alif.wau.jim.ya.alif.nun.

What I missed to see before:

The days are created by Allah with the sun shining bright, like there aren't going to be nights.
Even in the rainy days, there will still be light.

And the nights...yes, the nights are dark. much much darker than the days.
But then, there is the moon. no matter how hidden or how small...there it is, every night providing what amount of light Allah wills for that night.

The days and nights. like happiness and troubles. Are created for those who think. Masha Allah..

In the years of my life, with aaaalllll those days and nights..not once before have I realized that Allah, does not leave us in total darkness. No matter how little light there is, there will always be light. One just has to look for it in times of what feels like..blinding darkness.

There.will.be.light.

Insha Allah.

"And for those who fear Allah, He (ever) prepares a way out. And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if anyone puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him. For Allah will surely accomplish His purpose; verily, for all things has Allah appointed a due proportion." At-Talaq, verses 2,3

Subhanallah.

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Guide us Ya Allah. for we aren't the ones who create light, neither are we the ones who create happiness.

My right to complain.

If one had Einstein as his supervisor, and then given a truck of workload. Would he groan in Eistein's face? He would simply accept, awestruck by the fact that he is being supervised by one of the epitomes of intelligence, one cannot deny.

When an examination takes place, no unnecessary speaking or actions take place. Everyone behaves so appropriately that any slight misconduct is noticed by everyone in the examination hall.



But everyday, we find things to complain about. In the face of our God. The Almighty All-Wise All-Hearing All-Seeing Great God. Instead of bowing down in gratefulness and patience, we complain...and without shame too. About the weather, studies, food, work. Everything. But we know He watches us, listens to us..at all times. And to think, it is He who provides all that we complain about. It is a part of His plan for the best. Yet He listens to us complaining about every little gift of challenge, of hardship we fail to notice.

Everyday, we speak as we wish..regardless of things being true or not, necessary or unimportant , using language we will never use with anyone respectable, let alone noble. It is nice to ponder upon the fact that a very knowledgeable and practising religious teacher does not speak the way a mob does.

Would we speak differently and act differently had we understood how noble are the recorders(Raqib and Atid, the angels) in the eyes of Allah? 'Kiraaman kaatibin' they are described as in the Quran. The noble recorders. A statement by the God so great, that nothing can be compared with Him.

This God called them noble.

Noblemen in human terms are people around kings and queens with mountains of richness and great descendence. We arent talking human terms at all in this issue but in terms infinitely greater.

And needless to note, these noble creations accompany us...at all times.

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Allah...how we are weaklings. Ungrateful and rude weaklings that You bestow with mercy and love everyday at all times.




Guide us Ya Allah. To goodness in dunia and akhirah.

From Nottingham to Derby,with love...

CRM 2009 presents...

Nottingham's own trio set on a 35km cycling trip to Derby. They have voluntarily come up to the CRM team to help raise enough funds to buy medical supplies and other humanitarian needs of the poor in Cambodia.

As eager as they are to help the cause, we, the CRM team will do our best to visit house-to-house around Nottingham's student housing area to drop a sponsorship form, for each household's convenience. These sponsorship forms (hopefully,together with your contribution) will then be collected in roughly a week's time Insha Allah.

For households that wish to sponsor but the CRM team aren't able to reach due to various unfortunate reasons, please be happy to transfer the money to the account stated in the poster.

Take-home message:

Sponsor them, and make their cause your cause too.


"Enlightening the hopes of Cambodia"

Theme song: BASIKAL TUA oleh tak lain dan tak bukan,SUDIRMAN.

Truth or Dare

Not daring to think of the coming of death

is not daring to become ambitious.

REFRESHED!

When the sun smiles brilliantly to my face,

And the trees greet with its colorful sways,

And the cool wind blows softly, a company on my way,

Ah...this is bliss.

This is the Gift.

..And in his farm he had a swine and a camel (or a horse).

" While man is in this world, two things are necessary for him: first, the protection and nurture of his soul; secondly, the care and nurture of his body. The proper nourishment of the soul...is the knowledge and love of God, and to be absorbed in the love of anything but God is the ruin of the soul.

The body, so to speak, is simply the riding-animal of the soul, and perishes while the soul endures. The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole lifetime in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert." Imam Al-Ghazzali, the Alchemy of Happiness.

Swine flu made me ponder. Had there been a news release saying H1N1 virus of swine flu may live in chocolate bars, we will chuck away all our chocolate bars. For we are terrified that we might get the flu virus and we might die. The Malays would even chuck their rice, had rice possess the potential to help spread the virus.

We would do anything in our might to avoid the perish of our "camel" aka riding-animal aka body and the bodies of our loved ones.

But, we aren't as scared to do things that ruin the soul.
But why..we began as a soul, that then acquires the body, and this body will perish, and we are again left with just the soul. It is our soul that carries on.

"It is, so to speak, the rider of the animal soul, when that perishes it still remains, but is like a horseman who has been dismounted, or like a hunter who has lost his weapons." Imam Al Ghazzali, the Alchemy of Happiness

It is scary when Allah teaches us, that the things that we do to ruin our soul, may well be a permanent damage. Because our soul is what we continues on in, not our body.

"He who is blind in this life, will be blind in the next life, and astray from the path." 17:72

It's unthinkable, why then, are we more afraid to do things that perishes the body, than to do things that perishes the heart..and the soul.

Guide us. Ya Allah.

sama je

wak din* : sama je, merokok tak merokok, semua pon mati. ye tak, kakak "doctor" anis?

me:
ha'ah. betul. semua pun mati. sama je.

Yang beza, lepas mati.

Kubur orang yang merokok dengan tak merokok, tak sama.

Kubur orang yang makan terlalu banyak tak bersederhana, dengan yang makan cukup cukup je,

tak sama.

Kubur orang yang ikut cakap Allah, dengan tak ikut cakap Allah, takkan sama.

Lepas tu, dekat akhirat, darjat orang semua berbeza. Berganda ganda bezanya darjat manusia berbanding jurang kaya dan miskin di Indonesia.

Dekat sana, baru lah bagai langit dan bumi bezanya, yang merokok dan tak merokok.

Tapi betul lah yang Wak Din cakap tu. Sama je, merokok tak merokok, semuanya mati.

What the Quran says...
" And make not your own hands contribute to your destruction." 2:195

Tak sama...
"Katakanlah (Muhammad), 'Tidaklah sama yang buruk(khabees) dengan yang baik(tayyib), meskipun banyaknya keburukan itu menarik hatimu, maka bertakwalah kepada Allah wahai orang-orang yang mempunyai akal sihat, agar kamu beruntung." 5:100

Betul ke nanti di akhirat tak sama yang khabees dengan yang tayyib...
"Agar Allah memisahkan golongan yang buruk(khabees) dari yang baik(tayyib), dan menjadikan (golongan) yang buruk itu sebahagiannya di atas yang lain, lalu kesemuanya ditumpukkanNya, dan dimasukkanNya ke dalam neraka Jahannam. Mereka itulah orang-orang yang rugi." 8:37

Allah tells us, any choices that we make in this life, between tayyib dan khabees, takkan sama consequences nya in the next life.

All the best to us in making choices.

*wakdin mestila bukan nama sebenar.

p/s thanks aisyah. u made me ponder.