Welcome to toriq's blog

2008-01-15T17:13:00.000Z

The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) was asked about observing As-Saum (the fast) on the tenth day of Muharram, and he replied, "It is an expiation for the sins of the preceding year." [Muslim]. " If I remain alive till the next year, I shall also observe fast on the ninth of Muharram." [Muslim]

The ninth of Muharram will be on Thursday 18/1 & the tenth of Muharram will be on Friday 19/1, enshaAllah!

Zhikr of Allah with nasheed and ahadeeth

2007-10-01T10:34:00.001+01:00

Video youtube yang menginsafkan...

Tutup dulu nasyid kat sebelah ye...

pastu, cubalah amalkan apa yang disuruh...

amalan yang sedikit tapi istiqamah yang penting...

salam,
toriq

Salam semua!!!!

2007-09-23T07:37:00.000+01:00

Salam,

Lama nya tak update blog nih... Well, sekarang nih I dont have internet at home. Sekrg juga tgh sibuk sesangat dengan kelas... Sebab tuh jarang betul masuk internet... Tapi, sebab dah lama sangat tak update blog, so here you go~~

Saja nak cerita sikit pasal Majlis Berbuka Puasa di Edinburgh yang diadakan malam semalam. Majlis boleh dikatakan sangat meriah, hampir semua warga edinburgh (Muslim Malaysians) telah menghadirinya.

Majlis dimulakan dengan tazkirah (peringatan) oleh Ustaz Radhi yang menceritakan sedikit sebanyak tentang perihal spiritual kita. Semoga kita dapat meningkatkan ibadat kita di bulan ramadhan ini dan mengekalkannya sehingga bulan ramadhan yang akan datang, lalu kita tingkatkan lagi.. dan kekalkan sehingga the next ramadhan.. and so on.. Dengan ini, iman kita pasti akan meningkat dari tahun ke tahun... sehingga kita sentiasa berusaha mendekat ALLAH.

Lepas sedikit peringatan, kami pun berbuka puasa dengan kuih-muih, dan kemudian bersolat maghrib berjemaah. Selepas itu, kami pun menikmati pelbagai jenis juadah yang disediakan oleh pihak EMSA Family.

Namun, majlis terpaksa ditunda awal pada malam tersebut kerana bekalan elektrik terputus. Walaupun demikian, alhamdulillah semuanya berjalan lancar.

Dijemput melihat gambar-gambar yang sempat saya ambil semalam di http://pull007.fotopages.com/

Salam,

Toriq

Nafsu

2007-07-10T16:06:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum,

Entry kali nih saya nak sentuh sikit pasal nafsu. Al-maklum, mmg sukar sangat2 untuk kita sentiasa mengingati Allah. Kalaulah kita mengingati Allah setiap saat, tentu satu perkara buruk pun (i.e. mengumpat, mengutuk, lambatkan solat, buat perkara lalai etc...) kita takkan lakukan. Sedar tak sedar, balik2 kita mesti salahkan nafsu.

Saya pun selalu salahkan nafsu. Sebab nafsu makan la saya makan banyak, sebab nafsu berbelanja la saya suka membazir.

Tapi, kita perlu ingat, kita manusia mmg memerlukan nafsu. Kalau tiada nafsu makan, camner kita nak makan? Kalau tiada nafsu seksual, bagaimana kita nak melahirkan zuriat? Kalau tiada nafsu berbelanja, bagaimana kita nak beli makanan?

Jadi, patutkah kita salahkan nafsu? Lupakah kita apa yang mengawal nafsu? Fikir2kan lah...

to kaklong, saya takder banyak sangat info pasal syiah di Malaysia. Nanti saya kupas sedikit sebanyak pasal syiah pada entry akan datang yer..

Salam,
toriq

More Dunya', More Problems

2007-06-26T07:01:00.000+01:00

Assalamua'laikum to all readers,

It has been a long time since I updated this blog and here I am now, writing a piece of advice to me especially, and to everyone who could benefit from it. I created this blog a few years back just for one reason: as a platform to remind myself about ISLAM so that I can hold tight to the Rope of ALLAH (which is VERY VERY DIFFICULT to do these days). I hope that others would gain something from it too.

Anyway, malam tadi, saya pergi mendengar ceramah di surau yang disampaikan oleh Ustaz Ismail K. Walaupun cara penyampaiannya lembut dan bersahaja, tetapi isi2 yang disampaikan meresap masuk ke dalam setiap hati yang mendengarnya. Namun, apakan daya. Kita kan manusia. Lemah. Masa tu jer insaf, lepas tuh pasti akan lupa balik dalam masa beberapa saat sahaja. Sebab itulah saya nak tulis kat sini mengenai isi ceramah tersebut sebab kalau saya lupa, boleh lah saya rujuk kat sini semula.

Ustaz Ismail kata, zaman sekrg nih masa berlalu dengan cepat sekali. Seminggu macam sehari , sehari pula terasa macam sejam sahaja. Lalu dibacakan la hadis yang berbunyi:

"Tidak akan datang Hari Kiamat melainkan sehingga masa menjadi pendek, setahun seperti sebulan, sebulan seperti seminggu, seminggu seperti sehari, sehari seperti sejam, dan sejam pula seperti percikan api"

Rasanya semua pernah mendengar hadis ini. Dan pasti semua akan bersetuju dengan statement hadis tersebut. Memang saya pun terasa masa berlalu semakin hari semakin cepat. Tapi, kenapa perkara ini berlaku?

Ustaz Ismail menjelaskan lagi, ini kerana manusia zaman sekarang semakin jauh daripada Allah. Fikirkan perkara2 yang kita lakukan setiap hari. Bila kita sembahyang lima waktu, lima/sepuluh minit yang kita ambil terasa lama. Ataupun bila kita mendengar ceramah, sejam tuh kita rasa lama sangat. Siap dalam hati meronta2 "bila la nak habis nih". Ataupun apabila kita berpuasa, terasa lama, menunggu2 bila kita akan berbuka puasa, dan bila kita akan menyambut Aidil Fitri. Namun, apabila kita buat hal dunia, misalnya menonton tv, main game, main internet, sejam pun kita tak perasan.

Astaghfirullah, beristighfar lah banyak2 kepada Allah. Selama nih, rupanya saya memang dah lalai dgn dunia. Patutlah saya merasakan masa itu berlalu dengan cepat. Rupa2nya, sedikit sangat masa yang saya luangkan untuk beribadat kepada Allah. Sedar tak sedar, semakin hari semakin jauh saya daripada Allah. Na'uzubillah. Saya tak mahu jauh dari Allah lagi. Sekarang, saya mahu merapatkan lagi jurang tersebut. Semoga Allah sentiasa memberikan taufiq dan hidayahNya kepada saya, ibu bapa saya, keluarga dan seluruh umat Islam.

Itulah pentingnya mendengar ceramah2 agama ni. Ia akan mengigatkan kembali siapa kita dan apa tujuan kita hidup di muka bumi ALLAH ini. Saya pun dah lama sangat2 tak pergi mendengar ceramah agama. Baru malam tadi saya diberikan hidayah dan saya sangat bersyukur kepada Allah atas sebab itu. "Ya Allah, janganlah Engkau putuskan hidayah yang Engkau berikan kepadaku" Amiin.

Setakat ini sahaja untuk kali ini. Fikir2kanlah isi yang ingin saya sampaikan. Banyak lagi ilmu yang saya belajar dari Ustaz Ismail malam tadi. Nanti saya akan sampaikan lagi dalam sesi akan datang. Saya ingat lagi kawan saya berpesan kepada saya: Ada 3 hak ilmu yang mesti kita tunaikan: 1. Beramal dengannya 2. Istiqamah 3. Sampaikan kepada yang lain. Barulah sempurna ilmu yang kita pelajari jika kita menunaikan ketiga2 haknya.

Dengan ini, kita jumpa di lain hari. Assalamu'alaikum.

Di kesempatan ini, saya juga ingin mengucapkan sekalung tahniah kepada rakan saya, Dr. Lukman Ismail, yang telah berjaya dalam phD beliau. Alhamdulillah, bertambahlah ilmuan Islam di muka bumi Allah ini.

My favourite nasyid for the week

2007-03-07T02:29:00.001Z

As'kum semua,

Maaf sebab lama tak update. Dan saya minta maaf sebab tak dapat nak teruskan perbincangan pasal bid'ah sebab saya bukanlah orang yang pakar dalam bidang nih. Takut2 tersalah berdosa pula. Saya rasa banyak site yang anda boleh pergi kalau nak tahu pasal bid'ah nih. Antaranya adalah website Faisal Teh Rani : http://tehranifaisal.blogspot.com/ .

Sekarang saya nak share lagu favourite saya minggu nih.. terimalah..

'Mawlay' by Muhammad Al-Husayyan

[CHORUS]
Mawlaya Salli Wassalim da-Iman Abadan
Ala Habi Bika Khairil Khalqi Kulli’mi [x2 (WHOLE VERSE)]

Muhammadun Sayyidul Kawnayni Wa-Thaqalain [x2]
Wal-Fareeqaini Min Urbin Wa Min-Ajami

[CHORUS]

Huzita Fil Lahilam Tuhzam Wa-Lam Tahimi [x2]
Hataa Ghuwadad Ummatal Islami Fi’nujoomi

[CHORUS]
[ Lyrics found on http://www.metrolyrics.com ]

Habiballah Rasoolallah Imam-al Mursaleen [x2]

Saraytan Haramin Laylan Ila Haramin
Kama Saral Badru Fi’tajin Mina’zulamin [x2 (WHOLE VERSE)]

Wa-bitatan Qa’ila Anil Tamin’zilatan [x2]
Min Qami’qaw Sayinal Tudrak Wa-lam Turami

[CHORUS]

Translation

Mawlaya..
My Lord...my pray and greet always..
Upon your beloved...the best among all humans
Muhammad...the master of both worlds
and both teams of arabs and non-arabs

You, Muhammad...
You have been hurt and bothered in Allah sake..
You never lost and gave up
And now (until) Islam Ummah (population) is in the Star
You traveled from one place to another..
As the moon travels in the dark
And you continued to rise until you gain a high position

Salam,
toriq

Introduction

2007-02-07T17:20:00.000Z

Assalamu'alaikum,

Dewasa ini, isu wahabi semakin berleluasa di kalangan umat Islam. Org itu tuduh org ini wahabi, orang sana tuduh orang sini wahabi. Perkara ini amat menyedihkan saya. Apalah nak jadi dgn orang Islam. Semakin hari semakin berpecah. Bukankah Nabi Muhammad s.a.w menyeru kepada perpaduan? Kenapa kita perlu sampai bermusuhan apabila ingin membincangkan tentang sesuatu perkara e.g. bid'ah sehingga membawa kepada pertuduhan dan fitnah?

Saya sendiri langsung tidak bersetuju 100% dengan aliran wahabi. Aliran wahabi inilah yang sebenarnya membawa perpecahan di kalangan umat Islam. Ada ke patut orang nak buka majlis dgn Al-fatihah dan tangguh dgn tasbih kaffarah + surah al-'asr pun dihalang? Wajarkah orang yang ingin menggunakan tasbih untuk berzikir dikatakan masuk neraka? Ini baru hal2 bid'ah. Bagaimana pula dengan isu shi'ah, di mana puak wahabi ini menghalalkan darah orang2 shi'ah. Adakah tindakan ini wajar? Orang shi'ah juga orang Islam. Ulamak2 sunni zaman sekrg ada yg mengatakan bahawa selagi seseorg shi'ah itu mengaku bahawa tiada tuhan yang disembah melainkan ALLAH dan Nabi Muhammad itu pesuruh ALLAH, maka dia adalah Islam. Jadi, wajib ke atas kita org Muslim untuk menunaikan hak2 sesorg Muslim yang lain, walaupun dia seorg shi'ah, kerana dia juga beragama Islam.

Ingin saya petik Hadis ke-35 karangan Imam Nawawi bertajuk " The Rights of Brotherhood in Islam"

On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : the messenger of Allah said : "Do not envy one another; do not inflate prices one to another; do not hate one another; do not turn away from one another; and do not undercut one another, but be you, O servants of Allah, brothers. A muslim is the brother of a muslim: he neither oppresses him nor does he fail him, he neither lies to him nor does he hold him in contempt. Piety is right here-and he pointed to his breast three times. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother muslim in contempt. The whole of a muslim for another muslim is inviolable: his blood, his property, and his honor." Related by Muslim.

Jadi, janganlah kita senang2 nak tuduh orang ni wahabi org tuh wahabi dsb sebab kalau dakwaan kita salah, bukankah ianya sudah menjadi satu fitnah? Lainlah kalau dia mmg dah mengaku yang dia wahabi, jadi, kalau tang tu memang kita takleh buat apa2 lagi dah.

Dalam isu bid'ah, terdapat 3 golongan.

1. Golongan yang sangat longgar terhadap perkara2 bid'ah.
2. Golongan yang sangat ketat terhadapat perkara2 bid'ah. (e.g. wahabi)
3. Golongan yang berada di tengah2, tidak memandang ringan terhadap isu bid'ah, dan tidak pula terlalu ketat dalam melaksanakan amalan2 agama.

Pada pendapat saya, kita tidak boleh memandang ringan terhadap perkara2 bid'ah ini, jadi kita kena elakkan diri kita daripada tergolong dalam golongan pertama. Namun, kita juga tidak boleh terlalu rigid, sehingga menghukum sesuatu amalan agama itu adalah satu bid'ah tanpa usul periksa. Sebaiknya, marilah kita berada di dalam golongan yang ketiga, golongan yg berada di tengah2.

Bagaimana caranya untuk menjadi orang yg tergolong di dalam golongan ketiga? Untuk tujuan ini, pertamanya, kita perlulah memahami konsep bid'ah. Apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan bid'ah? Bolehkah kita menjawab dengan tepat sekiranya soalan ini ditujukan kepada kita?

Yang keduanya, kita perlu tahu mengapa bid'ah itu bahaya. Bid'ah mmg bahaya, telah disebut di dalam Hadis 40 karangan Imam Nawawi. Kalau orang tanya kita kenapa bid'ah bahaya, boleh ker kita jawab? Nabi Muhammad s.a.w sendiri pernah menyebut perihal bid'ah, jadi mengapa baginda s.a.w begitu mengambil berat mengenai hal bid'ah ini?

Fikir2kanlah....

Salam,
toriq

Understanding the Concept of Repentance

2007-01-29T13:00:00.000Z

Question

Dear scholars! Could you please explain to me the concept of Tawbah in Islam? Jazakum Allahu Khairan

Answer;

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All thanks and praise are due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear questioner! Thanks a lot for the apparent interest you show in understanding the teachings of Islam that enlightens the hearts and the minds of people.

Brother! Tawbah is an Arabic words derived from the origin ‘Taaba’ i.e. returned back. Tawbah thus means turning back in repentance. It means showing regret for the error and the sin one has got himself involved in.

To have a clear view of the concept of Tawbah and what it does mean, read the following:

“Repentance (Tawbah) means that one feels regret and filled with remorse for his or her sins, turns to Allah with the intention to obey Him. According to truth-seeking scholars, repentance signifies a sincere effort to no longer oppose the Divine Essence in one’s feelings, thoughts, intentions, and acts, and to comply sincerely with His commands and prohibitions. Repentance does not mean being disgusted with what is bad or prohibited and thus no longer engaging in it; rather, it means remaining aloof from whatever Allah hates and prohibits, even if it seems agreeable to sense and reason.

Repentance is usually used with Nasuh, literally meaning pure, sincere, reforming, improving, and repairing. Tawbah Nasuh (genuine repentance) means a pure, sincere repentance that perfectly reforms and improves the one who feels it. One who feels such a sincere, heartfelt, and true remorse for the sin committed seeks to abandon it, thereby setting a good example for others. The Qur’an points to this when it mentions true repentance: “O you who believe! Turn to God in true, sincere repentance.” (At-Tahrim: 8).

There are three categories of repentance:

1-The repentance of those who cannot discern Divine truths. Such people are uneasy about their disobedience to Allah and, conscious of the sinfulness clouding their hearts, turn toward Allah in repentance saying, for example: “I have fallen or committed a sin. Forgive me, or I ask for Allah’s forgiveness.”

2-Those half-awakened to Divine truths beyond veils of material existence, who feel an inward pang of sinfulness and remorse right after thinking or doing anything incompatible with the consciousness of always being in Allah’s presence, or after every instance of heedlessness enveloping their hearts, and who immediately take refuge in the mercy and favor of Allah. Such people are described in the following Hadith: “One who sincerely repents of his sin is as if he had never committed it. When Allah loves one of His servants, his sins do not harm him. Then he recited the verse: ‘Assuredly, Allah loves the oft-repentant and those who always seek to purify themselves.’”

3-Those who live such a careful life that, their eyes sleep but their hearts do not, their hearts are awake. Such people immediately discard what-ever intervenes between Allah and their hearts and other innermost faculties, and regain the consciousness of their relation to the Light of Lights. They always manifest the meaning of: “How excellent a servant! Truly he was ever turning in contrition (to his Lord)” (Sad:44).

Repentance means regaining one’s essential purity after every spiritual defilement, and engaging in frequent self-renewal.

The Stages of Repentance:

1-Feeling sincere remorse and regret.

2-Being frightened whenever one remembers past sins.

3-Trying to eradicate injustice and support justice and right.

4-Reviewing one’s responsibilities and performing obligations previously neglected.

5-Reforming oneself by removing spiritual defects caused by deviation and error

6-Regretting and lamenting the times when one did not mention or remember Allah, or thank Him and reflect on His works. Such people are always apprehensive and alert so that their thoughts and feelings are not tainted by things that intervene between themselves and Allah. (This last quality is particular to people distinguished by their nearness to Allah.)

If one does not feel remorse, regret, and disgust for errors committed, whether great or small; if one is not fearful or apprehensive of falling back into sin at any time; and if one does not take shelter in sincere servanthood to Allah in order to be freed from deviation and error into which one has fallen by moving away from God, any resulting repentance will be no more than a lie.

A Muslim should cry:

I’m sorry for the mistakes I make.

And, I know of none that can be retrieved.

They're like the water over a dam.

To flow back, it cannot be achieved.

There are things I wish I had never said.

Now, I wish that I had bit my tongue instead.

To make another feel that pain,

For those thoughtless words, I am disdain.

Repentance is an oath of virtue, and holding steadfastly to it requires strong willpower. The lord of the penitents, peace and blessings be upon him, says that one who repents sincerely and holds steadfastly to it is has achieved the rank of a martyr, while the repentance of those who cannot free themselves from their sins and deviations, although they repent repeatedly, mocks the door toward which the truly repentant ones turn in utmost sincerity and resolution.

One who continues to sin after proclaiming a fear of Hell, who does not engage in righteous deeds despite self-proclaimed desires for Paradise, and who is indifferent to the Prophet’s way and practices despite assertions of love for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, cannot be taken seriously. This is also the case with one who claims to be sincere and pure-hearted, but spends his or her life oscillating between sin and repentance.

An initiate’s first station is repentance, while the second is Inabah (sincere penitence). While repentance requires the training of feelings, thoughts, and acts in order to move them from opposition to acceptance and obedience, sincere penitence demands a critique of the authenticity, sincerity, and sufficiency of that acceptance and obedience. Repentance is a progressing or journeying toward Allah—that is, seeking to do what is pleasing to Allah and refraining from what is forbidden by Him. Sincere penitence is striving to live an upright life so that one may seek Allah’s pleasure in all actions and thoughts.”

Excerpted, with slight modifications, from: www.thewayrtotruth.org

In conclusion, we would like to cite for you the following lines of verse by Imam Ash-Shafi`i, may Allah be pleased with him:

“To You, the Creator, I raise my longing,

Though I am a sinner and a wrongdoer.

When it becomes black before my eyes,

I seek refuge in You and place my trust and hope.

When the heaps of my sins are compared to Your Grace.

Your Grace is greater and covers all the globe.”

Almighty Allah knows best.

Source: www.islamonline.net

Halal dan Haram

2007-01-15T15:44:00.001Z

Ana tak tulis bende nih... ana dapat kat torrentmalaya punya website.. sebab bende nih baik, ana pun nak share la dgn sumer org... Penulis dia bobgate, member TM.. ana pun tak kenal.. apa2pun, kalau benda elok, baik disebar2kan ye tak? So, silalah baca...
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Halal dan Haram

Minggu lepas, aku ade menonton rancangan tu..kebetulan takde rancangan yg
best, bila bukak je channel tv1, aku ternampak ustaz zawawi (bekas
pensyarah aku) jadi ahli panel...termasuk fauziah nawi & nazrey
raihan...terus aku terlekat...tajuknya Hiburan...Jalan ke....? spt biasa,
di hoskan oleh rosyam nor

Memang bagus diskusi tu..ustaz zawawi citer, hiburan sememangnya halal
malah akan menjadi wajib kpd sesorg jika dia tidak boleh hidup tanpa
hiburan...contohnya , si mamat ni mesti dengar lagu untuk menceriakan hidup
dia, kalau tak dengar lagu, dia tak bleh nak survive...tambahan pulak,
memang dah naluri manusia, perlukan hiburan. Jadi Islam tak melarang untuk
kita berhibur

Tapi, hiburan tu mestilah tidak bertentangan dgn syariah..contohnya, tiada
pergaulan bebas..tidak melalaikan..
Soalan rosyam nor kpd fauziah nawawi nyata menjerat mereka berdua...rosyam
tanye, bagaimana pulak kalau rosyam jadi anak, fauziah jadi ibu..sudah
tentu ade pelukan @ bersentuhan, semata-mata nak hidupkan lakonan tu..
fauziah pulak jawab, memang nak tak nak..kenalah ade sentuhan sbg seorg ibu
& anak...beliau hanya melakonkan shj tapi niat beliau baik...nak tunjukkan
kpd umum tentang pentingnya kasih sayang seorg ibu kpd anaknya...

Then, ustaz zawawi balas balik...niat tidak menghalalkan cara...walau
sebaik mane niat kita itu, tapi caranya bertentangan dgn syariah, maka akan
jadi haram ler...walaupun sekadar lakonan..tapi kedua-dua pelakon tersebut
bukanlah muhram, yakni halal berkahwin... maka mereka sememangnya tidak
boleh sedemikian.
Byk cara lagi yg boleh dilakonkan untuk menunjukkan kasih sayang antara ibu
& anak...di Iran, filem mengisahkan kasih sayang keluarga tidak menunjukkan
sebarang sentuhan antara pelakon berlainan jantina, tapi mampu menjadi
filem yg berjaya & merangkul anugerah.

kedua, ustaz zawawi cakap, berlakon @ menyanyi diwajibkan menutup
aurat...jika mendedahkan aurat, maka akan jadi haram lah hiburan tu...

ketiga, rezeki yg diperolehi hasil hiburan yang tidak mengikut syariah
adalah haram...maka melentinglah sekajap si fauziah nawi tu...dia kata,
hasil rezekinya selama ini telah disalurkan untuk menyara keluarga dia,
tanggung kos belajar adik dia di oversea, buat kebajikan dsb....Ustaz
zawawi balas, yg dipersoalkan adalah sumber rezeki tu melalui cara ape,
bukannya dia belanjakan kearah mane...jika rezeki itu hasil lakonan yg ade
sentuhan laki & pompuan yg bukan muhram, buka aurat dsbnya...maka akan jadi
haram ler...

kemudian, fauziah nawi melenting lagi, ini bermakna dia dah tak boleh
berlakon lagi lah...sebab dah jadi haram..mcm mane dia nak sara keluarga
dia sedangkan punca pendapatan dia adalah hasil daripada hiburan...lagipun
dia hanya menggunakan bakat yg dikurniakan oleh Allah utk berlakon...bukan
semua org ade bakat utk berlakon...

maka jawab ustaz zawawi...beliau masih boleh berlakon...sptmane ustaz
zawawi sebut sbl ni, ade hiburan yg halal..maka carilah hiburan yg halal
tu...

Sebut ustaz zawawi lagi...kita perlukan perubahan minda dikalangan semua
penggiat seni...baik dari pihak penerbit, penulis lirik, penulis skrip,
pelakon, penyanyi, penganjur dsb...mestilah mencari jalan bagaimana untuk
menghasilkan hiburan yang halal & diberkati oleh-Nya...memang ade
caranya...kenalah berusaha..

Itulah serba sedikit rumusan drp forum tersebut...ape2 hal pun, aku ucapkan
tahniah buat ustaz zawawi & nazrey raihan kerana mempertahankan haram tetap
haram...halal tetap halal...

Maka ape lagi wahai artis-artis malaysia? Sudah terang lagi
bersuluh...carilah hiburan yg halal...tinggallah hiburan yg haram...kerana
rezeki yg diperoleh itu sudah pasti akan disoal tentang halal haramnya...
Bukan ke malaysia skrg ni diisytihar negara islam hadhari? jadi carilah
jalan bagaimana nak jadi artis islam hadhari...bukannya had-hari...hanya
islam masa bulan puase shj...bulan yg lain..????

Iraqi Kid Runs For Water

2006-11-24T08:43:00.000Z

Dear all,

I have stopped blogging for a while but then I really want to show you guys this video which depicts the reality of war in Iraq. You American soldiers, GET OUT OF IRAQ! It's not your land!

This is a video showing US soldiers in Iraq taunting thirsty children with a bottle of water. The soldiers can be heard saying in American sounding accents: 'You want some water? Keep running.' At first, a group of children was chasing the truck but most of them tire and lag behind until there is just one left. Then the soldier throws the bottle out of the truck but the boy who was running from the beginning didn't even get the bottle of water. This was so sad! :'(

This is what happened (copy n paste from the news):

It starts with about a dozen children waving at the men on the truck who are holding out just one bottle of water.

Then the chase begins.

Two voices can be heard saying: 'Are they coming?

'You want some water? Water?

'Hi, keep running

'Come on, you're almost there. Run.

'Run. Hurry up. You want it?

'This kid's running forever.

'Run.

'Look at this kid, he's chasing it man.

'And he still didn't get it.'

Watch the video below

Please let the world know the reality in Iraq. Spread the word!

Salam,
toriq

p/s: Bear in mind that there are worse things going on in Iraq than some kids chasing four wheels for a bottle of water. :'(

Praying Fajr reflects how much you love Allah the Almighty

2006-11-19T22:38:00.000Z

Praying Fajr reflects how much you love Allah the Almighty

The happiness of that guy was tremendous when a well-known company accepted him to work for it. He was over the moon as he was the only accepted candidate.

He signed the contract that implies that he should agree on respecting the company working hours, delivering weekly reports about his work and activities, and accepting to be punished for any delinquency

Soon later, the guy met his manager and said to him, "From tomorrow onwards, I will not come in time. And I will not deliver my weekly reports in time either; instead they will be delayed for a while. In spite of all that, I will not allow you to punish me, and you don't have the right to kick me out from work."

If we imagine such a situation, we will laugh at the behaviour of that guy. No-one will see him but an insane and a fool person. How come can someone want to take his rights whereas he is not committed to his own obligations?!

So, why most of us do the same strange action or even worse?
(As we commit a worse sin against the Law of Allah the Almighty.) How can a sane person allow himself to enjoy all Allah's graces: such as food, drink, clothes and life pleasures; whereas he doesn't offer Allah the simplest obligatory He obligates him to do, viz. Praying?!
And even if he prays, then he doesn't pray in time or he prays like a rooster (i.e. he prays too hastily and carelessly). He neither complies with his praying nor apprehends what he says.

According to our web site visitors survey in the arabic section of IslamWay.com that included more than 4000 persons:
14% of them never pray Fajr in its time
16% of them rarely pray Fajr in its time
33% of them often pray Fajr in its time
35% of them always pray Fajr in its time

Subhan Allah!! (*) We are not talking about jurisprudence about which scholars disagreed or even a Sunnah that one has a choice to do or not. We are talking about ABC Islam. We are talking about praying that Allah Almighty obligates on all Muslims - whatever their conditions are.

When Allah the Almighty ordered Muslims to pray He warned those who delay the prayer after its designated time, saying:

"So woe to the worshippers Who are neglectful Of their prayers" [Surat Al-ma'oon 107:4-5]

The interpreters said that what is meant by this verse is delaying prayer after its designated time.They also said : "woe" is a very deep sheer black valley in Hell. Don't we believe in Allah's Words?

A lot of Muslims nowadays neglect Fajr prayer as if they it was not there. That's why they pray it much later than its time. In addition, some of them pray it immediately before the Noon prayer. Others may never pray it even for compensation (Qaddaa). So why all this laziness against what Allah the Almighty deserves? Don't we proclaim that we love Allah the Almighty more than any thing else? Once one of us loves someone a true love, he will be willing to meet him. He may keep thinking of him most of the time. Once he has a date with him, he canNOT sleep until he meets the one he loves. So, do those lazy prayers who do not pray Fajr prayer really love Allah? Do they really respect His Orders? Are they willing to meet Him?.

Let's imagine that a multi-millionaire offered one of his employees $1000 every day, just on one condition, viz. the employee must call daily at his employer's house in the morning as to wake him up then leave. Such a simple task may take the employee 10 minutes only. This marvellously generous offer will be valid as long as the employee keeps awaking his employer regularly. On the other hand, this offer will be cancelled permanently, and the employee will be asked to return all the money he received, if he neglects to awake his employer once without an excuse.

So, if you, my Muslim brother, were that employee , will you neglect to call at your employer's house? Won't you carefully intend to wake up daily to get the one thousand dollar? Won't you - once you failed one morning - try with all means to prove that you were truly unable to wake up?.

Allah has the higher example, so what about you my dear brother towards your Lord, Allah the Almighty? He is the ONLY ONE who gives you your means of living and who bestowed you with every thing, whose blessings on you are utterly much more than millions of dollars daily. It is Him Who says:
"...if you try to count the blessings of Allah , you will fail...." [Surat Ibrahim: 14 : 34]

Doesn't this Lord, the The Most Merciful, the Most Generous deserve that you wake up for Him every morning at about 5.30 a.m. so as to thank Him just in 5 or 10 minutes for His great blessings and his generous favours?

The judgement against those who neglect praying Fajr Prayer in time:
Allah the Almighty says:
"...for such prayers are enjoined on Believers at stated times." [Surat Annesaa: 4 : 103]

Islam is a comprehensive way of life… It is like an agreement between The Great Lord and His humble servant. According to this agreement, the servant commits to certain obligations before Allah. With respect to these obligations, Allah would grant the servant rights and privileges. It is insensible that you agree to this contract, then, soon afterwards, you do whatever you like and neglect whatever you do not like. Allah Almighty says in the Quran:
" O ye who believe! Enter into Islam whole-heartedly; and follow not the footsteps of the Evil One; for he is to you an avowed enemy." [Surat Al-baqara: 2 : 208]
The interpreters said: this means to accept Islam with all its legislation and rules. Allah got exasperated with the people of Israel when they performed what they liked from His religion and neglected the rest. That's why He addresses them saying:
"…Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in, and do ye reject the rest? But what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life? And on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what ye do." [Surat Al-baqara: 2 : 85]
As far as one's punctuality on attending prayers is considered, The Prophet (peace be upon him) sees those who do not punctually attend Fajr (dawn) and Ishaa (night) Salat in congregation as being sheer hypocrites "Munafeqeen". So what do you think of those who do not pray Fajr at all, neither in congregation nor alone (at home)?
The Prophet (pbuh) said: "There is no prayer more difficult to attend for hypocrites than Fajr and Ishaa. And if they knew what's in them (i.e. the good reward - thawab) they would attend them even if they had to come crawling." (Narrated by Bukhari)
Allah Almighty mentions that He disavows whosoever neglects the obligatory Salat. Besides, The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Do not ever leave Salat on purpose because whoever does so then he is disavowed by Allah and His Messenger." (Narrated by Imam Ahmad)

So do you like, Oh Muslim brother and sister, for the closest one to you to disavow you? So how do you neglect the Salat and cause Allah to be disavow you?

Well....now what have I to do?

Every one us should set an alarm clock to wake him for Fajr Salat daily.
We should give Salat its status in our lives, and we should discipline our jobs according to the Salat regular times. (Unfortunately, we simply do the opposite!)
We should sleep early and wake up for Fajr and then leave for work. Soon after Fajr, Allah distributes people's sustenance (Arzaq).
Each one of us should seek a good companionship that would call to wake him at Fajr Salat. Moreover, they would help one another to adhere to such a good deed.
We should keep on saying our nightly Duaa (that we say just after before going to sleep) asking Allah to help us do our Salat.
To feel guilty if we missed a single obligatory Salat. Furthermore, we should vow never to repeat this big sin.

May Allah make us all be among those who truly love Him. May He give us sincerity in both words and deeds. (Amen) Finally, whatever is right in this article then it is a gift from Allah. And whatever mistakes or shortcomings then they are due to myself or Shytan (Satan).

** Written By:
A member of the team work in IANA.

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(*) Subhan Allah!!: This is an Islamic way of exclamation.

Source: islamway.com

Latest news from Malaysia

2006-11-04T17:42:00.000Z

04/11: Johor sultan calls for scrapping of causeway to Singapore

The sultan of Malaysia's southern Johor state Saturday called for the scrapping of the nation's first land link to Singapore, and launched an attack on "dirty" foreigners.

Speaking at the launch of ambitious plans to turn Johor into a thriving economic hub, the state's Sultan Iskandar al-Marhum said the 83-year-old causeway to neighbouring Singapore was undermining the state's economy and was a vestige of colonialism.

"The colonialists built it to develop Keppel Harbour in Singapore," Sultan Iskandar, 74, said in remarks broadcast live on television.

"Many people think foreigners are great but I think they are dirty," he added.

"If the causeway is removed, then the economy will develop," he told a crowd of some 2,000 onlookers, who cheeered and clapped at his suggestion.

The causeway was completed in 1923 in pre-independence Malaysia and Singapore, then both under British colonial rule.

Carrying piped water from Malaysia to Singapore, it also serves as a road, rail and pedestrian link from the state capital Johor Baru to the town of Woodlands in northern Singapore, and sees daily heavy traffic.

The causeway has been at the centre of a bitter dispute between Malaysia and Singapore, with Malaysia calling for its replacement with a new bridge until dropping those plans in April this year.

Malaysians complain the height of the causeway limits shipping traffic to Malaysian ports and argue a new bridge would allow ships easier access.

"Let ships go through," said Sultan Iskandar, who was flanked by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the launch.

Sultan Iskandar, one of the few outspoken members of Malaysia's royalty, is the hereditary ruler of Johor and has a mostly ceremonial role.

He caused ripples in Malaysian society last month when he called on former premier Mahathir Mohamad to stop an ongoing feud with the government and "just behave like a pensioner"

Agence France-Pesse
Source: Malaysia Today

?Cerpen terbaik abad ini-sila baca

2006-08-25T18:57:00.001+01:00

?Cerpen terbaik abad ini-sila baca

DARUL TAQWA & DATUK DR JOHAR

Digosok-gosok lagi matanya. Dia seakan-akan tidak percaya apa yang dilihatnya. Apakah aku kembali ke zaman unta, ke zaman kolot dan purba? begitulah detik hatinya. Dikesat hidungnya yang berair dengan kertas tisu. Kertas itu kemudiannya dicampakkannya ke tepi jalan.

"Assalamualaikum, pakcik.. tolong kutip kertas itu. Nanti pakcik rugi di Akhirat. Kebersihan itu separuh daripada iman."

Bunyi satu suara di belakangnya. Ia bingkas berpaling. Siapa berani menegurku? Aku Datuk Dr.Johar, orang besar negara ini.

"Pakcik, biarlah saya tolong kutip, sebelum Penguatkuasa Iman dan Islam datang. Nanti didendanya pakcik," kata budak kecil berpakaian putih dengan serban yang melilit kepalanya.

Datuk Dr. Johar membetulkan tali lehernya. Ah, kalau dia datang biar aku sogok dengan duit ini . Siapa yang tak kelabu tengok duit merah, biru berlapis-lapis. Namun, Datuk Dr. Johar terus hairan. Bangunan pencakar langit dengan wajah pembangunan yang sofistikated. Ada helikopter bersimpang -siur bergerak di udara. Railbus bercerakah ke sana sini. Bullet train meluncur bagaikan panah dilepaskan dari busurnya. Kesibukan yang layak dipikul oleh manusia-manusia moden.

Namun peliknya, pakaian mereka, tingkah-laku mereka...Ah, di mana aku sekarang ini, gerutu hati Datuk Dr. Johar.

"Hoi budak, Aku dimana sekarang ?" soalnya kepada budak yang menegurnya tadi.

Budak itu tersenyum. Mukanya cerah dan indah. Tenang dan bersuara lunak. Apakah ini Aladin, budak Arab dengan lampu ajaibnya: teka-teki itu terus menerjah kepala dan kotak fikir Datuk Dr. Johar. Budak itu membuka mulut hendak menjawab. Belum sempat,tiba-tiba datang sebuah kereta jenis Ferrari, merah dan bercahaya. Keluar dua orang lelaki dengan pakaian yang hebat dan segak. Serban mereka berwarna hitam berjalur biru.

"Assalamualaikum....Maaf, pakcik. Kami terpaksa mendenda pakcik. Kesalahan membuang sampah ini sudah belasan tahun tidak berlaku di Darul Taqwa ini. Kami terpaksa mendenda pakcik. Kebersihan itu lambang iman. Negara ini menitikberatkan iman.... Pakcik didenda, 30 kali subhanallah, 30 kali astaghfirullah dan selawat 100 kali."

Kata pegawai penguatkuasa itu dengan lembut. Datuk Dr. Johar tersentak. Apa namanya undang-undang ini. Tak ada dewan bandaraya di seluruh pelusuk dunia mengamalkannya. Dia tercengang-cengang. Namun egonya membumbung tinggi. Apa ? Dia nak marahkan aku ?

"Ni duit lima ratus. Saya tak mahu buat apa yang kamu minta. Kita selesaikan di sini saja. Berapa gaji yang kamu dapat sebulan ? " tanyanya angkuh.

"Pakcik, kita bekerja kerana Allah, bukan kerana gaji. Lagipun duit bukan ada harga lagi di zaman ini. Semuanya dipandang sebagai alat, bukan matlamat," kata pegawai berjanggut dan berjambang itu dengan tenang.

"Oh, oh .... maafkan kami, pakcik. Kami nak tanya sikit, kenapa pakcik pakai pakaian zaman dulu? Mana pakcik dapat pakaian macam itu ?" Tanya pegawai itu pula.

Aku yang gila, atau dia yang gila? Detak hati Datuk Dr. Johar. Dia berjalan ke arah kereta Ferrari yang berkilat itu. Melalui cerminnya dia nampak perawakannya dengan jelas. Tak ada yang salah. Tali leher, kemeja dan kotnya masih kemas dan segak. Daripada jenama yang mahal pula - Pierre Cardin. Kasutnya hitam berkilat daripada jenis Bally. Ah! Aku masih unggul. Lelaki tampan, lambang status dan kejayaan. Dia yang kolot, dia yang ketinggalan zaman.

"Anak muda, pakaian pakcik ni pakaian pemimpin. Pakcik orang besar di negara ini. Pakcik dah keliling dunia dengan pakaian ni. "

"Pakcik, itu pakaian puluhan tahun yang lampau. Ketika Islam belum berdaulat di Darul Taqwa ni. Moyang-moyang kami dulu saja yang pertahankan pakaian macam itu. Itu pakaian orang kuno di Barat. Sekarang, kami hanya dapat lihat gambar-gambarnya saja. Itupun dalam buku sejarah zaman peralihan Islam. Orang Barat zaman moden ini dah berpakaian macam yang kami pakai. Tak ada orang yang pakai macam tu kecuali orang-orang bukan Islam yang dijamin kebebasannya dalam sebuah negara Islam seperti darul Taqwa."

Datuk Dr. Johar termanggu-manggu kebingungan. "Di mana aku sebenarnya ni?" Dia bertanya lagi kepada pegawai penguatkuasa dan budak kecil di tepi jalan. Dia masih kenal. Ini Jalan Chow Kit ditengah bandar Kuala lumpur. Masih ada Masjid Pakistan dan Masjid Kampung Baru di sebelah sana. Tetapi itu sahaja, yang lain tak ada.

"Pakcik di bandar Mutmainnah. Ini jalan Mujahadah, namanya. Saya Haji Din, Pegawai Penguatkuasa Iman dan Islam. Diberi amanah untuk memastikan kebersihan lahir batin bandar ini."

Apa? Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur dah jadi Bandaraya Mutmainnah? Jalan Chow Kit dah jadi jalan Mujahadah? Apa dia mutmainnah? Apa dia mujahadah tu? Apa yang terjadi ni? Soalan-soalan itu terus menyerang benak Datuk Dr. Johar.

"Pakcik, kami rayu pakcik membayar denda tadi. Kalau tak boleh sekarang, lepas sembahyang nanti pakcik laksanakanlah. Demi kebaikan pakcik dunia dan Akhirat..."

Tiba-tiba terdengar suara orang memberi salam dari jauh. Nyaring dan jelas. Seorang lelaki pertengahan umur berlari kepada seorang pegawai penguatkuasa.

"Tuan, hukumlah saya. Saya mengumpat tadi. Ya Allah ! seksa Neraka amat pedih..Tolonglah, tuan. Hukum saya di dunia sebelum saya di hukum di Akhirat!" rayu lelaki itu.

Pegawai tadi berpaling ke arah lelaki yang baru datang, dan kesempatan itu diambil oleh Datuk Dr. Johar. Ia lari sekuat-kuat hati. Peliknya mereka tidak mengejarnya. Ia terlepas ...Lega. Dahaga , lapar mula menggigit tekak dan perutnya. Dia mesti makan. Dia perlu minum. Tapi di mana? Tiba-tiba ia terdengar suara komputer dari sound system di tepi-tepi jalan :

"Assalamualaikum, kepada seluruh penduduk Kota Mutmainnah. Syed Al Abrar, hartawan besar berada di jalan Uwais Al Qarni. Dia merayu fakir miskin supaya sudi menerima sedekahnya. Hari ini ia menjamu nasi dan minuman. Sila datang!"

Datuk Dr. Johar orang besar Darul Ghurur itu tidak akan mencemar duli menagih nasi. Dia ada duit, mampu membelinya sendiri. Dia pun masuk ke sebuah restoran di tepi jalan. Di situ penuh dengan pelanggan. Semuanya berserban dan berjubah. Matanya tak betah lagi melihat semua itu.Tapi kerana lapar ia masuk juga.

"Maaf tuan, itu pintu masuk untuk wanita. Di sini untuk lelaki."

"Ceh! Diskriminasi, doubel-standard, lelaki dipisahkan daripada perempuan." Mukanya dicemekkan kepada tuan kedai yang menegurnya. "Ada restoran lain yang mengamalkan persamaan taraf antara lelaki dan perempuan? Saya tak suka pemisahan-pemisahan macam ni!".

Lelaki itu tersenyum. "Empat puluh tahun yang lalu adalah.Sekarang ni kita sudah bebas dan merdeka. Zaman penjajahan fikiran dan jiwa sudah berlalu. Tak ada diskriminasi wanita di sini, tuan. Amir Muhammad,pemimpin Darul Taqwa telah menaikkan taraf wanita tanpa Women's Libs. Kalau tuan ada isteri dan membawanya bersama, sila masuk ke sana. Di sana ada tempat khusus untuk makan bersama isteri dan anak perempuan,"terangnya. Mukanya jernih. Serban dan jubahnya serba putih.

"Ini bertentangan dengan prinsip demokrasi. Sistem pemerintahan kapitalis, sosialis, nasionalis malah komunis sekalipun tak macam ni..."

"Masya-Allah pakcik, jangan disebut lagi nama-nama ideologi tu. Semuanya telah termaktub sebagai ajaran-ajaran sesat dalam perlembagaan Darul Taqwa ini. Tak ada orang lagi yang berpegang dengan fahaman jahiliyyah tu... Subhanallah...." Keluh tuan restoran itu sambil mengurut-ngurut dadanya. Ekor serbannya bergoyang-goyang ketika ia manggeleng -gelengkan kepalanya.

Ah! Persetankan semua itu. Perut aku lapar. Datuk Dr. Johar pun duduk. "Nasi beriani sepinggan !"ujarnya kepada pelayan.

"Dalam pinggan, tuan?" tanya pelayan itu kehairanan.

"Ya ! Apa peliknya?",

"Baik,tuan.Tapi semua orang berebut-rebut pahala makan berjamaah. Tuan makan seorang?" tanya pelayan berkulit hitam itu.

Dia tambah geram. Direnung ke hadapan, iaitu ketempat orang menikmati makanan.Tidak ada meja makan hanya hamparan permaidani tebal dengan dulang-dulang indah yang tersusun rapi. Mereka makan satu dulang. Yek! Jijiknya. Ah! Aku tetap aku. Aku ada pendirian! Nasi beriani dengan ayam goreng kegemarannya terhidang di atas kain putih khas.

"Jemput makan dengan nama Allah yang memberi rezeki," kata pelayan itu dengan sopan.
Datuk Dr. Johar makan dengan seleranya. Dewan makan itu berhawa dingin lengkap dengan alat TV dan pita videonya sekali. Dia makan seorang diri bagai kera sumbang.

" Ya Allah, apa musibah yang menimpa ana Subuh tadi. Ana masbuk dalam sembahyang jemaah Subuh, " ujar seorang lelaki muda dengan wajah yang kecewa. Suapnya perlahan. Macam tak lalu makan saja

"Anta tak cuba tampung dengan amal makrufat yang lain?"tanya sahabatnya di sebelah.Dia nampak simpati.

Datuk Dr. Johar pasang telinga saja. "Ana nak sedekahkan lima ribu ringgit ...malang nasib ana. Ana tunggu lima jam di tepi jalan tadi, seorang pun tak mahu terima sedekah ana" Keluhnya.

"Susah kita sekarang. Orang miskin yang bolot pahala redha, pahala sabar. Mereka patutnya bantulah kita.Tolonglah terima sedekah kita. Ah, susahnya jadi orang kaya macam kita ini. Dahlah nanti di Akhirat banyak hisabnya, di dunia orang tak sudi pula terima sedekah kita....Oh..." keluh seorang yang sama-sama makan dengan lelaki muda tadi.

"Kalaulah kita hidup zaman moyang kita dulu, kan dapat kita korbankan harta yang banyak ini. Saya pun dapat harta ni melalui warisan daripada bapa, yang diwarisi oleh datuk saya daripada moyangnya. Kita tunggulah bila kerajaan nak bangunkan projek negara atau nak gunakan duit untuk kemaskinikan kementerian-kementeriannya.... saya nak labur habis-habisan. Biar jadi saham Akhirat," kata pemuda itu menutup perbualan. Mereka pun makan dengan perlahan -lahan.

Datuk Dr.Johar makin pelik. "Tambah nasi sepinggan lagi!" ujarnya kepada pelayan restoran.
"Demi kesihatan tuan, saya nasihatkan ... berhentilah sebelum kenyang. Maaf tuan saya terpaksa mengatakan demikian. Saya pelayan kedai merangkap pegawai perubatan ....," kata pelayan itu lagi.

"Apa? Awak pegawai perubatan? Seorang doktor ke? Kelulusan luar negeri atau dalam negeri?

Awak sepatutnya bertugas di hospital, bukan di restoran!" bentaknya. Marah campur geram.

"Tuan, mana ada hospital sekarang.Yang ada khusus untuk bayi, kanak-kanak dan wanita, juga para mubaligh dan mujahid yang cedera ketika berjuang. Tuan, kalau tuan amalkan makan hanya bila lapar dan berhenti sebelum kenyang, tuan akan sihat, insya-Allah. Kita tak perlu hospital!"

"Bodoh, kalau macam tu, macam mana nak rawat pesakit kencing manis macam aku ini ?" leternya perlahan-lahan.

"Penyakit kencing manis? Tuan menghidapnya? Saya ada baca buku perubatan edisi tahun 1990 dulu. Sekarang penyakit tu dah tak ada siapa menghidapnya....."

"Batalkan saja oder saya tadi, banyak sangat cakap, boring. Saya perlu hiburan sekarang ...Di mana boleh saya dapati ?" tanyanya.

"Di sana, tuan. Melalui butang pada sistem komputer di sebelah sana, tuan boleh dapat apa saja hiburan yang menyegarkan. Tak payah risau pasal bil. Percuma."

Datuk Dr. Johar, orang besar negara, melangkah hebat ke tempat yang ditunjukkan. Berbagai -bagai butang dengan bermacam warna berkelip-kelip. Sangat rumit tapi kekeliruan itu dapat disembunyikannya. Dia malu kalau-kalau dengan pakaian jenama Pierre Cardinnya ia masih kelihatan kolot.. Entah di mana falsafah moden Datuk Dr. Johar. Pada pakaiannyakah atau otaknya? Diberanikan hatinya; satu butang warna hitam ditekan . Dalam skrin timbul tajuk besar- KHAUF. Apa bendanya ni? Kemudian menyusul nama-nama lagu: MATI ITU TERLALU SAKIT, ALAM BARZAKH YANG PASTI, MIZAN NOKTAH PENYESALAN , IZRAEL DATANG TIBA-TIBA. Oh...Oh ... seram sejuk tubuhnya. Apa nama lagu macam ini? Biarlah menaruh harapan sikit.

Hatiku macam kristal, boleh pecah dengan lagu-lagu macam tu. aku belum nak mati lagi, protes hati Datuk Dr. Johar.

Dia beralih ke butang hijau tanpa lengah terus menekannya. Tertera di atas skrin komputer: RAJA'. kemudian tersembul tajuk-tajuk lagu. Dibacanya dengan teliti... FIRDAUSI MELAMBAIMU, DEMI CINTA DAN RAHMAT-NYA, KEINDAHAN JANNAH YANG ABADI..

Kepala datuk Dr. Johar makin pusing. Semuanya tentang Akhirat. Apa nak jadi ni? "Tak ada lagu yang hot sikit ke?" tanyanya kepada seorang anak muda berjubah coklat di sebelahnya.

"Nanti ya pakcik . Saya pilihkan lagu yang paling hot sekarang ni. Top-hit anak-anak muda sekarang..."

"Ya, ya saya setuju," balas Datuk Dr. Johar. Telinganya dihalakan kepada sistem suara di dinding restoran itu. Dia ingin dengar lagu-lagu kegemaran muda-mudi daerah asing itu.
Ayat suci Al-Quran a... "Eh ...ni suara orang mengaji,"

"Nanti dulu pakcik, selepas ni ada terjemahannya kemudian baru menyusul lagunya," kata pemuda berjubah cokat itu sambil matanya di tutup rapat-rapat. Asyik sekali dia.

Kemudian getaran suara bergema
.... Cintaku berlabuh di persada rahmat-Mu
mendamba kasih yang tidak berhujung
mengutip sayang di hamparan cinta suci.
Inilah getaran hatiku memburu cinta.......
stanza hati merindu Ilahi!"

Datuk Dr. Johar tak tahan lagi. Ia merengus dan pergi ke kaunter bayaran.

"Maaf tuan, duit ini duit lama. Kalau tuan tak mampu bayar kami halalkan sajalah ..."

Datuk Dr. Johar makin geram. Dia menderam dan berkata " Saya bayar dengan kad kredit saja!" Dia hulurkan kad kredit warna keemasannya.

"Maaf sekali lagi, tuan. Kad kredit ini bukan yang boleh kami terima, kami halalkan sajalah."

"Tak, pantang saya minta sedekah. Saya ada harta simpanan berbungkal-nungkal emas di bank. Takkan saya nak bawa, nanti disambar pencuri."

" Darul Taqwa tak ada pencuri, tuan. Pencuri terakhir telah dipotong tangannya 30 tahun yang lalu ketika minta dihukum di hadapan hakim kerana takutkan seksa Neraka."

"Ah, aku tak nak dengar semuanya.makin gila aku dibuatnya," pekik Datuk Dr. Johar lantas meluru keluar dari restoran itu. Di luar,semua pandangan menyakitkan hati. Mengapa orang kolot ini mentadbir teknologi begini tinggi.

Pemandu bullet train berserban merah tersenyum kepadanya. Pilot helikopter dengan tulisan 'MAKRUFAT AIR TRANSPORT' sibuk dengan urusannya. Di seberang jalan tertegak papan iklan dengan tulisan yang jelas :" KELUARGA BAHAGIA GEMBIRA DENGAN SUNNAH ". Di papan itu terpampang gambar seorang lelaki dan perempuan berserta anak-anak meraka. Semuanya berserban, berjubah dan berpurdah.

Isy,meluatnya! Di jalan-jalan raya suasana meriah dengan salam dan senyum. Baginya,semua itu seolah-olah menyindir dan mengejek. Kenapa jadi begini? Kenapa? Kenapa? Kenapa? Mengapa? Mengapa? Mengapa? Datuk Dr. Johar tiba-tiba menjerit. Tekanan dalam jiwanya yang kian tersumbat itu tiba-tiba meletus.

"Datuk..!Datuk..! Bangun, Datuk. Ada berita buruk !"

Datuk Dr.Johar bangun. Ia tertidur sewaktu menunggu keputusan pilihanraya hari itu.

"Kenapa? Parti kita kalah? Aku kalah? "tanya Datuk Dr. Johar.

"Tidak, Tuk. Rakyat bangun memprotes. Mereka tak mahu demokrasi. Mereka tak mahu pilihanraya..."

"Habis, mereka mahu apa?"

"Mereka mahu Islam, Datuk!"

"Islam ? " keluh Datuk Dr. Johar. Digosok-gosok lagi matanya.

"ISLAM KAN TETAP DIJULANG WALAUPUN IA DITENTANG..ITULAH JANJI ILAHI"

"Pasakkan Sabat Teguhkan Istiqamah"

p/s: rajin2 la forward cerita ni.. moga jadi inspirasi dlm perjuangan kita!! infiroo khifafan wathiqolan!! go2!! muslim mesti cemerlang...

"Ambillah hikmah (kebijaksanaan) dari mana pun datangnya."

Open Letter to Bush from an Arab Girl

2006-08-14T19:46:00.000+01:00

This is an awesome letter! I encourage everyone to read it.

Open Letter to Bush from an Arab Girl

2 August 2006
President Bush,

It has become extremely difficult to give you the benefit of the doubt on Lebanon, for you have left no doubt in our minds. We are now certain — like many of us have always been — that your foreign policy is completely biased towards Israel, and you have made no effort to hide this fact. Just out of curiosity: are they also drafted in Tel Aviv?

It is your choice, Mr Bush, to support Israel, just like it is our — the entire Arab and Muslim world's — choice to support Lebanon. You insist that Israel has the right to defend itself. Defending oneself, I believe, is a universal right, not exclusive to Israel.

"The first Qana massacre did not quench the Israeli thirst for blood," it is said, graphically describing yet another Israeli crime against the innocents of Lebanon. In Qana, 57 armless, defenseless civilians died in an Israeli air strike, 37 of them were children. Maybe these numbers don't matter to you, Mr Bush; they are mere numbers of the nameless Lebanese dead. But they matter to more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East.

I quote our late president, Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who in 1973 had said, "Arab oil is not dearer than Arab blood." But it seems that Iraqi oil is dearer than American blood. I am somewhat relieved to arrive at this conclusion. At least there's no racism against a certain group of people. Everybody is a potential sacrifice to secure US interests, even if it means sacrificing a whole nation.

No, Mr Bush, we will not accept, nor will we allow the sacrifice of more Lebanese civilians. A ceasefire should have been enforced two weeks ago. Was there a need for 37 children to die before you decided it was time for a ceasefire? How many more, Mr Bush, should die before you decide to stop sending those bloody weapons to Israel? Perhaps we can afford a sacrifice that will rein in your generosity towards Israel permanently.

We have a dream for a new Middle East. Not the "New Middle East" that you've been brainstorming in your Oval Office. It is the new Middle East that Middle Easterners have been dreaming of; a Middle East with no violence, and no US-made weapons to fuel that violence. It is a dream only we, Middle Easterners, are allowed to dream and realise it.

In Arabic we have a saying that goes, "They murder the murdered and walk in his funeral." Allow me to interpret this for you, Mr Bush: Your precision-guided missiles shipment has arrived in Tel Aviv. These missiles will "precisely" fall onto Lebanese villages; kill hundreds; and displace thousands more. (Evidently, we've just witnessed the first "precise" target in Qana.)

Yet you have "compassionately" been able to send aid to Beirut, at the same time, with supplies for the thousands of people directly and fatally affected by your vocal, (im)moral and military support for Israel. Please include US flags in your aid shipment to Beirut; they must have burned all the US flags in stock.

Mr Bush, Lebanon can and will be rebuilt, but lost lives cannot be restored. Your credibility and your government's credibility have long been lost — irretrievably lost like those lost innocent lives. People will not forget this though. They will not turn the other cheek; they will retaliate — just like you had chosen to retaliate after 9/11. Retaliation is a value you have successfully promoted by putting it into practice, always.

I was born too late to see how the British Empire had collapsed, but right on time to see how the American Empire is falling apart. Mr Bush, You will surely be remembered in history for hastening that process.

With no more respect to offer,

Mira Al Hussein is a UAE national writer based in Dubai who has had a brief stint with the KT. She can be reached at Mira.AlHussein@zu.ac.

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Fikir2

Many people say the sentence (called a mnemonic) "My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets" as a way to remember the order of the planets.

Starting from the sun the planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

If 2003 UB313 is dubbed a planet, what new sentence will we use to remember it?

JAHANAM ISREAL dan AMERICA

2006-08-10T18:50:00.000+01:00

As'kum,

Kemarahan penulis dekat ISRAEL dan sekutunya AMERICA membuak2 sejak kebelakangan nih.. grrrrr... GERAMMNYAA.....

PENULIS MASIH LAGI TAK DAPAT NAK PERCAYA YANG ADA JUGAK ORG YANG JUSTIFY TINDAKAN ISRAEL TERHADAP LEBANON..

marah marah marah!

takleh tulis panjang2 dalam keadaan marah. takut lain pulak jadinyer..

tgklah video kat bawah nih.. pandangan seorg MP di UK pasal isu israel-lebanon.. tak rugi luangkan masa tengok..

salam,
toriq

Pelajar ditegah berserban -- Bukan sebahagian daripada pakaian seragam sekolah – Hakim

2006-07-13T20:44:00.000+01:00

Petikan dari utusan:

PUTRAJAYA 12 Julai - Islam bukan hanya setakat serban dan janggut, demikian menurut Mahkamah Persekutuan ketika menolak rayuan tiga pelajar Sekolah Kebangsaan Felda Serting di Negeri Sembilan yang dibuang sekolah sembilan tahun lepas kerana enggan menanggalkan serban mereka.

Panel tiga hakim diketuai Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan, Tan Sri Abdul Malek Ahmad sebulat suara dalam keputusan mereka bahawa bukan semua amalan atau cara yang dilakukan oleh Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. mengikat umat Islam dari segi undang-undang atau agama, malah ada yang bukannya menjadi pilihan dan untuk diikuti.

Dalam penghakiman bertulisnya, Hakim Datuk Abdul Hamid Mohamed berkata, bahawa daripada pandangan Islam, amalan memakai serban bukannya satu perkara besar, lebih-lebih lagi kepada kanak-kanak bawah umur.

"Daripada apa yang saya dapat pastikan, al-Quran tidak menyebut mengenai pemakaian serban. Saya tahu bahawa Rasulullah memakai serban. Tetapi baginda juga menunggang unta, membina rumahnya dan masjid daripada tanah liat dan berbumbungkan daun kurma dan menggosok gigi menggunakan sugi.

"Adakah itu bermakna bahawa menunggang unta itu satu amalan lebih alim daripada bergerak menaiki kapal terbang? Wajarkah dipilih bahan dan cara serupa yang digunakan oleh Rasulullah untuk membina rumah dan masjid seperti di zaman baginda?" kata Abdul Hamid dalam penghakimannya yang dibacakan oleh Timbalan Pendaftar Mahkamah Persekutuan, Kamaruddin Kamsun.

"Soalnya ialah sama ada pemakaian serban oleh kanak-kanak lelaki sebaya usia perayu (dalam kes ini) merupakan satu amalan dalam agama Islam. Islam bukan sekadar memakai serban dan berjanggut. Arab jahiliah, termasuk Abu Jahal, memakai serban dan berjanggut. Tidak hairanlah bagi Rasulullah yang lahir dan membesar dalam masyarakat itu, berbuat demikian," kata Abdul Hamid.

Katanya, serban bukan hanya dipakai oleh orang Arab.

Orang lain yang tinggal di padang pasir seperti kaum Afghan dan Parsi juga memakai serban, katanya.

"Malah, sesiapa sahaja yang pergi ke Mekah akan dapati bahawa sehelai kain, biar atas nama apa sekalipun untuk menutup kepala dan muka daripada panas matahari, cuaca kering dan debu, amat berguna.

"Sekarang ini, berdasarkan reka bentuk dan cara memakainya, serban melambangkan bangsa pemakainya, umpamanya sama ada mereka itu orang Arab Saudi, Afghan, dari Sudan, dari Oman dan sebagainya. Serban telah menjadi sebahagian daripada pakaian rasmi negara ini.

"Apa yang turut menarik ialah sehingga sekarang ini pun tidak ramai daripada mufti kita dan hampir tiada hakim Mahkamah Syariah memakai serban," kata Abdul Hamid.

Pelajar-pelajar itu, Meor Atiqulrahman Ishak serta Syed Abdullah Khaliq Aslamy Syed Ahmad Johari dan adiknya Syed Ahmad Syakur, masing-masing berumur 11, 9 dan 8 tahun ketika itu, membuat rayuan terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan pada 2004 yang mendapati guru besar sekolah berkenaan mempunyai kuasa untuk menyingkir mereka daripada sekolah kerana enggan menanggalkan serban.

Menerusi penjaga dan bapa mereka, Syed Ahmad Johari Syed Mohd, mereka menyaman guru besar itu, Fatimah Sihi, selain menamakan Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Pendidikan dan kerajaan sebagai defendan.

Pada 6 Ogos 1999, Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Seremban, Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah membatalkan arahan penyingkiran ketiga-tiga pelajar itu, yang dibuat pada 10 November 1997, kerana mendapati Fatimah tidak mempunyai kuasa berbuat demikian.

Keputusan Hakim Mohd Noor bagaimanapun diketepikan oleh Mahkamah Rayuan pada 22 November 2004.

Dalam penghakiman hari ini, Hakim Abdul Hamid berkata, persoalan yang timbul ialah sama ada Peraturan-Peraturan Sekolah 1997 yang melarang pemakaian serban oleh pelajar sebagai sebahagian pakaian seragam sekolah, melanggar atau tidak Perkara 11 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

"Pada pendapat saya, sama ada sesuatu amalan itu sebahagian atau bukan sebahagian daripada sesuatu agama itu bukanlah satu-satunya faktor yang perlu dipertimbangkan. Saya lebih suka kepada pendekatan berikutnya.

"Pertama, mesti ada agama. Kedua, mesti ada amalan. Ketiga amalan itu adalah amalan agama berkenaan.

"Setelah semuanya dibuktikan, mahkamah perlu pula menimbang mengenai pentingnya amalan itu kepada agama. Di sinilah persoalan sama ada amalan itu berbentuk wajib atau bahagian yang penting kepada agama itu atau ia tidak menjadi relevan" katanya.

Beliau berkata, jika amalan itu berbentuk wajib atau menjadi sebahagian penting agama itu, mahkamah perlu memberinya lebih perhatian, dan jika tidak, serta berdasarkan tahap pentingnya, mahkamah tidak perlu sangat mengambil kira.

"Larangan bagi amalan yang wajib seharusnya dilihat secara lebih serius lagi berbanding larangan kepada amalan yang sunat. Walaupun jika kita menerima pendapat bahawa memakai serban adalah sunat, ia tidaklah setaraf solat sunat." katanya.

Hakim Abdul Hamid berkata, faktor kedua yang diambil kira oleh mahkamah adalah sejauh mana larangan itu dibenarkan oleh peraturan.

Dilarang

"Pelajar-pelajar itu dilarang memakai serban sebagai sebahagian daripada pakaian seragam sekolah. Mereka tidak dilarang memakainya pada masa yang lain. Malahan, di sekolah, mereka tidak dilarang memakai serban ketika bersolat.

"Patutkah mereka dibenarkan memakai jubah semasa bermain bola sepak kerana amalan Rasulullah ialah memakai jubah?'' katanya.

Lagipun, kata Hakim Abdul Hamid, tidak ada apa-apa yang menyekat perayu daripada berpindah ke sekolah lain, umpamanya ke sekolah pondok, yang membenarkan mereka memakai serban.

"Kita tidak boleh ketepikan sistem pendidikan kita yang membantu membentuk minda kanak-kanak Malaysia membesar menjadi rakyat Malaysia. Tokoh-tokoh pendidikan kita perlu diberi pujian dan rasa hormat kerana merangka beberapa peraturan sekolah demi kepentingan semua pelajar, masyarakat dan negara akhirnya.

"Lihatlah kepada tiga perayu ini. Semasa zaman mereka membesar, apabila mereka sepatutnya hadir ke sekolah dengan berdisiplin dan menghormati guru, mereka disuruh menghabiskan zaman itu dengan cara yang berbeza daripada pelajar lain, tidak mengendahkan peraturan sekolah, mengingkari guru, menentang pihak berkuasa, semata-mata kerana Syed Ahmad, yang disifatkan oleh hakim yang mengendalikan kes itu sebagai 'angkuh', yang mahu ketiga-tiga perayu itu memakai serban ke sekolah kerana serban itu adalah lambang keluarganya.

"Mengambil kira semua faktor ini, saya dapati Peraturan-Peraturan Sekolah 1997 tidak melanggar Perkara 11 (1) Perlembagaan," kata Abdul Hamid.

Hakim Abdul Malek Ahmad dan Ketua Hakim Sabah dan Sarawak Tan Sri Steve Shim, yang bersidang bersama-sama dengan Hakim Abdul Hamid, bersetuju dengan keputusan itu.

Perayu diwakili peguam Mohamed Hanipa Maidin dan Muhammad Firdaus Zakaria manakala Peguam Kanan Persekutuan Datuk Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid dan Azizah Nawawi mewakili responden.

- Bernama

Komen pendek: isk isk isk... hanya mampu menggeleng kepala jer.. Malaysia = negara Islam ??!!^^**

p/s: kepada yang bagi email kat saya, maaf sangat2 tak dapat balas email secepat mungin sebab minggu nih sibuk sket.. ader assignment banyak.. sob sob sob..

Italy Won!!!

2006-07-09T23:16:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum...

source: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/section?id=worldcup&cc=5739

Italy won the world cup for the fourth time.. yeay yeay! I'm happy for them...

Habis lah Mak Nyah yang kena belasah ngan kawan2 dia sebab predict Italy akan menang (baca utusan semalam)... Adeiii.. utusan2... berita2 camtuh pun leh letak... hanya mampu menggeleng kepala jer..

This week I have to take history from 2 obese patients and write an essay/report about them.. sigh.. I hate portfolio... I will also be doing lots of venepuncture (blood taking) this week~ yeay! really hope that I will be enjoying myself this week...

zidane???!!!*!!##!^^

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/15001723.htm

Till then,
Salam,
toriq

Qada' dan Qadar

2006-07-08T12:09:00.000+01:00

Sila ikuti perbincangan ini dan tulis la komen apa2 yang patut.

Assalamualaikum Dr Danial.

Saya mempunyai soalan tentang Takdir dan ketentuan. Kekeliruan yang merupakan persoalan kecil sahaja tetapi telah menimbulkan kekeliruan dikalangan beberapa rakan saya. Mereka menanyakan tentang soalan sebegini "sekiranya Qada' Qadar, telahpun ditetapkan perjalanannya oleh Allah, bagaimanakah hal membunuh diri? Adakah hal membunuh diri itu juga merupakan hal yang telah ditetapkan?. Sedangkan Islam menegah manusia membunuh diri yang secara halusnya seakan-akan menunjukkan bahawa kita berkemampuan untuk menentukan perjalanan kematian itu sendiri. Tidakkah itu bertentangan Islam bahawa kematian itu ditangan Allah". Saya amat bimbang dengan soalan itu dan saya telah berjanji untuk mencari jawapan bagi sahabat saya itu. Bolehkah tuan membantu saya?

Sekian dari Skid.

JAWAPAN DR DANIAL:

Memahami konsep Qada dan Qadar dengan betul akan membantu kecemerlangan anda. Qada dan qadar ialah ketetapan Allah yang telah ditentukan sejak dari azali lagi berdasarkan ilmuNya yang Maha Tinggi, disusuli dengan kejadian seperti mana yang telah ditetapkan. Sebagai contoh, sebelum kejadian alam semesta, Allah menetapkan gas atau asap akan memenuhi angkasa raya diikuti dengan kejadian bintang-bintang dan planet-planet dan itulah sebenarnya yang telah berlaku tanpa dapat dihalangi. Allah menetapkan satu bahagian oksigen perlu bercantum dengan dua bahagian hidrogen untuk menjadi air dan hakikat ini tidak dapat diubah sampai ke bila-bila. Allah menetapkan kaum wanita dan bukannya kaum lelaki yang mengandung dan melahirkan anak dan hakikat ini juga tidak boleh diubah. Justeru, hukum alam yang berkait rapat dengan kehidupan manusia ini adalah sebahagian daripada ketetapan qada dan qadar.

Isu yang hangat diperkatakan tentang qada dan qadar ialah, adakah tindak tanduk manusia juga telah ditentukan oleh Allah sejak dari azali lagi? Contohnya, adakah Allah telah menetapkan seseorang akan membunuh diri dan dia tidak dapat mengelakkan dirinya dari kejadian itu? Syed Sabiq di dalam kitabnya 'Al-Aqaid Al-Islamiyah' berkata: "Imam Al-Khathabi telah berkata: 'Ramai orang mengira qada dan qadar adalah pemaksaan Allah ke atas hambaNya dan manusia hanya mengikut apa yang telah ditetapkan oleh Allah. Sebenarnya pandangan yang seperti ini adalah salah kerana takdir adalah ketetapan Allah berdasarkan ilmu Allah yang Maha Mengetahui tentang kejadian yang akan berlaku berhubung semua perkara..' Pengetahuan Allah tentang sesuatu perkara tidak akan mempengaruhi kehendak hamba itu sendiri.

Hal ini dapat dikiaskan dengan seorang pakar bedah yang telah memeriksa pesakitnya yang mengadu demam dan sakit perut selama beberapa hari. Berdasarkan ilmu dan penelitian, pakar itu, walaupun belum lagi melihat apendiks pesakit yang berkenaan, telah merumuskan pesakit itu sebenarnya sedang menghidap penyakit radang apendiks. Beliau pun terus melakukan pembedahan dan memang benar, apendiks pesakit yang berkenaan telah bernanah dan perlu dibuang. Boleh kah kita menghukum pakar bedah ini sebagai penyebab pesakit itu menghidap penyakit radang apendiks semata-mata kerana beliau dapat mendiagnosis dengan tepat? Sudah tentu tidak. Demikianlah juga dengan Allah yang Maha Mengetahui segala sesuatu. PengetahuanNya yang tanpa batas bukan bermaksud pemaksaanNya ke atas hamba-hambaNya.

(Jawapan diambil dari "Empayar Minda Muslim" oleh Dr Danial). Semoga bermanfaat.

Keluar dari kepompong

2006-07-01T11:43:00.000+01:00

As'kum,

Yeay!!! ni first post selepas dah lama dah membekukan blog nih... hehehe.. thanx la kepada sumer yg masih sudi masuk blog nih walaupun tak update2.. hehehe..

Well, next week dah start class balik... and, I'm officially 4th year on monday!! yeay yeay!! hahaha.. Congrats juga untuk nad sebab berjaya masuk 4th year jua...

Untuk Year 4 nih, kitorg ader 3 blocks.. so, for my first block, 3 minggu buat General Practice (GP) attachment, 3 minggu Neurology dan 6 minggu Psychiatry... adeiii.. nak cuti lagiii.... waaaa... org lain sumer sedang seronok2 cuti summer, but me? kena gi kelas!! waaa...

Well, misteri untuk di solve kan minggu ini adalah: Siapakah riema????

Untuk sumer rakan2 bloggers, pasnih akan lawat blog2 anda pula.. entry kali nih takder bende menarik pun.. just pembuka kata jer boleh? huahuahau...

Menyokong Amoun dgn curse Elhud Olmert ngan syayatheen nyer...

Satu lagi, mawi putus tunang kah?? so, peminat2 mawi (Amoun, nad, szakif etc), ape cerita nih????

p/s: I'm so sad because Argentina lost to Germany... :'(

Salam,
toriq

Sirah: Cerita Nabi Nuh

2006-05-26T12:17:00.000+01:00

Tadabbur 1

Setelah hampir 1000 tahun menyampaikan ayat-ayat Allah, Nabi Nuh a.s akhirnya mengadu kepada Allah swt tentang sikap kaumnya. Lalu, Allah swt memerintahkan agar Nabi Nuh a.s membina kapal.

Kedegilan kaum Nuh ini digambarkan oleh Allah swt dalam surah Nuh, ayat 7:

Dan sesungguhnya setiap kali aku menyeru mereka (kepada iman) agar Engkau mengampuni mereka, mereka memasukkan anak jari mereka ke dalam telinganya dan menutupkan bajunya (ke mukanya) dan mereka tetap (mengingkari) dan sangat-sangat menyombongkan diri

Sebagai seorang hamba Allah yang bertaqwa, Nabi Nuh a.s terus mempersiapkan kelengkapan untuk membina kapal di tengah-tengah daratan yang luas.

Sekiranya Nabi Nuh mengutamakan logik akal semata-mata, sudah tentu suruhan Allah itu dipersendakan seperti apa yang berlaku hari ini. Bayangkan, sebuah kapal besar dibina bukan di Pelabuhan Kelang, tetapi jauh di Cyberjaya.

Nabi Nuh as ditertawakan kaumnya. Nabi Nuh bodoh. Nabi Nuh gila. Nabi Nuh hilang akal. Nabi Nuh orang yang pelik. Nabi Nuh itu. Nabi Nuh ini. Terguling-guling kaum Nabi Nuh ketawa menggelakkan perbuatan Nabi Nuh yang tidak masuk dek akal itu.

Tetapi Nabi Nuh as tidak peduli semua itu. Dia tetap bersabar membina kapal seperti yang telah disuruh Allah swt.

Sikap kaum Nabi Nuh ini wujud sampai hari ini. Islam jumud. Islam pelik. Islam mundur. Islam ganas. Islam itu. Islam ini. Bergelak ketawa mereka yang anti Islam membuat pembentangan isu bertaraf "antarabangsa" yang isinya hanya memperlekehkan hukum Syariat Allah swt.

Sehinggalah tiba saat Allah menenggelamkan bumi, Nabi Nuh as telah pun di atas kapal bersama orang-orang yang beriman. Lalu, apabila dilihat anaknya sedang mencari tempat perlindungan, Nabi Nuh pun mengajak anaknya untuk bersamanya di atas kapal. Tetapi dijawablah oleh anaknya (Hud:43) :

Anaknya menjawab: "Aku akan mencari perlindungan ke gunung yang dapat memeliharaku dari air bah!" Nuh berkata: "Tidak ada yang melindungi hari ini dari azab Allah selain Allah (saja) Yang Maha Penyayang". Dan gelombang menjadi penghalang antara keduanya; maka jadilah anak itu termasuk orang-orang yang ditenggelamkan.

Akhirnya, kapal Nabi Nuh as ini berlabuh di atas Bukit Judi.

Dipetik dari blog pakdi.. Nak tahu ulasan pakdi? sila ke blog pakdi di http://blog.pakdi.com/ :D

Doa Abu Nawas

2006-05-21T10:46:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/Hello,

Sila hayati~~

Doa abu Nawas

Ilahi lastu lilfirdausi ahla, walaa aqwa 'alannaaril jahiimi
Fahabli taubatan waghfir dzunubi, fainnaka ghafirudz- dzanbil 'adzimi....

Oh Tuhanku... aku tidak layak masuk syurga-Mu
tetapi aku tidak pula sanggup menghadapi seksa neraka-Mu
Maka kumohon taubat dan ampun atas dosaku
sesungguhnya Engkau Maha Pengampun dosa-dosa besar ....

Dzunubi mitslu a'daadir- rimaali, fahabli taubatan ya Dzal Jalaali,
Wa 'umri naaqishun fi kulli yaumi, wa dzanbi zaaidun kaifa -htimali

Dosa-dosaku seperti butiran pasir di pantai,
maka anugerahilah diriku taubat, wahai Yang Memiliki Keagungan
Dan umurku berkurang setiap hari,
sementara dosa-dosaku sentiasa bertambah, apalah dayaku

Ilahi 'abdukal 'aashi ataaka, muqirran bi dzunubi wa qad da'aaka
fain taghfir fa anta lidzaka ahlun, wain tadrud faman narju siwaaka

Oh Tuhanku... hamba-Mu penuh maksiat, datang kepada-Mu bersimpuh memohon ampunan,
Jika Engkau mengampuniku sememangnya Engkau adalah Pemilik Ampunan,
Tetapi jika Engkau tolak maka kepada siapa lagi aku berharap ?

Weirdo tagged by Hata

2006-05-20T01:24:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/hello,

Weird things about me

Hmm~ this might be hard for me~ I don't really find myself as a weirdo~ My friends might have that kind of preception towards me, but at least i'm not thinking that way.. ooh wait... am i a weirdo??? Let's see...

1) I can easily get emotional when it comes to family issue. Whenever I read news about a son beating his mother, I will get mad.. GRRR.. Whenever I see small kids playing with their parent, I will feel peaceful.. LALALA~~ Whenever I see a movie about family issue like Kabhi Khusi Kabhi Gham, I will cry~ sob sob sob.. It's weird though that only family thingy can do all such things on me.

2) I have this kind of feeling that people like to befriend with me when they see me for the first time. But, when they have known me really well, they tend to get away from me.. but why eh? why? is this really true? or is it just my feeling? don't wanna comment about this.. but, rest assured that I do have best friends ok~~Hehe~

3) I couldnt remember all my friends in the past~ erk~ I know this is bad.. but, i cant do anything about it~ I have forgotten lots of my friends from primary schools or even from my secondary school (SMAPL).. Erk~ I really have poor memory on people.. Shame on me! (I always complaint about this to my younger sister, haha). So, my friends out there who read this, please please please forgive me if I cant remember your name, or even your face.. I just cant help it~ erk~

4) I didn't like food when I was young but now, it's totally reversed.. I LOVE food so much~~ Ohh noooooo~~ When I was in form 5, my waist lenght was 28" but now it is 33"... waaa~~ 6 years ago, I just ate once a day~~ But not, I will eat anytime when I'm hungry~~ In the past, I dont like chocolates at all, but now, I'm always craving for it~~ Erk~Why I'm at the extreme ends of eating habit? I wanna be moderate but it's hard~~ Waaa.. please please give me pieces of advice about this, will ya? (I'm crunching a bar of Kit Kat chunky while writing this line~ LOL)

5) I love Siti Nurhaliza ... hahaha~

Ok.. I guess thats all folks~ So, does that make me a weirdo? I don't think so~ hehe~ Later peeps.. Till we meet again..

Salam,
toriq

Sirah : Thariq Ibn Ziyad

2006-05-17T20:28:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/hello to all,

My dad once told me that I was named after a great Muslim general, Thariq Ibn Ziyad, who led the conquest of Andalusia, Spain in 711. I googled about him and stumbled upon a blog which has some info about this Military Commander. So, I just copy and paste it here. Enjoy~

When Thariq had been informed of the approach of the enemy, he rose in the midst of his companions and, after having glorified God in the highest, he spoke to his soldiers thus:
"Oh my warriors, whither would you flee? Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy. You have left now only the hope of your courage and your constancy. Remember that in this country you are more unfortunate than the orphan seated at the table of the avaricious master.

Your enemy is before you, protected by an innumerable army; he has men in abundance, but you, as your only aid, have your own swords, and, as your only chance for life, such chance as you can snatch from the hands of your enemy. If the absolute want to which you are reduced is prolonged ever so little, if you delay to seize immediate success, your good fortune will vanish, and your enemies, whom your very presence has filled with fear, will take courage.

Put far from you the disgrace from which you flee in dreams, and attack this monarch who has left his strongly fortified city to meet you. Here is a splendid opportunity to defeat him, if you will consent to expose yourselves freely to death. Do not believe that I desire to incite you to face dangers which I shall refuse to share with you. In the attack I myself will be in the fore, where the chance of life is always least." (Tarik's Address to His Soldiers, 711 CE, from The Breath of Perfumes')

Kalimat di atas adalah ucapan seorang panglima tentera Islam terkenal dalam sejarah Islam, Thariq bin Ziyad, ketika berpidato di hadapan 7,000 (?) pasukan muslim yang dipimpinnya dalam misinya mensyiarkan Islam ke Andalusia (sekarang Spanyol). Pidato yang menggelegar itu menjadi kobaran semangat yang maha hebat sehingga mengantarkan suksesnya menghadapi berlipat-lipat kali ganda pasukan musuh, yang konon sampai 25,000 prajurit bersenjata lengkap! Sedangkan pasukan yang dibawanya hanya bersenjata sederhana ala kadarnya (berharap bisa merampas senjata musuh untuk digunakan senjata).

Apa yang dilakukan Thariq untuk menyemangati pasukannya? Kapal-kapal yang mengantarkannya beserta pasukan2 tentera ke Andalusia malah dibakar habis, sehingga tiada lagi cara untuk berpatah balik. Bagi Thariq, di hadapan adalah pasukan musuh, sedangkan di belakang adalah samudera luas. Kalau maju ke depan merupakan kematian, mundur ke belakang juga merupakan kematian. Pilihan yang serba menyulitkan! Akan tetapi keduanya merupakan kematian yang berbeda. Tinggal pilih yang mana satu menjadi pilihan.

Entah kenapa, tiba-tiba saya teringat pada peristiwa ini. Seperti baru diceritakan kemarin, mendadak batok kepala dipenuhi oleh sebuah kisah indah keemasan Islam zaman dahulu.

Thariq Ibn Ziyad. Kisah indah yang semakin dilupakan oleh umat Islam masa kini. Entah, kisah itu bisa terulang lagi atau tidak.

Sources: http://imponk.blogsome.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_ibn_Ziyad

Negative Thoughts

2006-05-16T09:06:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/hello to all,

Negative Thoughts

We as human always like to judge other people. Having said that, we are not aware that having a bad opinion about others is harmful to brotherhood. It can also injure our own spiritual growth.

There are three things that are essential to become a good Muslim, if not better:
1. Relationship with Allah.
2. Relationship with other people.
3. Relationship with the environment.

Thus, the effect of negative thoughts to others may loosen the bond between our friends, or even our family. We need to be aware of this because we do not live in this world alone. We have other people around. Please do care about other people's feeling as well.

I would like to quote from a book by Hamza Yusuf entitled Purification of the Heart:
Scholars have advised that one should even beware of forming conclusions based on the bad appearances of people, for it could be that God veils their goodness from others.

In the Qur'an, Allah says: O you who believe, avoid suspicion, for some suspicion is sinful (Qur'an, 49:12).

The prophet (pbuh) said: "Beware of a bad opinion because it is the most false of speech."

However, Imam Mawlud says that it is not forbidden to have doubts about someone's character if it it based on REASON and OBSERVABLE EVIDENCE. This is important because when such person give us some news, we do not believe them straight away as the news might not be true. Make note that suspicion without proof or little evidence tends to be judgemental, and thus it is not allowed in Islam.

Well, in my opinion, even if you have doubts about other people, please keep it to yourself. Do not spread it until it has proven to be true. Do not backbiting other people, that is, speaking ill of another person behind his/her back. Better keep your mouth shut rather than talking about others.

Salam,
toriq

Happy Mother's Day , 14th May 2006

2006-05-13T10:39:00.000+01:00

As'kum and hello to all,

I would like to write about my beloved mother in accordance with mother's day which is celebrated throughout the whole world. My mother's name is Jamilah bte Anwar and I call her 'mama'.

Mama with my niece~ my brother is at the back

Mama,
If you ever read this, I want to let you know how much I really love you. It's hard for me to express my love with words whenever I call you, but I always remember you deep inside my heart. I have wondered so many times what I would have ever done without you. Thank God, I am the luckiest person on earth to have you as my mother. And Thank ALLAH, because you are always there for me.

Mama with my niece again, hana (isn't she cute?)
Mama,
When I look back at the past, it always remind me of how caring you were. You have sacrificed a lot of your time, money and everything for me. I couldn't recall when you have ever bought your own dress? Each cent was spent on your children (9 children), and none left for you. It always touch my heart whenever I think about this.

My 2nd elder sister(Azah), my brothers(helmi and safri) and mama. This was taken when my 3rd younger brother went to a boarding school (MRSM Jasin) for the first time. Mama, you look sad in the pic, probably because you were going to be separated from adik, eh? hehe~

Mama,
I am really grateful to be your son. Rest assured that I will never let you down. I know that I will never be able to repay all that you have done for me, but I will always take good care of you. One day, I will become a well-respected doctor, Insya-ALLAH. But, I will never be one without your doa and without your support. Pray for me, mama!

Mama and my sister in front of my house~ taken during Eid mubarak~

Mama,
I always remember you (and dad too~) in my prayer. I always pray that you will be placed in Heaven in the Hereafter. "O Allah! Forgive me my sins, and the sins of my parents, have mercy on them both as they have looked after me when I was little"

Me and mama~ the last time i went back to Malaysia~

Mama,
I need the whole sea as my inks to write about you. Every good words; generous, caring, wearmhearted, beautiful, kind - you name it, they all can describe you perfectly. But, most importantly, mama, I love you soo much! (Ayah, I love you too~ hehe). Happy mother's day! :D

Hana, me and mama at the airport waiting for the plane to get ready to fly high to Scotland~ hehe~~

Regards,
toriq

Ahmadinejad (Iranian President) Letter to President Bush

2006-05-12T05:34:00.000+01:00

AP - Unofficial Transcript of Ahmadinejad Letter to President Bush

Dear all,
I got this from a friend of mine through e-mail. Yes, it is too long, but I guess it might benefit others who have the time to read it. In this letter, the Iranian President has made courage attempt to call Bush, the most powerful person on earth, to Islam. It is indeed a very interesting letter to read.

I would like to quote this from my friend:

What counts in the sight of ALlah is not its 'success' but the 'effort' we, the Muslims, had put forth during our lifetime in spreading His words. May Allah give us courage to speak the truth and invite people to the truth of Islam.

Salam,
Toriq

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5/8/2006

Mr. George Bush,

President of the United States of America

For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena -- which are being constantly debated, especially in political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss so me of the contradictions and questions, in the hopes that it might bring about an opportunity to redress them.

Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ (PBUH), the great Messenger of God,
Feel obliged to respect human rights,
Present liberalism as a civilization model,
Announce one's opposition to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and WMDs,
Make "War and Terror" his slogan,

And finally,
Work towards the establishment of a unified international community -- a community which Christ and the virtuous of the Earth will one day govern,

But at the same time,
Have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

Click here to read the rest of the letter

Selamat Bernikah rakanku~~

2006-05-10T23:00:00.000+01:00

As'kum/hello everyone,

Entry ini kutujukan khas kepada best friend aku yang sekrg nih sedang belajar medicine di Ireland. Sesungguhnya, semoga persahabatan kita berkekalan walaupun ko dah nak kahwen dah. Semoga perkahwinan ko bahagia abadi selamanya. Bilalah time aku nak kahwen nih~~. haha~~

Kad muka depan kahwen

Nama best fren aku nih Azlan Helmy Abdul Samat. Aku panggil dia Lan. Kalau nak cakap pasal dia nih, rasanya seratus ribu ayat pun tak cukup. Mana taknya, budak nih sangat berbakat dari segala segi. Aku dapat merasakan yang dia nih bakal memegang pucuk pimpinan negara suatu hari nanti. So, lan, kalaulah ditakdirkan yang ko sampai ke tahap tuh, sila sentiasa berpegang dgn syariah Islam! Jadilah pemimpin yang adil.. tu jer nasihat aku.. hehe.. Buat pengetahuan ahli2 GUBU sekalian, dia nih sek men di SMAP Kajang, sekali dgn Ihab.. Ihab pun sangat berbakat jua~ agak2nya sumer budak SMAP Kajang hebat2 balaka.. hehehe...

Me, lan, tomok, chelop and ihab. Lokasi: Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Dia nih memang best friend aku sehidup semati. Harap2 persahabatan kita berkekalan. Kepercayaan aku kat dia mmg 100%. Boleh ker percaya kat org 100%? Hmm. aku kurangkan sket.. 99.9%.. hehe.. sebab tuh aku kata kawan sehidup semati... Keluarga aku boleh la 100%.. kawan2 rapat 99.9% jer.. hahaha.. well, bukan dia sorg jer sebenarnya best fren aku.. banyak lagi.. sebagai contoh, sumer org dalam gambar kat atas aku anggap sebagai kawan sehidup semati.. :D

Kad jemputan kahwen~~

Lan telah berpesan kepada aku untuk menjemput semua rakan2 kmys dan semua yang mengenali dirinya untuk hadir di majlis pekahwinannya. Lan, sorry sangat2 sebab tak dapat hadir. Aku nyer class tahun depan starts 3rd July.. so, camner aku nak hadir, kan? Minta maaf sangat2.. hehe.. Tapi, lan kata, nanti dia datang edinburgh kena bagi hadiah perkahwinan.. Haha.. nak bagi hadiah apa ek? Sila bagi cadangan please~~

Lan di Loch Lomond, Scotland

Bak kata syazwan kat blog dia, ada org hargai persahabatan kita, tapi, kita tak hargai persahabatan dia. Rasanya bende nih memang berlaku. Ini maybe sebab semasa berkawan, kita tak berterus terang. Sebab tuh la jadi camtuh. Tapi, persahabatan aku dgn lan bukan macam tuh. Masing2 menghargai persahabatan yang terjalin. Biarlah bertemu dan berpisah hanya kerana Allah. Aku doakan semoga lan bahagia hendaknya. Paling penting bahagia di akhirat. Lan, jangan lupa doakan aku juga. (Doakan aku cepat kahwen ok?)

Kad kahwen~ semoga kekal abadi..

Aku akhiri entry nih dengan mengucapkan tahniah kepada lan kerana sudah sampai waktunya berumah tangga. Ini juga merupakan sunnah Rasulullah. Semoga menjadi suami yang soleh. Jangan pukul isteri atau dera atau segala2nya. Hehe. Aku yakin ko tak buat camtuh. Semoga mahligai indah yang terbina akan utuh dgn nilai2 murni Islam.

Waaaa.... Nak kahwennnnnnnnnn~~

Salam,
toriq

An Update about My Life

2006-05-07T12:13:00.000+01:00

Dear all my friends,

I was very busy lately doing my case report. I'm so sorry that I didnt reply to your messages because I havent got time. Moreover, I'm going to have my final exams for Year 3 in three weeks time. So, please do pray for my success. To all my fellow bloggers, I'm sorry that I haven't visited your blog for quite a long time.

Anyway, yesterday was the last day of my presedential status of Edinburgh Malaysian Students Association! Yahoo...! Yippie...! I am free at last! hehehe.. Having said that, I have had precious experiences in my life that will never ever be forgotten. It wasn't easy to become a leader... Trust me.. ;)

Well, that's all folks.. Till we meet again!

Salam,
toriq

Edited: I went to szakif's blog and saw his pics. So, I would love to show my latest pics as well..hehe.. Enjoy!

Me with Scotland cap!

Camwhoring on the bed!

Me again~~

Without the cap.. hehe...

2nd Hadith of Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith (Part 2)

2006-05-02T05:44:00.000+01:00

Penulis blog sangat sibuk kebelakangan ini.. so, tak dapat nak ulas sambungan hadis nih sekrg.. mungkin akan berbuat demikian apabila free kelak.. terimalah sambungan hadis ini..

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Si pemuda : Khabarkanlah kepada ke tentang Iman ?

Rasulullah : Hendaklah engkau beriman kepada Allah, Malaikat-MalaikatNya, Kitab-KitabNya, Rasul-RasulNya, Hari Akhirat dan hendaklah engkau beriman kepada taqdir Allah yang baikNya atau yang burukNya.

Si pemuda : Benar katamu ! Khabarkanlah kepadaku tentang Ihsan ?

Rasulullah : Hendaklah engkau menyembah Allah seolah-olah engkau melihatNya. Sekiranya engkau tidak dapat melihatNya sesungguhnya Allah sentiasa dapat melihat engkau.

Si pemuda : Khabarkan padaku tentang hari kiamat ?.

Rasulullah : Tiadalah orang yang ditanya itu lebih mengetahui dari orang yang bertanya.

Si pemuda : Khabarkan padaku tentang tanda-tandanya ?

Rasulullah : Apabila hamba perempuan melahirkan tuannya sendiri ; Apabila engkau melihat orang yang berkaki ayam, tidak berpakaian, pengembala kambing ( berbangga ) membina bangunan yang tinggi-tinggi.

( Kemudian beredar keluar sipemuda itu dari majlis tersebut )

Rasulullah : Tahukan anda wahai Umar siapakah pemuda yang menyoal aku tadi ?

Umar Al-Khattab : Allah dan RasulNya jua yang mengetahui.

Rasulullah : Itulah Jibril a.s yang telah mendatangi aku untuk mengajarkan kamu pelajaran agama kamu.

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Salam,
toriq

2nd Hadith of Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith (Part 1)

2006-04-29T11:45:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum and hello to all readers,

Today I would like to write about the above topic which was discussed in my usrah group yesterday. Well, I think all of my readers are malaysians, so, I think it's ok to write in Malay. But if there's a request to write in English, then, I will do so for my next entries... :D (I will translate this article if anyone wants me too)

Start here:

Ok, di bawah nih saya nak recall balik apa yang telah dibincangkan di dalam usrah malam tadi. Tajuk utama malam tadi adalah berkenaan dgn hadis ke-2 dalam buku hadis 40 karangan Imam Nawawi. Dalam Hadis tersebut, terdapat 4 perkara pokok iaitu Islam, Iman, Ihsan dan tanda2 hari Akhirat. Mari kita kupas satu persatu.

Islam

Dari Umar Ibnul-Khattab r.a, katanya : Sedang kami duduk di dalam majlis bersama Rasulullah SAW pada suatu hari, tiba-tiba mucul di dalam majlis itu seorang laki-laki yang berpakaian serba putih, berambut terlalu hitam, tiada kesan bahawa ia seorang musafir, dan tiada antara kami yang mengenalinya, lalu duduk ia bersama Rasulullah SAW, dan ditemukan kedua lututnya dengan kedua lutut Rasulullah SAW serta diletakkan kedua tapak tangannya ke atas kedua paha Rasulullah SAW, lalu berkata :

Si pemuda : Khabarkan aku tentang Islam ?

Rasulullah : Islam, iaitu hendaklah mengucap syahadat - bahawa tiada Tuhan melainkan Allah Ta'ala dan bahawasanya Muhammad itu Rasulullah, dan hendaklah bersembahyang, mengeluarkan zakat, berpuasa pada bulan Ramadhan dan menunaikan haji ke Baitullah apabila berdaya ke sana.

Si pemuda : Benar katamu.

( Berkata Umar r.a : Kami merasa hairan kepada tingkah laku si pemuda itu, dia yang bertanya dan dia pula yang mengiyakannya )

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Telah dibincangkan di dalam usrah tersebut bahawa, untuk seseorang itu menjadi seorg Muslim yang baik, maka mereka perlulah menepati ciri2 dalm hadis tersebut, iaitu rukun2 Islam. Rasanya semua orang hafal rukun Islam, ye tak? Namun, sekiranya seseorg itu melaksanakan rukun Islam yang pertama, iaitu mengucap dua kalimah syahadah, maka mereka sudah dikira Islam. Walaupun mereka lalai daripada beribadat kepada Allah, tidak solat 5 waktu, tidak menunaikan zakat dan puasa, mereka tetap Islam. Siapakah kita untuk mengatakan mereka kafir?

Namun, penceramah mengigatkan kami semua bahawa memang ada hadis yang mengatakan kafir sesorg muslim itu sekiranya dia tidak memelihara solatnya dan tidak menunaikan zakat, namun, lebih elok kiranya kita kategorikan golongan ini sebagai mengkufuri nikmat Allah. Biarlah Allah yang menentukan seseorang itu Islam atau Kafir.

Mari kita kupas lagi tentang rukun Islam yg pertama ini kerana pada pendapat saya, mengucap dua kalimah syahadah adalah satu perkara yang paling penting sekali dalam hidup kita. Kerana sedar atau tidak, kita boleh jatuh syirik tanpa kita sedari samada melalui perbuatan/perkataan atau hati kita. Sebab itulah kita solat 5 kali sehari, jadi dengan ini, kita sentiasa memperbaharui syahadah kita.

Dengan mengakui bahawa Tiada Tuhan yang disembah melainkan Allah dan nabi Muhammad itu Pesuruh Allah, pasti kita akan zahirkan dengan perbuatan kita dengan melakukan amalan2 yang disuruh oleh Allah seperti Solat, Puasa, Zakat dan sebagainya. Islam mengajar kita agar sentiasa berbuat kebaikan dan tidak melakukan kerosakan di muka bumi ini.

Di akhirat kelak, mulut kita akan dikunci, dan anggota badan kita yang akan menjadi saksi di hadapan Allah s.w.t. Marilah kita sama2 menjaga tingkah laku kita dari sekrg. Namun, perlu diingat, bukan hanya perbuatan sahaja yang akan dipersoalkan, malah segala apa yang diucapkan oleh kata juga akan dipertanggungjawabkan di akhirat kelak.

Ada satu hadis ke falsafah mengatakan, Berkatalah benar atau baik2 dalam pertuturan seharian, dan sekiranya tidak boleh, maka baiklah berdiam diri. Andaikata manusia mengetahui/ingat bahawa lidah juga akan dipertanggungjawabkan sama seperti perbuatan di Hari Qiamat kelak, nescaya manusia akan lebih banyak berdiam diri.

Sekiranya kita renung balik kehidupan seharian kita, berapa bnyk kali kita laser2 org, mungkin org tuh sakit hati tanpa disedari. Berapa banyak kali kita mengumpat org? berapa banyak kali kita menyakitkan hati org? Berapa banyak kali kita berzikir? Ingatlah, malaikat Raqib dan Atid yang berada di bahu kiri dan kanan kita akan sentiasa menulis semua bende yang telah kita tuturkan. Maka, berhati2lah dalam pertuturan.

Saya ingin akhiri entry pada kali ini dengan memberikan 3 kategori umat Islam:
1. Org yg munafik
2. Orang yang sekadar mengucap dua kalimah syahadah tetapi jarang sekali mengigati Allah (org Islam kebanyakan..termasuklah kita2 yang lemah nih.. :( )
3. Orang yang mengucap dua kalimah syahdah dan mempunyai God Consciousness yang tinggi. Inilah golongan para anbiya', auliya', siddiqin dan solihin, di mana mereka sentiasa menyedari bahawa Allah sentiasa berada bersama2 mereka dan Allah sentiasa melihat mereka ke mana sahaja mereka pergi dan di mana sahaja mereka berada.

Marilah kita bersama2 berdoa kepada Allah agar digolongkan dalam golongan yang ke-3. Amiin..

Oh, teringat saya kisah Saidina Umar yg memasuki Islam. Kisahnya bermula apabila Saidina Umar mengetahui bahawa adik perempuannya telah memeluk agama Islam. Betapa marahnya Saidina Umar lalu terus pulang ke rumah dan mendapati bahawa adiknya sedang membaca Al-Quran di atas helaian kertas/pohon tamar?. Lalu Saidina Umar yang terkenal dgn ketegasan menampar pipi adiknya itu. Dikatakan sampai berdarah adik Saidina Umar. Jadi, Saidina Umar pun berasa bersalah kepada adiknya. Lalu, untuk memujuk adik perempuannya itu, maka Saidina Umar pun membacalah Al-Quran yang dibaca oleh adik perempuannya itu. Pada mulanya, Saidina umar hanya membaca Al-Quran kerana ingin memujuk adiknya, namun, apabila dia membaca sahaja Al-Quran tersebut, terus dia berasa bahawa inilah kebenaran. Dia terasa ayat2 Al-Quran tersebut benar2 menawan hatinya dan menusuk kalbunya. Lalu, pergilah ia menjumpai Rasulullah and utk meringkaskan cerita, dia pun memeluk agama Islam. Takbir! Allahuakbar!

Jadi, boleh lah kita ambil iktibar di sini bahawa kalau kita nak menarik org kafir memasuki Islam, berilah Al-Quran kepada mereka. Berapa banyak sudah kisah bagaimana orang kafir memasuki Islam hanya dengan membaca Al-Quran (translation) sahaja. SubhanALLAH. Maha Suci Allah.

Maaf sebab dah berceloteh panjang sangat. Next entry akan mengupas lebih lanjut tentang sambungan hadis ini iaitu tentang Iman, Ihsan dan tanda2 hari Qiamat.

Salam,
toriq

What have I been doing lately?

2006-04-26T06:41:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum and hello to all,

You might have been wondering where was I for the past week, did you? You may not, but I know some of you are! Wekkk (imitating puteri nad)

Anyway, I just want to let you know that I was very busy lately (and still am busy!) trying to catch up with my study. Final exams are just a month away and i have to cover all the things I have learnt in Year 3. There will be 3 big exams starting at the end of May which I'm always shivering whenever I thought about it. And to tell you the truth, I haven't revised the past modules yet as currently I'm reading about cardiology, my current module! Please do pray for my success! *wink wink. :D

Speaking about cardiology, this morning I'm going to have a bed-side teaching with my consultant's registrar. I havent been taught by him before so hopefully he is ok. But, it's a different issue with my consultant. He is quite scary! (at least I'm scared of him!). Last time, during the first week of the rotation, we had 2 sessions with him, and guess what, we couldnt answer lots of his questions! (oh come on! we were in our first week of rotation!). He was really dissapointed with us and at the end he scolded us! Waaaa.. I'm scared of him and moreover, I'm going to have another bed-side teaching with him on Friday this week! Waaa... Better be ready this time! *woot woot!

Enough for now. Below are my pics today. Hehe

In my room

This is the way I dress to hospital if I have to meet patients

Ohh Noo!! I am so chubby! :(... Don't worry guys! I'm on diet since I dont have time to go to gym these days. Haha.

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

2006-04-21T16:14:00.000+01:00

Prophet Muhammad - The Most Influential Man in History
from the book by Michael Hart (a non-muslim)

The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group

Ranking of the fifteen from the list of 100:
Hart's Top 15 (from the 1992 edition)

1 Muhammad: Prophet of Islam
2 Isaac Newton: physicist, theory of universal gravitation, laws of motion, major developments in mathematics, optics, thermodynamics
3 Jesus Christ: central figure of Christianity
4 Buddha: founder of Buddhism
5 Confucius: founder of Confucianism
6 St. Paul: proselytizer of Christianity
7 Ts'ai Lun: inventor of paper
8 Johann Gutenberg: developed movable type and made great advances in printing
9 Christopher Columbus: explorer, led Europe to Americas via southern passage
10 Albert Einstein: physicist, relativity, Einsteinian physics
11 Louis Pasteur: scientist, pasteurization, Germ Theory
12 Galileo Galilei: astronomer, accurately described heliocentric solar system, led way to Newton's work
13 Aristotle: Greek philosopher
14 Euclid: Greek mathematician, Euclidean geometry, author of various influential theories
15 Moses : major prophet of Judaism and leader

PROPHET MUHAMMAD, No. 1
The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings.

Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe.

When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power. This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad's following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion.

When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen (badwi kot?) of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642. But even these enormous conquests, which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Ali, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.

For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks.

Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed. Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare, finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Moslem, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems (sekrg tak jauh sgt macam nih) in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus.

There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament. Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam.

Moreover, he is the author (not author actually.. these are the words of God) of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words (God's words!). No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammad through the medium of the Koran has been enormous. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity.

On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus. Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan. It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Moslem nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture.

The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

Salisbury Crags (Photos)

2006-04-19T15:48:00.000+01:00

Salisbury Crags (10 minutes walk from Edinburgh city centre)

Ihab and me!

Ihab, me, lan and chelop

All of us

cuba buat gaya boy band...

gaya boy band 2... huahuahua

tgk gaya ihab.. unik kan?

Me, cuba mencari keunikan spt ihab...

Ihab pun nak jugaaak...

Me alone..

Me again! :D

gaya poyo rakan2 ku

ihab lagi... giler bergayo sungguh! ada chance masuk manhunt tak nih?

ihab n me again...

lawa tak view kat belakang?

Well, that's about it. This will be one of the few places that can be visited in Edinburgh, Scotland. All the photos were taken when I was in 1st year at uni, which is about 2 1/2 years ago...

Later peeps! and Enjoy! hehe...

Celebrating Non-Muslim Festivals

2006-04-17T18:20:00.000+01:00

As'kum/hello to all,

Celebrating Non-Muslim Festivals

These days, we can see many muslims follow other beliefs or celebrate other religions such as Christianity, Hinduism, without knowing that it poses a great danger to the aqidah (belief) of the Muslim. As reported in an authentic hadeeth, "Whoever imitates a people is one of them". In fact, Muslims try to follow the non-Muslims(particularly the Western) in everything, major or minor, in the aspect of development, progress and civilization globalization and other dazzling but deceitful slogans.

Rulings on Celebrating and Imitating Non-Muslims' Festivals

These rulings or statements are issued by "The Standing Committee on Academic Research and Issuing Fatawa".

1. There are many evidences in the Qur'an and Sunnah which make it clear that it is forbidden to imitate non-Muslims with regard to things that are exclusively theirs. This includes imitating them in their festivals and everything that they venerate, and celebrating them.

One of the texts which specifically forbid imitating them in their festivals is the verse (interpretation of the meaning): " ...and those who do not bear witness to al-zoor (falsehood)… " (Holy Qur'an, 25:72).

A group of the Salaf (Predecessors) including Ibn Sireen, Mujahid and al-Rabi'i ibn Anas interpreted the word al-zoor (falsehood) as referring to the festivals of the disbelievers. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Do not enter upon the polytheists in their churches on the day of their festival, for the wrath (of Allah) descends upon them." He also said: "Avoid the enemies of Allah during their festival."

2. It is also forbidden to join in the festivals of the disbelievers for many other reasons, including the following:

- Imitating them in some of their festivals implies that one condones and approves of their false beliefs.

- Imitating them and behaving like them with regard to external matters leads one to imitating them and behaving like them with regard to internal matters such as their corrupt beliefs, and being slowly and subtly won over to their way of thinking.

One of the greatest evils that results from this is that imitating the disbelievers with regard to external appearances generates feelings of love and friendship towards them, which contradicts faith, as Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): "O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Awliya'a (friends, protectors, helpers); they are but Awliya'a of each other. And if any amongst you takes them (as Awliya'a), then surely, he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the wrong-doers." (Holy Qur'an, 5:51)

Based on the above, it is not permissible for a man who believes in Allah as his Lord, Islam as his religion, and Muhammad (PBUH) as his Prophet and Messenger, to celebrate any festival that has no basis in the religion of Islam. This includes the New Year and millennium. Neither is he permitted to attend such festivals or take part in them, or to help others do so in any way whatsoever, because this is a sin and is transgressing the limits set by Allah. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): " ....do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in punishment." (Holy Qur'an, 5:2.)

Source: http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=53884

A Fact Sheet on Easter

What is Easter?

Easter is considered by many Christian churches the most important and one of the oldest holidays of the Church year after the weekly Sabbath which is held on Sundays. It is a time for redemption or deliverance from sin.

Why is Easter celebrated?

It is celebrated to commemorate the Christian belief in the death by crucifixion of Prophet Jesus and his resurrection three days later.

When is Easter celebrated?

The date for Easter can fall between March 25 and April 25. There are two main churches who celebrate Easter: the Eastern Orthodox and the Western churches. Generally, the Western Church comprises the Protestants, Catholics, and Anglicans. The Eastern Church, on the other hand, is made up of: the Orthodox churches, the Oriental churches, and the Eastern-rite churches affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.

The Eastern Orthodox church may celebrate Easter at the same time as the Western church, or one, four or five weeks later due to a slightly different method of calculation.

Some customs and practices surrounding Easter

1. Fasting before Easter

Prior to the celebration of Easter, Christians may fast for the 40-day period called Lent. Lent is a time to prepare for Easter by making penitence. There are differences amongst Christians pertaining to this fasting and when it begins.

In Western churches, Lent begins on a day called Ash Wednesday. This is six-and-a-half weeks before Easter. Christians fast except on Sundays. While initially there were strict laws about fasting, the Roman Catholics later made these unnecessary during World War Two. Today, only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are kept as days of fasting during Lent. However, there is still emphasis on penitence during this period.

In Eastern churches, on the other hand, Lent starts on the Monday of the seventh week before Easter and ends of the Friday nine days before the holiday. In Eastern churches, even today, those who are fasting cannot consume wine, oil and dairy products. Fasting also takes place on Sunday, unlike in the Western church. However the fasting on the weekends is more relaxed.

2. Easter eggs
In some churches, eggs are forbidden to be eaten during the fasting of Lent. During Easter, a time of joy and celebration, not only are they eaten, but they are colored and decorated. Eggs are symbolic of new life and resurrection, which are the themes of Easter.

Cultures where Christianity is practiced use eggs in different ways during Easter celebrations. For instance, in Greece eggs painted crimson red are exchanged with the belief that this practice honors the blood of Jesus. In Germany eggs are hollowed out, dyed and hung from shrubs and trees during Easter Week. Armenians decorate hollow eggs with pictures of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and other religious designs.

The Easter eggs also play a role in games. In North America, this can be seen on Easter morning with children going on Easter egg hunts in parks or backyards. They are looking for the eggs the "Easter Bunny" has hidden while they were asleep. Sometimes prizes of candy are awaiting the child finding the most eggs.

3. The Easter rabbit
In ancient Egypt, the hare was a symbol of fertility. While in Europe, the symbol of the hare has been adopted in relation to the celebration of Easter, it is different in North America. Here, we find the Easter rabbit, which is also a symbol of fertility. It is believed it the Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden.

Source: http://www.soundvision.com/Info/Jesus/Easter.asp

My opinion: I would say that we, Muslims, cannot celebrate Easter due to the statements above. The act of giving people the 'eggs' for presents or eating them on the day of the celebration is a way of saying that we approve their belief. Having said that, I would like to let you know that I'm no ulama' to give fatwa, but this is just my humble opinon. Open for discussion.

Berdoa Agar Mati Segera

2006-04-15T22:52:00.000+01:00

Berdoa Agar Mati Segera

Ikutilah perbualan mengenai topik di atas.

Abdul Rahman Al-Asfuri : Dalam keadaan-keadaan yang tertentu bolehkah kita berdoa kepada Allah supaya kita dimatikan dengan segera?

Muhammad Syazwan : Saya pernah terbaca satu buku yg mengatakan apabila seseorang itu apabila hidupnya makin melarat seperti sakit yg begitu teruk sehingga tiada penawar, dan kalau hidup pun makin membebankan dirinya dan orang lain, dibenarkan memohon doa kepada Allah meminta mati.

Wallahu'alam bissowab

Abu Musa Al-Muari : Assalaamu'alaikum;

Adik syazwan jangan pandai2 keluarkan hukum dalam masalah yang merbahaya macam ni kerana kalau ada yang doa minta mati dengan berpegang dengan kata2 syazwan maka syazwan dapat dosa kerana menggalakan orang berbuat perkara yang salah dan dilarang oleh nabi saw.

Pernah nabi saw dengar sahabat doa supaya dipercepatkan azab akhiratnya di dunia ini maka nabi saw marah dan memerintahnya supaya baca doa Raabanaa atinaa fiddunya hasanah wafil akhirati hasanah wa qinaa 'azaabannaar.

Yang adik syazwan maksudkan mungkin doa nabi saw yang maksudnya "ya
Allah jika Engkau tahu hidupku lebih baik dari matiku maka jadikanlah hidupku penuh dengan keberkatan tapi jika Engkau tahu yang matiku lebih baik dari hidupku maka buatlah yang terbaik untukku" doa begitu tidak salah kerana kita serahkan pada Allah swt bukan kita minta mati, kalau oerhati betul2 maka kita akan nampak perbezaannya.

Wallahu a'lam bissowaab

Mohd Saipuddin bin Mat Yunus : doa tersebut berbunyi begini: "Allahumma ahyini ma kanatil hayatu khairali wa tawaffani iza kanatil wafatul khairali" maksudnya ya Allah hidupkan aku jika sekiranya hidup itu baik untukku dan matikan aku sekiranya mati itu baik buatku

Muhammad Syazwan : Bukan memandai, tapi ada soal-jawab kat akhbar ke majalah.. Tak ingat! Yg tanya tu, orang ramai kepada ustaz/ustazah. Jadi ustaz/ustazah tu berikan jawapan dia lebih kurang macam tu.

Abu Musa Al-Muari : Assalaamu'alaikum;

Maafkan saya...jangan marah...saya tahu adik syazwan adalah orang yang baik..mesti tak marah dengan perkara begini. Inilah masalah kita sekarang,ramai yang menasabkan diri sebagai ustaz atau ustazah tapi tidak mendlami ilmu sepertimana yang sepatutnya dan sepertimana ulama2 dahulu atau paling kurang pun macam tok2 guru dahulu, setakat ada sijil agama dah kira keluar semua hukum.
Sebenarnya walaupun dah jadi ustaz atau ustazah kena juga buka2 kitab kerana ilmu yang tidak diulang2 mudah hilang dari ingatan.

Semoga Allah membaiki ehwal kita semua.

Wallahu a'lam bissowaab

Feel free to give your opinion.. Salam.. May God bless us!

Craigmillar Castle (Photos)

2006-04-13T20:57:00.000+01:00

Craigmillar Castle (20 minutes by bus from edinburgh city)

On the 1st and 2nd April 2006, all the castles in Scotland went FREE for everyone. Therefore, I didn't miss the opportunity to visit several castles nearby Edinburgh. I've posted pictures of me in Edinburgh castle last week, and below are the photos of a smaller castle which is also located nearby the place I'm staying now. The entrance fee is £4.50 (I think) compared to £10.00+ for edinburgh castle. So, my advice is, if you want to visit Scotland and also short of money, come here when the castles are FREE. For your info, they will be free twice a year(somewhere in April and November). The dates vary so if I happen to know when they will be free again, I will inform you guys. Till then, enjoy the pics!

Amir and me

That's the castle

In front of the castle

kat tepi castle

menempekkan diri di dinding castle

gambar blues

spiral stairs inside the castle

gambar blues lagi.. hahaha..

duduk kat tingkap boleh?

kat atas castle

top of the castle

nak menempek lagi kat dinding.. huahuauahu

gaya posing bersahaja

all of us! (susunan mengikut ketinggian)

just me, the one and only!

view of the castle from the top

me again!

don't know what i was trying to do here..

habis dah.. lalala~~

Salam,

toriq

The Million Dollar Homepage

2006-04-11T21:38:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/hello to all,

The Million Dollar Homepage

Have you ever dreamt you were rich? To be honest, sometimes I think about it. Although deep inside my heart I know that it is close to impossible, I still dream about it. Sigh~~ Is it a bad thing?

Recently, I stumbled upon a website which is creatively built by a student from England. Later I found out that he has generated a gross income of $1,037,100 USD just from building this site. Huh? Would you believe that? How is it possible eh?

His name is Alex Tew, age 21. Initially, he had this idea of creating a site consists of a 1000 x 1000 pixel grid (one million pixels), and sells a pixel at US $1 per pixel. Basically, it is for business companies who want to advertise their products in his page. So the money that is raised from here will be used to fund his university education. He didn't even think that he could sell all the pixels but then he just went ahead with the idea.

And to my surprise, all the pixel grid are already SOLD OUT! Amazing! He is now a millionaire! Go here to have a look at his site: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Back to the topic that I have raised before. Is it a bad thing to have a daydream of being a millionaire? Well, in my opinion, I would say yes! (Everyone can say their words here as I never said that I am totally right.) The desire to need and want more is definitely a disease! We should be thankful to God for what we are now. Do not be too materialistic as this will just make us away from God. We will love the world soo much until we forget about the Hereafter.

Thus, I urge everyone to remember death and the Hereafter! Reflect on the state of the grave after our death, which can be either a parcel of Paradise or a pit of Hell! Please reflect on this consistently so that you won't love the world TOO much and hence the desire for wealth, fame, prestige and all the things that the world has to offer.

Everyone in the world will someday die and stand before their Maker which is the ultimate destiny of all human beings! Remember this.. remember... and always remember....

May ALLAH bless us all.

On a side note, my GUBU friend, yasmin, is going to Cairo tomorrow for 9 days. So, I would like to wish you a safe journey and don't forget to always remember ALLAH when you are having so much fun!

The only pic of yasmin that I have. (sorry guys, she has already been taken, not me though.. sigh~~)

Salam,
toriq

Lion roars Allah

2006-04-10T20:55:00.000+01:00

Lion roars Allah

The lion makes short ablution and says the name of Allah! Thousand visitors of a zoo in city Baku became witnesses of this miracle. The inspector of the zoo said, that the Lion was brought from Iran in 1999.

I am not really sure how true this video is, but after all, we still can get benefit from it, don't we?

If you have slow internet connection, press play and then pause for a few minutes before playing the video.

Pemurnian Sejarah Islam

2006-04-09T23:49:00.000+01:00

Pemurnian Sejarah Islam (Siri 1)

SEPINTAS LALU TENTANG IBNU ISHAQ : PEROSAK SEJARAH AWAL ISLAM

Namanya Muhamad bin Ishaq . Hidup sezaman dengan Imam Malik dan pernah berjumpa dengan Anas bin Malik dan Said ibnu Musayyab.

Beliau tidak rasminya diangkat sebagai 'bapa sirah' dan cerita-cerita sirah yang bersumber dari beliau banyak bertebaran dalam kitab-kitab sirah kemudiannya . Malah dalam sukatan pelajaran Universiti Al-Azhar terdapat cerita-cerita yang bersumber dari beliau.

Salah seorang anak muridnya Ibnu Hisham telah mengutip secara bebas ( ataupun dengan tapisan yang ringan) cerita-cerita dari Ibnu Ishaq dan memuatkannya di dalam kitabnya yang termasyhur Sirah Ibnu Hisham, sebuah kitab rujukan sirah yang utama masakini.

Ibnu Ishaq ialah seorang penganut Syiah . Anutannya telah mempengaruhi cara beliau berfikir dan telah banyak diabadikan di dalam kitab-kitab yang beliau nukilkan atau dalam siri pengajiannya.

Banyak cerita-cerita ganjil berkenaan kehidupan dan suasana awal Islam yang bersumber hanya dari beliau seorang. Cerita-cerita ini banyak untuk menyokong fahaman syiahnya iaitu samada mengangkat Saidina Ali ra atau keluarganya, mengurangkan sumbangan atau memburuk-burukkan sahabat yang lain terutama Saidina Muawiyah serta sahabat-sahabat utama seperti Abu Bakar , Umar ra

Di antara cerita yang diriwayatkan oleh beliau yang dipertikaikan oleh Ulamak ialah:

a) Kisah Hindun ra , ibu kepada saidina Muawiyah, yang dikatakan memakan jantung Saidinia Hamzah. Cerita ini tidak pernah diceritakn oleh orang lain malah dalam Shahih Bukari , Wahsyi ra yang membunuh Saidina Hamzah tidak pernah menyebut tentang kisah ini. Motif utama ialah mencacatkan Hindun, ibu kepada Muawiyah , musuh utama golongan Syiah.

b) Kekarutan dalam cerita-cerita tentang Muawiyah ra dengan menggambarkan beliau sebagai seorang pemutar belit dan suka mengambil kesempatan. Motifnya ialah untuk mencederakan peribadi sahabat besar ini kerana dengan tercederanya beliau bermakna Quran yang ada hari ini berkemungkinan tercedera juga, kerana beliau adalah salah seorang jurutulis wahyu nabi.

c) Cerita hijrah nabi saw dari rumah beliau saw pada waktu malam dengan Saidina Ali menggantikan tempat tidur baginda saw. Pada mata kasarnya ianya menunjukkan keberanian, kepatuhan dan pengorbanan Saidina Ali. Tetapi dalam kitab hadis paling sahih, Sahih Bukhari , mengatakan nabi saw berhijrah dari rumah Saidina Abu Bakar di waktu siang hari . Dalam Sahih Bukhari dinyatakan dengan jelas peranan keluarga Abu Bakar seperti Abd Rahman, Asma' dan lain-dain dalam peristiwa hijrah ini. Tidak lain cerita yang dibawa oleh Ibnu Ishak ialah untuk menutup sumbangan dan pengorbanan besar Abu Bakar ra sekeluarga sesuai dengan akidah Syiah yang mengkafirkan sahabat-sahabat besar seperti Abu Bakar, Umar, Usman, Aisyah dan seterusnya.

d) Kisah Isra' nabi dari rumah Ummu hani' . Ummu Hani ialah kakak kepada Saidina Ali dan masa ini masih lagi belum Islam . Secara sepintas lalu dapat diperhatikan Ibnu Ishak cuba mengaitkan setiap peristiwa besar dengan Saidina Ali sekeluarga. Tetapi dalam kes ini beliau sebenarnya cuba mencederakan maruah Rasullullah saw sendiri . Kalau cerita ini benar, kita akan mengatakan bahawa nabi saw bersunyi-sunyi ( atau tidur) di rumah isteri orang tanpa kehadiran suaminya. Alangkah dahsyatnya fitnah yang ingin dilemparkan oleh Ibnu Ishaq terhadap nabi saw.

e) Kisah mempersaudarakan Ali ra dengan nabi saw. Suatu kisah yang tidak masuk akal bila dipandang dari tujuan 'mempersaudarakan' itu sendiri, kerana sememangnya Ali adalah saudara kepada nabi saw dan beliau ra adalah sama-sama dari Mekah. Tidak lain ini adalah untuk menaikkan martabat Ali ra dari yang sepatutnya untuk merasionalkan hujjah bahawa beliaulah yang sepatutnya dilantik menjadi khalifah selepas wafatnya nabi saw.

Banyak lagi kisah aneh yang dikeluarkan oleh beliau seorang. Maka tidak menghairankan bila ulamak besar mengatakan :

''…..salah seorang dajjal " , " Kami telah menghalau Ibnu Ishaq keluar dari Madinah" - Imam Malik

"Dia meriwayatkan hadith-hadith karut dari orang-orang majhul ( orang yang tidak diketahui latarbelakangnya) " - Ali Ibnu Al-Madini

" Muhammad bin Ishaq adalah di antara perawi-perawi yang tidak menepati syarat-syarat hadith sahih" - Imam Nawawi

"Aku bersaksi bahawa Muhammad bin Ishaq adalah pendusta besar " - Yahya bin Said al-Qatthan

Mereka yang men'ta'dil' kannya bersikap demikian kerana tidak mengetahui dengan jelas kedudukan sebenar beliau samada kerana tidak hidup sezaman dengannya atau tidak dapat mengesan sifat sebenar disebabkan oleh sikap "Taqiyah" yang diamalkan sesuai dengan kehendak ajaran Syiah yang dianutinya.

Catatan sejarah perlu diperbetulkan kerana ini akan menjaga keutuhan agama Islam ini sendiri. Kita tidak akan berpuashati menganut agama Islam sekiranya nabinya besekedudukan dengan isteri orang, sahabat-sahabat utama yang meneruskan syiar ini berperangai tidak senonoh malah menjadi kafir selepas peninggalan nabi saw, jurutulis wahyu di mana Quran yang kita pegang hari ini merupakan orang yang tidak boleh dipercayai dan sentiasa mencari peluang untuk habuan dunia malah beliau datang dari keluarga yang tidak bertamaddun.

Sikap yang perlu diambil ialah kita wajib menolak seorang yang bernama Muhammad bin Ishaq secara total untuk menyelamatkan Islam yang kita cintai ini secara total. Wallahua'lam

Sumber: http://www.darulkautsar.com/

I am not really sure about this. So, please discuss it here. I also want to post someone's comment on this issue:

Assalamualaikum wrt,

Artikel agak menarik tetapi agak pelik dan baru..
Perkara2 yang diengkari oleh penulis artikel sememangnya telah disepakati di kalangan umat Islam. Saya tak bercadang nak ulas panjang tentang perkara yang disangkal, cuma nasihat saya kepada sahabat sekalian untuk perkara2 yang baru macam ni dan seumpamanya sebaiknya kita jgn terus terima juga tolak, masukkan dalam kotak ilmu yang ketiga. Iaitu perkara yg belum pasti. Dalam masa yg sama jika berkesempatan, usahakan untuk cari kebenaran dalam hal ini, mohon hidayah dan petunjuk dari Allah swt agar kebenaran terserlah dan kita tergolong dalam mereka yang melihat kebenaran dan mengikutinya juga agar kita dapat melihat kebatilan dan menjauhinya.
Ajaran Islam yang suci dan benar dicirikan oleh ulama' Islam adalah menepati nas al-Qur'an, Hadis Sahih yg sememangnya dibawa oleh ulama' yang mu'tabar serta selari dengan akal dan fitrah manusia.
Semoga kita semua dirahmati Allah swt dan mendapat kejayaan di dunia dan akhirat.

Wassalam.

Give your comment below! Thanks!

Entry selingan

2006-04-09T21:33:00.000+01:00

What can you see in this pic? Let's see how observant u are...

Click on the pic to view it bigger.

Anger management

2006-04-08T21:36:00.000+01:00

Anger

Poem verses 130-37

As for the swelling ocean of all these diseases, I mean anger; if you come to its shore, you'll see great astonishments.

Its waves and everything else about it are overflowing. So say of it what you will without constraint.

It has two treatments: one of them removes it altogether without trace. The other suppresses it should it manifest itself.

To be adorned with the ornament of its cure, remember the extensive praise lavished upon forbearance and humility

in Sacred Law, as well as in the poetry and prose of the wise. Indeed, remember that all of the prophets have been depicted as having both qualities.

Repel [anger] by perceiving at its onset that there is no one doing anything in reality except the Almighty;

also by performing ablution with cold water, keeping silent, lying down (if one is sitting)

and sitting (if one is standing). It will pass by doing these things, and also by seeking refuge in God as was mentioned in the tradition.

Written by Imam al-Mawlud in Matharat al-Qulub

Sila tafsir sendiri boleh?

Edinburgh Castle (Photos)

2006-04-05T09:30:00.000+01:00

Edinburgh Castle

As'kum and hello peeps! Enjoy the pics eh? (click on them for bigger pics)

On the way to the castle! Wakakak

That's edinburgh castle. :D

View of edinburgh city from the castle

Merenung masa depan

Tanak mendepa tangan takut ditohmah

One of the prisons in the castle

Inside the castle

Gambar poyo dalam castle

Dog Cemetery for officers' dogs

Pic dalam castle jua~~

Again, view of edinburgh city from the castle

'hampeh tak rakanku yg membuat tgn peace tuh?

macam budak2 kah? hahaha

bersama awek2 edinburgh.. huhuhu

April Fool

2006-04-03T19:49:00.000+01:00

April Fool from Islamic point of view

Human Nature is Averse to Lying

Lying is evil, which all religions warn against and which human's nature, or Fitrah, agrees is wrong. People hate to be cheated and yet they cheat!! Thus, I urge everyone, including myself to speak only the truth from today onwards!

Origins of April Fool

With regards to April Fool, the origin of this lying is not known for sure. There are a lot of versions on this include:

Some of them said that it developed from the celebrations of spring which starts on March 21.

Some of them said that this innovation appeared in France in 1564 CE, after the introduction of a new calendar, when a person who had refused to accept the new calendar became the victim of some people who had subjected him to embarrassment and made fun of him, so he became a laughing-stock for others.

Some of the disbelievers call this day April Fools Day, as it is known to the English. That is because of the lies that they tell so that those who hear them might believe them and thus become a victim for those who are making fun of him.

One of the most famous incidents that happened in Europe on April 1st was when the English newspaper, the 'Evening Star', announced in March 1746 CE that the following day - April 1st - that there would be an parade of donkeys in Islington, in London, England. The people rushed to see these animals and there was a huge crowd. They continued waiting and when they got tired of waiting, they asked about when the parade would be. They did not find anything, then they realised that they had come to make an exhibition of themselves, as if they were the donkeys!

'Aasim Ibn 'Abdullaah Al-Qurawayti wrote about the origin of these lies, saying: Many of us celebrate what is known as April fool or, if it is translated literally, the trick of April. But how much do we know of the bitter secret behind this day?

When the Muslims ruled Spain, approximately one thousand years ago, they were a force that could not be destroyed. The western Christians wished that they could wipe Islam from the face of the earth; and they succeeded to some extent. They tried to limit the spread of Islam in Spain and to put an end to it, but they did not succeed. They tried numerous times and never succeeded. After that, the disbelievers sent their spies to Spain to study and find out the secret of the Muslims' strength which could not be defeated. They discovered that adhering to taqwa, or piety or consciousness of Allah, was the reason.

When the Christians discovered the secret of the Muslims' strength, they started to think of strategies to break this strength. On this basis they began to send wine and cigars to Spain for free.

This tactic on the part of the west produced results, and the faith of the Muslims began to weaken, especially among the young generation in Spain. The result of that was that the western Catholic Christians subdued the whole of Spain and put an end to the Muslim rule of that land which had lasted for more than eight hundred years. The last stronghold of the Muslims, in Grenada, fell on April 1st; hence they considered this to be the trick of April.

From that year until the present, they celebrate this day and consider the Muslims to be fools. They do not regard only the army at Granada to be fools who are easily deceived; rather they apply that to the entire Muslim Ummah. It is ignorant of us to join in these celebrations, and when we imitate them blindly in implementing this evil idea, this is a kind of blind imitation which confirms the foolishness of some of us in following them. Once we know the reason for this celebration, how can we celebrate our defeat?

To think of it, does it really matter where it originated from? I would certainly say NO! A BIG NO NO! We don't have to argue which version is right and which is wrong! What is more important is the fact that what does Islam say about this. So, let's take a closer look regarding Islamic view on this matter!

Prohibitions of Lying in the Qur'an and Sunnah

Allah says that which translates as: They only invent falsehood who do not believe in the verses of Allah, and it is those who are the liars. (An-Nahl: 105)

Ibn Katheer the great Qur'anic commentator, said: After this, Allah tells us that His Messenger sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam is not a fabricator or a liar, because only the most evil of people who do not believe in the signs of Allah, the kafirs and heretics who are known amongst the people for telling lies, tell lies about Allah and His Messenger sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam. The Messenger Muhammad sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam was the most truthful of people, the most righteous, the most perfect in knowledge, action, faith and sound belief. He was known amongst his people for his truthfulness; none of them doubted that, to such an extent that he was known amongst them as 'Al-Ameen, or 'the trustworthy one.' Hence when Heraclius, the ruler of Rome, asked Abu Sufyaan about the characteristics of the Messenger of Allaah sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam, one of the things he asked was, 'Did you ever accuse him of lying before he said what he said?'He said, 'No.' Heraclius said: 'If he refrained from telling lies about people he would not tell lies about Allah.'

Types of Lies

a. Lies told about Allah and His Messenger.
This is the most evil lie!

Allah says that which translates as: Say,'Indeed those who invent falsehood about Allah will not succeed.'(Yoonus: 69).

It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah, may Allaah be pleased with him, that the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam said: 'Whoever ascribes false words to me, let him take his place in Hell.' (Bukhaari & Muslim).

b. Lying during business transactions.

c. Lying in jest (suka2).
From the article I read, it said that 'Lying is Haraam whether the one who does it is joking or is serious.'

d. Lying when playing with children.
It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said: 'The Messenger of Allah sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said: ‘Whenever someone says to a child,'Come here and I will give you this,' then does not give him anything, this is counted as a lie.' (Abu Dawood).

e. Lying to make people laugh.
It was narrated that Mu’aawiyah ibn Haydah, may Allaah be pleased with him, said: 'I heard the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam say: 'Woe to the one who tells lies make the people laugh, woe to him, woe to him.'(At-Tirmidhi & Abu Dawood).

Punishment for lying

One day he sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said to us: Two (angels) came to me last night and woke me up, then they said to me, 'Lets go!… so we set out and came to a man who was lying flat on his back and another man standing over his head with an iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear off that side of his face to the back (of the neck) and similarly tear his nose from front to back and his eye from front to back. Then he turned to the other side of the man's face and did just as he had done with the other side. Hardly had he completed this side when the first side was restored to its normal state. Then he went back and did that all over again. I said to my two companions, 'Subhaan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said to me, 'Move on, move on!'

(Then he sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, describing how the two angels explained the things that he had seen) 'As for the man you came across, the sides of whose mouth, nostrils and eyes were being torn off from front to back, he is the symbol of the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells so many lies that it spreads becomes widespread.' (Bukhaari).

When Lying is Permissible?
According to my reading, lying is permissible in three special cases: war; reconciling between two disputing parties; and a husband lying to his wife or vice versa for the sake of love and harmony. (please correct this if I was wrong).
It was narrated from Umm Kalthoom bint 'Uqbah, may Allaah be pleased with her, that she heard the Messenger of Allaah sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam say: He is not a liar who reconciles between people and narrates something good or says something good. (Bukhaari & Muslim).

It was narrated that Asmaa' bint Yazeed, may Allaah be pleased with her, said: The Messenger of Allaah sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said: It is not permissible to tell lies except in three (cases): when a man speaks to his wife in a way to please her; lying in war; and lying in order to reconcile between people. (Tirmidhi).

source from http://www.alminbar.com/khutbaheng/9012.htm

In Conclusion
Now, we already know why we can't celebrate/practise this April Fool day! And that's why I'm boycotting one of my friend's blog (just for 7 days) as a sign of protest because he made such a mistake. We are still friends, don't worry but my act is just to let him know that this is a very serious matter and I do hope that he will never ever do it again in the future.

And to all my friends, let us try to speak the truth from this moment onwards. I know it is very very hard (even I'm not sure whether I can do it or not :S) but, let us try our very best, ok???

Hadeeth Concert ???

2006-03-31T23:06:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/Welcome, LATEST NEWS!

The first hadeeth in Hadith 40, The Collection of An-Nawawi.

This video is about a Hadeeth concert at 1st Residential College, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Please spend some time to watch it, I urge you! This is important! In case you have a slow internet conncetion, click the play button first then click pause (for several minutes) and let it download fully before you play it!

What say you? What is your opinion? Let's discuss it! I want to hear your opinion first before I give mine.

p/s: Anonymous, whoever you are, I will write about anger management in my next entry ok? I promise.. hehe.. :D

2006-03-30T10:39:00.000+01:00

A'skum/Hello peeps,

From my previous entry, one of my friends, khaliqoq said that I always put my arms far away from the side of my body while taking photos. LOL. I never realised that. But, isn't that normal?

So, below are the pics of me with various positions of my arms. You decide which is the best. haha!

p/s: Click on them for bigger pics!

Tangan mengepit badan

Tangan mendepa sket

Mendepa sambil menyenget kepala

Posisi tangan normal ketika bergambar

2006-03-28T07:26:00.000+01:00

Assalamu'alaikum/Welcome,

Today, I dont wanna talk about anger management as I said before. I will leave it for my future entry ok? Because right now, I want to promote Edinburgh to all my friends around the world, i.e Ukraine, Jordan, Malaysia, France, Mesir, U.S, Japan (lol, did i miss anyone? :P)

So, I proudly present this wonderful and magnificent land to you. Enjoy~~~ lalala...

All these pics were taken just in the city itself. :D

Princess Street, in the middle of the city

My friends from Ireland

Edinburgh City during winter time

Woot!

Ihab posing maut!

In front of national gallery

2 of my bestest buddies

Scottish guy, you will find at least one along the street!

Oh nooo... I couldnt fit all the must-visit places in one entry! Unbelievable! I didnt know that Edinburgh has so many things to offer! LOL. No worries here. Below are pics of the places which I intend to do a specific entry for each! They are all located at a walkable distance from the city. So, just wait for my future entries ok? Hehe...

Edinburgh Castle

Salisbury Crags

Arthur's seat

Princess Garden

Calton Hill

Regards,
Toriq

2006-03-26T08:44:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum/Welcome,

It is easter holidays for me! 3 weeks from now. BUT, I'm not going anywhere at all! I'm planning to stay here and study about my upcoming module (cardiovascular). Isn't that pathetic? LOL!

Well, speaking about cardiovascular, let's talk about the heart!

What is the commonest heart disease in the world? Oh well, I would say Anger. I would certainly classify them as a 'disease' eventhough it is not. How many of us have become really angry at one point? Everyone in the world has experienced it, I think! And it is medically and scientifically proven that anger affects human heart. It increases the heart rate to an abnormal state and thus increases the probability of high blood pressure(HBP) and heart attack.

When we exercise, our heart rate will be increased too! This is because more blood is needed to the muscles in the arms,legs and basically, we are strengthening the muscles and thats what makes us healthy and strong! But, it differs with anger because it is only the heart which experiences tense and beats faster, thus more blood gets pumped into the body whose blood vessels are not ready and wide to receive the pushed blood!! This will lead to HBP and increase the risk of heart attack especially when it happens repetetively! :S

What the prophet say about this?
"Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh), who was sent to mankind to teach them good moral conduct, learned to control his anger toward the Unbelievers and teach them appropriate expressions. He constantly spoke against being angry. One companion asked him, Give me some short advice by virtue of which I hope for good in the life hereafter, and he said, "Don't be angry." Another person asked, what will save me from the wrath of God, and he said, "Do not express your anger." A third person asked three times, 0 Prophet of God, give me an order to do a short good deed, and he said, "Don't be angry." Once he asked a question of his companion, "Who among you do you consider a strong man?" They said, the one who can defeat so-and-so wrestler in a fight, and he said, that is not so. The one who is strong is the one who can control himself at the time of anger. He also said that anger is like fire, which destroys you from within, and it can also lead you to the fire of hell by your own expressions of anger unjustly."When Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) became angry at someone else's wrong actions or disbeliefs, he never expressed it with his hand or tongue. His companions knew that he was angry by looking at his face, which would be red and with some sweat on his forehead, and he would keep quiet for a moment, trying to control himself.(from soundvision.com)

We will talk more about how to control anger in my next entry! In the meantime, enjoy these pics!

Tgh makan kat luar with my friend!

Yummie! sedap tak? haha

Muka toya tak sabo nak makan

2006-03-25T14:41:00.000Z

Welcome to my new blog!!

testing 1 2 3.....

2004-08-11T08:30:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

nampaknyer dah berbulan2 lamanya ana tak update blog ana nih.. balik mesia sibuk sgt... Ni baru jer beli komputer baru untuk rumah.. So, baru semangat sket nak tulis blog balik!! :).. Thanx la sesaper yg sudi masuk blog nih lagi walaupun tak aktif langsung.. hehe.. anyway, nanti tulis lagi... nak test komp baru jer nih.. alhamdulillah ok.. jumpa lagi.. wassalam.

2004-05-11T14:01:00.000+01:00

Maaf.. Site tidak dapat diupdate kerana penulis teramat BUSY ...

2004-05-03T20:30:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Errmm.. lupakanla kisah pasal kawan tuh.. benda tuh dah berlalu dah pun.. pasti ada hikmah sesuatu tuh berlaku kan? Hmm...

Ni nak citer satu bende nih.. hari tuh ader kelas anatomy... and then, ada la sorang lecturer kat depan nih tgh tunjuk gambar2 fetus yang ada masalah semasa dalam kandungan... contohnye tangan kecik sebelah etc... pastuh tetiba ader la sorg mat salleh nih tanyer lecturer tuh...

Mat saleh 1 : How does this happen?
Lecturer : Nobody knows... It is the work of God...

Tetiba ada mat saleh yang lain lak menyampuk..

Mat saleh 2 : Does God exist ?
Lecturer : I don't know actually. Well, it depends on the individual. Some believe that God does exist, some don't....

Hmm.. isk isk isk... orang kat sinih rupa2nya banyak yg tak percaya kewujudan tuhan... jadi, bersyukurlah kita kerana dilahirkan Islam... Sekurang2nya kita yakin wujud Pencipta yang mencipta kita dan alam semulajadi nih... Kesian kat orang2 yang tak diberi hidayah lagi... Jadi, bersyukurlah banyak2 kepada Tuhan...

Hanya sekadar renungan... wallahua'lam..

2004-04-29T16:21:00.000+01:00

Guess What?? Today I eat bacon......

Hehe. Mesti semua orang terkejutkan bila baca topik kat atas? Hmm.. sebenarnya memang betul pun. Hari ni, aku rayau2 kat tesco. Sekali ternampak kat reduced price section, ader potato with bacon and cheese. So, beli jer la. Murah sangat. Mesti korang ingat aku gila and dah melampau kan? Hahaha... best2.. sukanya dapat main2kan perasaan orang.. huhu.. Well, memang betulpun aku makan bacon, cuma bacon yang diperbuat daripada soya la. Maksudnyer bacon tuh khas untuk vegetarian yang tak boleh makan daging. So, ni bacon yang halal tau. Hehe... Giler tak aku. Takder bende lain ker nak rasa. Ada ker nak gi rasa bacon. Sebenarnya, sebelum beli vegetarian bacon nih, berpuluh2 kali aku pikir, nak beli ker tak. Pikir punyer pikir, apa salahnya. Bukan haram pun. Disebabkan aku curios sangat nak tahu camner rasa bacon, tuh yang ak beli tuh... Hehehe.. camner ek rasa bacon? hmm.. susah aa nak describe.. nak kata lebih kurang macam ayam, tapi tak jugak... ntah la.. kalo nak tahu, beli la lepas nih.. tapi pastikan bende tuh vegetrian ok? hehehe...

Errm.. sebenarnya banyak lagi nak tulis.. Tapi, takder masa. Maybe weekend nih dapat tulis macam2 yang dah lama terpendam kat hati ni.Sekarang sibuk sangat. Minggu nih jer kena siapkan 2 assignments yang nak kena hantar minggu depan. So, setakat nih jer la dulu yer..

Wassalam.

2004-04-26T20:12:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Ni ader kawan bagi email.. so, sesapa yang tak dapat lagi.. try la buat bende nih..

"Assalaamu'alaikum People!
People in Google do have a huge sense of humour
(I do think so) or they know how to joke properly or
cynically, which I do think so *wink*. Try this in
Google search, type --> "weapons of mass destructions"
& click "I'm feeling lucky" button. See & read
properly the site. Have fun! =D"

Wallahua'lam

2004-04-25T16:27:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Hmmm.. lama rasanya tak tulis something kat sinih.. so, tetiba hari ni terasa nak tulis sesuatu..

Tadi baru jer lepas keluar city... pasal nak beli cap... rambut dah panjang, so kena guna cap bila keluar jalan2.. kalo tak, habis berserabut bila angin tiup... hehe.. nak potong rambut, tapi... nantila... nak tgk macam mana rupa aku bila rambut panjang.. :)

Yang bestnye hari ni, cuaca kat luar la.. BEST! lebih kurang cam kat malaysia.. hari nih mmg mencatatkan sejarah kerana first time aku berpeluh ketika berjalan dekat edinburgh nih.. huhuhu... cuma, nampaknye, orang2 kat sinih mmg sgt suka akan panas... mana taknyer, baru hari ni panas, habis penuh garden dgn manusia... diorg mmg suka baring2 kat situh.. n bermacam2 ragam la.. yang tak pakai baju nyer lah... yang bermesra dgn awek lah.. yang tidur n berjemur nyer lah.. macam2.. ... isk2... bertambah2 lah maksiat kat garden yang sebelum nih suci... ni lah peradaban barat kalo korg sumer nak tahu... well, sbnrnye nak tangkap gambar bagi korg tgk sket pemandangan kat garden nih, masalahnye takder kamera la plak.. so, lain kali jer lah ye...

Ok la.. takder idea nak tulis aper.. ooohh ye, tetiba ader org tanya aku apa hukumnya kalo kita berdoa moga cepat mati... apa hukumnyer ye?? haa.. kalo nak tahu, visitlah ruangan 'Islam'.. ok? and kalo ader pandangan peribadi, bolehla isi kat tpt comment tuh..

Wassalam....

2004-04-22T17:59:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Aku teringat message yang aku terima semalam...

" Positive Thinking goes like this :

A little bird in the sky. U look up and it shits in your eye....

U don't mind and U don't cry... U just thank GOD that

cows don't fly "

Terus aku tergelak selepas membaca msg nih.. Namun, setelah beberapa ketika, aku berfikir kembali... Rupanya, ada pengajaran yang hendak disampaikan melalui msg yang simple ini... Ianya bukanlah hiburan semata2. Sekiranya kita berfikir sejenak, sebenarnya semua perkara yang dijadikan Allah ada hikmah tersendiri... Lihat sahaja durian.. kenapa Allah jadikan durian berduri? bukankan ianya hanya akan menyusahkan kita untuk membukanya? Sememangnya pokok durian sangatlah tinggi.. Sekiranya Allah jadikan kulit buah durian itu sama seperti buah tembikai, nescaya akan pecahlah buah durian itu sebaik sahaja ia jatuh ke tanah... Bijak tak Tuhan kita? Kemudian, ada pula yang mengatakan mengapa Allah jadikan pokok durian tinggi2 ? Kalau rendah, kan senang kita nak petik ? Hmm... Pasti ada hikmah di sebaliknya... Aku sendiri tidak dapat menjawab soalan itu.. namun, aku yakin pasti ada jawapan tersirat yang masih tidak mampu aku fikirkan.

Allah anugerahkan akal kepada manusia. Gunakanlah ia sebaik2nya. Sentiasalah berfikir mengenai kejadian alam ini.. Sesungguhnya dengan cara inilah kita akan sentiasa bersyukur atas segala nikmat yang Dia berikan. Ini sedikit sebanyak dapat merapatkan lagi hubungan kita denganNya.

Wallahua'lam.

2004-04-21T12:59:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Sedang membaca artikel2 di internet, saya tertarik dengan satu artikel mengenai 'Produk Tiruan'.

"PADA November 2003, seorang pemuda di Bangkok, Thailand cedera apabila bateri telefon bimbit ``berjenama'' yang dibelinya tiba-tiba terbakar dan meletup. Beliau agak bernasib baik kerana pelindung telefonnya telah berjaya menyelamatkannya daripada cedera parah.

Bagaimanapun, nasib lebih buruk menimpa seorang budak lelaki berusia 18 tahun di Kedah.

Dia mengalami keadaan separuh buta selepas terkena serpihan bateri telefon bimbitnya yang meletup secara tiba-tiba ketika dicaj di rumahnya.

Dua kes di atas adalah antara contoh kejadian buruk dan igauan ngeri yang dialami akibat penggunaan barangan tiruan.

Tentunya banyak lagi kes-kes yang melibatkan ke san penggunaan barangan tiruan yang tidak dilaporkan."

Diharap kisah di atas dapat memberikan sedikit sebanyak pengajaran kepada kita. Secara tidak sedar, rupanya ada bahayanya barang2 tiruan yang kita beli. Utamakanlah kesihatan anda berbanding nikmat dunia yang hanya dikecapi sementara ini.

Bercakap mengenai kesihatan, teringat dengan satu hadis di mana ia menyatakan :

Rebutlah 5 perkara sebelum dtg 5 perkara. Rasanya semua tahu hadis ni kan... salah satu perkara yang disebutkan adalah sihat sebelum sakit..Apa rasionalnya? Sekiranya kita sihat, maka mudahlah bagi kita untuk menunaikan segala yg diperintahkan oleh Allah kepada kita. Janganlah bila kita dah sakit nanti, baru kita ingat Allah. Sentiasalah mengingati Yang Esa setiap masa. Sekiranya kita senantiasa mengingatiNya, nescaya pasti Dia akan senantiasa mengingati kita.

Wassalam.

2004-04-20T15:29:00.001+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Firstly, minta maaf banyak2 la kerana tak dpt nak post gambar2 kat st andrews semalam... pasal tetiba ada hal lain yang berlaku menyebabkan takde masa nak post semalam... sebenarnye citer dia macam nih... masa gi st andrews tuh, pinjam camera eliza, senior setahun kat edinburgh nih... pastuh semalam gi la flat dia nak pulangkan camera dia..sekali tetiba dia suruh tolong dia masak untuk besday kawan dia(nawirah.. senior kat sinih gak..) nak taknak terpaksa la tolong dia masak... pastuh, join besday celebration tuh... pukul 11 malam baru balik... so, tak sempat nak post gambar2 kat st andrews... so, ari nih dah post dah.. kalo nak tgk, click la link 'My Pictures'.... :)

Alhamdulillah, sudah selesai hadis 40 karangan Imam nawawi dipublished... selepas ini, akan disiarkan pula perkara2 lain yang berkaitan dengan Islam...

2004-04-19T14:16:00.000+01:00

assalamualaikum,

weekend yang lepas, i went to st andrews.. jumpa kawan kat sana.. kesian dekat dia coz kat sana dia seorang jer lelaki dari malaysia dalam satu st andrews tuh... so, saja la melawat dia.. sambil tuh, dapat la tangkap gambar2 dekat situh... insyaAllah, i will put those pictures this evening... hmm..di sana, me n my fren, tomok (nama sbnr asrar) keluar lah gi jalan2 kat city, padang golf etc. st andrews nih betul2 tepi laut... best la kalau nak belajar dekat situh.. nyaman jer setiap hari... pastuh, petang tuh kitorang main ping-pong sesama.... nampaknye, kali ini kemenangan berpihak kepada dia.. hmm.. takpe2, tomok, lain kali kita lawan lagi ... huhu...

st andrews n edinburgh ni dekat jer.. tepat2 1 1/2 jam menaiki bas.. cuma bandar dia nih kecik jer... n takder benda sangat pun kat situh.. macam tanjung malim jer.. haha.. cuma, cantik aa view kat situh...mana taknyer, dah mmg betul2 kat tepi laut.. apa2 pun, weekend nih best... takder la bosan duduk dalam bilik jer.. hehe..

anyway, kalau nak tgk gambar2 dekat st andrews, tunggu.... :)

wassalam

hmmm.....
Lupa nak cakap... Link 'Islam' akan sentiasa diupdate... InsyaAllah... So, bila singgah my site... Jangan lupa click link 'Islam", kay? Semoga kita sama2 dapat menambahkan ilmu dalam agama Allah ini... Semoga kita sentiasa ingat yang kehidupan di dunia ini hanya sementara, kat akhirat nanti yang akan kekal abadi.. and bagaimana kehidupan kita di akhirat kelak akan ditentukan oleh bagaimana kehidupan kita di dunia Allah ini... adakah kita sentiasa beribadat kepada Allah? adakah ibadat kita cukup? adakah kita berjaya meninggalkan segala larangan Allah dan megikut segala perintah Allah? sentiasalah bermuhasabah diri kita...

2004-04-16T21:52:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Kehidupanku hari ini sama sahaja seperti hari2 yang lain. Pagi pergi ke kelas, then balik rumah. Bezanya hari ni hari Jumaat. So, lepas solat Jumaat, kebiasaannya orang2 malaysia di edinburgh akan berkumpul di hadapan masjid and bertanya khabar masing2. Best.. ini merapatkan lagi hubungan di antara kami... walaupun weekend nih takde kelas, tapi mesti ader bende lain nak kena settlekan. baru satu minggu kelas macam2 perlu buat... kena revise balik sumer bende yg dah dibelajar, kena start buat essay(homework), kena cari bahan untuk group discussion next week (CBL), kena baca banyak bahan untuk persediaan sebelum meng'interview' elderly patient, dan macam2 lagi... ni baru first year medic... belum 3rd,4th n 5th year lagi... penat2.. tapi takpe, lagi 2 bulan i will go back to malaysia.. tak sabar rasanya nak tunggu time tuh tiba... dah lama rasanya tak menghirup udara kajang.. dah lama rasanya tak tengok rumahku syurgaku tu.... dah lama tak makan satay kajang... dah lama tak makan apam balik, kueh teow, cendol etc.... "sabar2.. sket lagi jer nih".bisik hati kecilku....

Baru jer letak gambar2 dalam bilikku kat edinburgh nih... kalau nak tengok, sila klik link 'My Pictures'. Bersihkan my room? hahaha....

Okla... sampai sini sahaja catatanku... sekiranya pembaca sekalian ingin menambahkan ilmu Islam, silalah ke link 'Islam'. Hadis 40 Siri ke-5 sudah dipublished.... selamat membaca...

Wassalam..

2004-04-15T22:49:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Today was a very busy day for me. I got class from 9 am till 5 pm. Well, to be specific,in the morning, i just got one lecture from 9am till 10am.. but then, there was a feedback of last term exam from my lecturer.. it lasted for about 40 minutes... after that, i had a break till noon. My second lecture started at 12pm and finished at 1pm... at 2pm, i got a group discussion with my tutor at the hospital. I have to take bus to go to the hospital because it's quite far from the medical school. So, I need to rush because I also need to perform Zohor prayer before going to the class... it ended about 3.15pm.. at half past three, i got clinical skills until 5pm... at last, i can go back to my room.... yippie... hehehe... (this was just a typical day of me during term time..... busy right?)

I have updated the Islam corner with hadis 40 [siri 4]... I hope all the hadis there will give some advice not just to me but also to all the readers in our daily lives. May God bless us all... Amiin....

Wassalam...

2004-04-14T07:28:00.001+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Semoga pelawat2 sekalian dapat meluangkan sedikit masa untuk membaca Hadis 40 karangan Imam Nawawi, Hadis ke-11-ke-15 [siri 3].
Semoga menjadi panduan kepada kita semua. InsyaAllah

Wassalam

2004-04-12T22:30:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Hari ni start kelas yang pertama untuk term 3. First lecture belajar pasal embryology of the human kidneys. Setiap hari mesti banyak sangat benda2 baru yang akan dipelajari. So, makin hari saya makin sibuk. Makin jarang la online msn messenger and surf net. Namun, saya akan cuba update blog ini terutamanya ruangan 'Islam' agar dapat menjadi panduan kepada saya dan semua pelawat. Sesungguhnya, kita juga perlu menambahkan ilmu kita mengenai Islam agar tahap iman kita dapat ditingkatkan. InsyaAllah.

Semoga saudara2 seIslam saya dapat meluangkan sedikit masa untuk membaca hadis ke-6 hingga ke-10 [Siri 2] dalam Kitab Hadis 40 karangan Imam Nawawi di link Islam.

Wassalam.

2004-04-11T15:16:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

I have just uploaded my pictures in Galway. Enjoy looking at them!!! :)

Wassalam

2004-04-11T08:23:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Hari ni baru jer updatekan ruangan "Islam". Tajuk article pada kali ini adalah Hadis 40 karangan Imam Nawawi [Siri 1]. Silalah ke link Islam

2004-04-10T19:17:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

My academic term is going to start in 2 days. This term I need to work harder because my last term results dropped drastically. At first, I was so sad and shocked as well when I got my result. I never ever thought of getting such results. But, nevermind. I just have to forget about the past.Nothing I can do about it. I still can do better next time. At least, I passed the exams. Due to that, this term (term 3), I'm going to work as hard as I can to ensure that I will get good results which can satisfy myself. Wish for my success,kay?

Well, I have updated the 'Islam' corner with an article entitles 'Lelaki Acuan Al-Quran'. I hope it will benefit all the readers especially my friends who visit my site. God bless us all. Amiin.

I still haven't put up my pictures in Galway,Ireland. Well, may be I will do that tomorrow. Just wait for the pictures, ok?

Ok. That's all from me.

Wassalam

2004-04-09T07:14:00.000+01:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAKZAH !!!!

Assalamualaikum,

Today is my sister's birthday. Her name is Azah Kharuddin, age 25 n still has not married yet..huhu.. but i dont know about her status.. i dont think she is still available right now..sorry guys... hehe... i called her KakZAh.. Heppy Besday KakZah!! Sorry, i can't give you a present ..we're so far apart... maybe later when i come back, ok?

Well, today, aisyah, ude, lydia n their friends are coming to edinburgh.. so, i have to bring them around the city so that they know how beautiful edinburgh is... i plan to bring them to arthur's seat n cartlton hill... i hope they like it... and tonight, i will cook dinner for them.. wish me luck guys... hehe...

well,i'm going to have a bath now.. see ya..

Wassalam

2004-04-08T12:29:00.000+01:00

Kisah Allahyarham Mohd Farid Ibrahim Meninggal Dunia Dibunuh Senior Baru2 Ini

Diceritakan oleh saudara muhannad, rakan seperjuanganku yang mengenali diri Allahyarham. Silalah ke link Islam.

Selamat Membaca. Semoga menjadi pengajaran kepada kita semua. Terima Kasih kepada saudara muhannad kerana sudi berkongsi kisah yang amat memilukan ini bersama semua pembaca.

2004-04-07T22:51:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum..

It has been quite a long time since i have not updapted my blog. Well, I just came back to edinburgh this morning. I didn't sleep at all last night because my flight back to edinburgh was very early in the morning. So, after I reached my room, I went straight away to bed. I have put some pictures that I took in Dublin. Enjoy!!

I really like Ireland because there are a lot of malaysians there. I have been to Dublin n Galway. Galway is so beautiful. I'm still tired right now so I will put my pictures in Galway later ok?

That's all from me. See ya. :)

2004-04-02T10:41:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum...

Sekarang nih dekat computer lab dekat Dublin University. Tadi baru jer lepas dengar lecture kat sinih.. saja nak compare dengan my university. Best jugak la lecture diorang. Cuma masalahnya lecturer kat sinih tak pakai microphone. So, kengkadang tuh terlepas dengar gak apa yg lecturer diorang cakap. Kat Dublin nih tak boleh online sangat pasal banyak lagi benda lain yang nak buat. Nak merayau lagi. Huhu.. So, blog nih tak dapat nak diupdate dengan lebih kerap. InsyaAllah, I will add more pictures of me after I go back to edinburgh, which is on the 7th of April. Ok la. sampai di sini saja. jumpa lagi di lain catatan.

Wassalam

2004-04-01T06:34:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Hari ni nak gi Ireland... flight pukul 11 pagi..so, nak kena keluar bilik pukul 8.30 pagi... jadi, tak sempat nak perbetulkan link 'About Me'... pasal ramai yang bagi tau link tuh rosak...nanti la, bila ader masa i will fix it.. pasal ruangan Islam tuh, mmg nak update tapi takder masa lagi... yerla, sekarang tengah sibuk dengan buat website ni kan... nanti2 la insyaAllah I will add some more islamic knowledge there... ok la.. nak bersiap2 nak berangkat ke ireland.. nanti dah sampai ireland nak tulis lagi.. :) ... haa.. lagi satu, i have added more pictures of me n my frens... enjoy!!!!

2004-03-31T07:40:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum..

Hmm... esok nak pergi ireland.. tak sesabar rasanya nak keluar dari edinburgh nih... huhu... InsyaAllah, I will be in ireland for a week... bestnye... harap2 dapat la access internet kat sana, so senang sket nak update weblog nih.. pasal banyak lagi nak kena buat. Well, daripada sebelum nih tak tau apa2 langsung pasal website nih sampai terus pandai buat website.. huhu.. walaupun simple, tapi kena la belajar slow2... lama2 bila dah power sikit, baru la gempak website nih.. huhu... feel free to sign my guestbook.. baru jer add hari nih.. :) .. gambar pun ader letak yang baru... sabar2 ye... lama2 banyak la gambar kat ruangan My Pictures nanti... :)

okla setakat ni jer catatan saya untuk kali ini..

Wassalam...

2004-03-30T17:11:00.000+01:00

Assalamualaikum,

Akhirnya, website nih hampir siap. namun, bnyk lagi rupanya nak kena buat kat website nih... takpe2... slow2... esok masih ader.. huhuhu.. :)

2004-03-24T11:58:00.000Z

susah rupanyer nak buat website ni... huhuhu... biasa la.. buta IT...