Wednesday, November 29, 2006
That's NOT Hijab


lately i'm hooked to watching these videos. from the visit to Mohksin's house during 'Eid, then watched the one at sis Fiza's blog (the "$25,000??!" made me giggle alone in this library. haa!), n the one @ Ridhwan's blog. mcm contagious pulak kan.. ;)

anw, i chose this one in particular bcoz it's close to us Muslimahs... n to the bros, there's an exclusive reminder specially for u at the end.

yes. Do u know what i'm sayin'?? ;)

 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/29/2006 08:38:00 PM | Permalink | 2 comments
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Our Inspiration:
"O young man, i shall teach you some words (of advice):
Be mindful of ALLAH, and ALLAH will protect you.
Be mindful of ALLAH, and you will find HIM in front of you.
If you (have the need to) ask, ask of ALLAH;
and if you seek help, seek help from ALLAH..."

-Rasulullah sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam's advice to Ibnu 'Abbas, whom at that time was only a child.

one of the presentors at the Kids a.L.I.V.E. workshop shared this with us. about how we need to give encouragement and opportunity to our children (yes. we used the term "our children" throughout the workshop, making me feel like a mother of 7 kids gitu... hee~ but i like!).
from small, we should have already implanted the mentality in them that ALLAH is there for them to turn to. that they should never feel alone n scared...

suker nah workshop tu. May ALLAH bless the 2 sisters who conducted the workshop: Kak Faiza n Kak Azidah (met both of them before at Saff :) ). berkesan. n it was indeed a rare opportunity getting to work n mingle with the other teachers (most of them are mothers, some even dah ade cucu). me youngest participant.

terase diriku muda gitu~ ;p
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/28/2006 07:50:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Post-'Eid Visiting...
alhamdulillah, had few moments to reflect upon NI-NYPMS 'Eid Visiting last week.

learnt a few lessons from it. *smiles*

discovered interesting things about my friends. *more smiles*

memorable event indeed.

firstly, i learnt that TnD should have more initiative in the future. Thanks to Mohksin who reminded us about the tadzkirah. n suggested the token-giving. for if not for that reminder, the Jalan Raya would not have been as meaningful as it turned out to be.

Thanks to the brothers who volunteered to present the tadzkirahs. despite some last minute switches n discrepancies (told u these things MESTI ade je hadir tanpa diundang utk tambah "menyerikan" kerja2 kita), n what needed to be done afterwards... everything eventually went on smoothly on the day. leganya hati ya Allah.

remember: lihat masalah sbg peluang utk menimba 'ilmu! :D


btw, on that very morning, my 9th anak sedara was born. a she. n eventually named Nurul Huda. 3rd sister n me were trying to get my 7th sis (dia punya baby daa) to chance her mind. reason? ramaaaaai sgt gitu org name "Nurul Huda" kan. (sorry eh Huda. hehe. but awk jugaklah kan yg slalu complain ngan kte psl ni? =P). but takpelah. anak org kan. kalau anak gue, kan ku berjuang bermati-matian kalau gue tak setuju beb~ hee..

anw, it is a nice name. with a nice meaning. n i know many Nurul HudaS in my life. n some of them are superb n very wonderful people :) smoga Huda kecik (she's really very the tiny) kan membesar menjadi pemudi harapan ummah.. ameen!

back to the Jalan Raya: new bonds were created. n old bonds were strengthened, hamdan lillah. it felt really, truly nice to make new friends. sungguh! to Hazwani n Dina, Khadijah suker sgt kat korang tau. miss Hazwani's 3 yrs + nephew, Adi Luqman (hope it's the correct spelling). extremely adorable. i can go on and on and on about how cute he is...wangi pulak tu... but rasenye takpelah ye. biarlah ia menjadi kenangan manis kita berdua. hehe.

here are some of the discoveries i mentioned:

-Ruqa loves spaghetti
-Wani loves honey cornflakes
-Saqinah doesn't eat egg yolks yg lembik2 (me love it. lembik2 laa yg best! yg dah solidify kureng uMpH!)
-Fiza (the Miss All-Purpose =P) loves macaroni (duh!)
-as for Fadz, Sarah, Wanis n Mardh, had great time "discussing" with them on some issues in the bus.
n Hadzirah! she's always the most mature one among all of us.

hmm~ mcm2 kitorang buat dlm bas tu kaaan... ;)

to sis Sarah, jgn lupa hantar kte gambar 3 budak innocent yg teramat tu eh(the one at Dina's plc). takleh angkat uh gambar tu. sure terpikat bakal Mak Mentua satu2 tgk. HAHA.

n of course, love the last part where we apologised to each other. cume honestly time tu mate dah berat siket. n dah risau bila nk balik. so erm, might not have absorbed fully what some people said to me =/ sorry eh. Thanks to Pak Cik bus tu. baarakallaahu feeh.

......................
finished marking all exam papers n keying in the marks. it feels really sad knowing that some of my students failed n had to repeat. n for most of them, the cause is the Arabic subject. uff! geram tau when i got to know that the ustaz forgot to refresh with the students some main points b4 the start of the paper like what the HOD asked them to.
as a result, majority failed the paper. kesiannye.... =( Arabic pulak tu. wish i could teach my favourite subject...

anw, on a better note, majority passed my subjects (Tauhid, Sirah, Akhlak n Jawi). greatest improvement can be seen in Jawi. some yg mcm "tak expected", did very well! maasyaAllah. i'm very proud of u guys n the effort u guys put in :D

..............
went to the 1st Kids a.L.I.V.E workshop yesterday. love it! rase mcm hari tu jugak nk impart n put into practice what i've learnt. hee~

do u know??
-research have shown that at the age of 7, the chance of us changing a behaviour n character of a child is sealed. so klau nak ajar bebudak ni akhlak, ajar before that age limit. kalau dah lepas umur 7 thn, dah terlambat. n ape2 sikap yg dia dah ade mase tu, most likely akan kekal sampai dia tua.
patutlah selama ni gue ajar my students akhlak, mcm tkde perubahan ape2. kalau improve pu n sekejap je... makin "terror"adelah...

oh. n u know how those firemen have their "Firemen's prayer"? well, we teachers have ours too! :D nk tau? insyaAllah i'll post it on the next entry k?

...........

went to NE forum just now on Inter-racial in a Global World gitu. tgh relax2 duk, tetibe kene pick by the speaker to answer his question. O.o"

u know how in NE forum they have this huge screen in the middle of the auditorium?? yeah. di situlah terpampang sebesar dan seterang-terangnya seorg hamba Allah yang bernama Khadijah bte Mohamed Hussain tu. siket punye paisey~ in total, he asked me 3-4 questions. one was on Tolerance. luckily i remembered what Ridhwan once shared with me from the Believing Youth seminar. about how "tolerance" is not a good word to use to describe how we should react towards those from other races n religions, etc etc.

so yeah. ape lagi, sembur jelah. lagi lame gue diam, lagi senyap itu audi. n lagi lamelah muke gue terpampang kat screen tu. oh! ku tak sanggup~ Thanks eh Wan! mmg tak sia-sia chat kat MSN dgn awk. kih kih kih.

oklah. still have my MP poster to finalise. n my students' results slips. baru ku sedar betapa memeningkan kepala dan mata kerja2 ni semua. kesian my asatizah dulu...

p.s. miss my tutees. yesterday Faridah, the pri. 3 one, called me. she said she couldn't sleep at nite n thought of me. n dreamt that i brought them (her pri 2 sis n k2 bro n herself) jalan2 gi Northpoint (hehe) n pasar malam (kelas gitu~), tgk2 barang, naik bas....

comel sgt kan? can't wait to meet them. haiz~

dahlah. tu je. i realised that sometimes- no. almost ALL the time, i just can't stop typing. ade je idea. ade je happening. what to do when u have so many wonderful people in ur life kan? ;D Thank You ALLAH...

 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/22/2006 08:05:00 PM | Permalink | 1 comments
Monday, November 20, 2006
Within a Problem lies an Opportunity!
28 Syawal 1427H

was planning to write about my hectic day.

from home > as-Syafa'ah mosque > home (terlupa barang daa) > as-Syafa'ah >National Heart Centre (submit report + forms for supervisor to sign, etc.) > TP (to pass to lecturer all those forms n SIP logbook) > Home (where i'll have to continue marking hundreds of pages of exam papers).

was thinking of how tired i am... how many steps i must have taken... how many kilos i must have shed....

was thinking why i just can't stop thinking n wondering...

when i chanced upon this article in BM:


"Kepekaan terhadap ilmu muncul dr hati yg bersih.

bg org yg iri dan dengki, segala hal boleh menjd masalah bukan menjadi ilmu.

org yg mengambil mudah pun demikian. ilmu seolah-olah tertutup baginya krn enggan melakukan sesuatu dan segan.

apa lg org yg sombong, semua hal akn dianggapnya remeh atau kurang setaraf dgn dirinya sehingga tidak membuatnya tergerak.

sebenarnya apa yg sgt berbahaya bg kita ialah kotornya hati sehingga fikiran menjadi gelap drpd ilmu. bayangkan, segala hal yg seharusnya menjd ilmu, malah sebalinya menjd bencana. org2 yg miskin ilmu akhirnya kerap menghadapi stress.

mahu mendengarkan pendapat dan penjelasan org lain, mahu membaca buku yg ditulis org lain, atau mahu sejenak memperhatikan anak2 kte dan belajar drpd mrk?


beristighfarlah jika semua fenomena itu tidak dpt menjd ilmu, tetapi dianggap masalah pulak."

-by Aa Gym

i find it very eye (and mind-) opening. a reminder to myself n everyone out there who are facing difficulties n obstacles in life: they all are actually opportunities granted by ALLAH. opportunities for us to become more mature n wiser people insyaAllah :)

so at the end of the day, instead of feeling grumpy n sad, i feel at peace (penat tu memanglah penat kan... ). rase tenang sgt. hamdan lillah!
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/20/2006 08:29:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Post-Depressing Post (huh?)
:)
previous post will stay. was feeling down habes~ felt angry n disappointed with myself. need lotsa motivation. self-motivation tgh ade "technical problem" siket . n felt like i'm all alone....
so yeah, got veghee the emotional. heh. but i really meant it about the ambassador of Islam thingy. got to work on this. real hard.

"org yg beriman akan terasa ramai pabila dia keseorangan"
-still remember these words Huda. kirim salam sayang kte pada Majidah k? ;)

thanks to Wanee n Ridhwan for the tags. saw the blogpatrol ticking. more than 20 visits since the previous post. but only u two actually cared enough to leave some kind words. needless to say, i'm touched. baarakallaahu feekuma. to Ruqa, thx for the msg.

ok. got to continue with my research. have few books to read. target to complete my MP report before this Friday! (deadline is actually 29.11.06. ni kire trying very hard not to procastinate. =D)
yes u can do it Khadijah! believe in urself.

by this Friday: must submit SIP logbook, MP report n appraisal forms.

by Monday: finish marking all exam papers n students' report cards.

by next Thur: finish MP poster

next Tues n Friday : whole day Kids a.L.I.V.E workshops to attend. weE~

next Sun: meet-the -parents session @ as-Syafa'ah. haa! like real gitu dealing with parents sumer.
to Ridhwan (one of my p5 students. fyi, i'm the form teacher of p5) : jgn harap awk boleh 'lepas' gitu je after giving me such rubbish answers for ur Jawi paper eh. (u dun wanna know what he wrote). i'm gonna show it to ur parents. bluek. padan muke!
then there's a 2-hour Mandarin workshop compulsory for asatizah to attend. hehe. coOL~ n then there's a friend's walimah to attend! double weE~

Arabic class gonna resume (after 2 months break for Ramadhan n Syawal) this Saturday. n it so happened that there's Nur Ikhwan's Jalan Raya on that day. sayangnyeeee =(
pulak tu time clash with the slot they are supposed to come to my place. takkan nk cabut kan? merepek. couldn't attend the last 2 lessons due to my surgery n post-op 'pantang' -_-"

speaking of languages, i sadly realised that all my languages are deteriorating.

Arabic:
long time didn't revise n refresh, dah berkarat sgt gitu. my precious vocabs! what telah happen to u?? written tu rasenye ok kott. but spoken? fuh. few weeks back met Ustaz Musthofa Ghazali n his family on my way to SIP. (he used to be my Insyak ustadz. i LOVE Insyak! Insyak is Arabic composition btw. expression of the beautiful Arabic words a.k.a "ta'bir") .
had to converse in Arabic with him all the way from inside the train to the Health Promotion Board. stress gak, but yeah! that's the kind of pushing factor i like. sometimes, we'll perform best n learn the most under stringent, pressurised conditions :)

my spoken Arabic dah ibarat retak menanti belah (se-TEP peribahasa jap la kannn..hee). tak boleh jadi ni Khadijah. kene brush up, sental habes2an punyer~ ingat tak impian dan azam awk tu nak jadikan this Lughatul Qur'an the 1st language for ur children nanti? so u have to master it first k Khadijah :)

English:
ish. -_-" still weak in many aspects of the language. sampai ter-invent wordS sendiri. ceh.

Malay:
was conversing with my mates in Malay. ntah knp tersasul-sasul. "jugak-jugak", "lagi dekat?" (it was supposed to be "lagi jauh?"). merepek uh bebual. kesian Mushi penat ketawe rabak habes dengar bahasaku yg "tinggi2" belaka tu..
Kalau bahasa pasar + rojak tu saye mmg terror laa. heh.

ni tgh risau ni tau. 3 main languages berterabur, then nk bebual bhs ape kan? Hindi? ahaha. i only know the jiwang vocabs je (kih kih kih). French? nak buat klakar keper? dah berzaman tak revise. n the vocabs i know are very limited.

bottomline: go work on improving those 3 main languages. esp Arabic.

k dah. cukup. melebih pulak eh dier. gi buat MP!

;)
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/15/2006 12:17:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Monday, November 13, 2006
:'(
Forgive me O Allah for not being a good ambassador of Islam...

... all the strength, diligence, perseverance n self-discipline ...

where are they???

have i lost them?

i feel like a hypocrite. astaghfirullah. dare to call myself a Muslim. yet not performing my duties as a true one. let alone showing a good example.

hypocrisy this is, no?


u should be ashamed of yourself Khadijah!

 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/13/2006 05:22:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Why the Arrogance?
Unity/brotherhood (in any group) and arrogance can not co-exist. Arrogance and false-pride has to be eliminated in order for unity to exist.
[From Anfas-e-Eisa, of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi]
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/09/2006 11:26:00 AM | Permalink | 0 comments
Monday, November 06, 2006
Kenangan Terindah
15 Syawal 1427H

as requested, okay i will blog about the 'Eid visits. (happy tak Ata? =P)

both visits on Saturday n Sunday were equally memorable. suker sgt. alhamdulillah. O Thank you Allah for this ni'mah :)

been a very long time since i last spent quality time (chey~) with my mwti buddies. last last time there used to be about 10 or more of us... n now down to 6, after some pursued their studies overseas or are busy with their worklife..
BUT still, kecOh dier.... (what can u expect with Ata n Mushi ard?). ish! Mushi the self-proclaimed "eh. aku ni mcm makcik-makcik pulak eh?".
Bedah mcm dah 'lembut' siket gitu eh skrg? haha. maklumlah.... *coughs*
Haajar, still the quiet type.
n Yuntea! aisey... dah makin berseri-seri~ hehe..
n me? as Haajar's mom put it: "yg ni masih comel mcm dulu... tak ubah2... "(yg lain2 sumer kene: "wah..dah besar eh.." lol). terase sgt diri ni kecik biler jalan dengan dorang... takpe~

then we played the game of recalling our friends' mothers' names. (tau. mcm takde keje gitu kan? hee ). n other 1001 things... (including how they tried to 'predict' how my zauj looks like. kong asam korang!)
lecehlah nk type sumer. cukuplah jd kenangan terindah (suker laa lagu ni!) kiter ber-enam ye? ;)

the Sunday visiting pun best. glad i finally decided to join wansarahsaqsenruqa (ni jangkit ruqa ah tulis camni =P). takkan kulupakan saat2 MPV tu "gostan"! lol. sakit.laa.perut.tahan.ketawe. n the Kek Lapis "Zaiton" (still tak puas hati uh org boleh mistaken PRUNE for OLIVEs). ni pun ade 1001 mcm kenangan. lawak2~
n yes, hopefully in the future, takde yg nk kene gi balik halfway eh! bluek.

dah. nk rest nie.
assalamu'alaikum semue~ :)

p.s. last week of SIP is finally here...
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/06/2006 09:28:00 PM | Permalink | 1 comments
Ash-Shâfi‘î (rahimahullâh) said:
“Whoever spread gossip for you spreads gossip against you. Whoever relates tales to you will tell tales about you. Whoever when you please him says about you what is not in you, when you anger him will say about you what is not in you.”
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 11/06/2006 09:18:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments