Monday, June 30, 2014
It's here!
2nd Ramadhan 1435H

Trying to keep checking on the self via my lil' Catatan Ramadhan notebook...

Seram.

Meanwhile, was given an additional subject to teach this sem: Fiqh Mu'amalat for sec 3 Adabi.

The homework, preparations, revision...
Allahul Musta'an (':



 
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Saat Malang mula berbau harum...
27 Sya'ban 1435H

So much has happened w/in the last 2 weeks.
Adventures...
Reflections...
And definitely: SO MUCH to thank Allah Ta'ala for (':

1. Langkawi with usratii:

MonsterTheBird (that's 3-yr old Munir's term for the Eagle @Dataran Lang) - Cable car - Century Suria - kids - Padang Besar, beg, Meritus Pelangi - "the very fun swimming pool" as described by 6-yr old Mu'adz - shiny flat "shells" - Jetski & Parasailing at 12+ noon! - bowling - sssensitive skin!

the best part?
Was getting to be with usratii (':
Seeing them happy, esp Mak & the kids, makes me happy!
Hafizahumullah <3

2. Next came the last minute & TerkejutTrip to Malang.
Albeit last minute & unplanned, this 4th trip to Malang was very different from the past.

Subhanallah! Slowly, I began to appreciate Malang; the People, the weather, the Islamic environment (in particular at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang Inn (UMM Inn), which is situated nearby Islamic universities and thus bookshops!
The short yet insightful conversation inside the Toko Buku with Ust Bahar (Allah yubaarik feeh wa ahlih), the incidents that took place by His Plan.

Seeing the way the Indonesians lead their lives:
Subhanallah! Such simplicity.

Orang2 di kawasan Masjid Ampel yg mkn di warung mini tepi pagar, di lorong yg sempit. Tampak mrk makan dgn begitu selera sekali. Begitu menikmati.

Kita ni yg dilimpahi makanan yg jauh lebih pelbagai, enak, dan di tempat yg selesa: lebih byk menikmati rezeki atau lebih banyak membazir rezeki? Atau mengeji mungkin?

Saat diserahkan plastik berisi 2 ketul roti yg tak mampu ku habiskan kpd seorg yg kelihatan meminta2 di pasar itu, tampak di raut wajahnya & suaranya (ketika beliau berterima kasih) betapa beliau menghargai pemberian yg amat tidak seberapa dariku itu. Lantas roti itu dihulur & dikongsi sama oleh beberapa temannya yg menggendong kanak2 di sampingnya...

Ketika seorg kanak2 kecil sebaya dgn Mu'adzku mungkin, datang ke kereta yg dinaiki kami sewaktu ia berhenti di trafik dlm perjalanan ke Bandara Juanda (airport). Bukan mengemis, namun menjual kadbod berwarna-warni berisi jadual perlawanan Piala Dunia dgn harga 1,000 rupiah (lebih kurang S$0.10). Saat dihulurkan wang kpdnya tanpa mengambil kadbod itu, dgn suara tulus beliau ucapkan "makasih Buk..."

Di saat nama raya macet, lalu ada yg dgn sukarela mengeluarkan wisel & papan2 kayu utk bantu jadi "traffic police" dan menolong lancarkan jalanraya...

Semua ini kelihatan terlalu 'simple' bagi Singaporean yg 'sophisticated' & 'bergaya', bukankah begitu?

Namun entah mengapa, hari ini, hatiku teruja melihat semuanya.
Kadang sayu,
Kadang kagum,
Kadang membuahkan senyum di bibirku.
Pernah juga air mata ini luruh tatkala teringatkan semuanya...

Saat di Sg terpampang di Geylang kata-kata "Selamat Hari Raya", di Surabaya & Malang, tergantung "Ramadhan Mubarak" di gedung-gedung beli-belah (:

Malang & Surabaya kali ini, tampak berbeza di mata hatiku.

Benar kata Ust Bahar: "Saya kasihan melihat orang2 Singapore yg look down upon Indonesians. Kesian mindsetnya itu..."

ya! Lihat sahaja hasil2 penulisan mereka di toko2 buku.
Para dakatir di UIN sahaja sudah mengkagumkan. Tawadhu' dan kesederhanaan mrk di sebalik kecerdasan pemikiran & ilmunya... maasyaAllah 'alaihim!

Alhamdulillah & syukur kpdnNya, diri ini dianugerahkan musyrif MA yg mengambil berat & terus-terusan memberi semangat kepadaku.

Siapa sangka munaqasyah akhir akan diadakan pd 25 Jun 2014? Siapa sangka diri ini akan ke Malang Jun ini?
Siapa sangka diri ini akan dpt SMS dr Dr. Md Abdul Hamid (saat sedang hadir dars Habib Kazhim di masjid Hajjah Fatimah pd 14/6 kelmarin) yg terus mengesyorkan agar diri ini tasjil utk munaqasyah?
Tiada yg sangka.
Tidak Khadijah. Tidak Ustzh Fatimah. Tidak Ust Bahar, dan tidak juga Ust Dhiya'.

Semuanya aturanNYA. RancanganNYA!
Dan sungguh Rancangan ALLAH lah yg terbaik (':
*saaaayang Allah sgt*

Ya mmg untuk lakukannya tidak mudah.
Banyak cabarannya dari pelbagai segi! -fizikal, mental, kewangan, perasaan.
Setiap dari kita diuji dgn ujian yang berbeza2....

Subhanallah! Sekali lg diri ini dibawa menyedari hakikat bahawa:
Yg dinilai bukan hasil/natijahnya tapi JUHUDnya!
Mmg semua thesis yg dipos ke Malang sblm ke Langkawi masih belum sampai2 lg.
Mmg dah banyak keluar duit utk urusan2 ini.
Tenaga juga.
Otak diperah semahunya.

Absyirii ya Khadijah: Tiada yang sia-sia di sisiNYA (':

... Dan saat diri tidak sangka, memandang kecil usaha sendiri, maka Allah Ta'ala sekali lg memberi KurniaNya kpd diri yg terlalu byk khilaf ini...
Ya Allah! Jadikanlah segala ni'mahMu ini sbg wasilah utk tambah mendekatkan diri yg lemah ini kepadaMu...

والحمد لله رب العالمين

P.S. Setinggi2 penghargaan bg semua yg telah mendu'akan utk diri ini & teman2 (:
Baarakallahu feekum! <3

 
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
5 hours to go insyaAllah...

رب اشرح لنا صدورنا ويسر لنا أمورنا واحلل عقدة من ألسنتنا يفقهوا أقوالنا....

 
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
4th Trip to Malang!
Arrived at Juanda Airport, Surabaya. awaiting the car that will take us to UMM Inn. Another 2-3 hours ride insyaAllah (':

Was feeling nervous. Seram.
... And I came across this.

Allahumma yassir wa la tu'assir wa tammim bil kheir yaaa Rabb!

-Surabaya, 24/6/14, ~6pm Indonesian Time.

 
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
19 Sya'ban 1435H

Now at Terminal 2, Gate F56 with ma famille to head to Langkawi insyaAllah (:

The RUSH for thesis-print-copy-post have (temporarily?) ended at around 3:23pm today...

25th June awaits!

Allahul Musta'an (':
 
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
Bila Habib Kazhim datang~
Di Jalan Yasin (Hadith):

✨Tntg fadhilat 2 raka'at sblm Fajr:
أفضل النوافل على الإطلاق،
أما الوتر: فهو أفضل الرواتب.

✨Tntg fadhilat SIWAK!
yg ni habib share BANYAK sgt (😍) termasuk: waktu2 amat digalakkan bersiwak (waktu2 yg lain pun boleh,cuma waktu2 spt bila masuk rumah,sblm belajar & ngaji, lepas rakaat terakhir solat witr, bangun tidur, etc. tu AMAT2 digalakkan), niat2 bila nak siwak, fadhail siwak, alternatives to siwak (guna apa shj benda yg (خَشِن) rough, termasuk hujung kain, etc.), masaail berkenaan siwak ('siwak guna siwak orang lain', 'nazar siwak', 'orang takde gigi kene siwak?', 'siwak guna jari', etc.).

yg paling menarik menarik perhatian:
kene ada lebih dari 1 siwak (3,5...) jd kita TAKde alasan utk tk bersiwak 'alaa lupa!', 'eh tertinggal!', etc.), dan syaitan pun mmg akan cuba buat kita lalai/lupa utk amalkan sunnah muakkadah ini!)
✨ hadith yg siapa hidupkan sunnahku pd zaman fasad ummatku, ganjarannya spt 100 syahid.

✨ Tntg kelebihan hari Rabu! (habib kata kalau nak tulis buku atau lakukan sesuatu, mulalah hari Rabu, insyaAllah akan dpt diselesaikan). ✨du'a antara Zuhur & Asar pd hari Rabu! -riwayat Ibn Majah

✨ baca lepas solat 27x :
أستغفر الله العظيم للمؤمنين والمؤمنات
(kte tak ingat fadhilatnya sbb lajuuuu habib share 😂)

✨ Tntg kepentingan sifat rahmah, hatta dgn jamaadat pun!
قال العلماء: "على قدر رحمتك بالناس، يرحمك الله."
راحم جمعه: راحمون
رحيم جمعه: رُحماء
(makna pun tentunya beza....)

✨ Tntg hukum, adat & fadhilat ziarah kubur, khususnya maqam para solihin.
قال الإمام الشافعي رحمه الله:" الدعاء عند قبور
الصالحين أرجى للقبول." (لأنه محل نزول الرحمة)
-setiap hari kita perlu ingat mati sekurang2 20x...
لكن طالب العلم ينبغي ألّا يتغلّب عليه ذكر الموت حتى يبتعد عن طلب العلم!

habib ckp:
"لو عرفت عذاب القبر، لتفزع ولن تستطيع أن تأكل أو تشرب....!"
jadi: amalkan baca surah al-Mulk!

‼️Bonus:
ada hamba2 Allah yg Bijak ambil kesempatan fadhilat bulan Ramadhan:
mrk niat NAZAR solat Tarawih.
-hukumnya jadi wajib!
-orang lain solat Tarawih, dpt pahala sunnah, tapi dia dpt pahala Wajib!
-cuma bila sakit/ada keuzuran dan tk dpt solat tarawih, wajib qadha'.

sblh malam yg di Darul Makmur, antaranya:

- sunnah mandi pada malam pertama Ramadhan! dgn niat utk bersihkan bukan shj jasmani tetapi rohani, agar mendapat النظر الإلهي
✨أول ليلة في رمضان هي ليلة النظر الإلهي...

✨ أدعية في أول ليلة من رمضان:
-"هلال خيرٍ ورُشْدٍ! ٢x
الله أكبر! الله أكبر!"
(tak pasti berapa kali kene baca)
-"الحمد لله الذي ذَهب بشَهر شعبان، وجاء بشهر رمضان"

- jgn pernah tinggalkan sahur! barakahnya sangat hebat; malaikat juga mendu'akan kita (imagine ni baru ganjaran bg yg bangun sahur. bagaimana agaknya ganjaran mrk yg qiyam... :'))

- sambut Ramadhan & ber'ibadah dlmnya dgn الفرح والبهجة والسرور الباطني

- buat LIST doa2 yg kita nak minta pd Allah Ta'ala utk setiap mlm/ setiap hari masa ifthar.
- masa buka: makan kurma dlm bilangan ganjil + minum air kemudian solat dulu...
- احرص أن تكون في قلبك نيات صالحة! فإن لم تتمكّن منها، فنياتك مكتوبة عند الله تعالى!


 
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durus rush!
12 Sya'aban 1435H

Another fruitful day insyaAllah, spent at Muis Academy alongside kak 'Izzah (whom I met on the way to SIH, sat beside me thruout the almost 7 hours course, and also accompanied me home. the experience was definitely enhanced when u're with such wonderful company, subhanallah! Baarakallahu feeha :)).

Sejarah Islam di Asia Tenggara, energetically + beautifully presented by Mr. Azhar Ibrahim, a lecturer in NUS.

Learnt loads of amusing, important yet almost-unheard of facts about our history.

(gotta remind myself to revise at least part of the lecture so as to help retain some of the points. hopefully)

...
Attended Syeikh Ali Jum'ah's talk at Marina Mandarin (on some inter-religious topic), followed by Bidayatul Hidayah at TH by Syeikh Fahmi al-Azhari (lovelylovelysharings! maasyaAllah), then 'flew' off to Darul Furqan with Atiqah Osman for the reading of an-Nafahat ar-Ramadhaniyyah by Ustzh Ainul Barokah <3

subhanallah!!! the journey, the sweat, the 'flying' n rushing were all worth it (':
(including the mini sesat incident whilst trying to find the hotel. alhamdulillah for the 2 'rescuers' from my Muhsineen Club. hee)

Meanwhile, this weak self has to keep reminding and motivating herself to be stronger and to shake off any kind of 'alaaa jauhnyee nak kene travel' laments.
:(
Still ghibtoh at the east ppl tho. huhu.

n my jiran aka Jannah has been praying that i'll be granted a spouse who resides in the East.
n kak Yat add: ".... yg suka baca kitab". haha.

سنرى...
***
13 Sya'ban 1435H

dars hadith (continuation from last year) @ Jln Yasin with Habib Kazhim was .... speechlessly mesmerising!
i personally enjoyed listening to pearls coming out incessantly from habib's mouth -and at such amazing speed! subhanallah~
really felt how every second is so precious and tried to jot down the points in my book. here, there, everywhere! hehe..
then continued the journey to Darul Makmur. alhamdulillah for the super convenient location, although the intensity was somewhat less due to the translations. alhamdulillah, at least more Muslims can benefit (altho i truly feel blessed to be able to understand Arabic, thus not dependent on the translations which can never be the same as the original meaning :')) ...
 
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Hush!
5 Sya'ban 1435H

A family plan was cancelled and i just got to know abt it! been waiting for it since morning, postponed other maw'ids (appointments) because of it...

geram.

but why Khadijah??
kan ada ayat:
"قل لن يصيبَنا إلا ما كتب اللهُ لنا"

it took a great effort to keep reminding myself of this, n managing my 'angin'.

perhaps u have to focus more on your spirituality ya Khadijah.

focus more on khusyu' fis solah, on sawm (before 15 Sya'ban), on spending more time with HIM. Jalla wa 'Alaa..

then Allah will Help you manage your nafs more, making it easier to manage insyaAllah!

prepare. train. discipline.

patience. calm. shhh!

***

Attended daurah on manhaj salaf fi at-ta'amul ma'a qadhaya al-khilaf @Pergas last weekend, with Syeikh Saif al-Asri the Mufti at Dar al-Ifta, UAE. maasyaAllah... he was so calm in his delivery, despite the quite heavy topic.
then headed downstairs and was enticed by the Islamic Book Fair! although it wasn't big, but I was still happy! ^^
and when i managed to buy 2 wonderful books (insyaAllah) and 2 badges, I was even more elated! hehe.
#so-the-Khadijah-when-she-meets-books (;

Meanwhile, Habib Kazhim is coming to Sg real soon, biidznillah. This time, there are plentiful of durus! about 9-10 sessions at about 7 different locations all over Sg, including Masjid Darul Makmur! ^^
it's such heartwarming to have a jilsah so near your place (':
(which also comes with additional responsibility: meaning that if i don't attend it without any strong excuse, shame on me! ):

I also just subscribed to Syeikh Musa Furber's FB page after reading a mini review by ukht Hafizah Watib @whatsapp. his posts are deeeep, subhanallah! (n involves a lot of critical thinking. hmmmm)

Syeikh Ali Jum'ah is also coming down, biidznillah -just that the topics they gave to Syeikh are those related to inter-religious issues and the likes of it. tak febret beb~
***


Ultimately Khadijah,
it's not really about how much lessons u attended, or how many syeikhs u met..

Rather, it's how much of those 'ilm that u manage to apply. amal. internalise. n most importantly, better yourself.
Allaaaah... :((

#WithKnowledgeComesResponsibility

Biggg one...

P.S. these books are meant to be shared with friends, sis-in-law, nieces-nephews, little tutees... rather than for myself. at least for now (':


 
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