Monday, April 30, 2007
People are getting more materialistic, no?
was reading the newspaper just now and came across an advertisement for Arabic courses:

1. Menulis & Menyebut Huruf Arab
Program 5 minggu....
Yuran: $250 sahaja (+ nota & pendaftaran)

2. Pengenalan kepada Bahasa Arab & Perbualan Awal
Program 15 minggu...
Yuran: $ 450 sahaja (+ nota & pendaftaran)

what will be your reaction when u come across such ads?

as 4 myself, geram gitu. nak spread 'ilm, nak introduce Arabic to the community, but letak fees siket punyer "murah". setakat nak blaja hiwar (dialogue) n introduction to Arabic je kene fork out almost $500?? ridiculous laa. kesian kan kat orang2 yg kurang berkemampuan. nak belajar, tapi niat murninya terbantut psl tak cukup duit. n this was not the first time i saw such ads. dah banyak kali. yes, i know u've to pay for the venue, printing of notes, the lecturers/mentors, etc. but tak reasonable laa letak harga tinggi2 gitu....
.... lainlah kalau mmg dorang target nak "pandaikan" org yang berada je. boO!

ok ok. tak baik kan suu'uz zann. maybe they have to charge that high coz they have to cover the allowances given to the imported Arab lecturers (as mentioned in the ad). but then again, i wonder why they need to import Arab lecturers just to teach basic Arabic pronunciations n intro to Arabic. are there not enough qualified n experienced in our own Muslim community in Singapore? it's not as if they're teaching Arabic Culture and Tradition, are they? kalau gitu mungkin orang boleh fahamlah...

meanwhile, the students also play a part. be consistent. jangan suka ponteng. jangan ikutkan sangat perasaan malas. kawan tak datang, kita pun ikut tak datang. nah. janganlah macam tu. nak pandai, kene put in more effort laa :) dengar tu Khadijah? nasihat diri sendiri tu lebih2 lagi... jangan nak relax2, lepas tu berangan nak jadi Arabic Expert eh!

kene sabar... mesti kuatkan semangat. istiqamah. jangan nak slack, jangan lalai, n optimise ur time!

kalaupun tiada orang yang sokong or nak tolong, ingat! ALLAH dan Rasul sentiasa bersama!! :D



hehe... comel kan gambar ni? actually nak gambar lain, but my Nad hantar yang ni pulak. takpelah Nad, Khad suka yang ni jugak. yang tu kat Jurong tu, yang belikan khad chocolate cake dulu tu lagilah khad sayang... ;)

p.s. This entry was composed last 2 weeks, when my spirit was high. But lately i'm feeling very down. Mind overloaded kot. Banyak fikiran. n that seems to effect my mood. cepat sangat terasa n merajuk. Ish. Jangan ikutkan perasaan sangat k Khadijah? :) kene pandai kawal perasaan... patutnya semakin meningkat umur tu, semakin matang fikiran dan kelakuan. tak boleh ikutkan sangat perangai kebudak-budakan tu...

to those who might be hurt by me, 'afwan sgt. Maybe not thru my words but thru my silence? (coz bila mood tak baik, me lebih suka diam je. Diam yang teramat pun kdg2 boleh menyakitkan hati org kan?).

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posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/30/2007 12:09:00 AM | Permalink | 2 comments
Saturday, April 28, 2007

from Komik Dakwah

spotted at sis Diyanah Nasir's blog. (i love her entries! :D)
cute, isn't it? esp no.6: tahan marah sampai keluar air mata... aiwah! :D bila kita marah, syaitan suka dan akan mengelilingi kita. jadi lawan perasaan marah = lawan syaitan! weE~
tapikan... kadang2 tu mmg mencabar sgt tau nak tahan perasaan ni. ada sesetengah manusia ni mmg mcm sengaja gitu nak bangkitkan kemarahan org. manusia yang kurang adabnya. bab ni memang orang pantang sangat2...
manusia yang sebok hal orang lain, padahal rasanya takde kene-mengena dengan diri dia.
manusia yang buruk2kan orang... padahal belum tentu lagi orang tu buat macam tu...
n manusia yang memandai2 je sangka camni, camtu.
baru tadi dapat tau ada org ingatkan gue dgn IT guy tu couple. (eeeiii!!) like WHAT??!!! geramnye ya Allah. padahal bukannye selalu ckp dgn dia pun. kalau bebual pun orang bual apa yg patut je. benda2 mcm ni kdg2 buat orang mcm tak nak bebual lagi dgn mana2 lelaki pun!
n manusia yg nak paksa orang buat bende yang orang tak nak. kan orang dah cakap, orang tak minat...

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posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/28/2007 08:17:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Friday, April 27, 2007
Losing CoOL?
By Zabrina Abu Bakar from islamonline.net :)

Recently I witnessed an incident of a man who lost his cool. The issue was quite simple. If he had had just a little bit of patience, he could have gracefully solved the problem. Instead, he snapped and made the situation worse than it actually was. As one of the unwilling spectators, I shied away and left the place, wanting not to watch the display of anger anymore.

As I was walking, I kept on thinking. Why must we keep losing our temper? I know this man is not unique. I had a fair share of losing my cool too. Millions of us are just like him at times, right? What can we say? We are just human!

OK, I know that is the usual excuse whenever we make any mistakes. But seriously, no matter how true that statement is, I think there is an extension to that answer. There should be a "but" after the word human. I am only human. That is definitely right. But it should be continued with "but I am a Muslim." Yes, the full sentence should be "I am only human but I am a Muslim."

So what is the significance of that statement? A whole lot, my brothers and sisters. A whole lot.
Reflect on this Qur'anic verse:


"Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity or in adversity;
who restrain anger and pardon people; for Allah loves those who do good."
(Aal `Imran 3:134)

Let me share with you a story I once read about a boy who had anger problems:

There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a bag full of nails and said to him, "My son, I want you to hammer a nail into our garden fence every time you need to direct your anger against something and you lose your temper."

So the son started to follow his father's advice. On the first day, he hammered in 37 nails, but getting the nails into the fence was not easy, so he tried to control himself when he got angry. As the days went by, he was hammering in fewer nails; and within weeks, he was able to control himself and to refrain from getting angry and from hammering nails. He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father was happy with his son's efforts and said to him, "But now, my son, you have to take out a nail for every day that you do not get angry."

The son started to take out the nails for each day that he did not get angry, until there were no nails left in the fence.

He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father took him to the fence and said, "My son, you have done well, but look at these holes in the fence. This fence will never be the same again."
Then he added, "When you say things in a state of anger, they leave marks like these holes on the hearts of others. You can stab a person and withdraw the knife but it doesn't matter how many times you say 'I am sorry,' because the wound will remain."

Deep, don't you think? After reading this story, I kept asking myself: Have I made any holes in the hearts of people around me? How long have the holes been there? How many fences have I hammered nails into? My heart felt so sad just thinking of it.

What about you, my friends? Do you think you have hammered some nails into someone's fence? If you did, maybe it is time to buy them a new fence, or maybe get plaster or cement and cover those holes.

I know I am going to. And more important is that I promised myself that from now on I would leave my hammer and nails locked up in the store room where I could not reach them so that I could avoid the temptation of using them.

Want to lock yours up with mine? I still have lots of empty space!
:)
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/27/2007 04:23:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Knowledge comes in many forms!
9 Rabi'ul akhir 1428H

in the midst of filing up some documents @assyafaah. pening. mcm2 documents ada... O.o"

Mudirah (female Principal) n sis Aisyah, the other full-time staff at the madrasah dept will be on leave till next Wed or so. the CSO has been having migraines lately and could only work occasionally. so basically i'll be in charge of this whole office/madrasah for the next few days. n tmr i've to replace the CSO for awhile. jaga counter. not forgetting the spontaneous training as a customer service officer . having to answer phone calls when no one else is around to pick them. (there r 8 phones in this office). hoho... lawak bonar. seram pun ada. dah dua kali gue answer phone call ("assalamu'alaikum madrasah, boleh saya bantu?") sekali tu rupe2nye the IT guy n an ustaz yg call. menyesal ckp lembut2. eeii!

on a better note, the times spent @assyafaah really exposed me to loads of things. the art of multi-tasking. plus the art of reliefing. heh. td gue relief ajar budak2 p5 & p6. kering gitu air liur bebual psl Perang Hunain and Perang Uhud. besok nak kene relief another ustaz ajar budak bimbingan remaja. erk. but dia dah jamin budak2 tu baik. so...hopefully ok laa. subject pun mcm ok, akhlak n bahasa arab. tak macam dulu time kene relief kat Al-Muttaqin ajar budak2 remaja. of all topics, gue kene ajar BAB MEMINANG. *nganga mulut* ish. segannye~

anw, the Mosque Chairman also emphasizes on healthy lifestyle. for instance, last Friday, for two hours, the staff had to undergo some hand-scanning to determine our antioxidant level. turned out mine is not-so-good. haa! ok ok. insyaAllah orang try makan sayur n buah banyak2... (fruits ok. suker! but sayur tu tak best sgt. esp sawi punyer family. pahit! makan kdg2 kene tahan nafas. tak lupa juga taugeh yg gemuk2 tu. tak suke~)

oh yes. i'm in need of some helping hands in decorating the noticeboards. so if any sisters out there willing to help me, apo lagi, bilang ah! ;)

....
D'Talk went well, hamdan lillah. how lovely it was! met a nice sister, Ibrizah from MJC. meanwhile, made fren with another sis, Ruzanna, who bloghopped here the other day :D the only minus point was the fact that i actually forgot all about my clothes in the toilet! ceh. sampai sekarang tak sempat2 nak collect lagi. ish. next week die-die kene gi amik eh Khadijah!

as usual, time spent with the lovely sisters were purely enjoyable. again, thx sis Fiza for the shawl, di saat2 ku hampir2 beku pagi2 buta tu~ ;)

afterwards met up with ol' frens @mwti during maulid: mushi, yun, yuntea, suliza... as well as the kakakS (zarul, farisha, fatimah, khatim!) n adikS (atiqah, hafizah, raihana, farahin...). not forgetting the asatizah. mudir still remembers my name! hee~

me: assalamu'alaikum mudir..... bla bla bla...
mudir: ...masmuki? (what's ur name?)
me: khadijah.
mudir: khadijah hussain??
me: *big grin n nod excitedly*

then mudir semangat suruh tgk munazharah (Arabic debate) jap lagi.

haiz~ i miss studying. i really do. tak sabarnye nak sambung belajar~ tengah semangat berkobar-kobar ni!

takpe Khadijah, next year insyaAllah k? :)

Prophet Muhammad 'alaihis solaatu wassalam:
Seek knowledge.
Seeking it purely for Allah’s sake is fearing Him;
Pursuing it is worshipping Him;
discussing it is remembering Him;
searching for it is Jihad ;
imparting it to others is charity
and spending it for the benefit of the family is affinity.
reported by Mu’az Ibn Jabal,
from Ihya ulumud Deen Abu Hamid al Ghazali

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posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/27/2007 03:58:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Narrated by Ali ibn Abu Talib:
the Prophet said,
“ A Muslim should do six acts of kindness to another:

he should greet when he meets him.
accepts an invitation when he is given one.
says “ Allah have mercy on you” when he sneezes.
like for others what he likes for himself.
visit him when he is ill.
and go see him when he dies.

(Tirmidzi and Darimi)
p.s. to Bro Hafiz Azhari n Bro Hilwan who was and is sick respectively, apologies for not able to pay both of you any visit. May you be under His Care and Protection always insyaAllah.
...n also to all of u out there. (jadi fair lah kan? hee~)
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/25/2007 01:43:00 PM | Permalink | 1 comments
Thursday, April 19, 2007
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1 Rabi'ul Akhir 1428H

uish. lama gitu tak update blog kan? dah pun masuk bulan Rabi'ul Akhir...

nope, not due to the lack of blog-mood.

ni melambak ni idea (sampai kene suppress some), but kureng masa yg sesuai.

will get back to this space soon, biidznillah.

for the time being, haa. bacelah poem on death kat bawah nuuu... jgn nak asyik baca poem jiwang je eh! (=P) hehe. ni tegur diri sendiri lebih2 lagi. kwang3~

p.s. hamdan lillah, despite the simplicity of my current part-time job, the not-so-high pay n all..... i'm contented. n i love the company laa. those sisters/mak ciks + the IT guy + the nojaS are soooo cheerful n have this unique sense of humour. satu hari kalau tak sakit perut tahan ketawa tak sah gitu... hee~

p.p.s. bye korang~

p.p.p.s: i miss my nephews, nieces... n my zauj! betul, tak bedek. huu~

p.p.p.p.s: dah Khadijah. gi gosok baju tu. nak kene gi keje kan? SHOO!!

p.p.p.p.p.s: see? told u my blog-mood is on the rise. dah lebih 4o degress celsius tau... (ok. shall stop now b4 mepek lebih)

*waves*
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/19/2007 09:01:00 AM | Permalink | 2 comments
Imagine
Imagine yourself after you pass away
Imagine your grave through night and through day
Wishing that you did not do as they say
Wishing that you had got up and had prayed

Imagine, my friends, the day that you died
Imagine all of the tears that they cried
Remember how it felt when your body was tied
Remember how it felt in the grave which you lied

Imagine the day you'll be called to account
Imagine the sum to which your life will amount
Think for a moment of the deeds which you mount
Think for a moment how much they will count

What will they say of you when you are dead?
What will they say, what will be said?
Will they speak of all the poor who you fed?
Will they remember all the Qu'raan that you read?

Think not of them, but of Allaah, Lord of mankind and jinn
Think of Allaah when tempted to sin
Think of the paradise which you will dwell in
Don't wait till later to think what might have been.
 
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Hanzhalah
Relakanlah perpisahan kita ini
Iringilah pemergian daku nanti
Dengan doa yang tidak henti
Moga Islam terus berdiri
Usapilah genang air mata kasih
Senyumanmu penguat semangat daku
Andai kita tak jumpa lagi
Ku semai cintamu di syurga
Berpisahlah dua jiwa
Meninggalkan kuntum cinta
Mekar di istana taqwa
Menyahut panggilan Allah
Dengan nama-Mu Allah yang Maha Gagah
Langkahku atur pasrah daku berserah
Menangkanlah kaum muslimin
Hancurkanlah kaum musyrikin
Hanzhalah pergi ke medan jihad
Bersama dengan para sahabat
Bertempur hebat penuh semangat
Sehingga dia syahid akhirnya
Turunlah malaikat ke bumi
Mandikan jasadnya simpati
Sucilah jasadnya mewangi
Diarak rohnya ke Firdausi
Hening malam menyaksikan
Korban cinta dua insan
Baru diijabkabulkan
Rela menyahut seruan
Demi Islam ditegakkan
Jihad menjadi pilihan
love this song ever since the very first time i heard it (during PSTE Quiz 2003 @Aljunied. ingat lagi...huu~). it's simply love at first hearing. insyaAllah planning to name my first little mujahid after him, the sohabah who rushed towards the battlefield, with full valor and heroism. aah~ maasyaAllah!
 
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Friday, April 06, 2007


Jadilah....
Di dunia ini bak musafir yang berteduh di pepohon,
Lalu kemudian ia pergi dan meninggalkannya...
 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/06/2007 05:42:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Our Daily Challenge!
18 Rabi'ulawal 1428H

It is reported that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said:


My Lord gave me nine (bits of) advice and I give them to you. He advised me:

- To be sincere whether in private or in public
- To do justice whether in anger or in happiness
- To be moderate whether in riches or in poverty
- To join (in relations) with those who (try) to cut me off
- To give to those who deprive me
- To forgive those who do wrong to me
- That my silence be thoughtful
- That my speech be mindful (of Allah)
- That my vision be to take admonition.

(Reported by Razeen)

This is our daily challenge. Our challenge is how to live by this ethic in our daily life. The challenge is not to live by these values and principles in the situation of ease and happiness, but to live by them in all circumstances. The challenge is to live by these principles, teach them to our younger generation, and to form and build a community of faithful who are willing to dedicate themselves to them.

>> click here for the full article, and here for more articles on our beloved Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam.

happy reading and practising, insyaAllah! :)

 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/06/2007 03:21:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Monday, April 02, 2007
"It is not cowardly to flee temptation,
and nobody whose opinion is worth having will ridicule any brave attempt to conquer one's self"
-Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott-

in a state of confusion...
O ALLAH, i'm in dire need of Your Guidance.
always...

termenung lagi~

 
posted by .:Mujahidah Khadijah:. at 4/02/2007 04:14:00 PM | Permalink | 0 comments