Gua 'tempurung'

‘Bro, aku rasa aku tak mampu la nak habiskan. Banyak kot, kau lain la dah biasa dah. Aku baru baca satu ayat, kau dah habis satu muka’

‘Eh budak nih, kau nak aku belanja cendol pulut kat tepi masjid nanti tak?’

‘cendol pulut confirm la nak, tapi….’

Jeda

‘bagi satu minit jap, aku nak cari alasan’

‘bagi cantik muka kau, satu minit aku berharga tau tak? Tapi tak pe, demi sahabat aku sorang nih, aku sanggup luangkan seminit aku tuh’

‘Ha! Aku tak jumpa alasan, tapi boleh tak kalau aku nak guna jalan alternatif?’

‘Jalan alternatif? Tak pernah tahu pulak aku ada jalan alternatif’

‘Instead of I recite, can I just listen to the recitation using my iPhone? The result is still same isn’t it?’

‘Huh, kau ni, sampai bab tiba – tiba kau jadi genius pulak’

‘Baik sikit, aku memang pandai ok. Hmmm, apa kata kita buat satu agreement’

‘Agreement?  Agreement apa?’

‘Hmm camni, if you can explain to me the lessons of this surah until I touch or I cry, I’ll promise you that I’ll finish this surah. But with rules and regulation la, no googling’

‘No googling? Come on, tak aci la camtu’

‘Aci tak aci, my rules say so. Muhahaha’

‘Okay, I’ll try’

‘Give your best then’

‘Do you know that if you recite this surah, Allah will give you light from this Friday till the next Friday?’

‘Hadith tu dah bosan la, kat facebook tu dah berlambak – lambak orang post sampai penat aku share, cuma malangnya aku tak sempat nak hafal je lagi’

‘How many stories do you know in this surah?’

‘Yang aku tahu, dalam surah ni ada four stories, the first one is about the people of the cave. Pemuda yang lari dari pemerintahan yang zalim. Lepas tu ada cerita dua orang lelaki dengan kebun, cerita tentang Nabi Khidir dengan Zul Qarnain’

‘Power gak la kau ni, aku rasa macam kau yang kena bagi expalanation pulak kat aku’

‘Tak de maknanya. Yang tu jela yang aku tahu sebab ustaz kat sekolah aku banyak cerita tentang tu je’

‘Hmm, apa lagi eh. Aku yakin yang ni mesti kau tak tahu punya. Kau tahu tak apa kaitan antara empat ceri tadi tuh dengan kaitan cerita – cerita tadi tuh dengan dajjal?’

‘Wah, yang ni serious aku tak tahu. Tak pernah terfikir pulak tentang benda nih’

‘Sebenarnya dalam empat kisah ni ada tujuan tersendiri. Kau tak rasa pelik ke kenapa surah ni tak cerita tentang Nabi Musa dengan Firaun, kenapa dia cerita tentang Nabi Musa dengan Nabi Khidir. Pelik kan?’

‘Haah la, pelik kot. Sebab banyak je cerita lain yang ada tentang Nabi Musa nih, tapi cerita tentang Nabi Khidir gak dia pilih’

‘So, nak diringkaskan cerita, sebenarnya dalam Surah nak cerita tentang empat ujian yang akan melanda masa zaman dajjal nanti dan benda ni jugak boleh berlaku waktu zaman sekarang. Ujian pertama ialah, jeng jeng jeng. Cuba kau teka’

‘Ya rabbi, kau ni potong steam betul la. Aku tengah concentrate kot’

‘Eh, kau ni, steam mana boleh potong, nampak pun tidak’

‘Ish, budak ni, sempat lagi melawak, karang aku tak baca karang baru kau tahu’

‘Pulak dah, ok2 aku sambung. Ujian ataupun fitnah yang pertama ialah fitnah agama dan benda ni boleh nampak kat dalam cerita budak gua tuh. Pemerintah masa tu nak diorang ni sembah dia, so, demi nak selamatkan aqidah diorang pun lari la pegi masuk dalam gua. Fitnah yang kedua ialah fitnah harta. Kebun yang banyak pokok yang ada kat dalam surah tu menyebabkan salah seorang lelaki tu tak percaya lagi kepada tuhan dia. Yang ketiga, fitnah ilmu. Here we go the story of mosses. Nabi Musa ada menganggap bahawa dial ah yang paling pandai, then Allah bagi dia jumpa dengan Nabi Khidir. Last but not least, the story of Zulqarnain. It is about position and power. Kuasa yang besar boleh bagi kita lupa diri, benda ni banyak dah cerita kat dalam kisah dongeng. Aku rasa kau pun faham kan’

‘Fuyyoo, ada certain benda yang aku baru tahu bila kau cerita tadi. Tapi camne kita nak overcome those kinds of problems?’

‘Yang tu kau jangan risau. Semua tu ada dalam surah yang sama. Untuk fitnah yang first, the solution for that particular of fitnah is by having a good friend I mean a religious friend. Kalau tak, susah la kan nak jaga agama kan? Tak pun, dia akan jadi cerita tentang beberapa pemuda dengan beberapa gua’

‘Asal cmtu pulak?’

‘Sebab semua tak kenal antara satu sama lain. Maybe la kot. For the second one, fitnah harta boleh lari dengan tidak terikat dengan dunia. I mean instead we put dunya in our heart, we put dunya on our hand. Moving on, tau tak problem apa yang selalu ada dengan orang pandai ni?’

‘Sombong and berlagak maybe?’

‘Yeah, sort of. So nak buang benda – benda macam tuh, hati tu kena direndahkan. We must realize that there might somebody who knows better than us macam kisah nabi Khidir yang lebih tahu dari Nabi Musa tuh. Last sekali, untuk kuasa ni, nak tak nak kita kena selalu ikhlas and berharap kepada tuhan. Sebab kuasa tu amanah daripada tuhan. Waktu Zulqarnain nak buat tembok yakjuj makjuj tu, dia cakap tembok tu bukan daripada dia tapi datang dari rahmat tuhan’

‘okay, quiet interesting. Kejap, lagi satu, kenapa surah ni nama dia gua?’

‘Kau pernah masuk dalam gua tak?’

‘apa kaitan aku dengan gua pulak? Tapi aku pernah la masuk gua kat Perak dulu, Gua Tempurung kalau tak silap aku. Tapi waktu ada ramai orang, kalau aku masuk sorang – sorang atau masuk lima orang je, seram gak la. Yela kan, kita bukan tahu pun apa benda yang ada kat dalam tuh’

‘Kau ingat lagi tak maksud ayat baqarah awal – awal tuh?’

‘Yang tentang keimanan pada benda ghaib tu ke?’

‘Haah yang tu. Dalam gua ni supposed to be sangat gelap and menakutkan seperti yang kau cakap tadi, tapi Allah ada suruh pemuda kahfi ni masuk gua yang so called gelap and menakutkan tu tapi Allah cakap dia akan bagi rahmat dan sesuatu yang berguna untuk diorang. So, Allah nak kita beriman benda ghaib macam gua tu tadi. Nak tahu satu benda yang menarik tak?’

‘Benda menarik? Pe dia?’

‘Tahu tak yang Allah start surah ni dengan cerita tentang Qurang pastu dia tutup pun dengan cerita tentang Quran?’

‘Really, yang ni serious cool. Dari tadi kita cerita tentang gua – gua dari tadi sampai aku lupa nama dia dalam Bahasa arab’

‘hahaha, yang ni serious lawak’

‘Apa nama dia eh? Kuhuf? Kahaf?’

‘Surah Kahfi…….’

Southern Gathering

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Peace be upon you o readers

Before I start posting the new post, there's something that I would like to share. In my religion, Islam, we are taught to convey islam as our wish for our brothers and sisters. As a what? As a wish that spreads peace and calmness on the earth so that the world will have the same peace and calmness.

Maybe this post will not relate to all people outside there, but I will try my best to relate what happened in the gathering with our life although the gathering is only for the pre-australia students. In Quran itself, the stories were specific but the lessons are general, thus the future generation can obtain the lessons although Quran was revealed thousand years ago.

The gathering purposely was to gather all the pre-australia students in a place. The participants were shared infos and stories by the seniors from australia especially about financial management, house rental, 'compulsory' places to go, internship, winter, summer and kangaroos, eh!

Basically, what I could say here, the gathering was very helpful. But frankly speaking, it was getting boring when the questions from participants had the same patterns. 

Ok, done with the event. Lets talk about the people, I mean the organizer, seniors and org yang lebih tua.

I guess I can summarize all the long points inside my head into one word, friendly. 

Yup, when I say friendly, they are truly friendly. Indeed, they love to see the later generations could make up to have a seat in Australia university. I don't know the reason, but maybe because when we are not in our beloved country, we tend to feel happy to see people of our own race and religion. 

Anyway, the gathering was amazing! Thank you so much guys!

See you in Australia

*insyallah I will update this post with photos afterwards. Stay tune coz insyallah I will start to write my journey around Malaysia in short while from now. 

Twins of Faith 2013, #thesunnahthebetter

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

Peace be upon you 

I think I would like to share a content that I obtained not as a participant in the Twins Of Faith event, but as a volunteer. From the first meeting, Syeikh Daood Butt has advised something very crucial to be remembered as a muslim. 

Every volunteer has a job to do as well as position to be taken care of. Although the volunteer will not has the chance listening to the sheikh's lecture and joining workshops, the volunteer has different ability to get ajr. 

By showing the right direction to the participants, taking care of the children, promoting the event and etc, the volunteers can even make bigger good deed than the speakers. Because the participant that has been helped might be the syeikhulkabir in the future, or the participant may have turned to change his attitude and one day be an islamic prime minister, or he be a CEO of an international company, and all the good deeds done by the participant as he learns it from the event, all these ajr will go back to the volunteer who has helped him during the event. Plus, these ajr will continue if the participant teaches the lessons to his children, friends, grandchildren and etc. Subhanallah.

Although, it is like a simple action, but insyallah it will lead to a huge impact in our life.

Last but not least, what ever we do in our life, even for the small or big action, we have to do it sicerely only for allah. 

=D

Notebook Twins of Faith

One of the shop during the event

#TheSunnahTheBetter

Palestine wall

Sea of love or swarm of hatred?

Assalamualaikum,

It has been a week I didn’t write anything in this I blog. I’m facing very hectic life right now with full of assignments and academic revisions to do. Yeah, I know it shouldn’t be an excuse for me to run away from doing anything. *sigh.

Okay, so today I would like share something bearing in my mind for a week. Recently, I got very hard times where I have to think many things at the same time causing my mind messed up.On that time, I felt everybody ignored me and I was not that important to them. I felt lonely where I felt I belong to nowhere and no one. Frankly speaking, it was like a ‘game over’ for me.

Eventually, I thought it would be an end route for me, but actually I actually en route on a beautiful path. In the academic sector, they will define every term they used in their writing. So, the definition of beautiful here is something valuable and nice to sit in it. It is like something good happens after problems and challenges lay on your road. For example, I could say that everyone in this world would say that rainbow is beautiful. However, have we ever thought where did actually rainbow come from. It comes from rain or in scientific theory; it comes from the refraction of light in the water molecules. Surely, I will not touch about the scientific as it is learnt during our school times.

Let us see, the rainbow comes AFTER the rain or it comes WITH the rain. Scientifically, we could say it comes with the rain. We could not see it because the permitted sun light is not enough to make it perfectly clear in our vision.

On the Weekend of the hard week, I attended a talk at PWTC as well as Taylor Lake Side Campus.

First event was a talk from Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan entitled The Final Miracle. My first impression, the talk would be very academic and boring that might encourage me to sleep because I had to have a long journey to be there and it was an extremely tiring journey.

But the second impression came passing by and replaced the first one.

Let me explain the feeling with a light example. Have we ever felt hungry, I mean extremely hungry? When we feel hungry, we would eat food without concerning about the food taste, isn’t it? Every single food tastes delicious although we haven’t eaten it before.

Same thing went to me on that time, the talk satisfied my thirst of knowledge emotionally and intellectually. NoumanAli Khan gave talk about the miracle of quran. He did give several points in the talk, but I want to share one of it for this time. The rest maybe you could search the video in theyoutube.

In the quran, Allah says that prophet Mosses called his people with ‘O my people…’ while prophet Jesus called his people with ‘O peole of Israel….’ while both of them are sent to the same people, people of Israel. In their perspective, only folk from people from the people of Israel can call his people with‘O peole of Israel….’  Theoretically, in the people of Israel view, the linage of a son or daughter will follow their father’s. For example, if an Arabic guy married with a Turkish girl, the son of that couple will be Arabic; same goes to the daughter of the couple. If we study and observe the linage of prophet Mosses, his father had the linage with the people of Israel. However, in Prophet Jesus case, in Islamic view, he had a mother but he did not have any father which means he did not belong to the people of Israel. This thing is proven in the ayatin the quran. Allah preserves and respects the people of Israel linage and there is no mistake Allah does in the ayat Quran.

Then, people asked me, what is the relation between the Quran ayat with me? It seems not relation at all.

Let me get this straight with one more example. There is company with hundreds employees with a boss. In my view, the hundreds employees will know the name of the boss as well as his origin because people tend to chat and talk about it between them. How about the boss? Does he know and admire every single employees of his own? If he does know, he must be an absolutely amazing boss but this thing rarely to happen. He maybe knows several names of the nearest employees that have contacted with him for business matters, but not all of his employees.

In Islamic view, all the universes are Allah’s ‘employees’ including the humans, animals, plants, mountains, stars, sun and etc. He must be very busy with all the affairs. The human problems, animals’, oxygen, hydrogen, heat transfer, all of these matters are His and yet He still has time to respect the small matter of the linage of the people of Israel? This is amazing!

So, the relation here is that all the challenges and hardships I faced were Allah’s. He wants me to face it, it is not an accident, and it is well-planned, a well-planned planning from Him.

Surely, I do believe He knows every single of us biologically and emotionally.

So people, whenever you feel you are in the swamp of hatred, my advice is just stop a moment and look around you. The hatred actually is not a reality; it is just a filter of your spectacular of vision. It is your choice and your power to choose the filter of your vision.

‘ya Allah please don’t make me go astray from your straight path’

Wedding <3

A few days ago was my sister's wedding. It was the first wedding in my siblings. So my family and I had a bit nervous to face the day. Eventually, everything went smoothly and alhamdulillah the ceremony ran successfully. 

What I can get from the event is the happy ending of the wedding ceremony is not the guarantee that the couple will happy forever, but it just the starting of the new journey. 

Plus, marriage is not just about love, it is about responsibility. In reality, parents will spend more time for the children and the society. As a result, less time will be spent for the husband or wife. 

For the solution, the scholar said, marriage should be based on something eternal, so the marriage will be last forever. 

Allah is an eternal god.no beginning and ending; marriage for the sake of allah.marriage with no ending, inshallah.

Congratulations to my sister and welcome to my new brother in law. 

Happy couple and may allah bless you

:D

#goodies-bag-girl

#cute kid

#venue of the wedding