tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29837982368930001842024-03-12T22:52:54.883-05:00~pencarinur~sungguh aku cari cahaya itu...pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-5285310376753637712011-08-16T17:34:00.003-05:002011-08-16T18:25:07.610-05:00Letting go of 'old clothes'<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>I stumbled upon a really nice tweet from a friend, which goes like this:<div>
<br /></div><div><blockquote><i>Love the feelings that I get when getting rid of old clothes. To let the past to be a past and looking forward into the future. Moving forward. - leolumpy</i></blockquote><div>
<br /></div><div>Which 'wowed' me for a second. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Wow because firstly I am no fan of getting rid of old clothes. If there's such an award of being 'The Clingiest Person to Old Clothes', I could have won. Mak always complained about my wardrobe looking like supermarket and the content looks like water in the sea. Because that is how they look like. I keep clothes and especially tudung from 5, 6, 7, 8 years back; when bawal is so in, and tudung with kerawang at the back is chick. Heck, I even keep the tudung I wore for night prep in high school! Skip the tudung, I even brought along almost all of my old clothes when I checked in to UIA for further study, and yes, never wear them anyway. Why eh?</div><div>
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<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.dressyourbodytype.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/messy-closet.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><i>not my real wardrobe, kapish?</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">
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<br /></span></div><div>I found letting go is hard. Not only of the old clothes. They are like metaphor of my past. I guess.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Clinging to the past is a huge burden. It's like a metal ball and chain like inmates used to wear, follows wherever they go and it's hindering the steps. And like inmates, I never wanted to be chained like that, as much as I don't want to look back to my past. People says 'why look back'? I'd say, 'it's not easy as it sounds'. The past is chained to my leg, whether I like it or not, it will be part of me for the rest of my life. It's not like I've never tried to get let go, but everytime I thought everything is resolved, seems the ball and chain are still there. My old clothes are still there. I don't want to say I am afraid of the future, but I guess at some point I am. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Maybe getting rid of the clothes is the first easy step that I can do. And I hope I can feel the feelings my dear tweet friend felt after. :)</div><div>
<br /></div><div> </div></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-28369874530501561602011-07-10T12:00:00.000-05:002011-07-10T12:00:04.683-05:00Tafsir Surah Al-Mulk (4)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKrumidx8GQ9cIlX9oYUpmo-Cc_kX0hPkbwGpERvXrkmgTfZHkh9ylQNvTY0AH6b2DA3uK_P-MMLY_-r4Bo5RUOH67M_HzZoZtXLt_ameDI81otgP0fFl7lg0O5RUHmGfnppVwyLegKg/s1600/67_20.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Theme: How Can You Feel Secure From The Punishment of Allah While He Is Able to Seize You However He Wills</span></b></u></div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></u></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKxEAeg36s0NwR-xzhubYRe4CXI2ZTmCVjqVhVSGIr6b3Oe_x6L8i71Oj2s546B2ywEuu0LTDgN7HUomGd5I1tliOnHYBmATtApJymz2vkUXjcXW2iOSx_PNRuxc3sObKU29RvcbNOJDw/s1600/67_16.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 36px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKxEAeg36s0NwR-xzhubYRe4CXI2ZTmCVjqVhVSGIr6b3Oe_x6L8i71Oj2s546B2ywEuu0LTDgN7HUomGd5I1tliOnHYBmATtApJymz2vkUXjcXW2iOSx_PNRuxc3sObKU29RvcbNOJDw/s400/67_16.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623531681695480546" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Do you feel secure that He who [holds authority] in the heaven would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway?</i></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4w2hA7QOOO6rLjoNkveuio3J6fdKqzPLhmW-kSYXlCFlF4ZVoOJ7dmUVl0Osee3WqX3_1eQhcNb3njTG28cBG72TOyqEUq4rT8IM6xznLa6XxGiM-WqlckAp5Ed86Ohg40TRFcC8S3s/s1600/67_17.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 71px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4w2hA7QOOO6rLjoNkveuio3J6fdKqzPLhmW-kSYXlCFlF4ZVoOJ7dmUVl0Osee3WqX3_1eQhcNb3njTG28cBG72TOyqEUq4rT8IM6xznLa6XxGiM-WqlckAp5Ed86Ohg40TRFcC8S3s/s400/67_17.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623531677708804098" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Or do you feel secure that He who [holds authority] in the heaven would not send against you a storm of stones? Then you would know how [severe] was My warning.</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPGF3Tg9OZcicd6H33Cv7LvEXr8R73x2248TyfwoWubKFWKGXA0LY4oh1BJBDexNO2BOy5OECT9okhIB21wcwZ246AiFVQYdxGxwe-tdtZIYwSYGsjNhb3faC6RYyLA6r9t85Gh_kvrg/s1600/67_18.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 33px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPGF3Tg9OZcicd6H33Cv7LvEXr8R73x2248TyfwoWubKFWKGXA0LY4oh1BJBDexNO2BOy5OECT9okhIB21wcwZ246AiFVQYdxGxwe-tdtZIYwSYGsjNhb3faC6RYyLA6r9t85Gh_kvrg/s400/67_18.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623531675724362690" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>And already had those before them denied, and how [terrible] was My reproach.</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><u>Notes:</u><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " ><img src="http://cdn.webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/land-water-fire-sky-disasters.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 468px; height: 302px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) How can we feel secure living in this world doing sins, when Allah's punishment can happen anytime He wants; His punishment can happen in the form of natural disaster and when that happened, Allah did not separate believers and the disbelievers; everyone will suffer the calamity equally. Why? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">Earlier in the surah, Allah has described life as a test. For the believers, this type of test (natural disaster and calamity) can help them to enter jannah, if they have patience and perseverance. So Allah is actually helping them attain jannah, by hardship. Look how merciful Allah is.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; " ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; " ><b><u>Theme: The Flight of The Birds is By the Power of Allah, and It is a proof that He Sees Everything, Big and Small</u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; " ><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; " ><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBhC5AKgnWJfQzAZV2mIfwSu2mnOpXOMADWPdr5J0sPbnAyfatatvHPI2oExkHzi9KZx0XokE6dQBpZ3nbFUonWvNWyHlX-3wAd5KcbkM4aZX-1HTwCnWJXuBrWx8bYI2wAhmEpd0g6w/s400/67_19.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623537647993452098" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 74px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Do they not see the birds above them with wings outspread and [sometimes] folded in? None holds them [aloft] except the Most Merciful. Indeed He is, of all things, Seeing.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " ><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJW7lRo00nkf7Eb8owUB68p6wEPINYr5yOSdyxklihbwTeyX7AZA" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 187px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) This ayat is provoking us to look at how the birds spread their wings and fly in the sky, verily Allah is the one who holds every single one of them in the air.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) Why do Allah mentioned birds?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- If Allah can see and hold the birds in the air and maintained their provisions, we have to have faith that we too are taken care of in every single need. However, we still have to make effort because Allah will not change anything unless we change ourselves first.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- If Allah can see tiny birds in the sky, Allah can see us committing sins also. Indeed He is All-Seeing.</span></span></div><div><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></b></u></div></div><div><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></b></u></div><div><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Theme: No One Can Help You And No One Can Grant You Sustenance Except Allah</span></b></u></div><div><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></b></u></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKrumidx8GQ9cIlX9oYUpmo-Cc_kX0hPkbwGpERvXrkmgTfZHkh9ylQNvTY0AH6b2DA3uK_P-MMLY_-r4Bo5RUOH67M_HzZoZtXLt_ameDI81otgP0fFl7lg0O5RUHmGfnppVwyLegKg/s400/67_20.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623540857199557106" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 70px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Or who is it that could be an army for you to aid you other than the Most Merciful? The disbelievers are not but in delusion.</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5nCtPWcjy0c2xvsMy-dkp7dwsxW32syxtsll3RnQhRxnQpmfr_oDmVc8VbYaOHw2w2qBkXLmxKH7A4o-YdTLbj5GNV-_rs9QyPRFEbU_H3_eHJP0Tpd_xudolgrR3kTTtxmRr1pBEK4/s400/67_21.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623540853760402498" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 38px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Or who is it that could provide for you if He withheld His provision? But they have persisted in insolence and aversion.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">1) Allah is the only one who can help us whenever we feel like there's no hope. During the war of Badar, the Muslim army were outnumbered by 313 vs. 10,000. But they had attained victory with Allah's will, where He aided them with His army (the angels). So have faith with Allah, indeed He is the best helper.</span></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-67874808249328449972011-07-04T12:00:00.000-05:002011-07-04T12:00:00.264-05:00Tafsir Surah Al-Mulk (3)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCcl3Y4ASWs4DgMBu0g6sxV0kLkKUFZPatC5ibADR58xcim2vRc9lH0wLvUO_vGS7g-TM0OEwLCOqlc1cCIcz9PA10XQ0OTcUfwpi7Q2Tuhuvy-l7HVqVjAvxkVKpZpEUktzeiZpgg4To/s1600/67_12.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><u><b>Theme: The Reward of Those Who Fear Their Lord Unseen</b></u></span><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></u><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></u></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCcl3Y4ASWs4DgMBu0g6sxV0kLkKUFZPatC5ibADR58xcim2vRc9lH0wLvUO_vGS7g-TM0OEwLCOqlc1cCIcz9PA10XQ0OTcUfwpi7Q2Tuhuvy-l7HVqVjAvxkVKpZpEUktzeiZpgg4To/s400/67_12.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623327140927096962" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 35px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Indeed, those who fear their Lord unseen will have forgiveness and great reward.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) "Ajrun kabir" = "ajrun kareem" = jannah. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) The concept 'fear' in 'fear of Allah' has no negativity. Fearing something or someone usually has negative connotation in it; this fear comes with some hatred where we usually don't want to encounter them, they bring bad feelings to us. But in the context of 'fear of Allah', fear here is out of love. When we love Allah, we fear to do something that He did not like, fear of His punishment and of not being able to see Him in jannah.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEUYac7NGFudAB8SDvuyJJloid-9jw8Xd06k-g2EinnAcOalXhZIhIig-5muezWFhIYCb83zcO50xPc-rZrGPLglYi_BEvzWypIYZE_PUYEHdz8IIqesn_-X4btRoBUWeGT5ZdqSdkJjw/s400/67_13.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623329913482836754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 31px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>And conceal your speech or publicize it; indeed, He is Knowing of that within the breasts.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3kKSyowwE3oYnpvxy7LARsnaAb_WUbdvr68TKLpYxh5NtD3vs4HBijusVOQCXQ9aFAamd9u7zwxu64ZfPRZph8xTKFss1WjO6GaDhGGZC0tOy_cyZwGL81_y5rEZX8yU9va7UyA4VMk/s400/67_14.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623329918812413474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 33px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted?</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) Allah knows everything in our hearts, even the unspoken ones. There are 2 stories of the revelation for [67:13]:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Story 1: There was a spot called Darul Nadwah during the time of Rasulullah SAW. This was where the Musyrikin sat down and discussed plots to kill Rasulullah SAW. Abu Jahal was one of them. But plot after plot, they still failed to kill Ar-Rasul. So one day Abu Jahal figured that they should keep their voice down by whispering so no one could hear them discussing. But verily Allah is All-Hearing.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Story 2 (incomplete): Two men were talking about something bad and said they should speak slowly so Allah won't hear them. But verily Allah is All-Hearing. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Indeed there are no barriers for Allah. Unlike us human, some things are unseen to us because we are barred by space and time. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) When an ayat ends with Allah's name, it is relevant to the meaning of the ayat. Like ayat number 14 which ends with "Al-lateeful khabeer". "Lateef" mean very tiny, gentle, nice, "khabeer" means knows the ins and outs of His creations. Relevant to the theme of the ayat which talks about Allah is All-Hearing of everything in ones heart; and His forgiveness and great reward to the people who fear their lord unseen. Try ayat number 2 (ends with "ghafurrurraheem" - almighty and forgiving).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><b>Theme: Allah's Favor of Subjugating The Earth To His Servants</b></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtl87hPspweegxgh3_ogVaLg-qZh4j4y7vgDNmP3-8ysrHHLLVIr9b_mZUFfJkPieavwKRCKW5UicAau0Ieg7EspsBu3_8OCJiaAMqr1ZGFMfMrQzBAhaCqd-Vrs40T6axcRSSqQezW34/s400/67_15.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623335107285727426" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>It is He who made the earth tame for you - so walk among its slopes and eat of His provision - and to Him is the resurrection.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) Allah has created the world for us as provisions. And He definitely created us for a purpose. Every single one of us will be asked what we did with our lives and the amanah given to us - time, spouses, children, wealth. It is one of the jobs as believers, which is to "...protect yourselves and your families from the hellfire.." [66:6].</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">And bear and mind that He could use air/water/land as mercy, or even as punishment in the world.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) When people do sins, Allah's creations (mountains, sea etc.) will offer to destroy them. Allah will then said, "..leave me alone with my creations, If I created them, I have mercy on them (give them a chance).." (reference needed)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">3) In Surah Al-Zalzalah, Allah described the earth to be shaking, and everything inside the earth will be </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">resurrected. The earth will speak, as a witness of our actions. Every spot on the earth where we make sujud or sadaqah or lying or backbiting, the earth will tell. Based on this ayat "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>That Day, it (earth) will report its news</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [99:4], that people do solat/sujud at different spots in masjid/on the face of earth, because the earth will testify for them in the hereafter.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; font-size: large; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-76557530976938089712011-06-28T11:05:00.012-05:002011-06-28T12:38:54.512-05:00Tafsir Surah Al-Mulk (2)<div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Theme: Creation of Death, Life, The Heavens and Stars</u></b></div><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></u></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nDkgkKl0VjYwuAxjdwc_hhNc4C0MwKdOi3dao759mUZTVZxYpTQsSyNAD2l7lA0EgFJD4E8W18COLG0Ll8hgGzCalBM2Cr7iNXRNcQ-lKkkNwPyJYEXdHxjr84EwO9epYtoHlKRbPCY/s400/67_3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623303497734404786" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 77px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">[And] who created seven heavens in layers. You do not see in the creation of the Most Merciful any inconsistency. So return [your] v</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">ision [to the sky]; do you see any breaks?</span></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomVu04Am-3M3SjtAvriPH-Fb1dQ8n1FsHnVmrkErSB8k0X9nBX7jm8FTcaNW6_g86Rc5bTN_B7C0vvvXofgYF9Oqu-mRJ_y78lOcOVug6cISNfBoSft-0o466Dk_kFaAPdDZMghIX75g/s400/67_4.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623305572102379666" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 32px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>Then return [your] vision twice again. [Your] vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued.</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) Allah is telling the amazingness of His creation (in this ayat, the heavens (sky)). He asked us to find any break or inconsistency in the sky. (in the coming surah we will learn that</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "> the perfect sky will break and open in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">the day of judgement). If one tries to find any imperfection of the sky, he will certainly be despaired.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">2) Allah has created nature to serve us in dunya, while Allah created us to serve Him.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3etCYP939mzUstjg5zCnJj3aOkDcl3n49E2EgNhTXU8dV7IwdtdsicMJo2g8n29_ancnyHXc0sVhJw-ONemia_EvQ9y2PpfttM6ww4ssnK1XDMyF1mAkEu4L-vZkAos5GV9GXXwM4_hg/s400/67_5.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623306995726804402" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 71px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>And <u>We</u> have certainly beautified the nearest heaven with stars and have made [from] them what is thrown at the devils and have prepared for them the punishment of the Blaze.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) 'We' here does not signifies plurality, but to signify the royalness of Allah. Just like when the king or queen says 'We'.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) Allah has created stars for 3 purposes:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- Decorations of the nearest heavens [67:5]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- For navigations. <i>"</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>And landmarks. And by the stars they are [also] guided."</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "> [16:16]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">- Burning the devils [67:5]</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">The devils used to go to the nearest heaven to eavesdrop the conversation between Allah and the angels about the future and fate of human. The devils will steal this information and whisper it to magicians and fortunetellers. Allah will send burning stars to burn them. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">3) the word "dunya" (world) has two meanings: - near - worthless. This world is called dunya because that is what it is - nearest to us before we are headed to the hereafter, and worthless because life 'here' is nothing compared to life 'there'. Verily this worldly life is just adornment and amusements which will end [57:20]</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><b>Theme: The description of Hell and Its Dwellers</b></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m9SuxBEAHQFIbHl761hnEmqjNeiw4a7moVDiXjUONGel31A_8gXin6X1FGyAeiTazDgUiyPcjkyrCurMkgXzkWs03UXR4Vt9s8tK8-uUwZwJj7dhmbAOVlYkygb53uoiFgylKHY4Emc/s400/67_6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623310799656805330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 37px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>And for those who disbelieved in their Lord is the punishment of Hell, and wretched is the destination.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) Kafir comes from the root "ka fa ra" which literally means to cover. A kafir knows the truth but covers/conceals it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">2) The differences between "rabb" and "ilaah":</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- Rabb: to educate, the master, lord. to create something out of nothing and provides His creation. In other context, rabbulusrah = father. because a man start a family 'out of nothing' and provide his family.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- Ilaah: worthy of worship. Allah is al-ilaah, means the ONE who is worthy of worship</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">In this world, Allah provides his creations ample sources for living, regardless if they are Muslims or not. Allah is warning the disbelievers of His punishment in the hereafter.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHCrIp7J2IvEgYa8SuFshPUdPG6kY-IRd2gn7YYlQEQbr2xfc_v0JL2ENjMVWceBt6v5VyvxpG2-z5wkhtHGvrxkaR9w_VFEW1sIutrJNDGhHrxy2GTIF72rne0Spyvo5kB-gllvuxKc/s400/67_7.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623313323211973634" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 36px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>When they are thrown into it, they hear from it a [dreadful] inhaling while it boils up</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6vzkVRu7nXaExoTuETNQYXP_rFf_RrnUO-NDkjFR0_nCvzObh9FYXrgB8iH0xlBWzvEOM6OJNAYg0vtb518UQWRSfrsNtBwiSZO5fynYxRT9fg2aLX47-J3WF8gzkNRK3KtTLpT7geg/s400/67_8.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623313720813366114" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 71px; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span">It almost bursts with rage. Every time a company is thrown into it, its keepers ask them, "Did there not come to you a warner?"</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) Allah is describing the behavior of the hellfire towards the disbelievers in these 2 ayats. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">"syaheeq" means to inhale, the opposite of "zafeer" (to exhale). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">The hellfire is described to have feelings, like human. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">When the hellfire sees the disbelievers from far, it exhales (zafeer) with fury and disgust. <i>"When the Hellfire sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and roaring" </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">[25:12]. And when the disbelievers are thrown ("ulqu" means to be pushed) into the hellfire, the hellfire will inhale (syaheeq) the disbelievers, as in sucking them inside while the hellfire boils up (tafuur). And everytime a person is thrown in, the keepers will ask them "Did not there not come to you a warner?"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ4eM25fi7fmZiwNkkJ9wiV9jQWcl7MFcaGf8Cbm65AfQgMhB21MOrKc_muTtGbkJRpC17yp-Zpk4S4r1f6E5gYxrRFF7Bodnrz6Kcf-228dZogzW0zpuD5GGxrCivz-OUOShqaWLBF1A/s400/67_9.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623321022134822434" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i>They will say," Yes, a warner had come to us, but we denied and said, ' Allah has not sent down anything. You are not but in great error.' "</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTdUASs0Q-S-zak0ZoynHZ6h2n0oMx4f6mowfRKG6XeHPgYgdOw4jNCqSUK0AhYKklxRO_Jyj6pjJzDWlWecGyBAB3qHH4ErAv06gR0u0FJKvFC2Hb1CcKBQNF95BDBnZVcadLQmcbl8/s400/67_10.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623321029659870754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 36px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span">And they will say, "If only we had been listening or reasoning, we would not be among the companions of the Blaze."</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiebhyzvm8ZkvvoYSCWEh67xRTz-RxK-HyHPEX_LPctNyuR2ECLMAMNGi5SgQICS8Iu9Tp_KJy2-qcHS-3TZzc0ZKFpdbLYh1g3gCYPIfimRtY2guhex852qznwd8rKHKvyeLrbfKqrKms/s400/67_11.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623321032063323170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 34px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span">And they will admit their sin, so [it is] alienation for the companions of the Blaze.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><u><span class="Apple-style-span">Notes:</span></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">1) And they (the disbelievers) will admit that they did received a warner but denied it. They will repent but it is all too late, Allah will not accept their repentance.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">They will even ask Allah to bring them to life again and promised to be a better person. <i>"</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Our Lord, remove us from it, and if we were to return [to evil], we would indeed be wrongdoers." </i>[23:106]. But on that day, everything will be too late, and Allah knows best that they will not do the things they promised. "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>He will say, "Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me." </i>[23:108]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Question: How about the people who lives in a very remote place where they never heard about Islam. Are they counted as disbelievers?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Answer by Syeikh Reda Bedeir: We are accountable of things that are we have control with only (things that we can choose). If no warner has come to these people, then they are not accountable for it. Wallahualam. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-43988678170439851532011-06-22T11:11:00.011-05:002011-06-28T11:05:09.032-05:00Notes from Al-Maghrib: The Eternal Journey, Tafsir of Juz Tabarak (Surah Al-Mulk)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKPvp_9KtzJowiD6xrjmqkZHfBzxXqZ-zV-LxNyVcq1s4FoIu3jEWMol_XmpfVAVcsEk2p2A-yIE3QL-mpzf0wuRVTVUbWtQ-lDg0MWrgH7n3Xuedbs3iJoNzCNBaVJbk2mYjUPvd1JM/s1600/67_2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Theme: Glorification of Allah</b></span></u><div style="text-align: center; "><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0e_ZpaOUuEIjDsWGWfjL5jBmDXivTzGmj_VjoPX_x7gAtxKPoXa4I1iaGPkmOw_WhM6crMMF4AMjC57B8_bgR1xLeI8hCd8rnHhdAMXj4T3M01CxgHOBCTOsRzNssVCbga2Z3EUNGt4/s400/67_1.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 31px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623302111422955298" /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">1) Does Allah have </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><u style="line-height: 24px; ">hands (yad)?</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "> - When Allah says He has a hand, then He has a hand..who are we to say otherwise? But is His hand is like ours? Absolutely not. "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [42:11]. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">We are not to image or portray Allah because He is beyond our knowledge and imagination. Only the true believers are able to see Allah in jannah, and that is the ultimate reward of those who believe..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">2) The first word: Ta ba ra ka. yu baarik means to exalt, to bless, <b>to increase/make something grow/to fix something/make something consistent. </b>Like when we say 'baraakallahufik' which means may Allah increase the good in you. In this ayat, it is stressing that only Allah who can bless anything.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">3) People tend to put words of Quran in places like cars and houses saying that the words of Quran can give 'baraka' to the people in it. Truth is, only when the Quran is being read, understood and act upon that the 'baraka' may set in, it's not the ink itself.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">4) The best way to describe an ayat from Quran is from 1- Quran from another ayat, 2- Hadis, 3- Sahabah, 4- Poetry. Surah Az-Zuhruf:85 additionally describes what this ayat is about.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "> "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">And blessed is He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them and with whom is knowledge of the Hour and to whom you will be returned.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [43:85]. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Theme: Creation of Death, Life, The Heavens, And The Stars</b></span></u></div><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br /></b></span></u></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKPvp_9KtzJowiD6xrjmqkZHfBzxXqZ-zV-LxNyVcq1s4FoIu3jEWMol_XmpfVAVcsEk2p2A-yIE3QL-mpzf0wuRVTVUbWtQ-lDg0MWrgH7n3Xuedbs3iJoNzCNBaVJbk2mYjUPvd1JM/s400/67_2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623302255764664610" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 68px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i>[He] who created <u>death and life</u> to <u>test you</u> [as to] <u>which of you is best in deed </u>- and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><u>Notes:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">1) Notice in the ayat Allah mentioned </span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">death</i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "> first, then</span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "> life</i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">. Why? It is because before we are alive, we WERE dead, as in non-existent at first.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">2) Al-Maut (death) is also a creation of Allah, hence it will die one day.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">3) Al-Hayaat (life): Life is the life of the heart, not the body. We should calculate life when we are staring to know Allah, realizing the purpose of this life, and being a true Muslim. Try to think of it. How old or how young are we now?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">4) Ya ayyuhallazi naamanu (O People who believes). Allah says this more times than Allah says Ya ayyuhannaas (O People) in the Quran. When Allah says </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">Ya ayyuhallazi naamanu, after this Allah will give command; either He will say 'do this' or 'don't do that'. So after this, we need to pay attention whenever we read </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">Ya ayyuhallazi naamanu and the following ayat, because we are the believers who Allah is calling upon, insyaAllah..</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">5) Sometimes Allah puts a barrier between a person and the heart. The heart is the king of the body. Heart here is not the one pumping the blood, but it IS somewhere in the chest. That's why when we are feeling something, we feel it from the chest. "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">So have they not traveled through the earth and have hearts by which to reason and ears by which to hear? For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts."[22:46]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">6) As it is stated explicitly in the ayat. LIFE IS A TEST. Different people carry different forms of test given by Allah. Some people are given wealth, children and ranks, and some people had wealth, family members or loved ones taken from them. When Allah gives something, that doesn't mean that He pleases, when He denies, that doesn't mean that he displeases. Indeed, everything in life is a test.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter - that is the [eternal] life, if only they knew.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [29:64] </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [2:155]. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">6) Allah says in the ayat that "..which of you is <b>best</b> in deeds". Allah doesn't say, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "> "..which of you is <b>the most</b> in deeds". Quality of the deed is more important than the quantity. There are 2 characteristics of a deed with quality: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">1- intention, do only to please Allah. "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [18:110]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">2- the deed is with accordance of Rasulullah's way of doing it (Sunnah). "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 24px; ">" [33:21]</span></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-83195828535973220562010-06-23T05:05:00.003-05:002010-06-23T05:17:48.491-05:00Modesty and Shame by Nouman Ali KhanAssalamualaikum wrt.,<div><br /></div><div>I feel like sharing a very good article from Bro Nouman Ali Khan. This pertinent reminder can also be enjoyed from this beautiful video lecture: </div><div><br /></div><div>Source: <a href="http://www.igotitcovered.org/2010/04/06/modesty-and-shame-nouman-ali-khan-on-quran-weekly/">http://www.igotitcovered.org/2010/04/06/modesty-and-shame-nouman-ali-khan-on-quran-weekly/</a></div><br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I9C9GiQG4EM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I9C9GiQG4EM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); "><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Transcript:</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br />وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ<br />“And those who, when they have committed Fahisha (shameless acts) or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; – and none can forgive sins but Allah – and do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know.” [Aal-Imran, 3:135]</strong></span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Assalamu alaikum Qur’an Weekly – yet another reminder for you folks and myself, in regards to the wretched evil of shamelessness.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">This is something that the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wasallam feared the most for his followers, and particularly – I just want to be very realistic with you – I’ll share some advice from the Qur’an in regards to this ayah from Aal Imran with you. But before I do:</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Look, we’re living in a time where you are constantly exposed to shamelessness. And you’re exposed to it so much, you’re desensitized to it. So when you see something lewd and vulgar – the first time when you do have your shame in tact, you get disturbed. But if you see it over and over and over again – you don’t even know what the big deal is. Why are people making such a big deal about it? And so you become desensitized, and then you start questioning, “Why does Allah make such a big deal of it? Why is it that it’s such an evil?”</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Understand that when you see something corrupt, like something shameless, something lewd – something your eyes should not be exposed to… or you hear something your ears should not be exposed to… and you don’t find a problem with it anymore – it’s an indication that you’ve got a<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">serious</em> problem in your heart. Because your heart is not disturbed by sin anymore. Your heart is not disturbed by evil anymore.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">That’s a problem. That’s a very deep, spiritual problem. And if you have that problem, then the rest of your iman, the rest of your faith – you will not be able to concentrate in your prayer, you’re not going to be able to cry when you ask Allah. Those things will disappear from your life. Because you have allowed for shamelessness to take over – to take over your life.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">And today, you’re watching this and you have accounts on facebook, you have friends on facebook who have absolutely <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">lewd</em> and shameless pictures. I opened my account on facebook to try to get in touch with some of my cousins from abroad, and then people just want to be my friend – I don’t even check the account anymore. Because I’m scared, if I say “Yes, I want to be your friend” what picture I’m going to see. I’m terrified of that.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Why? Simply because we’ve opened the door, and we don’t feel like there’s a problem – not even a little bit. So this: whether it’s stuff you’re watching on the internet, stuff you see on TV, the kinds of things you say, the kinds of words you use (words can also be shameless), the kinds of language you use that’s shameless – these sorts of things, we’ve become desensitized to, and the more we become desensitized to it, the more spiritually we become bankrupt.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Now Allah says, in this ayah – He says:</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً</strong><br />“And as for those who <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">whenever</em> they do an act of shamelessness” –</span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">They <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">look</em> at something, they <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">go</em> somewhere, they <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">do</em> something, they’re <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">with</em> someone that they<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">shouldn’t</em> have been with, they do something they <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">shouldn’t</em> have done – <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">any</em> form of shamelessness. “Fahishatan” implies <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">any</em> of it – the slightest bit of it, and the worst of it, <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">any</em> of it.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ</strong><br />“They immediately remembered Allah.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">They immediately remembered Allah.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Imagine you’re doing something shameless, your mother walks in on you. Your sister walks in on you. Your brother walks in on you. Your father walks in on you. Your friends see you do something. How humiliated would you be? How embarrassed would you be? How sorry would you feel? You would feel like <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">scum</em>. You would absolutely feel like <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">scum</em>. But now Allah is saying, “You want to save yourself from becoming shameless?” If you do fall into that act, and it’s inevitable that you will – it’s fine that it’s going to happen, but if it does happen, your remedy for protecting you from next time “thakaroo Allah” – <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">immediately</em>, they remembered Allah. Not even “thumma thakaroo Allah” or “fa thakaroo Allah” – <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">immediately</em> they remembered Allah. Immediately.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ</strong><br />“And <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">immediately</em> they asked Allah to forgive their sins.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ</strong><br />“Who’s going to forgive your sins if not Allah, anyway?”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">See, when you do something shameless, you feel really bad about yourself. When you feel bad about yourself, shaytaan comes and says, “How are you going to talk to Allah now? What face are you going to show Him? First you do this, and now you think you’re going to pray to Allah? You hypocrite.” And so you say “Yeah, I shouldn’t talk to Allah, I’m scum.” And you become distanced from Allah. And shaytaan succeeds.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">When you do something evil, especially an act of shamelessness, something that’s humiliating – you go and ask Allah azza wa jall to forgive, <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">immediately</em>.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">And Allah puts a condition. You know, you could become addicted to that. “Yeah, I mess up, I watch this really terrible stuff, and then I ask Allah to forgive me. Ah, I’m pretty sure I’m going to do this next week again….” Allah says:</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ</strong><br />“They didn’t insist upon what they did.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">In other words, when you apologize to Allah, when you’ve begged Allah that you should ward yourself off from this shamelessness, then you <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">knew</em> in your mind – you’ve made a commitment in your mind, in your heart, that you’re <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">not</em> going to come back to it. If you do come back to it – we’re human beings, it might happen. But in your heart, there’s not even the slightest bit of a doubt that you’re abandoning this <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">forever</em>. You’re abandoning it forever. You can’t give up.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">And maybe you’ve tried before, and you’ve failed. You gave it up, then you went back to it. You gave it up, then you went back to it. You gave it up, and you went back to it. So you start saying to yourself, “Yeah, I’ve done this enough times. Probably I’ll be back to it.” No – you’ve already failed. No matter how many times you’ve failed, you <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">cannot</em> have that attitude. That attitude alone means you are <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">not</em>sorry before Allah. You’re not sorry before Allah.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">So those are just some things about the way we have to <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">pray</em> for getting out of the cycle of shamelessness.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Just a little bit of additional advice – practical advice, practically what can you do in addition to the prayer? One of the things you can do is: Don’t be alone. Just don’t be alone. Be with good company. If you have free time, when do you usually you end up in shameless activity? When you’re by yourself. So don’t be by yourself. If you have a laptop or a computer in <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">your</em> room and that leads you to problems – don’t keep it in your room. Or keep the door open. And if you’re going to be with company that leads you into shameless behavior, if you know you’re going to go somewhere where you’re going to <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">see</em> things that are inappropriate – try to change that scene. Try to get out of that scene.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Spend – especially if you’re in college, you have like four, five hour gaps in between classes and you’re doing whatever, in that time – why don’t you just go to the masjid, sit there and study? It’s a<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">safe</em> place, you can’t really mess up there, all that much. Hopefully they don’t have WiFi, right?</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">But the idea is: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">save</em> yourself from putting yourself in situations where you <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">know </em>you fall into that stuff. There are certain places in your house or in your environment, in your world – when you’re in those places, you end up doing bad things, right? It just happens every time you’re in that room, or in that place, you end up doing bad things. Then you should be smart enough to <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">know</em> that and get away from that place. Don’t be there by yourself. Don’t be there alone.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">This is something you <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">have</em> to teach yourself to do, because I tell you: if you’re not able to ward yourself off from shamelessness… and this is a problem for married people <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">and</em> non-married people, but I’m specifically talking to those of you who are not married. When you do get married, you will have <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">messed</em> up married lives. You’ll have messed up married lives. You will have no respect for your spouse. Because you have no respect for shame. Marriage is an act that shows respect for shame. But you’ve already lost all of that respect because of your addiction to… whatever. Right – you’ve lost all that respect.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">So you will have ruined – you will have <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">ruined</em> your family life – you’re not going to be able to be a good husband, or a good wife, or a good parent for that matter. So you’ve ruined your entire life over this addiction. Get out of it while you can.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">May Allah azza wa jall make us able to get rid of our addictions. May Allah allow us to have the gift of good company that keeps us from these shameless activities. I’m not even saying do religious activities. You can just find a healthy alternative. Play sports. Play some basketball, ping pong, whatever it is. But just don’t go into <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">that</em> specific thing. Save yourself from that – before you do good, at least do no harm. At least do that much.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">May Allah azza wa jall protect all of us, especially our youth. I pray, sincerely, for all of you, and the protection of <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">your</em> own iman, and the iman of your family.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 19px; ">Barak Allahu lee wa lakum, wa assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.</p></span></div><div><br /></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-88400742099664063972010-06-12T12:07:00.002-05:002010-06-12T13:03:41.345-05:002 sen pertama di Malaysia..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Assalamualaikum wrt...</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Alhamdulillah..selamat jejak kaki di tanah airku tercinta..dah seminggu lebih jugakla duduk kat rumah ni...tak buat apa sangat pun..menghabiskan beras rumah je..=p sindrom orang lepas grad baru balik ni..huhu</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Rimas jugak idle macamni..kalau di US memang tak senang duduk diam..mesti nak ke sana kemari..ada je la aktiviti yang boleh dibuat...oh oh.<a href="http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20000714_stress.htm">.I think I'm addicted to stress!</a> =p kat mesia ni susah sikit nak bergerak..nak drive jauh mak ayah tak bagi..duit pun kena mintak dari dompet mak ayah, xde pendapatan sendiri macam dulu...alhamdulillah 'ala kulli haal...di mana anda dicampakkan, itulah yang terbaik Allah telah takdirkan untuk anda kan...oh well, bila lagi nak lepak2 dengan mak ayah macam ni..nanti dah sambung study, dah kerja, kahwin, ada anak, tercari2 pulak waktu untuk idle...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Anyways, menjengah2 jugak website dan artikel menarik untuk dibaca pepagi buta ni..mengisi masa terluang. menarik juga artikel terbaru Ust. Hasrizal di blognya Saifulislam.com </span></span><a href="http://saifulislam.com/?p=8187"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Yang Remeh Bukan Temeh: Mulus Berbahasa</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Teringat pulak haritu </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">haritu masa dalam kapal terbang perjalanan dari US ke Malaysia selama 14 jam, tiba2 terlintas di fikiran: kadang2 orang Malaysia ni terlalu tumpu pada detail2 dan ritual yang kurang penting dan mendatangkan pembaziran. kenapa saya cakap macamtu? ni hasil pengamatan saya selama 18 tahun hidup di Malaysia dan 4 tahun hidup di negara orang.. – di Malaysia, kalau majlis rasmi sambut VIP nak kena ada paluan kompang, bunga manggar, ucapan bergilir yang berjinggut orang mendengarnya. sambut VIP kalah raja! kalau sambutan raya pulak kena ada kuih raya berbalang2, kuihnya pulak aduhai bukan main detail nak buat. tu belum cerita majlis kahwinnya lagi. dan banyak lagilah... </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Ni semua gara2 tengok panduan keselamatan flight MAS yang panjang berjela2 macam movie masa dalam kapal terbang haritu, padahal boleh diringkaskan point to point, lagi orang senang faham dan tak lost their attention. 30 minit sebelum sampai mendarat pula, penumpang disajikan dengan panduan berada di KLIA, again, panjang macam movie, dan banyak pula lagu2 yang promote malaysia yang serba cantik dan indah belaka..lagu pun panjang berjela! =p</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: medium;">Tahun lepas saya ada buat short intern di sebuah university di Malaysia waktu cuti summer. ramai prof yang pesan jangan buat master or phd di malaysia, banyak sangat politiknya satu hal. satu hal lagi sebab lambat! diorang sendiri cakap budaya kerja kat malaysia ni lembab sikit. (sangat kot =p) ! banyak sangat cuti, kenduri kahwin, prosuder2 yang melecehkan. master setahun setengah boleh jadi 3-4 tahun! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: medium;">rasanya kawan2 pun boleh bagi contoh lain yang lebih konkrit dan kritikal kan.. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">So, I came to the conclusion that, budaya orang kita memang halus dan indah sangat, tapi kadang2 terlalu tumpu pada benda2 yang remeh dan leceh. pandangan saya, kalau orang2 kita keep it short and simple <b>pada tempat yang sepatutnya</b>, banyak benda boleh kita save – masa, wang, tenaga, produktiviti dan sebagainya...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Lagi, saya rasa orang kita perlu tumpu pada akar umbi sesuatu perkara, instead of busy nak mencantikkan bunga2 luaran.. cantik luar tapi akar cacat buat apa kan. haaa deep meaning ni..=p</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">mungkin ramai juga yang marah dengan statement saya ni..saya ni bukanlah dah lupa akar umbi, anti negara sendiri lepas belajar di luar negeri. dokaih! malahan kalau ada kawan2 yang dok kutuk mesia dan rasa oversea la bagus segala aspek, sayalah orang pertama yang tukang beta =p. sekali sekala kritik perlu juga..</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">ok lepas ni kena fikir apa saya boleh buat untuk baiki ini???</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(62, 88, 103); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">wallahualam..2 sen pertama saya di Malaysia...</span></span></span></p></span>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-6776165097482883912010-04-24T19:40:00.001-05:002010-04-24T19:45:23.512-05:00Things that I will miss the most about USA - part 2<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GXGOGeSGdIOOoZ2Suoj52V8Anq4gKCz_9IsgE8N4FwAChyHyoDR4ioN6mASdiYJOij_UCyosROdLXfReGTv336iZ5z2ZSSjCsZ-HFb7Ey-8gX5gKAlsTmP4jBr5Uc3OEQryF24iFKGA/s1600/IMG00053.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center; ">Assalamualaikum wrt...</div><div><br /></div><div>OK let's continue..=)</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><b>I WILL MISS...</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b>the people..</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div>I will definitely miss my American friends - even though not many =P..And I will definitely miss seeing American around...well, except during Friday night, and weekend night, and whenever they are not sober..=P..don't blame me.</div><div><br /></div><div>MISG people - it's nice working with you guys..with the ups and downs we're in together..the beautiful ukhuwah will always be cherished..</div></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>to all Vandy people, I will definitely miss all 140-something of them...the Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors...and oh, also including all the graduated super-seniors who knew me well or just so-so....and especially to my the SENIORS Class of 2010..we made it guys! We survived 4 years in USA =)..THANK YOU ALL! you guys taught me about life a lot! I mean A LOT!</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs258.snc1/10519_611514597728_4714546_35654264_2222745_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 422px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vanderbilt people...the largest Malaysian community in the USA =P</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>And to every single one who know me or I know them....mak cik Front Desk, Pak2 and Mak2 Guard waktu I kerja Reeve, Abang Obies, Pak Cik Ramadan, Mak Cik Rand,..I will definitely miss you guys too..haha</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><b>I WILL MISS...</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b>Featheringhill Hall a.k.a. FGH, The Engineering School</b></span></div></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>This is where the Kampung Melayu of USA is..hehe..and no, I'm not exaggerating..all 140-something Malaysians in Vanderbilt study Engineering as undergraduates. I don't know what the Mat Salehs think, seeing us in that number.. a diverse environment? competition? threatened? and I definitely have no clue why JPA and MARA keep sending large number of students to Vandy each year even though Vandy is no cheap. I mean NO CHEAP - it's a private school. oh well, in anyway, I will certainly miss this building..and also other academic buildings I've studied in (I hope I don't sound nerdy =P)</div><div><br /></div><div>I remembered having to sneak out from a 7pm-9pm exam, to pray Maghrib at a corner of the stair. Hoping no Mat Saleh will walk by me.</div><div><br /></div><div>And I also remembered praying jemaah with a friend at a safe corner at FGH, and turned out it wasn't safe. We heard footsteps approaching us, and stopped and then walked away..haha.</div><div><br /></div><div>I remembered got stuck in FGH because of the tornado, 2am in the morning...</div><div><br /></div><div>and other countless memories..</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs498.snc3/27186_632682287508_4714502_36405745_1091693_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 603px; height: 402px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Order of Engineer Ceremony..signing the ethics oath..almost an Engineer</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><b>I WILL MISS...</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b>Working as a Front Desk Reeve =P</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div>Besides the income, I profited a lot from this job. A good resume booster when you boost the words, all the soft skills gained and oh, I've also got used to wake up 12am or 4am in the morning and go to work. That gotta be useful one day right? =P. There's not much work for the job really, I just have to sit at the front desk and help people who needs to be helped.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GXGOGeSGdIOOoZ2Suoj52V8Anq4gKCz_9IsgE8N4FwAChyHyoDR4ioN6mASdiYJOij_UCyosROdLXfReGTv336iZ5z2ZSSjCsZ-HFb7Ey-8gX5gKAlsTmP4jBr5Uc3OEQryF24iFKGA/s320/IMG00053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463869674232975026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">While working in one of the Reeve Desk. 4pm-8pm shift</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Countless good and bad memories. The bad ones are of course when I have to deal with drunk people, or rude people, or people with no patience. Oh well, people will always be people..There will be one or two security guards around during late hours, so I'm practically not alone. If I'm lucky, I'll manage to engage into beneficial conversation with the guard - interfaith issues, any issues. If I'm not lucky enough, I will have to engage into unwanted situations with the guard - unwanted long conversation when I have to study for exam, or guard who snores so loudly that I have to listen to songs so not to be awkward =P ..good memory..of course when paychecks arrive..=)))</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>to be continued...insyaAllah!</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "></span></b></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-35618356702649109262010-04-22T20:11:00.010-05:002010-04-22T23:24:31.240-05:00Things that I will miss the most about USA - part 1<div style="text-align: center;">Assalamualaikum wrt..</div><div><br /></div><div>I think it's about time to write this kinda post..since I'm less than 1 month away from graduation and less than 2 months away from leaving USA... and Allah knows better whether or not I will have another chance to come back to USA..sobs2.. =(</div><div><br /></div><div>So..I took inventory of the things that I'll miss about USA..(not particularly or chronologically in order..). One day, maybe 5-10 years from now insyaAllah, I want to be able to read this post and said to myself, "those were the days...=)" and maybe cry...haha.</div><div><br /></div><div>=======================================================</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">I WILL MISS.. </span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Going on road trips with my friends..</span> </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div>I have to admit that I will miss this the most. Be it a road trip to AlMaghrib seminars, AlBayyinah classes, MISG programs, or just a chillin'-out trip with my peeps...the feeling and experience of going out there in a journey, with friends that I love, is certainly unforgettable. Most if not all of our road trips, we drove ourselves... 8-10 hours of drive is normal average for a road trip..I've been in longer ones: 14-15 hours..gosh =P..We usually take turns driving, and along the road we shared stories - intellectual and even non-intellectual ones haha..</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs266.ash1/19338_236741398607_719403607_3058784_39456_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Canada for RIS (Reviving the Islamic Spirit) Convention..the bestest masyaAllah! =) the most iman-skyrocketing experience, longest roadtrip, farthest destination..wish had more moments like that!</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v318/23/125/719403607/n719403607_704263_3990.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip from Atlanta -->Birmingham --> New Orleans --> Panama City. The last destination was totally an ad-hoc because New Orleans was devastated by Katrina Hurricane. So we planned for Plan B that night, and headed to Panama city the next morning. Oh and yeah.. I remembered we ate only Maggi's and junk food for a week or so, for financial reason. Ended up everyone had stomach ache..oh poor poor us =P</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2126/23/125/719403607/n719403607_1213226_2033.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Ohio State University for Tamrin OSU - one of the most unforgettable road trip ever. One of the dangerous I might say..one of the car (the car that I was in, and no I wasn't the one who's driving nasib baik..) spun like gasing in the middle of the highway, because of ice..I literally said my syahadah that time..laailaahailallah..near-death experience..what an experience!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v374/23/125/719403607/n719403607_911546_4015.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Washington DC for Eid Celebration at Malaysia Embassy - This one...had its own story too..we were the only all-sisters in one car..so we were practically being ditched by everyone else..=P. I remembered there was 7-8 other cars probably..and everytime, we were the last one to arrive at the destination..either kena tinggal, or tertinggal and got lost...sian..=P</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs036.snc1/4333_186423240320_755385320_6745512_5670834_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Atlanta, GA for AlMaghrib seminar - one of the AlMaghrib seminars I've attended...can't remember what's the class topic for this one....</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v375/18/28/755385320/n755385320_4714351_5102.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 604px; height: 453px; " /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Hartford, CT for ICNA (Islamic Central North America) convention - I wouldn't say it's a road trip though..but more to 'air' trip =P..we went there by flight coz it's a 16-hour journey by car that we won't be able to afford financially and physically.This was also one of the unforgettable journey..Naziha and I (just the two of us)..finally decided to go to the conference, quite last minute, during school weekend..it's all worth it though. The experience, and definitely the knowledge obtained from the conference.</span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>And..these are the earlier ones I've went to....</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://photos.friendster.com/photos/87/40/4070478/1_487337112l.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 600px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip, Washington DC to Muktamar MISG-IMSA - My 2nd Muktamar...I was the co-driver, for 14 hours straight..but I pity the driver the most..driving for 14 hours straight...During the last days of the trip, we stayed at locals' houses. There were 5 cars for sisters so we splitted to 2 or 3 houses. Me and few other sisters stayed at a Muslim Kazakhztan's house..the auntie fed us very well..I meant too well! =P</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://photos.friendster.com/photos/87/40/4070478/1_369079088l.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 600px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Road trip to Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri for STC MISG (Summer Training Camp) - It's an outdoory activity held by MISG..I just been to one, coz I wasn't in the USA for summer each time..the thing I remembered the most about this one is...it was so hot in the day that we have to cancel most of the activities..other than that, it was a great experience..=)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div>It was such an experience..car broke down, car towed-away for bad parking spot, left car keys in locked car, pulled-over by police, took the wrong highway for 2 hours, near-death experience and list goes on and on..</div><div><br /></div><div>So these are SOME, not all of the road trips that I have been to, from 2007-2010. How I wish I can put all of the pictures here to relive all the sweet memories ..especially the earlier ones I went with the super seniors - Kak Ena, Kak Raihan and others..oh well, people say a picture tells 1000 words, but I say what more important is the memory..=)</div><div><br /></div><div>I realized that it will be not as easy to go on road trips when I'm back in Malaysia. Why eh? I guess money will be a problem, safety and parents' permission... Thus, I definitely gonna miss every single moment I went to a road trip here in US, with every single person I've went the road trip with and of course the experience and knowledge I've gained throughout the journey..</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><br /></b></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-65676272533843529492010-04-21T16:24:00.005-05:002010-04-21T17:05:15.135-05:00High Expectations..Good? Bad?<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://disfunctional.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/envision_expectations_pic.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://edoardoballerini.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/expectations.jpg"></a>Assalamualaikum wrt wbt...<div><br /></div><div>Is it good to set high expectations?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, it depends for who and how high...</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://disfunctional.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/envision_expectations_pic.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 395px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div>It's important to set high expectations for <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">yourself</span></b>..it helps you to work harder, achieve higher and make fuller use of your time. You will <i>automatically </i>work towards meeting those expectations, thus you are becoming more motivated day by day. Setting expectations in life and meeting them will definitely help to increase self-confidence and self-esteem. With a little success, you know you are capable of achieving something and thus you wanna do more. Although, one has to be careful not to set too high expectations because it could lead to detrimental effect, especially to one's self-esteem that is when the expectations failed to be met..Setting inappropriate expectations for yourself are setting up for failure..So..my deduction for this issue is..general rule of thumb: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b>set high expectations, but know where to draw the line</b></span>...</div><div><br /></div><div>One might then ask, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;">How do we know where's the line?</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><br /></span></b></div><div>The key is to challenge yourself without 'overextending' yourself. You know your capabilities, thus you can set up your own appropriate level of expectations...for example: if you usually got C's in school, don't overextend yourself to get all A's in next exam..set B's first, then when you manage to achieve it, set higher for A's. </div><div><br /></div><div>I guess the next big question mark is..is it appropriate to set high expectations for other people?</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know the answer to this question so I asked 'Sheikh Google':</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://edoardoballerini.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/expectations.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 241px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><h2 style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Century Gothic';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Your Expectations of Others</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Just as your expectations about yourself can be harmful, so too can high expectations about others. If you constantly hold others to an unattainable level of high expectations, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">you will constantly feel like people are letting you down</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. This may lead you to believe that </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">others don't care about you</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> or that</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> you don't deserve the attention of friends and family members</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. As you start to apply manageable expectations to yourself, it will also be beneficial to do so to others.</span></div></span></div><div>Gosh....</div><div><br /></div><div>A friend then said to me,</div><div><br /></div><div>"don't expect much azni, dengan org slain dri sndiri takleh ada expectation tinggi. kecewa and sedih tinggi nanti..."</div><div><br /></div><div>From now on, I should expect more of myself, and least for other person..YEaHH!!</div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-81238296484071139732010-03-17T12:29:00.006-05:002010-03-17T14:11:34.886-05:00dedicated to all parents and parent-to-be. Yes YOU!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Assalamualaikum wrt wbt..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I just had an emotional Sociology class today. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We were entering Chapter 13 in the book: Family. A topic which can means 'nothing' to some people, or 'something' to others..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">It's definitely something to the professor...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">******************************************************************</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u81/Parent_supporting_child.gif" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 312px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">There are 7 Competent Parenting techniques, developed by a famous person (I failed to jot down the name =P). And they are:</span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">1- Notice what your child is doing</span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This essentially means - stop everything else you're busy doing, and pay undivided attention to your child, especially during their infant years, and of course during the hard years.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">2- Being able to see behaviors as they emerge by keeping track behaviors across </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> time</span></b></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Again - stop what you're busy doing, and give undivided attention to your children. Most parents failed to fulfill this as they are fully-occupied with their career life. Which is wrong! Parents have to watch their child and their child's behavior. Children do not behave 'all of the sudden' without any reason. For example, children do not develop tantrum suddenly unless something is bothering them. And it is parents' responsibility to recognize this behavior, why is it occurring and treat them. Or ideally, parents have to recognize this behavior at early stage before it becomes a habit to the child. Parents can stop the tantrum from being such and lead the energy to something positive. All of these require undivided attention from the parents.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.freeprintablebehaviorcharts.com/images/tantrum2.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 233px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> tantrum</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">3- Act as you want your child to act, and don't act as you don't want your child to act</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Children copy what their parents do and say. Parenting doesn't mean you have the privilege to do whatever you want to do when you're not allowed to when you were children. If you expect you children not to do something, then you don't do it, or at least don't do it in front of them (sounds hypocrite a bit). Even if it is allowed for them to do it as they get older, children don't know this and they don't wait. The professor gave example of drugs and alcohol. Many cases showed that children had their first drink not from their friends, but straight from home - their parents' drugs and alcohol. Similarly, do we expect our children to be polite and behave when we were screaming and yelling and behave oppositely as we expect them to be? Many said parenting is about disciplining the children. NO it is NOT. It is about disciplining the parents.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">4 - Set realistic expectations that are age-appropriate for the child</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This is important. We don't put too high bars which are inappropriate to our child's age and capability, else they will be confused, exhausted and creates disappointment. However if we put too low expectations, we are almost setting them up for failure. Putting expectations on children are like saying 'I trust you', 'I know you can do this', 'I think you are a responsible person'. It creates countless opportunity to children in developing their interpersonal skills.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">5- Correct children when they don't meet our expectations</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">When our children did not meet our expectations, it is important that we let them know. We don't punish them physically or emotionally, instead we correct them. Ideally, the term 'spare the rod, spoil the child does not applied here. The professor gave a story of how a shepherd guards his sheep. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">A flock of sheep has a guide animal in front of the group where the flock follows wherever it goes. The shepherd will usually stand in the middle or at the back of the flock, and holds a shepherd's rod. He uses this rod to touch the guide animal, at its left side or right side so it will go to that direction and the flock will follow. This is how the shepherd guides his flock of sheep. Now, imagine if he hits the guide animal with this rod. The guide animal will be scared and run away. And what happens to the flock? They will scatter away --exactly what will happen to children if we hit them. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/7047765/2/istockphoto_7047765-sheep-and-shepherd.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 292px; " /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">If a child was hit, he will be scared and tend to conceal his behaviors from you. When this happen, you will not know their true behavior and thus you are not able to correct them. If you make mistake, which you will always do, humble yourself to your child and ask for forgiveness, and never do it again. A child remembers.</span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">6- Affirm children when they meet our expectations</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">When children meets our expectations, we acknowledge them by reward. A reward doesn't have to be stuff, a reward is more rewarding by showing emotions. Say 'Good job', 'Keep it up', 'I am proud of you'. Children appreciate these words a lot compared to tangible stuff. I agree with this 200%</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.yourhomework.co.uk/images/9053.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">7- Deal with your child at THE moment (immediate), act as it never happen</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">If anything happens to your children, your children did something, good or bad, you have to deal with them at the moment. Correct them, and act as it never happen. And if something similar to it happen again which it will always do, do not say the past. The past is past. Don't say to them 'you did this yesterday, 5 days ago, last year..'. Just deal with the issue at that moment, and redeem.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">**********************************************</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Why did I say it's an emotional class?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Because the professor broke down and cried at point no. 5 until the end of class.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">She lost her only son. He died at least 1 year back.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Seeing her like that, and anything about family always breaks my heart - I broke down into tears also.. </span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-77780117888175694722010-03-13T11:11:00.002-06:002010-03-13T11:16:09.446-06:00Self-reflective psychologyA very reflective speech by Sheikh Yassir Fazaga, about self-image psychology.<div><br /></div><div>How we feel about ourselves determine how other people feels about us.<br /><div><br /></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bJFmCG_-_34&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bJFmCG_-_34&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />I loved lectures delivered by Sheikh Yassir Fazaga. Always on the point. </div><div><br /></div><div>Try searching for others on Youtube.</div><div><br /></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-70364110499657790442010-02-20T01:09:00.009-06:002010-02-20T07:39:14.862-06:00My 8 hours diary..<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Assalamualaikum wrt..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I am working 2 shifts back-to-back now, that means 8 hours straight from 12am to 8am..I don't know if I could manage it, but I know somehow I should. I don't want to make the hours go by empty, so I decided to make it beneficial by jotting down what I did and share it with you guys...Mind you, that these aren't my usual routine. The intention of this sharing is purely to encourage myself to be productive and to benefit everyone who read this post..and yeah, I'm also trying to stay awake...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">so here goes...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">======================================================</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">12.13am</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> - Arrived to work. yeah..13 minutes late. I was lucky enough to get to go to work by car tonight, a friend was nice enough to lend me her car (actually she did not enjoy parking it at the garage, so she let me use the car instead. hehe). Unlucky for me though, only a few seconds away from Hank Ingram (my workplace), suddenly I saw in the rear view mirror, a glance of the unpleasantly familiar flashing blue light. Dang right it was the po po..Winding down my mirror, a young female police officer flashed her torchlight towards my face and said, "Ma'am, your brake light wasn't working. Can I see your license please..". With a sigh of relief, I handed my license coolly. The reason was expected, but the timing of such occurrence was not looked forward. I was late for work! But thank you Allah, I got out of the situation financially unharmed =)</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(p/s: to the owners of the car, jangan marah eh I cerita ni kat sini..I love you girls so much la..=D)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">=====================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">12.30am-1.00am</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> - Facebooking</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">=====================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">1.00am-2.20am</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> - I was blog-hopping from one blog to another. And I found this posted in one of my friend's..It's a khutbah delivered by my all-time favorite sheikh, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi. It was breathtaking as usual..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_MDoWLhlK2o&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_MDoWLhlK2o&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />Some notes that I managed to jot down:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">If you ask people what they want the most in life, they would say - Happiness. When we felt uneasy, have problems in life, we have to turn to Allah by worshiping Him, not turning to dunya. For example, when we came back from work and stressed out, we usually turn on the tv, get into social talk, or even backbiting, or visit other people. The things we did, might be haraam might be makruh..Compare this with the sirah of the prophet SAW, when problems afflicted him, he would RUSH to stand up and pray. He once said to bilaal "..oh Bilaal, we want to taste the sweetness of the prayer, do iqaamah quick..".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Once, Hassan Al Basri said, "..Seek happiness in life with one of 3 things - recitation of quran, zikir to Allah and in the solah. If you still do not find happiness, then the door of happiness has been shut for you, there is no other place to attain happiness..". </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"There is a jannah in this world, the only way to enter jannah in the hereafter, is to enter the jannah in this world, and that the jannah in this world is </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">the worship to Allah</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">.."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">[13:28] "Only through the rememberance of Allah, do hearts find rests.."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">When we do good deeds, we are happy. ex: after we fast, after waking up for fajar, after reciting quran -- we tasted happiness. And the converse is also true - when we do sins, (and we always do), we feel that we become farther from Allah, changed our relationship with Allah. The only way to reach tranquility is to worship Allah. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Why do we let the world to seduce us? How many lectures, khutbah and nasihahs have to be told, so that we know? Tomorrow will never always arrive, what else do we need to convince us? How can we ask Allah for help when we don't deserved to be helped? For the sake of Allah, we must change, NOW, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">because we don't know if there is tomorrow</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We have to ask ourselves, "..what am I doing here? Allah SWT has given me 30, 40,50, 60 years to live." Ponder then act. Improve your life to be better. Only then we will reach tranquility, insyaAllah...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">=======================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">2.20am-2.45am</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> - A few minutes before I found the video, I read this article in Suhaib Webb's blog, the post was about 'How to Taste Sweetness in Solat'.. </span><a href="http://www.suhaibwebb.com/personaldvlpt/how-to-taste-the-sweetness-of-prayer/comment-page-1/#comment-15183"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.suhaibwebb.com/personaldvlpt/how-to-taste-the-sweetness-of-prayer/comment-page-1/#comment-15183</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.suhaibwebb.com/personaldvlpt/how-to-taste-the-sweetness-of-prayer/comment-page-1/#comment-15183"></a>It was so reflecting and coincidently relevant to the video, I encouraged all to read it. An interesting story I excerpted from the article: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">The Story of the </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Ansari</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> and the</span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Muhajir</span></span></em></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; "></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">In the </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/abudawud/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">sunan of Abu Dawud</span></span></a></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">, it is narrated with a </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">hasan</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> (good) chain that in one of the battles, the Prophet ﷺ appointed two guards, one from the</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhajirun" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Muhajiroon</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> and one from the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_(Islam)" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Ansar</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">. At one point, the Ansari got up to pray while the man from the Muhajiroon reclined in order to have a nap. A man from the </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">mushrikeen</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">(disbelievers) who was close by saw this, and fired a small arrow at the Ansari who was praying. It hit him, but the Ansari, with some difficulty, removed the arrow and continued praying as the blood seeped from him. The </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">mushrik</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">, upon seeing this, fired another arrow. The Ansari was able to remove it also and continued praying. However, the Ansari could not stand the pain of the third arrow and fell into </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">rukoo’</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> (bowing) and </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">sujood</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">(prostration), and this is when the man of the Muhajiroon woke up, seeing his friend seeping with blood. Upon seeing this, the mushrik fled. “</span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">SubhanAllah</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">! (Glory be to Allah!) Why didn’t you alert me when he first hit you?!” the Muhajir exclaimed. The reply of the Ansari was, “I was reciting a </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">surah</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> (chapter of the Qur’an) that I love, and I did not like to cut it off.” </span></span><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; font-size:13px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Allahu Akbar </span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">(Allah is great!) Imagine this person’s state in the </span></span><em size="13px" color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">salah</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">(prayer).</span></span></p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I was also listening to this song (over and over again =P) when I read the article.. I was currently addicted to the song..(janji tau jangan gelak bila dengar..=P)</span></div><div><object width="380" height="120"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://j.d.e.n.aimini.net/player/mp3/?file=http://j.d.e.n.aimini.net/play/?fid=NEDjEGxedULYD18N48Ee&auto=yes&repeat=yes"><embed src="http://j.d.e.n.aimini.net/player/mp3/?file=http://j.d.e.n.aimini.net/play/?fid=NEDjEGxedULYD18N48Ee&auto=yes&repeat=yes" width="380" height="120" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">hehe =D</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">=======================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">2.45am-3.00am </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">- Facebooking again..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">======================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">3.00am-3.45am</span> -<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "> </span>doing absolutely nothing....can't stop yawning . ok dah penat. but just half way way through. how lah? =P</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">======================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">3.45am </span>- I decided to browse through some universities' website while listening to nasyid songs.. (mostly Mirwana's =P..I wish I have their new album...hmm..)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I also found this article from a friend's FB (ops..FB again =P). It's about 'Signs of the Munafiquun'. A must-read article. Short, sweet and a bit scary I guess...let's go through the checklist: <a href="http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~baba/impiman/series10.html">http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~baba/impiman/series10.html</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">======================================================</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">4.40am</span> - A friend at the other side of the world was kind enough to let me join an usrah online yang dia attended. dengar through skype dia ajelah tapi..in the beginning, they discussed Surah Al-Mursalat [77:1-end]. Later, they were talking about 'Hizbullah yg sempurna dan lengkap'....quite a heavy topic for me..usrah peringkat tinggi ni..=P.but anyhow, I gained something from the session.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">My messy note:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Ciri-ciri hizbullah: [Al-Maidah:54], ciri-ciri kepimpinan (sama seperti sifat Rasulullah)- Siddiq (membenarkan), Amanah, Tabligh (menyampaikan), Fatanah (bijaksana-softskill), ciri-ciri ahli syura: pengetahuan menyeluruh dgn kitab Allah dan sunnah disertai kesedaran dan pengalaman semasa. ciri-ciri tentera Allah (jundullah): kefahaman, taqwa (tasawwuf, tazkiyyatunnafs), taat (haraqi). Pemimpin bertanggungjawab memimpin ke arah kefahaman.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Kisah Hatib bin Abi Balta'ah, sahabat yang mendedahkan rahsia jemaah- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">menulis surat kepada kaum Quraisy di Makkah memberitahu perancangan Rasulullah s.a.w. untuk menyerang kaum musyrikin Quraisy secara mengejut. Ijtihad pada waktu tu tak melabel dia sebagai munafik kerana niatnya bukan utk menghancurkan Islam, tapi melindungi ahli keluarganya dari kaum Quraisy.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the complete story can be read here: <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://usahmadawang.blogspot.com/2010/02/hatib-bin-abi-baltaah-sahabat-yang.html">http://usahmadawang.blogspot.com/2010/02/hatib-bin-abi-baltaah-sahabat-yang.html</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size:medium;">There were lengthy discussions that I didn't jot down, either I didn't catch it, the contents were too confidential or simply I was too lazy and too sleepy to type it in...=/</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">==================================================</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">6.20am</span> - My eyelids were getting heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier......("~_~). Chatted with mom and friends to avoid sleeping...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">7.36am - </span>As always, the final hour always feel like the longest one. hmm...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">==================================================</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">8.00am</span> - DONE! Alhamdulillah! =)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-91477704185342564782010-02-19T05:42:00.004-06:002010-02-19T06:14:33.900-06:00Istikharahlah kamu..<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Often, we have to make major life-changing decisions: to change career or not, to go to graduate school or not, to move out or not, to get married or not..etc.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Istikaharah means to ask Allah to guide one to the right thing concerning any affair in one's life, especially when one has to choose between two </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PERMISSIBLE </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">alternatives. Solat Istikharah is a sunnah. It is a prayer that one may pray if one must choose between two choices: it is two non-obligatory rakaat (that can be recited separately or in combination with the regular sunnah prayers or the prayer for entering the mosque[....]during any time of the day or night, and to recite therein whatever one wishes of the Quran (any surah) after reciting the Al-Fatihah. After the two rakaat, one praises Allah and sends salutations to the Prophet 'aSAW and recites the following doa:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://hatiwanita.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/solat.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 351px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The description of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Salaat al-Istikhaarah</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was reported by Jaabir ibn ‘Abd-Allaah al-Salami (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said:</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"><span><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to teach his companions to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">make istikhaarah in all things</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, just as he used to teach them soorahs from the Qur’aan. He said: ‘If any one of you is concerned about a decision he has to make, then let him pray two rak’ahs of non-obligatory prayer, then say:</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://nursyirah.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/doa-istikhaerah.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 407px; height: 275px; " /></span></i></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i></i>(O Allaah, I seek Your guidance [in making a choice] by virtue of Your knowledge, and I seek ability by virtue of Your power, and I ask You of Your great bounty. You have power, I have none. And You know, I know not. You are the Knower of hidden things. O Allaah, if in Your knowledge, this matter (then it should be mentioned by name) is good for me both in this world and in the Hereafter (or: in my religion, my livelihood and my affairs), then ordain it for me, make it easy for me, and bless it for me. And if in Your knowledge it is bad for me and for my religion, my livelihood and my affairs (or: for me both in this world and the next), then turn me away from it, [and turn it away from me], and ordain for me the good wherever it may be and make me pleased with it.”</span></span></p></span><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Reported by al-Bukhaari, 6841; similar reports are also recorded by al-Tirmidhi, al-Nisaa’i, Abu Dawood, Ibn Maajah and Ahmad).</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">An-Nawawi holds that </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"after performing the istikhara<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">h, a person must do what he/she is </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">wholeheartedly inclined</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to do and </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">f</span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">eels good about doing</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and should not insist on doing what he/she had desired to do before making the istikharah. And </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">if his/her feelings change</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, he should leave what he intended to do, otherwise he/she is not completely leaving the choice to Allah, and would not be honest in seeking aid from Allah's power and knowledge. Sincerity in seeking Allah's choice, means that one should completely leave what he/she him/herself had desired or determined."</span></span></i></span></span></span></i></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sources: </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/6011623/howtopraysalatulistikhara"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.scribd.com/doc/6011623/howtopraysalatulistikhara</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.muslimconverts.com/prayer/How_to_pray_istikharah.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.muslimconverts.com/prayer/How_to_pray_istikharah.htm</span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><br /></p></span>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-14348739371400764992010-02-10T16:14:00.005-06:002010-02-10T16:36:55.649-06:00LIfe is ahead, why look behind?<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3622913/2/istockphoto_3622913-make-your-choice.jpg"></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CHOICES OF LIFE</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(written by: Tamara Lesley)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you were to peer into a looking glass</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What would you choose to see?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A lifetime of many pasts, or a future of certainty?</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My choice whould not be of the past,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why look behind me?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I'd wish to see my life of uncertainty,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I'd have many choices to change my past</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And who I used to be.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I'd strive for adventure in my life and</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Happiness I choose to see.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For in that looking glass of time,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Much knowledge would I find;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Success and earnestness,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for life, I choose this time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many struggles ahead may lie,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">my choice I have made clear.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Until my dying day,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I choose the life of cheer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3622913/2/istockphoto_3622913-make-your-choice.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 380px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Being trapped in the past is a biggest deterrent to being productive... past mistakes, past failures, past emotional turmoils that you can't resolve... here's a quick tip: when the past haunts you, take it as an opportunity to remember Allah's favour upon you that He got you out of that situation/Issue, instead of bea</span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ting yourself down on things you can never change.." - quoted from </span></span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61533584890" title="To tag someone, type @ and then the friend's name" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Productive Muslim</span></span></span></a></span></span></h3></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-72884393433381015572010-02-10T07:01:00.003-06:002010-02-10T07:05:52.788-06:00Alright, here goes! =)<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Time to change to a new layout! =)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>oh yeah..I'm loving this one..call it anything you want..'girlish', 'too flowery'..I love flowers and I always do. A friend call me 'awek bunga' once, and so be it =)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And yeah, I hope Spring will come soon...</b></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-63299089061659575832010-01-30T21:53:00.007-06:002010-02-10T05:35:43.288-06:00A trip to Surgery Room<div style="text-align: center;">Assalamualaikum wrt wbt..</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>Despite the abundance of work that I need to do, I feel like sharing a story from my day, probably one of the most valuable experience in my life..=). A bit outdated maybe, but I think the memory remained well-preserved fresh, at least for me..</div><div><br /></div><div>Last Wednesday, Naziha and I was arranged to go see a hip replacement surgery at St. Thomas Hospital, just a couple of minutes from Vandy. This was not just an ordinary hospital visit. We were about to see how "surgical retractors" were being used in operating room, in order to give us a good idea to proceed on our engineering senior design project..</div><div><br /></div><div>Okay, let's back that up a lil' bit. Before I went on with the surgery story, let me give you guys a good sight of what our senior project is all about..</div><div><br /></div><div>Basically we're designing a "modular retractor" used specifically for hip replacement surgery. Retractors are simple bended metal made from surgical steel, surgeon used them to separate tissues from bone. They have same basic shape and design concept, the differences are only the handle length and the tip. Our project goal is to improve the current retractors design to become modular - by having mechanisms to lengthen the handle, and to be able to detach and connect the tip. It's a straight-forward concept, but far from the easy neighborhood...We can go for a complicated design, might work, but simple is what we're aiming for. And an engineer would understand how hard it is to make a design to be the simplest..KISS (keep it simple stupid, as my Prof. puts it)..Apart from the hard work, I'm loving the whole project because I got to use my 4-year engineering knowledge, and finally put it into action. These are some examples of retractors:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.symjp.com/catalog/gsphoto/HIP%20RETRACTORS.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 640px; " /></span></div><div>Alright..back to the story...we arrived at the hospital around 930am, met with Dave (our advisor, an Engineer working for Zimmer). We were expected to be in the OR at 11am, but only able to get in around 12pm due to some technical misunderstandings...Regardless of that, we got ourselves a permanent badge, mind you, PERMANENT badge. Means we can go to any surgery at anytime we want..=P..I guess that happened by mistake. Two businessmen that came in before us for surgery observation only got a stick-on name tag. haha. The old lady at the counter must have been pitying us so much for having to wait for hours...=P</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2y31twXy-JFDG5uUehSymNFGTtGaeBLrYkt9bSNMTnK5hUVQyDBGeSu72emLIPzY1bE02312sMWJGMdLUyZOwppAJUPW2Jnghev1IUGjsBLqtC6UcppRZ62q4HQ7nl_dWjNM9zkaqVjg/s320/IMG_2544.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432747937829737234" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">hours of waiting, paid off.. =p</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The OR, looks so much like in the movie. I'm a big fan of House MD and ER myself, so I appreciated it very much. We were wearing scrubs, complete with the mask with plastic covering just in case blood splattered, and yeah, shoe covering, if we stepped on blood (eww..gory! =/). The patient was lying down on the surgery table when we got in, anesthesied. In the OR, there were the head surgeon, Dr. Christie (our so-called client), 2 other doctors (Dr. I guess..), 1 lady whose job to pass on the surgical tool to the surgeon, an anesthesiologist, 2-3 nurses to help finding surgical instruments, a guy who observed the video system, Dave, and us two. Poor guy on the surgery table..! =/</div><div><br /></div><div>As for the surgery, it did not look anything like in the movie, especially this one! A lot of hammering, drilling, sawing..simply put, carpentry work! =P.. I guess that's how hip replacement surgery was supposed to be like. And the people around the patient, well, they were less dramatic than the ones in ER or House MD. They all worked peacefully and silently, each person knew what other person wanted, absolutely with no words uttered.. I was understood that they had worked as a team in every surgery, that made them understand each other to that level. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.science-art.com/gallery/117/117_12292004141633.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div>Throughout the surgery, Dr. Christie communicated with us - me and Naziha..he told us every step he was doing, and commented on the surgical tool when he used them, wherever he found flaws on them. Sometimes he pulled out a retractor used on the patient, showed it to us who had to stand 3 feet away from the surgery area, and told us how we can make the design better (and yeah, it was covered with blood..). And one time, a small part like a screw came off a tool, and fell down INTO the patient's wound. Then he said to us, "See this, girls...this is exactly why I don't want screws or small parts on the retractors.. ". that didn't happen everytime, and it happened that time when we were watching! well maybe he did it on purpose,in any way, that was super AWESOME =)</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2005/09/19/1127125173_1549.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 410px; height: 315px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div>The surgery went on for about 4 hours...and we were standing most of the time, we sat when our hips were beginning to ache. (Imagine how the surgeons feel...) Well actually, there were some dilly dally during the operation - Dr. Christie had to go to the restroom, missing surgical instruments, misplaced stuff and what not. And a bad-tempered nurse was not helping at all. Make that two! =/. There were times where they argued, and bad-facing each other.. It was not all happy after all. We chit-chatted with the video guy, he said that that did not happened everytime however. But people will always be people.. be it in a normal office, even in a surgery room.. </div><div><br /></div><div>We managed to consult Dr. Christie before and after the surgery, showed us our design ideas so far..and he liked it. He and Dave suggested some ideas..we gave us ours..It was all in all a fruitful discussion.</div><div><br /></div><div>We went back around 4pm. We missed Zohor because we were in the OR that time (astaghfirullah..=(..). But all in all, we gained a lot in one day! I was proud of myself for not to faint in the OR..hehe. And we got more design ideas, a PERMANENT badge...and yeah, a wonderful experience that only came once in a lifetime! =)..ALHAMDULILLAH...</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-81336109545044313592010-01-29T06:45:00.006-06:002010-01-30T05:01:55.767-06:00"Mengapa anda belum bersedia untuk mati.."<div>Assalamualaikum wrt..</div><div><br /></div>Hari tu masa cuti summer kat Malaysia, diri berkesempatan menghadiri program STC (Summer Training Camp) Malaysia anjuran MISG (Malaysian Islamic Study Group US & Canada) yang dibuat di Kem Rimba Tamu di Batang Kali, Hulu Selangor. Program tu bertujuan mengeratkan ukhuwah antara pelajar yang bakal 'fly' ke US dengan pelajar US yang sudah pun berada di sana dan yang balik bercuti ke Malaysia....<br /><br /><div>Secara keseluruhan, program tersebut tercapai objektifnya. Walaupun personally, diri berpendapat modul yang digunakan agak tak bertepatan dengan 'intellect level' para perserta.. (dioranglah yang bijak bestari..bukan saye..). Kalau sape2 yang pernah dengar pasal KBM (Keindahan Bersama Mu), modul tulah yang digunakan. Modulnya bagus, sesuai untuk program motivasi sekolah, tapi mungkin tak kena dengan misi visi program ni kot.. wallahu'alam..</div><div><br />Kat sini diri nak kongsi sikit salah satu slot yang dibuat pada malam terakhir program tu.<br /><br />Malam tu, dalam dewan, kitorang diberi sehelai kain hitam setiap sorang untuk menutup mata. Pastu lampu dipadamkan dan kitorang telah ditarik sorang demi sorang dan didudukkan secara jarak2 dari kawan masing-masing...kesian kat sape2 yang lemah semangat sikit tu..dalam fikiran waktu tu, <span style="font-style: italic; ">'ni mesti nak letak sorang2 kat tengah hutan or tepi sungai ni..omakk takutnyee..'</span>.<br /><br />Mujurlah sangkaan diri meleset..<br /><br />Jadinya, nak dipendekkan cerita, malam tu kitorang telah diberi kesedaran mengenai hakikat 'MATI'.<span style="font-style: italic; "> Untuk menjaga copyright modul KBM tersebut, diri tak ceritalah secara detail perjalanan slot malam tu. (ada yang kena saman kang..huhu).</span> Secara peribadi, memang terkesanlah kat diri sendiri ni..dengan bunyi bunyian yang menakutkan dan siap bau asap kemenyan (<span style="font-style: italic; ">ish, tercerita pulak</span>), terputus kejap hati diri dengan kerisauan, masalah dan beban keduniaan. Waktu tu memang lidah dah basah dengan pelbagai kalimah ilahi je..<br /><br />Lepas sesi bergelap gelapan dan menutup mata tu, kitorang telah didudukkan di dalam bulatan dan kemudian setiap seorang secara bergilir gilir di dalam bulatan perlu menjawab soalan cepumas yang diberikan...<div><i><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-style: italic; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;">"Mengapa Anda Belum Bersedia Untuk Mati"??</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Saya belum bersedia untuk mati kerana:</span><br /><br />"..saya masih belum tunaikan tanggungjawab terhadap ibu bapa.."<br /><br />"..saya anak derhaka, degil dengan mak ayah.."<br /><br />"..saya banyak dosa..solat fardhu pun kadang kadang tak cukup dan tak rasa bersalah pun tertinggal.."<br /><br />"..tanggungjawab sebagai anak, ibu dan isteri (insyaAllah satu hari nanti), belum disempurnakan.."</span><br /><br />...<br /><br /></span>Adalah antara jawapan yang diberikan<span style="font-style: italic; ">.<br /><br /></span>Jawapan diri pulak:<span style="font-style: italic; "><span style="font-style: italic; "><span style="font-style: italic; "><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">"Saya belum bersedia untuk mati sebab </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">saya masih rasa takut kepada mati</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">.."</span><br /></span></span></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Betul, kita tak tahu saat mana, tempat mana, umur berapa nyawa kita akan diragut Malaikat Maut...semuanya dah tercatat di Luh Mahfuz sejak azali.. </div><div><br /></div><div>dan realitinya, kita tengok dan kita sendiri saksikan mcamana orang2 yg kita kenal di sekeliling kita pergi macamtu je tanpa disangka2...</div><div><br /></div><div>Bila jadi macamtu, timbul kesedaran kat diri...bila2 je Allah boleh tarik nyawa ni..sedang aku solat, sedang aku bermain, sedang aku melagho atau sedang aku membuat maksiat.....na'uzubillahi minzaalik =(</div><div><br /></div><div>Tapi malangnya kesedaran ni tak lama, bukan? bila dah lama sikit, alpa semula, lalai semula....yaa ayyuhannas..ittaqullah!</div><div><br /></div><div>Dan pada pendapat diri sendiri, diri tak rasa bersedia untuk mati selagi diri masih rasa takut untuk mati...dan takut mati tu kenapa? sebab takut amalan tak cukup, takut hidup tak diredhai Allah, takut sebab tak sempat minta ampun kat mak ayah...dan destinasi seterusnya cukup jelas untuk orang2 yg semacam ni kan? takut kan kan kan?</div><div><br /></div><div>Jadinya sebab kita tak tahu pun hari mana waktu bila nyawa ni akan ditarik, tugas kita bermula saat ini adalah untk hilangkan rasa takut utk mati tu dengan cara mengatasi sebab2 datang rasa tkut tu.....let us all be a good Muslim/ah!</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a friend of a friend, who was diagnosed with blood cancer...</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QtfMyEHJsn4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QtfMyEHJsn4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span></div><div><br /></div><div>his blog - <a href="http://masafzal.blogspot.com/">http://masafzal.blogspot.com/</a></div><div><br /></div><div>May Allah grant this brother continuous strength in this dunya and happiness in the hereafter...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Semoga kita semua berakhir dengan kesudahan yang baik (husnul khaatimah...). AMEEN!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>p/s: mari kita sedekahkan Al-Fatihah kepada kaum keluarga kita yg telah pergi mengadap Allah, sahabat handai dan orang sekeliling kita yang kita kenal...semoga roh mereka ditempatkan di kalangan orang2 yang beriman..AL FATIHAH!</div><div><br /><br /></div></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-67140082258350212252010-01-22T07:03:00.010-06:002010-01-29T06:19:55.745-06:00Of Sociology...or just some sentences from it =/<div style="text-align: center;">Assalamualaikum wrt wbt...</div><div><br /></div><div>It was such a tiring day.. (people who read older posts would notice this sentence came almost frequently..=P). Math probability quiz that I remembered only 5 minutes before it started, senior design progress oral report (it went bad..), swimming for a time-out, and then an ad-hoc senior design meeting late in the evening. It was hours too late that I was informed we're gonna have another meeting with our senior design advisor tomorrow morning..and I have one complicated CAD drawing due prior to that meeting...[sigh..] </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyways, my intention was not to bore people about how my day went by...it was simply something else =)</div><div><br /></div><div>I was reading Sociology 101 text book this morning while working at the reeve front desk. Flipping page by page, skimming word by word, I'm almost ready to doze off.. Suddenly, I came across a sentence or two from the textbook, that I found interesting and I would like to share..</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">"...Everywhere you look you see things that exist apart from other things---reality consists of parts and pieces. Moreover, at any given moment, you ignore most of what is within your field of vision and block out most sounds within hearing range. <b>Only by selecting what to see and what to hear can we see or hear anything---to see and hear "everything" would overload our senses to the point that we would hear and see nothing.</b> This alerts us to the most fundamental scientific activity: to isolate and define those portions of reality to be studied and explained..."</span></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">- Sociology, Rodney Stark, 10th edition</span></i></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Besides the good wording, I think what is said made a total sense...</div><div><br /></div><div>In terms of being a student, you have to choose what you wanna to hear, what you wanna to see, and what you wanna do...therefore comes the magic word 'PRIORITIZE'.. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://im.sify.com/sifycmsimg/jun2007/Finance/14471459_Slide5.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 328px; " /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A college student who fails to prioritize, losses the valuable time he/she could use to do something more crucial, into doing nothing at all....Or looking at the other extreme, one could do too much tasks, ex: taking more credit hours in semester etc.. Being productive is undeniably good, but being too productive by disregarding one's limit and capacity will lead to 'pancit'ness..thus came the word 'SLACKING' It is only too late that one realizes that the hard work and toil are just fruitless uphill battles......sad..</div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand, looking at an Islamic point of view, we cannot select the things in religion that we wanna see or what we wanna hear only.. These 'things' include fiqh issues, quran and hadith, ibaadah etc.. </div><div><br /></div><div>For example, when we're stuck in something that we don't know whether it's haraam or not, we cannot go and seek fatwas that permits it and ignore the others..true, there are khilaafs (perselisihan pendapat) in some issues, but we can't go 'shopping for fatwas' that suits our wants and desires without considering the opinions of other schools of thought that might have stronger proofs...this is just pure ignorance..</div><div><br /></div><div>Other example would be about quranic verses and hadith..we cannot take just a small chunk of quran verses and leave the other chunk to proof something..most of the time, to get the meaning of an ayat, we have to read the ayat before and the ayat after, sometimes we have to look at other surahs...this is the problem which I've seen happening a lot the with the non-Muslim during interfaith discussions..they argue some issues or teachings in Islam that they found as offensive, used a small chunk of Quranic and hadith verses that sounds like supporting the issue, and blame Islam as a religion that promotes violence.. It's like taking chunks of jigsaw puzzles and leave the rest of it. Can we see the big picture of the puzzle if we do this?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://www.puzzlemachine.com/die%20construction.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 432px; height: 314px; " /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes they take Quranic verses literally, not being aware that Quran uses classical Arabic that has very deep and beautiful meaning in each words....this is why we are not recommended to read the translation (terjemahan) only to deduce something from the Quran, but to read and understand the exegesis/interpretation (tafsir) as well.. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>-----</div><div><br /></div><div>These are what I come up with when reading a small chunk of the paragraph from the 'interesting' Sociology book..</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Wait, did I just ignore the knowledge that the book wants to educate me..and wanders around thinking about something else..? =/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh well, verily, Allah knows the best....</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Back to work!</div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-20722006904912069242010-01-11T00:43:00.003-06:002010-01-11T01:33:27.571-06:00I feel loved..=)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rlv.zcache.com/i_love_my_parents_t_shirt-p235462834366639589trlf_400.jpg"></a>Assalamualaikum wrt wbt..<div><br /></div><div>Lama dah tak rasa sebahagia ni...=)</div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>Tempoh hari aku menyatakan hasrat hati kepada ayah, aku nak beli laptop baru..</div><div><br /></div><div>Harini aku minta pendapat ayah mengenai laptop pilihan aku..ayah memang terer bab-bab komputer ni..</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>".<i>.bagus...resolusi mantap, gambar cantik.</i>.", kata ayah. "<i>Belilah....</i>"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Tapi aku cakap kat ayah aku tak boleh beli lagi..'tadop pitih' bak kata orang kelantan..poket kering lepas balik dari Canada..=p</div><div><br /></div><div>Terus ayah offer nak sumbang duit untuk beli laptop tu...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"..<i>hmm..tak payah la yah..adek boleh kumpul duit..biasiswa masuk hujung bulan, minggu depan gaji pun masuk.</i>.", aku balas cepat-cepat.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Tak pernah aku guna atau minta duit dari mak ayah sejak aku dapat biasiswa bulanan dari MARA.. Dah lama aku bertekad tak nak mintak duit dari mak ayah kalau aku mampu kumpul sendiri...tambah pulak aku bekerja sambilan..mampu je nak menyimpan sampai cukup...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"...<i>Ayah rasa ayah boleh bagi sikit...macamana cara nak hantar?.</i>.", ayah balas. Nada macam tak boleh diprovokasi lagi.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Malam ni je dah dua tiga kali ayah call. Nak memastikan nombor aku berfungsi dan lain-lain..nak pastikan duit yang dikirim nanti sampai ke tangan aku.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"<i>Tengahari nanti ayah transfer..OKlah, ayah ada mesyuarat dengan GPK.</i>.". </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sebak tiba-tiba.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Bukannya aku tak tahu tahap sibuk ayah kalau dia kat sekolah. Mak selalu cakap, '<i>ayah adek tu ngalahkan perdana menteri busynya</i>!'.. Busy-busy ayah pun concern lagi pasal anak dara dia yang jauh ni..oh man..terharunyeeee...=(</div><div><br /></div><div>Tak tahu kenapa aku rasa bahagia sangat. Betul-betul rasa loved. Padahal orang lain selalu je kan mak ayah kirim duit. (jakun ke aku ni? =P)</div><div><br /></div><div>Mungkin dari kecik lagi aku dah hidup berdikari kot, jarang mintak tolong apa-apa dari famili, terutama mak ayah. Apa-apa semua kalau boleh resolve sendiri, resolve sendiri. Mak pun cakap, dia 'kehilangan' aku sewaktu aku 8 tahun..time really flies..dah besar-besar gini, bila mak ayah offer nak bantu apa2, even bagi nasihat pun..mesti menitik air mata ni...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>".<i>..kau kena bagi diorang feel diorg cam still responsible kat kau, cam kau still perlukan diorg, its a great feeling you knoww</i>..", kata seorang kawan.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Betul kot...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sorry mak, ayah...adek membesar terlalu cepat...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=((</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://rlv.zcache.com/i_love_my_parents_t_shirt-p235462834366639589trlf_400.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;">"Ya Allah! Ampunilah bagiku segala dosaku dan juga dosa dua ibu bapaku dan kasihanilah mereka keduanya sebagaimana mereka memelihara dan mendidikku di masa kecil." ----> (DAN BESAR!)</span></b></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-24560134660042066332010-01-08T16:51:00.009-06:002010-01-08T18:03:08.918-06:00RIS Canada... (6)<div style="text-align: left;">Assalamualaikum wrt..</div><div><br /></div><div>Some note-sharing from one of the class in RIS Knowledge Retreat..</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>From Dr. Abdal Hakim Jackson</b></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>about KNOWLEDGE</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); ">Some of us tend to worship knowledge. We treat knowledge a GOAL rather than the MEANS/TOOLS to live in particular way of life..</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">Knowledge is MEANS to an END to Allah’s pleasure.</span></b></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">“…the point of knowledge is action with accordance to it..”. Which means, when we have the knowledge on something, we have to have act upon it..and also, we need to act on something that we have the knowledge only, don't 'taklid buta'..</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">“…knowledge is not sufficient alone, you need wisdom and insight..”</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-Courier New"font-family:";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">o</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">Rasulullah SAW had WISDOM. He answered different question to different people according to their needs. In a hadith:</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#993300;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#993300;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">A man came to the Messenger of Allah,</span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"> sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">, and said, "Messenger of Allah, teach me some words which I can live by. Do not make them too much for me, lest I forget." The Messenger of Allah, </span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">, said, "Do not be angry." [Abu Daud]</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#993300;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#993300;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">Some scholars say that the Prophet, </span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">, knew that the man who asked him used to get angry often and that is why the Prophet, </span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">, gave him that particular advice.</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-Courier New"font-family:";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">o</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">Knowledge without wisdom can hurt us – we cannot separate interest from principle</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">We have to have wisdom and insight to apply the religion to the world we live in. Islam is syumul and is applicable at all time and at different places. Islam doesn't change with time and doesn't need to be changed.</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">“…scholars who did not apply the knowledge is like a candle, leads way to others but burnt itself down..”</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://mjj-online.net/lightacandle/images/candle.gif" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">Ignorance is better than the knowledge that leads to negligence to Allah SWT.</span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">“…knowledge has to be accompanied with God-fear..”. Knowledge has to be bounded with taqwa to Allah SWT. Else, we will be misusing the knowledge to something that is destructible to the world and religion.</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">The concept of fear to Allah is not only because we fear of His punishment but also what our false action is going to affect our relationship with Allah. – Allah is our sustainer and provides us guidance..we don’t want Allah to leave us in the darkness by affecting our relationship with HIM..</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">-</span></b><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"> </span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;">Knowledge can be used in the right way to gain worldly wealth. There’s nothing wrong with acquiring wealth. In fact, a lot of the companions during Rasulullah SAW's time were wealthy e.g. Siti Khadijah, Abu Bakar, Saidina Uthman. We have to be wealthy physically (money) AND also in heart (iman).</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://img2.allposters.com/images/AGF/6929.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px; " /></span></b></span></p></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-21406187213555114572010-01-08T16:23:00.004-06:002010-01-08T16:48:55.079-06:00RIS Canada... (5)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qUTyNJigHBx2OvbdsorXV8NpHe_ylb2tyTK4oSclPDDvx22Yftf9EYUzJveN-K2X2vljmJVMZNQSUmg683T3gIj2k2nnqyKyyvHttAQtvDOyDfmIe8ISZ5KE-fNBIUuRLq1LX2OEUK8/s1600-h/IMG_1529.JPG"></a>Alhamdulillah hi rabbil 'alamin...<div><br /></div><div>All's well that ends well..</div><div><br /></div><div>Semuanya dah selamat sampai ke rumah masing2..kami di Vandy, Aisyah di Pittsburgh..Lepas drop Aisyah kat Pitssburgh, kami bertiga bertolak ke Vandy..sampai agak lewat jugak since jalan berais dan traffic jam sebab bad weather...bertolak dari Pitts pukul 7pm, sampai Vandy 6am..apa2 pun, alhamdulillah everything went well..</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qUTyNJigHBx2OvbdsorXV8NpHe_ylb2tyTK4oSclPDDvx22Yftf9EYUzJveN-K2X2vljmJVMZNQSUmg683T3gIj2k2nnqyKyyvHttAQtvDOyDfmIe8ISZ5KE-fNBIUuRLq1LX2OEUK8/s400/IMG_1529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424502391093898354" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">berlatarbelakangkan Niagara Falls..Cantik sangat2 subhanAllah!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To Alia, Nik, Aisyah, Jiha and Zed..Thanks for the great times and ukhuwah guys! We've been through A LOT together even though 2 weeks je.. Mintak ampun salah silap..mintak halal makan minum yerk....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">InsyaAllah notes akan dikongsi sikit demi sedikit kat sini...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b>Ukhuwah itu indah jika bertemu berpisah kerana Allah SWT...</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b>InsyaAllah jika tiada takdir ketemu didunia, kita ketemu di syurga..=)</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#330033;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>AMEEN..</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-90952081187793204672010-01-01T00:59:00.005-06:002010-01-01T01:27:39.903-06:00RIS Canada... (4)Assalamualaikum wrt wbt..<div><br /></div><div>Some words to share for today..</div><div><br /></div><div><b>(notes from 'Reflections from the Quran' by Imam Zaid Shakir)</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;">What does it mean by 'syayateen attacking us from the front'? How do they attack the son of Adam as such? There are 4 ways:</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">1) "I will cause them to doubt in the hereafter"</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">2) "I will make them overly craving for the world"</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">3) "I will confuse then in religious issues"</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">4) "I will make sins appealing to them"</span></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;">Imam Zaid Shakir also said that:</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;">The syaitan is not commanding us to do bad deeds..they CAN'T command us to do anything..only Allah has the power to command. The only thing the syaitan can do is that to whisper and suggest us to do the bad deeds..and if we follow their whispering and actually commit the acts, THEN they had commanded us...</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;">take was was (doubts) for example...syaitan loves to put doubts in our hearts and minds.."have I make wudu'?", "Have I lock the door?", "Did I just forget to do tahiyyat?" etc etc... if this happened:</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">1) Do zikir - remembrance of Allah, seek refuge in Allah from the syaitan...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">2) Recite quran </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">3) Always be around the believers..</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-6216279337518022312009-12-29T23:22:00.005-06:002009-12-30T02:35:48.237-06:00RIS Canada... (3)<div>Bismillahirrahmaanirraheem...</div><div><br /></div>Assalamualaikum wrt..<div><br /></div><div>KNOWLEDGE RETREAT 2009 - Reviving the Prophetic Spirituality in The Last Days.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I mentioned in my last post, I am right now attending the continuation of RIS program which is the Knowledge Retreat, started yesterday..The program introduced pretty much the same scholars from RIS, only this time we will learn from the scholars in a lecture like environment..</div><div><br /></div><div>The theme for this year's program is as stated above..being in the event for two days, I could conclude that the topics brought by the scholars are from Tasawwuf branch of knowledge..this is the area of study in which I like the most by far... As far as tasawwuf is concern, it deals a lot with purification of the heart and soul or tazkiyyatunnafs in oneself...within my little knowledge, I believe that correcting one's inner condition; the heart and the soul are always crucial before anything else matters..in Islam, this subject of study is usually connected to Sufism..Not all Sufis are diverged..but it is undeniable that there are many who are..Anyways..</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah - Spiritually from Quran and Sunnah</div><div style="text-align: center;">Habib Ali AlJifri - Sulook (Wayfarers to God)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shaykh Hamzah Yusuf - Qawaid Al Tasawuf (Principles of Spirituality) by Sidi Ahmed Zarruq</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Ajaib Al Quloob (Marvels of the Heart) by Imam Al Ghazali</div><div style="text-align: center;">Imam Zaid Shakir - Reflections from the Quran</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shaykh Abdal Hakim Jackson - Taj Al 'Arus - On Refinement of the Heart by Ibn Ata'allah</div><div><br /></div><div>Those are the instructors and the subjects that are being brought to the class..I would like to share some part from Taj Al 'Arus - On Refinement of the Heart by Ibn Ata'allah, instructed by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Jackson...</div><div><br /></div><div>Human beings can't escape from doing something wrong, sometime, somewhere in their life. If one is state of disobedience, one can still please Allah by doing TAUBAT.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is a hadith by Sahih Muslim (might not be accurate..) which states, "...Allah is happy if a person repented from his wrongdoings..Allah's happiness is more than the happiness of a man in a dessert who loses his camel that carries his food and water and finds it back..he lost hope and thought that he's gonna die in the dessert..suddenly when he woke up, his camel was there along with his food and water.." </div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine Allah is happier than the deserted man whenever His servant do Taubat..Allah loves when we do Taubat..Taubat is basically the beginning of everything..Even the Prophet that we all love SAW repented over 70-100 times in A DAY! That was the prophet who was ma'sum..but how about us as ordinary human beings..? If we can do the 'small' sunnahs of the prophet SAW i.e. doing siwaak, cut nails, shaves..how about a sunnah as big as TAUBAT? </div><div><br /></div><div>Ibn Ata'allah said that there can't be a refinement of self without taubat..To achieve repentance, rather than being outwardly focus, we also have to focus on our own habits and deeds by heart..we have to ask forgiveness from Allah SWT and stand before Him, for we can fool people by hiding our wrongdoings, but we cannot fool Allah, the All-knower...we also need to be honest to ourselves when we're standing before Allah SWT and repent..we need to rebuke ourselves which undeniably will be painful, but Allah has promised that He will eventually substitute the darkness with light, hardship with ease...</div><div><br /></div><div>We tend to think that being smart is the only thing we need to live our lives..but rationality alone does not help..we only have the knowledge in mind, but we have no control of our hearts..where is the instruction of the heart? Just look at all the bad decisions that we have made in our lives..Does this happened because our lack of rationality? NO. This happened because we don't know ourselves..as the results, some ended up marrying the wrong person, having the wrong career, moving into a wrong city...and again, this happened when we don't know what we want in this life..We only care about being praised by other people..So, we have to be honest to ourselves, rebuke ourselves before Allah...the benefit of repentance and refining the soul will come to us..it is for US..Allah has nothing to gain when one repents or not, let alone to lose anything..the lost is on the person..</div><div><br /></div><div>We rebuke ourselves in order to TRAIN ourselves...where the hardest thing to do is to say NO to our desires..Maksiat leaves some effect to us...The more we disobey Allah with wrongdoings, the more difficult it is to leave the act of disobedient, we will lose all the incentives to leave it! When we committed maksiat on top of other maksiat, and on top of other maksiat, we can't, can't and can't get the taubah..it suddenly feels so hard..So, engage to taubat immediately..indeed heart is blackened by all the disobediences, unless we repented...</div><div><br /></div><div>Disobedience has corrupting effects to a person..Without taubat, we can be corrupted; we tend to lose hope and feels despair, thinking that we are not worth being a good Muslim anymore. DON'T! Muslims never give up, no matter how big our sins are..If we make taubat, it doesn't mean that we're maksum. If we did taubat and did the wrong things again, that doesn't mean that we are hypocrites. This is a normal human behavior..Allah has created us to be like this, so that we will remain being dependent and rely to Allah and Allah alone..Again, Allah loves when His servant asks for His forgiveness and taubat..</div><div><br /></div><div>Ibn Ata'allah made an analogy; we are like a brand new pot, and flame lit on it at a certain duration..the bottom of the pot will get blackened as time goes by..if we wash it immediately, it can come off..it WILL come off..but if we leave it and does not wash it in instant, the blackening will be crust, and washing it will be of no use anymore..Washing is like doing taubat..So, constantly seek repentance, for the act of it is the sign that we are dependent to Allah..Again, Allah loves those who repents..and He wants us to love Him..</div><div><br /></div><div>We have to deal with our own 'demons'..only we know what's inside ourselves..In order to do that, it requires a lot of COURAGE and HONESTY..we have to have both in order to face the disease of our heart..By knowing the disease well, then we will know the perfect 'medicine' to cure the sickness...</div><div><br /></div><div>Taubat could be the link between us and Allah..Allah said whoever doesn't repent, he IS indeed the wrongdoers..Many of us understand the values of obeying Allah SWT. However, if we do not undertand, do we lose the values? NO. By making taubat IS actually the value..So there is nothing to lose when you make taubat. The prophet said, "...if you take one step closer to Allah, Allah will be 1000 steps closer to you..".</div><div><br /></div><div>Syeikh Abdal Hakim Jackson then asked us...."we know that Allah does exists..but does he forgive?.." Definitely.. sure.. of course.. right? But do we say that only intellectually, or by heart? In other words, do we say it from the mind, a cliche? or we meant it by heart? He gave us a good example..Bill Gates donated 30 billion USD to a charity..This made him a generous man generally. Now let's say we're broke, will we ask Bill Gate for some money knowing that he is a generous man from earlier story? Yes? No? Maybe? The logical answer would be NO. This is essentially because we don't have any relationship whatsoever with Bill Gates. Now apply this concept to our discussion..we are from azali has the servant-God relationship with Allah...but do we constantly ask forgiveness from Allah? Do we ever do taubat after sinning? </div><div><br /></div><div>The Syeikh gave his two cents on this matter.. he said that the lack of this kind of relationship between us and Allah is due to the definition of power in the world that we lived in..Most of us came from an autocratic relationship of 'master-slave' since we were small..we got punished when we did something wrong, and therefore we tend to hide or run when we did anything wrong, instead facing 'the master' and come clean..a simple example for this concept would be the relationship between student-teacher especially in Malaysia..have you ever got spanked for something that is not worth of spanking?..do we have the guts to face the cikgu if we did the wrong things again? Not a chance!=p </div><div><br /></div><div>Taubat is not only for major sins..Minor sins could be more dangerous..the pot CAN be blackened even with slow flame..Minor sins are eating us alive..It seems like something that is negligible, but if persistently done, it WILL become major sins. Minor sins are like a spark of fire. Even a small single spark can still destroy a whole city. A realistic example would be like 2 imaams who have grudge between each other.. which can destroy the relationship between 2 communities...</div><div><br /></div><div>Repentance is not easy, but it is not impossible...We have to be sincere in our repentance..Insincere happened when the intention is not to turn to Allah and if there is no commitment to overcome from doing the sins. Then, there will be no effect of wiping off the disobedience..Sincerity is between us and Allah SWT..It's a hard, private work. However, sincerity can be seen through our behavior for example solat...</div><div><br /></div><div>Repentance is difficult before own self is powerful. Repentance is not a sweet medicine for the disease of the heart. We have to force ourselves to repent and repel from the sweetness of the disobedience. It is good to know that, good deeds are heavier than bad deeds. When we do one good deed, Allah will reward us 10 times the size of the deed. If we do one bad deed, the accountability will be only one.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is undeniably hard to leave the passion and desires of doing something bad, but this does not forbid or prevent us from doing taubat. For example, one who cannot stop talking about other people, he/she can repent each and everytime..even Rasul SAW repented 70-100 times each day...</div><div><br /></div><div>HOWEVER, it is important to note that we cannot play around with repentance. Ibn Ata'allah said that, "..one who repents and do sins repeatedly is like drinking poison and the antidote over repeatedly.." They are not trying to help themselves, in fact they are abusing themselves..Imagine one day when they might not be able to take that antidote before the time comes....?? So, do not play with taubat. It is a gift from Allah SWT. Everytime we did wrong and do taubat, Allah will help us and make us less likely to do it again. Don't reject this gift, and don't play around with it. It is not easy to restrain ourselves not to do it again but we have to be PATIENT. That is the key..</div><div><br /></div><div>There is a saying, "..he who repents has win, he who don't loses..". It's like when there is sickness, there is still still chance and hope of getting better as long as there's life...or it's like an archer who has to make effort to shoot..if he doesn't get anything today, it could be tomorrow...It's like sinning...do not ever give up on self... DO TAUBAT. we are always worth it.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is important to gain support from a righteous community. We could gain inspiration and motivation from such community. It is natural that when we're in an Islamic environment or knowledge retreat as such, that we will be inspired and our imaan feels like it increases to a high level. We feel energized..But like everything else in this world, the feeling will be eventually perished..However, don't ever let the facing away inspiration despairs us..we're not hypocrites if this happened, which it always do...</div><div><br /></div><div>In maintaining ourselves, we have to pace ourselves. We cannot expect things to happen just like that..it has to be one at a time..it's a process, so it will take some time..We have to be honest and patient, verily Allah is forgiving..He rewards His servants by their EFFORTS to please him..not the end result.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Syeikh said that we cannot questioned, "..what good does it bring to me to attend an Islamic class or conference or halaqah as such..". Events like this gives you an opportunity to strengthen yourself, so why not giving yourself a chance? It is not necessary to be a righteous and pious Muslim immediately after attending such program..At least it inspired you in a way if not many... </div><div><br /></div><div>So..Why not give yourself a chance? =)</div><div><br /></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2983798236893000184.post-75183829452757745892009-12-28T23:38:00.008-06:002009-12-29T02:28:44.058-06:00RIS Canada... (2)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevZbs15bayfnOSvf2vjTJY9Iwspf-p0__IyFWUWBIEPQERuxEgozcHAmOEjhD7wYlrEuLTtyb_LV9rYeVuncEOU4webZLBmcYYhHpYrD6KD3fmsUC1GASoDwPEIcrFoG63ZHgR0LqQ5w/s1600-h/IMG_2014.JPG"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3WKiSt4IKoYYrz-h7hJhKk0GF0W7JjpaikAyOqLmKre4_m6NrV1_9jnxuhCv35X_RYVgNEymVOth6XlKWd7USD4e7xQzMw4fjCTVnwaUBOrMmhaxi9KQ-tvpRev1hW9zR61HpXM9cLk/s1600-h/IMG_2327.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3WKiSt4IKoYYrz-h7hJhKk0GF0W7JjpaikAyOqLmKre4_m6NrV1_9jnxuhCv35X_RYVgNEymVOth6XlKWd7USD4e7xQzMw4fjCTVnwaUBOrMmhaxi9KQ-tvpRev1hW9zR61HpXM9cLk/s400/IMG_2327.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420534452714695698" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Autographed Maher Zain's CD....XD </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNu7EVMgIYj4xcWJ00HVvNDkkcpW-wDKtaLkb5xQjWQJRe0IkRv36s4b3oU_vBKF0mJeK-YZRqwA4NlcpQkxtPjB15QzawVQPCcNK1CkLfi93zAiJyw8ZK1Ol7USlK3IcO6YmTNvMlfc/s1600-h/IMG_2259.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNu7EVMgIYj4xcWJ00HVvNDkkcpW-wDKtaLkb5xQjWQJRe0IkRv36s4b3oU_vBKF0mJeK-YZRqwA4NlcpQkxtPjB15QzawVQPCcNK1CkLfi93zAiJyw8ZK1Ol7USlK3IcO6YmTNvMlfc/s400/IMG_2259.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420533568241405778" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Maher Zain in person...('botok licing' bak kata Jiha) haha </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Assalamualaikum wrt...<div><br /></div><div>I would like to start this post by expressing my happiness and excitedness (if that's even a word) for getting Maher Zain's autographed CD and actually saw him in person too..well, he is actually quite a shy person, man with few words, smiles a lot..malu-malu rupanya..=p</div><div><br /></div><div>And I would like to express too, my highest gratitude to Allah..Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah...because with His power and will, we were given ease and steadiness to attend the RIS program from the first day, until the end of the event...my endless list of 'paranoidness' for bad things that could happen along the way i.e. snow storm, blizzard, car stuck in thick snow, slipping car on ice and what not; were all remained as paranoid..alhamdulillah..the coldness here I think is still bearable..and I thank Allah for that also.. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUKDlj4jKs2QTeRHUcs1EhNg5h0Pr7G2RMhi_OPFYJAPDNlaw907al9Yikkjk5UK0vX8fNYTcF7sF_N_FNN_Z5Vyxkwbv5SsTBVY2_i6JBkTzKXj0BJGPIJ1uPoV8cCbAaISfXyhGiNA/s400/IMG_2263.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420564784375226546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjom6ovSVaVwafSBRiMLZQF9m4lFtPZ2jYTbM8a6jqFjo7T8rxrDgyGLSXiyrgsjFW8xTNsoJ237XsRIyNH6dbHsu4n8JW55tvmN7CfyH3z7XQv0Qg9OF_o37iQvlolYShlQrI5STyy6x4/s400/IMG_2266.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420565961455226322" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>If one word is to be used to describe how the RIS event went, I would say, "it's not fair!=p"..because it deserves all the best words exist..SubhanAllah! the program was by far, the best convention I have ever went in my life MasyaAllah...the speakers were awesome, event organization was tip top, and the most valuable things ever would be the knowledge, ukhuwah, and the effect of this whole trip brings to our hearts..</div><div><br /></div><div>I would love to share some of the knowledge I have gained there right here..and I will try my best InsyaAllah..And I would also like to encourage all the readers..to seek knowledge if they were given the opportunity, time, good health..because the best time to seek knowledge and experience is when we are still young, healthy, financially affordable..and yeah, you get the idea right?</div><div><br /></div><div>OK..enough chit chatting =p</div><div><br /></div><div>Reviving the Islamic Spirit this year introduced awesome speakers like Syeikh Hamzah Yusof, Syeikh Habib Ali Al-Jifri (His parents are both descendants of Imam Hussien son of Ali..), Syeikh Abdallah Bayyah, Imam Zaid Shakir, Imam Johari Abdul Malik, Dr Jamal Badawi, Dr Tariq AlSuwaidan, Prof Tariq Ramadan (cucu Hassan AlBanna..), Imam Tahir Anwar..and the list goes on.. the speech each speakers gave was breathtaking..</div><div><br /></div><div>I would like to share some words from one of the speaker, Imam Yassir Fazaga, Finding Our Spiritual Coordinates..(bersempena dengan New Year 2010 yang hanya disekeliling corner..=p)</div><div><br /></div><div>He said that, time seems to go fast nowadays..year goes like a month, month feels like a week, week feels like a day and so on..this is a sign of the approaching yaumul qiyaamah..he also said that, people nowadays have introduced a lot of technology that helped to compensate the time that slipped; robots, jetplane, and even digital coffee maker..=p...people run and run and run..we actually rushed..and thus the time feels like it's running away ,like us..</div><div><br /></div><div>Imam Yassir Fazaga said that there are basically 3 things that built each one of us. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">1) Reputation</span>,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">2) Personality</span>, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">3) Character</span>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Reputation is how people see us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#003300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">Personality is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">how we present oursel</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">es to other people.</span> While </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">character is who we really are</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">. We spent too much time in maintaining our reputation and personality in which we are willing to do much to enhance both these, and spend less time building the character of ourselves, which is a lot more important in defining what kind of person we are..People usually do stuffs only to please other people, they care about their reputation a lot because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">reputation can be tarnished by other people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">. On the other hand, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">character can only be tarnished by the person him/herself because the only person who can change oneself is the person him/herself...</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></div><div>He also added that, we have to make sure that every tomorrow is better than the day before, because if today is the same as tomorrow, indeed we have lost, and if it is worser, maka celakalah kamu...nauzubillah..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "> </span>and he quoted from the Prophet SAW from a hadis that says, "..people who will be closed to me are the people with ahsinul akhlaaq-the best of akhlaq.."</div><div><br /></div><div>Imam Yassir Fazaga also stated that, there are 6 essential characters, that if one have them, one is developing oneself to be a better person one has been..the 6 characters are..:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>1) Conscience</b></div><div>I quoted from Wikipedia = 'is an ability that distinguishes whether one's actions are right or wrong..It can lead to feelings of remorse when a human does things that go against one/moral value..'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2) Compassion</b></div><div>One should try hard to be raheem to others..being compassion is to have the ability to feel the pain of others..and true compassion is for those who least needed it..</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3) Consideration</b></div><div>One should be thoughtful to all makhluk especially to people, and also the environment..because what we say and do, will impact the people around us..Imam Yasir gave an example from a story of the prophet..(may not be accurate..)..There was a man who love Rasulullah so much..one day Rasul SAW came to his house..He was so happy that he asked Rasulullah to sit down, and he gave Rasul SAW some grapes to eat..the man fed Rasul SAW the grape one by one, using his hand..and he was so happy that he got to feed Rasul SAW with his own hand, that he smiled and smiled, and fed Rasul with the grape over and over again...then one time he put one grape into his mouth, and spitted it out because the grape tasted so bad..he asked Rasulullah.."Ya Rasulullah..did all the grapes taste like this?". The prophet said "yes" and he added "I saw you're so happy feeding me that I don't want to wipe off that smile from your face.."</div><div><br /></div><div><b>4) Control</b></div><div>One must also learn to control the emotion and has to be in charged with one's desires..People usually interchanged between 'should' and ' must' (needs and wants)..they lose control and let their worldly desires take over their action which usually leads to something bad..one example is that a person should control the jaws (talking)..indeed tongue is sharper than the sword..</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5) Courage</b></div><div>Is doing what is right despite of fear that may exist...be it fear that exist within oneself or even the fear from pressure given by the people around..because verily, he who do something or do not do something in order to please others, will displease Allah and Allah will eventually make others displease him back.. </div><div><br /></div><div>Imam Yassir Fazaga made a joke, he said that there are 3 numbers that we have to remember in life...13, 40 and 60</div><div><br /></div><div>13 is the age when you care about what other people thinks about you..40 is when you don't care about what other people thinks about you..and 60 is when you feel that nobody is thinking about you...=p</div><div><br /></div><div><b>6) Confidence</b></div><div>One has to do what is right, all the time..because Allah has promised that right will always win..</div><div><br /></div><div>He also said that, if anything in this world does not impact how we behave, then it is not important..</div><div><br /></div><div>If one asks..which one is more important..akhlak or ibaadah? which is better..a person who has good akhlak but less ibadaah, or a person who do a lot of ibaadah but with no akhlaq?..Imam Yassir Fazaga said it's like asking whether to poke the right eye or the left eye..?=p..both is no less important than the other...so one has to have ahsinul akhlaq as well as righteousness..</div><div><br /></div><div>Some notes that I managed to jot down..</div><div><br /></div><div>I will spend another 6 days for another program: Knowledge Retreat, a continuation kinda for RIS, only with less people (~800 for Knowledge Retreat vs. 20,000 people for RIS, SUBHANALLAH..never see that much Muslims before..), the concept is more like a class, where we get to learn from the sheikh in a lecture-like environment..</div><div><br /></div><div>Alhamdulillah..I got a seat two rows from the middle-front today..it feels awkward but yet so breathtaking to sit very close to all these knowledgeable scholars..makes me feel like an ant...makes me realize how ignorant I am with so puny and perverse knowledge that I owned, 21 years of living in this world.. </div><div><br /></div><div>InsyaAllah I will share the knowledge here..I've been wanting so much to share as much as I can with the knowledge I got..it's not easy, but I will try my best..May Allah make things easy for me..</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: 900; line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial;font-size:12px;">“Oh Allah! Make useful for me what you have taught me and teach me knowledge that will be useful to me. Oh Allah! I ask you for the understanding of the prophets and the memory of the messengers, and those nearest to you. Oh Allah! Make my tongue full of your remembrance and my heart with consciousness of you. Oh Allah! You do whatever you wish, and you are my availer and protector and best of aid.”</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>pencari_nurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10658407959459020890noreply@blogger.com1