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Salam Merdeka

Esok,tanah air tercinta akan merayakan ulangan tahun MERDEKA ke 50. Izinkan saya mengucapkan Selamat Merdeka kepada semua rakyat Malaysia yang sudi membaca blog saya.Sama-sama kita berdu'a agar negara kita aman dan maju dari masa ke semasa...

Berikut ialah cebisan dari tulisan saya  di ambang Merdeka pada tahun 1998.

Apakah itu sebenarnya kemerdekaan?Adakah diri kita merdeka selepas kita menghalau penjajah dari tanah air kita?Jika selaku insan kita tidak mengenal dan mengerti maknanya,amat sukar bagi kita untuk menjadi insan yang merdeka.Kemerdekaan insan adalah amat pokok dan unit asas untuk sesuatu bangsa hidup sebagai bangsa merdeka.Jangan kita kaya,tetapi pada hakikatnya kita hamba di negara sendiri.Pada pengertian saya,insan merdeka adalah mereka yang bebas dari tuntunan hawa nafsu dan hanya tunduk kepada fitrah dan hukum Allah.Negara kita boleh merdeka 100 tahun,tetapi jika fikiran dan jiwa kita masih dijajah,kita belum lagi menjadi insan yang merdeka. Bukan merdeka untuk bertindak mengikut nafsu dan perasaan, tetapi merdeka untuk bertindak berasaskan ilmu dan panduan wahyu dari Allah swt.Negara yang sebenar-benarnya merdeka dan berdaulat wajib mempunyai insan merdeka.

Catititan foto: Foto diatas adalah se kumtum bunga raya dari taman bunga dirumah saya.Warna kuning melambangkan banyak nilai-nilai mulia negara merdeka kita telah ternoda oleh budaya kuning...

 

 

Take care of your heart!

The phone rang at 7am yesterday morning.Who would be calling at this time and I feel scared to lift the phone because my mother has yet to recover from recent heart attack. It must be a very important call but deep inside I would be happy if it was just a wrong number.I gathered enough courage to lift the phone and took the call. It was from my next door neighbour.She told me that Haji Abdullah, who lived behind our  terrace houses just passed away while in the toilet this morning. He fell on the sink and  got a heart attack. After a few CPR attempts by his wife, he passed away..Innalillahi rajiun.He was 59 years and left five children and a wife.

Two days ago, I met Haji Abdullah at our masjid and he gave salam and I replied.And two days later, I solat his jenazah after 'asar prayer yesterday. To normal people like his family and me, we never knew that he had a heart disease and he never told anyone. His death has sent a strong message to me and my peers that we must take care of our hearts. A friend commented that we take more care of our hairs,fingers and faces etc than our hearts. How true!

Talking about hearts, our religous teachers also remind us to care of our qalbu as much as we take care of our physical health. We are also guilty as charged when it comes to keep our qalbu in good state.

Life is very fragile...

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Congratulations to Hannan!

Konvo Hannan UIA 25 August 07 016
Originally uploaded by Adibi

Our congratulations to my niece Hannan on her graduation day at IIUM.We are grateful and proud that you have been honoured the best all round student in your faculty.

To my sister,I am happy for you and to my brother-in-law Prof Dr Mohd Shukri Othman my thanks for taking care of my sister.May Allah bless you and your family.

KL Railway Station

  KL Railway Station: the lobby II 
  Originally uploaded by MagnusCaleb

I was disgusted to say the least when it took our Prime Minister two days ago to make a remark to remind the KTM management to take care of our old Kuala Lumpur railway station. How could we let our national heritage deteriorate?

To Mr Prime Minister,may I sugest to you to sack the management for their careless attitude and injustice to our national heritage if nothing gets done before end of 2007.Why not the  next year NAFAM to be held at KL Central Railway Station?

How about other buildings not mentioned by our PM?

Here is the link to photos of the station from the public.

Note on photo: Thanks Magnus Caleb for allowing me to blog using your photo.Abang Adib

To die a muslim..

[3:102] Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Bertakwalah kamu kepada Allah dengan sebenar-benar takwa dan jangan sekali-kali kamu mati melainkan dalam keadaan Islam.

[3:102] O ye who believe! fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam.

Last week, our guru read the above ayat from Surah Aali Imran to remind us of our 'aqidah and 'amalan. What comes to my mind was how do I ensure that when I die,I shall die as a muslim?

None of us will ever know when we are going to die, but die we must.One of the ways is to safeguard our iman all the time and to live a muslim life conforming to the syariah. Considering the comtemporary living and lifestyles, it will take a lot of effort to do this. There are so many attractions and distractions that we may be led astray. The more we wish to abide by the commands of Allah and the Sunnah, the more difficult and painful it becomes. In the words of my guru,"Saperti  menggengam bara api,lagi kuat kita pegang lagi sakit tangan kita".

IMHO,to die as a muslim, I must live as a muslim.

Let's ponder ...have we been livings as muslims/muslimahs?

ERL is the fastest train in Malaysia

Writing this note,it reminds me of my first train ride in Dungun,Terengganu way back in early 60's. It was a local train to Bukit Besi if I could remember correctly.I was still in my primary school then..

From 1965 onwards, I took 'the mail' train from Palekbang,Tumpat to Tanjung Malim,Perak six times a year and from 1969 to 1972 to KL during my secondary school days.

Last week,I took ERL to KLIA  and used my GPS device(GPSMap 60CSx) to monitor my journey. Previously, I was wondering what kind of speed the ERL travels in order to arrive 28 minutes from KL Sentral to KLIA. To record the journey, I used my my GPS device and took notes.

As the ERL pulled out from the KL Sentral ,the speed picked up to 90km/hr within less than 1km from the station. Within 5minutes,I noticed the maximum speed attained was 120km/hr.As the train by-passed UPM, I saw the speed was 148km/hr and my GPS indicated that the train will be 3 minutes behind scheduled. Then when we were 23 away from KLIA,I noticed the train speed has gone up to 160km/hr! This is the speed I never get travelled in any train in Malaysia so far! Along the journey,my GPS recorded a maximum speed of 166km/hr with a moving average of 125km/hr.

It would be fun and interesting if we could travel at the same average speed to Johor Bahru,Alor Setar and Wakaf Baru.When? I don't know.

A few years ago,I took the train from London to Lancaster. It was a nice journey.It was much faster than our KTM.

By the way, I have created a photo flickr group for trains in Malaysia here.If you have taken any photos about trains in Malaysia or train travels in Malaysia,i would be grateful if you could join the group.Below is my photo showing me writing my journal in the train.

Two moons?

Just to share this info with my fellow readers:-

Special Note: After checking with my learned friend Shah at his website, he concluded the posting I cut/paste below is a hoax.My apologies.(3.21pm)

*Two moons on 27 August*

*27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for.........

....*

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will
cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth. Be sure
to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth has 2
moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.

Note on the photo:Taken on 15 Shawal 1426.It was full moon..If you have observed that I have taken "two moons overlapping one another".Actually,my hands was shaking a bit when I took this photo.

Flock,the browser

While surfing the Internet yesterday,I came across a browser called Flock. Many,many months back,I had installed one in my iBook.It was a simple browser and it caught my attention because of its simplicity. Then , I forgot about it due to lack of features that I usually need when I am online.
However, when I downloaded the new version, it is a really good browser for non-technical user like me who use Internet to more for blogging and social networking.

I am writing this blog posting using its features where I don't need to get and log in to my blogging software and as I work online,I could see photos from Flickr being displayed on the top of the page.

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