Saturday, August 28, 2004

Semalam di Putrajaya

Assalamualaikum wbt,

Just wanna share my experience last nite with Ika, Pijat and Abg Nafis semalam di Putrajaya.

At 5.15 pm yesterday Ika had called me asking whether i wanted to go for Tasnim's (anak Kak Nisa' and Abg Nazrol) aqeeqah atau tidak. Hmm..supposedly i have discussion with my Accounting group members, called one of my groupmate samada jadi ker tak, resultnya tak jadi sbb ada sorang groupmate ni anak dia sakit. So we cancelled the discussion and i went to Putrajaya with Ika.

We expected that we were the only person yg datang pada sebelah malam. Rupanya Pijat and Abg Nafis pun ada. So we had our dinner and did some talkings about our jobs. Abg NAfis and Pijat are PTD people, so there were many things that we heard and learnt about how government conduct their operational matters. Ika budak Economic dulu, jumpa ngan Pijat yg keje kat Ministry of Finance, lagi ler byk benda yg kami bincangkan. Keluarlah term GDP, CPI, PPI..ni semua terms2 Economics.

Waktu makan tu, ada 2 orang senior datang, and guess what? Sadig pun datang...huish..lama tak jumpa pokcik Sudan ni. Dah jadi Sales Manager pulak tuh..hehe..dia dah boleh converse in BM very well jugaklah sekarang ni :)

Habis tasnim and sepupu dia kitorang dukung and bagi makan. Pastu we took pictures together. Best best :)

Balik tu supposedly we get back to ERL to catch our train, tapi masa dah tunjuk pukul 10.30 malam. Being a gentleman, Abg Nafis kata dia nak hantar coz dia takut lambat sgt train sampai. I dun mind coz i'll stop at Bandar Tasik Selatan, but Ika will having problem because dia duduk kat Keramat. Jauh nak catch train Putra and feeder bus. Last2 we followed Abg Nafis and Pijat. Abg Nafis and Pijat ajak pegi office Pijat nak tunjuk kat kitorang. Kitorang ok jek, and we went.

Org government ni rupanya-rupanya dah tukar working culture derang. Dulu kita expect they are not productive as private sector is, tapi rupanya sekarang ni pun derang dah jadi mcm private sector. Balik malam-malam nak siapkan keje. Huish, kagum ler plak.

Waktu menuju ke ofis Pijat, kitorang lalu Putrajaya. The scenery was tremendous!! Cantiknya subhanallah, tak seperti waktu kami tinggalkan 2 tahun lepas. So beautiful, seriously. You guys should take a break to go and find some excitement there.

Masuk ofis Pijat, mewahnya ofis subhanallah. Best sungguh. Level exec mcm Pijat boleh dapat bilik sendiri, siap dengan sofa and ruang ofis yang besar mengalahkan bilik GM TM!! Hehe, alhamdulillah rezeki derang yang keje kat PTD ni murah :)

Tu jerlah kot nak citer, tapi mmg best ler experience semalam. It went so nice. Alhamdulillah :)

Ok, got meeting, wassalam.

Friday, August 27, 2004

Malaysia's Muslims have 'no way out'

Assalamualaikum wbt,

Dapat link tajuk ni from Akh Cpol..syukran yer :)

If you want to read the full article, please go to this site http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040819-111615-8930r.htm

Hmm..what was the article say about?

Malaysia's Muslims have 'no way out'. Bercerita ttg kekangan Muslim bertukar ke agama lain. Bercerita ttg usaha Christians to convert Muslims from Islam to Christian instead.

Dlm rencana ni, impression yg hendak dikatakan mengenai Islam adalah Islam is a rigid religion. Once you enter, you don't dream to convert to other religions, if yes, then you are open to public harassaments or legal action.

Government is said as bias to Islam and cannot afford to loose that image (i think because we had declared that we are Islamic country).

About 30 thousands Muslims managed to be converted by Christians, and about 100 Muslims estimated managed to be converted by monthly basis.

My comment:

This is one of misconceptions by the non-muslim towards Islam. But to blame them solely is not correct. We as Muslims have this responsibility to guide them in understanding Islam better. As a Muslim, of course we know that those who murtad shall be killed, BUT after other efforts to attract him back fail. Dah buat sedaya upaya tapi mmg tak boleh. And in our current constitutions applied in Malaysia, mmg tiada hukuman mati yang dikenakan for those yang murtad. Kita apply hukum manusia, hukum Allah tak digunakan. Biler people keep increasing to convert sbb tiada sekatan keras, apa yg kita boleh comment? Tgk jelah,kan? Belum tentu terasa marah atau sedih di hati by some of us, na'uzubillahi min zalik.

We have to put our eyes on this, very seriously. Government nikan, kita bukannya tak nak sokong dia, tapi cuba kalau derang ikut kaedah Islam dlm pelbagai perkara. Kalau ikut, takde ler PAS nak membangkang. Payah sgt derang ni nak compromise atas dasar agama. Hmm...

Nak kata Islam itu kejam biler sentuh isu people cannot convert to other religion, especially if we are thinking in terms of freedom to choose and make decision by each of us? Hmm..kalau secara brief assumption, mmg nampak kejam. Tapi kalau kita fikir betul-betul, Islam sebenarnya memelihara maslahahnya. Tidak mahu dinampak agama Islam ini umpama agama main-main yang people can simply come in and out sesuka hati mereka. Impaknya sungguh banyak, sekiranya kita tak ambil tindakan, mungkin akan ramai lagi yang terpedaya dan tertarik dengan promotion being advertised, direct or indirect by those yang sudah convert.

I'm not going to blame government for this. They have tried to conduct most of islamic activities and awareness, yet i believe there are more rigourous efforts to be poured in by them. Don't introduce activities to public which are contradict to Islamic teachings, and in the same time expand their efforts to attract public to get know more about Islam. Explain to them what are the reasons of why we could not do some stuff, adopt some approaches and have to be strict in some of our actions, so that they can understand us better.

These responsibilities do not lies on government only. We as individuals also must bear the said responsibilities. How many times we attempt to introduce Islam and its beauties to non Muslim? Counting on me personally, i would say none in a day. We are so comfortable living in our own scope and environment, which contradicts to what sahabah buat dulu di dalam menyampaikan ajaran Islam.

I know i will be accountable for this. I know that i will be asked in akhirah, why i'm saying on something that i did'nt do, and even worse for not having the courage to do it at all. But i'm very positive, Allah will help us if we are very determined to do what i've mentioned before. Pasang niat my friends, insya-Allah niat itu akan terlaksana jua. Pasang niat, and after that work hard towards it. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!

Wassalam.

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Alhamdulillah utk semuanya:)

Assalamualaikum wbt,

I'll try to rangkum apa jer yang terlintas in my mind sekarang ni...

Perkara2 yang menarik sepanjang minggu lepas:

1. Dapat result mid-term, alhamdulillah result ok, not as what i expected before. Waktu buat mid-term tu, mmg terpaksa akui bahawa main tulis jer apa yang terlintas kat kepala sbb nak kejar masa, betul ker tak betul jawapan allahu'alam. Balik mmg frust sket and terasa mcm down sbb baru first time buat mid-term, rasa mcm susah nak score (padahal soalan senang jek, cuma preparation tak cukup). Tapi alhamdulillah result was very2 ok, since 6/7 dr soalan dapat markah penuh and satu soalan bernilai 20 markah dapat zero. Soalan ni mmg ramai org dapat zero sbb salah apply concept. Nak kena score final pulak lepas ni. Chaiyo!!

2. Habis kelas, pergi program Fazrul "Systemic Thinking". Dia nak tubuhkan core group as pioneer di Malaysia yang bergerak aktif untuk promotion of this new way of thinking. I could not give my definite answer to commit or not since now i have tremendous things to be concentrated on. Not worth it at all kalau beriyer2 setuju nak commit but at the end there is no result to be produced. Tapi guys, if you are interested, let me know so that i can give your name to him. I think this core group will end up as kumpulan pemikir Islam, insya-Allah. That is what Fazrul had told me before ttg intention dia utk form satu group pemikir islam muda di Malaysia.


Bertemu dgn Mardhiah, koordinator program yang comel tapi punya semangat juang yang tinggi. Moga ramai lagi mujahidah sepertinya akan muncul insya-Allah.

3. Habis program Fazrul, pergi Convest UIA. Lepak UIA sampai kol 09.30 malam berjalan cari kamus Arab, tapi tak jumpa. Seronok berjalan dan berbual dgn adik Azrin yang terasa mmg berbaloi. Pastu pegi beli roti Arab 'syaksyaka'. Best sgt roti ni, harga seringgit satu. Tapi serious best :)

4. Semalam discussion group Accounting MBA. One of my group members missing in action sejak exam mid term hari tuh. Dedua exam dia tak sit. Dah call, dah bagi message, dah call no pejabat, semua tak berangkat. Kena kidnap kot. Tapi tak berkesempatan lagi nak ke office dia kat Menara Affin, dekat jer with my office. Ingat nak cari dia, nak tau dia actually dah drop courses ker apa. Actually dia mmg tak confident langsung dgn subject Accounting sbb dia budak IT. Tapi the rest of my group members (semua budak IT except me alone budak Accounting) boleh jer study sesama and buat sesama. Mungkin dia tak confident lagi rasanya, mmg nak kena buat Jejak Kasih ni. Risau juga kalau bebetul dia kena kidnap.

Liana, Azwan and Shahril discussed derang tak nak ambil kelas weekend next semester and they invited me to join them so that we can form group assignment sbb masing2 dah kenal. But i couldnt do that since i have kelas Arab to attend, and the most important thing is..starting this September or October, sure akan byk outstation. Takkan nak burn kelas sbb outstation kan? Sbb tu i decide for UIA sbb kelas dia during weekends and not during weekdays. Kalau nak weekdays, baik buat kat UM. Dekat sgt-sgt and boleh sekali dgn my younger sister yg buat Master kat UM jugak. Tapi derang best ah, semalam kitorang order for 2 Pizza sambil buat discussion. Sebelum ni kitorang buat discussion kat Menara Affin, tempat my geng yg missing in action tu. Tapi sbb dah tak dpt nak contact dia lagi, so we opted for MIDF kat Ampang Park. Ok jugaklah tempat dia.

5. Kelas Arab pada last Monday, i was having very terrible bad mood sbb terfikirkan my overall financial budget utk belajar MBA dan tabungan sampai 2005. Tetiba jek. Malas nak senyum and bercakap banyak. Tapi biler lepas habis solat maghrib, terfikir..mempelajari Arabic ni is one of my pleisure. Satu kegembiraan dan kepuasan yang i really appreciate and be grateful of. Kalau perkara yg memberikan kegembiraan pun menyebabkan i tak gembira, mana lagi nak cari kegembiraan tersebut. We can decide which emotions we want to be in. And that nite i chose to be happy, and alhamdulillah it did. Sepanjang kelas tu, i cakap dgn hati, apa yang perlu dirisaukan? Allah kan ada, minta jer semua yang kita hendak. Dia yang beri rezeki dan sebagainya. Tenang sikit hati :)

Apa lagi nak citer ek? Tu jer kot. Oh ya, ada ker GM suh i jadi webmaster FMD utk term Jan-Jun 2005? Giler ker haper. I bukannya terer buat web, Zahan lain ler. Walaupun both of us budak Accounting, tapi normal ler bebudak lelaki MMU terer nak buat2 web ni. I have to pair with Abg Is, nasib baik jugaklah. Keirul is in my team. Tak reti nanti, i suh ajer Keirul yg buat hehe. Isk, nak kena belajar byk bende pulak nak buat web ni. Pernah buat sekali during Matrics dulu guna Netscape Navigator. Malas aaaaaaaaaa. Tapi takpe, cabaran perlu disahut. Hehe.

Ok, nak bergerak ke Menara Telekom after this sbb ada videoconference with Dato' CE. Takde keje ah derang ni. Buat videoconference sengsorang tak leh? Hmm....

Wassalam :)


Thursday, August 19, 2004

Rindu yang terbang

Assalamualaikum wbt,

It was abt 2 weeks i had ignored this blog, due to my hectic schedule of life.

Last week, i was immersed into preparation for my mid term test. One whole week...and gosh, rasa mcm balik ke degree balik. Catch up sana sini sambil bekerja, baru terasa betapa leisurenya masa kita di degree level dulu, belajar jer, tak payah bekerja, tapi still result tak gempak hehe. Tapi ok ler kan, maintain above 3 pointer, not bad for an accounting student yg bz dgn SRC and usrah activities hehe , bebudak lain yang tak join sgt activities pun dpt result lebih kurang sama, so should be ok ler,kan? ;)

Cumanya, at certain times i wish i could repeat back my time di degree dulu, nak study hard and obtain a good result which i could proud of like what i've done during my SPM time. Ingat nak improve on my MBA time, tapi tgk my first mid-term exam, haiyaa..tak tau ler improve ker tidak. But i'm not the only one yang terkejut dgn apa yg kami baru hadapi ni,the rest pun sama and at this point of time yang kami tahu bahawa we could not use the old approach waktu kami kat degree dulu.

Takpe, target for final pulak, what have been done is done, nothing could revert us back to that time. What we have to do now is to move forward, think and revise what is wrong and how to adjust our approach. Some of my groupmates told me that they wake up at 4 o'clock to study. I wish i can do that, i'd try to adjust my sleep hour time so that i can wake up early, but until now tak dpt lagi. Paling awal i bangun was 5 o'clock heheh. Tu pun tak study, sambung tidur lagi ada heheh.

Sekali fikir,banyaknya perkara yang i perlu buat and hadapi. Kekadang rasa macam tak terurus. Tapi lebih bahagia begini daripada merasakan hidup stagnant and kosong. Dull and boring.

I love being active so that my mind will always working. I had enough last year when i didn't know what to do in FMD because there was lack of direction from my previous manager, and that tortured me spiritually. Felt so dumb, and i don't want to be in that situation again. Never.

Oh ya, yesterday i sent my beloved junior went back to US di KLIA. So nice to see her for the first time after about 3 years get to know each other virtually thru Internet. Get to know her parents too, and they were so ramah and pleasing. I gave her my most beloved novel that i won't trade it for anything, and to her i trade it for love and rememberance insya-Allah. Buku itu memberi semangat juang membela Islam, hope she able to dig out hikmah tersirat out of that book :)

Ya Allah, kurniakan rahmat dan bahagia kepada semua penulis yang mencoretkan mata pena mereka ke arah dakwah. Semoga setiap titik dakwat menjadi saksi usaha mereka menjulang agama tercinta ini.

Wassalam.

~Rindu yang terbang bersama pesawat ke US semalam :) ~

Friday, August 06, 2004

Tak kenal maka tak cinta

Assalamualaikum wbt,

Guys, I have to tell you..

PENATNYA jadi ibu bekerja. Serious. I'm talking from my own experience for catering Kak Lin's baby yesterday. I was only jaga him from 6 p.m to 12.30 a.m. And gosh, it was all tiring!!

Can you imagine, handling the baby for 1 hour kat shopping complex semalam sbb temankan Kak Lin ambil cincin yang ditempah, pastu beli diapers. Huh, pengalaman mendukung baby for 1 hour itu....CUKUP MEMENATKAN! Kalau ler hari-hari dukung baby macam tu, mau patah pinggang dibuatnya :D

Pastu, biler balik nak bersiap ke rumah Kak Fari untuk usrah, time nak gosok tudung tu Anas menangis sbb dia ni jenis tak boleh nak tinggal sengsorang lelama sgt. Kak Lin pulak sdg solat. Apa lagi, kena ler mendukung Anas sambil menggosok tudung. Cuba bayangkan satu tangan dukung baby, satu tangan gosok and alter kedudukan tudung. Pengsan mcm ni kalau hari-hari camnih. Ntah camner ler Kak Lin handle personal life dia. Pernah gaklah memasak sambil dukung Anas, tu lagi bahaya sbb takut minyak terpercik kat baby. Mmg tabik springlaa kat working mothers ni. Serious respect. If me, tak tau ler apa citernya nanti. Hopefully dipermudahkan ;)

Ok, semalam Kak Fari bagi pengisian mengenai surah Al-'Alaq.

Iqra' bismi Rabbik allazhi kholaq'. Bacalah dengan nama TuhanMu yang menciptakan.

Pengisian lebih kepada kepentingan mencari ilmu. Dihuraikan ayat 1 sehingga 5.

Turutan secara ringkas:

1. Iqra' = Kalimah suruhan membaca, dedifinasikan sbg mengkaji.

2. Bismi Rabbik allazhi kholaq' - Allah memperkenalkan diriNya melalui sifat (Yang Menciptakan)

3. Kholaq al insaana fi 'alaq. (Pembentukan manusia drpd segumpal darah) - tanda kekuasaan Allah. Dikaitkan juga contribution of cabang ilmu selain pure cabang agama e.g science, accounting etc. Kesemua cabang ilmu apabila dikaji dan dikembangkan serta dianalisis mengikut acuan dan bermotifkan Allah dan Islam akan diterima Allah dan akan dinaungi malaikat serta didoakan oleh makhluk. (Menjelaskan salah faham bahawa hanya ilmu agama shj yg penting, ilmu teknologi, science dan sebagainya tidak)

4. Iqra' wa rabbuk al akram - Akram di sini diterjemahkan sebagai Pemurah. Diterangkan ttg kepentingan membuat sesuatu tanpa mengharapkan balasan (ikhlas). Sukar hendak membentuk ikhlas ni,kan? ;)

5. Allazhi 'allama bil qalam - Yang Mengajarkan manusia dengan perantaraan kalam/pena. Kebiasaan kita sering menggunakan lidah di dalam berbicara dan berdakwah. Namun kadang-kadang hilang dan tak dpt nak dipelajari oleh manusia secara collective, malah boleh menyebabkan salah faham pula apabila mesej tidak difahami secara keseluruhannya. Dgn penulisan, insya-Allah lebih ramai yang membaca dan ilmu itu lebih kekal disimpan. Kalau ada kesempatan, disarankan kita untuk menulis (tak kira ler blog ker, diary ker, buku ker..sbg catatan)


6. 'Allama al-insana ma lam ya'lam - Yang mengajarkan manusia perkara yang tidak diketahuinya. Satu soalan dilontarkan kepada kami semalam " Sekiranya kamu terpilih oleh Allah menjadi hamba yang dekat dgnNya, apakah ilmu yang kamu hendak Dia ajarkan?" Ada yang jawab Al-Quran, ada yang jawab hadith, for me i replied i want to know His secrets and hikmah why He creates this and that, why He arrange makhluq for this and that.

And the answer is....

Kak Fari explain, Nabi Adam adalah makhluk yang dekat dgn Allah, dan apakah yang Allah ajar kepada baginda? Nama-nama benda. Maka sebaik-baik ilmu ialah mempelajari benda dan aplikasinya. Di sini kepentingan ilmu dan aplikasi diterangkan kembali. Rasulullah juga pernah minta diterangkan ttg hakikat Roh namun Allah menjawab semua pengetahuan mengenai roh adalah di sisiNya. Begitu juga dgn kematian dan hari kiamat. Maka dgn secara tidak langsung, my request will not be entertained by Allah, Kak Fari said hehe.

Last point, she emphasized on our potential contribution to masyarakat. We must contribute something, think for something that will be beneficial to community of Islam dan umumnya. And always move forward supaya tiada ruang bagi orang untuk memperlekehkan Islam dgn perangai, kelakuan dan prinsip kita yang tidak menggambarkan bahawa Islam itu syumul dan mengajak kepada kemajuan sahsiah, ilmu dan peradaban.

So basically inilah topik usrah kami semalam. Ilmu dan kepentingannya.

Kita selalu baca Quran, tapi cukupkah sekadar membaca dan mengetahui terjemahannya? Biler lagi mahu memahaminya?

Kalam Allah itu lengkap dgn segala hukum (5% drpd isi keseluruhan menyentuh ttg hukum hakam), dan 95% lagi menyentuh ttg kisah-kisah silam dan penerangan sifat Allah(ada lagi yg lain, tapi tak ingat, please forgive me). Melalui Al-Furqan ini, Allah memperkenalkan diriNya, maka kalau kita tak faham Al Quran, mcm mana nak kenal Allah, and seterusnya mcm mana nak cinta padaNya?

~ Tak kenal maka tak cinta~

Wassalam.