L.I.F.E and D.E.A.T.H

Dan pulang ku nanti bukan lagi disambut dia,

Tapi dengan hanya sebuah pusara,

Yang pasti menyaksikan gugurnya air mata,

kerana tak mampu lagi memimpin tangannya,

juga tidak lagi mampu mendengar suara,

atau melayan segala cerita dia..

kerana dia telahpun tiada,

kerana telah dijemput Dia,

untuk melengkapkan cerita seorang manusia,

dengan tercabutnya suatu nyawa,

dan doaku moga bahagia di sana,

semoga nanti kita dapat bersama,

di syurga yang tentunya sempurna.

dan inilah cerita pelajar luar negara,

yang hanya mampu menangis dan berdoa saat kehilangan insan tercinta.

(dan air mata pun bercucuran buat kesekian kalinya)

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Perit rasanya, tapi digagahkan juga membiarkan jari meluahkan emosi di dada, semoga beroleh redha dengan berkongsi sebuah cerita.. cerita lara yang setiap kita pasti merasa.. sebab janjinya..

كُلُّ نَفۡسٍ۬ ذَآٮِٕقَةُ ٱلۡمَوۡتِ‌ۖ 

( Tiap-tiap yang berjiwa akan merasakan mati )

while a part of my brain is in excruciating pain at the thought of death,

another is busy asking.. what is death exactly?

is it the moment when one stops breathing?

or is it when one's heart stops beating?

or is it when the brain stops working?

or is it just a term when life ends..

if that's so,

then what are the boundaries between life and death?

for life itself is still a definition yet to be discovered,

since that would be too hard to decipher,

so they came up with a medical answer,

saying that death is when brain activity ceases to exist,

that's the moment when someone can be called 'deceased'

and they can finally rest in peace.

mmmmmmmmmm.. 

tapi hati masih lagi tertanya-tanya, mati itu apa sebenarnya?

adakah semudah yang dikata..

sedangkan satu-satunya perkara yang pasti dalam hidup manusia adalah M.A.T.I,

bukan dapat ijazah, dapat kerja atau beristeri,

tapi mati itulah yang pasti,

yang mendefinisikan manusia itu sendiri,

kerana tiada manusia yang kekal abadi,

maka, MATI itulah kesempurnaan manusiawi.

dan mereka yang cuba lari daripada kematian,

seolah lari daripada kesempurnaan.

because death completes a man.

soalnya sekarang bersediakan kita untuk mati? Sudah cukupkah bekalan kita untuk hidup di 'dunia' yang abadi? sebab syarat mati itu tak mengira bangsa, tak mengira usia. ada mereka yang mati pada usia tua, tapi ada juga yang mati muda, bahkan ada yang mati sebelum melihat dunia, sebab ajal itu ketetapan Dia. maka, soalan "bersediakah kita?" patut ditanya sepanjang masa.

الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ

Dia lah yang telah mentakdirkan adanya mati dan hidup (kamu) - untuk menguji dan menzahirkan keadaan kamu: siapakah di antara kamu yang lebih baik amalnya; dan Ia Maha Kuasa (membalas amal kamu), lagi Maha Pengampun, (bagi orang-orang yang bertaubat. ~ Al-Mulk: 2

Di dalam ayat ini, didahulukan menyebut mati sebelum hidup supaya orang akan ingat jalan yang bakal ditempuh sebelum orang berjalan, ingat akibat sebelum melangkah, Maka ingatlah mati sebelum kita hidup dengan gembiranya, sebab hidup kita bukan sekadar di dunia tapi yang lebih utama hanyalah sebagai jambatan ke negeri 'sana' di mana mati sebagai tolnya dan mati sudah semestinya bukanlah destinasi.

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(dan buku Reclaim your Heart dibuka)

"What relationship do I have with this world? I am in this world like a traveller who halts in the shade of a tree for a short time, and after taking some rest, resumes his journey leaving the tree behind" (Hadith Ahmad, Tirmidhi)

So let us ponder upon the metaphor of a traveler. What happens when you're travelling or you know that your stay is only temporary? When you're passing through a city for one night, how attached do you get to that place? If you know it's temporary, you'll be willing to stay at Motel 6. But would you like to live there? Probably not. Suppose your boss sent you to a new town to work on a limited project. Suppose he didn't tell you exactly when the project would end, but you knew you would be returning home, any day. How would you be in that town? Would you invest in massive amounts of properties and spend all your savings on expensive furniture and cars? Most likely not. No. You'd probably hesitate about buying any more than you need for a couple of days - because your boss could call you back any day. 

This is the mindset of a traveler. There is a natural detachment that comes with the realization that something is only temporary.

enough said...

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dan pengalaman hari ini mengajar aku suatu lagi perkara : 

untuk berharap dan bergantung hanya pada Dia,

sebab kalau kita harapkan insan untuk pulihkan perasaan, 

maka mungkin hancurlah harapan,

sebab insan itu tetap insan, yang lupanya tetap ada, 

yang tetap juga boleh ketawa saat kita berduka,
atau mungkin yang langsung tak endah apa yang kita rasa,
atau tak tahu pun situasi kita,

tapi tidaklah salah sesiapa kerana memang sifat manusia itu memang tidak  sempurna,

yang salah adalah mana letaknya 'attachment' kita.

We can't blame the laws of physics when a twig snaps because we leaned on it for support. The twig was never created to carry us in the first place. Our weight was only meant to be carried by God.

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In loving memory of my grandmother who passed away on 9 Jamadil Akhir 1435, 

yang tak sempat melihat cucu perempuannya menjadi doktor.

The Story of ~ The Wise Young Boy~

A very interesting story that I would like to share with everyone. One that I read from a book not long ago.

May we learn something from this, and may we be inspired to be among the people of knowledge.

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Many years ago, during the time of the Tabi'in, Baghdad was a great city of Islam. In fact, it was the capital of the Islamic Empire and because of the great number of scholars who lived there, it was the centre of Islamic knowledge.

One day, the ruler of Rome at the time, sent an envoy to Baghdad with three challenges for the Muslims. when the messenger reached the city, he informed the khalifah that he had three questions which he challenged the Muslims to answer.

The khalifah gathered together all of the scholars of the city and the Roman messenger climbed upon a high platform and said " I have come with three questions. If you answer them, then I will leave you with a great amount of wealth which I have brought from the King of Rome"

As for the questions, they were :

"What was there before Allah?"

"In which direction does Allah face?"

"What is Allah engaged in at this moment?"

The great assemblies of people were silent.

In the midst of these brilliant scholars and students of Islam was a man looking on with his young son.

"O my dear father! I will answer him and silence him!" said the young boy. So the boy sought the permission of the khalifah to give the answers and he was given the permission to do so.

The Roman came up to the young Muslim and addressed him, repeating his first question : "What was there before Allah?"

The boy asked "Do you know how to count?"

"Yes" said the man, slightly puzzled as to why he was asked such a strange question.

"Then, count down from ten" ~ So the Roman counted down, thinking that the young boy probably didn't understand. "Ten, nine, eight..." until he reached one and he stopped counting.

"But what comes before 'One' ?" asked the boy.

"There is nothing before one - that's it!" 

said the Roman.

"Well then, if there's obviously nothing before the arithmetic 'one', then how do you expect that there should be anything before the "One" who is Absolute Truth, All-Eternal, Everlasting, The First, the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden?"

Now the man was surprised by the direct, intelligent answer, which he could not dispute.

So the Roman thought that he would do better with the second question. This young boy would surely not be able to answer the next question. So, he asked 

"Tell me, in which direction is Allah facing?"

"Bring a candle and light it up" said the boy, 

"and tell me in which direction the flame is facing?"

"But the flame is just light - it spreads in each of the four directions, North, South, East and West. It does not face any one direction only." 

said the man in wonderment.

The boy cried 

" Then if this physical light spreads in all four directions such that you cannot tell me which way it faces, then what do you expect of the Nur-us-samaawati-wal-ardh : Allah- the Light of the Heavens and the Earth?! Light upon light, Allah faces all directions at all times."

The Roman was stupefied and astonished that here was a young child answering his challenges in such a way that he could not argue against the proofs! So, he desperately wanted to try his final question. He didn't want to be defeated by this young boy.

But before doing so, the boy said. 

"Wait! You are the one who is asking the questions and I am the one who is giving the answer. It is only fair that you should come down to where I am standing and that I should go up where you are right now, in order that the answers may be heard as clearly as the questions."

This seemed reasonable to the Roman, so he came down from where he was standing and the boy ascended the platform. Then the man repeated his third question : 

"Tell me, what Allah is doing at this moment?"

The boy proudly answered 

"At this moment, when Allah found upon this high platform a liar and mocker of Islam, he caused him to descend and brought him low. And as for the one who believed in the Oneness of Allah, He raised him up and established the Truth. Every day He exercises (universal) power."

The Roman had noting to say except to leave and return back to his country, defeated and ashamed.

Meanwhile, this young boy grew up to become one of the most famous scholars of Islam. Allah, the Exalted, blessed him with special wisdom and knowledge of the Deen. His name was... Abu Hanifah (rahimullah) and he is known today as Imam-e-A'dham, the Great Imam and the scholar of Islam.

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May we be granted with knowledge of the Deen and the Dunya which is beneficial to us both for this dunya and the here after.