Picture of footprints in the sand courtesy of Jenny W and made available at at www.sxc.hu under the terms of that website. Specifically, the picture has been taken in Hawaii, and the owner of the photograph has made it available with the following comments: "as a web designer I know how useful is the free stock photography. feel free to use any of my photos as you wish. comments are very appreciated!"
Picture of Holy Kaaba courtesy made available at at www.sxc.hu under the terms of that website.
Picture of Jain Festival taken from dailylight.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/seeing-83-what-it-means-to-give-up-or-the-lives-of-digambar-monks/
Picture of Ethopian Water Crisis courtesy of water1st.org (http://water1st.org/waterlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ethiopia-water-crisis-img_9226.jpg)
Picture of Haitian Orphan Girl courtesy of Fox News (liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/.../orphan-girl/)
Picture of Ashura Ceremony taken in Karbala, Iraq on April 24, 2011 by james.gordon6108 and made available under a Creative Commons license (image posted at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_gordon_los_angeles/5650970706/)
Picture of child crawling in front of a vulture is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from David Erickson's webpage on Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-strategycom/1054180860/in/set-72157601309816172/)
Picture of Palestinian Children being buried is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from Cau Napoli's page on Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cau_napoli/4284390617/in/photostream/). The image was taken on Monday January 5, 2009 in the Gaza Strip following Israeli attacks from the air, by land and sea. The dead children being lowered into the graves are Ahmed (center) and Mohamed Samouni (right). This is a AP Photo by Hatem Moussa.
Picture of Kaparot ceremony is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from Gideon Lichfield's page on Flick.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/glichfield/983069299/in/set-72157602904511869)
.Picture of Children Drinking Water in Africa is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from Gary Edenfield's page on Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gedenfield/4057591708/)
Picture of Kaaba is published under a Creative Commons License from Al-Jazeera English and downloaded from their webpage at Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/5205573976/sizes/m/in/set-72157625253908173/)
Picture of Al Aqsa by night is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from delayed gratification's page on Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshhough/320479300/in/faves-66899938@N07/)
Picture of Haram al Shareef is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from Decode Jerusalem's page on Flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19359764@N07/2065750324/sizes/z/in/faves-66899938@N07/)
Picture of grave of Ibrahim is published under a Creative Commons License and taken from reway2007's Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/reway2007/3121014676/sizes/z/in/photostream/)
A good link for early quran manuscripts http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/
