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Progress

Progress is not equal to development.Once,we know our desired destination and when we are moving near to the target,then we are making progress.Change for change sake is not progress when one is moving sideways and backwards from the desired target.

If the desired destination is a wrong choice, then one can take any roads.Hence ,knowledge is needed to see things as they are and not as one perceived to be true.

But then,if the journey is the destination-enjoy the trip..

 

Tabung Ramadhan Pondok Beris

Dengan segala hormatnya sukacita saya memaklumkan bahawa ibu saya Halimah Abdullah dan saya Mohd Adib Noh sedang berusaha untuk mengutip derma atau sedekah untuk diberikan kepada orang-orang miskin di kampung-kampung sekitar kampung Pondok Beris,Bachok Kelantan.Tujuan tabung ini adalah untuk meringankan beban kemiskinan mereka yang daif dan disamping itu memberi peluang kepada kita yang lebih bernasib baik untuk berinfaq di bulan Ramadhan yang mulia ini.

Tabung ini mula dibuka pada hari ini iaitu Ahad(29/7/2012) dan akan ditutup pada hari Sabtu(4/8/2012) untuk menyegerakan pengagihan dana kepada mereka yang memerlukan bantuan. Sila bank-in sumbangan Tan Sri/Puan Sri/Dato'/Datin/Tuan/Puan kepada akaun Anna Retail, Maybank 562834 609469 dan sila maklum kami melalui email kepada [email protected] khairan.

Instagram photos:Urban landscape

Why I took this photo? It is because I love strong lines and reflections.At times, the distorted reflection look better than the real thing.Now,I begin to love using filters in instagram to share beautiful urban lanscape with my friends..here is TGI Friday at Alamanda at dusk.

Hidden beauty in Putrajaya..

I took this photo while doing my night cycling in Putrajaya.If you wish to snap or see beautiful sceneries like this,come and join me cycling in Putrajaya after this Ramadhan.The photo was taken at the lakeside between Pullman Hotel and Taman Empangan(next to PICC).

Ramadhan Review-Week One

Ramadhan Review #1

I am writing to remind myself and my fellow muslims/muslimahs that it is good for us to review what we have done,what we have not done and what we could have done for the last seven days of Ramadhan. Before we go to sleep to-night,just take a few minutes to review our performance in meeting the goal/objectives of fasting in the month of Ramadhan al-Mubarak.

Here is a sample of checklist for the last seven days:

1. How many did we do or miss the sunat prayers like terawih, tahjud and dhuha?

2. How many surah have we finished reciting the Holy Qur'an?

3. How often have we been zikir/istighfar everyday?

4. How much money and time have donated and given to those in need?

5. And how much knowledge we have gained etc?

After the review, then plan again for the next seven days.InsyaAllah, we all could do better if we try harder.And the reward is taqwa from Allah the Most Exalted. Firman Allah:" Orang yang paling mulia disisi Allah ialah orang yang paling bertaqwa".

Allah swt promised al-Barakah for the first third of Ramadhan. Do we deserve to get it if we did not do what is expected of us?

 

The Road to Spirituality

Where are we now?To know the meaning of the title of this blog posting,please click here.

"Sekelian manusia itu Mati,

Kecuali mereka yang Berilmu,

Sekelian yang Berilmu itu tidur,

Kecuali mereka yang Beramal,

Sekelian yang Beramal itu dalam Tipu-Daya,

Kecuali mereka yang Ikhlas,

Sekalian yang Ikhlas itu

Sentiasa dalam kebimbangan."

~Zun-Nun Al-Masri.

 

Lessons learnt from personal life..

Saturday is my birthday and every year, a few days before the big day, I sit down and write my goals for the future year in my journal. I also look back at what I have written over the past 12 months and make a list of my biggest a-ha’s and achievements.

It’s pretty exciting and sometimes a bit funny to read something that you wrote six months ago, which you were totally freaking out over and worried about, only to realize today that it’s nowhere near as big of a deal as you thought it was at the time.

This year I decided to reminisce further back than just one year and I put together a list of the top 31 life lessons I have gathered since the beginning of me.

via livewell360.com

Not many people really learnt from their past lives.That is why they keep doing the same mistakes again and again.According to my guru,we really need to get badly hurt ,then only we can learn something..

Let us not become the majority and be in the group of minority who took time to reflect on their lives and learn along the way.Everybody makes mistakes and let us forgive ourselves and move on.Those who don't make mistakes are those who did very little or nothing  in their lives..

Herewith I share a note written by a 31-year old.I think she has covered most of what I observed and learnt over the last 60 years of my life.Please read her notes and ponder these in relation to your personal life.

After that reflection,just jot down in your notebook,YOUR own lessons learnt over the last 10 years of your lives and let it be your guide in your future endeavours.My best wishes to you and God bless..

Hot and wet Ramadhan

Sketch #2

Sent from my iPad

Tabung Pendidikan Kolej Darul Hikmah

Berikut ialah surat dari Dato' Dr Siddiq Fadzil diedarkan untuk tindakan sewajarnya..

I am an early riser.At normal time,I wake up at 4:30am or the latest at 5am for my suboh solat~5:45am.On the first day of this Ramadan,my old old alarm clock which I set at 4am did not wake me up at 4am but an hour later at 5am even though it showed me 4am.It almost cost me my sahur!So yesterday I went shopping for a replacement and got lucky at Parksons.I love this green clock and it costs RM25.The sad thing it uses two 2A batteries.I prefer the fully mechanical version where I have to wind it for energy to keep the clock ticking.Gone were the good old days.

I have the green clock but not the green technology.Nowadays,more and more things do not reflect what they really are..

Real knowledge is knowing what these things really made of and not what they seem to be.