posted 13 May 2004 04:55 AM            

PLS. EVERYBODY TAKE A LOOK OF THAT PHOTO! I can't figure out how to post it here without a URL link to the pic? what do you think?

By Saalim Alvi from Riyadh
Apr 22, 2004, 12:04

Recently gas exploration is going in the desert of south east region of Saudi Arabia. This desert region is called Empty Quarter, which means in Arabic "RAB - UL -KHAALEE"; this body has been found by ARAMCO exploration team. This proves what Allah SWT said in QURAN about the people of AAD nation and HOOD nation.

They were so tall, wide and very power full that they were able to pull out big trees just with the one hand. But what happen after when they become misguided and disobeys Allah SWT, Allah SWT destroyed the whole nation. ULEMA KIRAM of Saudi Arabia believes that this body belongs to AAD nation.

Saudi military took over this whole area. And nobody is allowed to go in this region except Saudi ARAMCO personnel's. Saudi government has kept it very secret but some military helicopters took pictures from air. And one of them he runs on internet here in Saudi Arabia.
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posted 13 May 2004 06:06 AM            

BUT..... there are other websites saying this is not true. I won't post which ones because they were blatantly anti-islamic. Does anyone else have further information about it? I guess i could check the aramco site.

posted 13 May 2004 06:24 AM            

A colleague of mine worked near it and it's on the border between Oman and Saudi.

I just feel that you have to be soo careful what you read with regards to Islam. We are already in a bad way without adding trying to falsify info to make Islam look good. If we can use positive, real info to salvage the world view of Islam that's better than fake stuff that brings more negativity.

posted 13 May 2004 06:36 AM            

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_giant_skeleton.htm

I agree about posting things such as this without solid proof.

posted 13 May 2004 07:05 AM            

thanks for the info on how to post pictures!

I did some research also in the meantime, the article was mentioned originally in a Bangladesh newspaper, it's called the Nation.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_8519.shtml

I found the website also of the said Photoshop-contest;
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=447&display=photoshop

Sorry for the commotion, I was going to post the refutation faster than this, but I got caught up in work..

Sorry also for posting this, but at least all the information and links may help somebody else who has come accross the same story!

all the best & salam,

posted 31 May 2004 06:33 AM            

The picture is a FAKE!!!! http://zuhair.blogs.com/rants/2004/04/the_saudi_aramc.html

Sunday, April 04, 2004
the truth: saudi aramco's giant human skeleton
the saudi aramco giant and the rumors that go with it can all be put to rest once and for all.

in my original post about the email that i got, i got alot of people writing in about what the giant could be. some said it was adam (yeah, from adam and eve), others claimed that it was a giant alien that had died millions of years ago and that the remains were being kept a secret by the saudi / aramco authorities - sort of like their own area 51!

the reason for my original post was to find out more about this from the folks out there, i did not expect someone from saudi aramco to write in! and so the mystery of the giant human skeleton is no more, it's finally put to rest. here's what saudi aramco had to say:

Saudi Aramco's Public Relations Department has received numerous queries regarding this email report that Saudi Aramco has discovered a giant human skeleton in the Rub' al-Khali.

Both the report and the photograph are fakes. The photo is a doctored image whose original belongs to Cornell University in the USA. The real photo, taken on Sept. 16, 2000, shows the actual excavation of a mastodon (prehistoric elephant) skeleton by Cornell University scientists in Hyde Park, New York. Further details are available here: http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/outreach/mastodon/aerial-views.html. In the faked version, a picture of a human skeleton has been superimposed over the scene, along with a small human figure added to create the impression that the "skeleton" is gigantic.

posted 31 May 2004 07:04 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by latifu:
The Quran and the life of the prophet(pbuh) is the biggest miracle and evidence that is and continues to be around till eternity inshallah.
If that is not enough for people to believe than no other evidence would ever suffice. Allahu alim(God knows best).

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Actually sometimes the Qu'ran and Life of Prophet Mohamed (SAWS) are not enough for people to believe. For example people that are not able to read arabic may not be able to understand the miracle of the Quran. They will have to rely on what others tell them.

Each person has their own way of being convinced because we are all different.

Allahu Alam

posted 02 June 2004 01:33 AM            

Don't you think that it is a similar argument worldwide. People want proof of God/Allah.

Faith is all you need and love. How can you ever provide tangible proof of God/Allah??

posted 29 June 2004 02:06 AM            

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6:4)