CAMERACamera is one of the most amazing things that we have in this world. Camera helps us to capture the moments that are special. But where did cameras come from? Well, let’s start all the way from the beginning in the 11th century with Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham. Ibn Al- Haitham was a famous and great Muslim scientist, astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mathematician. What all of that basically means is that hewas very, very smart with things related to math and science. Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham became pretty famous quickly because of his knowledge. He was living in Iraq. At that time the Egyptian leader or Caliphwas Al Hakim.

There were floods every year in Egypt becauseof the Nile River. The Scientist Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham gave an idea to the Egyptian leader to build a dam for the Nile River. If it was possible to build a dam then there wouldn’t be any more floods in Egypt. The Egyptian leader loved his idea and invited him to Egypt. Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham tried his best tomake a dam for the Nile but it was way too hard and he couldn’t do it. The Egyptian leader became very mad and wanted to destroy him but Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham came up with a plan. He pretended that he was crazy and had mental problems. The Egyptian leader decided to put Al-HassanIbn Al-Haitham in house arrest for 10 years instead of destroying him.

What that means was that he couldn’t leavehis house at all in those 10 years. It was like a prison. But guess what? While he was in his prison he did most ofhis famous works.He discovered a lot of new things about science. The things that he discovered changed the world. Many people call him the first real scientist or the father of science because of the things that he discovered. After he discovered things about how we seeand light, he wrote the famous book المناظر كتاب which basically means the Book of Light and Sight’. He used all of that knowledge to create thefirst camera obscura. You may ask, what is the camera obscura? A camera obscura is when there is a dark boxwith a small hole. Whatever is in front of the hole is shown on the inside of the box.

This concept is put in a camera and that allowsus to take a picture. The camera obscura is a very important discovery for our present day camera. Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haitham was the first person who made the great invention of the camera obscura. Later people used his great invention, thecamera obscura to make the camera that we have today.Without the camera obscura discovery, we wouldn’thave cameras. In fact, we wouldn’t have a lot of thingsif he didn’t share his knowledge. If it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t have films, telescopes, glasses, microscopes, and a lot more other things. Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham was a true great Muslim hero whose invention made a great difference in this world. May Allah (swt) reward Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haithamfor his great invention and give him the highest place in the Jannah. Ameen

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