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Assalam-u-alaikum,

I am a Ph.D. student in Germany and a wikipedian since March, 2006. I usually edit wikipedia when I get bored from work, usually after every 2-3 hours of work for fifteen minutes. Therefore, I could easily make some minor and quick contributions but find time for serious work rarely. I try to work (i.e. research work) on all the weekends, holidays (except two Eid days) and very rarely take a day off. It is because I wish to make a difference by getting successful in real life.

I got a chance to spend my life in many cities of Pakistan (more than 10) and various countries. The countries include USA (2 years), Sweden (6 months), Italy (4 days), Denmark (2 days), France (for lunch and will go there again), Pakistan (most of my life) and currently visiting Germany. I hope to stay in Germany for the next 4 years. I can speak Urdu, English, Punjabi, and German (not good German yet). However, I am NOT very good in grammar of all of the languages I can speak or write. I wish to learn Arabic one day (I can still read it thanks to the Qur'an).

I am member of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Islam and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Telecommunications. Basically most of my edits come under these two projects.

لآ اِلَـهَ اِلاَّ لله محمد رسول ال

Contact

Feel free to contact me.

About my user name

ALM

ALM (Alif-Lam-Meem) is not a random sequence of letters but taken from the Ayah in the Quran (). Muslims scholars are not sure what Alif-Lam-Meem means, or if it has any meaning at all. There are also couple of other such words in the Quran(those are called Hurofa Muqatyat). I have liked the Alif-Lam-Meem for many years, and I wish to create a research-oriented company with the ALM name one day. Until then, it is my username in wikipedia. :)

scientist

There are other ALMs too in wikipedia, so I needed to have a postfix with my username to make it work. I use scientist because I have written more than seven research papers so far. Most of them are published in good IEEE ComSoc conferences (for example IEEE-ICC) and journals, but none of them is significant enough to warrant a wikipedia biography of me. However, maybe some day (soon) I'll have my big breakthrough idea or a miraculous year. :)

What I think about myself

• I am not biased towards any nation, race, and religion. I try to judge people on individual basis. I assume good faith towards every new person I meet, because my religion teaches me that.
• I will never prefer to abuse anyone because my religion teaches me that.
• I am straightforward and brave. I do not care if by expressing my views they ban me from Misplaced Pages. I will still express them.
• I do not want to change myself or my user page, even if my non-conforming actions do not gain me an administrator's position.
• I hate telling lies, because lying is forbidden by Islam.
• I think myself a very bad Muslim who loves Islam and wants to improve himself as a good Muslim.

Some thoughts about Misplaced Pages

I love research and science. Hence, when I first joined wikipedia, I wanted to create many new articles corresponding to my interests -- related to computer science, networking, computer theory etc. However, after seeing a few articles about Islam, my priorities changed. I think that articles related to Islam are poorly written and need lots of work. I hope to contribute and learn while contributing.

This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.

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Some more thoughts about wikipedia include the following:

• Non-religion and non-political articles in the wikipedia tend to be either well-written or improving.
• However, a religious or political article in wikipedia is nothing more than the representation of a view of the strongest group of users. Hence such articles are usually very badly written and they are very hard (if not impossible) to improve.

Contributions and ToDo list

Articles to be created

• Missing Pakistanies after 9/11 (started working here)
• Nationalism and Islam

Articles I have created/made major changes to

• The Quran and science
• MPLS local protection
• MACAW
• Constrained Shortest Path First
• Interior gateway protocol
• Ingress router
• In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
• Caryl Parker Haskins
• Adrian Farrel
• Techlogix
• LUMS
• Higher Education Commission
• BUITMS
• Gabriel graph
• Salma Arastu
• OTcl

Images created or uploaded

In The Line Of Fire

Techlogix A sofware house in Pakistan

Another picture of GIKI, Pakistan

Eid Mubarik Stamp

• "Muhammad Original Letter to Heraclius".
• "A small example network". "A small example network".
• "LUMS at night". "LUMS at night".
• "LUMS's library". "LUMS's library".
• "Hal Abelson a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the MIT".
• "An illustration of MPLS_local_protection modes".
• "An illustration of Exposed terminal problem".
• "An illustration by Example of MACAW protocol: A MAC protocol highly used in Ad-hoc networks ". "An illustration by Example of MACAW protocol: A MAC protocol highly used in Ad-hoc networks ".
• "Showing example where pair 'a' and 'b' are Gabriel neighbours".
• "Showing example where pair 'a' and 'b' are NOT Gabriel neighbours".
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul."
• "A typical implementation model of Java-RMI using Stub and Skeleton objects" "A typical implementation model of Java-RMI using Stub and Skeleton objects"
• "Showing NS split objects model. Object created on OTcl has a corresponding object in C++"
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul." "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul."
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul." "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul."
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul." "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul."
• "No shoes in Mosques" "No shoes in Mosques"
• "Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Calligraphy of third Caliph of Muslim, Usman" "Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Calligraphy of third Caliph of Muslim, Usman"
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul" "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul"
• "Salma Arastu calligraphys says: Muhammad, the Prophet of God" "Salma Arastu calligraphys says: Muhammad, the Prophet of God"
• "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. It say Ali the fourth caliph of Muslims." "Calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. It say Ali the fourth caliph of Muslims."
• Topkapi Palace gate with Shahadah and his seal Topkapi Palace gate with Shahadah and his seal
• Kufi Calligraphy (Fourth century (AH) / c. 1,000 (AD)), Source: National Museum of Saudi Arabia Kufi Calligraphy (Fourth century (AH) / c. 1,000 (AD)), Source: National Museum of Saudi Arabia

Some minor contributions

Muhammad, Islam, MPLS, GIKI, Osama bin Laden, Zina (sex), Allah, Ummah, Mohammad Yousuf ...

Islamic articles I watch regularly

I try my best to keep hate websites, blog material not acceptable as WP:RS out from following articles but need your help too. In future, I am thinking to develop a bot for keep a close watch on things.

Allah, Muhammad, Islam, Tawhid, Quran, Muslim, Islamic concept of God, Dhimmi, Five Pillars of Islam, Jihad, Mosque, Seal of the Prophets, Criticism of the Qur'an, Depictions of Muhammad, Islam in the United States, The relation between Islam and Science and more.

RFAs

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