See Grandpa, It Is Useless !!

An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Quraan. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could. One day the grandson asked, 

"Grandpa! I try to read the Qur'an just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Qur'an do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied,

"Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said,

"You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water, I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again. At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house. 

The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breathe, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!" 


"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out. 

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Qur'an. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Allah in our lives." 

Lesson From A Little Boy

This is a story that I received from a friend. A very short yet inspiring story. Allah's Hidayah is always there, around us. It comes in all sorts of forms. It's either we are aware of it or we simply take advantage on it.


The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree. Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown, for the world was intent on dragging me down. 

And if that weren’t enough to ruin my day, a young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play. 
He stood right before me with his head tilted down and said with great excitement, “Look what I found!” 
In his hand was a flower, and what a pitiful sight, with it’s petals all worn, not enough rain, or too little light. Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play, I faked a small smile and then shifted away. But instead of retreating he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his nose and declared with overacted surprise, “It sure smells pretty and it’s beautiful, too. That’s why I picked it; here it’s for you.” 

The weed before me was dying or dead. Not vibrant of colors, orange, yellow or red. But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and replied,“Just what I need.” But instead of him placing the flower in my hand, he held it mid-air without reason or plan. It was then that I noticed for the very first time that weed-toting boy could not see: he was blind. 

I heard my voice quiver, tears shone like the sun as I thanked him for picking the very best one. You’re welcome, he smiled, and then ran off to play, unaware of the impact he’d had on my day. I sat there and wondered how he managed to see a self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree. How did he know of my self-indulged plight? 

Perhaps from his heart, he’d been blessed with true sight. Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all of those times I myself had been blind, I vowed to see the beauty in life, and appreciate every second that’s mine. And then I held that wilted flower up to my nose and breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose. And smiled as I watched that young boy, another weed in his hand about to change the life of an unsuspecting old man.


Alhamdulillah
Thank you Allah


"maka tidak pernahkah mereka berjalan di bumi sehingga hati(akal) mereka dapat memahami, telinga mereka dapat mendengar? sebenarnya bukan mata itu yang buta, tetapi yang buta adalah hati di dalam dada!" (22:46)

Cinta Yang Agung

Allah SWT berfirman:

"Sesiapa yang memusuhi waliKu, maka seolah-olah dia sudah berani mengisytiharkan perang denganKu.
Tidaklah seorang hambaKu bertaqarrub (mendekatkan diri) kepadaKu dengan sesuatu yang paling Aku cintai selain daripada kewajipan-kewajipan yang telah Aku wajibkan kepadanya, dan hambaKu itu sentiasa mendekatkan diri kepadaKu dengan ibadah-ibadah sunnah, sehingga aku mencintainya. Apabila Aku sudah mencintainya, maka Aku akan menjadi pendengarannya yang ia mendengar dengannya. Aku menjadi penglihatan yang ia melihat dengannya. Aku menjadi tangannya yang ia memukul dengannya dan menjadi kakinya yang ia berjalan dengannya. Apabila ia meminta kepadaKu, nescaya Aku akan mengabulkannya dan apabila ia memohon perlindungan kepadaKu, nescaya Aku akan melindunginya."

(Hadith Qudsi-Al Bukhari, no.6502)

Hati Seorang Sahabat

Dear Ab,

Aku sangat bersyukur, Allah temukan kau dengan aku..

Kau banyak ajar aku macam mana a good muslimah should behave,

Sometime,

Aku terharu sangat..bila kau percaya aku lebih dari aku percaya diri aku sendiri..

Bila aku kata "aku tak boleh ab"

Kau selalu jawab "kau boleh Damia! aku percaya kau boleh!"

Ab...Ab...

How grateful I am to have you, to know you and to meet you...

Jadi jangan selalu menangis,

Sebab bila kau menangis, kau buat aku yang susah nak keluarkan air mata ini, menangis sekali...

Aku admire kesabaran kau..

Sesuai dengan nama kau..Sabirah,

Semoga Allah sentiasa lindungi kau,

Kuatkan hati kita bila ujian menimpa, dan semoga persahabatan kita sampai Akhirat..

Aku sayang kau kerana Allah,

InsyAllah..

Ikhlas,

Damia

Lesson from "Ammar Bin Yasir"- (Part 3)

Setelah pindahnya Rasulullah saw ke Madinah, kaum muslimin tinggal bersama beliau bermukin di sana. Begitu cepat masyarakat islam terbentuk, dan di tengah-tengah masyarakat islam yang beriman ini Ammar juga mendapatkan kedudukan yang tinggi..

Rasulullah saw amat sayang kepadanya, dan beliau sering memuji keimanan dan ketaqwaan Ammar kepada para sahabat.


Bersabda rasulullah saw
"Diri Ammar dipenuhi keimanan sampai ke tulang punggungnya!..."


Dan sewaktu terjadi salah faham antara Khalid B Walid dengan Ammar, rasulullah saw bersabda
"Siapa yang memusuhi Ammar maka ia akan dimusuhi Allah, dan siapa yang membenci Ammar, maka ia akan dibenci Allah!"

Maka tiada pilihan bagi Khalid B Walid pahlawan islam itu selain segera mendatangi Ammar untuk mengakui kekhilafannya dan meminta maaf.


Suatu peristiwa terjadi pula ketika rasulullah saw bersama para sahabat mendirikan masjid di Madinah. Imam Ali karamallahu wajhah mengubah sebait syair yang didendangkan berulang-ulang diikuti oleh kaum muslimin yang sedang kuat bekerja ketika itu, dan baitnya adalah seperti berikut:


"orang yang memakmurkan masjid nilainya tidak sama...
sibuk bekerja sambil duduk di sini berdiri di sana...
sedang pemalas lari menghindar tertidur di sana..."


Kebetulan waktu itu Ammar sedang bekerja di salah satu sisi bangunan. Ia turut juga berdendang, mengulang-ulang bait syair itu dengan nada yang tinggi.


Salah seorang kawan menyangka bahawa Ammar bermaksud menonjolkan dirinya, hingga di antara mereka terjadi pertengkaran dan keluar kata-kata yang menunjukkan kemarahan. Mendengar itu rasulullah saw murka lantas bersabda:


"Apa maksud mereka terhadap Ammar....?
Diserunya mereka ke syurga, tapi mereka mengajaknya ke neraka....!
Sungguh, Ammar adalah biji mataku sendiri....!"


Jika rasulullah saw telah menyatakan kesayangannya terhadap seorang muslim demikian rupa, pastilah kerana keimanan, kecintaan dan jasa muslim tersebut terhadap islam. Kebesaran jiwa dan dan ketulusan hati serta keluhuran budinya telah mencapai batas dan puncak kesempurnaan...


Demikian halnya Ammar. Berkat nikmat dan petunjuk-Nya, Allah telah memberikan kepada Ammar ganjaran setimpal dan menilai takaran kebaikannya secara penuh. Rasulullah saw menyatakan kesucian imannya dan mengangkat Ammar sebagai contoh teladan bagi para sahabat.


Sabdanya:
"Contohi dan ikutilah setelah kematianku nanti Abu Bakar dan Umar...dan ambillah pula hidayah yang dipakai Ammar sebagai bimbingan!"


To be continue in Lesson from "Ammar B Yasir"-(Part 4)

The Legacy of Me

There are certain time, where we hope that we can turn back time..be at the place where want it to be..meet the people that we want to meet..

Alhamdulillah, I've grown up so much..I live along with so many dreams in me and along the way in paving my way...

I meet lots of peoples..with same dreams as mine,with so many stories to tell,so many backgrounds, with joys and tears and amazingly we share almost all of it...

as time passed by I cannot wait but to pray that there will be lots more that I am going to learn in this journey called LIFE.....

and by all means this is THE LEGACY OF ME

The Engagement Of Syikin & Zul

It was the 8^th of Muharram when the engagement happened. It was a bless day though engagement particularly a pre wedding phase of every couples. When I went back from Johor in about 8 am in the morning of 11^th Muharram, (from Syikin’s home sweet home) I did realize few things, that my roommate had engage to somebody, that we are getting older day by day and the next big thing of our entire life is to marry somebody, spend our lifetime together, even grow old together. I cannot bear to sleep even a minute after we arrived in UIA. I didn’t really know what is exactly I’m feel. Everything mixed and blur.

My journey to Johor was not an empty walkway. I learned so many things from so many people over these 4 days of my most valuable day of my life.

I learned how to be a good mother, how to understand our children when we have one someday, how to respect our husband, how to be responsible and trustable wife, how to understand and entertain our parents, how to become a “sederhana” type of person, how to be good with everyone around us, how to be a wise budget planner and how to harmonize a family. All of these i learned from Cik Shida, the one whom i much more considered like my 2^nd mother.

From Pak Cik Radzi, I learned how to control our anger and manage our patient on top of everything that pushes us away from the constraint of stress. He was a really cool person, he look a lot like my father.

From brother Faizal and his sweet life partner (InsyAllah) Shamsiah, I learned how to be a responsible eldest, a responsible child, how to support our family with the ability we have, how to be a “middle person” when everything went wrong and how to be honest and humble.

From Kak Yan I learned how to be a good, an easy going, responsible and trustable neighbour, how to decorate an engagement give and how to act young when your real age is not that young.

From Chinut and Zul both two of you were meant to meet each other by the will of Allah. I learned a lot from both of them. A lesson that can only myself understand and interpret. Neither words nor feeling are able to describe what I had been through with this 2 special friends I have. My pray will always be with you guys.

Ya Allah,

Kau jadikanlah sahabat ku ini Isteri yang taat sebagaimana taatnya Khadijah kepada Rasulullah saw. Kau jadikanlah sahabat ku ini Isteri yang bijak dan disenangi sebagaimana kau anugerahkan kepada Aisyah, Kukuhkan cinta mereka hanya keranaMu dan syiar Mu sebagaimana kukuhnya cinta Ali dan Fatimah. Berkati dan cintailah mereka dunia dan akhirat. Amin.

Semoga Allah permudahkan setiap urusan kalian.