Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies

[SammerTX]

Little Known info: Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, whom they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim graduate student from Homs who later became a political science professor, and Joanne Simpson an American graduate student who went on to become a speech language pathologist – eventually married. Together, they gave birth to and raised Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson.

Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies

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Steve Jobs dies: Apple chief created personal computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone

Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said. Jobs was 56.

By NED POTTER and COLLEEN CURRY

Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said. Jobs was 56.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today," read a statement by Apple's board of directors. "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

The homepage of Apple's website this evening switched to a full-page image of Jobs with the text, "Steve Jobs 1955-2011."

Clicking on the image revealed the additional text: "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II.

Shortly after learning of Jobs' death, Wozniak told ABC News, "I'm shocked and disturbed."

Industry watchers called him a master innovator -- perhaps on a par with Thomas Edison -- changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications.

In 2004, he beat back an unusual form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. After several years of failing health, Jobs announced on Aug. 24, 2011 that he was stepping down as Apple's chief executive.

[your sister]

Wallah, how come they are not sounding off "his muslim. his of muslim origin, his born to muslim parent,his father is muslim, his muslim , mozlem MUSLIM!" every other day

[Khaled]

Apple has announced his death

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

[Ahmad]

[sonsonator]

I learnt something new today. Steve Jobs was adopted and his biological father was a Syrian Muslim.

[carol_au]

...Your Sister.. I think he embraced Buddhism according to reports I heard yesterday... but he did say this.. interesting words..

Death is very likely the single best invention of life,” the designer of the iPod, iPhone and iPad said six years ago in his commencement address at Stanford University. It was his last public speech, and he took it much deeper than could typically be expected of a techie presenting his “revolutionary products.”

Jobs’ bequest to the iGeneration

Jobs' address within the walls of that elite university in essence became his bequest to the next generation. “Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important,” the tech guru said.

http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20111006/167446216.html

His last public speech apparantly.. hmm.. I sincerely hope if he did have a Muslim heritage that he remembered these words on his death bed.

[your sister]

I know he is not a practicing muslim, but my point is that had he been a criminal of some sort you would have heard all about how he is of muslim origin and we would have never heard the end of it.

[JalaleddinRumi]

Is being Muslim - hereditary?

Prophet Adam our forefather was a Muslim.
Does this mean everyone on earth is a Muslim?

[your sister]

Well yeh if you want to look it that way, everyone is born with the fitrah. But you need not start a debate because I am not saying he is muslim!

[*saRah*]

the children of Adam chose different paths, some became christian some muslim some jew some buddhist some scientologist some athiest. It's the path we choose, someones parents can be muslim yet have a misguided son who chooses to become athiest. Generally, our parents do give us that initial stage of what religion we will follow in life but it is up to us to truly follow it or not. Think of prophet Nuh 3allayhi sallam, he was a prophet and was a firm believer in Allah swt yet his son was not saved.

Either way, since Steve Jobs was born muslim, Inna lillahi wa inna illayhi raji3oon, may Allah swt have mercy on him.

[Ahmad]

Either way, since Steve Jobs was born muslim, Inna lillahi wa inna illayhi raji3oon, may Allah swt have mercy on him.

Um, no, it's not about being born a Muslim, it's about dying as a Muslim, and as far as we know he wasn't a Muslim! Save your du'a for the dead to those worthy of it, the Muslims!

[falah]

Estranged father hoped for just a coffee with Jobs
Born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955, Jobs was adopted soon after birth by accountant Clara and machinist Paul Jobs. It was only later in life that he discovered the identities of his estranged parents - graduate student Joanne Simpson and Syrian Muslim Abdulfattah John Jandali, who left the US at age 18 but is now the vice president of a casino in Reno, Nevada.

Jobs never met his biological father, despite Jandali telling The Sun in a rare interview after Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO in August that "I live in hope that before it is too late he will reach out to me".

"Even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man," said Jandali, who bears a striking resemblance to his son.

Jandali, who said he was too proud to reach out to Jobs first, said Simpson's "tyrant" father had forbade her to marry him due to his Syrian heritage. He says he had no say in the decision to put Jobs up for adoption.

Jandali and Simpson did eventually marry and had a daughter, the successful novelist Mona Simpson, who was close with Jobs and in 1997 described him as "one of my best friends in the world".

Contacted by the Gazette-Journal about the passing of his son this week, Jandali told the paper that he didn't have anything to say.

The Age

[falah]

Abdul Fattah Jandali, a young Syrian Muslim immigrant in Wisconsin, never met his son Steve Jobs. When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali—now known as John— and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he'd be able to grow up with his biological parents.*
Joanne, who belonged to a white, conservative Christian family could not convince her parents to marry an Arab, a Muslim, according to Jandali, who called her father "a tyrant" in a New York Post interview in August 2011. In fact, according to Jandali, she secretly went from Wisconsin to liberal San Francisco to sort out the birth and adoption without letting either him or her parents know.*
And so it was that a nameless Arab American baby was adopted by an Armenian American family. Clara Hagopian and her husband Paul Jobs had been married around seven years and had not been able to conceive. The little bundle that would be Steve, was very much wanted in the Jobs household.*
Steven Paul Jobs, as they named him, grew up without ever knowing his biological father. It seems he had no interest in knowing him later in life, either. When, in August 2011, the London tabloid The Sun, contacted Jandali, he publicly reached out to Steve saying, "“I live in hope that before it is too late he will reach out to me. Even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man.”*
But Steve never replied. Less than two months later, he has passed away.*
Jandali says it was his "Syrian pride" that kept him from reaching out to his famous son. In a September 2011 interview with the Reno Gazette—Reno, Nevada being the city the 80-year-old Jandali lives and where, having never retired, he is the Vice President of a casino. "The Syrian pride in me does not want him ever to think I am after his fortune. I am not. I have my own money. What I don’t have is my son...and that saddens me."*
One wonders what Jobs knew of his background.*
His biological father was no ordinary Syrian. According to an interview he gave to the Al Hayat newspaper in February 2011, he was born in French-mandated Syria in 1931 in the town of Homs to a "self-made millionaire" father with no university education who owned "several entire villages" and a homemaker, traditional mother. He was one of five children – the only son of a family with 4 daughters.
*
He left Syria at 18 to study at the American University in Beirut, where he was "a pan-Arab activist", a "supporter of Arab unity and Arab independence" who organized with some of the most famous activists of his time. After university, he moved to the United States, and the rest is history, though he regrets leaving his homeland.
*
"If I had the chance to go back in time, I wouldn’t leave Syria or Lebanon at all. I would stay in my home country my whole life. I don’t say that out of emotion but out of common sense,” he told Al Hayat. “Of course I miss the social life and wonderful food [in Syria], but the most important thing is the outstanding cultural attributes which in general you don’t find in the West,” says the non-practicing Muslim, who nonetheless “believe[s] in Islam in doctrine and culture.”*
His nostalgia aside, millions worldwide would no doubt disagree with Jandali. Surely a Steve Jobs of Apple Computers could only have been possible in America.
*
The estrangement of a father and son is made even more tragic by the fact that not only did each know of the other, but they shared more than a father-son biological connection. Jandali and Schieble eventually did marry— just ten months after she gave their baby boy away to adoption, and just a few months after Joanne's father died. And they had another child—a daughter with whom Steve eventually had a relationship. Mona Jandali— now Simpson— is a world renowned author who was, in her own words, "very close" to her brother Steve once they established a relationship as adults.
*
According to Jandali, he had no idea until just a few years ago that the baby his then-girlfriend secretly gave birth to in San Francisco was the man the world knew as Steve Jobs. But Steve must have known for decades, through his relationship with Mona.
*
In the August New York Post interview, Jandali tried to let his son know that he didn’t know of Joanne’s San Francisco plans. That he was saddened when he learned of it. "I honestly do not know to this day if Steve is aware of the fact that had it been my choice, I would have loved to have kept him," he said.*

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/i...-America-Meda-

[*saRah*]

umm no, your wrong, because you don't know if he died as a muslim or not. what we do know is that he was born muslim. Oh by the way, don't tell me to save my du'a and mind you own business, i can make du'a for whoever I want.

Um, no, it's not about being born a Muslim, it's about dying as a Muslim, and as far as we know he wasn't a Muslim! Save your du'a for the dead to those worthy of it, the Muslims!

[Umm Binyameen]

Sis, my mum was a non-muslim. I was beside her as she was dying, she couldn't speak but I asked her to make the shahadah. But I don't know if she did, so I can't make du'a for her. There is a hadith referring to the Prophet (saw) wanting to make du'a for his uncle who died without Islam and he couldn't. We can only go by what is apparent, and if someone didn't make it plain that they were muslim or if someone can't testify that they were, then we don't bury them islamically and we don't make du'a for them. And Allah (swt) knows best.

[carol_au]

Does anyone know.. if someone says their shahada on their deathbed before they die. is the fact they have no sin when they die insha'Allah enough to compensate the fact no one is making dua for them after death? .. sincere question..

[aussiemu]

Sarah: Is everyone who is born to one Muslim parent yet never knew them, had nothing to do with them, never called themselves a Muslim and grows up Christian / Buddhist etc then a Muslim? Being a Muslim is not based upon who your parent was. Steve Jobs had nothing to do with his father. He was adopted by Christian parents straight after birth. I really don't see how you can be calling him a Muslim because a father he never knew was Muslim? He was a Buddhist and practised Buddhism.

[falah]

Praying for a kafir to be forgiven is haraam, and the scholars are in agreement on this issue.

Al-Nawawi said:

"With regard to offering the funeral prayer for a kaafir and praying for forgiveness for him, this is haraam according to the text of the Qur’aan and scholarly consensus."

It is said in Ibn Hajar commentary of Imam Nawawi's minhaj that:

"It is haraam to pray for a kaafir and for one whose Islam is in doubt with regard to matters of the Hereafter, even if that is one of his parents."

and it should be enough proof that the prophet was not allowed to pray for his dead uncle, Abu Talib, even though he had been from the best of the kuffar and had helped the prophet .



“It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allah’s forgiveness for the Mushrikoon, even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief)”

And Ibraheem’s invoking (of Allah) for his father’s forgiveness was only because of a promise he [Ibraheem] had made to him (his father). But when it became clear to him that he (his father) is an enemy of Allah, he dissociated himself from him. Verily, Ibraheem was Awwah (one who invokes Allah with humility, glorifies Him and remembers Him much) and was forbearing”
[al-Tawbah 9:113-114]


Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allah said: “I asked my Lord for permission to pray for forgiveness for my mother, and He did not give me permission. I asked Him for permission to visit her grave, and He granted me permission.”
[Muslim]



Shaykh al-Sa’di said:

“That seeking forgiveness for them in this case is a mistake and is of no use, so it is not befitting for the Prophet and the believers to do this, because if they have died in shirk or it is known that they will die in shirk, then the word of punishment has been fulfilled against them and they will abide forever in Hell, and the intercession of those who intercede and the prayers of forgiveness of those who pray will be to no avail.

Moreover, the Prophet and those who believe with him are obliged to like that which pleases their Lord and hate that which angers Him; they have to take as friends those whom Allah takes as friends and regard as enemies those whom Allah regards as enemies, so praying for forgiveness for those who are clearly dwellers of the Fire goes against that and contradicts it.”


Abu Moosa al-Ash’ari said: The Jews used to sneeze in the presence of the Prophet , hoping that he would say to them, “Yarhamakum Allah (may Allaah have mercy on you).” But he would say, “Yahdeekum Allah wa yuslihu baalakum (may Allah guide you and reform you).”
[Al-Tirmidhi, classed as saheeh by al-Albani]

[Umm Binyameen]

That's what I read in regards to my mum and it was enough proof for me

[Aaber.Sabeel]

I think I've narrowed it down to two. Either - "Tumblin' tumbleweed" -or- "...and another one bites the dust."

I'm gonna run with "...and another one bites the dust." because Freddie Mercury was born muslim and died kafir too. There's the link. App. huh?