La Tahzan La Tahzan La tahzan

Life is a university for us. Let's strive for all-round success. Hidup ini tarbiyah untuk kita. Ayuh usaha untuk kejayaan dunia dan akhirat.

Sentuhan Ramadhan @ Ghufran  

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Membantu yang susah dan mendamdingi yang muda...

Salam Syababs and Fatayaats!

As you all know Ghufran is the mosque mainly responsible for the well-being of the Muslims living in Tampines and Simei area (though we're never limited/restricted to these areas only) and us being youths of Ghufran are partly responsible too.

Meaning, one day Allah would ask us what had we done to help our Muslim families in Tampines and Simei? While we eat sumptuous meals for breakfast, and lunch and dinner, and not to mention the snacks in between, did we think about those who have the same meal for two days straight? While we save up to buy games, gadgets, pretty clothes, accessories and whatnots, did we think about those who save up just to cover the basic needs of his/her family: shelter, clothing, food, education, health? While we run around and have fun at the beach or go night cycling with friends etc, did we think about those who neither have money to buy/rent a bicycle nor legs to run/cycle with?

Not that I'm asking you to feel bad about yourselves or throw away all the ni'mat you've been allowed to enjoy, but I'm just asking for a little of your time within these two weeks before Ramadhan to visit the low-income families in Tampines and Simei area to help Ghufran give out some basic foodstuff to these families. There's at least 90 families who will be benefitting from this initiative, we just need people to help us distribute the foodstuff to them, and I'm extending this opportunity to you to do your part for them...

Look at your schedules and let me know here or via sms or MSN when you'd be free to help. Let me know the date and time, and if possible, also who else is able to go with you. This is something good right? So why do alone? Get the others to help as well! :)

Thank you and hope to hear some enthusiastic replies!

Last but not least, a reminder to myself as well, let's not forget to be thankful to Allah for all the ni'mat He has showered on us...

فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (as repeated in Surah Ar-Rahman)

- on behalf of the Social Development Unit in Ghufran... :D







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Urgh!  

Friday, August 07, 2009

I'm like not meant to EVER sit for my driving test. Urgh!!!

I was supposed to sit for my TP test on 28th July and for SOME "divine" reason (which I've yet to find out WHAT), the TP officer said my name isn't on the list. Like... WHAAAAT??? I mean I remember clicking the confirm button, I remember double checking on the site. My mistake was to not calling up Ubi CDC to confirm that the fee for the TP has been deducted or not to indicate confirm confirm confirm that my online application for test date had been received...

Ok takpe takpe. Sabar...

Nak book for another test date tak boleh. Cos the earliest next TP test date is in November and my FTT expires in September.

So kena book for FTT date... Which I did, on the 28th itself.

The 3 dates available for FTT is 11th Aug, 12th Aug and 13th Aug. My first week of classes at NIE!! What to do kan... apply je lar. I took 12th so in the case I need to find my lecturer to explain my leave can do so on 11th.

How would I know I'd have lecture on 12th kan??? Timetable baru kluar niari sehhhhh. If it had come out before 28th, obviously I'd choose a date which doesn't clash with class la kan???

NIE called me today to say that my application for leave of absence has been rejected for the reason that I applied for FTT after 23rd July, the registration date. -_-'

I fought my case uh, how would I know then that I'd have class on 12th since my timetable comes out only today??

Even fought my case by explaining my situation that I only applied for FTT on the 28th because of that whole hoo haa about my TP test date not being entered into the system.

Still cannot. She insisted that I should know that I'll be entering NIE and should be fully committed to the course. That if I had applied for FTT before 23rd July THEN the leave would be accepted.

*Sigh* What more can I say kan? That I was hoping against hope??

But I did ask, what if my lecturer allows me to miss his lecture for my test... The officer said then that shall be a mutual understanding between me and my lecturer, but the Foundations Programmes Office shall ignore my application for leave....

I've e-mailed my Physical Chemistry professor yesterday explaining that I had applied for leave but yet to receive a reply from the office...

I don't know if I should e-mail him again to inform that my leave has been rejected.

$12 for FTT that I'm not gonna sit for. Plus the $190 I gave my instructor for the TP... of which he says he'll try to recalculate and give me refund where possible (cos he had to pay for dunno what what). How much already y'know!

My own money la seh...

I actually had the cheek to ask the officer who called just now if NIE will refund me for the fee I'd paid for my FTT that I won't get to sit for.

Obviously the answer is no.

So demoralised already.

I remember Azhar's words. Two things that could help you pass your TP. 1) doa from mother. 2) the right niat for wanting to pass TP.

Probably that's the reason all these isn't turning out the way I expect: aku takde niat pon nak pass TP ni. Aiyooooo.

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Our Prayers  

As shared by Zahidah...

I love this reminder, cam dapat menguatkan tekad. InsyaAllah. InsyaAllah.

I came upon this article as I was browsing through the net earlier. Masya'Allah, it was so well written, and serves as a big reminder for us all.



There were only 15 minutes left before Salat-ul Isha.
He quickly made Wudhu and performed Salat-ul Maghrib.

While making Tasbih, he again remembered his grandmother and was,
embarrassed by how he had prayed.
His grandmother prayed with such tranquility and peace.

He began making Dua and went down to make Sajdah and stayed like that for
a while.
He had been at work all day and was tired, so tired.

He awoke abruptly to the sound of noise and shouting.

He was sweating profusely.
He looked around.
It was very crowded.
Every direction he looked in was filled with people.

Some stood frozen looking around, some were running left and right and
some were on their knees with their heads in their hands just waiting.
Pure fear and apprehension filled him as he realized where he was.

His heart was about to burst.
It was the Day of Judgment.
When he was alive, he had heard many things about the questioning on the

Day of Judgment, but that seemed so long ago.

Could this be something his mind made up?

No, the wait and the fear were so great that he could not have imagined
this.
The interrogation was still going on.
He began moving frantically from people to people to ask if his name had

been called.
No one could answer him.
All of a sudden his name was called and the crowd split into two and made
a passageway for him.
Two angels grabbed his arms and led him forward.

He walked with unknowing eyes through the crowd.

The angels brought him to the centre and left him there.

His head was bent down and his whole life was passing in front of his
eyes like a movie.
He opened his eyes but saw only another world.

The people were all helping others.
He saw his father running from one lecture to the other, spending his
wealth in the way of Islam.
His mother invited guests to their house and one table was being set
while the other was being cleared.

He pleaded his case,
‘I too was always on this path.
I helped others.
I spread the word of Allah.
I performed my Salah.
I fasted in the month of Ramadhan.
Whatever Allah ordered us to do, I did.
Whatever he ordered us not to do, I did not.’

He began to cry and think about how much he loved Allah.

He knew that whatever he had done in life would be less than what Allah
deserved and his only protector was Allah He was sweating like never
before and was shaking all over.
His eyes were fixed on the scale, waiting for the final decision.

At last, the decision was made.
The two angels with sheets of paper in their hands, turned to the crowd.

His legs felt like they were going to collapse.

He closed his eyes as they began
To read the names of those people who were to enter Jahannam.

His name was read first.
He fell on his knees and yelled that this couldn’t be,

‘How could I go to Jahannam?
I served others all my life,
I spread the word of Allah to others’.

His eyes had become blurry and he was shaking with sweat.

The two angels took him by the arms.
As his feet dragged, they went through the crowd and advanced toward the
blazing flames of Jahannam.
He was yelling and wondered if there was any person who was going to help
him.
He was yelling of all the good deeds he had done, how he had helped his
father, his fasts, prayers, the Noble Qur’an that he read, he was asking
if none of them would help him.
The Jahannam angels continued to drag him.

They had gotten closer to the Hellfire.
He looked back and these were his last pleas.

Had not Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said,

‘How clean would a person be who bathes in a river five times a day, so too does the Salah performed five times cleanse someone of their sins’?

He began yelling,
‘My prayers? My prayers? My prayers.?’

The two angels did not stop, and they came to the edge of the abyss of
Jahannam.
The flames of the fire were burning his face.

He looked back one last time, but his eyes were dry of hope and he had
nothing left in him.
One of the angels pushed him in.
He found himself in the air and falling towards the flames.

He had just fallen five or six feet when a hand grabbed him by the arm
and pulled him back.
He lifted his head and saw an old man with a long white beard.

He wiped some dust off himself and asked him,

‘Who are you?’
The old man replied,
‘I am your prayers’.

‘Why are you so late ! I was almost in the Fire !
You rescued me at the last minute before I fell in’.

The old man smiled and shook his head,
‘You always performed me at the last minute, did you forget?’

At that instant, he blinked and lifted his head from Sajdah.

He was in a sweat.
He listened to the voices coming from outside.

He heard the Adhan for Salat-ul Isha.
He got up quickly and went to perform Wudhu.

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What one can derive from this article totally depends on how he perceives it.

One perception of it is to see it as a reminder to us that solat late is better than not solat-ing at all. Which is true. Because we often find ourselves in a situation nowadays in which we could not get away from our work/lecture/whatever else, to perform solat at the exact timing, which is why we often pushed it back. But perhaps what we should ask ourselves is had we done all we could to ensure that we're able to solat on the dot?(:

Another perception of it is to read it and take it as a reminder to solat as a whole. A reminder to us all of how important solat is, that no matter what you have done, no matter how many people you have helped, it doesnt matter how many good deeds that you have done, if you had not once prayed, the you're going down. To narate the Hadith again :

Had not Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said,

‘How clean would a person be who bathes in a river five times a day, so too does the Salah performed five times cleanse someone of their sins’?

It is a person's solat that cleanses him of his sins

Once you thought about it, you'll realise that Allah is not asking for much. Even if you busy, how long can a solat take? 5 mins? 10 mins? Just a little fraction of your time to put away and remember Him. Is that too much to ask for, my friends?

Wallahua'lam Bissowab

But again, I say, I am merely another human among others, not any different from you. Everything that is good comes from Allah S.W.T, the rest comes from myself and my frailities as a human being.

Fi amanillah barakallahu feekum
Salam Alaik.

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Pantang nenek moyang  

Aku pantanggggggg kalau masuk kedai tengok2 merchandise on display, pegang, try then the shopkeeper hover nearby. Hover nearby senyum, offer assistance ok tau. What I hate is when, once you put the merchandise back, the person straightaway straightens the thing or brush the 'dirt' off it. Irritating ok?! If you don't want people to touch and try, go keep your 'display' set back in your store la ehh.

Went to TKC with my mum on Tuesday. There's this shoe shop which pisses us so much we left straightaway, with my mum purposely membebel-ing of course.

I was looking for raya shoes, so I saw one that's quite nice at the display outside. When I try it on, the shopkeeper was like, "Try the shoe inside, outside dirty." I was like, but this shoe is displayed outside what... But ok la takpela, try on, tak kena, put back, belek2 other shoes, try on, put back, then I decide to enter the shop to see the wider range of shoe designs kann... Then the shopkeeper passed by me to straighten back the shoes I just put back, and HELLO I put the shoes back neatly ok! And I hardly took one step, he already did that. Apelagi, reflex action la kann: I rolled my eyes. My mum had witnessed the whole thing and cakap, "Dah, yok, gi kedai lain sudah. Orang pegang tak boleh, try tak boleh, simpan sudah kasut2 dia, bla bla bla" and we left the shop.

Irritating shopkeeper.

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Hruf Hijaiyah  

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Addictive song sehh...

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Some Random Sharings  

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Cure for Hard Heartedness
Abu Hurairah(R.A.) reported that , a man once came to the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, and complained that he feels hardness in his heart. The Messenger of Allah said, what translated means, "Would you like that your heart becomes soft and that you acquire what you need ? Be merciful with the orphan, pat his head and feed him from what you eat. This will soften your heart." ( Ahmad)

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""God has revealed to me: Whoever walks in the pursuit of knowledge I facilitate for him the way of heaven" (Hadith)"

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do not be diheartened! for there is hope:
formula one
knowledge + amal + iman = LOVING ALLAH
- as we all know, knowledge is veryyyyy important. for without knowledge, it is as if we are living in the dark. however so, having the knowledge but not doing anything to it, it is almost pointless.

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