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Daun dalam daun?

Saya amat terpesona dengan daun-daun saperti gambar disebelah kanan.Pada mulanya saya tertarik kepada bentuk semacam lukisan daun diatas daun,tetapi selepas merenung sedikit mendalam,saya terbaca mesej tersirat didalam kejadian daun-daun ini..

Dalam perjalanan hidup yang pendek ini,kita diberi kesempatan untuk melihat pelbagai ciptaan Illahi,tetapi sayang   sekali kita gagal memberi pemerhatian yang sewajarnya untuk melihat,menikmati,memahami dan menghayati kehebatan dan keagungan pencipta segala sesuatu sama ada di langit atau di bumi.Kita terkejar kesana dan kesini dan terlupa dan alpa dengan apa yang bersama dan dekat dengan kita.

“Ya Tuhan kami, tiadalah Engkau menciptakan ini dengan sia-sia. Mahasuci Engkau, maka peliharalah kami dari siksa neraka.” (TQS. Ali Imran: 191)

 “Dia menumbuhkan bagi kamu dengan air hujan itu tanam-tanaman; zaitun, kurma, anggur, dan segala macam buah-buahan. Sesungguhnya, pada yang demikian itu benar-benar ada tanda (kekuasaan Allah) bagi kaum yang memikirkan.” (TQS.an-Nahl: 11)

Dia lah Allah, Yang Menciptakan sekalian makhluk; Yang Mengadakan (dari tiada kepada ada); Yang Membentuk rupa (makhluk-makhlukNya menurut yang dikehendakiNya); bagiNyalah nama-nama yang sebaik-baiknya dan semulia-mulianya; bertasbih kepadaNya segala yang ada di langit dan di bumi; dan Dia lah Yang tiada bandingNya, lagi Maha Bijaksana.

(Al-Hasy-r 59:24) |

Dibawah ini satu suasana yang cantik dan tenang anugerah Allah kepada maklukNya..

 

Guests of Allah

The Haj season is coming soon...Blessed are those who are selected to perform their Haj this year and be the guests of Allah.

For those who can't be there,we also can be guests of Allah at His houses scattered all over the world and a few are located quite near to our offices or houses.It is the masjid!(Masjid itu Rumah Allah).According to my guru,we can choose to be the guests of Allah now, but not in the Hereafter.InsyaAllah, if we frequently go to solat daily at our masjids,we may be the guests of Allah forever in the Hereafter.Better still, let's make the masjids our second homes.

Salah satu dari tujuh kumpulan yang mendapat perlindungan arasy Allah ialah mereka yang memiliki hati-hati yang terpaut dengan masjid.

Kuliyyah subuh:Catitan amalan kita

Ustaz berpesan hati-hati jaga percakapan dan amalan kita.Jika tidak ada manfaat untuk bercakap,lebih baik diam.Ayat-ayat berikut memperingati suapaya jangan kita lalai..

Dan demi sesungguhnya, Kami telah mencipta manusia dan Kami sedia mengetahui apa yang dibisikkan oleh hatinya, sedang (pengetahuan) Kami lebih dekat kepadanya daripada urat lehernya,

(Qaaf 50:16) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Semasa dua malaikat (yang mengawal dan menjaganya) menerima dan menulis segala perkataan dan perbuatannya; yang satu duduk di sebelah kanannya, dan yang satu lagi di sebelah kirinya.

(Qaaf 50:17) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Tidak ada sebarang perkataan yang dilafazkannya (atau perbuatan yang dilakukannya) melainkan ada di sisinya malaikat pengawas yang sentiasa sedia (menerima dan menulisnya).

(Qaaf 50:18) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan (apabila sampai ajal seseorang) datanglah "Sakaratulmaut" membawa kebenaran (yang telah dijanjikan, serta dikatakan kepada yang mengingkarinya sebelum itu): "Inilah perkara yang engkau selalu mengelak diri daripadanya!"

(Qaaf 50:19) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan lagi (apabila sampai saat yang ditentukan) ditiuplah sangkakala (untuk menghidupkan semula makhluk-makhluk yang telah mati); saat itu ialah hari berlakunya amaran yang telah diberikan.

(Qaaf 50:20) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan (setelah itu) datanglah tiap-tiap orang (ke Padang Mahsyar), disertai (dua malaikat: yang satu menjadi) pembawa, dan (yang satu lagi menjadi) saksi;

(Qaaf 50:21) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

(Serta dikatakan kepadanya): "Demi sesungguhnya! Engkau di dunia dahulu berada dalam keadaan lalai tentang (perkara hari) ini, maka kami hapuskan kelalaian yang menyelubungimu itu, lalu pandanganmu pada hari ini menjadi tajam (dapat menyaksikan dengan jelasnya perkara-perkara hari akhirat)".

(Qaaf 50:22) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan berkatalah malaikat yang sentiasa ada bersama-samanya: "Inilah (Kitab catitan iman dan amal) orang yang terletak dalam jagaanku, siap sedia (untuk dibicarakan)".

(Qaaf 50:23) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

 

Nikmat syurga yang berkekalan..

Marilah kita menghayati(tadabbur) makna ayat-ayat berikut sebagai peringatan kepada diri kita yang sentiasa terpesona dan dilalaikan olih nikmat dunia yang sedikit dan sebentar ini...

Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang bertaqwa adalah ditempatkan di dalam beberapa taman Syurga, dengan matair-matair terpancar padanya.

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:15) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

(Keadaan mereka di sana) sentiasa menerima nikmat dan rahmat yang diberikan kepadanya oleh Tuhan mereka. Sesungguhnya mereka di dunia dahulu adalah orang-orang yang berbuat kebaikan.

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:16) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Mereka sentiasa mengambil sedikit sahaja: masa dari waktu malam, untuk mereka tidur.

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:17) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan pada waktu akhir malam (sebelum fajar) pula, mereka selalu beristighfar kepada Allah (memohon ampun).

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:18) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan pada harta-harta mereka, (ada pula bahagian yang mereka tentukan menjadi) hak untuk orang miskin yang meminta dan orang miskin yang menahan diri (daripada meminta).

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:19) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan pada bumi ada tanda-tanda (yang membuktikan keesaan dan kekuasaan Allah) bagi orang-orang (yang mahu mencapai pengetahuan) yang yakin,

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:20) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan juga pada diri kamu sendiri. Maka mengapa kamu tidak mahu melihat serta memikirkan (dalil-dalil dan bukti itu)?

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:21) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Dan di langit pula terdapat (sebab-sebab) rezeki kamu, dan juga terdapat apa yang telah (ditakdirkan dan) dijanjikan kepada kamu.

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:22) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Maka demi Tuhan langit dan bumi, sesungguhnya (apa yang tersebut) itu tetap benar, (tidak patut diragu-ragukan) sebagaimana (tidak sepatutnya diragukan) benarnya kamu dapat berkata-kata.

(Adz-Dzaariyaat 51:23) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark

Satisfied heart

Everyone of us wants satisfaction in all aspects of our life.The question is what is satisfaction to the body,the mind and the soul? Satisfaction is the state of meeting one's expectations ,needs and desires according to the Oxford dictionary.If asked,I don't think anyone would say they are satisfied with their lives.IMHO,the levels of being satisfied vary from person to person and also varies when one life station moves to the next.

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In the last 30 days,three persons that I knew them personally passed away-two of them were my wife's cousin and uncle.Last week,it was my neighbour who lived 50 metres from my house.He was 63 years old and I am 60 years old.These deaths reminded me of my own mortality.

Let me share this tazkirah I wrote about 8 years ago to remind us of our goals in life.Our hearts have a lot of desires but let us re-align them back to the right direction and never let them go astray.

To my peers(who are 60+),let us set our priorities right.

Power to rule

Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): "Wahai Tuhan yang mempunyai kuasa pemerintahan! Engkaulah yang memberi kuasa pemerintahan kepada sesiapa yang Engkau kehendaki, dan Engkaulah yang mencabut kuasa pemerintahan dari sesiapa yang Engkau kehendaki. Engkaulah juga yang memuliakan sesiapa yang Engkau kehendaki, dan Engkaulah yang menghina sesiapa yang Engkau kehendaki. Dalam kekuasaan Engkaulah sahaja adanya segala kebaikan. Sesungguhnya Engkau Maha Kuasa atas tiap-tiap sesuatu.

(A-li'Imraan 3:26) | <Embed> | English Translation | Tambah Nota | Bookmark 
Say: "O Allah. Lord of Power (And Rule), Thou givest power to whom Thou pleasest, and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest: Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest: In Thy hand is all good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power.

In two days time Malaysians are going to vote in the 13th General Election i.e on 5/5/2013.Barisan Nasional is fighting hard to retain its power for the last 55 years,and Pakatan Rakyat is equally putting up a good fight.Both are confident of winning but there is one winner.May Allah guide all of us,muslims and non-muslims to choose the right leaders and parties to form the new government of Malaysia.

 

On trust

Malaysian 13th General election is around the corner.(5th May,2013).It is our duty as responsible and accoutable Malaysians to vote only those we trust and can be trusted.Below is my posting I did almost 10 years ago..

Friday, October 03, 2003

Delivering trust

Delivering trust is A BIG TASK! It is more than just talking about whether I trust you or you trust me. It is more than that. This excerpt below I took fromFriday Nasiha is a good point to begin to ponder of our roles in delivering the trusts put on our shoulders.The roles and resposibilties are well articulated in the book entitled The Ideal Muslim or The Ideal Muslimah( please refer to my earlier blog):-

Al-Nisa (Women)
Chapter 4: Verse 58

Delivering Trust
"Allah commands you to deliver whatever you have been entrusted with to their rightful owners."

The basic and most important trust is that which God has implanted in human nature. This is the one which the heavens, the earth and the mountains refused to accept, but which man undertook. It is that of willingly and deliberately recognising Divine guidance and believing in God. Giving testimony in favour of Islam is an important way of delivering this trust.

* This takes the form firstly of striving hard within oneself so that one's life, feelings, actions and behaviour become a practical translation of faith.
* Another way of giving testimony in favour of Islam is to call on people to believe in Islam, explaining its values and principles.
* Testimony is further given by taking steps to help implement Islam as a code of living for the Muslim community, and in human life in general.

Another trust which is implied in the above is that of dealing with people and delivering to them whatever they have entrusted to us. That includes honesty in daily transactions, giving honest counsel to rulers and ruled, taking good care of young children, protecting the interests of the community and defending it against hostile forces and observing all duties and obligations outlined by the Divine code.

The verse can also be translated as "Allah commands you to deliver trusts to those worthy of them." This forewarns Muslims against the evils which had afflicted the Israelites. One of the fundamental mistakes committed by the Israelites was that in the time of their degeneration they had handed over positions of trust (i.e. religious and political leadership) to incompetent, mean, immoral, dishonest and corrupt people. The result was that corruption spread throughout the nation. The Muslims are directed to take heed of this, and to entrust positions of responsibility only to those who are capable of shouldering the burdens of such positions.

On anxiety..

Let me share this Hadith:

This world should not be the main concern of the Muslim. Worry about his provision should not find any room in his heart or mind, lest that make his sickness and his anxiety worse. 

It was narrated that Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever is mainly concerned about the Hereafter, Allaah will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is mainly concerned with this world, Allaah will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what is decreed for him.”

(Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2389; classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 6510). 

Here are a few words of wisdom from Manuscript Found in Accra:

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind.And since we will never be able to master it,we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have to learn to live with the storm.

For those who cannot learn to do so,life will be a nightmare.

Therefore,although anxiety is part of life ,NEVER let it control.

It(Anxiety) will never disappear, but the great wisdom of life is to realize that we the masters of the things that try to enslave us.

 

 

Sebaran fitnah

PRU #13 hampir tiba dan setiap hari kita membaca atau terbaca pelbagai berita dan cerita di media cetak dan elekronik.Berikut ialah satu ayat untuk peringatan kita semua.

Dan apabila mereka mendengar perkataan yang sia-sia, mereka berpaling daripadanya sambil berkata: "Bagi kami amal kami dan bagi kamu pula amal kamu; selamat tinggalah kamu; kami tidak ingin berdamping dengan orang-orang yang jahil". (Al-Qasas 28:55) | <Embed> | English Translation 

Dengan bantuan teknologi maklumat terkini,kita di hujani pelbagai maklumat yang banyak terdapat penipuan dan kepalsuan.Kita perlu ilmu untuk membezakan yang haq dan yang batil.Kita perlu berhati-hati supaya minda dan hati kita tidak di kotori olih manusia jahil dan jahat.Sama-sama kita mendampingi orang-orang yang benar-benar berilmu.

Pesan saya untuk diri saya dan para pembaca blog ini: Jangan kita pula jadi penyebar ajaran sesat,maklumat palsu dan fitnah.Kalau tidak pasti,diam lebih baik!

The best of people..

I have posted this tazkirah about ten years ago and again I post it today as a reminder to me and my fellow muslims:-

A man stood up whilst Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was on the minbar and asked:"O Mesenger of Allah,which of the people is the best?"

He said:"The best of the people are those are most well-versed in Qur'an,those who are most pious,those who most enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil,and those who are most respectful towards their relatives".(Reported by Ahmad and al-Tabarani).

There are five criteria mentioned above. Just check ourselves against them?Are we qualified to be the best ummah?The reality manifest itself...

Many of us muslims are capable of doing good deeds but only a few are capable to speak against evils or prevents the evil deeds.

Another Hadith:" The fear of people should never prevent any of you from speaking the truth when he sees it or pointing out its importance.Doing so will not hasten one's appointed time of death or lessen one's rizq".
(Reported by Ahmad and Abu Dawud.

May Allah forgive me and my fellow muslims for our failure to follow the sunnah.

Posted on 22/8/2003

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