Category: “Al-Ouns”

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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“Pipe Dreams”

A pipe dream:
A perfectly clear clay tobacco-shisha bowl? Not yet invented (except for the semi clear acrylic bowls which cost a big $ bundle and break easily too).

So, how to tell if you smoked all the shisha in the bowl?
I guess its up to experience.

1) how much did you pack?
What is usually for you a half-hours smoke? 40 minutes went buy and your tongue is feeling fuzzy-you are long ago finished and if you have a good burning coal, you are getting plain heat and ashes taste.
2)did you pack loosly or too tight?

If tight it will burn for sure, mostly at the bottom.

3)type of shisha being smoked.

Al-Fakher, Al-Ouns ,Al-Qemah,Roman,Fumari,Afzal are loooong ongoing good smokes.
15 grams lightly packed of Al Fakher,Al-Ouns,Al-Qemah,Roman will approximately smoke 45-60 minutes.
The same ammount of Al-Waha, Al-Sultan, El-Nakhla,El-Basha
(same company) will smoke 20-30 minutes lightly packed.
If you have been going on longer, its a burn!
These are just a few hints.

4) when you’ve finished smoking EACH time look at what is left over.
If its ash, then next time don’t smoke that gram ammount too long. Or get a bigger bowl.
The gigantic “party bowl” which I mainly use is big enough for 30-35 grams, and since its bad to add shisha up to the top where it touches the foil and will burn, I still have room left over.
http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Accessories/Giant-party-clay-bowl.asp?agent_camp=10540001

I always check the remains of any bowl to see if its over burnt. There should be left a bit of lightly cooked shisha at the bottom remaining.Throw it out!

With so many shisha brands out there herbal and regular, each company brand has its own burning time.
It depends mainly on how much glycerine is in the mixture.
You’ll find Nakhal is a dryer brand. The premium brands are dripping and smell so good even before you put them in the bowl!
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Hookah Table 4 Safe Smoking

We talked about some safe smoking tips, like putting aluminum foil under the whole hookah area, not pulling too hard on the hose (bad,bad), making a non-tip base for your hookah….. or did we?
Actually, it was mentioned, but not as a special post not yet.
Of course, you might like to invest in this great simple colored plastic bowl-base.Non slippng and a perfect fit , there are small, and large sizes custom made
http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Store/Hookah-Accessories.asp
its at the bottom of he page “hookah protector”

. To make your own base for a non-tip hookah” tip” simply take a sturdy carton and draw around the bottom of your base, cut. You can have as high a box as you want, but 3 inches might be fine, or make of plywood, paint ,design and cut.
Mine sits on the 3 tiered glass table I have with a electric light on top . I had the table already. The 3 tiers are step sized. Small tier on top, second tier step bigger and the 3rd even wider with a brass metal magazine holder that happened to be a few m”m wider than my hookah base! Just dumb luck. I got it free from my sister who dumped it on me to try saving space in her house.
Try going to “Salvation Army” and “Goodwill” stores, buy a cheap table, cut a hole custom for your bowl size and nail some wood underneath to sink it 3 inches below the level of the table.
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