Ayah

Lelaki ini tidak pernah kenal erti putus asa
Lelaki ini tidak pernah jemu membahagiakan orang lain
Lelaki ini tidak pernah lelah mencari rezeki dan nafkah
Lelaki ini tidak penah lokek berkongsi ilmu dan pengalaman
Lelaki ini tidak pernah lupa untuk sentiasa mendoakan orang-orang di sekelilingnya
Lelaki ini tidak pernah mengungkap sayang dengan kata-kata tapi melalui perbuatannya

Lelaki ini sering tersenyum dan membuat orang lain tersenyum
Malah air matanya akan mengundang air mata orang yang menyanginya
Oleh itu, anak ini tidak sanggup melihat walau setitik air matanya menitis kerana ia sangat menyakitkan
Biarlah air matanya itu tanda bahagia, bukan tanda derita

Andai ramai yang sedang sibuk menyambut Hari Bapa, satu hari tidak cukup untuk menceritakan setiap kasih dan sayang seorang lelaki yang kupanggil Ayah..
Andai ramai yang mendedikasikan lagu-lagu bapa kepada bapa mereka, lirik lagu tersebut tidak cukup untuk meceritakan setiap titisan peluh ayah yang membahagiakan keluargaku..

Usah jadikan hari tertentu untuk menghargai bapa atau ayah..
Usah jadikan sesuatu yang tertentu untuk meluahkan rasa sayang kepada ayah..
Kita tidak perlukan hari tersebut, tapi apa yang lebih penting ialah kewujudan ayah dan doa kita buat dia itu lebih bermakna buat bekalan bapa-bapa yang sudah bertemu Tuhan..
Dan tulisan ini juga tidak mampu mencatat setiap pengorbanan si dia yang ku panggil Ayah..

Doaku agar Ayah sentiasa dirahmati dengan umur yang berkat, rezeki yang rahmat dan kebahagian yang selamat dunia akhirat..
Doaku agar ku mampu menjalankan tanggungjawab sebagai anak setelah Ayah menjalankan tanggungjawabnya dengan baik sebagai seorang Ayah..
Doaku agar Ayah dilindungi Allah setiap masa dan syukurku kepada Allah kerana kurniakan Ayah sebagai Ayah yang terbaik di antara yang terbaik..

Semoga satu hari nanti ada insan yang bisa jadi Ayah kepada bakal generasiku sepertimu Ayah!

Book: Fahrenheit 451

This book was recommended by one of my goodread's friend. She even lend me her book long time ago and I just finished reading this book on May 2011.

It's all about a life as a fireman. As we know, a fireman must be ready to perform job functions such as fighting fires, rescuing people or animals from burning or collapsed buildings and providing emergency medical assistance. Firemen also work with police, providing general assistance at accident and crime scenes. BUT, the main character in this book, Mr. Montag, works as a fireman who doesn't put out fires but start them in order to burn books, contradiciting to the real responsibility as a fireman.

Books are prohibited in the city. Any person who has books will be reported and firemen will straight away go to that house and burn all the books, and in one case, the book owner was burned together with her books. Montag has bad feeling about that and for the first time he thought that he realized that there was a man behind each one of books where he had think and had to take long time to put idea down on paper.

At the same time, he had a weird feeling after had meetings with his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

I love when the author is trying to highlight the importance of book when Montag had chats with Faber. There are three important points:

1. Book absolutely has quality of information. That quality means texture. It has pores, has good features. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more literary you are. Its quality tells more about life and truth.
   
2. Book fulfills with leisure to digest it. It contradicts to television and book's leisure is totally different with television.
3. Book has the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the previous points. It speaks without voices.
   

And I'm sure there are more points about the importance of books. Read books, appreciate books, and maybe one day you will be books.. 6__^

Home Alone 7

I'm HOME but ALONE..

Why se7en? Because I love 7, but actually I'm alone at this home for around 7 days.

Luckily, I have bObO.

Thanks for accompanying me dear~

**My 'Home Alone' is not related to any series of 'Home Alone' Movie.. :)

A Death Calling

Innalillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return..

It was a second time that I received call during my lecture in class which telling about someone's death. The first one was my grandfather's and the second one was by brother-in-law's (8th June 2011). It was decided by Allah. That death is a calling from Him..

Condolences to my sister for her husband gone forever and will not coming back in this world. Hopefully Allah will give her a strong patience to survive her life with her two sons. I will always be there if you need me sis... I will be your good listener. I will offer myself to take care of your sons and you can ask me everything, I'm trying to help you as best as I can..

It was the first time ever that my house preparing for dead man and keep receiving visitors and guests who wanna share their condolences and sympathies. Thank you for everyone.

Thanks Allah for remind all of us that death is coming to everyone regardless of their age, health condition, status, religion, race, educational background or any thing else. When it will come? Allah knows.. Allah knows.. Allah knows...

The question should be asked to ourselves is: Are we ready??

**You can download Death: A Gift for a Believer HERE

The Best Teaching Profession

"Miss.. Miss..". A student called me and get closer to me.

"Assalamualaikum. How are you?"

"Waalaikumussalm. It's been long time not see you in this college.."

"I'm still teaching here". I replied with a smile.

"Miss, I need your help, but... Guys, could you please go first, I wanna talk to my lecturer for a while". She asked her two friends go for not listening to our discussion.

"Yes, continue. If I can help, I'll try my best". I have a responsibility to help any of my students if they need help especially in study matters.

"Miss.. hmm.. I need help. I think that I want to learn al-Quran from you." I keep silent waiting for her explanation. "I am so jealous when I see many of my friends already khatam al-Quran, and they can read very well. I'm still remember your advice in last semester about reading al-Quran. Miss, please teach me. I will pay..."

Before I give any answer, my mind go back to a memory of teaching subject Usrah every Friday morning. This is compulsory subject for Muslim students. Many of them can read al-Fatihah very well but unable to write it well and not understand the meaning of that surah. At the same time, I realized that there are many students cannot read Quran in a good way with good Tajweed. And the student in front of me is among those who cannot read al-Quran due to lack of religious knowledge.

She even told me her personal problem which related to her family problem. She never learned al-Quran during her childhood because she entered international school. She agreed to further study in this college because of her grandmother, and her mother still does not allow her to study here. My heart said that I should help her...

"Dear, InsyaAllah, I will try to help you, but please do not pay anything. Arrange your time first, then come and tell your free time. I will arrange my free time as well."

"Miss, thanks miss... I'm really want to read Quran correctly. Thank you Miss. Thank You."

After that short meeting, I'm still remember her face and I'm waiting her call for our first Quranic class. Praise be to Allah to give her guidance and please always show us the right path to be among those people in Jannah..

A beautiful Hadith from Prophet Muhammad PBUH: “The best among you is the one who learns Quran and teaches it” (Bukhari). It shows the significance of Quran teaching profession in the eyes of our Prophet PBUH. Any person who learn Quran and then teaches it to the others, enjoys a very reputable and high status in the eyes of our Prophet Muhammad PBUH.

Then, the Prophet (PBUH) also said: "The one who is proficient in the recitation of the Quran will be with the honourable and obedient scribes (angles) and he who recites the Quran and finds it difficult to recite, doing his best to recite it in the best way possible, will have a double reward." (Bukhari and Muslim). May Allah give such rewards to my students.

There are many rewards of reciting the Quran. An authentic hadith in At-Tirmithee states: "Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah, he will have a reward. And that reward will be multiplied by ten. I am not saying that “Alif, Laam, Meem” is a letter, rather I am saying that “Alif” is a letter, “laam” is a letter and “meem” is a letter.” So, lets increase our recitation of the Qur’an to gain these merits and rewards given by Allah.

May Allah make us never forget to read Quran even once per day.

Hadith: Se7en Under God's Shadow

"There are seven whom God will shade with His shade on the Day 
when there is no shade except His; 

a just ruler, 

a youth who grew up in the worship of His Lord,

a man whose heart is attached to mosques, 

two men who love each other only for God's sake, meeting and parting for that love,

a man who resists the call of a woman of noble birth and beauty to commit fornication, but he refuses and says "I fear God", 

a man who gives charity secretly so that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given 

and a man whose eyes flood with tears whenever he remembers God in private."

(Narrated by Bukhari and Muslim)

Further explanation of this Hadith can be read HERE.

**LOVE this Hadith so muchh..

A Story of Pencil

I wanna share a story of a pencil.. yeah.. pencil.. as I read from Like The Flowing River written by Paulo Coelho. It was a simple story but with thousand meanings.

Ok, the story begin....

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point, he asked:
"Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?"

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
"I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up."
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn't seem very special. "But it's just like any other pencil I've ever seen ! "

"That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world..

First quality: You are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand of God, and He always guides us according to His will (refer God to Allah only, the best guidance is Quran and Sunnah).

Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.. (yeah, no pain, no gain... Suffer might makes you become better person..)

Third quality: the pencil always allow us to use an eraser to rub out out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice. (using pen cannot be erased except using liquidpaper, and it's messy..so, pencil is better... hehe)

Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So, always pay attention to what is happening inside you.. (it's so true, because, nowadays, we prefer to use mechanical pencil..but the graphite used is still the same.. still can be erased.. still in black colour.. be attentive in your inside rather than outside~!!!)

Finally, the pencil's fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.. (absolutely true.. the mark can be good or bad.. so, use pencil wisely to have good mark as to act correctly as taught by Quran and Sunnah in our life...)

 So, that's it... I bold the important points, and put some of my comments there.. The quality of pencil not only seen in our eyes, think with your mind, and feel with your heart...

Thanks to Paulo Coelho for the simple but nice story..
Thanks also to all my pencils which have the right to be appreciated.. All of you means a lot...
Thanks for the blessing day today..
and the most important Thanks is...
Thank You Allah!