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Submission

2012-01-20T05:01:00.000+08:00

I love Jesus, but I reason.
To know the answer to the ultimate question.
If there is truth in any revelation.

This is not an attack on any religion
But a call to us people of conviction
To sit, reflect and wonder upon

And with clear thoughts come to a conclusion
That Jesus like us, is also a creation.
And only to One God, is the real submission.

Instead

2012-01-15T02:41:00.002+08:00

Sometimes it lasts in love,

and sometimes it hurts instead.

Sometimes it hurts instead.

You Raise Me Up

2011-12-30T01:09:00.002+08:00

Allah raised me high up
And brought me crashing down to the ground
To remind me
That i am
Completely powerless without His help

That i need Him like i need my next breath.

Sucikan Hati Kami Wahai Tuhan

2011-12-29T02:18:00.002+08:00

Hati kelam bagai gelap malam

Sucikan kami wahai Tuhan

Ubatkan hati

Baca Quran dan maknanya

Solat malam dirikanlah

Berpuasa perbanyaklah

Zikir malam perpanjanglah

Berkumpullah dengan orang soleh

Sucikan hati kami wahai Tuhan.

Second Khutba

2011-12-27T05:17:00.000+08:00

First Azan

Salam

Second azan

Innal hamda Lillaahi nahmaduhu wa nasta’eenahu wa nastaghfiruhu, wa na’oodhu billaahi min shuroori anfusinaa wa min sayi’aa ti a’maalinaa. Man yahdih Illaahu falaa mudilla lahu wa man yud lil falaa haadiya lah. Wa ashhadu an laa ilaaha il llaah wahdahu la sharika lahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasooluhu.

Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the One, with no partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

O ye who believe! Be conscious of Allah as He should be, and die not except in the state of Islam.Allah will direct you to righteous deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messanger has indeed achieved a great achievement.

InshaAllah today i will speak briefly about an issue that affects us Muslims and our communities. I will speak about the traps that sometimes stops us from rational thinking and even affects how we present Islam to the general public. I will not elaborate my points, to give all of us a chance to think and ponder upon the points.

The first trap of a lot of Islamists and Muslims everywhere: if anything is wrong or problematic, blame it on the America, the Jews or the "West". Even if the problem is very much our own creations or has no relationship whatsoever with these 'evil powers'.
This is very common among us, that everythng is sometimes blamed on the conspiracy of the Jews, the American or the West.

The second trap of the Muslims and Islamists everywhere is trying to force their versions/interpretations of Islam on other people; verbally, intellectually, politically and sometimes literally i.e through violence or terrorist acts.
A sad example is what is happening in Somalia currently. Groups operating under the name of Islam wants Islam to be upheld, but their ways is by attacking and killing innocent people. This is a very sad situation.
The third trappings of Muslims and Islamists; seeing the world in the perspective "us versus them" never "us with them". Anyone who has not the same ideologies, faiths or beliefs to us, they are the enemies and we have to wage "holy war" against them. Wahhhabis/Salafis versus Traditionalists/Sufis, Sunni versus Shia, Muslim versus Christian, Jews, Hindus etcetra etcetra.
We knows the existence of the ayah "O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that (believer) who conscious of God. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware." Quran 49:13

The fourth traps of a Muslim and Islamists; Giving undue and excessive importance on outward appearances. We end up having people who have the looks and appearance of a good Muslim but with Jahiliyyah (unIslamic) manners.
We have to constantly remind ourselves on the hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra):

The Messenger of Allah (sa) said, “Undoubtedly, Allah does not look at your appearance or wealth, but rather He looks at your hearts and actions.” Then he pointed with his fingers to his chest.
[Sahih Muslim, Book 32, Number 6220]

The fifth and the most contentious trap on a lot of Muslims from all over the world, thinking that imposing the Sharia, i.e the laws of Allah in the(ir) countries is the solution to all problems.
It is true, every Muslims in the world wants the Sharia to be upheld, but by imposing Sharia does not necessary mean all problems will be solved.

If you do not have a viable economic policies, you can't build a prosperous country by only relying on Sharia and the will of Allah.
If you dont have any steps to increase food production in your country, you will find it difficult to bring the country out of famine. Allah has said in te Quran; He will never change the conditions of a country until they themselves change it.

Aqu lu qawli hadha wastaghfirullah li wa lakum.

Sit and supplicate
Stand up

AlHamdulillah was Salatu Wassalamu ‘ala Rasulullah

Again, my khutba is first and foremost a reminder for myself, and if it benefits all of us, all praises be to Allah. May Allah strengthens the Muslim community all over the world amin.

Allahumma barik ‘ala Muhammad wa ‘ala ali Muhammad, kama sallaiyta ‘ala Ibrahim wa ‘ala ali Ibrahim, innaka Hamidun Majeed.
Rabbana athina fiddunya hasanah wa fil akhirati hasanah wa kina azabannar.Aqimis sollah.

Imagined

2011-10-31T14:57:00.001+08:00

i had never imagined
someday we will separate
we will go our own way
each to their own

it honestly never crosses my mind

i have always thought
no matter what happens
we will always have each other
even if everybody else shuns us
even with all the problems we have
i know i will not be alone
i have her
and she has me

as someone
to fall back to
someone to lean on
a shoulder to cry on

i have always imagined
even if both of us meet somebody else
we will still be best friend
hoping that someday
our children will be best friends too

it has been seven years now
and what a long seven years it has been
the friendship, the company
the laughters, the joy
the arguments, the tears
the sharing, the caring
the love

though unrequited, it is still
love as we know it
pure and simple

alas
the imagination
the friendship
it all comes to an end

seems like all good things come to an end

p/s come to think of it, i have never hesitated to say that She is my best friend.

The Traps Binding the Muslim

2011-10-31T14:29:00.004+08:00

The trap on all Islamists from all over the world, thinking that imposing the laws of Allah in the(ir) countries is the solution to all problems. If you do not have a viable economic policies, you can't build a prosperous country by only relying on Sharia and the will of Allah. Allah will never change the conditions of a country until they themselves change it.

The second trap of a lot of Islamists and Muslims everywhere: if anything is wrong or problematic, blame it on the America, the Jews or the "West". Even if the problem is very much our own creations or has no relationship whatsoever with these 'evil powers'.

The third trap of the Muslims and Islamists everywhere is trying to force their versions/interpretations of Islam on other people; verbally, intellectually, politically and sometimes literally i.e through violence or terrorist acts.

Example in hand, just because the Moderate Islamists An-Nahda has won the Tunisian election, you can't expect them to start by banning everything deemed unIslamic on a society who has grown up, been governed, educated and largely identifiesthemselves under a Secular anti Islamic ideologies for more than half a century. 60 years to be exact, from Bourgiba to Ben Ali.

The imposition of the Sharia in the current state of the Tunisian society will amount to compulsion, which against one of the core teachings in Islam; There is no compulsion in religion.

If we do indeed expect the new leaders of Tunisia to start banning things unIslamic, instead of deposing a corrupt dictator, the people's revolution will merely replaces a dictator with another dictator, but with a title change; the new dictator will be labelled Islamic.

The fourth trappings of Muslims and Islamists; seeing the world in the perspective "us versus them" never "us with them".
Anyone who has not the same ideologies, faiths or beliefs to us, they are the enemies and we have to wage "holy war" against them. Wahhhabis/Salafis versus Traditionalists/Sufis, Sunni versus Shia, Muslim versus Christian, Jews, Hindus etcetra etcetra.

We knows the existence of the ayah "O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that (believer) who conscious of God. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware." Quran 49:13

The fifth traps of a Muslim and Islamists; Giving undue and excessive importance on outward appearances. We end up having people who have the looks and appearance of a good Muslim but with Jahiliyyah (unIslamic) manners. We have to constantly remind ourselves on the hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra):

The Messenger of Allah (sa) said, “Undoubtedly, Allah does not look at your appearance or wealth, but rather He looks at your hearts and actions.” Then he pointed with his fingers to his chest.
[Sahih Muslim, Book 32, Number 6220]

Friday Sermon at James Cook University Hospital.

2011-10-14T14:02:00.004+08:00

First Azan

Salam

Second azan

Innal hamda Lillaahi nahmaduhu wa nasta’eenahu wa nastaghfiruhu, wa na’oodhu billaahi min shuroori anfusinaa wa min sayi’aa ti a’maalinaa. Man yahdih Illaahu falaa mudilla lahu wa man yud lil falaa haadiya lah. Wa ashhadu an laa ilaaha il llaah wahdahu la sharika lahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasooluhu.

Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the One, with no partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

Amma ba'd

O ye who believe! Be conscious of Allah as He should be, and die not except in the state of Islam.

Allah will direct you to righteous deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messanger has indeed achieved a great achievement.

InshaAllah today i will speak briefly about an issue that affects everyone in this room, our family friends , both muslims and non muslims. The issue is trials and tribulations in our life, and the sadness that comes with it.

Nobody can ever say he or she has never been sad. There are always times when we are tried by Allah with lost of someone beloved, family problems, financial difficulties, or health problems even. In a greater sense, some of us might be saddened by the problems in our home countries, with famine in Somalia, war in Libya, and endless oppression in Palestine.

So sometimes we asked ourselves, when we are in the greatest despair, is there any reasons for these all? Any justifications, any consolations?

Alhamdulillah, my muslim brothers i assure you, there are. The quran has given us answers, it is only for us to look for it.

We ask ourselves , WHY ALLAH tests us? Allah answers;

1) to remind us of Him

Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried? And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars. (al ankabut:2-3)

2. To increase his love for us

And Allah loves As-Sabirun (the patient ones)” Al Imran 146]

3) To give us glad tidings:

“And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirin (the patient ones, etc.)” al Baqarah 155

We may ask ourselves, why these happens to me? and Allah replies

it may be that you dislike a thing, but it is good for you and that you like a thing, but it is bad for you. and Allah knows, but we do not know. al baqarah 216

When we are saddened we might also ask, why the burdens, the sadness is this heavy upon us?

Allah replies,

Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope. He gets reward for that (good) which he has earned, and he is punished for that (evil) which he has earned. al baqarah 216

Aqu lu qawli hadha wastaghfirullah li wa lakum.

Sit and supplicate

Stand up

AlHamdulillah was Salatu Wassalamu ‘ala Rasulullah

So during the sadness, what do we we do? what are Allah's advices to us?

1. Seek Allah's help with patience and prayers:

Allah says “And seek help in patience and As-Salah and truly it is extremely heavy and hard except for humbly submissive [to Allah ]” Al-Baqarah 45].

2. The Prophet had also taught us how to supplicate during distress;

“Inna-lillahi wa'inna ilayhi raji'un. Allahumma-juri fi museebati wa akhlif li khairan minha

To Allah we belong, and to Him is our Return. O Allah! Take me out of my plight and replace it with something which is better” [ Sahih Muslim; book 2: hadith 632]

Lastly, remember always Allah's promise to the people he tests;

“For indeed, with every hardship [there will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [there will be] ease.” [ al Inshirah: 5-6]

“No calamity occurs, but by the permission of Allah, and whosoever believes in Allah, He guides his heart. And Allah is the All-Knower of everything” at-Taghabun 11]

DUA

Allahumma barik ‘ala Muhammad wa ‘ala ali Muhammad, kama sallaiyta ‘ala Ibrahim wa ‘ala ali Ibrahim, innaka Hamidun Majeed.

Rabbana athina fiddunya hasanah wa fil akhirati hasanah wa kina azabannar.

Aqimis sollah.

mawaddah

2011-09-15T05:10:00.000+08:00

"Dan di antara tanda-tanda yang membuktikan kekuasaannya dan rahmatNya, bahawa Ia menciptakan untuk kamu (wahai kaum lelaki), isteri-isteri dari jenis kamu sendiri, supaya kamu bersenang hati dan hidup mesra dengannya, dan dijadikanNya di antara kamu (suami isteri) perasaan kasih sayang dan belas kasihan. Sesungguhnya yang demikian itu mengandungi keterangan-keterangan (yang menimbulkan kesedaran) bagi orang-orang yang berfikir."

Petikan Quran.

forgiveness

2011-08-24T17:16:00.001+08:00

Allah says: "Say: O My servants who have transgressed against their own souls, despair not of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. And return [in repentance] to your Lord and submit to Him before the punishment comes upon you; then you will not be helped." (Surah az-Zumar 39:53-54)

Mencari Utopia

2011-08-16T04:16:00.003+08:00

Mungkin bagi Iffah Nabiha, Mencari Damai Yang Hilang yang dipilih, tetapi bagi kami Mencari Utopia seakan akan enggan hilang dari minda.

Tiga tahun di sini, Utopia itu masih belum dijumpai, bahkan dystopia yang dihadapi sehari hari.

of arrogance

2011-08-13T02:35:00.001+08:00

‎''A student should be taught on how to remove 'arrogance' before anything else. Otherwise the knowledge will be of no benefit to him (and to others). He will not know how to respect people and he won't be responsible to the knowledge itself''
[Sheikh Junaid alBaghdadi]

Reciprocate

2011-07-27T19:52:00.008+08:00

Love and affections must be reciprocated. One sided feelings however strong it may be, ultimately will wilt and die like a bunch of cut roses.

Cliche though it may sound, but reciprocated feelings and actions are like the sun that nourishes the plant and the water that quenches its thirst.

Without it, the roses how beautiful it may be, will die.

One sided love, when poured onto another person that does not show the same feelings, is like trying to empty the sea with a bucket. It is pointless and by the end of it, he will be tired and readily give up without having to be told.

So when a person showers you with affections attention and love please do take notice and act accordingly.

He will not do all those things if he does not truly care for you, will he?

A person who finally gives up the love of his life because he realise he is the man with the bucket trying to empty the sea, how sad is that?

It will no longer be a story for eternity.

Saba' yang bersyukur

2011-07-24T08:49:00.003+08:00

"Demi sesungguhnya, adalah bagi penduduk negeri Saba', satu tanda (yang membuktikan kemurahan Allah) yang terdapat di tempat tinggal mereka, iaitu: Dua kumpulan kebun (yang luas lagi subur), yang terletak di sebelah kanan dan di sebelah kiri (kampung mereka). (Lalu dikatakan kepada mereka): Makanlah dari rezeki pemberian Tuhan kamu dan bersyukurlah kepadaNya; (negeri kamu ini adalah) negeri yang baik (aman dan makmur) dan (Tuhan kamu adalah) Tuhan Yang Maha Pengampun."

Saba':15

Bait bait cuplikan dari Prof Hassan Hayastani.

William R. Roff (1974) telah memperlukiskan identiti orang Kelantan sebagai: “The Islamic State of Kelantan, in the north-east corner of mainland Malaysia bordering southern Thailand, has existed as a locus of power in the peninsular for the least a thousand years.”

Malah Kelantan turut disebut dalam kebanyakan tulisan kesusasteraan awal, dengan menghadirnya tokoh- tokoh besar yang disenyapkan lantaran sikap politiknya seperti Kadir Adabi, Yusuf Zaki dan lain-lain.

Ini disokong oleh Pendeta Prof. Ismail Hussein (1989) yang turut mencatat di Kelantan sudah lama tumbuh suatu penghidupan keintelektualan dan kesusasteraan yang sama suburnya, yang sedikit diketahui orang hari ini.

Kuasa mereka merubah landskap politik negara yang saya kira hanya tercapai dengan ilmu dan kesedaran adalah antara perkara yang perlu dicontohi. Tidak dapat tidak pemerhati pemerhati luar yang jujur pasti mengakui bahawa mereka telah merasai banyak perubahan positif yang tidak terdapat negeri lain.

Jadilah Kelantan Saba' yang bersyukur!

Reminder

2011-07-24T04:25:00.000+08:00

“Bukanlah Nabi s.a.w itu seorang pemaki orang, tidak juga seorang pengucap kekejian dan bukan seorang pelaknat orang lain”. (Riwayat al-Bukhari).

He knows

2011-07-23T10:19:00.000+08:00

When you find that special someone
Feel your whole life has barely begun
You can walk on the moon, shout it to everyone.

Allah knows :)

Good Governance

2011-07-22T08:03:00.001+08:00

Dalam riwayat al-Tabarani yang dinilai hasan oleh al-Albani: “Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan r.a (khalifah ketika itu) menaiki mimbar pada hari Jumaat, dia berkata dalam khutbahnya: “Harta ini (kerajaan) adalah harta kami, dan harta fai (yang diperolehi melalui peperangan) juga harta kami. Kami berikan kepada sesiapa yang kami mahu, dan kami tidak berikan kepada sesiapa yang kami mahu”. Tiada seorang pun yang menjawabnya.

Apabila tiba jumaat yang kedua, dia mengucapkan perkara yang sama. Tiada siapa pun menjawabnya. Pada jumaat yang ketiga dia berkata perkara yang sama, lalu seorang lelaki yang hadir dalam masjid itu bangun dan berkata: “Sama sekali tidak! Harta ini adalah harta kami (rakyat) dan fai ini adalah fai kami (rakyat). Sesiapa yang menghalang antaranya dengan kami, kami hukumnya dengan pedang-pedang kami”.

Apabila selesai solat, Muawiyat memerintahkan lelaki itu berjumpa dengannya. Orang ramai berkata: “Habislah dia”. Kemudian orangramai masuk dan mendapati dia duduk bersama Muawiyah di atas tempat duduknya. Muawiyah berkata kepada orang ramai: “Dia ini telah menghidupkanku (memberikan kebahagian), semoga Allah menghidupkannya. Aku mendengar Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda: “Akan ada pemimpin-pemimpin selepasku, mereka itu bercakap tiada siapa pun yang menjawab mereka. Mereka itu terjun ke dalam neraka seperti kera terjun”.

Kata Muawiyah: Aku bercakap pada jumaat pertama, tiada siapa pun menjawabku, maka aku takut aku termasuk dalam kalangan mereka. Kemudian pada jumaat yang kedua, tiada siapapun menjawabku, maka aku pun berkata: “Aku termasuk dalam kalangan mereka”. Aku bercakap pada jumaat ketiga lelaki ini bangun menjawabku. Dia hidupkan (bahagiakan) daku, semoga Allah menghidupkannya”.

Itu generasi salaf. Itu khalifah di zaman salaf. Bagaimana pula dikatakan mazhab salaf melarang sama sekali menegur pemerintah di khalayak rakyat?!

Description

2011-07-21T09:59:00.001+08:00

Allah gives, and forgives. Men get, and forget :(

Asking Him

2011-07-20T07:17:00.002+08:00

Allahumma Qaddirli Zaujan Solihan Watazawwajni Wayakunu Sohiballi Fiddun ya wa fil Jannah.

Ya Allah, taqdirkanlah bagiku seorang pasangan yang soleh, dan mengahwiniku dan menjadi temanku di dunia dan di syurga.

Indeed.

2011-07-20T06:52:00.000+08:00

‎"Say what you wish in abuse of me, for my silence towards the idiot is indeed an answer. I am not at a loss for a response but rather, it does not befit the lion to answer the dogs." (Imaam ash-Shaf'ee)

His-story

2011-06-26T07:42:00.003+08:00

I’m a fairly level-headed bloke—not often in and out of love, but can I just say no to your kind request and leave it at that?

The thing is…with you I’m in real danger. It seems like a perfect situation, but, my relatively inexperienced heart, would I fear, not recover if I was once again cast aside, as I would absolutely expect to be. There are just too many memories of you. Too many reminders.”

fallen angel

2011-06-26T07:30:00.001+08:00

Let's face facts, this was always a no-win situation. She's a goddess, you know what happens to mortals who get involved with gods.

If Only

2011-06-25T02:53:00.003+08:00

It feels like somebody grasps your heart with their hands and crush it.

It feels like you need to cry,

but you don't know exactly know why.

It feels like your future is so bleak and gloomy,

yet, you know your future will be much brighter

If only.

It feels like a craving you cannot satisfy,

a longing you will never fulfil,

yet you still crave for more.

It feels like you are in so much pain that you can not bear it any longer,

but at the same time, the pain feels so good you don't want it to go away.

Whether it is painful or pleasant, you do not know.

What you are sure of is, you do not want the feeling to disappear.

I don't know what it is, but that is how i feel,

and somebody says it is unrequited love.

Holding On

2011-06-25T02:21:00.008+08:00

It has been three years since we last met

and there were no words spoken since.

Your presence in my heart is diminishing day by day.

I am not sure I will be strong enough,

to keep you from slipping away from me,

to keep the place for you in my heart from being eroded,

and disappear.

It has always been you,

and always will.

But how am i supposed to hold on to you,

pray tell me?

La tahzan!

2011-06-09T19:44:00.009+08:00

Why Allah tests us

1. To give us glad tidings: “And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirin (the patient ones, etc.)” Surah Baqarah 2:155

2. To love us: “And Allah loves As-Sabirun (the patient ones)” [Surah Al Imran 3:146]

3. To remind us of Him: "Patutkah manusia menyangka bahawa mereka akan dibiarkan dengan hanya berkata: Kami beriman, sedang mereka tidak diuji (dengan sesuatu cubaan)? Dan demi sesungguhnya! Kami telah menguji orang-orang yang terdahulu daripada mereka, maka (dengan ujian yang demikian), nyata apa yang diketahui Allah tentang orang-orang yang sebenar-benarnya beriman dan nyata pula apa yang diketahuiNya tentang orang-orang yang berdusta." Quran: 29:2-3

Prophet Muhammad's words of wisdom for people whom adversity befall:

He said: “How wonderful is the case of the believer; there is good in everything and this is not the case with anyone except a believer. If good attends him, he expresses gratitude to Allah and that is good for him; and if adversity befalls him he endures it patiently and that is better for him” [ Narrated by Abu Yahya Suhaib ibn Sinan and recorded in Sahih Muslim]

What to do in sadness?

1. Seek Allah's help with patience and prayers: “And seek help in patience and As-Salah and truly it is extremely heavy and hard except for humbly submissive [to Allah ]” [Surah Al-Baqarah 2:45].

2. Supplicate according to the Prophet's Dua when under calamity:

“Inna-lillahi wa'inna ilayhi raji'un. Allahumma-juri fi museebati wa akhlif li khairan minha To Allah we belong, and to Him is our Return. O Allah! Take me out of my plight and replace it with something which is better” [ Sahih Muslim; 2:632]

Allah's promise to the people He tested:

“For indeed, with every hardship [there will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [there will be] ease.” [Quran 94: 5-6]

“No calamity occurs, but by the permission of Allah, and whosoever believes in Allah, He guides his heart. And Allah is the All-Knower of everything” [Surat at-Taghabun 64:11]

Sesungguhnya.

2011-05-21T11:24:00.000+08:00

"...Sesungguhnya tidak pelik jika kain baju kita tidak kotor jika hanya berada di dalam rumah tanpa keluar. Apa yang pelik ialah jika kita berada di luar penuh dengan debu, namun pakaian kita tetap bersih tanpa sedikitpun kotor. Demikianlah juga Kelantan, di tengah-tengah arus sekular yang mendominasi suasana negara, Kelantan masih mampu berdiri tegak di atas dasar Membangun Bersama Islam. Inilah kekuatan kita dan inilah yang perlu kita pertahankan selama-lamanya.."

Ucapan Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz pada Majlis Menghafaz al-Quran peringkat Negeri Kelantan pada 10 Mac 2010, bertempat di Balai Islam, Lundang.

To You Alone

2011-05-19T23:53:00.001+08:00

“O Allah, To You alone I make complaint of my helplessness, the paucity of my resources and my insignificance before mankind. You are the most Merciful of the mercifuls. You are the Lord of the helpless and the weak, O Lord of mine! Into whose hands would You abandon me: into the hands of an unsympathetic distant relative who would sullenly frown at me, or to the enemy who has been given control over my affairs? But if Your wrath does not fall on me, there is nothing for me to worry about“

Taken from The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Prophet Muhammad regarding incidence after Taif.

My Only One

2011-05-16T02:52:00.002+08:00

I used to have a friend, a best friend who i can call whenever i am in distress and in happiness, to talk about everything and anything. Now that she's gone, who should i turn to?

O Allah, there is only You left for me now. If You do not help me and be there for me, i have no one else. Nobody. Nothing.

love and being loved

2011-05-02T22:27:00.000+08:00

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Allah says: 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' " (Sahih Bukhari: Book #93, Hadith #502)

Nikah di Masjid: Bidaahkah?

2011-03-24T20:52:00.003+08:00

Saya merujuk kenyataan ahli Majlis Fatwa Perlis perihal kahwin di Masjid yang dianggap bidaah beserta tulisan Abu Muawiyah tentang hukum nikah di masjid.

Artikel boleh dirujuk di:
http://muawiyah90.blogspot.com/2011/03/nikah-hukum-nikah-di-masjid.html

Hujah pertama Abu Muawiyah:

Tidak ditemui hadis yang sahih menganjur atau mensyariatkan bolehnya bernikah di Masjid. Masjid dibangun bukan untuk menguruskan pernikahan, mengadakan walimah atau apa sahaja yang berkaitan dengan perkahwinan tetapi tujuan Masjid dibina adalah untuk Solat dan Zikrullah. Rasulullah SAW bersabda:

"Engkau tidak akan menemukannya!. Sesungguhnya Masjid-masjid dibangun untuk tujuan tersendiri (iaitu untuk Solat, ibadah dan Zikrullah)".

1) Jika tidak ditemui hadis sahih yang menganjurkan atau mensyariatkan bolehnya bernikah di masjid tidak bermakna ia adalah bidaah dan dilarang. Ia hanya bermakna tidak ada arahan atau galakan khusus untuk perkara tersebut. Hal ini bertepatan dengan prinsip asas mengeluarkan sesuatu hukum;

"The halal is that which Allah has made lawful in His Book and the haram is that which He has forbidden, and that concerning which He is silent He has permitted as a favor to you." (Reported by al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah.)

Maka dengan menggunakan alasan bahawa Rasulullah tidak menyuruh untuk mengadakan akad di masjid sebagai alasan untuk mengatakan ia tidak dibenarkan adalah suatu penghujahan yang salah dan tidak boleh diterima.

2) Abu Muawiyah meneruskan penghujahannya dengan mengeluarkan hadis-hadis sahih yang pada pendapat beliau melarang diadakan nikah di masjid.

Hadis yang disampaikan adalah merujuk kepada hadis berikut:

Sulaiman b. Buraida reported on the authority of his father that when the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said prayer a man stood up and said: Who called for a red camel? (Upon this) the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: May it not be restored to you! The mosques are built for what they are meant.
Sahih Muslim: Book #004, Hadith #1156

Abu Muawiyah mengambil hukum bahawa masjid hanya dibenarkan perkara-perkara ibadah seperti solat dan zikir. Dengan sengaja atau tidak, Abu Muawiyah telah meletakkan taraf nikah bukan sebagai suatu bentuk ibadah. Maka ia termasuk sebagai perkara yang tidak dibenarkan untuk diadakan di dalam masjid. Persoalannya di sini, adakah nikah itu bukan ibadah?

Jika nikah itu bukan ibadah, maka bagaimana dengan hadis Sahih dari Muslim yang mengatakan;

“…and in man's sexual intercourse (with his wife) there is a sadaqa. The Companions said: Messenger of Allah, is there reward for him who satisfies his sexual passion among us? He said: Tell me, if he were to devote it to something forbidden, would it not be a sin on his part? Similarly, if he were to devote it to something lawful, he should have a reward.”

Jika jimak bersama isteri pun dikira ibadah (maka ia berpahala) apatah lagi akad nikah itu sendiri. Mungkin Abu Muawiyah juga terlepas pandang satu lagi hadis sahih dari Imam Muslim.

“…I observe prayer and sleep too; I observe fast and suspend observing them; I marry women also? And he who turns away from my sunnah, he has no relation with me” (Muslim: Book 8, Hadith 3236)

Nikah itu sunnah, maka jelas sekali sunnah itu ibadah. Maka kenapa nikah diasingkan dari definisi ibadah dan seterusnya dari tujuan masjid dibina.

Hal ini adalah sangat berbeza dengan larangan hadis tersebut untuk mencari atau mengumumkan barang hilang di masjid. Perkara tersebut jelas bukan ibadah. Maka ia dilarang Rasulullah s.a.w.

Hujah kedua Abu Muawiyah:

Adapun hadis yang menjadi hujah untuk akad nikah di masjid ialah:Dari 'Aisyah ra, beliau berkata: Telah bersabda Rasulullah SAW: Umumkanlah (iklankanlah) pernikahan ini dan lakukannya di masjid serta tabuhkanlah rebana".[HR: at-Tirmizi, al-Baihaqi]

Hadis di atas ini adalah hadis lemah. Di dalam sanadnya terdapat seorang yang bernama Is bin Maimun, dia adalah dikenali sebagai perawi yang matruk. Oleh itu hadis ini tidak boleh dijadikan dalil atau hujah untuk membolehkan bernikah di masjid.

1) Seperti juga hadis di atas tidak boleh digunakan untuk menjadi hujah menyokong akad nikah di masjid, bertambah-tambahlah tidak tepat jika kelemahan hadis tersebut digunakan oleh Abu Muawiyah untuk menyatakan kita dilarang mengadakan nikah di masjid.

Hadis tersebut langsung tiada menyebut bahawa nikah di masjid adalah dilarang, maka hujah Abu Muawiyah sekali lagi tidak boleh diterima.

Untuk mengatakan sesuatu perkara itu dilarang, maka hendaklah Abu Muawiyah mengeluarkan hadis-hadis sahih yang secara qat’ie (terang dan jelas) melarang perkara tersebut. Prinsip asas mengeluarkan (istinbat) hukum ini telah dijelaskan secara panjang lebar oleh Syeikh Yusuf al Qaradawi dalam bab pertama bukunya Halal dan Haram dalam Islam.

Apa yang Kami Persetujui

Kami bersetuju dengan kenyataan beliau di bawah;

“Sesiapa yang menyakini bahawa bernikah di masjid adalah lebih baik, afdal atau sunnah, maka ia perlu membawakan hujah yang sahih agar tidak berlaku amalan bid'ah di dalam masjid dan di dalam urusan perkahwinan. Begitu juga menjalankan pernikahan dan kesibukan urusan perkahwinan di masjid boleh menganggu orang-orang yang beribadah di dalamnya seperti Solat, Zikir dan boleh mengotori Masjid serta berlaku hingar-bingar di kawasan Masjid.”

Adalah tepat pesanan Abu Muawiyah agar pernikahan tidak menganggu ibadah atau mencemarkan masjid. Begitu juga pesanan beliau kepada masyarakat yang meyakini bernikah di masjid adalah sunnah atau afdhal juga diterima, kerana ia adalah bukan sebahagian daripada sunnah Rasulullah.

Namun begitu, kami memilih untuk bertawaqquf dalam perihal larangan untuk mengadakan akad nikah di masjid (i.e. tidak mengeluarkan kenyataan menyokong atau melarang sehingga dalil-dalil dan penjelasan yang sahih didatangkan) .

Kami juga menyarankan Abu Muawiyah agar turut sama bertawaqquf dan sebaliknya sekadar memberitahu masyarakat awam bahawa akad nikah di masjid adalah bukan sebahagian daripada sunnah Rasulullah s.a.w. dan ia tidak digalakkan atas sebab-sebab yang dipersetujui di atas, sehinggalah didatangkan dalil-dalil sahih larangan bernikah di masjid.

Wallahua’lam.

My Thoughts on Marriage

2011-03-17T23:04:00.002+08:00

Achtung ! I have published these articles before, so some of you might have read it. However it was in four separate articles, so i thought i'll put it in one [very] long article for ease of read.

Happily Ever After

A lot of people seem to think that being in a relationship is the answer to the life's most puzzling question, i.e Will I ever find happiness?

We seem to think that, when we get married or when we get together with the person we love, we will achieve perfect happiness and does not have to worry about anything anymore. We think that being in a relationship is the key that opens the door to the elusive world of happiness, which before is inhabited by all the other people, except ourselves. For us, by getting together with the person we love, it will be the imaginary ON switch that automatically gives us the perfectly blissful life.

The sad truth, it is far from all that. Sorry, but the world does not work that way. At least not directly.

Well, thankfully, the blame is not entirely ours for having this preconception. Since our tender age, we were flooded with movies, tv series, soap opera, novels and the so called romantic comedies that subconsciously put this notion in our mind. Even fairy tales are not an exception.

We were force fed with the false imagination that there is an impossibly handsome Prince Charming for all of us, who will one day come galloping with his white stallion and shiny armors to save us from our unhappiness. Except that this time, the evil step mother will be our own insecurities and discontent with our life.

And after we met and maybe marry our Prince Charming, we will live happily ever after. Happily ever after. THE END.
If only life is that easy.

After the movie/tv series/soap opera/fairy tales end, we would be left with the image that the girl and her Prince Charming actually live happily ever after. What we do not realise is that, each and every ending, in reality is the start to something.

If getting married with her prince charming is the ending to a fairy tale, then the ending is actually the start of a married life.

A beginning to a life that is completely shared with another person. A beginning to a life with a person, who is after all, only a human being, no matter how charming he is. A person with his own flaws and shortcomings. A person who is neither perfect nor he will ever be.

I feel sad when I encountered girls who cruised from one relationship to another, in search of her Prince Charming or Mr Right or whatever name she give to symbolize her perfect man. The sad thing is that she will never ever be content with whomever she's with right now, always wondering if there is another guy who is more handsome, more charming, a better lover or simply just wealthier than the one she currently has.

Little that she knows, Prince Charming had actually married four times successively; Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, and each marriage ends with divorce due to his womanizing ways. And when confronted about his womanizing ways, the Prince Charming simply dismissed it by saying, "I am raised to be charming, not sincere".

Just take a moment and think for a short second, are you sure when you get together or maybe marry the love of your life, you will actually be living a truly happily ever after life?

What if your husband really loves you, but have difficulties expressing his love and affection? What if your husband wants a child as soon as possible, but you can't stand kids and want to build your promising career first? What if he starts to put on weight, lose his hair and becomes more wrinkled each passing day due to stress from work? What if you are pursued by a younger, more handsome guy than your husband ever would? What if your partner is out of job due to the recent recession and all your savings are gone to help him launch a business that failed?

What if?

Happily Ever After-The Sequel

In my previous entry, I sounded like someone who does not believe marriage will bring you happiness, right? Or worse, I sounded like someone who does not believe in marriage at all. Thankfully, it’s the total opposite of that. In fact I plan to marry earlier, rather than later. Maybe next summer perhaps? :D

What i am trying to tell you in the previous entry is that marriage is not a guarantee of a blissful life. It is a start to a life where all the problems that you and your partner face are now shared with each other. It is HOW you deal with the problems that will steer you towards either a happy life or an unhappy one.

So how you can achieve a happy life when you get together with your loved one?

I believe in three things. First of all, I must set my mind that I marry to give, rather than to receive. Hidup untuk memberi, bukan untuk menerima. And if you receive anything good from the relationship, Alhamdulillah. Praise be to God.

If you expect a life of receiving, in which you will be treated like a pampered king, where the food is all cooked and ready to be eaten when you get back from work; the kids are all bathed and fed and well behaved; the laundry is all washed and ironed and folded neatly in your closet, the house is vaccumed and cleaned;while your wife welcomes you home with eternal smiles on her face; wearing her best and smells like a bunch of roses, then you’re in for the worst time of your life.

Married life is not like that. It is not a bed full of roses.

Remember one thing, prepare yourself to give. Make yourself available to help, at all times. The laundry, the dishes, the cooking, the housekeeping, taking out rubbish, feeding/bathing the kids, cleaning their mess, you can’t expect your wife to do all this while you read the newspaper or watch Premier League on television.

Showing your love to your wife is not necessarily by saying I love you every day, buying her flowers every time you get back from work or giving her gift. You can do all these, it will be better, but just by helping her with chores, you show that you really care and do not take her for granted. And if she does the chores by herself, as for full time housewife, PLEASE, PLEASE show that you appreciate her doing it. A simple thank you, a kiss or a hug maybe, will do all the differences in the world.

Well, that’s the first thing believe. I really hope i will be capable to apply all these when i build my own family one day. With God’s willing. InshaAllah.

So, what’s the second thing i believe in? Wait for the next entry.

Happily Ever After-Third Instalments

To be able to give, first you have to treasure her first. You said you love her right? So isn’t that already a REALLY good reason for you to treasure your wife? This is where the second thing I believe comes in. Good communication.

Make effort to be interested in her. If she works, ask her about her days at the office. Listen to what she says. If she complains, take notice, even if it is about the most mundane thing like how the patients keep asking for antibiotics even though she had diagnosed them with viral fever. If she is a housewife, ask her how her day has been, and whether there is anything you can help with the chores. Ask her opinion in making any decision, it will show how much you appreciate her presence. Be a democratic leader, not a tyrant. She will appreciate that.

Occasionally ask her if there is anything she does not like you to do. Maybe you have been putting your wet towel on the bed and she does not like it. Or maybe you have been coming home late recently. If you can’t change it, explain it to her. She will understand.

And always ask what she likes you to do. Maybe she likes watching television with you besides her, and your hand on her waist. Maybe she likes her scalp to be massaged. Maybe she likes you to kiss her on the forehead the first thing after you both wake up in the morning. The list can go on forever, but the point is, ask. Communicate.

Make it a point to be interested in her family. Ask her to tell stories about her mom, her dad, sibling, and other extended family. And what’s more important, be nice to her family, especially to your parents-in-law. Call your father and mother in law every now and then, ask how they have been. Show that you care about them. Surprise your wife by surprising her family with gifts or “buah tangan” that you buy on your own. If you can afford it, a vacation together with her parents will be a memory she will never forget.

If the three rule of thumb for building a business are location, location, location, then the three rules of thumb for building a family are communication, communication, communication.

Communication goes both ways though. Talk to your husband, tell him what you like or what you hate, what you want him to do or to stop doing. Do not go sulking and not talking to US husbands if you are not happy about anything. If you do not tell us, we will never figure it out. We are NOT, I repeat, we are NOT mind readers! We really are not good at reading body language or small signals either. We are not superman, so sometimes the thing you are not happy with, it escapes our attention. It is not like we do not care. We do care. So say what is on your mind, ok? We are prepared to listen.

So that is the second thing i believe is imperative in building a good relationship. So what's the last and the most important one? Wait for the next entry.

Till then, take care.

Happily Ever After-Fourth and Final Instalments

After the three previous entries, i have come to the last entry regarding marriage. In the last two entry, i have given a couple of tips on building a happy family. However, i have to remind you, the tips are not foolproof. What i have written, it is all based on my observations of my own parent and a few other acquaintances of mine.

Again, I remind you, all the tips are not guaranteed sure-fire methods that will AUTOMATICALLY give you a happy married life. Maybe you have put all the efforts into your marriage, but it still falls apart. After all, we do not know what is the plan of our Creator for us. As what people says, hidup, mati dan jodoh di tangan Tuhan. It is all written down by Him.

This is where the last thing comes into play. And for me, it is the most important aspects of every marriage. Divine Intervention.

Pardon, but did you just say divine intervention will help build a successful relationship with your husband/wife? Are you sure?

Well, i am totally sure. Divine intervention in the sense that we need help from the most Exalted, the most Powerful to guide us, in everything. When I say everything, it includes the aspect of building a family of our own.

The first step towards building a family is dua'. For us singles, it is imperative for us to start praying, from now on. Even though you are only 17, 18 or maybe 19 years old and plan to marry only when you are 27, it does not mean that you can only pray for guidance when you are 27. In fact, start right now! This very moment!

Remember the beautiful dua'.

Ya Allah ya Tuhan Kami, anugerahkanlah kepada kami isteri dan anak-anak sebagai penyejuk hati kami dan jadikanlah kami sebagai imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa.

The problem is, we often neglect the second part of the dua'. Jadikanlah kami sebagai imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa.

This can be interpreted both ways,as an Imam(leader) to your family or in bigger scope, a leader to any group of mu'min. How can you be an imam to your family if your iman and taqwa is as strong as the spider's web, or worse non-existent. Wal iyazubillah.

So, take the dua' as a challenge and encouragement for you to better yourself, hence preparing you for the heavy responsibity of being a leader of your own family. I say heavy because, the way you guide your family might lead your family either towards jannah or towards narr. Heaven or hell.

Divine intervention does not come freely. It comes with dua' and efforts. So keep praying, and keep putting efforts in it. When you are choosing a wife/husband, pray. Ask for His help in making a decision. Look for a candidate that has the characteristics most valued by our Prophet saw. Pilihlah mereka yang beragama. InshaAllah, your choice will be the best choice. And when you have finally chosen someone and marry him/her, it does not mean the prayers should stop too. From merisik, bertunang, akad nikah, malam zafaf, and the subsequent life shared as a couple, keep praying, and pray sincerely. He will never dissapoint you, inshaAllah.

However, divine intervention does not come with prayers only. As my friend Safwan Ahmad Kamal Hayati said to me once, you cant expect to have a good ending if you start the relationship in Allah's wrath.

Ustaz Hasrizal has written a really good article on this, Muslim Rumahtangga.

I quote here two of his strongest examples:
“Jika dengan aku dulu dia tergamak berzina dan berbuat dosa, apa yang menghalangnya untuk berzina dengan orang lain”, syak seorang isteri, bekas pelaku dosa, ketika suaminya so-called out station.

“Jika dengan aku dulu dia selamba badak pegang sana pegang sini, apa yang boleh menjamin dia menjaga rumahku dan maruah dirinya dari lelaki lain?”, syak seorang suami, bekas pelaku dosa, ketika jauh di tempat kerja meninggalkan isteri di rumah sana.

Unless you are completely ok with Ustaz Hasrizal's examples. Which I am not. Wal iya zubillah.

Well, I hope with His help and guidances, i will be able to apply all these things that i have written down. These series of articles are first and foremost, a reminder to myself, who, as a human being, is neither perfect nor i will ever be. And if anybody else benefits from these, alhamdulillah. Praise be to God.

I feel it will be appropriate to end these series of articles with the dua' below.

"Bismillahi rahman nirrahim. Rabbana hablana min azwajina wa zurriy yatina qurrata a'yun, waj alna lilmuttaqina imama, rabbana atina fidduniya hasanah, wa fil akhirati hasanah, wa qina aza bannar. wa qina aza bannar, wa qina aza bannar"

Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pengasih, Maha Penyayang. Ya Tuhan kami, anugerahkanlah kami isteri dan anak-anak kami sebagai penyejuk hati kami, dan jadikanlah kami imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa. Ya tuhan kami, berikanlah kami kebaikan di dunia dan kebaikan di akhirat, dan jauhkanlah kami dari azab neraka.

Wallahua'lam

of being a muslim

2011-03-11T08:02:00.002+08:00

"Muslim, setiap saatnya terikat dengan syari'at. Muslim, setiap waktunya diisi dengan jihad. Muslim, hari-harinya dilalui dengan cabaran. Muslim, mengisi detik-detik hidupnya dengan ibadat. Muslim, ikhlas berjuang dunia akhirat!

Seorang muslim, terikat dengan prinsip perjuangan."

(Iffah Nabiha Ahmad Jailani, 2010)

of losing a friend

2011-02-19T13:36:00.001+08:00

don't know when
or why
or how

a best friend is no longer one
a best friend turns into an old acquaintance
just someone i know from the past.

the past
back on those days

it turns out friendship is never forever
it is just a passing stage
a phase when both of us need each other
a time when both of us miss each other
It turns out i am not Lucky after all.

like a travelling theatre
it has to pass
to give way for new
stories
actors and actresses
and stages

and
like all stories
it has to end

so it ends here
219.22 miles separated
from each other

Goodbye.

i'll miss you.

Jangan Kita Mudah Melabelkan Orang

2011-02-18T23:23:00.002+08:00

Penjelasan Ustaz Zahruddin Abdul Rahman tentang perpecahan di kalangan orang agama.

GELARAN WAHHABI

SOALAN 2 : Mengapa kumpulan ilmuan yang menisbahkan diri mereka kepada manhaj salafi ini MELENTING, TIDAK PUAS HATI apabila ilmuan tradisional (Khalaf) menyerang mereka dengan gelaran Wahhabi?

JAWAPAN : Kerana ilmuan khalaf ini telah berusaha sejak sekian lama mem ‘package’ nama wahhabi sebagai ajaran sesat, mujassimah (menyatakan Allah ada jasad dan jisim) dan terkeluar dari ahli sunnah wal jama’ah.

AKIBAT: Sebahagian besar ilmuan dari aliran ini melenting dan tidak selesa dengan gelaran tersebut kerana seolah mereka memperjuangkan ajaran sesat dan adakalanya ada yang menuduh mereka sebagai kafir.

PUNCA : Memotong ayat dan sangka buruk yang bersarang dalam diri sebahagian pembenci wahhabi. Bayangkan, tidaklah saya faham mengapa kumpulan yang digelar Wahhabi ini boleh digelar sebagai mujassimah, padahal hanya orang bodoh dan terencat aqal sahaja yang akan berani mentajsimkan Allah dan menyamakannya dengan makhluk.

Masakan tidak, jika dirujuk kepada penulisan, ucapan dan sumber kedua-dua ilmuan aliran sama ada khalaf (tradisional) dan salaf, AMAT JELAS KEDUA-DUA MEREKA berpegang teguh kepada firman Allah :-

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ

Ertinya : Tiadalah yang menyerupai Allah dengan sesuatu apapun (dari kalangan makhluknya) ( Surah Al-Shura :11)

Nah, justeru dari mana datangnya salah satu antara dua aliran ini yang mengatakan Allah ada mata, tangan, kaki, kepala yang berjisim dan menyerupai manusia atau mana-mana mahkluk lain?.

Hakikat sebenarnya, apabila kita merujuk kepada sumber kedua-dua kumpulan akan kita dapati bahawa ulama kumpulan Salafi berijtihad mengatakan tiada takwilan pada setiap perkataan yang Allah menyifatkan dirinya, justeru apabila Allah mengatakannya

“Tangan Allah berada di atas mereka” (Surah Al-Fath : 10)

Kumpulan salafi ini berkata, ini bermakna Allah ada mempunyai tangan, namun sifat tangan itu tidak sama dengan manusia dan makhluk dan jangan ditanya perinciannya. Itulah ijtihad ulama bermanhaj salafi.

Namun ada kumpulan yang sengaja mencari salah, lalu ‘memotong’ ijtihad di atas dari boleh diterima kepada suatu kesalahan. Mereka mewarwarkan perkataan yang saya gariskan dan memotong huraian yang sepatutnya, lalu kelihatanlah kumpulan manhaj salafi ini mengatakan Allah punyai tangan macam manusia dan berjisim. Lalu mereka berusaha mensabitkan bahawa pihak lain ini mentajsimkan Allah.

SEPATUTNYA : JANGAN MUDAH BEBANKAN KESALAHAN ‘SESAT’, ‘BID’AH, APATAH LAGI KAFIR

Jika kita boleh belajar dari arahan Nabi s.a.w agar berhati-hati dalam bab hudud, iaitu menjatuhkan kesalahan terhadap tertuduh dalam jenayah yang melibatkan hudud, nescaya saya yakin semua kita sepatutnya lebih berhati-hati untuk melabelkan seseorang sebagai:

Wahabi yang disifatkan sebagai terkeluar dari ahli sunnah wal jama’ah dan sesat

Menjadi wahabi yang sesat dan tajsim Allah, hanya kerana ketika solat mengangkang kaki lebih dari biasa, tangan di atas dada atau menggoyangkan jari.

baca lanjut di sini:
http://www.zaharuddin.net/senarai-lengkap-artikel/3/982-mengapa-peminat-agama-berpecah-sebegitu.html

Malaysia's Brain Drain: Problems and Solutions

2011-01-24T18:56:00.000+08:00

Assalamulaikum wbt dan selamat sejahtera

InshaAllah untuk meneruskan inisiatif kepimpinan Balai Malaysia Newcastle sesi lepas, yangmelihat perlunya platform untuk anak-anak muda bersuara, Biro Integrasi dan Hubungan Kaum akan menganjurkan Forum Remaja BMN: Edisi Kedua

Dengan tajuk Malaysia's Brain Drain: Problems and Solutions, kami
menjanjikan panelis-panelis unggul dan sesi soal jawab yang 'panas' dalam
suasana diskusi akademik. Butiran program adalah seperti berikut:

Malaysia's Brain Drain: Problems and Solutions

Sabtu 29 Januari 2011 5 pm
Lecture Theater D, Newcastle University Medical School. NE2 4HH
Semua dijemput hadir.

Masuk adalah percuma. Semua dijemput hadir.

Ahmad Farid Wajdi
Biro Integrasi Dan Hubungan Kaum
http://balainewcastle.org

Katie Don't Cry

2011-01-15T12:12:00.000+08:00

And this will be the first time in a week
That I'll talk to you
And I can't speak
Been three whole days since I've had sleep

And I got the point that I should leave you alone
But we both know I'm not that strong

Perkongsian Liqa'

2011-01-12T07:10:00.003+08:00

Apa itu Dakwah?

Berasal dari perkataan da'a yad'u bermaksud mengajak/menyeru. Dai'e adalah penyeru. Mad'u adalah orang yang diseru/sasaran dakwah.

Apakah dalil menyuruh kita berdakwah?
"Dan tidak ada yang lebih baik perkataannya daripada orang yang menyeru kepada Allah, serta dia sendiri mengerjakan amal yang soleh, sambil berkata: Sesungguhnya aku adalah dari orang-orang Islam (yang berserah diri sepenuhnya kepada Allah)!" Fussilat : 33

"Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): "Inilah jalanku dan orang-orang yang menurutku, menyeru manusia umumnya kepada agama Allah dengan berdasarkan keterangan dan bukti yang jelas nyata. Dan aku menegaskan: Maha suci Allah (dari segala iktiqad dan perbuatan syirik); dan bukanlah aku dari golongan yang mempersekutukan Allah dengan sesuatu yang lain." Yusuf : 108

"Dan hendaklah ada di kalangan kamu suatu ummah (kumpulan) yang menyeru kepada kebaikan. Dan memerintahkan kepada ma’aruf serta mencegah dari kemungkaran. Dan mereka itulah orang-orang yang beruntung" al-Imran : 104

Kamu (wahai umat Muhammad) adalah sebaik-baik umat yang dilahirkan bagi umat manusia, (kerana) kamu menyuruh berbuat segala perkara yang baik dan melarang daripada segala perkara yang salah (buruk dan keji) serta kamu pula beriman kepada Allah (dengan sebenar-benar iman) dan kalaulah Ahli Kitab (Yahudi dan Nasrani) itu beriman (sebagaimana yang semestinya), tentulah (iman) itu menjadi baik bagi mereka. (Tetapi) di antara mereka ada yang beriman dan kebanyakan mereka orang-orang yang fasik." ali- Imran:110

Kenapa perlu kita berdakwah?
"Dan jagalah diri kamu daripada (berlakunya) dosa (yang membawa bala bencana) yang bukan sahaja akan menimpa orang-orang yang zalim di antara kamu secara khusus (tetapi akan menimpa kamu secara umum) dan ketahuilah bahawa Allah Maha berat azab seksaNya." al-Anfal : 25

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Sesiapa di antara kamu berpaling tadah dari agamanya, maka Allah akan mendatangkan suatu kaum yang Dia kasihkan mereka dan mereka juga kasihkan Dia; mereka pula bersifat lemah-lembut terhadap orang-orang yang beriman dan berlaku tegas gagah terhadap orang-orang kafir, mereka berjuang dengan bersungguh-sungguh pada jalan Allah dan mereka tidak takut kepada celaan orang yang mencela. Yang demikian itu adalah limpah kurnia Allah yang diberikanNya kepada sesiapa yang dikehendakiNya; kerana Allah Maha Luas limpah kurniaNya, lagi Meliputi PengetahuanNya." al-Maidah : 54

Apakah Kesilapan Utama Dalam Berdakwah?

"Mengapa kamu menyuruh orang lain (mengerjakan) kebajikan, sedangkan kamu melupakan diri kamu sendiri, padahal kamu membaca Kitab? Tidakkah kamu mengerti? " al-Baqarah: 44

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Mengapa kamu memperkatakan apa yang kamu tidak melakukannya! Amat besar kebenciannya di sisi Allah kamu memperkatakan sesuatu yang kamu tidak melakukannya." as-Saff : 2-3

Macam mana Saya Nak Hadapi Kelemahan Tersebut?

"Dan mohonlah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan sabar dan solat. Dan (solat) itu sungguh berat kecuali bagi orang-orang yang khusyuk" al-Baqarah : 45

"And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then He will suffice him (to help him)..." at-Talaq :3

Moga-moga menjadi reminder untuk diri. Amin, amin Allahumma amin.

fi qalbi

2010-11-21T06:17:00.001+08:00

‘A Muslim man can acquire no benefit after Islam greater than a Muslim wife who makes him happy when he looks at her, obeys him when he commands her, and protects him when he is away from her in herself and in his property.’
[Hadith Narrated by Nasa’i]

Dari Abi Ayyub ra bahwa Nabi SAW bersabda,” Empat hal yang merupakan sunnah para rasul : [1] Hinna’, [2] memakai wangian, [3] siwak dan [4] berkahwin. ”
(HR. At-Tirmizi 1080)

“Sesungguhnya, apabila seorang suami memandang isterinya (dengan kasih & sayang) dan isterinya juga memandang suaminya (dengan kasih & sayang), maka Allah akan memandang keduanya dengan pandangan kasih & sayang. Dan apabila seorang suami memegangi jemari isterinya (dengan kasih & sayang) maka berjatuhanlah dosa-dosa dari segala jemari keduanya”
(HR. Abu Sa’id)

supplication

2010-11-16T16:12:00.001+08:00

O Allah, make us independent of Thy haram with Thy halal, of disobedience to Thee with obedience to Thee, and of any other than Thee with Thy bounty.

the opening

2010-11-16T16:04:00.002+08:00

Abu Huraira reported: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: If anyone observes prayer in which he does not recite Umm al-Qur'an, It is deficient [he said this three times] and not complete.

It was said to Abu Huraira: At times we are behind the Imam. He said: Recite it inwardly, for he had heard the messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) declare that Allah the Exalted had said: I have divided the prayer into two halves between me and my servant, and my servant will receive what he asks.

When the servant says: Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the universe, Allah the Most High says: my servant has praised me. And when he (the servant) says: The Most Compassionate, the merciful, Allah the Most High says: my servant has lauded me. And when he (the servant) says: Master of the Day of judgment, He remarks: my servant has glorified me. and sometimes He would say: my servant entrusted (his affairs) to me.

And when he (the worshipper) says: Thee do we worship and of Thee do we ask help, He (Allah) says: This is between me and my servant, and my servant will receive what he asks for.

Then, when he (the worshipper) says: Guide us to the straight path, the path of those to whom Thou hast been Gracious not of those who have incurred Thy displeasure, nor of those who have gone astray, He (Allah) says: This is for my servant, and my servant will receive what he asks for. (Sahih Muslim: Book #004, Hadith #0775)

of responsibility as a dai'e

2010-11-07T15:59:00.008+08:00

Each and everyone of us declares that we are Muslim, that we believe in the Quran, but our actions sometimes contradict it. It will be more disheartening if we are members of an Islamic Movement, we call ourselves dai'e or pejuang Islam or whatnot, and yet our actions belie the commandments that we said we believe in, the Quran.

No i am not saying i am perfect by writing this, i have my own shortcomings and mistakes, but for us to repeat the same behaviour three times, for me that is unacceptable.

Haven't we read as-Saff, chapter 61 verse 2 and 3?

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Mengapa kamu memperkatakan apa yang kamu tidak melakukannya! Amat besar kebenciannya di sisi Allah kamu memperkatakan sesuatu yang kamu tidak melakukannya." Quran 61:2-3

Kenapa apabila kita diberi tanggungjawab dan kita bersetuju menerima tanggung jawab tersebut, kita hanya memandang remeh akan tanggung jawab tersebut. Kita tidak melihat persetujuan kita sewaktu bersetuju memikul sesuatu tanggung jawab sebagai janji yang perlu dipenuhi.

In other words, we are saying things that we don' do. We say that we will do it, but then we don't do it. We say that we will do certain things by certain dates, but days passed until we do the task. It is worse if people need to put pressure on us first before we actually finish tha task that we agreed earlier we will do.

Do we forget what Allah says?

"Amat besar kebenciannya di sisi Allah kamu memperkatakan sesuatu yang kamu tidak melakukannya" Allah swt really hates people who says something but does not actually do it. Do we want to be the one person that Allah swt really hates?

We promise that we wil do certain things on Friday, Sunday comes and the task is not done yet. The deadline that we ourselves put, we break.

We promise we will attend a tamrin as one of the organiser, but at the very last minute we pull out, without any explanations.

We promise we will handle a task in a programme that require us to attend the programme at given time, yet we only arrive after somebody else has replaced us, since the task still needs to be done but we are yet to make an attendance.

And many more instances that we can think of.

Allah swt puts so much importance in keeping promises and doing what we says we will do that He keeps repeating it in other verses.

In al-Maidah verse 1, Allah says " Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, penuhi serta sempurnakanlah perjanjian-perjanjian".

In al-Anfal verse 56, again Allah says "(Iaitu) orang-orang yang engkau telah mengikat perjanjian setia dengan mereka, kemudian mereka mencabuli perjanjian setianya pada tiap-tiap kali, sedang mereka tidak mahu memelihara dirinya (dari keaiban mencabuli perjanjian itu)."

In an-Nahl verse 91 Allah says " Dan sempurnakanlah pesanan-pesanan dan perintah-perintah Allah apabila kamu berjanji dan janganlah kamu merombak (mencabuli) sumpah kamu sesudah kamu menguatkannya (dengan nama Allah)..."

So, are we going to behave according to the Quran or are we going to read the Quran and then ignore its content?

N.B May Allah strengthens the writer so that he can do all the things that he says, and prevent him from not doing what he says he will.

the strongest bond

2010-11-04T04:06:00.003+08:00

Now now now, try imagine this.

You just arrived in a place totally new to you, and you have to stay there for years. You are absolutely bewildered. You don't know anybody, you don't know anywhere, you are on your own.

But then, some time later, you met this girl. She's older than you, four years to be exact. She is the kindest, the most gentle, loving, caring person you've ever met. And surprisingly, she took a great interest in you, knowing how lost you were in this new place. She cared for you, she taught you things, she guided you, she advised you. She, in essence, was like your sister in this new, foreign place.

And now you are happy. You get on with your life, confident and brave to face anything, since you know she will be there for you. It was always Sis this, Sis that. You know that you're loved. And nothing's gonna change that for you.

But then, something unthinkable happen. Your father, who you had always have problems with, announced that he's going to marry a second wife. And shockingly, the bride is the same girl. Your beloved 'sister'. Who is 20 years younger than your father. Whom your father got to know through you.

And at the same time, you met her, your 'sis'. She is overjoyed with her upcoming marriage, and didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that she will be a second wife, or the fact that she is marrying your father. Which effectively means she's gonna be your mother. Rather than feeling awkward, she is happy that she'll be your mom.

No, it is not her fault. She is sincerely happy. She felt her love for you will be solidified in the strongest bond of all, a mother child bond.

And then you realised, after all this time, you are really in love with her. The love of your life, is snatched away from you, right in front of your eyes by none other than your father.

You heart is now in pieces, like a broken bottle smashed into concrete pavements.

And you had no one else to turn to but your mom, who is also grieving. She also lost her husband. You embraced her fully, and cried your heart out. And you both cried.

And cried.

And cried.

And cried.

219.22

2010-10-29T22:37:00.001+08:00

all the miles that separates.

Valerie, You Say It Like It Is

2010-10-29T19:03:00.002+08:00

A Reply To Mahathir's Atrocious Blog Post

by Valerie Mohan

I really don't understand how someone as intelligent as you can come up with statements that are so blatantly ignorant. I'm 25 years old, my grandparents came from Kerala and I only speak English and Malay. I've never been to India, don't speak the language and all I can say is tanah tumpahnya darahku.

How dare you talk about fair distribution when you and your cronies have amassed vast fortunes at the expense of others? I don't see you going out among the less fortunate Malays and equitably distributing your wealth! If I follow from what you wrote you didn't deserve a place at medical school which means you took the place of someone who better deserved it. Which is what is happening all over this country in every arena.

Its not racial issues that the people are most concerned about its a lack of competency that is perpetuated because of racial policies.

Malaysians would not care if the vast majority of the government were Malay if they were able to discharge their duties competently. If there were 10 doctors and only one was Malay I would go to him if he was best at his job. But we have idiots running this country (the government, the police, the MACC, the judiciary) to the ground and they happen to be a Malay majority so of course people are pissed.

Do you think Malaysians would be angry if the country was well run and everyone's rights were upheld just because it was run by a Malay majority. Take a serious look at the majority of politicians and the rest of the people running the country (non malays included) - they are morons! The government is in shambles, the police are seen as the enemy and the judiciary is a joke - you really think intelligent Malaysians are angry at the Malays in general?

We are angry at those in power because we cannot trust you to do what's in Malaysia's best interest, we don't feel safe in our own country, we have no freedom of expression because you need to keep us quiet in order to stay in power and we don't believe that when there is a crime commited you are actually to get to the bottom of it unless it serves your own interests.

This racially charged hate mongering has to stop, it's stupid and unnecessary.

The real issue is our country is badly run and yet the government insists on discriminitory policies that seems to ensure its continuity. Did you ever stop to think that the person who's place you took in medical school could have been the one to lead Malaysia the way it deserves? Maybe that merits discussion?

100 Storeys Tower

2010-10-23T14:41:00.000+08:00

Membezakan Di Antara Menegur Kerajaan dan Menyokong Pembangkang

2010-10-23T00:54:00.002+08:00

Mahasiswa dalam negara dan luar negara selaku nadi negara mesti bijak dalam membezakan dua perkara yang dinyatakan di dalam tajuk di atas. Menegur pemerintah tidak sama maksudnya dengan bersetuju ataupun bersama-sama pembangkang.

Kita anak muda adalah agen perubahan dan ada pengaruh dengan magnitud yang luar biasa. Justeru, sebarang keputusan yang diambil kerajaan mesti kita fikirkan dengan matang dan penuh hikmah.

Jika keputusan yang baik diambi oleh kerajaan, kita wajar memberikan sokongan yang tidak berbelah bahagi, namun jika dirasakan ada cacat cela yang signifikan, luahkan buah fikiran anda, nyatakan pandangan anda dengan yakin dan penuh tanggungjawab.

Ingat, memberikan pandangan sebegini tidak semestinya anda bersama-sama barisan pembangkang!

Ini kerana pembangkang juga terbuka kepada kesalahan yang sama samada pada masa kini semasa menjadi pembangkang mahupun setelah memegang tampuk pemerintahan negara nanti. Namun apa yang penting di sini, di manakah NILAI pendirian anda?

Bangunan 100 tingkat

Bayangkan jika anda mempunyai wang sebanyak RM 5 bilion, ke mana anda mahu membelanjakan wang ini untuk pembangunan negara?

i) Menaik taraf sistem pengangkutan awam (LRT, KTM) di KL setaraf dengan TFL
ii) Membangunkan Pulau Langkawi sebagai Pulau Ikon sedunia
iii) Membina bangunan Warisan Merdeka setinggi 100 tingkat
iv) Menghantar tambahan 5000 pelajar perubatan ke UK atau 50,000 pelajar perubatan ke Mesir
v) Membina lebih banyak sekolah berasrama penuh?

Perbincangan inilah yang membentuk asas kepada belanjawan negara, sebagaimana yang dibentangkan oleh Perdana Menteri negara baru-baru ini. Dan cadangan ketiga telah diumumkan oleh Perdana Menteri negara. Apa pendapat kita selaku mahasiswa?

Antara hujah-hujah sokongan adalah;

i) Tanah ada value yang tinggi, jadi alang-alang nak bina bangunan, kena bina tinggi
ii) Jana ekonomi negara - tarik pelabur luar
iii) Peluang pekerjaan melalui pengagihan projek-projek
iv) Kita perlukan ikon negara maju

Manakala hujah-hujah balas pula adalah;

i) Subsidi akan dimansuhkan. Rakyat semakin sengkek..
ii) Berapa banyak gedung perniagaan di KLCC dimiliki bumiputera dan rakyat Malaysia pada hari ini?
iii) Rakyat memerlukan bonus dalam zaman kesempitan ini.
iv) Kos awal RM 5b, confirm naik punya, macam projek istana negara, atas 'sebab-sebab' tertentu.

Apa juga hujahnya, golongan yang berusia awal 20-an harus sedar, di mana NILAI pandangan anda? Adakan sekadar disimpan rapi di dalam peti, atau terkunci di dalam peti suara? Bahaskan dengan bijaksana. Ingatlah wahai mahasiswa sekalian, pandangan anda bernilai, dan hanya BERNILAI (VALUABLE) apabila anda suarakan.

Dan ingat, menyuarakan padangan tidak semestinya anda menyokong pembangkang!

'Isu Rosmah' pula menyusul

Beberapa hari selepas pembentangan bajet negara, seantero negara gempar dengan aksi-aksi 'panas' semasa Islamic (Islamic?) Fashion Festival (IFF). Pelbagai NGO bangkit membantah tindakan isteri perdana menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor yang didakwa menghina syariat Islam dan Rasulullah SAW dalam penganjuran Festival Busana Muslim di Monte Carlo 9 Ogos lalu. Rupanya ada pakaian yang membuka aurat dan terpampang nama 'Muhammad' secara terbalik di dada si peragawati. Beberapa persoalan di sini;

i) Penggunaan nama 'Muhammad' ini sememangnya satu penghinaan, jika ia benar.
ii) Namun begitu, kalau dilihat dalam konteks yang lebih besar, penganjuran program seumpama ini juga sudah merupakan satu penghinaan besar.

Walaupun namanya fesyen Islam, namun pemakaiannya langsung tidak Islamik! Ibaratnya kalau kita mahu menjual kereta Proton, namun kita iklankan di akhbar yang kita mahu menjual kereta Jaguar. Adakah tindakan kita itu adil?

Dalam hal ini, tanpa mengira siapa sekali pun yang bersalah, mahasiswa wajar mengambil tahu akan apa yang berlaku, dan suarakan teguran anda. Bagi yang beragama Islam, apabila cara hidup anda dihina, anda wajib bangkit mempertahankan dan menegur kesilapan yang ada. Dan bagi yang bukan Islam, apabila ada agama lain yang dihina, atas semangat 1Malaysia, kita mesti bersama-sama bersatu dalam membetulkan kesilapan yang telah dilakukan, demi kemaslahatan bersama.

Wahai mahasiswa, jangan ragu-ragu menyatakan NILAI pendirian anda.

Zaman sekarang kita ada blog, media alternatif, akhbar tempatan dan medan sosial maya seperti Facebook. Nyatakan pendapat anda dengan penuh hikmah dan beradab dan penuh ikhlas.

Dan menyatakan pendirian anda tidak semestinya anda menyokong pembangkang.

Anda sebenarnya menyokong jati diri anda!

memories from the blessed shaykh

2010-10-22T08:40:00.000+08:00

"I did not like the way she was dressed when she entered my office. However, the look in her eyes revealed sadness and bewilderment that called for compassion and patience. She sat down and started sharing her concerns hoping to find answers with me.

I listened to her long enough. I learned that she was an Arab girl who received her education in France where she was raised. It was also clear that she barely knew Islam. I started explaining basic facts, dispelling suspicions, answering questions and refuting orientalists’ lies about Islam. I also did not forget to allude to today’s civilization and how it considers women as cheap flesh. At the end of my talk, the girl asked for a future appointment and excused herself.

Soon after, a young man – on whom qualities of Outward Islamism were apparent – came storming into my office and said violently: “How come such wicked person was admitted here?” “The job of a physician is to accept. He doesn’t typically see healthy people, does he?” I replied.

“Of course, you advised her to wear Hijab!” he added.

I said to him “The issue is much bigger than that. There is the foundation that has to be laid. There is the Belief in Allah and the Hereafter. There is the hearing and the obeying of what was revealed in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, in addition to the pillars of worship and manners; the pillars that Islam cannot exist without …”. He interrupted me saying, “All of this does not mean we don’t order her to wear Hijab”.

“I wouldn’t like it if she came in a nun’s clothes while her heart is void of Allah. I taught her the basis that will help her to choose, on her own free will, to wear more decent clothes,” I calmly replied.

He tried to interrupt me again so I said firmly “I can’t drag Islam by its tail as you do. I lay the foundation and then start building and I usually achieve what I want with wisdom”.

Two weeks later, the girl came back. She was wearing much more decent clothes with a scarf over her head. She resumed her questions and I resumed my teaching. Then I asked “Why don’t you go to the nearest mosque to your home?” I said that but immediately I felt remorse. I remembered that mosques are closed in the face of Muslim women. The girl answered that she hated the People of Religion and that she did not like to listen to them.

“Why?” I asked

“They are hard-hearted, and they treat us with contempt and scorn”, came her swift reply.

I don’t know why I remembered Hind (Abu-Sufyan’s wife). She was the one who chewed Hamza’s liver and fought Islam vigorously until the 8th year of Hijrah. She did not really know the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). However, when she knew him and saw his lenient manners, she told him “I never wished someone on the face of this earth to be abased more than you and your family. Now, I do not wish to see someone on the face of this earth more honored than you and your family”. The Prophet’s kindness and sympathy changed the hearts of the people around him.

Now, would the Du`ah today learn from their Prophet? Would they learn to draw together instead of driving away, and to bring good tidings rather than to say things that repels people away from them and from Islam?"

[excerpt from sheikh Muhammad al-Ghazali's autobiography]

Reassurance!

2010-10-22T08:02:00.003+08:00

Warnings are being issued by the top Umno leadership that blood will flow on the streets if Umno were to get kicked out of office. Malaysians are being told to be wary of May 13 Version 2, that may happen if Umno does not retain power.

They did the same thing in 1999. The Prime Minister then, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, went live on television to warn Malaysians that if Barisan Nasional were to lose its two-thirds majority in Parliament then chaos will rein.

A Barisan Nasional without a two-thirds majority in Parliament will be a weak Barisan Nasional, said the Prime Minister. And a weak Barisan Nasional will not be able to guarantee the safety and security of its people.

In 1969, the ruling party lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament, the Prime Minister reminded us. And what happened after that? There was rioting on the streets and many people died.
So, don’t let 1999 be a repeat of 1969, warned the Prime Minister.

And it worked. Many people, in particular the non-Malays, did not vote for the opposition. They sheepishly admitted that they support the opposition but voted for Barisan Nasional because they were scared of the race riot that the Prime Minister promised would happen.

But that was back in 1999. In 1999 the people were scared. But in 2008 many voted for the opposition and no race riot happened. This was because 50% of the Malays also voted for the opposition, as Umno admitted. And the anti-Umno Malays far outnumber the Umno Malays.

Umno could not even get 100 Malays onto the streets of Kampong Baru in the aftermath of the 2008 general election. But the opposition can get 50,000 Malays onto the streets any time. So, if the handful of Umno Malays want to start trouble, they will have to face tens of thousands of other Malays.

No, if riots do start it will not be a la 1969. The next riot, if it happens, will be Malays facing Malays. The Indians and Chinese need not participate in this May 13 Version 2. They can just stay at home or go to Singapore or Thailand for a short holiday. Let the Malays handle this matter.

The Indians and Chinese need not fear anything. Dr Hatta Ramli has already issued a challenge. PAS will form a human shield. The Malays from PAS will emerge in great numbers to face those Umno Malays who want Indian and Chinese blood. As Dr Hatta said, “Over our dead bodies.” The Umno Malays would first have to slaughter all the PAS Malays before they can reach the Indians and Chinese.

And let me assure you: many other Malays not from PAS are also issuing this warning. The Indians and Chinese are our brothers and sisters. And if the Umno Malays want to harm them then they will have to first deal with the non-Umno Malays.

And this is because the non-Umno Malays are Muslims first and Malays second. This is what Islam demands of Muslims -- to be Muslims first and last while racism is haram or forbidden.

And in Islam justice must prevail and the non-Muslims must be protected even to the extent that Muslims go to war with Muslims to protect the life of the non-Muslims. This is Islamic justice. And in Islamic justice no one must be persecuted or discriminated against because of his or her race.

So, is it not good that PAS is an Islamic party? Notwithstanding the fact that there are some in PAS who aspire to see Malaysia transformed into an Islamic State (which can never happen unless PAS wins more than two-thirds of the seats in Parliament), an Islamic party like PAS is good for the non-Muslims because this party upholds Islam, which means the non-Muslims receive protection against persecution and discrimination.

Umno does not know what it is getting itself into. It had better tone down that race riot rhetoric lest it backfires on them. If they think the Indians and Chinese are going to react like they did in 1999 -- they reluctantly voted for Barisan Nasional out of fear -- then Umno is going to be in for a surprise.

Today, the Indians and Chinese have faith in their Malay brothers and sisters. They know that May 13 Version 2 being bandied about by Umno is not going to be a Malay versus non-Malay incident like back in 1969. May 13 Version 2 is going to be a Malay-versus-Malay affair with the non-Malays standing on the sidelines as mere spectators.

And if you think this is not so then go ask the non-Umno Malays in Pakatan Rakyat. Hear it from their own mouths. And they will tell you exactly what I have just said.
-Raja Petra Kamarudin

p/s No Raja Petra is not talking rubbish. InshaAllah consider me as one of your protectors if there is any chance those UMNO extremists are kicking up troubles.

As stated in the sayings of our Prophet Peace Be Upon Him :

"Barangsiapa yang menyakiti ahlu dzimmi, dia telah menyakiti diriKu (Rasulullah s.a.w), dan barangsiapa yang menyakiti diriKu bererti dia menyakiti Allah"

Hadith riwayat Thabrani dengan sanad baik.

Definisi ahlu dzimmi/dzimmah: semua orang bukan Muslim yang berada di dalam negara kaum Muslimin secara baik, dengan membayar jizyah (konteks sekarang cukai) dan mentaati peraturan yang berada di dalam negara itu. Hak mereka sama dengan hak kaum Muslimin . Darah dan kehormatan mereka sama dengan darah dan kehormatan kaum Muslimin. Mereka harus dilindungi dan tidak boleh disakiti sedikit pun.

you up for a drink, mate?

2010-10-19T17:40:00.003+08:00

Three Situations Commonly Encountered By Muslim Students Regarding Alcohol in Newcastle

This article is written so as to give guidances to the new students on how to deal when they inevitably encounter these issues regarding alcohol. I personally have experienced two of these situations.

SITUATION 1
Christmas is around the corner and your friends/colleagues left you with a bottle of wine as a Christmas present before you all left for Christmas holidays. What to do with the wine? Can you give it away to your other non muslim friends?

EXPLANATION:

Just as the sale of alcohol or receiving the price of it is haram for the Muslim, likewise giving it as a gift to anyone, such as a Christian or Jewish friend, is haram. Alcoholic beverages cannot be received or given by a Muslim as gifts because a Muslim is pure and neither gives nor receives anything except what is pure.

It is reported that a man brought a cask of wine to the Prophet (peace be on him) as a gift. The Prophet (peace be on him) informed him that Allah had prohibited it. 'Shall I not sell it?' asked the man. 'The One Who Prohibited drinking it has also prohibited selling it,' replied the Prophet (peace be on him). 'Shall I not give it to a Jew as a gift?' asked the man. 'The One Who has prohibited it has also prohibited that it be given as a gift to the Jew,' said the Prophet. 'Then what shall I do with it?' asked the man. 'Pour it on the ground,' the Prophet replied. [1]

Conclusion: Pour the wine into any place suitable e.g sinks etc.

SITUATION 2

"Come join us at the club/pub/bar/party. No you do not have to drink any alcohol. there are Coke and juices provided. Or alternatively, you can just enjoy the snacks served." Your best friends invited you eagerly.

What to do? Surely it is allowed to socialize with them if you don't drink. There is no harm in going with them to the pub, right? After all, you can just drink the juice.

EXPLANATION:
In the same spirit, the Muslim is ordered to stay away from drinking parties or gatherings at which drinks are served. 'Umar narrated that he heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) saying: "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day must not sit at table at which khamr is consumed." [2]

While it is the duty of a Muslim to eradicate the evil he sees, if he is unable to do so, he must stay away from it, leaving the place where people are engaged in such things.

It is reported that the rightly-guided Caliph 'Umar ibn 'Abdul'Aziz used to flog not only those who drank but those who sat with them as well, even if they were not themselves drinking. When once he was told of a group of people who were at a drinking party, he ordered that all of them be flogged. He was told that a person who was fasting was among them. "Begin with him," he said. "Have you not heard Allah's saying, “And He has revealed to you in the Book that when you hear the revelation of Allah rejected and mocked, you are not to sit with them until they turn to some other theme; for if you do so, you will be like them.... "(4:140)

Conclusion:
Your are not allowed to sit in a gathering where drinks are served, unless there is no other choice. So, reply them with this instead.
a) Mate, what if we go for a cup of coffee instead. Costa is just around the corner. that way, we all can relax and have a chat.
b) you know what mate, tomorrow i'll cook Malaysian food, why don't you come over to my flat instead. We can have a very long chat then.
c) Any other suitable alternative

SITUATION 3.

"Mate, you don't drink alcohol at all? not even a sip? No, alcohol in moderation will not harm you. Researches have shown that it helps with our health, especially for your heart. Come on, just a sip will do."

EXPLANATION

Islam takes an uncompromising stand in prohibiting intoxicants, regardless of whether the amount is little or much. If an individual is permitted to take but a single step along this road, other steps follow; he starts walking and then running, and does not stop at any stage.

This is why the Prophet (peace be on him) said, "Of that which intoxicates in a large amount, a small amount is haram." [3]

And again, "If a bucketful intoxicates, a sip of it is haram." [4]

Conclusion: You have to say no to alcohol even if it is a drop. Say to your friends/colleagues, "Sorry, i choose not to drink, even if it is a sip" They will respect your decision.

References:
[1]Reported by al-Hameedi in his Musnad.
[2]Reported by Ahmad and At-Tirimizi
[3]Reported by Ahmad, Abu Daud and at-Tirmizi
[4]ibid

All explanations are excerpts from The Lawful and The Prohibited in Islam by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 2003. First published 1960.

Wallahua'lam

running

2010-10-19T06:41:00.002+08:00

no you are not listening. i was on the verge of breaking down, still am and you didn't even ask me what happened to me. i have never used the word breaking down before. don't you notice it? that was a plea for help. notice the Somewhere poem?

say

2010-10-15T05:48:00.003+08:00

don't worry about that. I am fine. seriously. after all I am just an insignificant person to you. who happens to love you with all his heart.

yume

2010-10-11T18:03:00.002+08:00

i forgot her birthday until a week passed by.

i was worried her presence in my heart is slowly but surely slipping away.

she entered my dream a few days ago.

since dreams supposedly tell us what's in our subconscious,

i guess the dream reassured me that she is still the one.

fi qalbi.

7 october 2010

2010-10-07T17:59:00.002+08:00

why oh why?

somewhere

2010-08-29T23:30:00.004+08:00

i'm gonna draw a picture
a picture with a twist
i'll draw it with a razorblade
i'll draw it on my wrist

if i do it correctly a fountain will appear
drowning all my sorrows
drowning all my fear

Zagreb, thanks for the memories

2010-06-19T05:44:00.002+08:00

You have to be brave to love somebody. Especially if you know you are not meant to be together.

love you enough to let you go

2010-06-19T05:19:00.003+08:00

we were always meant to say goodbye.

The Story

2010-06-19T03:42:00.002+08:00

"InshaAllah saya setuju dengan pinangan awak. Tapi untuk mengahwini saya, saya ada satu syarat". Perlahan kata-kata si dia.

"Ok, inshaAllah saya cuba sedaya upaya untuk penuhi syarat tersebut, selagi ia masih di bawah kemampuan saya", jawabnya. Hati lelaki itu berdebar-debar, namun dia tahu, apa-apa pun yang akan berlaku adalah yang terbaik untuknya. Semuanya telah dirancang dengan penuh teliti oleh Rabb al alamin.

" Saya mahu, jika awak kahwini saya, cinta awak terhadap saya, tidak melebihi cinta awak untuk Islam". Si dia menyatakan syaratnya, lembut tetapi tegas menyatakan pendirian.

"Alhamdulillah, pilihanku tepat", hati kecil lelaki tersebut melafazkan syukur. Dengan lafaz bismillah, dia menyatakan persetujuannya. "InshaAllah saya sedia dengan syarat tersebut."

Semua yang hadir tersenyum dan bertasbih, meluahkan kesyukuran. Menangislah si syaitan yang ingin membawa anak Adam ke lembah kemungkaran.

"Tetapi sebelum itu, saya juga ingin awak tahu suatu perkara", si lelaki menambah. Hadirin yang lain berpandangan sesama sendiri. Apa yang ingin disampaikan pemuda tersebut?

Kali ini si dia pula yang berdebar-debar. Apakah yang ingin diberitahu bakal teman dunia dan akhiratnya itu?

"InshaAllah awak akan jadi isteri kedua saya. Jadi awak perlu bersedia, kerana bagi saya, perkara paling penting dalam hidup saya adalah isteri pertama saya."

Si dia sedikit terkesima. Apa yang dimaksudkannya? Adakah dia akan berkongsi hati lelaki itu? Apakah dia akan diduakan?

"Isteri pertama saya adalah Islam. Kasih pertama saya adalah untuk Islam. Cinta saya yang pertama adalah pada Islam. Awak bersedia menjadi isteri kedua saya?". Tenang lelaki itu menyampaikan pendiriannya.

Si dia tersenyum. Bibirnya melimpah kata-kata kesyukuran. Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan Maha Pengasih, Maha Penyayang!

Alhamdulillah!

a short but sweet love story

2010-06-16T20:23:00.002+08:00

time it was, and what a time it was, it was
a time of innocence, a time of confidences
long ago, it must be, i have a photograph,
preserve your memories, they're all that's left of you.

jom!

2010-05-26T18:26:00.000+08:00

mahu fly?

2010-05-25T03:21:00.001+08:00

Banting Extended Experience Predeparture Programme. 23-25 Julai 2010. Jom! Ana jadi fasilitator inshaAllah.

what it's like

2010-05-23T06:08:00.001+08:00

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don’t belong
And no one understands you

Do you ever wanna run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming

No you don’t know what it’s like
When nothing feels alright
You don’t know what it’s like to be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked
When you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one’s there to save you
No you don’t know what it’s like

Welcome to my life

Do you wanna be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more
Before your life is over?

Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies
While deep inside you’re bleeding

No you don’t know what it’s like
When nothing feels alright
You don’t know what it’s like to be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked
When you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one’s there to save you
No you don’t know what it’s like

Welcome to my life

No one ever lied straight to your face
And no one ever stabbed you in the back
You might think I’m happy
But I’m not gonna be okay!

Everybody always gave you what you wanted
You never had to work it was always there
You don’t know what it’s like
What it’s like!

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked
When you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one’s there to save you
No you don’t know what it’s like (what it's like)

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked
When you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one’s there to save you
No you don’t know what it’s like

Welcome to my life

Welcome to my life

Welcome to my life

thank you pak Jib!

2010-05-16T03:41:00.001+08:00

-halal dari segi perundangan, bukan halal dari segi syariat.

Prague, welcome her.

2010-05-11T19:41:00.003+08:00

We are the people whom Allah honoured through Islam, so whenever we seek honour other than it, Allah will disgrace us. [Zaki Afifi, 2010]

p/s Dear Miss in Prague, you know who you are. i won't be beside you, so be careful ok?

qiamullail ila imtihan

2010-05-11T00:00:00.001+08:00

2010-05-10T19:00:00.002+08:00

of all things

2010-05-10T17:35:00.000+08:00

Those who remember Allah standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You! (Exalted are You above all that they associate with You as partners). Give us salvation from the torment of the Fire. al-imran : 191

hurt locker

2010-05-05T01:48:00.002+08:00

In love and in pain.

Kita Menjadi Kanak-Kanak Terlalu Lama

2010-05-02T06:28:00.001+08:00

Salam.

Lihat kepada sejarah, pada usia apakah tokoh-tokoh sanjungan kita berhenti menjadi kanak-kanak?

Anas bin Malik sudah meriwayatkan hadis seawal usia sepuluh tahun, mungkin lebih awal. Ali ibn Abi Talib memeluk Islam juga sekitar usia sejagung itu dan menggadai nyawa di katil Nabi sewaktu usianya sebaya anak-anak mentah hari ini di universiti. Ketika usianya pun sepuluh tahun, Usamah bin Zaid barangkali merajuk muncung-muncung kerana tidak dibenarkan memikul pedang ke medan Uhud. Namun cepat ditebus kehampaan itu dalam Perang Khandak lima tahun kemudian, dan waktu baru-baru mencecah usia dua puluh, anak muda ini sudah mengepalai angkatan perang ke negara Syam melanyak tentera Romawi.

Anak-anak muda yang diabadikan dalam surah al-Kahfi, berapa agaknya usia mereka?

Kami ceritakan kepadamu (Muhammad) kisah mereka dengan sebenarnya. Sesungguhnya mereka adalah pemuda-pemuda yang beriman kepada Tuhan mereka, dan Kami tambahkan petunjuk kepada mereka. Dan Kami teguhkan hati mereka ketika mereka berdiri lalu mereka berkata, "Tuhan kami adalah Tuhan langit dan bumi; kami tidak menyeru tuhan selain Dia. Sungguh, kalau kami berbuat demikian, tentu kami telah mengucapkan perkataan yang sangat jauh dari kebenaran. - Al-Kahf, [18:13-14]

Imam as-Syahid Hassan al-Banna sudah berdemonstrasi menyuarakan penentangan terhadap pemerintahan British ketika berusia 13 tahun. Sembilan tahun kemudian, dalam usia 22 tahun, pertubuhan Ikhwanul Muslimin diasaskan. Dan selanjutnya adalah sejarah, bukan?

Saiyidatina Aisyah r.a., menurut banyak riwayat, menjadi isteri Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. ketika usianya masih begitu kecil. Tentunya dalam usia yang begitu muda juga, berterusan ke akhir hayatnya, bonda kita ini telah menyampaikan pula ilmu-ilmu yang dipelajari langsung daripada suaminya Junjungan yang Mulia kepada para sahabat dari jauh dan dekat.

Berapa pula usia Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. ketika menerima lamaran Saiyidatina Khadijah? (Yang tentu sahaja dalam keadaan sudah dewasa oleh pengalaman, matang bekerjaya, dengan akhlak dan wibawa yang diperakui rata-rata). 25 tahun. Barangkali sebaya usia kita yang masih terkial-kial selepas keluar universiti, terkebil-kebil berhadapan dengan dunia nyata yang rupa-rupanya tidak sama dengan apa yang dikhayal-khayalkan sewaktu di menara gading dahulu.

Kita, jika dibandingkan dengan generasi terdahulu, menjadi kanak-kanak terlalu lama.

Seolah-olah hidup ini terlalu panjang untuk dihabiskan dalam alam bermain-main. Konon masih terlalu muda, belum dewasa.

Mungkin boleh dimaafkan jika sewaktu berusia 6-7 tahun kita masih sibuk bermain pondok-pondok di dalam semak atau menggetis keropok Golden Ring, bersenja dengan padang bola atau menonton kartun sebelum dikerah ibu pergi mandi. Solat ikut-ikutan sahaja, yang lelaki sesekali mengikut bapa ke masjid, mungkin diajar melaungkan bang sebelum berlari ke saf belakang.

Mungkin boleh dimaafkan, kalau ketika itu, kita masih belum mengenal Tuhan, belum peduli tentang dosa atau pahala.

Mungkin boleh dimaafkan jika sewaktu berusia sepuluh tahun kita masih leka dengan komik dan anak patung, atau ralit menonton rancangan nyanyian kanak-kanak bermekap tebal di TV9.

Mungkin boleh dimaafkan, kalau ketika itu, kita masih belum tahu apa itu Islam, apa itu iman, apatah lagi tentang dakwah, jihad, dan pengorbanan. Tentang perjuangan yang sudah menjadi zikir pada lidah dan anggota generasi terdahulu ketika meniti usia yang sama.

Namun masihkah boleh dimaafkan, jika kita sekarang, yang berusia belasan tahun - awal belasan, pertengahan, dan penghujung belasan - menghabiskan waktu bercinta-cintaan, patah hati dan jatuh hati berkali-kali dalam masa kurang satu bulan, menggilai artis pujaan, meratap-ratap apabila calon bintang tersingkir daripada rancangan realiti TV kegemaran, memastikan diri up-to-date dengan gaya paling terkini (tudung pelbagai fesyen, gaya rambut yang disembur dan dilumur gel, kemeja T dan jeans berjenama, mekap dan wangi-wangian yang sepadan), dan apabila ditanya tentang isu semasa, perihal agama, atau masalah dunia, mengangkat bahu tidak ambil tahu.

Sedangkan generasi terdahulu yang sebaya itu sudah berhenti menyangka hidup mereka terlalu panjang. Sudah sedar bahawa makna hayat adalah dengan berjuang. Sudah mengerti bahawa tanggungjawab terlalu banyak untuk ditanggung dan dipegang. Umur belasan tahun adalah umur baligh, bererti umur bilamana dosa dan pahala sudah dipikul sendiri.

Namun kita masih bermain-main - masih mahu menjadi kanak-kanak.

Setelah berusia dua puluhan pun - 20, 21, 22, 23... kita masih menjadi kanak-kanak. Kita terpesona benar dengan keindahan-keindahan dunia - harta, hiburan, lelaki dan perempuan - seperti kanak-kanak yang leka dengan permainannya. Lalu kita bermain, dan bermain, dan menyuakan pelbagai alasan apabila diajak untuk menjadi dewasa.

Ajakan itu datang daripada pelbagai punca. Teman-teman yang sudah meninggalkan alam kanak-kanak, guru-guru yang sudah lama menjadi dewasa, atau suara hati sendiri yang merasakan sudah terlalu jauh beza antara kematangan dan usia. Namun, kita masih berpura-pura tidak sedar, seperti kanak-kanak yang meminta tangguh apabila disuruh ibu untuk mandi setelah senja tiba.

Meminta tangguh, belum mau menjadi dewasa, belum mau sedar dan bekerja, kerana belum bersedia. Meminta tangguh daripada siapa sebenarnya? Malaikat Maut?

Benarlah kata Tuhan dalam al-QuranNya,

Ketahuilah, sesungguhnya kehidupan dunia itu hanyalah permainan dan sendagurauan, perhiasan dan saling berbangga di antara kamu serta berlumba dalam kekayaan dan anak keturunan, seperti hujan yang tanam-tanamannya mengagumkan para petani; kemudian (tanaman) itu menjadi kering dan kamu lihat warnanya kuning kemudian menjadi hancur. Dan di akhirat (nanti) ada azab yang keras dan ampunan dari Allah serta keredhaanNya. Dan kehidupan dunia tidak lain hanyalah kesenangan yang palsu. Surah al-Hadid, [57:20]

Apabila dibanding-bandingkan dengan zaman datuk, nenek, dan moyang, tidak dapat tidak, saya terfikir bahawa budaya dan kebiasaan kita, semakin menjadi moden, semakin mengkanak-kanakkan manusia. Semakin moden satu bangsa, semakin lama waktu yang diperuntukkan untuk anak-anaknya menjadi dewasa. Anak-anaknya diizinkan menjadi kanak-kanak lebih lama. Adakah kerana terlalu banyak yang perlu dipelajari, maka tempoh 'matang' itu diperpanjang? Adakah kerana jangka hayat yang bertambah, maka lebih banyak usia boleh dihabiskan bersenang-senang?

Alasan 'belum habis pengajian' itu menjadi syarat pelepasan yang membebaskan setiap 'kanak-kanak' ini daripada sebarang tanggungjawab. Daripada sebarang tanggungjawab selain daripada 'menumpukan perhatian kepada pelajaran'. Tidak boleh melibatkan diri terlalu aktif dengan kegiatan-kegiatan persatuan, apatah lagi gerak kerja Islam, mohon dijauhkan kalau berani-berani menjinakkan diri dengan politik. Alasan 'belum habis pengajian' itu menjadi benteng sehingga 'kanak-kanak' ini bercinta-cintaan memendam rasa bertahun-tahun kerana tidak dibenarkan berkahwin. Lalu tidak sedikit yang menjadi mangsa, 'kanak-kanak' yang hilang kesucian, maruah dilepaskan, menjadi ayah dan ibu tanpa pentauliahan, tanpa ikatan.

Menjadi dewasa dan matang adalah kewajiban, adalah tuntutan, juga adalah fitrah yang tidak sepatutnya dihalang-halang.

Sampai bila mahu menjadi kanak-kanak? Terkepung dalam dunia indah universiti, dunia riang-ria warna-warni di puncak menara gading, berlari-lari dalam taman bunga bersama sweetheart, sehinggalah 'menerima segulung ijazah', selepas itu automatik akan menjadi dewasa? Bukankah menjadi dewasa itu memerlukan latihan, memerlukan bimbingan? Sempatkah kita belajar menjadi dewasa dalam kesibukan membina kehidupan selepas tamat pengajian, atau mungkinkah kita akan terus menjadi kanak-kanak juga hatta selepas meniti alam kerjaya, alam perkahwinan, dan melahirkan pula anak-anak yang tidak akan menjadi dewasa sampai bila-bila?

Saya bukanlah bermaksud menyeru sesiapa saja yang mahu melakukan apa-apa untuk bertindak sesuka hati, hanya kerana 'mahu menjadi dewasa'. Tidaklah, contohnya, menyeru sesiapa yang mahu berkahwin sebelum tamat pengajian, merempuh apa saja rintangan semata-mata untuk memenuhi tuntutan fitrah.

Kalau kamu masih kanak-kanak, maka melakukan perbuatan orang dewasa tidak akan menjadikan kamu orang dewasa.

Kalau kamu - saya, kita - belum layak berkahwin, maka memaksa diri untuk mendirikan rumahtangga tidak akan tiba-tiba menjadikan kita matang dan bijaksana.

Soalnya di sini, mengapakah bangsa kita, zaman kita, generasi kita - mungkin generasi orang tua kita - mengizinkan, membiarkan, kita, menjadi kanak-kanak begitu lama?

Kesegaran dan kesuburan akal, semangat, dan iltizam menyebabkan usia anak-anak muda adalah usia terbaik untuk membentuk, menghasilkan, dan menggerakkan pejuang. Namun kita membiarkan usia muda itu habis dengan bermain-main dan bersukaria.

Tuntutan fitrah dan biologi mewaraskan anak-anak muda mendirikan rumahtangga dan membina keluarga pada usia awal - tidak terlalu awal, namun tidak pula melangkaui pertengahan dua puluhan. Namun kita membiarkan usia muda itu habis dengan bersenda gurau dan bergelak ketawa, bukannya mendidik dan membentuk mereka seawal mungkin untuk bersedia menjadi isteri dan suami, ibu dan bapa. Anak-anak muda ini diajar segala macam pengetahuan yang wajib dikhatamkan sebelum dibenarkan menjadi dewasa - segala macam pengetahuan, kecuali pengetahuan tentang menguruskan diri dan membina keluarga.

Menjadi kanak-kanak memang seronok. Kita dilepaskan daripada tanggungjawab. Hidup kita adalah bermain-main, berfantasi, sesekali beridealisme dan berdebat tentang itu dan ini. Teori dan kerja kanak-kanak tidak ubah seperti skrip permainan askar lawan penjahat atau 'rumah' untuk bermain pondok-pondok, yang dibina daripada ranting dan daun-daun kering. Sesekali watak Power Rangers, Cinderella atau Prince Charming akan tambah menceriakan suasana, dan kita merasakan betapa menjadi kanak-kanak sungguh bahagia.

Masyarakat, sistem, malah keluarga kita sendiri memberikan bermacam-macam alasan untuk kita terus menjadi kanak-kanak dan lari daripada kewajiban, daripada kedewasaan, untuk kita mengelak daripada mempersiapkan diri menuju kedewasaan.

Kanak-kanak yang meninggal dunia sebelum baligh, insyaAllah akan meluncur laju ke syurga.

Bagaimana pula dengan 'kanak-kanak' tua yang usianya tamat, usianya renta, sebelum sempat menjadi dewasa, kerana terpesona dengan alasan yang dicipta oleh masyarakat, dicipta oleh sistem, dicipta oleh diri sendiri?

Terlalu panjangkah usia, sehingga mahu berlama-lama menjadi kanak-kanak yang ralit dengan permainan-permainan dunia?

Dijadikan terasa indah dalam pandangan manusia cinta terhadap apa yang diinginkan, berupa perempuan-perempuan, anak-anak, harta benda yang bertumpuk dalam bentuk emas dan perak, kuda pilihan, haiwan ternak dan sawah ladang. Itulah kesenangan hidup di dunia, dan di sisi Allahlah tempat kembali yang baik. Surah Ali Imran, [3:14]

adibah abdullah, ummuhurayrah.blogspot.com

ataphijau

2010-04-27T17:33:00.002+08:00

Alhamdulillah all praise be to God, almighty and all merciful, i am successful in the auditions to be the guest writer of AtapHijau.com. I will join their team of writers under the pen name Laniaz_

AtapHijau.com dinaungi oleh AtapHijau Group, yang telah mengembangkan aktiviti mereka bersama AtapHijau Nasyid Group, dan kini menapak lebih jauh melalui AtapHijau Business.

secret

2010-04-26T22:16:00.004+08:00

a secret glance
a smile exchanged
when we passed each other
on that footpath
confirmed that my heart is yours
and yours, mine.

the second

2010-04-21T13:24:00.004+08:00

Wanted a perfect life
Yeah smile then die old
Fame, money, women
Phat cribos and white gold
Drive my own Beemer
Before I hit two six

A straight pink bitin' toothpicks
Who walk around town wit' two chicks
And doin' new hits to woo tricks....
Now that's wrong
Pleasure from partyin'
And bull ish don't last long

A lotta yuppies sneakin'
Cars out when dad's gone
Crackin' bottles in clubs
Frontin' designer fashion

But I ain't about
To trade happiness for a Jag
So stop smilin' with your ragtop down
Cause for a fact I don't care about your money
Or how slick your car

'Cause no matter how rich and big you are
It's still Allahuakbar.

alhamdulillah-too phat feat yassin

wife talk

2010-04-20T23:43:00.008+08:00

"Dikahwini wanita itu kerana empat perkara; iaitu harta kekayaannya, keturunannya, kecantikannya,dan agamanya. Maka utamakanlah (dalam pemilihanmu itu) wanita yang beragama, nescaya sejahtera hidupmu" (riwayat Bukhari dan Muslim)

I am sure all of us have heard this hadith before, and are familiar with it. We are encouraged to look for soleh and musleh woman to be taken as a wife. In deciding to marry a woman, our Prophet s.a.w asked us to give more weight on her piety than all three other characteristics. Yes, i surely agree. We certainly want a wife who is soothing to our heart.

For some men though, we have another criterium that we take into account before we decide on whether we will ask the girl's hand for marriage. And from my personal experiences, i think this criteria is the most overlooked by women trying to woo their husbands' heart.

The criterium i am talking about is the way a woman treats their mother-in-law i.e Their husbands' mothers. Our mother, with regard to her being the most important woman to us, we certainly want her to be treated kindly and graciously by all people.

Hence, since we will be married to our future zaujah for our whole life (inshaAllah), it is of more importance that we have a zaujah who can treat our moms kindly.

"And We have enjoined on man (to be dutiful and good) to his parents. His mother bore him in weakness and hardship upon weakness and hardship, and his weaning is in two years - give thanks to Me and to your parents. Unto Me is the final destination." Luqman : 14

As Allah swt says in the verse above, we have to treat our mother the best that we can due to all the hardships they endured in bearing us. To have our wife treating our mother kindly and graciously will surely be appreciated in our part.

In other words, the love our zaujah shows towards our mother, we will consciously or unconsciously translate it as love towards us husbands. It's really not hard to woo the heart of your husband, just love his mom:)

Sadly, as i said previously, this is one criteria overlooked by some married women. They not only do not treat their husbands' mothers kindly, but they treat their mother in laws badly. Which is for me, a saddening situation.

"Dan Tuhanmu telah perintahkan, supaya engkau tidak menyembah melainkan kepadaNya semata-mata dan hendaklah engkau berbuat baik kepada ibu bapa. Jika salah seorang dari keduanya atau kedua-duanya sekali, sampai kepada umur tua dalam jagaan dan peliharaanmu, maka janganlah engkau berkata kepada mereka (sebarang perkataan kasar) sekalipun perkataan "Uff" dan janganlah engkau menengking menyergah mereka, tetapi katakanlah kepada mereka perkataan yang mulia (yang bersopan santun)" al-isra: 23.

Again, if Allah swt asks us men to behave this way to our mothers, we surely want our wife to do the same. I do not think it is hard to show love towards the mother in laws. I will be really happy to have a wife who call and visit my mother once in a while, listen to her when she is telling stories, talk to her when she has problems or saddened by anything.

In short, most men wish for a wife who can make our moms happy having her as a daughter in law. It is not hard isn't it?

Some of you girls might ask, how can we (the men) know how our future zaujah will behave towards our mothers, if we are not yet married and the girl has not even meet our mother? It is simple really. We observe how you behave towards the older women. In context of UK Eire, that means how you behave towards 'kakak-kakak postgrad' and the wives of the 'abang-abang postgrad'.

If you are kind and gracious towards the 'kakak-kakak', we can say you will almost certainly be the same towards our moms.

So, on a cheeky note, be careful the next time you are with the kakak-kakak. Somebody might be watching :)

Oh, and our moms will be very happy.

alhamdulillah

2010-04-20T18:51:00.003+08:00

I feel the heat
From these 4 candles burning
As I'm staring out the window
In solitude I look at life
From different angles

Thoughts strangled
My mind is suffocatin'
In this truth quest
A greed law
That we abide by is ruthless
Enough will never satisfy
Until we toothless

Filthy millionaires
Are gamblin' until they muflis
A sad fact of life
But mankind approved this
I gotta call Him Sajadah is where the booth is

I'll make it clear that I ain't even tryin' to preach here
By sharing thoughts I hope
To find a little peace here
I thank Allah for blessing me
To be creative
So here's a diss for me
For bein' unappreciative

Alhamdulilah-Too Phat feat Yassin

trial and error

2010-04-20T18:38:00.006+08:00

Dai'e -dai'e yang diuji, jangan putus asa dan jangan sedih, ujian yang ditimpakan kepadamu, sama ada ditukarkan kerja, diberhentikan pengajian, dihantar pulang bukanlah sia-sia. Ingatlah, kita diuji disebabkan pegangan kita. Dan pegangan ini adalah sebaik-baik pegangan!

"Dan mereka tidak marah dan menyeksakan orang-orang yang beriman itu melainkan kerana orang-orang itu beriman kepada Allah Yang Maha Kuasa, lagi Maha Terpuji!"

al-buruj: 8

Dan kepada penzalim-penzalim, yang menimpakan bencana kepada kami atas sebab iman kami, jangan kamu lupa amaran Allah swt kepada kamu! Jangan kamu sangka kekuatan dan kuasa kamu di dunia ini dapat menyelamatkan kamu dari api neraka, jika kamu tidak bertaubat.

"Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang menimpakan bencana kepada orang-orang lelaki yang beriman dan orang-orang perempuan yang beriman, kemudian mereka tidak bertaubat, maka mereka akan beroleh azab Neraka Jahannam dan mereka akan beroleh azab api yang membakar" al-buruj:10

with His willing

2010-04-17T06:50:00.001+08:00

Dan jangan sekali-kali kamu mengatakan terhadap sesuatu: " Sesungguhnya aku akan mengerjakan itu esok pagi kecuali (dengan menyebut) "InshaAllah" . Dan ingatlah kepada Tuhanmu jika kamu terlupa dan katakanlah "Mudah-mudahan Tuhanku akan memberikanku petunjuk kepada yang lebih dekat kebenarannya daripada ini". (Al-Kahfi ayat 23-24)

repentence

2010-04-16T23:41:00.000+08:00

SesungguhNya Allah mengasihi orang-orang yang banyak bertaubat dan mengasihi orang-orang yang sentiasa mensucikan diri. al-baqarah : 222

UK Election Debate

2010-04-16T22:54:00.003+08:00

Last night, the leaders of three biggest political parties in UK; Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat battled out their manifestos and visions for Britain live on television, with Nick Clegg from Lib Dem came out victorious.

p/s I am praying for the day Malaysia will be as open as UK. It will be super awesome to watch Dato Seri Najib Razak, DS Samy Vellu and DS Chua Soi Lek debate TG Haji Hadi, Lim Kit Siang and DS Anwar Ibrahim!

qiamullail

2010-04-13T00:48:00.002+08:00

romance of the foccacia

2010-04-12T03:59:00.002+08:00

dedicated to my future zaujah. i learn how to bake this bread so that i can bake it with you, when we get married.

p/s i don't have any idea whatsoever who my future zaujah is, so do not start any rumours :)

`always

2010-04-11T05:25:00.001+08:00

ich gehore zu nur.

friendship

2010-04-10T06:51:00.001+08:00

zaujah

2010-04-08T03:03:00.004+08:00

For those hoping for a soleh and musleh zaujah, remember this. Make dua'. Keep on making dua', from now! This very moment. Remember, dua'. InshaAllah, Allah swt will make it easy.

Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pengasih, Maha Penyayang. Ya Tuhan kami, anugerahkanlah kami isteri dan anak-anak kami sebagai penyejuk hati kami, dan jadikanlah kami imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa. Ya tuhan kami, berikanlah kami kebaikan di dunia dan kebaikan di akhirat, dan jauhkanlah kami dari azab neraka. Amin.

enlighten me then, beautiful.

2010-04-06T13:34:00.002+08:00

"Saya tidak akan bercakap tentang isu Palestin. Saya tidak akan bercakap tentang bagaimana Theodore Hertzl menghalalkan penjajahan Palestin. Saya tidak akan marah dengan pemberian Palestin kepada Zionis oleh British.

Saya tidak marah apabila Husni Mubarak menutup sempadan ke Gaza kepada rombongan Viva Palestina. Saya tidak kecewa melihat pemimpin-pemimpin Arab Islam tidak bersatu. Saya tidak sedih Bosnia diserang Serb kerana Serb mahu memerintah seluruh tanah Bosnia.

Saya tidak marah apabila Zionis ingin membina 1600 lagi penempatan baru di tanah Palestin. Kenapa? Sebab itu isu politik. Maaf, saya tak main politik. Politik ini kotor."

He said with sarcasm, to his friend who still think politics are dirty, including the organizasation and the people involved in it.

"Semua isu yang kamu timbulkan itu isu politik Islam. Kita mesti ambil tahu dan ambil peduli. Kita mesti berjuang memastikan Islam tidak dipijak di seluruh dunia. Politik di negara kita lain. Kotor! Apabila kamu memasuki sesuatu yang kotor, kamu juga akan turut sekali kotor. Saya tidak ingin terlibat." The friend replied.

"Oh, jadi politik di Malaysia bukan politik Islam lah ya? Bukankah Islam itu syumul, merangkumi semua perkara, seperti yang sering kita laung-laungkan? Ini termasuklah perihal pemerintahan di Malaysia.

Kenapa apabila ada di antara kita yang bersama organisasi yang melibatkan diri dalam politik sebagai SALAH SATU medium dakwah, kamu pandang sinis? Kenapa apabila isu Palestin timbul, kamu boleh berjuang bermati-matian mempertahankan mereka, tetapi apabila sebahagian dari kalangan kita bersama cuba berjuang menentang kezaliman di Malaysia, kamu tinggalkan kami?

Jangan kamu lupa, isu Israel, isu Mesir, isu Bosnia itu isu politik. Friends, why the double standard?". He replied again to his friend.

"Tak, kau tak faham." The friend said.

END OF STORY

P/s Enlighten me then, of what i do not understand.

the two things

2010-04-06T12:08:00.004+08:00

Kepada dai'e dai'e di medan dakwah, jangan kamu ragu dengan janji Allah. Segala cabaran, kekusutan, halangan malah masalah peribadi yang terjadi, MESTI ada hikmahnya. Jangan kamu lupa janjiNya:
O you who believe! If you help (in the cause of) Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold firm. (muhammad:7)

Namun, jangan pula kamu lupa, segala kesusahan yang berlaku tidak akan diatasi hanya dengan berserah sambil mengharapkan pertolongan daripadaNya. Sesungguhnya Allah tidak akan mengubah sesuatu nikmat yang dikurniakanNya kepada sesuatu kaum sehingga mereka mengubah apa yang ada pada diri mereka sendiri. Dan sesungguhnya Allah Maha mendengar, lagi Maha Mengetahui. (al-anfal:53)

Work!, both for Islam and for your life in this world. Jazakumullah khairan jaza. May Allah gives you the best reward.

Think!

2010-03-31T17:58:00.000+08:00

PM, so is it based on merit, needs or race? TPM, so are you Malaysian or Malay first?

tasted ashes on my tongue

2010-03-31T00:52:00.002+08:00

it's really hard. It is.

iqra'

2010-03-27T07:46:00.003+08:00

list of reading for the holidays: 1) Where does it hurt? Max pemberton. 2) May on Motors, James May. 3) For Christ's Sake, Ahmad Thomson. 4) Marilah Berkenalan Dengan Ahl-Sunnah wal Jamaah, Hafiz Firdaus Abdullah. 5) Way to the Quran, Khurram Murad. 6) Lionboy The Chase, Zizou Corder. 7) Lionboy The Truth, Zizou Corder. 8)Reread Kesalahan Fakta Sejarah Islam dan Pembetulan, Prof Ibrahim ali Sya'wat

my other half

2010-03-25T08:12:00.001+08:00

Am eagerly waiting for halfourdeen.com to go online. This June inshaAllah.

kenapa?

2010-03-17T23:49:00.001+08:00

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Kepada sesiapa sahaja yang sedang diuji, moga-moga Allah memudahkan urusan kamu dan meletakkan kamu bersama orang-orang yang memperjuangkan agamaNya. May this note give you solace and comfort in the face of the trials and tribulation. InshaAllah.

Kenapa Aku Diuji ?

"Apakah manusia itu mengira bahawa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan; "Kami telah beriman," sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya kami telah menguji orang-orang yang sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui orang-orang yg benar dan sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui orang-orang yg dusta."
- Surah Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3

"Demi sesungguhnya! Kami akan menguji kamu dengan sedikit perasaan takut (kepada musuh) dan (dengan merasai) kelaparan, dan (dengan berlakunya) kekurangan dari harta benda dan jiwa serta hasil tanaman. Dan berilah khabar gembira kepada orang-orang yang sabar. (Iaitu) orang-orang yang apabila mereka ditimpa oleh sesuatu kesusahan, mereka berkata: “Sesungguhnya kami adalah kepunyaan Allah dan kepada Allah jualah kami kembali.” Mereka itu ialah orang-orang yang dilimpahi dengan berbagai-bagai kebaikan dari Tuhan mereka serta rahmatNya; dan mereka itulah orang-orang yang dapat petunjuk hidayahNya." [al baqarah:155- 157]

Kenapa Perkara ini Terjadi kepadaku ?

"Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu, Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui."
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 216

Kenapa Ujian Seberat Ini ?

"Allah tidak membebani seseorang itu melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya. "
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 286

Salahkah Apa yang Aku Buat?

“Oleh itu berikanlah sahaja peringatan kepada manusia, dan janganlah berdukacita kiranya ada yang menolaknya, kerana sesungguhnya engkau hanyalah seorang pemberi ingatan; Bukanlah engkau seorang yang berkuasa memaksa mereka (menerima ajaran Islam yang engkau sampaikan itu)” [al-Ghasyiah 88: 21-22]

Rasa Sedih, Kecewa & Marah ?

"Janganlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan janganlah pula kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah orang-orang yg paling tinggi darjatnya, jika kamu orang-orang yang beriman."
- Surah Al-Imran ayat 139

Bagaimana Harus Aku Menghadapinya ?

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Bersabarlah kamu (menghadapi segala kesukaran dalam mengerjakan perkara-perkara yang berkebajikan) , dan kuatkanlah kesabaran kamu lebih daripada kesabaran musuh, di medan perjuangan), dan bersedialah (dengan kekuatan pertahanan di daerah- daerah sempadan) serta bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah supaya, kamu berjaya (mencapai kemenangan). "
- Surah Al-Imran ayat 200

"Dan mintalah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan jalan sabar dan mengerjakan sembahyang; dan sesungguhnya sembahyang itu amatlah berat kecuali kepada orang-orang yang khusyuk"
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 45

Apa Yang Aku Dapat Daripada Semua Ini ?

"Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari orang-orang mu'min, diri dan harta mereka dengan memberikan syurga utk mereka...
- Surah At-Taubah ayat 111

Aku Tak Tahan !

"..dan janganlah kamu berputus asa dari rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya tiada berputus asa dr rahmat Allah melainkan kaum yg kafir."
- Surah Yusuf ayat 87

"Oleh itu, maka (yakinlah) bahawa sesungguhnya tiap-tiap kesukaran disertai kemudahan. (Sekali lagi ditegaskan:) : bahawa sesungguhnya tiap-tiap kesukaran disertai kemudahan."
-al-inshirah ayat 5-6

Kepada Siapa Aku Berharap ?

"Dan kepada Tuhanmu sahaja hendaklah engkau memohon (apa yang engkau inginkan)"
al-inshirah: ayat 8

"Cukuplah Allah bagiku, tidak ada Tuhan selain dariNya. Hanya kepadaNya aku bertawakkal. "
- Surah At-Taubah ayat 129

I'll end this rather long note with my favourite hadith of all:

"Diriwayatkan oleh al-Imam Ahmad, daripada Suhaib radhiyallaahu `anhu beliau berkata, suatu ketika Rasulullah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam duduk bersama para sahabatnya dan tiba-tiba Baginda ketawa. (Melihatkan keadaan sahabat yang terkejut) Baginda berkata: Apakah kamu tidak mahu bertanyakan aku apa yang menyebabkan aku ketawa? Mereka berkata: Ya Rasulullah, mengapa engkau ketawa?

Rasulullah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam bersabda: Ajaib sungguh perihal seorang mukmin. Semuanya baik belaka untuk dirinya. Jika dia mendapat sesuatu yang disukainya, dia memuji Allah lalu hal itu menjadi kebaikan buatnya. Dan jika dia ditimpa sesuatu yang dibencinya, dia bersabar. Lalu hal itu menjadi kebaikan buatnya. Bukan semua orang yang boleh menjadikan segala perkara adalah baik untuknya kecuali orang Mukmin."
[Riyadhus sholihin: Bab Kesabaran]

Wallahua'lam.

The Young Wizard from Kingdom of Hospia

2010-03-15T03:49:00.012+08:00

A young wizard walked into the Department of Mishaps on one fine morning. That day marked his one month training in the art of human carpentry. He was looking forward to work in that department as he expects that there will be tonnes of monster to be defeated. (He is still young and naïve..)

The young wizard had to work with another wizard of a different level on that day. For the purpose of the story, the wizard [level 2] is called Ron. He never work with Ron before, hence he normally won’t listen to other people comments about him.

Ron, the level 2 wizard, informed the young wizard to act like a fully trained wizard, and use the spells he learned to treat the humans afflicted by the monsters. However, even the smallest of treatment spells that the young wizard needed to cast, he needed to complete the agreement parchments. The parchments needed to be sealed in blood by the humans along with the wizards who will fight the monster causing the maladies.

Despite this being the magical period where King Arthur and Lancelot ruled over the land, the laws of the land was quite advanced. For each human being afflicted by the malady caused by the monster, the person must agree first to be treated by the wizards or witches. Who knows, the wizard might put a different charm or spell on the humans and cause other problems.

If that happened, they can bring the wizard or witch to the King of Hospia's court and ask the King to punish the wizards. And this, ladies and gentleman, are carefully documented on the agreement parchment.

However, the laws of the Kingdom of Hospia's Magical Infirmary says only level 2 wizards can seal the parchments. Hence, Ron took all the liberty to use his magical quill to seal all the parchments with his blood, so that the young wizard does not have to find him every time he needs to treat humans. What’s that? Illegal, I heard some of you saying.. You decide. Don’t ask me. I’m just the village's storyteller.

Wizards and witches are helped by fairies in this magical infirmary. These fairies come in variety of shape and sizes. Some are overly painted, for some unknown reason. Maybe they thought the monster will be afraid of their painted face. I would say that I’m afraid of their overly painted face. I don’t know how the wizards survive.

Many of the fairies are helpful but you get the handful who cause a lot of trouble.The fairies job is to mix the potion and give it to the human and sometime cleans them. But they are too obsessed with writing down their report despite most of the time, the report has mere lines of unimportant and inaccurate information. Ok. Enough with the fairies.

However, this story will not be complete without the tale of one particular fairy. This fairy who had seen Ron sealed his blood on all the consent parchment, took the liberty to inform the witch of Department of Mishaps. This witch however, is a Queen witch. She had mastered the art of Mishaps that she literally owned the department the young wizard was working in.The witch asked the young wizard for all the signed parchments. She even went to the extreme of calling Ron and asking him to give explanation.The young wizard got scared. He know his life is doomed for the day.

His magical brick, which the young wizard owns to speak to other faraway wizards, suddenly produced a sound. He heard on the end the voice of Ron, ranting about trust, protecting each other back and saying that he is not a lazy wizard.

Eventually, Ron turned up into the Department, and the young wizard had to bear all the ranting, that includes a history lesson of how Ron was trained, how hard life was for all the Level 2 wizards and witch years ago, and how the teamwork is important and how the young wizard had lost his trust. Ron also demanded that the fairies who whistle-blowed his misdemeanor to admit, but fairies being fairies, protect each other, and in the end, the young wizard bear all the abuses.

From then on, he knows his life is going to be hard.He sheepishly followed Ron during the day, weaving through the Department of Mishap casting his spell to all the monsters. It was probably the stress that makes the young wizard incapable of doing things well that afternoon. Even the simplest spell could not be cast. It was all wrapped up when Ron gave a final blow to the young wizard. ‘You are incompetent, call the next witch now. I want you to be replaced’.

Well, the young wizard had another three months to be trained in the art of human carpentry. He knows that the next three months won’t be that easy now.

As he contemplates his series of unfortunate events, he doesn’t know in what way can he learned from this event. He could get other young wizards to side with him and make the level 2 wizards life a mess, or he could learned and prove to Ron, that he is wrong.

Either way, the main problem did not stem from him. It was Ron who sealed the parchment with his own blood, and it was the fairy that informed the Queen witch about Ron's wrongdoings. But like in any other magical infirmary in the land, the young wizards and witches are always at fault.

The young wizard used to come to work with a big smile that makes some of the fairies perplexed at his demeanor. That was then, when he worked to save the little humans from the monsters. Now, the young wizard dreaded to go to work and smiling will no longer be a simple task for him.

p/s Edited for clarity from Yusuf Abu Shamsi's facebook note.

ease and don't make it difficult.

2010-03-12T06:29:00.004+08:00

I have a hypothetical situation to tell you. I am gonnna make it short and concise, so bear with me, ok?

Suppose you are very hungry. Very. But then your legs are chained to a pillar. You can't move except your hands.

In front of you, you see a slice of pizza. It is a bit mouldy. or rather 'basi' if you like.

2 metres away from you, you can see a perfect steaming plate of nasi beryani. You, unfortunately, can not reach the plate. You are chained, remember?

You are still hungry. Very hungry.

Will you not be tempted to eat the pizza that you can reach instead? Even if you know for sure, you will have a diarrhoea from hell. You will suffer from that piece of mouldy pizza.

I guess you will be tempted. You will. Am i right?

jangan pernah panggil namaku

2010-03-05T05:40:00.001+08:00

selamat tinggal kasih tak terungkap
kisah kita takkan abadi.

titled

2010-03-01T01:14:00.000+08:00

God speed you boy.

everybody else

2010-03-01T01:03:00.001+08:00

You better run for the hills before they burn
Listen to the sound of the world
And watch it turn

I just want to show you what I know
And catch you when the current lets you go

Or should I just get along with myself
I never did get along with everybody else
I've been trying hard to do what's right
But you know I could stay here all night
And watch the clouds fall from the sky

This river is wild
This river is wild

Tentatif Approaching the Quran

2010-02-28T17:23:00.002+08:00

Assalamualaikum wbt

InshaAllah kursus sehari Approaching the Quran akan berlangsung Sabtu ini, 6 MAC 2010. Butiran seperti berikut:

Masa: 10am-5pm
Tempat: Newcastle University Medical School , NE2 4HH

Tentatif:

Sabtu, 6 MAC 2010
10.00 am

Ketibaan Peserta

10.30 am
Sesi Pertama: Talk “Approaching The Quran” oleh Speaker Jemputan

1.00 pm

Solat dan Lunch

2.00 pm
Sesi Pengenalan IMAM oleh wakil IMAM

2.15 pm
Sesi Kedua : Group Work: “How To Solve Contradictions In the Quran”

4.15 pm
Sesi Soal Jawab

4.45 pm
Penutup dan Sesi Pembahagian Cenderahati Kepada Speaker Jemputan

5.00 pm
Majlis Bersurai

sunyi

2010-02-26T00:53:00.003+08:00

"Dan solatlah 2 rakaat dalam kegelapan malam, sebagai persediaan kesunyian kubur" Hadith

sky

2010-02-25T16:22:00.002+08:00

Forgive me o The Most Forgiving

1 Bukankah Kami telah melapangkan bagimu: Dadamu (wahai Muhammad serta mengisinya dengan iman dan hidayat petunjuk)?
2 Dan Kami telah meringankan daripadamu: Bebanmu (menyiarkan Islam);
3 Yang memberati tanggunganmu, (dengan memberikan berbagai kemudahan dalam melaksanakannya)?
4 Dan Kami telah meninggikan bagimu: Sebutan namamu (dengan mengurniakan pangkat Nabi dan berbagai kemuliaan)?
5 Oleh itu, maka (tetapkanlah kepercayaanmu) bahawa sesungguhnya tiap-tiap kesukaran disertai kemudahan,
6 (Sekali lagi ditegaskan): Bahawa sesungguhnya tiap-tiap kesukaran disertai kemudahan.
7 Kemudian apabila engkau telah selesai (daripada sesuatu amal soleh), maka bersungguh-sungguhlah engkau berusaha (mengerjakan amal soleh yang lain),
8 Dan kepada Tuhanmu sahaja hendaklah engkau memohon (apa yang engkau gemar dan ingini).

al-insyirah: 1-8

~Never forget

2010-02-20T13:25:00.003+08:00

Assalamualaikum Wr Wbt

Never Forget

Al-Duha (Daylight) Sura 93: Verses 6-11

"Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? And He found you wandering, and He gave you guidance. And He found you in need, and made you independent. Therefore, do not treat the orphan with harshness, nor chide him who asks. But the bounty of your Lord, proclaim."

These verses of the Quran carry several teachings: being both an orphan and poor was actually an initiatory state for the future Messenger of God, for at least two reasons.

The first teaching is obviously the vulnerability and humility he must naturally have felt from his earliest childhood. This state was intensified when his mother, Aminah, died when Muhammad, peace be upon him, was six. This left him utterly dependent on God, but also close to the most destitute among people.

The Quran reminds him that he must never forget this throughout his life and particularly during his prophetic mission. He was orphaned and poor, and for that reason he is reminded and ordered never to forsake the underprivileged and the needy.

Considering the exemplary nature of the prophetic experience, the second spiritual teaching emanating from these verses is valid for each human being: never to forget one's past, one's trials, one's environment and origin, and to turn one's experience into a positive teaching for oneself and for others.

Muhammad's past, the One reminds him, is a school from which he must draw useful, practical, and concrete knowledge to benefit those whose lives and hardships he has shared, since he knows from his own experience, better than anyone else, what they feel and endure.

Credit to Nik Madihah Nik Azis.

of higher moral ground

2010-02-19T14:24:00.000+08:00

So now Khairy Jamaluddin is showing that demostration is Malaysians' culture? What type of hypocrisy is this?

This is your life

2010-02-18T14:47:00.001+08:00

Brilliant really. It only happens in Malaysia.

We have tolerance without dialogue.
We have a C4 murder without motive.
We have fighter jets without engine.
We have submarines without diving capability.

After all that, what's a sodomy without penetration?

Don't you think it's brilliant?