Seindah indah kisah..

Snippet (1)

2012-01-22T22:49:00.001Z

For some reasons, I am reminded of the following funny quote: "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian" The quote made me laugh but I do not agree with it (this requires more elaborations, but I do not wish to go in depth about it for this entry) What I can take from the quote is that

Have you fulfilled the rights of ..

2012-01-08T07:58:00.002Z

If you read a lot of Islamic books, especially about Akhlaq or Adab, you will notice the message conveyed would usually be that we, as Muslims, have to fulfill the rights of others: the right of our parents, our companions, our neighbors, our family members, childrens, spouses, pets and even the rights of the environment. Reading the book The Ideal Muslim (by Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi),

Why Me, Allah??

2012-01-03T15:07:00.003Z

Since I got slightly lazy to update this blog, I guess i'll just share an Islamic talk that I had watch on youtube and have shared on Facebook as well. This is a very good talk given by Imam Khalid Latif on the issue where people in Islam gave the same consoling advice to every single person undergoing extreme hardships and the advice didn't take into account the emotional aspect of the person

Balancing Act

2011-12-11T22:23:00.001Z

Things that I have yet to master - making full use of my time. In life, there are a lot aspects in life that you have to take care of, for example: 1. Physical, Mental and Spiritual. 2. Career, Leisure, Social. I could list more, but those are some of the main aspects that we have in our lives. Each of the aspect requires us to spend time on it and we really have to, else we will have an

Senses

2011-11-27T19:02:00.000Z

Have you ever tried drinking a cup of sweet tea while eating a chocolate? Our taste buds detects the sweetness of the tea but after eating the chocolate, the sweetness of the chocolate overrides that of the tea. After that, if you drink the tea again, you won't feel it to be as sweet as before. That's how our senses work, well in this world that is and then I began to create my own theory

Perspective

2011-11-12T22:19:00.001Z

We've been brought up in a certain way and that had shaped our views on everything. We see things things from an angle that others might fail to see but that could also mean that we are not be able to see at our first glance what others have been seeing. It would definitely be good for us to stop, take our time, ponder and assess the situation from all different angles, from all different

10 Ways to Avoid Marrying the Wrong Person!

2011-11-10T01:05:00.000Z

Since I haven't posted anything for a while now, maybe I should just post something that I found online that might be useful for others. So last night I encounter an article that I think is quite interesting titled "10 Ways to Avoid Marrying the Wrong Person!" It is a bit long, so I will extract all the 10 points and remove most of the explanation for each of the points so if you are

It is where the heart is

2011-09-24T13:55:00.002+01:00

In 37 hours. Hurm.. Not sure why, but it feels sadder this time around. Oh, yes, I use GPS to find my way back home. footnote: packing again. footnote2: [43:13-14], [11:41]

Intention and Peer Pressure

2011-09-21T19:19:00.011+01:00

Have you ever had someone who said the following (or something to that effect) to you? “You will not amount to anything good” “You’re useless” “Meh, you won’t be able to do this” Then because of that insult, you feel challenged. “I will prove this person wrong!” you said quietly to yourself. You multiplied your effort, you grabbed any chances you got, you rose up to the challenge and

Quotations

2011-09-19T17:30:00.006+01:00

“Every problem is an opportunity in disguise” “When it is darkest, men see the stars.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson oh this is turning into Tumblr site. footnote: 6 more days. still haven't ticked off everything in my to do list..

A short sharing

2011-09-15T18:53:00.004+01:00

This would be the one of the shortest entry ever. Thought of sharing this hadith قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْأَنَاةُ مِنْ اللَّهِ وَالْعَجَلَةُ مِنْ الشَّيْطَانِ سنن الترمذي Calmness and patient deliberation is from Allāh and haste is from Satan (Sunan Tirmidhi: hadith 2012) (from my findings so far, the hadith has a dhaif chain of narration ~ I will update this

Interviews

2011-09-13T22:47:00.023+01:00

One of the things most of us had to go through as early as finishing high schools or as late as completing a degree is attending interviews. For some, attending interviews isn’t a big deal, they have the confidence, the skill, the words come easily for them during interviews, for others, it could be a nerve wrecking endeavor. One way or another, it is something that most of us had to go through

Love (3)

2011-09-08T09:09:00.001+01:00

(a portion of this entry was written during my train journeys from/to work so grammatical errors/disjointed paragraphs are expected ;-) ) A couple of years ago, I listened to a “syarah” (explanation/elaboration) of a hadith taken from a hadith compilation book, ZAD AT TALIBIN and the hadith is as follows. عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ حُبُّكَ الشَّيْءَ يُعْمِي

Raison d’être

2011-09-03T01:43:00.008+01:00

*typo: "deep thinking mode" (the more you write, the more mistake you'll make. oh well.. but hey, that's how I learn to improve myself ^_^ [note to self: do a proper spell and grammar check for each entry.]) Sometimes it is good to stop and think. When everything you do everyday starting to feel like nothing more than daily rituals. You wake up, perform your prayer, get yourself ready, go to

Eid Mubarak!

2011-09-01T22:56:00.000+01:00

كل عام و انتم بخير تقبل الله منا ومنكم Alhamdulillah, the day of celebration for Muslims has arrived. I managed to go to the London Central Mosque and joined the 1st of 5 Eid prayers. The mosque offered 5 sessions of Eid prayers due to the amount of people needed to attend to prayer. Anyway, since I had not taken an absence from work on the Eid day, below are the only pictures that I managed

When people aren’t watching

2011-08-27T07:57:00.030+01:00

In the beginning of Ramadhan, a shocking event took place in London, the heart of the UK. A peaceful protest turned ugly when criminals, vandals, anarchist took advantage of the situation and incited riots. The riot spread throughout London and copy-cat riots spawned in neighboring cites ~ Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and a couple others. The damage caused by the riots might

Time

2011-08-26T01:42:00.004+01:00

Time. It’s a funny thing. One moment you wished it could pass quickly, the next you felt like you need all the time in the world. Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzemlicka/3459346334/sizes/o/ The blessed month is about to end. Have I made full use of it? ... It’s a bit hard for me to answer this simple question ~ I could have done more I believe. Anyhow, another 3 more months to

Don't you quit.

2011-08-23T04:58:00.007+01:00

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcwhite/3861583426/ Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes

Roles

2011-08-21T07:50:00.010+01:00

Even when my body is idle (read: lazing around), my mind is always wandering. Sometimes it goes to the past ~ reminiscing the good and the horrible old days, sometimes it tries to foresee the future ~ predicting how awesome the future would be (oh it would definitely be awesome Yeah!! hehe). And sometimes it got stuck in the present while trying to connect the dots between the past, the present

Half

2011-08-16T06:01:00.004+01:00

(This entry didn’t take me more than 15 minutes; that goes to say the length of this entry) Watched a good online documentary a couple of days ago. It was about the journey taken by three kids from different countries for a competition where they were tested on their memorization of the Quran. Man, I really envy those kids, I wish I could be like them, reciting the whole book just from my

It's the time of the year again

2011-07-24T10:10:00.004+01:00

In a week and two days, the time of the year that we've all been waiting for will arrive, the blessed month where we will be given the opportunity to multiply our deeds exponentially ~ in just a month! Alhamdulillah. I can’t believe that a year has passed since the last Ramadhan. Time flies so fast in this regard. Due to the coming of this blessed month, I think I should take a month or so

[65:2-3]

2011-07-20T21:14:00.001+01:00

الحمد لله I suddenly received a good news today. Such a joyful day =) وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا [65:2] dan sesiapa yang bertakwa kepada Allah (dengan mengerjakan suruhanNya dan meninggalkan laranganNya), nescaya Allah akan mengadakan baginya jalan keluar (dari segala perkara yang menyusahkannya), وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ ۚ وَمَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ

Currency

2011-07-19T05:26:00.004+01:00

Watching how the world events unfold is always interesting. How the head of IMF got arrested, resigned and had his position replaced by a new person. Reading about the uncertainties in the US economy amid the possibility of the U.S. defaulting her debt payment. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/18/us-debt-downgrade-standard-and-poors "S&P and Moody's have warned that they could

Make Me Strong

2011-07-16T15:43:00.000+01:00

Found a good nasheed so I thought of sharing it here. I know I’m waiting Waiting for something Something to happen to me But this waiting comes with Trials and challenges Nothing in life is free I wish that somehow You’d tell me out aloud That on that day I’ll be ok But we’ll never know cause That’s not the way it works Help me find my way My Lord show me right from wrong Give me light make

Wealth

2011-07-14T06:41:00.001+01:00

One: “I need to fill up these expenses forms” said my colleague to me one morning. “I really need to do this. Need to claim all my expenses back”. “Oh” I replied. I assumed he must have fallen short on his monthly budget. Usually every month I would spend a certain amount of money on commuting back and forth to and from the client’s office and my colleague must be doing the same as well.