Mrs. Sultan calls for Religous Tolerance

 While you watch thse various different mediums of Turkish History at the time of the Sultan,

check out this great

“Alladin’s Hookah”

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Hookah/aladdins-genie.asp

The Young Sultan boy Mehmet ¬†becomes King….cartoon , terrificly done and illustrated Turkish history of Sultan Mehmet (I found 11 parts.)¬†in parts. I reccomend this as cultural background.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXD4d8X1sdA  part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OOv3xSo-hQc part 2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaQAWerbHk part 3

 

¬†Here is the newly designed and produced “Crown Jewels”

nargilah fit for a SULTAN …

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Hookah/The-Crown-Jewels-Hookah.asp

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xGCeywuK098 part 4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bcg8A3vSB8 part 5

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9tL0dB41Br8 part 6

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6Gnzhtc59Y part 7

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkBlMDgyYlw part 8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k0U6O8oplJ0 part 9

Is Your Honour the SULTAN looking for a special brand of pleasing mu’assel fit for a king’s taste.

Try the premium quality of “Al-Sultan ” shisha tobacco from His Majesty’s Kingdom of Jordan bought and sold directly from “Smoking-Hookah.Com” at a less than premium Kingly price tag!

(see details on the below link)

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Shisha/Al-Sultan-premium-tobacco.asp

http://youtube.com/watch?v=781OhtVjuq0 part 10

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LUDSTW96JGE part 11

Syrian psychologist Mrs. Wafa Sultan has her views which are making her enemies and deaththreats she mentions :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Negt6IzxPTo

Opinion of Mrs. Wafa Sultan, voicing her opinion (right or wrong is not my intention, I take no side in this discussion, even though I can easily understand the views of the religous Moslem clerics since I hold by the Jewish Law of Torah, and I can appreciate the opinins of the secular Moslems of which are hundreds of millions worldwide too.)

She is a psychologist and here she can be heard on Al Jezeera speaking to her Arab brethren.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jOp_9xQ3gak

Sultan Abdul meets his match. Film movie

Moslem Holy man in film is hung by the Sultan and re-appears in another place to demand that the Sultan nullify his will to Allah

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x0dRf9LIGf4

The Sultan’s mechanical giant elephant

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQbTMEupTpk

The Sultan Abdul  goes on a religous pilgrimage to find repentance (continued from Sultan Abdul ABOVE)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQbTMEupTpk

Sultan of Istambul slide show history , music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tSIM8C9Jc7w

Here below is¬† a wild 3-d techno-mix music video of the attack on Istambul (I think by the Christian crusaders-they weren’t Jewish that’s for sure.) Music is great. More history in a nutshell.

The year is..1453 and here’s the Sultan attacked by Christian crusaders.Ottoman Empire

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXW79-SSvCQ

Great historical illustrations and modern photos too.

These will help you enjoy your smoking experience :

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Store/Hookah-Culture.asp

Are you smoking with that  dirty, smelly, grainy, putrid hose again?

Try out some of these :

I reccomend the 2 Syrian type hoses, and the cheap 100% plastic and PVC 100% ugly but they are truly 100% with no plastic taste at all, washable that will never leave a bad taste in your mouth!

. I have a few which I regularly use. The hose is medium size and very, very flexible.

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Store/Hookah-Hoses.asp

Rediscover

Its so important  to keep an open mind about hookah.

Everyone who smokes hookah at home is an “experimenter”.¬† never fails. Trying new mixes of shisha, buying shisha you’ve never even smoked just to try it out. Keeping inmind that maybe the cheaper brand of shisha could in the end be your favorite.

We try out ways with coals, bowls, hookah in various sizes.

I’ve been buying shisha that in the past was¬† not to my liking and it seems so much that often I’m pleasantly¬† suprised!¬† A brand name I didn’t like before or a certain flavour that¬† now is so great. Did they improve on it? Probably with the competition so high and more companies on the market manufacturing shisha¬† you’ll find that what you thought was junk is now terrific.

Our tastes develope and as we become more experienced in smoking what maybe you were smoking out of your  first hookah is now supreme. . Or before you packed too much in a bowl or burned it with too much coal.

There are even more reasons to re-try some of the old baddies. At worst if it stil proves to be a bummer shisha you can trade it off with friends or a group.

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Arabic Music to smoke hookah by

The first song is a modern song, not religous, some of the songs are Moslem prayer songs, some are Arab pop tunes, and some are traditional Arab folk songs

Do NOT watch this video if you have high blood pressure !

She is Lebanese, I guess that explains a lot. Beirut could be like LA while Yemen the Mojave Desert!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kiKBONUwfLw

This is a nice song, but the video part is (of course ) a comic spoof.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_k1CL1CmhrI

This song here itself is meant to be treated with great respect to the Moslem religion. There are lines in english also. (I would imagine that there are millions of Fundementalists who are upset about this video, but there are many sects and this looks like an “outreach” video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnxyg16TS6M

This is a very meaningful video and portrays a person’s swift life in this corpreal world. It begins with the Moslem funeral service and portrays his partly wasted life.
The funeral is exactly Jewish too! At scene time of 1:05 check to see a man with a flat cement block in his hands as he places it down. Jews do the exact thing, and the rest is exact too! By Jews the cement blocks go over the body and then the soil is shoveled on to them to prevent impurity to the living among other reasons.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6cDRuji544s

Sami Yusuf sings “Hasbi Rabbi” (Praise the Great One).the second word is NOT meant as a Jewish Rabbi. In Aramaic,Hebrew and Arabic the “Rabbi” means “great”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qkkwgrjOBFQ&mode=related&search=

Sung in English the High Moslem Prayer : Never forget to say “Make Highest the High Highness of A-llah”. I know lots of Jewish Hebrew prayers with the same words andmelody as here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6bshqOo-w&NR=1

The three tenors
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lnY_r1Vqz5s&mode=related&search=

Quick change :
from an Arabic movie
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gB_oDIy7tCM&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GV404hxEYEU&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9ySzSJPr8&mode=related&search=

Shukran ! Moshe Nuri uploaded this to YouTube
(sounds like a Moroccan or Tunisian Arabic)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=44X9hMHERIk

Tislaam Ya Moshe (Nuri)

“Salty Dog” (or) sick as a dog

A friend complained about headaches and  being really nauseous. Went to lay down.

A bit later I felt nauseous too.

Now, it¬† was NOT from too much nicotine , since I didn’t have any of those symptoms¬† which are a headache, yes nauseum, but I was noticing the taste of my premium shisha recently smoked was now tasting like charcoal. The other smoke I had before, using my favorite brand of recently found coals¬† was also tasting like charcoal!

The second I stopped smoking, the symptoms went away, but an hour later I still have the taste of coal on my tongue.

This post will be a work in progress in which I came to find out probably a few of the reasons why this hapened to us.
One resaon is “I should have known better”

Nicotine¬† stomach takes longer than that before it gets better, and I haven’t had that in 4 years.

Usually a kid’s first cigarette will do that to him.It must be the Lord’s way of telling us not to smoke ever a second¬† one!

At the cost of sounding hipycritical (I am), I know for a fact that at least  5-10 young  close relatives of mine smoke hookah.In the Arab countries  I know its widespread to smoke nargileh amongst the young. Keeps the hunger pains away too!

Haven’t been¬† to India or Pakistan, but they have the “Hubbly Bubbly” before any culture and kids smoke.

Back to the lousy batch of charcoals. I noticed a few coals out of a package of ten coals last week which were “Bad”.

I keep my coals in a plastic bag or two after unwrapping the  bag of ten.

For sure by keeping them unwrapped  they get bad.

Why? Same as shisha and marshmellows for that mater, or table salt. They will¬† readily absorb much moisture from the air!¬† You’ll see, that is why we put¬† some grains of¬† uncooked rice in with the salt, they absorb the moisture¬† that the salt in the shaker would.

I live  in a very moist area in a low mountain valley which keeps the moisture trapped.

And we see from the article brought down ,above that those charcoal briquettes are made with sawdust which is swept up¬† from the floor and can be quite filthy, and sodium nitrate (that’s found in instant soups and cured meats like salami, blogna,¬† some smokey links, authentically Kosher meat to draw out all of the blood ,which is forbidden to eat. Its got lots of sodium (Duh) in it, and after eating some of the above,even the¬† instant soup mix, I gain in one half day about 2 kilos, or 5 and a half lbs. from the water I drank¬† and obsorbs in the body tissues like a sponge!

So do not eat your charcoals.

Last week I ambled into our community’s general store and saw forthe first time a 2 kilo bag of¬† “Vegetable Coals”. I bought them with the¬† smoking in mind. From this article I see that it is termed ” Lump charcoal. It was hard to light, longer than¬† Jordanian¬† lemon wood natural coals I’ve used and enjoyed, which also take 2-3 minutes to light and make my wife crazy since I lit them on the gas range and smelled up the house.

Outside you’d need to put them into a low fire, or a portable small camping gas range to light the lemon type coals.

The vegetable lump charcoal took even longer to light and not thoroughly lit, either.

Here is a web page created by a particular company warning not to use quick lighting stuff. (Lets keep in mind that the facts here are to serve that firm’s intrests) :

http://virtualweberbullet.com/charcoal.html

Lets see if our coals use that for the quick lighting outer surface.

And what else is in the coals.

(See”hookah history” in that section here)

Gotta be  saltpetre in that charcoal they make!You know, the stuff in gun powder to make it explode.

Its NOT true that armies used it in thier food to keep the soldiers physical desires to a low level, cuz it doesn’t¬† effect male¬† sexual prowness.Might be someone’s excuse.

I’m doing some research online to find out just what’s in the quick lighting charcoals (coals) that most of us use.

Here is the running progress:

came accross this for charcoal briquettes which are more for cooking on the bar-b-que :

http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411b&L=safety&P=2974

Some fine ideas about quick lites
They mention potassium nitrate as what makes the sparks ignite

http://www.incensewarehouse.com/Burning-Incense-
3_ep_50-1.html

Rolland-Chinese name,no?
http://www.made-in-china.com/catalog/item999i132/Coal-Charcoal-11.html
Here I am going to turn you to Shishainfo which is “Shisha info”.
I had seen some of their work a few years ago, but they have up-graded and this website is more than amazing.
I take my hat off to them .
Read about their explanations for hookah set-up, hints terrific tips etc.
http://www.shishainfo.com/hookah-shisha-setup.htm
Here I urge you to read the short but sweet hookah-set-up pages at at ShishaInfo.com
http://www.shishainfo.com/hookah-shisha-setup.htm
I will re-iterate a few of thier tips and great points, and probably some of these are the cause of this happening to me for the first time in 3 or 4 years.
Store the coal in cool, airtight place, I do that, but its been madly humid here and maybe they absorbed the moisture?
Put your coals on the outside of the bowl .Moving them around the rim.”The center is the last place the coals should be put”. He or she mentions that the top will scorch and smell the whole sessiom up. Well, guess what I di tonight? I used Smoking-Hookah.com ‘s gigantic brown “Party Bowl” in which you can fit the state of Texas in, along with a slice of all the Michigan Upper Penninsula too. I use it so that I can putin a nice ammount, never tamped down, air flowing well, and below the surface of the tinfoil so that it will not cook and scorch.
“Center of bowl” last place to put the coal?
Well, I heaped them in the middle. Why?
Keep those coals around the outside rim.
They mention an idea I’ve never heard. Punch holes in the foil with a toothpick (done that before), 5-6 holes. Pretty small bowl there! Its mentioned that if the suction is too hard, add some more, with the nice addition here: maybe during smoking the holes got blocked and your shisha is going up the chimney.
Thats why I don’t use anything smaller than a small thin nail, but mostly use the metal sticker from the tongs which I took from the tongs after being lightly burnt when using the tongs to movethe coals and the metal sticker got in the way.
Its my favorite hole puncher.
I’ve noticed that with 3 tongs, of the same manufacturer, the sticker and tongs are exactly alike,but the tip of one sticker is more blunt and so the hole comes too big.
I use a lot of holes in the party bowl, maybe I should try just in the center or vice versa.
Which shows that when you (I) don’t use brains, experience will force me to find out the best way after messing up once.
Again, I will mention about the tiny or medium circular ash trays that go under the clay tobacco head.
The coals if round upon falling will prove that physics law of “a matter in motion will continue that speed and motion until its worn down by friction or gravity, or mommy’s white carpet”
I learned something in 7th grade science back in around 1966.

¬†by mentioning the rolling round charcoal which will continue to roll until it burns the floor a bit, or the rug a lot, or someone’s pants for too long. Known fact. Did you ever see a coal drop and not do damage? Rare!
In researching for this post I heard about “the Lord Charcoal.” com. which has a coal that is not round and hence will not roll.
http://www.bernardsformalwear.com/Charcoal%20Grey%20Stroller.htm
(wrong this is the “Charcoal Grey Tuxedo” April Fools.)
Here is the real info and link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mens-Lord-Taylor-Charcoal-Gray-Suit-48L-Pants-40-33_W0QQitemZ200120435387QQcmdZViewItem
alright,I couldn’t resist.
Here you see it from the Hookah Forum com

http://www.hookahforum.com/index.php?showtopic=696
(I see good old Malthazar is doing research and benefiting world-wide shisha smokers of all race and creed alike!)
Have used lemon tree woods an natural coals which I’ll bet have at least some compressed sawdust in them, but they are round at one side and flat on the bottom.

Which is were my grocer’s wisdom comes into play.
As I loathe the tiny ash trays sold, and would rather sacrifice beauty for pragmatism, I bought a 8 or so wide aluminum foil pie tin. I didn’t want to make the inner hole too big, so I took my own pee-wee tray and wanted to trace its inner hole on the foil to cut.
You can’t believe my suprise when I found the inner round circle marked groove already on the 8 small piesections and my original as tray were exactly the same circumfrence!
99% of the falling coals are captured and 100% of the ash.

And finally especially for fire prevention as hookah smokers alike.
“Who is wise,? he who sees what is being born”.
A SMART person knows that coals burn, and will be careful, but a WISE person knows that when the coal falls in his lap ,or on the family heirloom $23,000 Original Persiam rug he’d better buy a quick plane ticket to Timbuktoo or Kalamazoo!

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