ALHAMDULILLAH

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Bismillah wal Hamdulillah

KHAN YOUNIS

Maghrib Khamis
Dibasuhnya baju
Ampaian diluar jendela
Berinjat kakinya
Doakan rembulan

Keringkan jemuran
Rindu hanya satu
Esok solat Jumaat
Ingin doa mengadu
Diri yatim piatu

Malam pun larut
Khan Younis terlena dipintu

Belum pun subuh
Api menyambar
Lebur kaca jendela
Maut berjerubuh
Mayat masih disitu

Jari merah kecil
Erat mengengam baju
Basah airnya mandikan GAZA

Maghrib Khamis
Dibasuhnya baju
Ampaian diluar jendela
Berinjat kakinya
Doakan rembulan

Keringkan jemuran
Rindu hanya satu
Esok solat Jumaat
Ingin doa mengadu
Diri yatim piatu

Malam pun larut
Khan Younis terlena dipintu

Belum pun subuh
Api menyambar
Lebur kaca jendela
Maut berjerubuh
Mayat masih disitu

Jari merah kecil
Erat mengengam baju
Basah airnya mandikan GAZA

Erat mengengam baju
Basah airnya mandikan GAZA

Khan Younis doamu tulus
Khan Younis Khan Younis

After a final go...

Alhamdulillah , finally i am no longer an undergraduate student. However i am a student for the whole life. Thank you for the endless supports from ummi, ayah, siblings, lecturers and friends ..It is a matter of blessing and mercy from Allah that made you as who you are now. I am glad i am still alive and I know this is actually a beginning of a new chapter in my life. Go ahead and no turning back. Allah bless...

That's important!

Bismillah wal Hamdulillah...

Few days left for my final exam but i still feel the needs to jot down something which i would probably summarise this entry as IMPORTANT.
People understand the word important as do myself. They have their priorities in life which make them to think those are important for them. It is important for us to know what is important in our life and appreciating its importance. A small kid like my niece or nephew might think that his or her toys are important for them. What else? Sleeping, playing and attention from his or her parents. Human being as small as a newborn baby also knows what is important and what is not.
This is the first scenario..

The next scenario is when you are regarded as important by people around you without you realising it. It is pretty unusual. But anyhow what will you do then? You do not know such till the very last minute and suddenly things burst out.......And at the end, you also do not know what to do. Can you summarise yourself as "not smart" because you failed to see things using your inner sense. Like it or not, thing has happened and you also do not how to reverse it back. Well, my advice, " be smart and pretending to be one." You should appreciate who you are and walk straight !!!!


p/s: all the best...

"O' ALLAH PLEASE HELP AND GUIDE ME"


ALL THE BEST !!!!!

Angka Yang Mengingatkan....

Bismillah wal Hamdulillah.

Entri kali ini dalam "English" berbunyi " A figure that reminds"...Hari ini genap 25 tahun kehidupan seorang insan di dunia mengikut kalendar Masihi.. Sudah lama mencecah usia ini megikut kalendar Hijri. 3 Rajab lebih saya utamakan tetapi 25 Mac yang selalu mendapat prioriti. Tarikh Islam tenggelam mengikut zaman. Mungkin anak- anak zaman sekarang sudah tidak tahu tarikh lahir mereka dalam kalendar Islam. Di sinilah letaknya tanggungjawab seorang ibu dan bapa untuk mengingatkan anak-anak mereka.

-Thanx and luv for someone-

25 tahun bukan usia singkat buat saya, apatah lagi buat ummi dan ayah. Permata terakhir mereka telah mencecah usia yang boleh dikatakan matang, pada usia Rasulullah saw dilantik sebagai Rasul, menerima wahyu pertama. Maka usia ini bukan sekadar usia, tetapi diiringi dengan tanggungjawab dan harapan. Tahun ini tahun terakhir dalam "undergrad" yang pastinya akan menyimpan kenangan yang ada signifikasinya. Seorang rakan mengingatkan saya untuk sujud syukur dengan usia ini. Allah swt memberi peluang untuk menyemai benih-benih amal hinggalah ke usia ini, maka gunalah usia ini dan seterusnya untuk terus menabur benih agar tersemai dan mampu dituai kelak. Risau agaknya dia jikalau ada kemarau panjang yang menggagalkan saya untuk terus bercucuk tanam. Mana mungkin mau dicari hujan jika tidak diusahakan? Hujan turun dengan bersebab , hujan turun dengan permintaan kita yang bersungguh-sungguh. Kitalah yang wajar berusaha untuk terus istiqamah dalam perjuangan sebagai seorang Muslim yang mengaku Mu'min. Moga mampu mencapai tahap taqwa.

Sambutan usia kelahiran bukan dengan kegembiraan biasa, tetapi gembira bercampur takut dan harap. Takut andai tergelincir jika jalanan itu licin, harap agar diberi pertolongan di sepanjang musafir ini. Harap agar andainya dipanjangkan perjalanan ini , bantuan Allah sentiasa bersama. Perjalanan menuju destinasi yang pasti, cuma tidak pasti sampai bila. Nikmat di sepanjang pelayaran inilah yang perlu disyukuri. Nikmat bukan satu tetapi beribu, tidak terkira. Nikmat sihat paling terkesan dalam diari harian ini. Setiap hari bertemu orang yang "kurang sihat" , tidak kurang orang yang telah disahkan "tiada harapan" untuk mereka yang berubat. Tetapi ketentuan Allah lebih pasti. Bila difikirkan mereka sebenarnya beruntung, mereka diberi peluang untuk mengetahui sampai bila sisa-sisa hidup di dunia akan berakhir. Mereka tahu telah sampai masa untuk ibadatnya lebih banyak, sujudnya lebih panjang.........

Nikmat diberi hidup dalam bi'ah yang terdidik. Dilingkungi teman-teman yang memahami. Itu salah satu nikmat di dunia. Semoga dengan nikmat manusia lebih bersyukur, manifestasi syukur adalah pilihan individu.




" Ya Allah, hambaMu ini meminta!"

"For you who know"

Relationship That Lasts

Bismillah wal Hamdulillah..

Relationship
A relationship is defined as the way two people* behave towards each other. * can be between people, animals, plants and the greatest relationship is between human and the God. Hablun Minallah wa Hablun Minannass. Muslims always use this to describe such relationship.

"And I have chosen you, so listen to that which is inspired to you. Verily, I am Allah! There is none worthy of worship but I, so worship Me and offer prayer perfectly for My remembrance." [Taha 13-14]

Use Solat as the medium to strengthen the bonding with Allah, the Almighty. Yes i do agree.

Humanity and serenity
What about the relationship between humans? How to strengthen it?How to solve the problems or misunderstandings? Being alive for more than two decades, i would say that people from all age groups will have some points in their lives whereby the arguments do arise. But the way they are solved are different. The level of maturity does contribute, perhaps. But I don't understand why people cannot forgive or forget. I have experienced being viewed as "weak" when i could not involve in counter-arguments. Please look at the subject that matters most. I am not interested in something which will end up with no solution but hurt feeling. I know quite a few of people around me who are still adopting such thing but I don't want to say that as something that they valued of. People do make mistake and they deserve for forgiveness. But the study of "mistake" is what we always missed. Some mistakes cannot be forgiven human. It is the nature of being human. But Allah does accept any repentance except few things.

1. Apostasy. "Lo! Those who disbelieve after their profession of belief, and afterward grow in infidelity, their repentance will never be accepted. And such who are astray."(Quran 3:90)

2. The killing of a believer. "Whoever slays a believer of set purpose, his reward is hell forever. Allah is wroth with him and hath cursed him and prepared for him an awful doom. ( Quran 4:93)

3. The attributing of partners to Allah. " Allah pardons not those that ascribe partners to Him. he pardons all except that"( Quran 4:16).

Guys, correct me if i am wrong! Who is the greatest? Our God or human? One day we might hurt people and we might need the forgiveness from them. So think about it.






I like to quote this,
"If one desires to be forgiven for his offenses, he must learn to forgive others. If one seeks forgiveness from Allah, he should learn to forgive others. If one desires that Allah overlook his weaknesses, he should learn to overlook weaknesses of others. "

I wish I could help them and may Allah help me.

Bismillah wal Hamdulillah

Surprisingly though....




From: livescience

Stroke is the number three killer in the United States, affecting almost 800,000 people each year, according to the National Stroke Association. These "brain attacks" occur when blood flow to the brain is interrupted (an ischemic stroke) or when a blood vessel in the brain leaks or bursts (a hemorrhagic stroke). For 144,000 people each year, the result is death. Hundreds of thousands of others are left with long-term disabilities.

Genetics, age and race play a role in stroke as do many other factors, both controllable and uncontrollable. Recent research has teased out more and more of these risk factors, from how you eat to where you live.

Here's what scientists are finding are top risks for a stroke:

7. High-fat diet

The same foods associated with heart attacks - red meat, anything fried - can also raise your risk of a brain attack. At the American Stroke Association's (ASA) International Stroke Conference in February, researchers from the University of North Carolina presented findings that post-menopausal women who consumed high-fat diets had 40 percent more incidences of ischemic stroke than low-fat eaters. Trans fats, found in processed foods like pastries and crackers, seem particularly nasty: The group of women who consumed seven grams of trans fat each day had 30 percent more stroke incidents than those who ate one gram.

So what to eat instead? Multiple studies suggest that a Mediterranean-inspired diet can lower stroke risk. That means lots of vegetables, whole grains, fish, olive oil, nuts and seeds, and very little red meat and sweets.

6. Being single

If you're a man who'd like to cut his chances of a fatal stroke, get hitched. A Tel Aviv University study of more than 10,000 Israeli men found that those who were married at midlife were 64 percent less likely to die of a stroke during the next 34 years than single men. The data was adjusted for other stroke risk factors like socioeconomic status, blood pressure and smoking.

But there's a catch: The marriage has to be a happy one. Men who reported dissatisfying marriages were just as likely as single men to die of a stroke, the researchers reported at the ASA's International Stroke Conference.

5. Being unhappy

Happiness is music to your cardiovascular system. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston reported in 2001 that among older individuals, positive moods and attitudes protected against strokes. Even incremental increases in happiness helped: For every step up on the researchers' happiness scale, male participants' stroke risk dropped 41 percent. Women's risk dropped 18 percent per happiness unit.

Even if you're not happy, it might pay to act like you are. The researchers speculate that happy people are more likely to get medical care, exercise and stay healthy, all protective factors against stroke.

4. Being obese

More weight means a higher risk of stroke, according to researchers from the University of Minnesota. In a study presented at the International Stroke Conference last month, researchers followed more than 13,000 Americans for 19 years and found that the risk of stroke in people with the highest body mass index (BMI) was 1.43 to 2.12 times higher than in those with the lowest body mass index. (BMI is calculated with a person's height and weight and is considered an indicator of body fatness.)

The reason for the correlation is that some stroke risk factors are worsened by obesity, study co-author Hiroshi Yatsuya said in a statement. The biggest culprits, according to the data are high blood pressure and diabetes.

3. Smoking

Lighting up nearly doubles your risk of stroke, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Fortunately, quitting can drop that risk back down, even for heavy smokers. One 1988 study found that former smokers had the same rate of stroke as nonsmokers five years after snuffing their last cigarette.

2. Being born in the wrong demographic (for a stroke)

Unfortunately, not all risk factors are under your control. Blacks have twice the incidence of strokes as whites, according to the AHA. Not only that, but the death rate from stroke is significantly higher for blacks than the overall stroke death rate. Part of the disparity may be explained by higher-than-average rates of diabetes and high blood pressure among blacks.

Being female can also put you at a disadvantage when it comes to stroke. In a study presented at ASA's International Stroke Conference, University of Southern California researchers reported that women aged 35 to 64 are almost three times as likely to have a stroke as men of the same age. The reason may be that women in midlife carry more abdominal fat than men, a risk factor for stroke, said the researchers.

1. Being a born-and-bred Southerner

The swath of stroke-prone states across the Southeastern United States - generally including North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama - have long been known as the "Stroke Belt." But recent research suggests that just being born and spending your childhood in one of these states raises your risk for stroke, even if you move away later.

In a study published in the journal Neurology in 2009, Harvard public health professor Maria Glymour and her colleagues reported that among blacks, being born in the Stroke Belt increased the risk of stroke by 22 percent. For whites, the number was 30 percent. Part of the reason may be due to risk factors like poor diet, smoking and obesity, which may start earlier in southern states, Glymour told LiveScience.

"By the time that they're middle-aged and we're enrolling them in our studies, it looks like lots of people have those risk factors," she said. "But maybe people in the South have been carrying them for longer."

"Hope none are ours"

Minute that counts

Bismillah wal Hamdulillah..

Everyday is the exam day



::Sigh:: one down, yet more to come. 10 minutes of Orthopaedic OSCE!

::Just finished my orthopaedic OSCE::

"I find it is hard to diagnose something in just 5 minutes , in addition to the adrenaline rush, " one might say. However like it or not, that is what we need to admit. Being examined and observed by someone who is "somebody" may accentuate that gush , plus accelerate the heart beat further. Sometimes it ended up by putting ourselves down and small, like a mickey perhaps. Act like a professional spy and think like a brainy one. That is the advice. You cannot be sure of how smart you are when you become the center attention. But the easiest way is, "Grab it while you are given one! "



There are no scripts for us

I like the statement above. Who has got the scripts for tomorrow? A script of life.
Nobody knows about how tomorrow will look like. It is a matter of plan and hope. Hope, hope, hope and anticipation. Who knows the price of "tawakkal"??? Priceless indeed! And who is going to pay for it? I don't know.

The Road To Paradise

Bismillah walHamdulillah...
A little yet meaningful story from Aysha....Jazakillah...


Every Friday afternoon, after the Juma prayers,
the Imam and his eleven year old son would go out into their town
and hand out "PATH TO PARADISE" and other Islamic literature.

This particular and fortunate Friday afternoon, as the time came
for the Imam and his son to go to the streets with their booklets,
it was very cold outside, as well as pouring rain.

The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said,
'OK, dad, I'm ready!'His dad asked, 'Ready for what' 'Dad,
it's time we go out and distribute these Islamic books.'
Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold outside and
it's pouring rain.'

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad,
aren't people still going to hell, even though it's raining?'

Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this weather.' Despondently,
the boy asks, 'Dad, can I go Please' His father hesitated for a moment
then said, 'Son, you can go. Here are the booklets. Be careful son.'
'Thanks, Dad!'



And with that, he was off and out into the rain. This eleven year old boy
walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody
he met in the street a pamphlet or a booklet.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet
and down to his VERY LAST BOOKLET.

He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a booklet to,
but the streets were totally deserted. Then he turned toward
the first home he saw and started up the Side walk to the front door
and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered..

Finally, he turned to leave, but something stopped him. Again,
he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door
with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch!

He rang again and this time the door slowly opened.

Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady.
She softly asked, 'What can I do for you, son?' With radiant eyes
and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, 'Ma'am,
I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you
that ALLAH REALLY LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU and I came to give you
my very last booklet

which will tell you all about God, the real purpose of creation,
and how to achieve His pleasure.' With that, he handed her
his last booklet and turned to leave. She called to him as he
departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'

Next week on Friday afternoon after Juma prayers, the Imam was giving
some lectures. As he concludes the lectures, he asked, '
Does anybody have questions or want to say anything?' Slowly,
in the back row among the ladies, an elderly lady's voice was heard
over the speaker.

'No one in this gathering knows me. I've never been here before.
You see, before last Friday I was not a Muslim, and thought
I could be. My husband died few years ago, leaving me totally alone
in this world.. Last Friday, being a particularly cold and rainy day,
I was contemplating suicide as I had no hope left.

So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home..
I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof then stood
on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck.
Standing on that chair, so lonely and broken- hearted.
I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell
downstairs startled me.

I thought, I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.

I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and
more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly....

I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could this be?

Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me.' I loosened the rope
from my neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell
rang louder and louder.

When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes,
for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy
I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe
it to you! The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that
had long been dead TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a
cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that:

ALLAH REALLY LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU!'


Then he gave me this booklet, Path To Paradise that I now hold in my hand.

As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain,
I closed my door and read slowly every word of this book.

Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair.

You see? I am now a Happy Vicegerent of the One True God.
Since the address of your congregation was stamped on the back of
this booklet, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's
little angel who came just in the nick of time and by so doing,
spared my soul from an eternity in hell.'



The shouts of TAKBIR.. ALLAH AKBAR.. rented the air.

Imam-Dad descended from the pulpit to the front row where
the little angel was seated....

He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.

Probably no jama'at has had a more glorious moment, and
probably this universe has never seen a father that was more filled
with love and honor for his son...

This very one...Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.

Remember, God's message CAN make the difference in the life
of someone close to you.

Q 5:3: This day I've perfected your religion for you, and completed
my favor on you, and chose Islam for you as religion.

Please keep pray for all the needful and painful people in
this planet and look after each other.

JANNAH

Bismillah and Alhamdulillah..
Thanx to Aysha, my beloved sis for this piece of reminder...

JANNAH FOREVER

When MOMIN will enter into Jannah, it will be announced....

1) You will remain healthy forever, disease will never come.

2) You will remain alive for ever, death will never come.

3) You will remain in bounties which will never be finished.

Jannah is made with:

Bricks of Gold and Silver
Its cement is of perfumed Musk
Its chips are pearls and Yaqoot
Its sand is Zafraan

There are eight doors of Jannah. These are eight grades of Jannah:

1. Jannatul Mava
2. Darul Maqaam
3. Darul Salaam
4. Darul Khuld
5. Jannat-ul-Adan
6. Jannat-ul-Naeem
7. Jannat-ul-Kasif
8. Jannat-ul-Firdous

Jannatul Mava is in the lowest,
Jannat-ul-Adan is the middle &
Jannat-ul- Firdous is on the highest.

Food of Jannah:

They will eat foods and fruits continuously up to 40 years
Every bowl will have a new taste
They will take eructation which will digest the food and there will be perfumed sweating for the digestion of water
There will be no urine and stool

Place Name:

There will be gardens in Jannah.
Every garden will have the length of about 100 year ' s journey.
The shadow of these gardens will be very dense.
Their plants will be free of thorns.
The size of their leaves will be equal to ears of elephants.
Their fruits will be hanging in rows.
Those who love each other for the sake of Allah will get a pillar of Yaqoot, on which there will be seventy thousand (70,000) rooms. These will shine for the residents of Jannat as the sun shines for the residents of Duniya
There will be rooms in Jannat in such a way that every room will have seventy thousand (70,000) dinning sheets. On every dinning sheet 70,000 types of foods will be served. For their service 80,000 young boys will be moving around looking like beautiful scattered pearls.
One bunch of dates will be equal to the length of 12 arms. The size of a date will be equal to the big pitcher. These will be whiter than milk, sweeter than honey and softer than butter and free of seeds. The stem of these plants will be made up of gold and silver.
There will also be gardens of grapes. The bunches of grapes will be very big. The size of a single grape will be equal to a big pitcher.
Someone asked, ya Rasulullah (Sallalahu alaihi wasallam): will it be sufficient for me and my family. It was answered, it will be sufficient for you and your whole tribe.

The Dresses of Jannah:

The dress of Jannat will be very beautiful.
One will wear 70 dresses at a time.
These will be very fine, delicate, weightless, having different colors.
These dresses will be so fine that the body even the heart will be visible.
And the waves of love in the hearts will also be visible.
These dresses will never become old, never be dirty and will never tear.

There will be four canals in every Jannah:

1. Water.
2. Milk.
3. Honey.
4. Sharabun Tahoora.

There will also be three fountains in Jannah:

1. Kafoor.
2. Zanjabeel.
3. Tasneem.

Qualities of People of Jannah:

In Jannah,

Height of every MOMIN, will be equal to the height of Hazrat Adam (Alaihissalaam) 60 arms (90 feet).
Beauty will be like that of Hazrat Yousuf (Alaihissalaam).
Age of youth will be like that of Hazrat Esa (Alaihissalaam) 30-33 years).
Sweetness of voice will be like that of Hazrat Dawud (Alaihissalaam).
Tolerance will be like that of Hazrat Yaqoob (Alaihissalaam).
Patience will be like that of Hazrat Ayyub (Alaihissalaam).
Habits will be like that of Sayyaduna Muhammad (Sallalahu alaihi wasallam).


"Aysha, i wish i will meet u in Jannah. InshaAllah"

My heart...

Bismillah and Alhamdulillah...


Epilogue
Today is 5th Feb 2010. Yesterday was 4th Feb 2010.
4th Feb 1998 was the registration day for me; first day in secondary school. 12 years had passed and seems like nothing changed much in myself except for the level of maturity. Knowledge wise perhaps, a bit of improvement. Being an adult , trespassing the boundary of teenage makes me realize how important i am now, as a part of family and as a part of community. People may look at me from several perspectives and as do my parents. They view me as someone special and do not let me going away from their dreams and hopes. Yes even now, my life is still being shaped by them and governed by their orders. When my dad fall sick last few months, i was really afraid that he could not get the chance to see me receiving the scroll; signifying that i am qualified for my job. Alhamdulillah , he is recovering now and tremendously improved. I am so amazed on how sudden things happened. All were God's plans that we as human could not go against the destiny. I remember my phone conversation with my maternal uncle regarding how a father looks at his children, especially a daughter. A father will only feel a huge relief once his daughter completed her life with her own family ,own kids and succeed in work. In other word, a compilation of success.......But every fathers have their own definition for success. As for my dad, he has his own too. A strike at this point of my life, though i find it very hurtful, but it may benefit me in my future. Allah knows best. Sharing about my heart, your hearts and our hearts. It is your choice to choose or not to.....

Healthy heart

People always talk about healthy heart. We may come across a situation ( or perhaps a lot) whereby we forgot about taking good care of heart. I used to feel sad when my properties were broken or my things got scratched,but never being bothered when my heart got scratched. I am not talking about being hurt or whatsoever, rather i am considering about the black dots implanted on my heart.

On the Day of Resurrection, only those who come to God with a healthy heart will be saved. God says:

"The Day on which neither wealth nor sons will be of any use, except for whoever brings to God a sound heart." [Quran 26: 88-89]

In defining the healthy heart, the following has been said: "It is a heart cleansed from any passion that challenges what God commands, or disputes what He forbids. It is free from any impulses which contradict His good. As a result, it is safeguarded against the worship of anything other than Him, and seeks the judgment of no other except that of His Messenger. Its services are exclusively reserved for God, willingly and lovingly, with total reliance, relating all matters to Him, in fear, hope, and sincere dedication. When it loves, its love is in the way of God. If it detests, it detests in the light of what He detests. When it gives, it gives for God. If it withholds , it withholds for God. Nevertheless, all this will not suffice for its salvation until it is free from following, or taking as its guide, anyone other than His Messenger .

A servant with a healthy heart must dedicate it to its journeys end and not base his actions and speech on those of any other person except God's Messenger . He must not give any precedence to any other faith, words or deeds over those of God and His Messenger. God says:

"O you who have attained to faith! Do not put yourselves forward in the presence of [what] God and His Apostle [may have ordained], but remain conscious of God: for, verily, God is all-hearing, all-knowing! " [Quran 49:1]

The Dead Heart

This is the opposite of the healthy heart. It does not know its Lord and does not worship Him as He commands, in the way which He likes, and with which He is pleased. It clings instead to its lust and desires, even if these are likely to incur God's displeasure and wrath. It worships things other than God, and its love and its hatreds, and its giving and its withholding, arise from its whims, which are of paramount importance to it and preferred above the pleasure of God. Its whims are its imam. Its lust is its guide. Its ignorance is its leader. Its crude impulses are its impetus. It is immersed in its concern with worldly objectives. It is drunk with its own fancies and its love for hasty, fleeting pleasures. It is called to God and the akhirat from a distance but it does not respond to advice, and instead it follows any scheming, cunning Shaytan . Life angers and pleases it, and passion makes it deaf and blind to anything except what is evil. To associate and keep company with the owner of such a heart is to tempt illness, living with him is like taking poison, and befriending him means utter destruction.

The Sick Heart

This is a heart with life in it as well as illness. The former sustains it at one moment, the latter at another, and it follows whichever one of the two manages to dominate it. It has love for God, faith in Him, sincerity towards Him, and reliance upon Him, and these are what give it life. It also has a craving for lust and pleasure, and prefers them and strives to experience them. It is full of self-admiration, which can lead to its own destruction. It listens to two callers: one calling it to God and His Prophet and the Hereafter; and the other calling it to the fleeting pleasures of this world. It responds to whichever one of the two happens to have most influence over it at the time. The first heart is alive, submitted to God, humble, sensitive, and aware; the second is brittle and dead; the third wavers between either its safety or its ruin.

One and everything,
Fad...

Excerpted from: "Purification of the Soul" by Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Esok Masih Ada.....

Bismillah dan Alhamdulillah..

Kebesaran dan keagungan hanya milik Allah swt..

Dua bulan berlalu dengan pengisian yang alhamdulillah mengembalikan ingatan betapa kerdilnya diri di sisi Allah swt. Dengan peristiwa yang ada manis dan ada pahitnya. Dengan sekelumit ujian yang Allah timpakan demi menguji sejauh mana iman hambaNya dan pelbagai lagi. Air mata yang tumpah biarlah menjadi saksi di akhirat kelak....2009 meninggalkan kenangan dan mematangkan diri. Masha Allah betapa indahnya hidup ini. Diselangi ujian dan nikmat supaya kita tidak alpa dalam arus kehidupan!

Pantasnya putaran masa hingga sedar tidak sedar sudah berada di semester terakhir untuk 7 tahun pengajian ini. 7 tahun bukan masa yang singkat. Anak kecil sudah di kira mumayyiz pada usia ini dan normalnya mereka bakal menjadi murid tahun satu. Sudah layak bergelar pemimpin kecil bila dilantik menjadi ketua darjah. Darjah satu dan waktu-waktu di bangku sekolah rendah segalanya penuh warna-warni..

6 bulan masih menunggu. Kalau dulu ujian akhir POPPH umpama mimpi tapi realitinya telah berlalu. Kini penantian untuk 6 bulan lagi..Sekali lagi untuk menguji ketahanan diri, namun kecil benar untuk dibandingkan mereka yang bertempur di medan jihad peperangan senjata. Pokoknya perjuangan ada di mana-mana, dibahagikan sama rata oleh Allah mengikut kemampuan masing-masing. DIA tidak akan bebankan sesuatu yang hambaNya tidak mampu. Bukan itu janji Allah??? Yakinlah pada diri sendiri. Kuatkanlah peribadi luaran anda walaupun dirasa dalaman lemah. Kuatnya anda memberi secebis semangat untuk insan disamping anda.



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