PRU 13

Friday, May 30, 2014
Assalamualaikum.

Akhirnya...setelah sekian lama menanti parlimen dibubarkan juga.Bak kata seorang ustaz,penantian ni ibarat pengantin laki2 yang menunggu untuk dinikahkan tok kadi.Parlimen dibubarkan pada tarikh 3 april 2013 ,pada pukul 11.35 pagi dan diumumkan secara langsung oleh Najib Razak melalui televisyen.dan pada hari ni,beliau mengumumkan manifesto UMNO/BN yang sangat lumayan.Antaranya,nilai BR1M dan baucar buku akan ditingkatkan lagi.Jika untuk baucar buku,pada mulanya rm 200,naik rm 250 dan sekarang rm 300.banyaknya duit kerajaan,tapi hakikatnya,it's ours.Mereka juga menjanjikan untuk menurunkan harga kereta 20-30%,satu idea yang sebenarnya diciplak daripada manifesto pakatan rakyat(PR).Ini menunjukkan seolah2 umno/bn mengiktiraf idea pr untuk kebajikan rakyat.

Realitinya,rakyat pada ketika ini ingin begitu bersemangat menumbangkan kezaliman kerajaan.Kita sudah terlalu lama ditipu oleh UMNO/BN.Orang muda terutamanya makin sedar akan perkara ini ditambah dengan akses yang begitu mudah kepada maklumat2 semasa.


Hak mengundi merupakan satu hak yang sangat istimewa dan adalah amat rugi sekiranya kita mensia-siakan peluang ini dengan alasan,"sori,saya tak minat politik".Ketahuilah bahawa setiap undi adalah bermakna.



Jadi,saranan saya marilah kita sama2 mengundi parti yang kita yakini boleh menjaga kebajikan kita sebagai rakyat dan yang paling penting mampu menegakkan kesucian dan ketinggian agama Islam
"Sekiranya umno melaksanakan islam dengan sebenar-benarnya,maka kita tidak akan lawan umno,malah haram untuk kita melawan mereka"TG Nik Abd Aziz

Wassalam :)



Believe

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Allah knows BEST ;)
Assalamualaikum.

Today, I got a good piece of advice from my ustaz. He said, " Great people don't cry ".

Masha Allah. I was taken aback with his words. Great people are the one who has good and intimate relationship with his Lord and also with the people around (Hablun minallah wa hablun minannas). Great people only cry when they're in front of their Lord, in the early morning at which time others are asleep and they are prostrating to their Lord and hoping for His pleasure.

Tahajjud prayer is like a poisonous arrow, because you shoot at all your problems, at all your enemies. Isn't it so awesome to tell our problems, difficulties and hardships to the One who creates us, the One who knows everything about us, be it our past or the future? Masha Allah. May Allah give us the strength to pray tahajjud and feel the intimacy of a good relationship with Allah.

On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:

If Allah has loved a servant [of His] He calls Gabriel (on whom be peace) and says: I love So-and-so, therefore love him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: So Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in heaven, saying: Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him. And the inhabitants of heaven love him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: Then acceptance is established for him on earth. And if Allah has abhorred a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel and says: I abhor So-and-so, therefore abhor him. So Gabriel abhors him. Then Gabriel calls out to the inhabitants of heaven: Allah abhors So-and-so, therefore abhor him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: So they abhor him, and abhorrence is established for him on earth.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, Malik, and at-Tirmidhi). 

May Allah make us among the people of Jannah.
Amin.







Exam

Sunday, May 11, 2014
Bismillah.

Sometimes, we just need to force ourself to write. I always wonder how the classical scholars can wrote thousands of pages of books and I believe that it is Allah's blessings to them and the sincerity of their writing can be felt until today.

There is one saying that goes, " When you open your heart to seek knowledge, then the world will be your teacher". Yes, it is true indeed because when we put ourselves in the seeking knowledge mode, we'll find out that we learnt many things.

I just wanna share three things that was said by TG Nik Abdul Aziz that I think is very beneficial and we should have a try on it and feel the difference.

He said, in your daily life, do not forget or leave these three. At least, we practised 2/3 daily and continue praying to Allah to give the strength to practise and be consistent in all those three. In sha Allah.

They are:

1. Tahajjud prayer
2. Dhuha prayer
3. Al-Qur'an

In sha Allah, this practise will give us inner strength to go through all the ups and downs in life.

I believe that it is not easy to be consistent and we need always to renew our intention and believe that Allah knows BEST.

May Allah give us the strength and consistency in doing the good deeds and may Allah reward us with Jannatul Firdaus. Ameen.




GST

Saturday, May 03, 2014


Bismillah.

Is it true that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) that will be implemented a year  from now brings more harm than good? Is it true that we, as the final consumers will bear the entire tax burden from GST?

Let me brief you few  disadvantages of GST.

1.         It may result in inflation as general products prices will go up.
2.        Increase the tax burden on low and middle income working groups.
3.        Home prices will go up despite the fact that residential properties  fall under the “Exempt-Rated” basket of goods .
4.        The income level will not increase as much as the increase in the tax burden.
5.        Everyone will pay tax and tax burden will be spread over which will lead to injustice .

For a basic understanding, with the implementation of GST, prices of goods and services will generally go up.

As a university student who will be graduated soon (in sha Allah), it is of my concern to own a house which is one of the basic necessities. Nevertheless, with the ‘craziness’ in the current home prices,  it is of no doubt that after GST is implemented, the price will go even higher. Don’t you share the same thought and feeling? We, being the cream of the cream in the country should voice out our concern especially when it matters not only us, but the future generations as well.

It is not uncommon to hear the elders said, “ You students don’t talk and object too much. Just relax and soon you’ll understand ”. Respect are due to them because they are our future times. However, tolerating the future lives due to the discrepancies and mismanagement  in today’s life is unacceptable and should be avoided.






Role Model

Thursday, February 20, 2014
Bismillah.

The new semester has just began.Being the final year student, I am allowed to choose my preferred elective courses which total up to 12 credit hours, which is equivalent to four elective courses.Alhamdulillah, this semester, I chose al-Iqtisad fi Qur'an wa Sunnah (Economics in the Quran and Sunnah), lectured by Dr Mustafa Omar, a foreign lecturer. Most of the time, Dr Mustafa will share his life experience with us (his students) and often relate the knowledge we learnt in class with practical examples.

Alhamdulillah, today he shared with us something beautiful on the topic of Challenges in Reviving the Institution of al Amanah. I shall not dicsuss further this time what is al Amanah and its challenges. I will just elaborate on one point that will bring us to the examples that the lecturer gave. One of the challenges in reviving the institution of al Amanah is the absence of role model.

Here, he first quoted the example of Tuan Guru Hj Nik Abdul Aziz b Nik Mat, the previous Menteri Besar of Kelantan that served for almost 22 years. He started by posing this question to us , " How many people in the Muslim world who are like TGNA? " Then, he told his story to us about his experience of visiting TGNA in Kelantan. " TGNA just wore a simple sarong and did not show any extravagance , yet very humble. I was shocked at the time when TGNA cross the road to go and buy some 'kuih muih' to entertain us as his guest. The humbleness, the place and the muamalah of TGNA indicated how he really assume his position as the Menteri Besar of Kelantan as an amanah from Allah, though at political level there are lots of temptations that could have distracted somebody without clear objectives in this world." There are many other good things in the characters of TGNA though there are many people out there who didn't like this figure.

DrMAZA once quoted TGNA had his own standard whereby if somebody accused him of taking bribes or commiting crimes , people would not believe it. Why? The reason is simple, it is because he had taken almost the entire of his life in serving the people as the way that is regulated in Islam (by showing good examples to the people and walk the talk) and only the less-intelligent people would call him a kafir or any other accusations. I wondered, how people can accuse TGNA of being a kafir when he had only missed his tahajjud prayer three times in his life?

An ustaz once said that TGNA used to call his secretary (Ust Fadhli), in the early morning around 3-4 am to give some media-statement and at the same time asked his secretary to come to the mosque and pray solat Subh in congregation. The ustaz said that how husnu dzon is TGNA when he's expecting other people also woke up for tahajjud every night, as he is.

Though some might argue why we should take a person that is alive as our role model and why not just take Prophet Muhammad SAW as our role model? It is good to bear in mind that sometimes we need practical examples in our life.This does not mean taking Prphet Muhammad SAW as not a practical example, but to suit with the current era, it is also practical to take somebody who eat the same rice that we eat , live in the same era that we live as long as that person is also following the teachings of Prophet Muhammad SAW and whatmore when the person is encouraging us to also follow the teachings of Prophet.

Tn Guru Hj Nik Abdul Aziz b Nik Mat


May Allah guide us to the right path.
Amin.