!’ And it was great and it made for a beautiful night!”

Medieval English longbows could fire an arrow further than 300 yards - which is almost the distance of 3 football fields. So much strength was required to operate them that ancient skeletons can be identified as longbow archers due to their enlarged left arms.