tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63840927569465264502024-03-13T12:46:05.691+08:00Seek for the LIGHTSeek The LightAmin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-31056559825153261812012-01-01T10:35:00.002+08:002012-01-01T10:37:02.056+08:00Goodbye my blog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/040/b/1/Goodbye_by_Dark_Scythe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/040/b/1/Goodbye_by_Dark_Scythe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Assalamualaikum.<br />
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Today, I want to say something sad. Well, I'm no longer going to update this blog.<br />
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Sad isn't it? Not really.. Hee<br />
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I'm writing on a new medium which is <a href="http://langitilahi.com/">http://langitilahi.com/</a><br />
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I update one article per week on this website. English Column yaw!<br />
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I'll also share new short stories and poems here. <br />
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May Allah bless!Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-63470712845718782212011-08-19T10:18:00.002+08:002011-08-19T10:20:03.596+08:00English Column: How’s your Ramadan?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6384092756946526450&postID=6347071284571878221" name="top"></a></div><div align="center" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6081/6058008812_90771c4cf4_b.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone" height="265" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/08/6058008812_90771c4cf4_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">“Don’t lose hope, still have time”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Picture by <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplyshutterbug/">Shattered Infinity</a><br />
</b>http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplyshutterbug/5349882579/in/photostream/</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The very question that whenever people asks us, we cannot answer. Even if we answered it, the answer we replied is not an honest answer.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is the question then? The question sounds like this “How’s your Ramadan?”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I do not know what will you answer, but for me, whenever anyone posts me that question, I’ll answer between two answers. Answer number one will be a long silence and a nod in the head whereas answer number two will be “Ok laa…” (in Manglish.)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you can answer like this “My Ramadan is great!” I’ll give you my respect of honour because that answer indicates that you have fulfilled what is asked in this hadith:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>“Whoever prayed at night in it (the month of Ramadan) out of sincere Faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven.”</i> <a href="http://langitilahi.com/4029/english-column-hows-your-ramadan/#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a></div><div align="center" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is asked in the hadith above? Two things; one, you have prayed at night of Ramadan with full of sincerity only for Allah and two, you have been hoping like mad for Allah to shower His reward for you.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">By saying “My Ramadan is great!”, from my point of view, you are actually saying that “my sins have been forgiven.”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is not that I cannot answer it; it is because I don’t have the guts to say “My Ramadan is great!” I’m simply just a coward to say it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Judging from how I treat Ramadan until today that is the 18<sup>th</sup> of Ramadan, I surely know that Allah has not forgiven my sins.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For today’s article, let us ponder, “Do you think Allah has forgiven our SINS?”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-29338810679798897792011-08-12T23:57:00.001+08:002011-08-12T23:58:17.027+08:00Help me! I’m slowing down!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6384092756946526450&postID=2933881067979889779" name="top"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Have you ever experienced you set your alarm clock at full volume for Sahuur, but you end up waking up when the light of dawn (or even dhuha) is shining in your eyes and the feeling of depression and hunger that you just missed your only appetite of the day? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Can you still remember the moment when you’re fasting; you were so thirsty and hungry and tired that you were so disturbed, intimidated and annoyed by the presence of non-fasting people eating with full of pleasure in front of your eyes? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Can you remember again the time when you spent all day long thinking of what you are going to eat for iftar and then after iftar you felt bad because you missed a day of rewards? I am sure that you remember the sinking feeling when you went back to sleep after Subuh, and woke up late for work/class in the mode of not-in-the-mood for anything plus being lectured by your mom for wasting half of the day? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Have you ever felt so energetic for the first ten days of Ramadan you could finish more than 10 juz of the Quran but towards the middle and end of Ramadan, you can’t continue on reciting and you just don’t know why? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Answer these questions honestly, reply “ T_T “ for yes and “ ^_^ “ for no. No need to answer it to me. Answer it in your heart and let it be a little secret between you and Him. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’m not being all great here, frankly, this is what I’m feeling and experiencing this very instant as we approach the 12th of Ramadan. “Help me! I’m slowing down!” Are you experiencing the same as me, love?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-86167868927036899152011-08-06T09:00:00.002+08:002011-08-06T09:03:44.903+08:00English Column: Our hopes in Ramadan<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6384092756946526450&postID=8616786892703689915" name="top"></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs28/i/2008/075/1/7/White_Dove_by_JosCos.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="256" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/08/White_Dove_by_JosCos.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;">“My hope is to be free from SINS!”</div>Picture by<span style="font-size: medium;"> <small><small> ~<a href="http://joscos.deviantart.com/">JosCos of deviantart.com</a></small></small></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’ll tell you the truth about Ramadan. What is the truth? Ramadan is our visitors. Not an ordinary visitor but VVVIP. Ramadan is a visitor that brings a lot of fortunes. But the question is:</div><ol style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li>How do we treat Ramadan?</li>
<li>It is already day five, have we treated it wholeheartedly?</li>
</ol><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let us look back the hadith that is often repeated every year again and again, time and again:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><i>“Whoever fasted the month of Ramadan out of sincere Faith (i.e. belief) and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his past sins will be forgiven, and whoever stood for the prayers in the night of Qadr out of sincere Faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven .”<a href="http://langitilahi.com/3854/english-column-our-hopes-in-ramadan/#_ftn1" title=""><b>[1]</b></a></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here, the hadith is translated as “<i>hoping for a reward from Allah” </i>for the word <i>“ihtisaba”. </i>But the literal translation of “ihtisaba” is not “<i>hoping for a reward from Allah” </i>but is “counting.”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What does it mean by “counting”? What are you “counting”? The mathematical equations that you are “counting” are how you treat Ramadan.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="more-3854"></span><b>Hadith ihtisaba</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are several narrations that narrates the hadith on ‘ihtisaba’, I’ll list three of them.<br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-6526453152534754872011-07-29T09:28:00.001+08:002011-07-29T09:29:36.128+08:00Let’s get ready to rumble!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6384092756946526450&postID=652645315253475487" name="top"></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5986413572_9abb987bbe_b.jpg"><img alt="" height="640" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/07/5986413572_9abb987bbe_b.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Let’s get ready to rumble!<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While browsing through my old 4310 Acer notebook, I saw a picture of the Musolla of my ex-high school, MATRI. Then I looked at my desk calendar. Today is 27 Syaaban and I am 3 days away from Ramadan. Will I manage to enter the doors of Ramadan? Last year, our beloved Ustaz Asri of Rabbani passed away before entering Ramadan. What about me? I don’t know. I just don’t know.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Gazing at the picture brings me unforgettable memories when I was in high school. It has been almost four years since I’ve finished my studies at that school near the woods. I can assure myself, to me, MATRI is the best place to celebrate the festival of deeds during Ramadan. Comparing the places I’ve been in my life, no place can challenge the beauty of the people nurturing Ramadan. No place, not even IIUM Gombak.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In MATRI, from morning to midnight, the Musolla was so full of students reciting and praying. After Terawih prayer, many circles, big and small ones was making Tadarus Al-Quran. Finishing the Quran more than 3 times in one month was a norm in MATRI. But my past Ramadan, finishing it once was the maximum number for me and I was among the minorities. I feel peace and tranquillity seeing the students competing with each other and to some extend making contests to win who finishes the Quran first. Huh! Old memories.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In that picture, there was a picture of my former senior and former xifu, Ustaz Muhtad. A great guy who finished his studies in University Al-Azhar, Dumyati, Mesir. He was staff of MATRI teaching Arabic. He was also the warden of Huffaz Dormitory at that time.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I sunk deep in my thoughts. A memory took place five years ago went rolling my head.<br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-16870699573835752612011-07-22T12:23:00.000+08:002011-07-22T12:23:03.070+08:00English Column: Lose Yourself in Ramadan<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="" name="top"></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6003/5963068744_fd4cb0f29f_b.jpg"><img alt="" height="640" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/07/5963068744_fd4cb0f29f_b1.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Want to understand nature? Lose yourself in it.<br />
Picture by Umar Aziz at DQ lake</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Ramadan is magic. It can change my whole life in an instance” says a friend of mine to me. ‘Magic’ he says. Nice choosing of words yeah. Ramadan is ‘magic’ only for those who nurture and the thirst of 11 months waiting is only quenched upon Ramadan’s arrival. You will never wait for it to come to your door step and knock on your door, but your door is already open and you’re more than ready to welcome it with open arms. Ramadan is magic because of the Quran.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="more-3604"></span><strong>The majestic Quran and the month of Ramadan</strong></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><strong> </strong>The Quran loves Ramadan and Ramadan loves the Quran. The two of them are beloved friends, no, they are ‘lovers’. Lets understand why the Quran is important first then what it has to do with the Quran in Ramdan. Allah has proven their ‘love’ to each other in the Quran:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><em>“The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the new moon of] the month, let him fast it; and whoever is ill or on a journey – then an equal number of other days. Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship and [wants] for you to complete the period and to glorify Allah for that [to] which He has guided you; and perhaps you will be grateful.” </em>(Al-Baqarah: 185)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For those who read the Quran while fasts combines two powerful entities, Ramadan and the glorious Quran. So, those persons therefore will live this holy month with the Noble book and following what Allah has said. What Allah has said? The Quran is a reflection and reminder to us:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“<em>[This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that they might reflect upon its verses and that those of understanding would be reminded.”</em> (Sad: 29)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But why sometimes or most of the time we read the Quran but we feel nothing? Let’s reflect from this verse:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><em>“Then do they not reflect upon the Qur’an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts?” </em>(Muhammad: 24)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is either between we don’t understand the message or we haven’t at all tried to understand. The other possibility is Allah does not want us to understand, that is the most feared thing in life. The thing ‘lack’ in our hearts is preventing ‘light’ from coming into our hearts. Erase that ‘lacks’ and ‘light’ will enter.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div>“Is it wrong to be in a relationship?”<br />
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“It is Allah who made us in love, not us; are we to be blamed?”<br />
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“If I don’t have an intimate relationship with her, how will I know my future wife?”<br />
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These are typical answers claimed by many people as an excuse to legalize their so called love out of the wedlock. Sadly, majority of us are implementing it.<br />
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These excuses are left unanswered. The truth is still hidden from them. Whether being in a relationship out of the wedlock is <i>haram</i> or <i>halal</i>? Who is going to make them understand that what they are doing is wrong? Their parents? Friends?<br />
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For those who are close with the Quran and Sunnah, you are so close to the truth. But for those who favour ‘scholarly’ opinions from entertainment magazines, romance movies or music videos, you are so deep in the darkness of ignorance.<br />
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The Quran and Sunnah are two substances for us to shape our personality, route map for our life’s road journey and as a shield detaining ourselves from being influenced by the tempting and seducing worldly pleasures. <i>“I leave behind me two things, the QURAN and my example, the SUNNAH and if you follow these you will never go astray”</i> (Narrated by Imam Malik)<br />
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But why, with the Quran and Sunnah present alongside our life, we still claim there is a Love Greater that Allah’s love? Who is to be blamed? Is it the Quran and Sunnah or ourselves?<br />
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<a href="http://langitilahi.com/3455/a-love-greater-than-allah%E2%80%99s-love/">Click here to read more ^_^ </a>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-73532142714805430212011-07-12T12:05:00.000+08:002011-07-12T12:05:02.366+08:00Marriage is mirage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/270331_232952400058571_100000314380464_782645_6539944_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/270331_232952400058571_100000314380464_782645_6539944_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class=""><span class="caption">"You and I are different" picture by jeyminems of deviantart.com</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class=""><span class="caption"> </span></span> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Marriage is the most awaited moment,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">many people switch to fast forward for that particular moment.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Marriage is the proof of love between two people,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">no matter how they look, crossed eyes or full of pimples.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Love does make the world go round,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">and love certainly heals all wounds.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">But I, I do not feel happy for this so called marriage,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">to me marriage is a mirage.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I'm too scared for that moment to come,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I'm too chicken to be called a husband or a father.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">To be honest, I can't even afford my life,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">so what will I give to my future wife?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">It is difficult, so difficult to maintain another life besides my own,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I better of living alone.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If Allah wills, I wanna be a bachelor all my life.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If you wanna say I'm a coward young man, then so be it!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I am coward!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">For my future wife, I do not know when will I be ready,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">do you think you can still wait for me?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-43357420181975004892011-07-01T08:18:00.000+08:002011-07-01T08:18:48.778+08:00TAQWA: The "Boring" Weekly Call<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-odDgyovPwEs/Tg0SE3k0acI/AAAAAAAAAO8/AAi07_Xv3P8/s1600/Missed_Call_by_04young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-odDgyovPwEs/Tg0SE3k0acI/AAAAAAAAAO8/AAi07_Xv3P8/s640/Missed_Call_by_04young.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “See what happens when we miss an important call”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Picture by *<a href="http://04young.deviantart.com/">04young</a> of Deviantart.com</span></h1><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FRIDAY is the most exhausting day of the week. Even though I do not have classes on this day, sleeping half a day will always be my top priority. Study? Rarely. Breakfast?Hardly any. Just sleep and sleep. Exhausted I guess.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When the clock strikes 1 pm, I would get ready for prayer, Friday prayer of course. Walk to the IIUM Masjid and wait for the first azan. After an interval for about 10 minutes, the <em>khatib </em>gives <em>salaam</em> and then the second azan is heard.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The azans normally sounds beautiful like a lullaby making the Friday <em>jamaah </em>feel so sleepy. When the azan is over, the <em>khatib </em>starts his <em>khutbah. </em>As the <em>khatib </em>starts with:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><em>“O you who have believed, <strong>fear Allah</strong> as He should be <strong>feared</strong> and do not die except as Muslims [in submission to Him].” (Ali-Imran: 102)</em></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I witness in front of my eyes, most of the guys, head down! Their head goes up and down not indicating that they understand what the <em>khatib </em>is saying, but because they doze off to dreamland!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why are they sleeping? Why are we (men) dozing off? If the purpose of Friday prayer is a place for men to ‘rest’ then, sleeping will be quite acceptable.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But Friday prayer is a weekly call for TAQWA. Is this call a ‘boring’ call?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-12498241630697749822011-06-25T13:16:00.000+08:002011-06-25T13:16:41.127+08:00Have you swallowed a dictionary?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dn6IcYkYZh8/TgVvHoGWM-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/cTtc0IdxRF8/s1600/3110774511_fa6ddf4fb8_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dn6IcYkYZh8/TgVvHoGWM-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/cTtc0IdxRF8/s400/3110774511_fa6ddf4fb8_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If you can’t swallow it whole then eat it!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Picture by Lala (Shady Lane Studios) of flickr.com </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> “If you have one thousand words in your head, then you will have no difficulty in speaking Arabic” my father said as he taught one of his classes. I was just there to see him teach. It wasn’t my class actually, my father is teaching a senior class in Sekolah Agama Taman Sri Pulai. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of my weakest subject was Arabic language, I can’t even write properly, what more if I speak Arabic then? It’ll definitely sound like trash. But what he said just now made me feel that he is challenging me. The challenge was to speak Arabic fluently. Do I dare to speak Arabic? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> So I grew up still I can’t master Arabic that good but at least I can speak or sometimes debate in Arabic language. I tried to apply what my father said by memorizing all the words I can. I listened to lectures and tried by very best to use the language. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> In my own words, I came out with a solution for a person to excel in language; the solution is to ask yourself “Have you swallowed a dictionary?” (Thanks to my dad of course)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-35752665355221764732011-06-19T13:28:00.000+08:002011-06-19T13:28:36.375+08:00The battle to heaven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gXzSzQ5eyI8/TfydwDdhbJI/AAAAAAAAA2A/Ux5tuR_UZUA/s1600/Comp+3_00000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pjjLPAv--ts/TfydxnMSM8I/AAAAAAAAA2I/gnrllel2_BI/s1600/1_00000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pjjLPAv--ts/TfydxnMSM8I/AAAAAAAAA2I/gnrllel2_BI/s400/1_00000.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gXzSzQ5eyI8/TfydwDdhbJI/AAAAAAAAA2A/Ux5tuR_UZUA/s1600/Comp+3_00000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gXzSzQ5eyI8/TfydwDdhbJI/AAAAAAAAA2A/Ux5tuR_UZUA/s400/Comp+3_00000.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Look at the picture, what do you see?<br />
If you see only twigs that you’re not looking properly!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I see twigs yes but I can see so much more!<br />
I see a ‘battle to heaven’ and what I’m looking for!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If twigs are strong and lively,<br />
will dead leaves grow sadly?</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">When the twigs are dry,<br />
the leaves clinging onto it cannot cry.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">They are crying alright,<br />
but crying without tears all day and night.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Dry waterless as the dead twig,<br />
useless like people who talk big.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I don’t want my life to be in drought!<br />
Because my heart will be in doubt!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I want my life to be full of watery full of water,<br />
Water is a source of life for me to treasure.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This is the battle to heaven!<br />
We do not want our life to be rotten!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If I am before Allah, rotten!<br />
I do not know whether I will win this battle to heaven!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">But when I try my best to attain His <i>Rahmah</i>!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I will enter <i>Jannah</i>!</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">“One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching”,<br />
I will, because on that day, I will enter heaven!</span></strong></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-55845278430042014992011-06-17T22:44:00.000+08:002011-06-17T22:44:59.558+08:00Bachelor of Taqwa from University of Ramadan<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/17/bachelor-of-taqwa-from-university-of-ramadan/careful_by_theforlorn/" rel="attachment wp-att-2986"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2986" height="283" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/06/Careful_by_theForlorn.jpg" title="Careful_by_theForlorn" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">“That is Taqwa!” Picture by ~theForlorn of deviantART.com</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the tenth of <em>Eidul Fitr</em>, two old friends decided to meet each other. They wanted their special meeting to be at a special place, which is at their previous high school. It’s kind of killing two birds with one stone, missing a buddy and missing a school. With the combination of both, it brings back old unforgettable memories.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So they meet up at the <em>musolla </em>of the school.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Assalamualaikum <em>broer</em>!” says Ameer to his old friend. “Long time no see. How have you been?”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The two of them hugged each other.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Waalaikumussalam!” answered Ali “Yeah, it has been some time. I’ve been good.”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The both of them had a chit-chat over some old stories. Then Ameer asked Ali a question “You just graduated right from IIUM? What was your bachelor? Bachelor of English was it?”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Me? Bachelor of English? No. That was a long time ago. Now I have a bachelor of Taqwa” said Ali confidently.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Bachelor of Taqwa? From what university?” Ameer confused.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“From University of Ramadan” says Ali.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/17/bachelor-of-taqwa-from-university-of-ramadan/#more-2985">Click here for more of this post ^_^ </a></div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-54543069783736217182011-06-11T07:51:00.000+08:002011-06-11T07:51:35.362+08:00This is your final Ramadan!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/10/this-is-your-final-ramadan/lightning/" rel="attachment wp-att-2757"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2757" height="265" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/06/lightning.jpg" title="lightning" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">“Do we have a second chance?<br />
Picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelend/">D.Jelen</a> of flickr.com<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelend/"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Ameen! <em>Sahur </em>time! Come down, let’s eat” says mama to me. Cold it was at that time approximately 1 hour and a half before <em>Subuh</em>. There I sat in my <em>Sajadah</em>, reciting some <em>Dzkir</em>, just finished two <em>rakaah</em> of <em>Tahjud</em>, but looking forward for more.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I wasn’t really hungry but I was thirsty, thirsty for my ‘date’ with Allah. I need to quench that thirst, if not I will regret my life not able to capture that instant. <em>Ramadan</em> comes only once a year and there should not be a moment to be lost.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Thanks mama, I’ll be down in 40 minutes” I responded half shouting.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Okay” she replied. My little brother was with her. She has company so I don’t have to worry.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The next <em>prayer </em>I’m about to perform is <em>Solah Taubah.</em> It was dark. I love praying in a dark environment, it gives me the <em>khusu’ </em>in my prayer. It also centers my attention to only Allah and me alone in that darkness. It really symbolizes a ‘date’ of two lovers. This is the darkness that brings me to light. So I stood up back again facing my Lord in that darkness.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I said my <em>lafzu niyyah</em> before prayer. Then I made my <em>takbir ratul Ihram</em>, at that moment, my whole body feel so cold, as cold like the South Pole. So cold. As if someone is watching me from behind. I tried to ignore that feeling. I kept continuing my prayer.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As I went on, losing myself in prayer, my body reached under zero temperature. So very cold. I really felt like a dark figure is behind me. Like that figure or someone is trying to do something to me. “Why not just strike me now?” my heart says.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do you know the figure who I felt was standing behind me? It was like <em>Malikul Maut. </em>I really really thought that it was my time to go. I will leave this world. I will leave my mother without me eating <em>Sahur </em>together. Death will not be delayed not even a single split second.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Why not just strike me now?” What am I thinking? Am I ready to meet Allah? I’m speaking as if I’m ‘fit’ and ‘ready’ to go. No no! I’m still not ready; I don’t even know when I will be ready. Please Allah! Don’t take me now. I don’t want this to be my final <em>Ramadan</em>!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/10/this-is-your-final-ramadan/#more-2756">Click here for more ^_^</a> </div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-3295920347016476672011-06-03T20:33:00.002+08:002011-06-03T20:34:02.121+08:00The sky is cryin', are you?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/03/the-sky-is-cryin-are-you/sky/" rel="attachment wp-att-2532"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2532" height="640" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/06/Sky1.jpg" title="Sky" width="424" /></a><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>The sky is cryin’, are you?<br />
</b><i>Picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/masterpiecestudios/3297654562/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Masterpiecestudios</a> <i>of flickr.com a.k.a my big bro</i></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Why can’t I cry?” I said to myself on the <i>sajadah</i>, longing for those tiny droplets to run free from my eyes. But it seems impossible to do so, just impossible. I’ve tried but it’s still not working.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Why? Why it is so hard?” I stood up from where I sat and went to the mirror to see myself. Through the reflection of the mirror I see the body Allah has borrowed for me. I tried again crying in front of the mirror wanting to witness myself crying. But no. No physical change. No sad face. No heart pumping hard. No nothing. Just my old stiff face full of ignorance. 22 years of ignorance? Maybe. It freaks me out becoming the owner of a dark rusty heart.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why am I craving so much for just crying? Isn’t crying a sign of weakness? Because only women cry and men don’t? If men cry they are not macho anymore? No no no!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have a strong desire to cry because crying makes me strong.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/06/03/the-sky-is-cryin-are-you/">To read more, click here ^_^</a> </div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-737754569077729042011-05-27T09:31:00.001+08:002011-05-27T09:32:14.086+08:00Just say "I don't know" will ya?<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/27/just-say-i-dont-know-will-ya/i-dont-know/" rel="attachment wp-att-2425"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2425" height="640" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/05/I-dont-know.jpg" title="I don't know" width="426" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just say “I don’t know” will ya?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads…..<br />
Picture by </i><i><a href="http://nonalita.blogspot.com/">Bônita²- Miss Nonalita </a> of flickr.com</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> </i><i> </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once upon a time there was a guy who traveled thousands of miles from Morocco to Madinah. This hell of a journey was only to accomplish one mission that is to meet Imam Malik and to ask and discuss some questions</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These unanswered questions were imposed by the people of Morocco to the great, well known, renowned Imam al-Madinah that is Imam Malik. That guy was just a representative whose journey to Madinah was weeks and months</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As he reached Madinah, the first station he went was to attend a program conducted by Imam Malik. In the gathering, that guy asked the unanswered questions to Imam Malik in front of many others. But sadly Imam Malik replied back <i>“I don’t know. That problem has never risen so far in our place. Our elders have never taught us about that. Please go home tomorrow.”</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span id="more-2424"></span>The next day, before he went off to Morocco, that guy came back to Imam Malik with his donkey that was his medium of transportation. He asked again Imam Malik: <i>“O Imam, how’s my question last night?” </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Imam Malik answered: <i>“I still do not know the answer.”</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That guy did not want to go back empty handed, he insists: <i>“O Abu Abdillah, these are issues raised by my people in Morocco. They say that there’s no person wiser and more intelligent in the world than Imam Malik. What am I suppose to report to them after this?” </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once again Imam Malik answers: <i>“When you have returned to your hometown, tell them that Imam Malik do not know”</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i></i>For more of this post, please visit <a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/27/just-say-i-dont-know-will-ya/#more-2424">Langit Ilahi ^_^</a></div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-36130437009205579102011-05-20T11:15:00.000+08:002011-05-20T11:15:26.102+08:00Best in the world<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/20/best-in-the-world/key_to_my_soul____by_endrju100/" rel="attachment wp-att-2332"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2332 aligncenter" height="285" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/05/Key_to_my_soul____by_endrju100.jpg" title="Key_to_my_soul____by_endrju100" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> 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<mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} --></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><!--[endif] --></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“Find the key…” Picture by by ~<a href="http://endrju100.deviantart.com/"><span style="color: blue;">endrju100</span></a></span></em></h1><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Everyone has a story to tell, so do I. My story is about persons who took my hand and showed me the path, right and left, when I was confused in a life full of mazes. They are not my Xifu, not my Sensei but they are my <em>Murabbi(s)</em>. ß plural of <em>Murabbi</em> , converted to English (my English \^_^/ ) </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><em>Murabbi</em>… yeah…</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">From the day I learnt this word till the moment I’m breathing, as far as I know, it seems that no other word in any other language can give the same powerful meaning as the word <em>Murabbi. </em>If you don’t believe me then, go make a little research.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, the word <em>Murabbi </em>can be translated as the word ‘Teacher’ or ‘Guru’. And from the word teacher comes the day when we celebrate “Teacher’s day” or “Hari Guru” that is on 16<sup>th</sup> of May every year. You know, if I have the power (“If ade power la, soon…” – in Manglish), I’ll change this celebration into “<em>Murabbi Day”</em> or “<em>Hari Murabbi” </em>and I do not care if people will say it language pollution.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For more of this post, please visit <a href="http://langitilahi.com/bahagian/english-column/">Langit Ilahi ^_^ </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-72704174556784493132011-05-16T13:42:00.002+08:002011-05-16T13:43:53.976+08:00I don't know, I just don't know<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3196854522_afe23641f7_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3196854522_afe23641f7_o.jpg" width="425" /></a></span></div><span class="messageBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"Death is a beautiful Sunset"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/unitopia/" style="color: #0063dc; text-decoration: none;">Unitopia</a></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>One death after another,</i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="messageBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i></i></span></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="messageBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>makes me shiver.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="messageBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When it is my last breath,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">will I be ready for my death?</span></i></div><span class="text_exposed_show"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Before Allah, will everything go cool?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Or will I become a fool?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I don't know, </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just don't know.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">*One death again after Ustaz Dahlan, Ummi Halimaton, Sir Yahya & Sir Ghazali, My former teacher, Ustaz Yasamsuri passed away at 4.20am this morning. He used to teach me Usul Fiqh. He is a great teacher. Even his salary is paid by University of Madinah. Other people are celebrating teachers day with joy, but I, with full of tears. His DEATH is for us to remember this day. </span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></span></span></span></h6>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-38093165117577147062011-05-14T10:15:00.000+08:002011-05-14T10:15:26.610+08:00Leaving our LOVE behind....<div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/13/leaving-our-love-behind/goodbye_my_lover_by_alephunky/" mce_href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/13/leaving-our-love-behind/goodbye_my_lover_by_alephunky/" rel="attachment wp-att-2227"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2227" height="509" mce_src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/05/Goodbye_my_lover_by_Alephunky.jpg" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/05/Goodbye_my_lover_by_Alephunky.jpg" title="Goodbye_my_lover_by_Alephunky" width="500" /></a></div><div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span mce_style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">“I love y..” Picture by</span></b><span mce_style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> ~<a href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/" mce_href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/">Alephunky</a> <b>of flickr.com</b></span><span mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/" mce_href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/"></a></span><a href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/" mce_href="http://alephunky.deviantart.com/"><span mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></a></div><div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When two hearts are in love, being apart is hell for them. They just want to be together forever and never be apart from each other. Every moment is valuable. If it is possible, they want to live in a place where there’s no timeline whatsoever. They just want to freeze time and be together. If they have wings, they want to fly together to the skies.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="mceWPmore mceItemNoResize" mce_src="http://langitilahi.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" src="http://langitilahi.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" title="More..." />This is the same with us and our sins. We surely LOVE doing our SINS. We are in love with our sins. At first, we will feel some guilt in our hearts but as time flies, when it is at its peak, we will feel nothing at all, no guilt at all. We are drowned in the sea of sins until we are able to ‘breath’ in it. We are able to bear with it until we feel uncomfortable, unease a day without it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before I go on, I want you to imagine you doing your sins this very moment. Imagine, remember back, and feel that temptation of you doing your sins, how does it feel? Good right? And now when you are enjoying your sins, someone pours oil onto your body and lit up the fire. Your body is on FIRE! Your body is burning like hell! You are witnessing your hand burning with fire. The pains of fire eating up your skin slowly until your hands are left with only bones. It hurts right?This is only the heat that exists on earth, what about the wrath of Al-Mighty Allah in Hell then?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So now, at this very moment your reading this, I want to dare you, let us our LOVE behind!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For more of this post, pleas visit <a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/13/leaving-our-love-behind/">Langit Ilahi ^_^ </a></div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-76539797511382789882011-05-12T15:35:00.000+08:002011-05-13T21:31:24.082+08:00I am waiting for you...<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3583/3361013855_3cfb7dfb64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="347" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3583/3361013855_3cfb7dfb64.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">"I'm waiting for you"</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="messageBody" style="font-weight: normal;">Picture by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thangdb/" style="color: #0063dc; text-decoration: none;">LittlePrince83</a> of flickr.com</span></span></div></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I waited for that person to come…</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I waited for that person to knock my door…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I waited and waited endlessly…</span></i></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>Countless hours passed but still no sign…</i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="text_exposed_show">No one came, no footsteps were heard… </span></i></span></div><span class="messageBody"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="text_exposed_show">Quiet and silent… </span></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></div><i style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="text_exposed_show">“When will that time come? When will that person come?” I asked myself… </span></i></span></div><span class="text_exposed_show"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="text_exposed_show">I'm still waiting...for you...</span></i></span><br />
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</span></i></span></div></span></i></span></span></span></h6>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-84760564495977811732011-05-08T19:46:00.000+08:002011-05-08T19:46:08.249+08:00I don’t want your smile to fade away!<div style="text-align: center;"><i></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/06/i-don%e2%80%99t-want-your-smile-to-fade-away/the_way_we_were_by_mebilia-d3fmx7g/" rel="attachment wp-att-2179"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2179" height="400" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/05/the_way_we_were_by_mebilia-d3fmx7g.jpg" title="the_way_we_were_by_mebilia-d3fmx7g" width="400" /></a></i></div><h1 style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://mebilia.deviantart.com/art/The-Way-We-Were-207662236">The Way We Were</a> <small><br />
Picture by *<a href="http://mebilia.deviantart.com/">mebilia</a></small></span></h1></span></div></h1><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Dear my lovely mama,</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, I have so many things to share, so many things to say, so many things to ask. We always discuss until mid night, sometimes even until morning! Back then, we laughed together, discussed together and exchanged ideas together. Because we are what people call an “Outspoken” family, our voices are like shouting when we are actually talking. Like the olden days yeah. I miss that moment mama, really miss it.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">But I know I can’t do that now. That is why I wrote this letter. I didn’t put any address as you can see…. because this is a letter from my heart, notes of my heart. No need for address. I believe whenever it is from my heart, Allah will open the doors for you to read this letter ^_^</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span id="more-2173"></span>Mama, do you still remember the argument we had a few years back? The argument on Surah al-Isra’ verse 23 – 24. Allah says in the verse:</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em>“Your Lord has ordained that you shall worship none but Him, and that you must be kind to your parents. Should one of them, or both, attain to old age in your care, never say ‘Ugh’ to them or chide them, but always speak gently and kindly to them,”</em> (23)<em> </em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em>“and spread over them humbly the wings of your tenderness, and say, ‘My Lord, bestow on them Your grace, even as they reared and nurtured me when I was a child.’ “</em>(24)</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I was against your idea, remember? Now I feel bad about it. My argument was, it was not based on scholarly reliable sources, it was from my mind and feelings which is null and void. I said that this verse was only applicable when nothing bad happens. Whenever parents have committed wrong, children can “do what it takes” to straighten a crocked iron bar. I know that an iron bar is very hard to bend and the possibility for it to break is very high. I was wrong at that time and I didn’t even gave you chance to reply back. Yeah. I was a bad boy at that time. Now I admit that I’m wrong. I’m wrong mama! I am wrong! Sorry!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Well now, after I’ve done some research by checking it on <em>Fi Zila Lil Quran</em> (In the Shade of the Quran) by The Martyr Sayyib Qutb and applying some of my knowledge in Arabic language. Sorry if I sound a bit academic, well after all we are in the same bachelor degree programme, so you know what I know and l learnt what you’ve learnt hehe ^^</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">It was my fault, my own ignorance. So now comes the real message of these verses that I couldn’t share that day.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Ok. For the first verse that is verse number 23, it can be divided into two parts.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">The first, Allah starts off by saying <em>“Your Lord has ordained that you shall worship none but Him”. </em>Allah used the word “<strong>قَضَى</strong>” which means “ordained.” We are ordained to devote ourselves to Allah and no one else.<a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/06/i-don%e2%80%99t-want-your-smile-to-fade-away/#_ftn1">[1]</a></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">The second part is, immediately after Allah ordains us to enslave ourselves to Him alone, He asks us to be good to our parents. Allah uses to word “<strong>إِحْسَـناً</strong>” is actually an exhortation<a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/06/i-don%e2%80%99t-want-your-smile-to-fade-away/#_ftn2">[2]</a> which if converted to verbal words; it should sound like this <em>“you’d BETTER BE the best you could possibly be to your parents!”</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">If we screen through this verse, we will see as if one half is about Allah and the second half is about parents. But if we magnify into microscopic details, we will see that most of this verse is about parents.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>On parents, first Allah says </i><em style="font-style: italic;">“you’d BETTER BE the best you could possibly be to your parents!”</em><i>, second He says “</i><em style="font-style: italic;">one of them, or both, attain to old age in your care, never say ‘Ugh’ to them or chide them” </em><i>third “</i><em style="font-style: italic;">but always speak gently and kindly to them.” </em><i>Allah used the word “</i><strong style="font-style: italic;">أ</strong><strong style="font-style: italic;">فٍّ</strong><i>”; to my knowledge in Arabic the letter “</i><strong style="font-style: italic;">فّ</strong><i>” is the softest and most tender letter of all! This means that we cannot even use “</i><strong style="font-style: italic;">أُف</strong><i>”; which is the softest utterances to address them but use the gentlest speech to them! (Masya allah! I’ve messed up mama </i>:(<i> )</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Three important things on parents, one after another but only one detail on Allah; this shows the gratitude of Allah on parents.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">That is the end of verse 23. Going on to verse 24, Allah began by saying <em>“and spread over them humbly the wings of your tenderness.” </em>Allah used the word “<strong>جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ</strong>” which means <em>“the wings of your tenderness”. </em>We know we do not have wings but this is a form of imagery in the Quran. Wings here mean our “Ego”, we have wings and we are capable to inflict pain to our mother but we descend anyway. We let our “Ego” go away and position ourselves down on the ground. The only reason for us to lower our wings of ego is only because “<strong>مِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ</strong>” or “Out of mercy”. “Out of mercy” here means three things at least, (1) our parent’s need our mercy, (2) they gave us mercy when we were small (3) If we want Allah to show us mercy then we ought to show mercy to our parents especially to mama!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">You know mama, when I obtained this understanding, my heart went pumping hard. I feel so guilty, I feel so terrible after treating you so bad all these years. I feel like I will not enter Jannah because mama, I am afraid you haven’t forgiven my life! Seriously I feel bad.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Remember when I was 8, I had an argument with big brother, I was so pissed off that time, brother teased me until I was crying in anger. You came to me to calm me, you came to say that <em>“Everything’s ok”</em> but what I gave in return? I punched your chest out of anger! I was so confused; who is my kin and who is my enemy? I saw your face the moment I punched you, I know that the physical pain of an eight year old boy punching an adult strong women, but your facial expression at that time was like; your heart is burned to feel your own son punching you. The pain in your heart was unbearable. I was a kid but I was so ignorant! I want to say I’m sorry for that, but I do not know if you will forgive me….</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I’m sorry again for the incident when you cooked us bean porridge. But all of your children said <em>“yakss”</em> because they were dead beetles in it. But even though we rejected your cook, you took out all the beetles and finish the porridge by yourself. What I was thinking? I was in no position to do that to you. I should have helped you finish the porridge. I’m sorry again mama!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Every morning after Subuh prayer, you will warn me not to sleep after Subuh. But I denied what you asked me to do. I ignored and just went to sleep. But you didn’t stop to advise me with gentle words. </div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">But I retorted! Mama, now I’m learning not to sleep! I’m sorry for sleeping after Subuh prayer!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I don’t know mama what to say, what to write. I’ve done so many bad things; I haven’t become a good boy. I’ve used phrases like <em>“Shut up!”</em>, <em>“Shut your gum up!”</em>. I’ve called you <em>“An old hag”</em>, I’ve used countless curse words. But you never cease to provide me money for my education, hear my problems even when you have your own and you never even forget to smile whenever you talk. </div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">You never stop to give me motivation. I can still remember your saying <em>“The secrets of success in inspiration, aspiration and perspiration.”</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I can still remember your smile. I still remember, you’re saying <em>“Whenever you smile, I’ll smile”.</em> Even though I didn’t smile, you kept on smiling. Your smile has suppressed my anger, your smile has made me stronger, and your smile has made taught me to smile forever. You are a tough woman indeed.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, I have a poem for you, please read with your heart ^_^:</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>I don’t want your smile to fade away!</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>I can still remember that smile,<br />
“Whenever you smile, I’ll smile”<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></em></div><i><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"></div></i><div style="display: inline !important; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><i><em>you said to me with a smile.</em></i></em></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Even if I didn’t smile, you kept on smiling,<br />
even if I detest you, you kept on smiling,<br />
even if I mock you, you kept on smiling. </em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>“Are you crazy?” My heart says,<br />
“Are you not human?” My question for days,<br />
after seeing my mother’s smile, “Well, I am amazed.”</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Your smile has suppressed my anger,<br />
your smile has made me stronger,<br />
your smile has made taught me to smile forever.</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Seeing her smile, I feel inspired,<br />
smelling her cook, I feel delighted,<br />
hearing her laugh, I feel moved.</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>But….When she left this world, I cried…</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>I cried my heart out,<br />
I cried so loud,<br />
I cried until my tears dried out. </em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Now… I’m crying without tears…</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Because tears are nothing,<br />
tears cannot change anything,<br />
But I can change everything!</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>Now is not the time for me to cry,<br />
but it is the moment for me to fly!<br />
To fly up to the sky!</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>With her smile as a motivation!<br />
I will grasp my vision!<br />
I will complete my mission!</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><em>I will not make your smile fade away!<br />
‘Coz your smile remains in my heart forever!</em></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, until this day, I’ve been homesick since the day you left this world. But I’ve never regard you as <em>“My late mother”</em>. You are still my mother and nothing can change that even death. That’s why I will never call you <em>“My late mother”</em>, but only <em>“My mother”. </em>I don’t care what other may say. You still live within me. Your motivation still remains making me strong.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, I regret for not being the best to you. I regret for not using the best words. I regret for not treating you gently.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, I want to promise to you that I will advise others to be the best to their mothers and don’t wait till she is gone to feel guilty. I want them to feel guilty now! I want them to be the best to their mothers! This is my promise mama.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, I’ve never forget to pray to Allah to place you in the highest position in Jannah. I have never forgotten this dua’ each and every time after solah:</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><em>‘My Lord, bestow on them Your grace, even as they reared and nurtured me when I was a child.’</em></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I know, I will never repay you, nurturing me until I became a human. I was so hopeless but you gave your hand to help me stand. But this is the least I could do to repay you through my Dua’ and using the knowledge you’ve taught me.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Mama, you know, I’m crying now. I haven’t cried for so long. Thanks mama for making me cry. My hardened heart has softened now.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I don’t know what to say more mama. You know, if I am given the chance to freeze time, I want that moment to be a moment with you, mama. You and no one else!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">I love you so very much!</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></div><div style="display: inline !important; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</i></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;"><br />
</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;">From your second son,</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;">‘Abdul Muhaimin Bin Misran.</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;">Second year,</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;">Bachelor of English Language and Literature (BENL)</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;">International Islamic University Malaysia</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><div style="display: inline !important;"><br />
</div></i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><hr size="1" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;" /><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/06/i-don%e2%80%99t-want-your-smile-to-fade-away/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> In the Shade of the Quran, Sayyib Qutb, pg: 125</i></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/05/06/i-don%e2%80%99t-want-your-smile-to-fade-away/#_ftnref2">[2]</a> 1. the act or process of exhorting, 2. a speech or written passage intended to persuade, inspire, or encourage</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-79157182913843702662011-04-29T15:12:00.002+08:002011-04-29T15:50:42.624+08:00They need us or we need them?<div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/2011/04/29/they-need-us-or-we-need-them/i-need-you/" rel="attachment wp-att-2079" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2079" height="265" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/04/I-need-you-900x600.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="I need you" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">“I need you…”<br />
Picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/windybutnotcloudy/" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: none;">WindyButNotCloudy♥</a> of flickr.com</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Free free Palestine! Free free Palestine” shouts Lowkey, a British rapper in his rap song titled </div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Long lives Palestine”. Lowkey is one of my favorite rappers and “Long live Palestine” is one of the best rap songs I’ve ever heard.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Long live Gaza” came out from my mouth followed the rap beat.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">As I sunk deeply in the song, suddenly my shoulder was touched by some soft hands. I turned right, I saw the mouth of Siddiqi saying something but I couldn’t hear. I took off the earphone that was tucked tight in my ears.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“What are you listening?” He asked.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Long live Palestine” I answered.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Lowkey?” He said while his left eyebrows were raised.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Yeah, you hear rap as well?” I asked surprised.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Yup, but I’m not fanatic. Muslim rap, don’t get me wrong. I listen to their songs because of their lyrics not because their beat. Their lyrics usually are beautiful. You know what is RAP? ” He said while making a left turn.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Rap is rap, rapping. Yeah!” I said while acting like a rapper on stage.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“No. RAP is Rhythm and Poetry. That is why the lyrics are touching. The Muslim rappers, the non-muslim rappers I don’t know. Don’t ask me” He smiled.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Oh it’s ok. Let’s change topics shall we? I have a question regarding the issue on Palestine. I’ve been thinking on it lately. People are so determined in sending aids to Palestine. They spend like thousands only on Palestine. They even put their lives on the lines only to free Palestine. I really don’t understand these people – “ Siddiqi cut me in “And the question is?”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Ah the question, almost forgot. The question is, we’ve tried so hard all this time to help them, do Palestinians really need us?”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“They don’t need us or we need them. We need them.” He answered.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“We need them? What do you mean?”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“We literally need them…”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“You guys are always talking on Palestine, what about us Indians? I do not agree with the Palestine issue! We are suffering too!” A guy from India said to me.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
I was silent for a moment. What he said is true, our brothers and sisters in India are suffering too. But how can I answer the issue he raised then?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Brother… Let us calm down shall we. We may not be brothers by blood, but we are brothers by faith right?” I tried to carve a smile. His tight face loosens up a little bit, signs of ease are shown. The Musolla of Mahallah As-Siddiq became the proof of our “discussion” tonight.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Yes. You are right, Allah has asked us to help every Muslims in need right?” I went slowly.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“But can I say one thing. It is not that we ignore other Muslims, but by the time being, we Malaysians are only fit to help the Palestinians now. I admit that we still don’t have the energy and money to help others. Insha Allah in the future we will help India.” Still maintaining my voice pitch.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“The Palestinians do not need us, but we need the Palestine. Freeing Al-Quds is our priority now. Remember the khutbah last week by Dr. Belghit Muhammad? He said, <em>‘I may am an Algerian and Palestine is not my land of blood. But Palestine is my land of faith, Al-Quds is my first Qiblah. Al-Quds is ours and ours alone’</em> “ I was half shouting.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“But….” – he wanted to object but I cut in first “Please let me finish my words.”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“If Dr. Belghit Muhammad says that; then I will say <em>‘I may be a Malaysian and Palestine is not my land of birth. By nationality, I do not have the right to claim Palestine my land, but in the name faith and humanity, I hereby claim Palestine my land and I will free my land!’</em>” I was shouting, I just ignored all the people in the Musolla.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“The prophet has said:</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “Do not set out on a journey except for three Mosques i.e. Al-Masjid-AI-Haram, the Mosque of Allah’s Apostle , and the Mosque of Al-Aqsa, (Mosque of Jerusalem).”</em><a href="file:///H:/LangitIlahi/LangitIlahi/Motivational/Do%20they%20need%20us%20or%20we%20need%20them.docx#_ftn1" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">What will we tell our young ones when they ask us, which one is Mosque of Al-Aqsa? But all we can see is that Mosque of Al-Aqsa is fulfilled with non-muslims?”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Mosque of Aqsa is the proof of our faith. If it is free then our faith is strong, but if it remains under the possession of Israel, then that means our faith is weak. We are weak. The Muslim <em>Ummah</em> is weak. You want that to happen, brother?” I went on; leaving him speechless.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Sorry if I sound I bit racist, you question the efforts of my race just now right? I want to clarify. That is why we Malaysians are dying to help Palestine. We also want others to understand why we are doing this ‘job’ and participate with us. I know, not all people can go there to Palestine but we have to do what we can to help. The prophet once said:</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Maymunah bint Sa’d relates that she asked the prophet, “O prophet! Inform to us about Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem)“. He said, “Visit it for prayer.” She further asked, “If one of us cannot visit it, what should we do?” He said, “If you cannot go there for prayer then send some oil to be used in its lamps; whosoever gives oil for it lamps, it will be as if he has prayed in it.”</em><a href="file:///H:/LangitIlahi/LangitIlahi/Motivational/Do%20they%20need%20us%20or%20we%20need%20them.docx#_ftn2" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><em></em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“You should understand brother. Not only Indians are suffering, even Malaysians are suffering here and there. But if you say that I am racist, then you are wrong. That is all I want to say” My speech has ended.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Thank you brother. Thank you for enlightening me. I was just ignorant about the Palestine issue but now, I’ve learnt knew things tonight. This is also my issue.” That brother said to me with utmost sincerity.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">We hugged. Yeah, I love it when after a two people argues, it will end peacefully. No hard feelings. No offence.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“I love you brother. We are brothers of the land of Palestine… We need Palestine as a ticket to enter Jannah!” I said to him.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Masha allah, thank you for telling me the story of you and the Indian guy. When did it happen?” I asked.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Oh, last year. After isya’ prayer. I was talking about Palestine with another Malay guy then he just barged in.” He told me.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Thank you akhi Sidiq. Thank you for making me realize. Before this I was also just ignorant. Even on rap songs, I hear rap because the beat is good.” I said to Akhi Siddiqi.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Who said we could rest? We will never rest until the holy land is freed.” Akhi Siddiqi added.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Whatever religion we are in, whatever our skin color is, make sure that we do what we can to help. The least that we can do is donating our money. Let us fill up that donation box with our money.” He said while handing over a donation box cylinder in shape to me.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I was a bit reluctant at first, and then he said with a smile “The money in our pockets is not ours, but the money we donate is ours”. Well I was moved alright.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Took out RM10 note and put it in the box.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Every cent counts, May the blessings of Allah be upon you bro.”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">If we do not help then we are in the state loss! PALESTINE DOESN’T NEED US, WE NEED PALESTINE! Palestine will always prevail without our help!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><hr size="1" style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="file:///H:/LangitIlahi/LangitIlahi/Motivational/Do%20they%20need%20us%20or%20we%20need%20them.docx#_ftnref1" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 21 :: Hadith 281</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GGc6H7qaVW8/TbaOAdSo3YI/AAAAAAAAAOo/4yLUvjOiNE8/s1600/ameen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>"From me to you" </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">picture by Suhaib Alrumy, EOS 500d Canon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Just finished the program of </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">HIJRAH MENARA GADING (HiMEGA 11)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">International Islamic University Malaysia,</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">KAED Main Auditorium,</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">22 - 24 April 2011.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">A poem dedicated for you guys,</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">I give you;</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"A moment for me to ponder… A moment for you to remember…"</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Dear my <i>lil</i> bro’s and sis’s of HiMEGA 2011,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a pleasure for us to have you guys as our guests of honor. <br />
You guys are a special gift for us, very very special indeed. <br />
It has been a long time since… I have been waiting; we have been waiting will all our heart… <br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But now the time is with us. Three days of togetherness is our start… <br />
From this day onwards, we will be one till we are apart… <br />
This is it the moment for us to care… This is the moment for us to share…<br />
This is the moment for us to hug and kiss… This is the moment for us to love and exchange gifts…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear my <i>lil</i> bro’s and sis’s of HiMEGA 2011,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bringing Islam back to this world is our vision…<br />
so being an ‘Alim Mujahid is our mission…<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us stand strong shall we? <br />
Who says the dump cannot see? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Who claims the deaf cannot hear? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Let us stand up! Stand strong! And stand tall!<br />
Let us stand even though standing is hard…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
There is not a moment to lose…<br />
Victory is what we must choose…<br />
We are the cure of our sick ones…<br />
We are the strength of our weak ones…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear my <i>lil</i> bro’s and sis’s of HiMEGA 2011,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You know, if I am given the chance to freeze time, <br />
I want that moment to be our special moment together…<br />
A moment for me to ponder… A moment for you to remember…</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-66218478266576770222011-04-23T19:57:00.002+08:002011-04-29T15:52:38.488+08:00“FIFA VS FIFA”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/04/I-am-not-free.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://langitilahi.com/pustaka/2011/04/I-am-not-free.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><i>“I am not free”<br />
picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/" style="color: #0070c5; text-decoration: none;">Pink Sherbet Photography</a> of flickr.com</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">English Coloumn of Langit Ilahi </div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Date: 22/4/2011</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">By: Ameen Misran</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">There is an International Seminar on Peace and Humanitarian Aid for Gaza,</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Tomorrow (23/4/2011) at Conference Room, Cultural and Activity Center (CAC), IIUM,</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">From 8.30 am to 5.00 pm,</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">A program organized by Haluan Palestine, Yayasan Belia Malaysia (YBM) and Journalism Club IIUM.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">I’ll be the MC for this one day program. Huh.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Need to charge up my spirit of Bring that Peace, Break the Siege!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">So this is from me!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><strong>“FIFA VS FIFA”</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><strong>^_^</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><span id="more-1675"></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Tit tit… Tit tit” The ring tone on Amir’s HTC HD Mini sounded. He unlocked the screen.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Bro! Tonight is the night man! Your team and my team are up. Real Madrid vs. Barcelona. Come let’s hang out and see who will win. Like old times man! You and I…</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Sender:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><em>Abdul Qawy</em></span></em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>0193900000</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em></em>Amir leaned back on the seat of his 12 year old <em>Kancil Produa</em> after reading the message.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Do I have to go? I really love soccer. I love to watch my favorite players in action. I love Real </div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Madrid!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">But….</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I already have a family not like the old times. I have my priorities.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">But….</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">They are my childhood friends. I usually hang out with them.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Arghh! I do not know what to say!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Tit tit… Tit tit” another message came into my inbox.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Still waiting for your reply man. Restoran Saffiyah, Taman Universiti. In one hour. Make up your mind and reply bro.</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Sender:<br />
Abdul Qawy<br />
0193900000</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">What do I have to reply?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
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OUT OF EAGERNESS, a little child came running down the stairs rushing towards his father “Papa, what does FIFA stand for?” asked that child wanting an immediate answer from his father.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Amir who was watching the live match between Germany vs. England on Astro ESPN was bothered by the trivial question from his second born. He did not want any uproar, not when England is in action! So he just ignored his son as if he never heard a thing and placed his eyes on the plasma flat screen TV.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Dad, are you there?” asked Amar while massaging his father’s back. Amir shakes his body as a silent sign of <em>“do not disturb me, I’m busy”, </em>but what more can Amir expect from his 8 year old son to understand body language? So Amar goes off from massaging to tickling his father right in the armpit.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Ok ok, all right already, I lose, you win, what was your question again?” Amir admits defeat. He slowed down the screaming volume coming from the TV; the house living room seemed quite after that.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“What does FIFA stand for?” Amar repeated his question.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“FIFA is the abbreviation for The Fédération Internationale de Football Association in French or in English the International Federation of Football Association, happy now?” said Amir while increasing again the TV volume. It was 2:0 now, Germany 2, England 0. “England, do something quick!” Cried Amir wanting his favorite team shine!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Dad?! Are you ok?” Amar was puzzled after seeing his father screaming ‘Go England Go’ and gripping tight his fist while punching the air.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">At the 37<sup>’ </sup>minute of the game, Steven Gerrard gave a cross; the ball flew right into where Mathew Upson wants it. But before Mathew could do anything, the Plasma flat screen TV blacked out. Nothing was there, no Stadium, no field, no ball and no goal.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">What happened? There’s no black out, the lights were still on. Everything was quite. “Where is the remote?”His inner voice screamed out of anger! Amir was still focusing on the black screen then suddenly what appeared in front of him was his son’s face, not what he hoped for.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Dad, I called you like ten times already but you didn’t hear me out” Amar said while holding </div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">the black remote controller in his hands.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Why you little…” Amir’s face was red all over; his rage grew intense by the moment, any minute now he can burst out. But after seeing his son’s cute little face, the face full of inquiry. He calmed down. Took a deep breath and said “What is it this time?”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Dad, mama said that FIFA stands for FIGHT ISRAEL FREE AQSA, F=Fight, I=Israel, F=Free and A=Aqsa. Isn’t it right papa?” Amar told his father while spelling with his fingers.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Papa…papa…daddy…are you there?” now Amar is puzzled for the second time after seeing his father stiff like a rock.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Amir sank in his own thoughts. The voice of his son faded away slowly. FIGHT ISRAEL FREE AQSA?! Free AQSA?!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He then flashed back on how his enthusiasm to help our brothers and sisters in GAZA, he drove his family from Johor to Melawati Stadium Shah Alam just to join a concert, not any ordinary concert but the Palestine Mass Gathering, Concert Life Line 4 GAZA on 13 Mei 2010, about a month and a half ago. He donated about RM1 thousand to the LL4G project.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">On 31 May 2010, during the raid of Israeli Commandos on Mavi Marmara, he was one of the busiest persons writing articles and forwarding text messages condemning the brutal act of Israel towards this humanitarian aid.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">On 4<sup>th</sup> June 2010, he pleaded a day off from his employer for the sake of taking part in the demonstration in front of the US Embassy.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">But starting on 11<sup> </sup>June 2010, the drive of <em>“Let Us free Aqsa”</em> and “<em>Let Us Unite for Palestine” </em>gradually diminished from him. What happened on June 11<sup>th</sup> 2010? This is the day where the title <em>“The most prestige’s sport”</em> came into action. It was the starting of the World Cup 2010 South Africa.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Astaghfirullah…”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Freeing Al-Aqsa was my dream! Breaking the siege on Gaza was my mission! But what I have done?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">How can I say that I am aware about Palestine when I have my time with the fake meaning of FIFA. How come?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">How come I say I love my brothers and sisters in Palestine when I have feeling enjoinment and tranquility while my brothers and sisters strife’s to live?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I am busy with all the bills I have to pay, but they, they are busy whether or not they can survive another day?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">What brotherhood am I portraying? Ukhuwah Islamiyah? NO. I am a disgrace to the Muslims.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">How can I claim that Al-Aqsa is Muslims and Muslims alone but in the same time I feel enjoyment in the ‘fun’ created by the enemies of Islam?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">What am I? Am I really a Muslim? Or a Muslim only by name?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">If I am a Muslim, why do I remember the names of football players more than the name of Muslim scholars?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">If I am a Muslim, why can I spend countless hours in front of the television watching a soccer match, but when it comes to Qiamullail, even two <em>rakaah</em> is hard for me!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Why is this happening to me? Why can’t I see clearly?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The black box in front of me is a ‘stupid box’ once said by Syed Qutb, but I watch that stupid box all day. I am also stupid then.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Astaghfirullah… Astaghfirullah…”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I’m crying now. I always fulfill my life with sins, always transgressing bounds with defiant grins.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Astaghfirullah… Astaghfirullah…”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Amar… Come here” Amir called for his son.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Amir hugged his son. Tight. He looked at his son. “I love you son” tiny droplets of tears </div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">came running through his cheeks.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Thanks for making me realize.” He added.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Amar was a bit confused of what was going on. A minute there his father was full of energy, but after the Plasma TV is off, now he is crying. He doesn’t get it.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“Son, from this day onwards, I will become a new person!”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“I will never let <em>Shaytan</em> control me. I will never let other ideologies take over me.”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“I will uphold FIGHT ISRAEL, FREE AQSA!”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">“This is my promise. You are my witness my son.”</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Sorry bro. I have no time to waste time even a special match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. </em><em>FIGHT ISRAEL, FREE AQSA. That is part of their plan to make us Muslims forget our vision and mission. Sorry, can’t join ya</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em>Sender:<br />
Amir<br />
0137373733</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Yes. I have made a promise to my son not to let <em>Shaytan </em>take control over me in all causes!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">This is the proof trustworthiness! I keep my word!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">And I hope you will not follow my bad side. Just follow my good side.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Please.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I beg you.<br />
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</div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-60396858003981312362011-04-21T15:01:00.001+08:002011-04-21T15:02:40.772+08:00Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5533810272_31d72fff39_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5533810272_31d72fff39_b.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"What's on your mind? Success?"</i></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;">picture by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joannelau/" style="color: #0063dc; text-decoration: none;">tic.tac.toc</a> of flickr.com</span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By: Ameen Misran</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The secrets of success are <b>Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration</b>” says my mother to me. I felt a little bit awkward because in the middle of nothing, she voiced out this phrase. “Strange”, but I’m not going to express my feelings because something else might happen if I do so. I might break her heart. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My mother seemed very determined and serious when she conveyed her message just, her face and hand gesture are like she is giving a talk to a mass of people. Wow! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But because of my blurriness and my facial expression changed from feeling “strange” to “confusion”; her face also changed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Do you understand what I said just now?” she asked seeing me in the state of confusion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Hmm… I didn’t really get it mama” I said while scratching my head and carving a smile. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“What comes to your mind when I say <b>Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration</b>” she asked me again, determined to make me understand. She is my mother alright. She will do what it takes to enlighten me with new knowledge. That’s what mothers do right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Hehe… You know, all of a sudden, images of my Phonetics classes flashes to my mind” I explained, half laughing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Ei? What do you mean?” Now my mother is confused. LOL.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Yeah… Inspiration I definitely know. But for aspiration, according to Phonetics, the meaning of aspiration, that is a scientific term, the release of a strong burst of air after some obstruent’s making it the process of speech production. And perspiration is kinda like sweating. So how come it is related to success?” I argued in brief. I know my mother understands what I said because she is also an English major like I am. She even has a PHD in English. If a non-English major hears this, one will definitely feel like “Huh! What is this?”. My mother only smiled seeing her son in the state of confusion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Not that one my son!” She said while placing her hand on both of my shoulders. WOW! My mother really loves me! Her eyes are burning with determination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“So please enlighten me mama!” Now I feel motivated and moved to understand what she is trying to tell me. Now it was my turn to place my hands on both of mama’s shoulder. I am way higher than my mother, so I have to bend a little bit down. This scene is like two people in love holding shoulders and full of love in eye to eye contact. Beautiful. Don’t get it wrong, my mother and me are in love! A love from a mother to her son and vice versa!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Ok lemme get this straight,” my mother started lecturing; my eyes are focusing on her mouth now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I will give the explanation of Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration one by one respectively and you will understand how it is related to success. Here I go” she has finished her introduction. My mother asked me to sit down on the chair while she explains like a true professional. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“What is inspiration?” She attracts my attention with a question. “Inspiration is a motivating and mesmerizing influence. A feeling that makes you moved. You are going to be inspired by l<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">ooking at people around you. You will be jealous at the same time motivated by reading on the most successful people’s achievement. You will feel like mapping their achievement into yours. You will see that these people can do the impossible and can change all the so called ‘Impossible’ things to become things as easy as ABC.” A long detailed info is explained. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Wow” I said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You’re amazed already? We haven’t come to the climax yet. This means that you are already inspired by me. Hehe” my mother said. She is a true motivator. I am moved. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Ok. Aspiration. We are not talking on either ASPIRE by Acer or aspiration like you said earlier. But what we understand here is that aspiration is a strong desire, aim and longing. Aspiration is an extension of inspiration. When you are inspired, you will be aspired, meaning that a strong drive will exist in your soul. You will set a goal in your life. Let’s say, one day you wanna be the best singer or poet in the world, even beating Maher Zain! That is aspiration.” Another thorough explanation from my mother. She even mentioned Maher Zain; my favorite singer of all times! Maybe because she always sees me singing Maher Zain’s songs; that’s why she took it as an example. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“And the last showdown my son! Perspiration. Perspiration literally means sweating, you were right but you are lack of something. What is it?” My mother asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Dunno, you tell me love” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You are lack of analogy. You are always too scientific. Loosen up a little bit! Explore the world of literature through the world of analogy! The analogy of perspiration or in others words, sweating is effort. Let’s say you wanna be the number one runner in a cross-country. The distance is 5KM, what will you have to do to make sure you are fit? What will you have to do to make sure you maintain and improve your stamina? You need to run. You need a hell lot of training. And through the process of training, you will sweat profusely. This is the same in studying or achieving something. If you do not ‘sweat’, then you will not succeed.” Detail, detail indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Does that mean I have to sweat and bring extra clothes everywhere I go?” I asked, I actually already understand my mother’s explanation, but just to see how she reacts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “No! You don’t need to literally sweat, but you need to be wholeheartedly in doing your job. You mustn’t take everything for granted.” Love my mother’s determination, full of gestures and the voice intonation is smooth. I smiled looking at my mother’s reaction. Heee….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Why are you smiling? Something wrong?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“No, no, not at all mother” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “What I’ve explained before you are not just merely words, but it is a concept you must apply in your daily lives. I’ll give you an example. If you wanna be a great person in both academic and Deen, you need to become an ‘Alim Mujahid. Ever heard the word ‘Alim Mujahid before?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Alim is knowledgeable… Mujahid is…erm… Terrorist?” I said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Hah! No, No. You got it all wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;"> “A Mujahid is not a terrorist. Do not follow the conventional definition you hear on the news. Ok. ‘Alim’ means Knowledgeable. ‘Mujahid’ means </span>someone who is active and fights for Islam<span style="color: black;">. Fight here does not limit it to wars, but it gives the connotation of doing the best as you are fighting for something. So ‘Alim Mujahid means a knowledgeable person who fights for Islam. In some other terms, you can use, PRO-TAZ which means Professional Ustaz.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “So how can you become an ‘Alim Mujahid, Ameen?” My mother asks me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But she answered her question. “You need to find your source of inspiration to make sure your motivation remains ‘strong’. You can contemplate the stories of the great Islamic achievemnents in history and even present. Then you must set your goal, that is your aspiration, what do you have to accomplish in a period of time. And lastly, you need to put your inspiration and aspiration into action. If it is left in your head, then it is just left as a dream, a dream that will not come true.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I nodded my head, now I really understand what success is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> My mother continued “One more thing son-” she stopped half a second, her toned has changed to a little bit slower than before “when people put an effort, what they are dying to wait is to see the results. This is not what I understand. How the results are gonna be is Allah’s doings. We plan doing something, but Allah’s plan will always prevail. That is why we put an effort on something not for the sake of results, but for the sake of Allah alone. What may be the outcome, good or bad, it is Allah’s doings. Our part, we need to try to cope and adapt what Allah has given us.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Masha Allah! I learnt so many things today. “Thanks mom!” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Here’s a little souvenir for you, son” she handed over to me a sheet of paper. A clean sheet of paper. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “What this for?” I asked. I thought that I would receive a payment check or something else more valuable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Get your pen and write I’m gonna say.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Huh…” I sighed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “It’s for your own good son” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Ok…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “There are five qualities of an ‘Alim Mujahid, there are –“ before my mother could finish, I cut in “Wait! Don’t go too fast.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “The first is, an ‘Alim Mujahid has a sound ‘<i>Aqidah</i> (Muslim belief system).” My mother paused for a second or two. I managed to scribble her words slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “The second is an ‘Alim Mujahid has a clear understanding on Islam.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “The third is that an ‘Alim Mujahid must be excellent in their academic performance. DL is a must for you Ameen.” Says my mum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “What’s DL?” I asked, never heard of the term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Dean List. DL.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Dean list!? That’s impossible….”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Nothing is impossible, Impossible is nothing” My mother said with a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “The fourth is an ‘Alim Mujahid must be active in spreading Islam. In other words active in <i>Da’wah</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “And the final quality is an ‘Alim Mujahid must use their career as a medium to spread <i>Da’wah</i>. That is all. Don’t write that is all” My mother finished her ‘speech’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She added “You still remember the concept of Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration? Apply it in becoming an ‘Alim Mujahid. And it is not necessary to take Deen courses if you wanna be an ‘Alim Mujahid. You can take whatever you want but still you can become an ‘Alim Mujahid.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Huhu… Whatever you may say mom, it is still hard”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “No pain no gain then. If I can obtain a PHD, why can’t you my son? Right?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “But…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “But what? You know, who says the deaf cannot hear? Who says the dump cannot see? They can hear, they can see to an extent, way better than us. Who says that there is no life for disabled? Even the maimed can walk and stand up. We have to stand up even when standing is hard.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Hmm.. Ok mum. I’ll try.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Yes, you have to try, and then you’ll learn. Come, go have some rest. It’s already 12 midnight.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> “Ok mama. Love you.” I blew a midnight kiss to my mother and went to my room. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*******************************<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Climbed the stairs one by one. My room is on the second level of our house. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I went straight to the rest room to ease myself before going to be. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;">As I entered my room, I’m tired. My room was full of light. I killed off the lights. Only light from the </span>street light coming from my room window is seen. Light was dimmed; I am in a lonely room. Crawled into my bed. Closed my eyes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;">My eyes are closed but my mind is still thinking of </span><b>Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration </b>and <b>‘Alim Mujahid</b>. I kept on saying that “I can’t become one, I can’t do it”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But remembering what my mother said, “We need to stand even when standing is hard”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I made up my mind, I think can do it! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I’ll become an ‘Alim Mujahid!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will one day!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dark. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384092756946526450.post-47180789933688324592011-04-20T17:24:00.000+08:002011-04-20T17:24:25.969+08:00Bring that Peace, Break the siege!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/366224695_78f4894921_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/366224695_78f4894921_b.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Dove..." <br />
picture by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_lin/" style="color: #0063dc; text-decoration: none;">Cappy0161</a> of flickr.com</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">I don’t feel like writing long posts,<br />
I just wanna chill.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Here’s a poem dedicated to all the Muslims,<br />
enjoy yeah!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><span id="more-1121"></span><strong>“Bring that Peace, Break the siege!”</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">We have been silent for so long,<br />
we have been quite for all these years.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">We are imprisoned in our own home,<br />
we are trapped in our own dome.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Don’t you feel that this is the time to stand up!<br />
Don’t you feel that this is the time to wake up!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">They took our land,<br />
they killed our brothers,<br />
they rapped our sisters,<br />
they put bullets in the heads of our young ones.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Yes brothers! Yes sisters!<br />
It is time.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">But first we must ask ourselves.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
Are we ready to stand up!<br />
Are we ready to fight this systematic genocide!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Let us fight, hand in hand, back to back, against this terrorism,<br />
against these terrorists.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">But how can we free the holy land?<br />
Never keep silent before the holy land is freed.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Free Free Palestine, Free Free Palestine</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Bring that Peace, Break the Siege!</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;">Palestine, remains in my heart,<br />
forever….</div><div style="font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: verdana, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">^_^</span> </span></div>Amin Misranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16342067534596751407noreply@blogger.com3