Barisan

*Ini bukan kisah barisan nasional, tapi barisan kanak-kanak muslim, ahli syurga~* ^^

"Allahuakbar, Allahuakbar!" azan zohor sedang berkumandang. 

Aku masuk ke ruang dapur, nak berkemas untuk pulang ke rumah setelah selesai program. Sambil-sambil dok mengemas meja, aku terpandang ke arah tingkap yang menghadap pentas utama di dewan terbuka sekolah itu. Aku ternampak kanak-kanak lelaki, lebih kurang enam orang sedang berdiri beramai-ramai di atas pentas tu. Aku berhenti mengemas sekejap. Salah sorang daripada mereka mula mengangkat takbir, semua mula solat- berjemaah mungkin. Tapi ada yang solat laju, ada yang solat lambat sedikit. Ada yang macam ayam patuk. Tak sekata. Aku tersenyum melihat gelagat mereka. Aku memanggil Adibah, dia pun turut senyum melihat adik-adik tu solat. 

Apapun, satu yang aku puji diorang ni- mampu solat awal waktu, yang kadang-kadang kita pun susah nak buat. Diorang cuba laksanakan, mungkin sekarang belum sempurna, tapi insyaAllah akan terterap dalam hati diorang untuk solat sepanjang hidup sebagai seorang Muslim.

Psst!

Teringat pulak pesan sorang ustaz ni, anak-anak perlu dididik dengan gaya hidup Islam. Iman yang mantap, yang mana sekarang memang susah nak terapkan kalau kita sendiri pun tak ada kefahaman Islam yang mantop. 

Bak kata Dr. Muhaya (ayat pemes tiap kali dia berceramah), Jom audit diri!

Live your life,but...

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Trouble no one about their religion;

respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,

even a stranger, when in a lonely place.

Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools

and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled

with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep

and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

-(Act of Valor, 2012)

Biawak's view

"This is a biawak's view," my lecturer commented.
All students in the computer lab laughed.

I realized in photography, we need to look at things from a different perspective. Before I captured this picture, I made a 'view' using my mind's 'eye' on how the result would be look like. So, I imagined the lotus will be much bigger, I won't see the 'teh tarik'-look river, and with nice lighting! And that's the result...

The same goes to my life, I have to look at things from a different perspective, make sure you have the best angle, then, just go with it! It doesn't mean that I need to be the same as others, but I just need to make sure that I am still in the right track.

Laziness

LAZINESS.

Yes. If it comes to you, then expel it.
Laziness & idleness come because we don't know where we are.


This is knowledge-in which there is no room for you to be idle.
This is knowledge-which cause the heart to tremble.
How can you rest and enjoy your idleness- whilst you're dealing with the commodity of Allah?


And if you want to seek knowledge, then fill your heart with the Magnification of Allah.
Know that idleness & laziness will not come to you except due to sins.
And know that knowledge does not come- except due to heedlessness.
And the cure for that is what your Lord has guided you- to increase in seeking for forgiveness and repent towards Allah.
And say:

" O' Allah, I seek refuge in You from You preventing good- due to the evil in me"

So ask Allah to forgive you from the sins that is between you and this knowledge.
There is no prevention worse than being prevented from knowledge and action.

*This is an excerpt of Sheikh Muhammad Mukhtar al-Shinqti's advice on knowledge*


*I also provide the video, for a full version of the video.*

Just do it!

*Yang masih exam, teruskan berjuang bersenjatakan pen & ilmu di dada yang dituntut sepanjang semester*

Kadang kita takut nak jadi rajin baca buku.

Takut digelar ulat buku, budak rajin pergi library.

Tapi sepanjang pengamatan aku semester ni, baca buku subjek yang kita belajar tu sangat penting, nak dibandingkan dengan slideshow(s) & nota yang lecturer bagi semata-mata.

Yah, kawan & lecturer pun mainkan peranan jugak untuk ubah mindset aku yang dulu asyik fikir belajar cuma untuk grad & kerja je. 

Tapi sekarang, aku rasa best pulak belajar, sebab ilmu tu sendiri. 

Teringat ada sorang brother ni selalu post kat facebook, ingatkan untuk rajin membaca, etc.

Alhamdulillah, I love the environment & people around me, that always remind me to learn only for the sake of Allah & also the 'ilm. Now, I do enjoy my learning  process. :D