Bismillah, walhamdulillah, wassolatu wassalam 'ala habibillah

usrahrpi blogger tu sebenarnya do we really need it? Maybe we should all think about why we have it in the first place and whether it's meeting the purpose, uses, and gratifications that we intended for it.

Kalau jawapannya tak - then perlu fikir samada are we able to and do we want to use it for the purpose, ataupun it is a waste of energy dan tak perlu focuskan lagi pada blogger tu (buang je).

Kalau jawapannya ya, then inshaAllah we should go on with it and do our best, inshaAllah.
"Menyeluk pekasam biar sampai ke hujung lengan"
Jangan kata 'ya' tp tiada usaha dan seriousness.


He then said, 'Tell me about Ihsan'.
He said, 'It is to worship Allah as if you see Him, for though you do not see Him, surely He sees you'.

Comments? Much needed.

bismillahi rahmani rahim

in the name of Allah
the Most Compassionate
the Most Merciful



compassion is lost from humanity


...
illa man rahima ar Rahman



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let them fight
with their tanks
and precision bombs
gamut of weapons


though we lack
material forces
and substance
we will do what we can
we will fight
with the best weapon



"And know this Abu Lahb, God does fight on the side of your nephew."





surely
we will fight
and keep fighting
with the best weapon




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yet,


compassion is lost from humanity


...
illa man rahima ar Rahman

Pray for Fallujah 

By Sara Khorshid
Staff Writer – IslamOnline 
15/11/2004 

“Listen, listen, the warplanes,” Abu Mohammed cried. I could hear the planes over the phone. “They are over us, over the house, almost 10 meters away.” Tonight is the last night of Ramadan, and tomorrow is the first day of the Islamic feast `Eid Al-Fitr. Abu Mohammed is currently in Al-Amiriyah neighborhood in Baghdad, with his family, and 4 other families who fled Fallujah a few months ago.

“We are 45 people in one house,” his daughter Inas said. She complained about the difficulty of living with so many people in a very small house. But her aunt Umm Waddah is grateful that she could find a place to stay in. “At least we are better off than the Fallujans currently living in tents, or on Baghdad’s streets with no place at all to shelter them.”

Those in Baghdad might be better off than Fallujans still locked inside their hometown, which is currently being razed to the ground by the US Army. Everything is being wiped out. “The residential areas, our houses, they are all destroyed. They bombed the hospital, the clinics, the doctors, the infrastructure, everything,” Abu Mohammed said.

Even the animals, the trees—the snipers spread all over Fallujah shoot at any motion they spot. “They shoot at the animals moving in the streets, the trees waving their leaves in the wind,” describes Umm Omar, who managed to leave Fallujah yesterday.

Her nephew was killed a week ago, but his body still lies on the street. “They haven’t even let us pull his body to the house.” She couldn’t help crying. Death is overwhelming. An old man they originally didn’t know died in her house. They found him bleeding at the door. Taking him inside didn’t help a lot. Phones don’t work; and if they worked, there are no more doctors in Fallujah anyway, as they were all expelled by US and Iraqi forces and weren’t let back in. So the strange old man bled for three days until he died inside the house.       

Umm Waddah left Fallujah after her neighbors’ house was destroyed and the remains of their bodies scattered to her roof.

Houses are full of injured civilians left to bleed to death; the streets are full of dead bodies, which lie there until US tanks roll over them.

“Inside the house, everything is shaking because of the strength of the raids from airplanes very low in the sky. If we run outside, the planes are right over us,” says Umm Usama, who left Fallujah two weeks ago.

Another Fallujan woman, Umm Waddah, left Fallujah after a US rocket destroyed the house opposite to hers, and the remains and flesh of its inhabitants’ bodies scattered to her house’s roof. The next day, she and her family ran off to Baghdad. She prays that her old neighbors, the Ghanems, rest in peace.

And she asks, “What have we done? Our women and children got killed, our youth got killed, our houses got demolished; why?” The interim Iraqi government’s politicians and US Army spokesmen say that they are after “terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi” who, they believe, is hiding in Fallujah along with his followers, “the insurgents.”

“What Zarqawi? Where is Al-Zarqawi? Is he a ghost?” asks Umm Usama. “There is no Zarqawi in Fallujah, no Arab fighters as they claim.” In the name of Al-Zarqawi 1200 people have been killed in Fallujah—according to the American military, which describes the victims as “insurgents” and “guerillas.” Eyewitnesses say the dead are civilian residents.

“Our neighbor’s house was raided; they killed her and two other women, two men, and two children—eight people—in the name of Al-Zarqawi.” One of the women was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Her fetus got out of her body and stayed alive for 6 hours then died, according to the neighbors and relatives who retrieved the bodies from under the rubble.

They were normally asleep at 3:30 a.m. when the rocket fell on their house, flattened it, and killed them all—the mother Hazima Mohsen, her two sons, two daughters, her daughter in law, and three grandsons.

One of Hazima’s daughters, Mona, was “lucky” enough to escape to Baghdad days before her family was killed in the name of Al-Zarqawi. To her, Al-Zarqawi is like the weapons of mass destruction claim. “They came up with the weapons of mass destruction lie to invade Iraq, and they have come up with Al-Zarqawi lie to wipe out Fallujah,” she says.

Twenty months since the invasion and massive destruction of Iraq have revealed that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq Survey Group Report, a CIA report released on October 6, reiterated what has been stated in one report after another: Iraq did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the US invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them.

“And there is no Zarqawi in Fallujah. This is a false, baseless claim,” Mona argues.

They also claim they are liberating Iraq, all of which has been already “liberated,” except for Fallujah, which US forces have retreated from in April, 2004, following a previous tragedy in the very town. They are, once again, trying to subdue it and bring to it “democracy and freedom,” as they brought them to the rest of Iraq.

“We now hate the terms ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’; they are a curse on our people,” Amer Al-Zawbaey said with intense bitterness. Amer is the Baghdadi man hosting Abu Muhammed’s family and four other Fallujan families in his house.

As I listened to the sound of American war planes outside Amer’s house in Baghdad, I could hear children in Cairo playing with fireworks to celebrate the ‘Eid.

The claim of democratizing and liberating Iraq was a pretext for the March 20 invasion, which has resulted in the massive destruction of the country and unprecedented losses for its people. Almost daily car bombs go off in Iraq.  More than 100,000 extra deaths have taken place since the US-led invasion, and the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the invasion (The Lancet, according to research conducted by scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US city of Baltimore). Moreover, unemployment rate has reached 70%, according to a study by the college of economics in Baghdad University.

“[Given this tragic situation], whoever believes that America has invaded and occupied Iraq to bring democracy and freedom is either stupid or in cooperation with the US against the Iraqis,” says Monther Yaakoub, another Fallujan in Baghdad. 

As I listened—over the phone—to the sound of American war planes and tanks outside Amer’s house in Baghdad, where tens of Fallujans sought shelter, I could hear the noise of children in Cairo playing with fireworks to celebrate the end of Ramadan and welcome `Eid Al-Fitr that was to start the next morning in Egypt—and in Iraq. I remembered Mona’s children: “During the continuous air strikes at night in Fallujah, my kids would wake up at night and scream, ‘Mama, our house has fallen, mama; our house has fallen. Where will we go?”

Finally, I am obliged to fulfill my promise to the Fallujans I spoke with and get their calls across through this article: Abu Mohammed calls upon the Western media to cover the horrific situation they are living in. Umm Waddah calls upon the Arabs, who view the Iraqi tragedy on Arab TVs, to act and help their brothers and sister in Iraq. And Umm Usama asks us to pray for Fallujah, and for Iraq.



Sara Khorshid is staff writer for IslamOnline.net
She holds a BA in Political Science from Cairo University. You can reach her at sarakhorshid@islam-online.net. 

Asal itu katanya adalah

Kampung asal,
kampung sejati adalah kampung akhirat
hingga di dunia yang singkat ini
hidup mestinya jauh melampaui batas umur

menempatkan al quran pada asalnya,
sebagai sumber petunjuk bagi jiwa.
dibaca khatam tak lebih dari 40 hari, dihapal sesuai kemampuan
dipahami semua terjemahannyadan tafsirnya lebih rinci
sembari mengajak jiwa dan raga ini
mentaati setiap rinci kehendakNya

kembali pada asal hadist
sebagai sumber petunjuk kedua bagi hidup
dihapal minimal 42 hadist,
bila tak mampu minimal diketahui pokok2nya
juga kitab riyadushshalihin

memulangkan harta pada asal,
bahwa harta milik bukan yang disimpan,
tapi yang dibelanjakan di jalan Allah
harta milik itu hanya titipan,
yang harus dicermati dari mana asal, dan kemana mengalir

mengembalikan malam pada asal
bahwa mestinya, bersujud dan bertasbih
memiliki bilangan detik yang jauh lebih banyak dari tidur
dan itulah hakikat asalnya istirahat
:menyerap kekuatan pada sang empunya kekuatan

pulang ke asal adalah
mengembalikan diri pada fitrahnya,
yang mengabdi hanya padaNya,
satu-satunya.

termasuk memberi cinta dan kemanfaatan bagi
sebanyak mungkin manusia
yang ada pada bulatan bola dunia

...
pulanglah...
pulang ke asal

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Revise :: IFR @ RPI ::
Ramadhan: Vehicle of Eternal Change

1. Ramadhan: Remind, Reflect, Repeat and Reorient.
by Imam Ahmad Kobeisy

-The Prophet said to his companions," It will be common in one time, the one who is holding to the religion, as if he is holding a lid of charcoal in his hand' - menerangkan skrg x popular menjadi muslim berbanding masa zaman nabi and susahnya utk menjaga Iman & Islam dr diri sesorang sbb factor2 environment dan diri sendiri.
-maybe it is easy to start in a right path but it is hard to continue on it.

+ It is not EASY being a muslim : It requires continous struggle throughout the life.
+ The only destination is the PLEASURE of ALLAH azzawajall.

- dr Ibn jauzi menceritakan' ada seorang alim, terpikat dgn seorang perempuan cantik yg tinggal disebelah masjid. and satu hari org alim tu pun berjumpa and propose kat perempuan tuy g dia nak kawen dgn nyer. perempuan tu kata dia x boleh kawen dgn laki tu sbb laki tu islam. and laki tu kata x kisah sbb islam benarkan. and perempuan tu balas, dia kata bapa nyer x kasik unless laki tu masuk christian...so laki tu masuk christian. perempaun tu suruh laki tu btolkan bumbung rumah, and tetiba laki tu jatuh dan mati .. Nauzubillah.
-kalo org buat baik, kita ucap thanks and balas budi baiknyer....so Allah dah jadi kan kita, bg rezeki and segala2 nyer....so? kita kena balas...baik..x kan nak buat jahat? sentiasa igt tu...manusia dan jin dijadikan hanya utk worship Allah.

+ Allah's rights upon humanity : 1-Complete servitude 2- Complete gratitude (for Allah has created us (iijad-creation), He gave us intelligence,hearing, seeing, etc (i'dad-preparation), and He provides the sustenance (imdad-support)
+ Tips for getting the "whole of our lives" as 'ibadah :
1- do only good things : within the boundaries of mandatory and permissible
2- ikhlas and ihsan : everything is solely for the sake of Allah

How to be istiqamah?
-poetry berbunyi ' dispute your ownself and the syaitan and disobey them, they advise, you be sceptical and suspicious. Igt bhw ada suara2 jahat yg berbisik di hati kita... so berhatila2, selalunya kita tau itu adalah 'suara jahat', tp kita ignorance, degil and terikut2 dgn kwn2 dan environment.
-always read quran , baca hari2 walaupon sepotong ayat, sbb Allah suka kalo kita buat stau benda tu continuous dr buat sekali shj.
-have a good companion, who look after you bad deeds and lead you to be a better muslim. amek cth mudah. kalo kita duduk sebilik dgn Imam, sudah pasti kita akan cuba sedaya upaya utk jadi baik dgn dia. sembahyang pd waktu nya dan tak buat perkara2 maksiat...and yg pasti, imam tu akan sentiasa encourage and igtkan kita pd perkara2 kebaikan, and sekaligus kita pon lama2 jadi baik, hati jadi lembut and mudah utk buat benda2 baik


2. + Parallel Session 1: Ramadhan : Rediscovering My True Self
by Sheikh Abdulkadir Elmi
#Fasting : associated to Allah and exclussively FOR Allah
- Allah will reward accordingly
- ordered on every natio
- a 'chance' that is given to the servants of Allah azzawajall

#Allah has given five things to the nations of prophet Muhammad (pbuh) which no other nations had :
1- The 1st night of Ramadhan : Allah looks at the people who intended to fast with the ain al-rahmah (the sight of mercy)
2-The smell of the breath of the fasting person is more beloved to Allah than the smell of the musk.
3-The angles of Allah taala ask for those who fast, that Allah forgive them everyday and everynight in the month of Ramadhan.
4- Allah commands the jannah to decorate itself for those who fast.
5- In the last night of Ramadhan, Allah forgives everyone who has fasted sincerely to Allah

# 2 levels of saum (fasting) :
i) Saum al-umum ( the fast of lay people)
ii) Saum al-khusus ( the fast of the 'special' person) : they protect themselves (their limbs) from all of the haram and makruh things, ghaddu basar (controlling the eyesights)

# Hadeeth Qudsi : The nadrah(sight) is one of the ballad(weapon) of shaytan. Whoever controls his sight for the fear of Allah, Allah says, "I wil substitute the thing which he denied himself with the sweetness of iman in his heart."


3. + Parallel Session 2: After Ramadhan U'oh or Yeah
by Ustaz Fadhl
-pd zaman jahilliah org arab tawaf dgn naked, and lps tu diorg kena pakai baju..so org2 arab pon jual baju and air and dpt untung..mekah jadik tpt commercial rather than spiritual place.
-Khusyuk dlm solat
- wear comfortable clothing
- bersedia and kalo nak garu tu baik garu before angkat takbir
-standup and stand comfortably
-Iktikaf. satu hari Ibn Abbas bersolat kat masjid nabi...ada sorang ni pandang jer dr jauh. then dia nampak ada org pergi ke arah Ibn Abbas and lps tu Ibn Abbas pon beransur and stop dr Iktikaf nyer. so org tu hairan, dia pun tanya kenapa keluar dr Iktikaf and Ibn Abbas jwb dia mendgr RasulAllah kata 'whoever fulfills hthe need of a brother, the reward is same as an iktikaf'. Di mana pahala iktikaf sama dgn 7 heavens far away from jahannam.


Forum : Session 3:: Ramadhan: Relieving the Spirit of Eternal Change Produced by the Sahabah.

Freedom
-our first enemy is our evil self.
-this requires a great jihad(inner struggle) to defeat the nafs
-fasting is the best way to overcome our evilself
-' the more you give nafs ( nafsu), the more it wants and it wants evil things '
-we need guidance (intelligent) , we can overcome our evilself
-fasting is an education to strenghten our will
-nafs is like a fly and it likes dirty things
-bee likes flower --> and we should be like the bee

4 Levels of fasting by Imam Al Ghazali
level 1- Iktikaf = duduk seharian di masjid and hanya remember Allah and tinggalkan urusan duniawi
level 2- fasting of the heart -hati turut puasa
level 3- fasting semua organ2 and deria -x tgk benda2 mungkar, x dgr benda2 x baik, jaga lidah and etc
level 4- fasting dgn perut lapar ---lapar shj :(

HEART OF WORSHIPPER IS ALWAYS REMEMBERING ALLAH

Abu Ayub Al Ansari adalah seorang sahabat yg terkenal ketika penaklukan istanbul, separuh askar2 kata adalah mustahil utk semua askar2 ke sana and menang and berkemungkinan half dr mereka akan syahid ini berdasarkan ayat quran yg bermaksud
' O believers, dont throw yourselves into danger with your own hand '.
mendgr akan kata2 itu Abu khalid pun bgtau 'apakah yg kamu katkan itu? dia pun menceritakan bahawa ayat itu turuns emasa perang khaybar ketika dia masih hidup dan berada disisi Nabi.
after Mekah and khaibar were conquer, askar2 pon sudah and penat and gave up with all these suffering and sacrificing. so diorg pon kta diorg nak enjoy dr pergi perang. selepas itu Allah pun turunkan ayat ini....
danger dlm ayat ini bermaksud seeking for comfort!
mendengar ayat ini, semua para sahabat bertaubat and berasa kecewa dgn diri masing2. and mereka pon pledged, bahawa mereka akan sebarkan Islam sehingga syahid. Cth Ibn Abbas ke Azerbaijan and berdakwah ke situ. and Azerbaijan ada snow..and Ibn Abbas prayed on the snow during his stay there because He was avoiding comfort!.
Abu Ayyub pun nasihatkan askar2 nyer...' I was in your path while I am alive and when i am in death '-make sure kita mati dlm iman.

If you are the truebeliever, you are the highest. maksudnyer ia adalah fardhu kifayah utk umat islam menjadi yg terbaik dlm pelbagai bidang= Imam Al Ghazali.
-so kita kena blajar rajin2. kalo umat islam zaman2 para ulama dulu boleh membawa kpd kegemilangan islam dr segi science & tech serta dr segi dakwah Islamiyah. dua2 seiring sejalan..so skrg juga boleh..dan kitala ..sapa lagi.

QUIZ:
1. satu2 nya Sahabat yg nama nya disebut dlm Quran
jwpn?- please msg me :) when you finish 'teka'/thinking/googling

+ Questions to ask ourselves : How old am I? -- How much time have I spent for myself? -- How much time do I have for Allah ta'ala?

++ For those who have joined the wonderful,meaningful trip to RPI, Jazakumullahu khaeer. Just remind yourself of the sayings of our beloved prophet, peace be upon him : "Whenever Allah wishes good for a person, He gives him/her the knowledge of Islam"


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