Tuesday, August 25, 2009

What we see is deemed normal. What we don't see is deemed abnormal.

What is bad becomes good or okay when we see too much of it already. What is good becomes fodder for skepticism.

We preach for change all the time. But come to think of it, change is what corrupted us in the first place.


Do you want to ponder over these quotes?


Friday, August 21, 2009

It's time to cut our losses.

Salam :)

It goes without saying that progressively our world is increasingly becoming easy. Easy in the sense where things and tasks become more convenient and perhaps more efficient. We are better equipped with research and development, knowledge, technologies, etc. Peoples in our generation had found cures to many diseases that peoples in past eras had died easily from. Peoples in our generation had achieved so many other great things that make this world more modern and civilized. As many people like to say we are so lucky, we are offered a range of things that make our lives better when compared to those who lived in previous times. Alhamdulillah. Yes, Allah telah mengurniakan ketani dengan pelbagai nikmat. Aku syukur. Ketani perlu syukur. Sudahtah Dia mencipta ketani dengan sebaik-baik makhluk, ani lagi di bagiNya ketani... namun cemani jua masih keadaan tani? Bari bangang sudah di pikir-pikirkan.

Anyways that's not the point. Well that is the point. But I'm trying to deliver a paradox here. The more modern and "civilized" we get, the further we drift away from Allah. Is that lucky? No. And when I think back to what I have mentioned above... lucky kah kami ani? Awu, memang. Tapi to what extent? Walaupun segala yang ketani nikmati selama ani datang dari Allah, segala barang-barang dunia ani lah yang melemaskan ketani dan menjauhkan ketani daripada pencipta ketani. We are so distracted. Membutakan banar-banar tah. Allah memberi ketani segala yang nyaman-nyaman di dunia ani mesti ada kebaikannya, no doubt... tapi yatah it's our job to fight nafsu ketani yang berlebih-lebihan... well my interpretation is macam Allah sudah membagikan ketani sesuatu yang "baik" ah dari segi benda dunia lah ah... but we should not take ALL of it cause if we do, we will be too consumed with it, it atu dunia lah. We should take the good that Allah offers us, and Allah bagi ketani akal bah untuk memikir mana satu baik, mana satu jahat... tapi sayangnya.. pengertian baik dan jahat ketani ani sudah tercemar.. oleh kerana iblis sentiasa mengotori hati ketani. Take me, for example, I cannot deny that walaupun sudah berfikiran cemani, ada banyak keduniaan yang I still indulge in, inda kira subconsciously or otherwise, so yatah mesti di tackle bit by bit Insyallah. Like Allah berikan kurnia ketani tidur nyaman, tapi jangan labih-labih sampai subuh tinggal, cematu lah one example lah ah.

The past week, I have been learning bits and bits about sejarah Nabi Muhammad. Yatah macam... ya Allah... inda terkata... macam... Masyallah... selama ani... aku macam look up to so many celebrities or orang-orang lain yang kononnya hebat lah segala etc, ofcourse lah ah dari damit sudah tau pasal Nabi Muhammad tapi macam.. setakat belajar sikit-sikit arah sekolah ugama, mendengar cerita orang etc. Tapi Ya Allah... Nabi Muhammad ani.. suci bah. Atu pun sudah understatement lah actually. You can't even describe his personality, his heart, his whole charisma, his everything because no word can suffice... no word can justify what kind of human being he was. Masyallah... suci... sempurna... I'm really touched lah basically, by his life. Macam sudah baca and mendengar segala cerita-cerita Nabi Muhammad, you can't help but feel... Masyallah... aku berada di dalam kerugian kerana tidak hidup di era Nabi Muhammad... not that I am against Allah's wishes and desires that I exist in this era instead.. tapi perasaan rugi atu bah.. macam... wow... kehidupan Nabi Muhammad bersama sahabat-sahabatnya... Masyallah... I'm impressed? That's not even a good word to describe it. Terharu dengan pergobanan mereka... it's like.. Ya Allah.. they had such purity in their hearts that we can't even imagine to have gone through what they did...ketani ani... ya Rabbi... apakan.. tutup karan sudah macam palau mengomplain. Ya Allah. Ampunkanlah dosa-dosa kami dan semoga kami termasuk dalam golongan-golongan beriman kepadaMu.

So I guess in a way, keadaan untung ketani at the same time.. keadaan kerugian... only it is up to us either to milk WHICH profits and WHICH losses. Obviously I am speaking to myself before I speak to anyone else sebab when diri ani meliat ke arah cermin... banyak kesalahan masih.. banyak dosa kelmarin, hari ani dan besok... hati balum lembut lagi... tapi Insyallah we all will be guided towards jalan Allah. Ramadhan has begun, so together, we make use of this bonus month that Allah so gracefully granted us... ingat tah ketani saja.. semua iblis dan syaitan di ikat dan di tapuk selama sebulan ani.. segala kejahatan yang ketani buat dalam bulan Ramadhan atu ketani tah punya salah tu, jangantah kan salahkan iblis saja.. atu nafsu sendiri... so Insyallah we will fight this nafsu because as I have been told in the kursus it is the biggest battle that we will ever encounter.. a battle with one ownself. It's scary though when I think of it, how whatever evil that I may conduct in this holy month is actually my own doing, uninfluenced by syaitan.

Sometimes though sudah terkenang kisah-kisah Nabi atu memang rasa sebak kan apa.. tapi bida jua sudah insaf mun sekadar seminit ani ah? and like ofcourse words don't mean anything without action to validate them. Yatah mesti tegap iman ani nya orang.. Insyallah... Mesti pakai tudung! Insyallah. Amin.

Alhamdulillah the kursus fiqh musafir that officially ended on Thursday was a success. When I heard that it was going to be at IPA (pasal ingat masa scholarship orientation), I immediately thought omaaaaaaadazzzzeeee.... apa ini.... gerenti.. duduk arah kerusi panggilan yang merah atu mengantuk-mengantuk mendangar ceramah yang duduk2 arah kerusi di podium... thinking that it would be better if it was more intimate, macam bukan ceramah tapi discussion pasal Islam lah ah... but what happened was... the setting of the room was appropriate but (walaupun ada sekali atu I was so sleepy that afternoon) inda terjadilah like what I thought, it was effective, let's just say. Jazakumullahu Khayran kepada ustaz dan ustazah yang telah menyampaikan pengajaran Islam kepada kami lah ah... and also to those who helped to make the event happen. Alhamdulillah. Insyallah the ilmu that we were injected with within the very short three days, will not easily flow out lah... Insyallah ilmu itulah diantara yang akan kami mempergunakan untuk membuatkan diri dan keluarga dan kawan-kawan kami bekalan untuk akhirat. Amin.

Selamat menyambut bulan Ramadhan guys :D I'm sorry if ever either my words or doings in the past or now had/have offended you. Allah is the Most Forgiving, even the biggest sin one can commit as long as one repents.. ani tah kan dosa between our Muslim brothers and sisters kan? :D Salam.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

50

i feel very half and half right now like 0.5 of me wants to be serious and the other 50 wants to laugh about something. how fitting. never mind that.

i don't know if any of you are counting but summer is just about half done. so that's okay right. I chose not to make an effort to find work this time and I haven't gone anywhere since I came home... which is fine.. cos I'm not really the type who itches to travel that kind of thing, just not that adventurous and you know, I travel when I travel. But should probably squeeze some of that when I go back to the UK, Insyallah.

ramadhan is coming soon. Should be very rewarding :) Insyallah Taala. you know, as I think about it, as lazy as this summer has been for me, there has been a lot of self reflection taking place. which is productive defo. you probably think that that's me trying to make myself feel better but no, it really is. I've been trying to excavate what this life is about and what lessons to take and that sort of stuff. probably doesn't make sense when you read this, it's a personal experience. and I'd like to think I grew up a little bit... let's face it, I need a lot of that. not self degradation, but you know, self criticism. reminder. whatever you wanna call it.

but this summer has turned out kind of funny in a way. a way that it turned out how i expected it to be but funnily, in some ways, it hasn't been what i thought it would be. heh. all in all, syukur Alhamdulillah.

also, happy birthday to Kaka Wani, abang Jirs, kaka Amal, Unggal and Ilyasa. August is always about you guys and you all are awesome and may Allah bless you and me for having you guys in my life <3.

oh. um. as hanisah ab has posted in some of her recent entries, or 2 weeks ago, there will be a kursus fiqh musafir which stretches from august 18th to the 20th. which is also spreading across facebook at this time now anyway. but good right. it's about time we have this kind of event filling in our page instead of some black and white or foam or school's out summer party. heh. so i hope you guys come because you have nothing to lose but much to gain. Insyallah it will be fruitful, hopefully i see some of you faces there.