Terabaikah Cinta Kepada Allah SWT Dengan Berlebihan Mencintai Sayyidina Muhammad SAW ?

Three Years Already

During our honeymoon in Miri

I'm a bit stunt for what my wife wishes me when she kiss my hand after Subh prayer today. "Happy Anniversary sayang..." I pause for a moment and replied "Yes sayang, three years already". She smiled at me and I just stare at her (while smiling in my heart). Really don't know how to express my feelings properly.

Its not that I forget. I know that we were lawfully married on the 20th November three years ago. But I remember the date in a way not like others would seem to remember their anniversaries. Its a date that will eventually come and go every year for my wife and me to know that we have pass another year in our marriage. Alhamdulillah. Its the same how I would perceive my own birthday. 

Clock will always ticking. It will never stop. Life goes on. The past is the past. What matter is how we live our life to have a better future. A better self, better children, better family and better society. History is just a reminder for us to keep walking or even running to build a better outcome from our actions guided by a true and legitimate worldview.

I have no plan to celebrate it as many would do. No flowers, no perfumes and worst, I don't even prepare any wishes to say to my wife. Pity my wife to have such a husband like me. Well, I thank Allah for having her as my wife. She is no left hand for me and neither am I to her. We were both right hand for each other. I can't think of any better woman to be my wife other than her.

Alhamdulillah. Thank you sayang for being my wife, a mother to our children and a doctor for the ummah. Thank you sayang :)

Adab Pijak dan Bakar Bendera

Jumaat lepas, saya dihubungi oleh rakan seusrah semasa kami masih sama-sama dalam pengajian di universiti. Kami hadir dengan konsisten usrah PERKEPISma yang dianjurkan secara rutin dua minggu sekali di Masjid as-Syakirin, KLCC bersama anak-anak Sarawak yang menyambung pengajian di IPTA/S di Semenanjung Malaysia. Sekarang, sekalipun usia dia lebih muda, kami sudah sama-sama berada dalam alam pekerjaan dan berkeluarga cumanya saya sudah punya anak dan dia belum.

Alhamdulillah, saya bersyukur kerana Allah s.w.t. masih memilih kami untuk kekal berada dalam jalan dakwah. Walaupun sekarang kami bergerak dengan wadah dan pendekatan yang berbeza, namun saya yakin kami berkongsi misi dan visi dakwah yang sama. Dia menjemput saya untuk berucap dalam sebuah rapat umum sebagai reaksi protes terhadap filem Innocence of Muslims selepas Solat Jumaat di sebuah masjid di Kuching bagi mewakili sebuah NGO yang saya bukan lagi pimpinannya. Maka saya tolak jemputannya dengan elok.

Innocence of Muslims Bukan Suatu Yang Baru

Dunia Muslim kecoh apabila filem "Innocence of Muslims" diterbitkan oleh Nakoula Basseley Nakoula bersama sekumpulan individu atas nama hak asasi manusia. Protes tumbuh di merata-rata tempat. Ia perlahan-lahan dan dalam banyak keadaan tidak mengambil masa yang lama pun untuk menjadi sebuah demonstrasi.

Hati-hati dengan ucapan anda

Seperti mana-mana demonstrasi, ia pastinya kalau tidak semua pun sebahagiannya dipenuhi oleh demonstran yang marah-marah. Dan akhirnya bukan menjadikan keadaan lebih baik malah menambah keburukan yang sudah sedia ada. Sedang Islam seharusnya duduk di kerusi "mangsa jenayah" dengan penerbitan filem tersebut sebaliknya duduk di kerusi "penjenayah" disebabkan ucapan dan tindakan balas daripada kita yang melampau. Daripada dapat simpati, kita pulak yang dibenci disebabkan ucapan dan tindakan balas kita.

Perlu diingat, filem tersebut diterbitkan dengan kos rendah dengan hasil yang tidak layak langsung digelar sebagai seni dalam perfileman. Tetapi lihatlah hari ini, betapa filem tersebut telah memberi impak yang amat besar kepada dunia khususnya kepada Muslim. Pasca penerbitan filem tersebut dan sehingga ke hari ini, siapa sebenarnya yang menjadi "pegawai pemasaran" yang mempromosi filem tersebut?

Saya memahami protes daripada Muslim atau mana-mana pemeluk Agama lain apabila hak beragama mereka dicabuli. Dalam isu ini, mesej filem tersebut telah menyimpulkan kehinaan kepada Sayyidina Muhammad s.a.w. Dan perlu difahami bahawa ia adalah suatu yang amat mengecewakan untuk terjadi dalam usaha kita mewujudkan sebuah kehidupan inter-agama yang rukun. Protes daripada Muslim adalah suatu yang wajar untuk menunjukkan sempadan hak asasi beragama. Malah ia adalah penunjukan ghirah kita terhadap Islam dan khususnya terhadap Sayyidina Muhammad s.a.w.

TURNING TO SONY... Goodbye NOKIA

This is my 1st entry through my new smartphone mobile. A Sony Ericson product, XPERIA PRO. Its hot red with keypad slide despit being a touchscreen.

I have nothing against NOKIA though. Its a good brand with good products. Known for its solid and tough mobile phone. But I decide to change after being loyal for nearly 10 years.

My last NOKIA mobile phone has served me well for three years. I hve nothing to complaint. Its time already that it has to go. After going through much 'torcher' in the hands of my son and me, still at this time, it is still pretty much needed for all the datas it stored inside.

Currently I'm still working in comforting myself with the usage of this XPERIA. Its not easy for me to get my fingers all ready for the new experience with a smartphone. As I also have the tendency to perceive it as a small functioning computer which I later realize that it is too much to expect.

Altough it is a smartphone we can email, make lots of notes and presentation slides, with a desktop, it got RAM and so much alike a computer. But it comes with a limit. It is still just a phone with upgrades here and there to function only a little like a computer.

Well, I hope that it can be a loyal servant to me as good as NOKIA phones. With extra functions and application to ease my life. I change to get better result. And I hope XPERIA is the good choice.

Ramadhan Kareem!

Saya senyum sendirian ketika melalui bulatan keluar daripada Jalan Semariang melihat kerlipan lampu-lampu kecil menyusun ucapan "Selamat Menyambut Bulan Ramadhan" di bulatan itu. Terimbau suasana kegembiraan menyambut Ramadhan di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM). Pensyarah kami akan memulakan kuliah dengan senyuman dan mengucapkan "Ramadhan Kareem!" dan kami menyambut ucapannya dengan kegembiraan "Allahuakram!" 

"Hai orang-orang yang beriman, diwajibkan ke atas kamu berpuasa sebagaimana diwajibkan ke atas orang-orang sebelum kamu agar kamu bertaqwa" (al-Baqarah : 183)

Telah sampai kita kepada satu bulan yang dihamparkan pelbagai keberkatan di dalamnya. Sebagai peluang bagi kita yang masih bernyawa untuk memanfaatkan bulan tersebut sebaik-baiknya. Kita panjatkan setinggi-tinggi kesyukuran kepada Allah s.w.t. serta selawat ke atas baginda Rasulullah s.a.w. di atas kesempatan yang direzekikan kepada kita untuk pertemuan buat sekian kalinya dengan bulan Ramadhan al-Mubarak.

If You Don't Trust Them, Please Don't Simply Accused Them

Earlier this month, we held the third series of our Tautan Kasih Sukarelawan Al-Falah (SAF) Sarawak at Adis Buan Resort, Bau. Its a training and development based program to equipped our newly recruited members with compulsory skills as volunteers in SAF Sarawak.

This entry is not intended to report the activities we had in the program. Just to touch on a matter that I really should comment, to help us in being a good practicing Muslim. For some it may not be a big deal. For me, even how small the matter would be, if by correcting it would be beneficial, then what wrong does it make?

As some have knew that our participants are from the sidelined youth with various problematic social background. Or some would call them as the 'problematic youth'. Despite of the terms used to define them, it is our aim to get them back in as a respectable person through volunteerism.

During the program, the trainers have lost some items that was needed in conducting activities. And some personal items was also found missing. The sad part was, when some of the trainers was too easy in blaming the participants for the missing items. I was more shocked when a trainer simply accused the participants to have stole the items for personal needs on the ground of their problematic social background.