Hadiah alam..

Dengan Nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Mengasihani.

Kadangkala, Allah hilangkan sekejap matahari.



Kemudian, didatangkanNya pula guruh dan kilat.



.. Puas kita menunggu dan mencari, di mana matahari..

Rupa-rupanya, Allah nak hadiahkan kita pelangi :).



Allah Hafeez =)

The Hardened Heart

Dengan Nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Mengasihani.

'The Hardened Heart', might be a lenghty reading.. but that's for what it's worth. :)
(Iqra' bismirabik allazi khalaq..)

The Hardened Heart.

The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah for the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

If four matters are exceeded in quantity, beyond what is necessary, the heart shall become hardened:
Food, sleep, speech and sexual intercourse. A body afflicted by disease does not derive nourishment from food or water, similarly a heart diseased by desire does not benefit from admonishment or exhortation.

Whosoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires.

The heart which is clinging to its desires is veiled from Allah, commensurate to the degree that it is attached to them. The hearts are the vessels of Allah upon His earth, hence the most beloved of them to Him, are the ones most compassionate, pure and resistant to deviation.

They (the transgressors) preoccupied their hearts [in the pursuance] of the Dunya, would that they preoccupied them with Allah and the Hereafter, then surely they would have reflected upon the intended meaning of His poignant Words and Verses. Their hearts would have returned to their masters with a wisdom, marvelously curious and [in possession] of the rarest of precious gems.

If the heart is nourished with remembrance, its thirst quenched with contemplation and cleansed from corruption, it shall witness remarkable and wondrous matters, inspiring wisdom.

Not every individual is endowed with knowledge and wisdom, and assumes its character is from amongst its people. Rather the People of Knowledge and Wisdom are those who infused life into their hearts by slaying their desires. As for the one who slew his heart and vitalized his desires, then knowledge and wisdom are naked upon his tongue.

The destruction of the heart occurs by security [in this Dunya] and negligence, its fortification occurs by fear and remembrance. If the heart renounces the pleasures of the Dunya, it settles upon the [pursuance] of the pleasures of the Hereafter, and amongst those who call towards it. Should the heart become content with the pleasures of the Dunya, those pleasures [of the Hereafter] cease [to continue].

Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquil, and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed.

For the love of Allah shall not enter a heart which contains the love of this world, except as a camel which passes through the eye of a needle.

Hence, the most beloved servant before Allah is the one whom He places in His servitude, whom He selects for His love, whom He causes to purify his worship for Him, dedicates his objectives for Him, his tongue for His remembrance, and his limbs for His service.

The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression].
It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance.
It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa.
It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

By: Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah Source: www.islaam.com

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Allahumma,
Terangi hati kami dengan cahaya Hidayah Mu,
..sebagaimana Engkau terangi bumi Mu dengan cahaya mentari Mu,
Hidup suburkanlah hati kami dengan Ma'rifat Mu,
..sebagaimana segar suburnya bumi Mu selepas hujan,
abadan abada, Ya Rahim Ya Rahman.

Allah Hafeez =)

Ingat 5 perkara..

Dengan Nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Mengasihani.

Ramadhan Mubarak! :)

Hari ni hari pertama puasa tahun ni. (merangkap puasa kedua jauh dari keluarga, huhu). Alhamdulillah, dapat meraikan meriah hadir Ramadhan. Macam selalu-selalu, kita simpan harapan, niat, hasrat untuk menghargai Ramadhan sebaik mungkin, menghiasi Ramadhan dengan amalan sesempurna yang boleh. In sya Allah, kali ni sama-sama kita realisasikan harapan dan impian jadi kenyataan, tak lagi tinggal anganan kosong.. kalau tahun lepas dah baik, kita tambha-tambahkan baiknya untuk tahun ni.. Ayuh!! :)

Trip HELWA.

Minggu lepas, ikuti lawatan ke Co. Clare. Menarik. Yang paling best (sebab utama saya join lawatan), ziarah ke Cliffs of Moher! (alah, westlife pernah buat klip lagu kat situ). Lihat matahari terbenam dari atas tebing tinggi, dengan cahaya jingganya terbias dipermukaan air laut. subhanallah.. cantik sangat.

Dan ke Bunratty Castle, Birr Castle dan beberapa tempat comel lain.
(kalau ada kesempatan, boleh bercerita lagi panjang.. berserta foto sekali, jika ada.. bi iznillah)

Batuk-batuk 'winter'.

Dublin sekarang udah mula sejuk. Ada bagus dan tidaknya. Bagus, sebab waktu puasa tak rasa letih sangat, dan tempoh berpuasa pun lebih pendek ;). Tak berapa bagus, sebab sistem pertahanan badan diserang dengan hebat sekali. Natijahnya, 'simptom musim sejuk' dapat dilihat pada ramai pelajar-pelajar di sini (batuk-batuk, perit tekak, sakit kepala, selsema.. kesian).

Humm.. batuk-batuk winter saya sudah meleret hampir lebih seminggu. (liat makan ubat sebab tak mau manjakan diri dengan dadah-dadah doktor! :p).

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Pesan Junjungan Mulia, Nabi Muhammad (SAW) agar kita ingat, kita hargai 5 perkara sebelum datang 5 perkara ;

Muda sebelum Tua,
Kaya sebelum Miskin,
Lapang sebelum Sempit,
Sihat sebelum Sakit,
Hidup sebelum Mati.

Ramadhan Kareem :)
Allah Hafeez.