Stop the strife

Be like a kite that goes up against the wind of adversity, we can do just better, by being together and defeat the evil of enmity.

It is a bitter period for Malaysians, especially Muslims. Amidst the flood in the west-coast, unending financial instituition dispute, economical struggle, many are still to let their attention caught by the relatively less urgent issue like what we have been encountering this week. The fight between Dr Maza and Dr Zamihan is undeniably sensational, groundbreaking and exciting, for some, this is the cardinal pivot of which our future will be very much determined by it. It’s the fight to declare the truth and to let the lies to decay.

I, personally don’t give a damn to this kind of fight. Whoever won the debate won’t significantly change the paradigm of each realm, less they come to the bottommost of their heart, and reconcile.

Some more, it’s just a zero-sum game, or so a Malay proverb goes “Menang jadi arang, kalah jadi abu” Will the result be used as a guideline to combat extremism? Maybe yes, but mostly no, rather, a specific body like Jakim or Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan would do the job.

However, let’s stop playing the innocent, or the nerd who always wants to play safe and choose no side. Just roll the ball, and roll it right, I would say, it is very positive to have them talk to each other harmoniously, in a fair medium and controlled setting. I would ask for one and one only, just make it fast, stop the strife, and get back to the society where both of you are needed the most.

I would ask for one and one only, just make it fast, stop the strife, and get back to the society where both of you are needed the most.

Nevertheless, I was jolted by my fb timeline today, just couldn’t believe my eyes- a sum of Muslims scholars and corporates were sitting around the table discussing the issue of the mass, what a meetup!!!

This is what we need the most from the learned ones, for them to put aside their incongruence and focus on what they have in common. We in other field like medical are encountering bizzare and delusional perception on vaccination and many others medical intervention. While the clash of opinion of yours won’t cost any lives, the dispute that we are facing in medical field are threatening the public health status as a whole. How to combat this? The answer is by extensive and holistic approach of education, by this, it means, we need people from other specialty like you guys- the asatizah to work hand-in-hand with us.

In the humble nutshell, it’s either we go big or we go die.

Coming of age

Blogging is certainly a good activity to track your record, be it English or writing skill. I found myself very funny when I came to revisit some of my earliest post in English, they were simply amusing . So many grammatical error and wrong choice of words, it’s obvious that Inwas writing back then out of practicing English and not about sharing information or ideas. 

Coming of age

Reading has been helping me a lot since then. I have seen many style of writing and the way they (authors) express their ideas by scrupulously choosing certain pattern of sentences and precise choice of words. Listening to English lecture also helps me to patch my speech up. While the word is there right in our brain, it’s not that easy to actually utter it by our mouth. 

Long-life learning

Just like medicine, linguistic mastery requires us a plenty of time and limitless efforts. I pray to Allah for His mercy and guidance to enlighten my way in learning and mastering this one tiny portion of His boundless knowledge.

Digital expression

We are living in a world of digital expression, you see people gedegung gedegang on net where they found like and share, but very shy-shy cat in a real world, of where they found real oxygen and food to live.

Anonymous 

Nuisance

It’s 11 of Ramadan when so many things came to my mind. They were equally disturbing, and needless to say, I was succumbed to start scrutinising all the informations. 

LGBT was the most vibrant one. The issue was almost impossible to be ignored. I was jolted by the very fact that most of the coverage I read showed very positive acceptance toward the verdict. Considering to share some pieces of my thought, I had been. Alas, very few reading I made had stumbled the process of connecting all the relevant points so that my idea would be seemed so coherently. Fortunately, one junior of mine had written a very good article which had indirectly spoken my mind.

He emphasised up to a certain degree on the importance of tackling this issue practically and legally, and yes, academically. These are three key components that we have to really make it as our forte, au fond, they are also their subtanstial points, thus the battle over this issue would not be a futile one. 

I’m all to agree with his idea and I think the moment we finally figured out the solution, the work to actualise the solution must start. While most of us are able to deliver our idea, it is, very unfortunate, that only some are able to make it real, and of this some, only few are able to do it at the right time and by the right way. 

Ramadan is the month where change is of utmost importance, the strength we have in this month ought to be harnessed optimumly to yield the best result. 

The new league, the new hope

I’m a man of moderation, and by being so, it never means that I’m putting aside my faith. Some might say this is the new face of pluralism, come what may, for me, Islam is always compatible with any era. Having said that, the problem is not with Islam, the problem is with us. We are the nation that responsible to express the true essence of Islam, without abandoning the substantial aspect of it. Islam should always provide solution to the society, and the one to execute the solution is Muslim. 

Be progressive and move on. Count me in.

Serenity

What would be the most wanted thing in your life? For me, it is serenity.

The Demise & The Advent

The demise of my friend a week ago makes the advent of Ramadan so different for me. Life is short, certainly short. Don’t be shilly-shally, get a grip on yourself and let’s live up to the preciousness of this blessed month.

Ramadan is certainly not the first month of a year, but it owns a very big portion in my life, for me, Ramadan marks the new beginning of my life. Squandering it for so many times, I was, hopefully this time, I shall be strong enough to seize this infinite opportunity.

May Allah bless us all in Ramadan.

A return

It is a great social media, and it simplifies our means of communication, everything seems to be very easy, and, it is Facebook. However, I found it more or less a counterproductive effort when you try to put everything in a single post.

I’m a man of essay, and I love to write and express my idea in details, so, blogging is certainly a better resort.

Low reachablity is one minor concern, just up this to Facebook.

Simply better

To live a life is one big thing, while to live a good life is another bigger thing. While most of us here, live peacefully without any or so little adversity, we tend to perceive that’s the real meaning of world, by seeing to what we have around us. While most people outside there, in famine country for example, have to struggle their life, and to make living is one huge challenge. For them, that’s world, a place where every sorrow and suffer resided. Ironically, for those that think world is one nice place, there’s somehow a better place for them. Meanwhile, for those that think, world is where all suffers resided, there’s also a much better life for them. Regardless our position, our definition of world, there’s still a place where betterment and everlastingness exist.

Where?

Let’s dream a place, where only the real things exist. We could see the real happiness, real suffer, real provision, and real love. That day, when the real judgment is implemented to every single person, based on the real law and ruled by the real LAWMAKER. That’s yaumul akhirah – The Day of Judgement.

“Whereas the Hereafter is better and more enduring” Al-‘Ala verse 17.

To be in the world is to be in the hereafter.

The later day is not the another life for us, it is actually continuous. To put this easy, living in the world means one part of your long journey has been made. World is the bridge to the next destination which is the hereafter. It’s a bridge for everyone, no exceptional, but how well the bridge is being formed, for you to pass on, it depends on how good you’re in the world.

Ersatz life- worse and lasts shorter

World is only the ersatz of the real life. Islam came to help you realise this, by taking the world from your heart and put it on your hand ONLY. It’s the basic rule that we need a replacement for thing we lost. While Islam’s lesson removes world from our heart, it also instills a better and much longer lasting replacement, that’s akhirah. By taking this as our real concept of ownership, we will eventually realised, for everything we have now, they’re merely less in quatity, menial quanlity and they’re not even ours. If we’re upset with world, then akhirah will become our great motivation to live up, and if we’re too preoccupied with things we have now, then akhirah will become a good reflex to put us back on the track, so we will not go astray. Better in toto Akhirah by all means is better in term of quality and quantity. There are better rewards and also better (read:just) punishments. Till the day comes, scoff up this interim opportunity as a living muslim in this short lasting world. May Allah save us.

New RUMBLE- The “No MERCY” one

This life is too brief, right? Well, at least, you know it from William Shakespeare’s Life Brief Candle. Owh, okay, sorry, heh, IHAB also said about this, and if you read some of his stories, you could see his non-stop effort of spreading da’wah, and disseminating the prophet’s way throughout his life. The way he communicated and dealt with his core business as a preacher, also as a husband and father was categorically near perfect.

Now, as a third year student, studying medicine and “surgery”, this coarse starts to take its tolls.

5 vs 1. That’s apparently an unfair battle, I’m trudging all the way to remain on the arena, dabbling my own weight. My bad. It seems, this very round gives me no mercy. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.