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patriotism

somebody send me this tru YM...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. ~Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)


ditto!

Maulid Al Rasul S.A.W

Salam
Selamat menyambut maulid al-Rasul s.a.w Muhammad insan terpilih.


Diriwayatkan oleh Umar bin Khatthab r.a., beliau berkata : saya bersama Rasulullah s.a.w sedang duduk-duduk. Rasul s.a.w. bertanya kepada para sahabat, "Katakan kepadaku, siapakah makhluk Allah yang paling besar imannya?" Para sahabat menjawab; 'Para malaikat, wahai Rasul'. Nabi s.a.w bersabda, “Tentu mereka demikian. Dan mereka berhak seperti itu. Tidak ada yang bisa menghalangi itu, karena Allah s.w.t telah memberikan mereka tempat”. Sahabat menjawab, “Para Nabi yang diberi kemuliaan oleh Allah s.w.t, wahai Rasul”. Nabi s.a.w. bersabda, “Tentu mereka demikian. Dan mereka berhak seperti itu. Tidak ada yang bisa menghalangi itu, karena Allah s.w.t telah memberikan mereka tempat”. Sahabat menjawab lagi, “Para syuhada yang ikut bersyahid bersama para Nabi, wahai Rasul”. Nabi s.a.w. bersabda, “Tentu mereka demikian. Dan mereka berhak seperti itu. Tidak ada yang bisa menghalangi itu, karena Allah s.w.t telah memberikan mereka tempat”.

“Lalu siapa, wahai Rasul?”, tanya para sahabat.

Lalu Nabi s.a.w. bersabda, “Kaum yang hidup sesudahku. Mereka beriman kepadaku, dan mereka tidak pernah melihatku, mereka membenarkanku, dan mereka tidak pernah bertemu dengan aku. Mereka menemukan kertas yang menggantung, lalu mereka mengamalkan apa yang ada pada kertas itu. Maka, mereka-mereka itulah yang orang-orang yang paling utama di antara orang-orang yang beriman”. [Musnad Abî Ya’lâ, hadits nomor 160].

Bahasa Kita! Cintailah ia!

Kisah ini berlaku pada tahun lepas, tetapi saya belum berkesempatan untuk menulisnya.

Mohd Ihsan (pada tahun 2007) telah dimasukkan ke Pusrawi, wad pediatrik kerana disyaki bengkak kelenjar.
Wad pediatrik, dindingnya dipenuhi lukisan-lukisan menarik perihal binatang-binatang dan juga kartun-kartun.

Satu hari, saya membawanya keluar dari bilik wadnya, bermain di halaman yang terdapat mainan-mainan, kegemaran Ihsan bermain teko, tuang-tuang air ke gelas-gelas.

Terdapat seorang nenek membawa cucunya ke sana juga. Dia menunjukan seekor ikan kepada cucunya, seraya berkata " Dolhpin"..Ulangnya lagi "Dolphin"

Ihsan berhenti bermain, memandang kepada mereka, dan berkata " Bukan Dolhpin lah..ikan lumba-lumba!"

Saya hanya diam...

people has spoken

congrats Malaysia, I couldnt be more proud to be able to participate and witness this significant era towards a greater freedom and transparency...

between humility of tuk guru and arrogance of a timbalan ketua pemuda
a sleeping leader and (non eligible to contest) de facto leader
the new tiger of jelutong and old news information minister...

photogenic awek of lembah pantai (pewiiit) and outgoing awek of lembah pantai...
the bocor man of kinabatangan and the lion of bukit gelugor
its a new dawn in parliment and DUNs

and David has won against goliath.....

Election Advise a.k.a Tazkirah

Oleh Dr. Mohd. Asri Zainul Abidin

The good mufti without being biased mentioned of the amanah (responsibilty) of choosing a good and able candidates, because it is directly have an impact towards our life here and hereafter. He writes in a sort of old malay style of writing...artistic ..

'Saya amat tertarik dengan surat Sayidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq yang mengandungi wasiat tentang calon pilihannya dalam menggantikan beliau yang ketika itu teramat uzur. Beliau meminta Sayidina ‘Uthman menulis untuknya seperti berikut: “Dengan nama Allah Yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Penyayang.

Inilah apa yang diamanatkan oleh Abu Bakr bin Abi Quhafah pada waktu terakhir kehidupan di dunia dan sedang keluar daripadanya, serta permulaan kehidupannya di akhirat dan sedang masuk ke dalamnya. Di mana ketika seperti ini seorang kafir akan beriman, seorang yang jahat akan yakin, dan seorang pembohong akan bercakap benar. Aku melantik untuk kamu semua selepas aku ini ‘Umar bin al-Khattab.

Dengar dan taatlah kepadanya. Sesungguhnya aku tidak akan melewatkan sebarang kebaikan untuk Allah (keredaan-Nya), Rasul-Nya, agama-Nya, diriku dan kamu semua. Sekiranya dia (Umar) berlaku adil, maka itulah sangkaan dan pengetahuanku mengenainya. Jika dia mengubahnya (kepada tidak adil), maka setiap orang akan menanggung dosa yang telah dilakukannya.

Aku bertujuan untuk kebaikan dan aku tidak pula mengetahui yang ghaib (keadaan masa hadapan). Maka nanti mereka yang zalim akan mengetahui di manakah tempat kesudahan mereka. Wassalam ‘alaikum warahmatullah.” (Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 3/200, Beirut: Dar al-Fikr). Surat ini menggambarkan betapa Sayidina Abu Bakr sedarkan dirinya dan kita semua bahawa soal pemilihan mereka yang akan menguasai urusan rakyat mempunyai kaitan yang amat besar dengan dosa dan pahala dan penghakiman Allah terhadap kita pada hari kiamat kelak.'

aeab

What Makes A Man

sourced from the star
Malaysian men rate sex and romance lowly when it comes to masculinity. To them, manhood means having a good job, taking care of the family and ensuring enough money.

I couldnt agree more, wouldnt it be refreshing to hear that.

In one of Grammy's moment, Barry and Robin of Bee Gees mentioned the measure of a men is his family when acknowledging their brothers, Maurice who died in January 2003.

How he raised them, spend time with them, guide them and most importantly be the role model for their sons and daugthers.

The measure of a men is his family, and that defines masculinity!

If his family stay with him through thick and thin, that speaks volume of that man

aeab

what is network? 3 years old ask

from my blog

My 3 year old son, Muhammad Ihsan asked me suddenly, when he saw me focused on my laptop (running on Fedora 8) ..

'Ayah network tu apa? ' translated as 'What is a network?'

I was dumbfounded...before i could open my mouth..to say something...or anything...

He shot back 'Network tu katun la ayah...' ..

my innocent 2

an angelic smile
probing your heart
and make you stand, to face the day
and holding your principles tightly
when the world seems so ignorant
men of hollow mind
and shout your mind and be seen with it
and then you realized
you are alone
deserted
and yet
and you can do it
thousand days more
with that angelic smile
To carry on..to change the world
by:
aeab@iiu.edu.my

al-quran

Assalamualaikum

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Aku, Sesat Dan Petunjuk

moga hidup terus dalam perjuangan...
hati kena kental..
sekali melangkah tak undur...
Bagi aku petunjuk...
Undur aku sesat...
Takbir!





pics from Syeikh Kickdefella (used without permission)..

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Tudung

liza muses:

I'm not big on hospital actually. I hate it. But somehow, this year most of my time had been spent in a hospital. If not me, it'll be one of my children. Since 13th June 2007, my fourth child Muhammad Ihsan has been warded at the Hospital Pusrawi due to a swollen lymph node at the back of his neck. The doctor says it could be anything from simple bacterial infection to (the worst case scenario) lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatics. Ihsan has been having the swelling for nearly a month now, and he's been on antibiotics eversince then, but the swelling had not yet subsided. And the doctor has given another week to wait, if the swelling is still there by next week, Ihsan will have to undergo a biopsy of the swollen lymph node. Hopefully he'll get better by this week.

kenduri

how much is enough?...

Pramugara Yang Terlampau and No Backbone

liza muses:

What? What? Again?

I'm not asking that about him anyway. I'd like to ask the girl who got video-recorded doing shameful acts with him: Just what were you thinking? You knew he got a bad record already (his previous Kisah Penghidupan Seorang Pramugara Yang Terlampau was widespread and it created quite a stir and that time). OK, so you were blindly in love with him maybe, but what? What are the reasons that made you agreed to do it????

I just don't understand it. So people say Cinta itu Buta, when you're in love you give everything like Jiwa dan Raga and all... it's bullshit you know. I do love others, but don't we have the responsibility to love ourselves first? Think about it. Think before we act; will the act that we are pursuing cause any bodily, emotional, financial, spiritual harm to ourselves? If it does, why continue? OK, so you've done it, and it was a mistake, can you repair it before it's too late? I'm not saying that I've never made a mistake in my life, actually I did a lot. But I learned from them, I try not repeat the same mistake twice. You can also take examples of other people's mistakes. The news is actually a good source of people's mistakes.

Oh God, now I've become a rambling, babbling, nagging grandmother. Not grandmother, not yet, mother maybe.

By the way, I will be discharged from the hospital today. Yippee! I didn't have to bribe the good doctor anyway. Anyway, I don't know where have two pieces of my backbone gone, they replaced them with super titanium clips, so now, I'm nearly 0.3% a cyborg. Yippee again! I just hope that the scanner at the airport doesn't go buzz when I get thru it.

First batch engineering UIA..

liza muses:

At these particular times of sleeping, eating, resting.. err practically doing nothing.. I got to thinking. It's been quiet a while since I contact my dear dear friends from UIA, especially 1st batch engineering. Maybe this illness of mine is a time given by Allah so that I would reflect all those good moments together.

I remember at one time when The X Files was a rage, we; the 1st batch girls; me, Zura, Ijan, Yatie, Azie, and sometimes Tuti, Julaiha, Juliana, Kin Kon (sorry hehe!), Farah, Ikin, Hamna, Shireen, Zahra (our only Iranian gang member); would take out tools; screw driver, hammer, etc; and pried open the TV room door just to be able to watch Mulder and Scully. We even made a makeshift alarm system (ijan with her slippers) so that we'll know if anybody especially the guards came for a check. Engineering girls...what do you expect?

One other time, we managed to scare Mazlan (the horrible guard) out of his skin by wearing our telekung tops and pretend we were ghosts. We didn't mean to actually, it was 4am and we were supposed to attend a night time jemaah prayer (qiammullail) at the campus, but Mazlan would not open the gate, so.. you know then what happened. Hilarious actually, we saw him ducking under his desk!

Ok girls, my friends.. I really miss you. I know we don't have much free time now, what with the kids, job and all. But I suppose we can work out something for old times sake. What do you think?



Me with a new friend.. hmm always trying to get into my shirt...notice his tail?

my email tulipindigo@yahoo.com

Baking my butt

liza muses:

I'm still in the hospital. No sign I'll be coming home soon. The doc was kind of reluctant when I asked to be discharged this morning. Think maybe I need to bribe the good doctor just to be allowed to go home..haha!

My other half (darling hubby, aeab) is busy, busy, busy, so I have to make do with other activities today. I snooped out of my 4mx4m cell at about 10 am today, and got lost for about an hour window shopping in the only convenience shop at the hospital lobby. Just imagine what my life would be like if not for the shop. I only snapped out of my shoppaholic state when I received a call from the nurses' station. It was time for my therapy. Oh god... now here I am, baking my butt under the infra-red lamp.Hmm.. 20 minutes more to go.

Anyway, just read in Harian Metro Online (8 Mac 2007), that there's another case of naked pictures of a schoolgirl being distributed by somebody at her school. The pix were supposedly taken by her then boyfriend during their love frenzy. How can somebody be so stupid? Why would you want somebody to take your naked photos? You're not getting paid, most of the time you end up paying a huge sum to the photographer. Even Anna Nicole Smith (RIP) was smart enough to demand a huge payment from Playboy. Not that I'm saying I approve if you get paid, but think about it, any half stupid half smart (maybe) person would say no to that kind of photography what with the easiness of spreading them thru multiple communication channels. I would say, these kind of people are beyond stupid. No matter how much you're in love with someone, just say NO. Love can go wrong, you can fall out of love anytime. Think about it.

Cravings

liza muses:
I was just sitting doing nothing (not exactly nothing; more like trying to reach my tongue to my nose)on the hospital bed this morning when I suddenly had the cravings for boiled tapioca chunks (hot from the pot) with grated coconut plus gula melaka and a huge pot of freshly brewed black 'kopi tenom'. I can almost smell the fragrance of the coffee as though I was back at my mom-in-law's house in Putatan, Sabah. Other types of coffee I've tasted don't really have the kicks that kopi tenom has. I just couldn't stand the cravings. I had to have some right away...
I furiously made phone calls to my people (you know... my husband who else ), unfortunately.. he can only go back to our house to get some supplies of the coffee after his office hours end. For the time being I just have to continue doing what I was doing earlier (trying to reach my nose with my tongue) until my knight in shining armour arrives in 7 hours. Hmmmm...
here's a pic of the said coffee to whet your appetite!

Never mind that..
I've been here for almost a week now due to back pains, and for a week now my back has been probed, pressed, pinched, kneaded, poked with needles, electrocuted, slow-cooked (using infra-red rays)and all other kinds of tortures imaginable from the therapists but I have yet to feel any improvements. Pain not reduced, flexibility not improved, but... I admit, I do feel rested here. Like I said, there's exactly nothing to do except rest, sleep, watch tv, and the 'tortures' twice daily. Hah... I do miss kopi tenom...waaahhhhh!!!

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