Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Sacrifice

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah. MashaAllah dah lama tak bukak blog sampai lupa link blog sendiri haha 😂 urm tak sempat weh...menjadi mahasiswa ni banyak tanggungjawab. Bukan sekadar belajar ilmu di dunia sahaja tetapi mengutip simpanan akhirat juga inshaaAllah.


Jadi semester ini agak kalut ribut. 20 credit hours 5 core subjects (bless me) serta tanggungjawab untuk persatuan. Sebenarnya aku join persatuan ni bukan untuk mendapat nama, tetapi nak amek kesempatan menjadi minority muslim untuk bring everyone together.

[ Wahai umat manusia! Sesungguhnya Kami telah menciptakan kamu dari lelaki dan perempuan, dan Kami telah menjadikan kamu berbagai bangsa dan bersuku puak, supaya kamu berkenal-kenalan (dan beramah mesra antara satu dengan yang lain). Sesungguhnya semulia-mulia kamu di sisi Allah ialah orang yang lebih taqwanya di antara kamu, (bukan yang lebih keturunan atau bangsanya). Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui, lagi Maha Mendalam PengetahuanNya (akan keadaan dan amalan kamu).] Surah Al-Hujurat: ayat 13


Mungkin inilah hikmahnya aku dicampak kemari, untuk diduga menjadi minority dan berkenalan dgn muslim dari serata pelosok dunia (international students). Ya, banyak cabaran dia nak blend in sebab mazhab serta budaya masing-masing is completely divergent. Apa yang boleh bagi kita tak boleh bagi dorang and kena ada fine line dalam setiap event nak buat. Agak mencabar sbb dekat malaysia dah terbiasa buat benda macam ni tapi dekat sini kena buat dengan begitu delicate supaya tidak bercanggah dengan culture mereka. Kena always amek jalan tengah.


Okay tajuk nak cakap pasal sacrifice. Berkorban. Bila kita rasa ada tanggungjawab, berkorban masa, tenaga tu datang dengan sendiri. Tak perlu nak check jadual untuk cakap "I'll be there, inshaaAllah"


Tak perlu nak "Let's see first how"

 sebab bila dah sign up for that responsibility, memang WAJIB kena sacrifice banyak benda. Extra work, extra struggles, semua benda extra. Extra penat. Extra stress. Tapi, benda ni akan jadi mudah, bila NIAT KITA BETUL :)

Bila kita hanya niat nak buat benda ni kerana nak dapat redha Allah, nak kutip pahala, nak buat amal inshaaAllah semuanya jadi senang.

Kalau buat kerana sijil, kerana nak kan nama. Memang susah untuk kau sacrifice masa, tenaga, duit dan whatever it might be.

Dalam hadis 40, hadis pertama adalah mengenai NIAT.

Sebab, EVERY LITTLE THINGS is counted according to your intention.

Even the slightest thing that you do could be the reason for you entering Jannah if your intention is purely because of Allah. Subhanallah how great is that?

On the other hand, if your intention is wrong, isn't in the path of Allah, there are just some dusts, bubbles in the ocean. It brings no meaning. Nauzubillahi min zalik.

Bukankah berada dalam persatuan islam is a golden opportunity? Sambil belajar sambil dapat berdakwah, sebarkan ajaran Islam. In my case, in a total non-muslim environment? I deem that as a blessing. As a chance for me to act as a proper Islam ambassador.

Allah sent me here, out of all people out there to be an ambassador of Islam to the non-muslims. I couldn't see this before but alhamdulillah He opened my eyes and heart to look beyond than just being a malay in a largely chinese community.


Somehow i feel so lucky, alhamdulillah. This is my calling. To be a better muslim, so that the non-muslims here would get to see a good muslim (hopefully inshaaAllah!) Everything I do here, people would reflect back to me being a muslim. Because it couldn't be more obvious, i'm wearing hijab LOL.

I think somehow that's the least i could do to islam. To show the community here that islam is a way of life. It is a religion of hikmah, of gentleness, of compassion, of patience, of love and all fine qualities that our Prophet (peace be upon him) had taught us throughout his entire life.


To be smiling to the people who condemn you for being a muslim ;)


With all the stereotypes on muslims across the globe right now, i received a piece of that over here as well. At the beginning i was so afraid to walk to the classes, scared of having to bump into a person who think i'm a terrorist (there's a non-muslim guy who is an anti-muslim that always has something to say to me on fb, not good stuff of course) but later on i find myself reflecting to the history. Our prophet and sahabah faced much more than what we are facing today. This ain't anything compared to those times. Islam comes as an alien, it will return as an alien as well.


Eh tajuk sacrifice ni dah lain cerita ni hahaha lantak lah this ain't spm essay! Anyway, hopefully Allah gives us strength that we need because we are so vulnerable without Him. Setiap kudrat yang kita ada sekarang, kudrat untuk bangun, berjalan, kudrat pergi ke kelas belajar, kudrat untuk menaip  ni pun adalah daripada Allah. Segalanya mungkin dengan pertolongan Allah, kita cuma kena yakin dan berusaha sahaja.


So oklah, nak tidoq lah kejap before buat esaimen. Meeting tadi pun pusing kepala jap sbb tetiba activities cramped dalam satu minggu hahaha (bless us O'Allah) tapi takpe, we can do this! Activities apa je pun bukannya kena rentas padang pasir luls.

Oklah, till my next post which might be next year hahaha assalamualaikum warahmatullah. Wherever you are may you are in the bliss of being in the blessings of Allah swt ;)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Sharing is love

Assalamualaikum wa rahmah everyone! :) :)

So it has come to my attention that apparently there are actually some people reading my blog wahaha kantoi korang baca blog ai uhuu. Thank you lah still baca blog yang cukup bersederhana ini kahkahkah (you know who you are).


Nak share satu blog ni, blog ni sebenarnya first blog aku baca ( i think so ) and it has left me big impression. Aku start tengok diri sendiri balik after baca blog ni. The writer is simply ah-ma-zing! Thank you akak farah waheeda. Your writing is so sweet tapi terkesan di sanubari ku ini. Everytime baca mesti akan terkesan satu lagi benda baru and the cycle goes on.

Ni link dia : dirikudrcinta.blogspot.com

Baca lah, kalau aku tak dapat share directly pon share blog yang mantap pon harap dikira account juga hiii ^_^



Sebenarnya, hm. Ntah lah. Sem ni banyak sangat tanggungjawab nak kena pikul :(

Takut tak mampu je dengan forever problem with mara yang somehow deflecting my focus on my studies sebab dok pikir pasal tu je. Tapi takde apa pon sebenarnya, i was just exaggerating.

Apalah sangat nak dibandingkan dengan masyarakat Haiti yang literally makan DIRT.


The moms made up the biscuit OUT OF DIRT. Diorang campur habuk dengan gula sikit, pastu buat jadi biskut. The kids of Haiti are feeding themselves with dirt weh. Yet they looked so happy. They were smiling like they have all the happiness in this world. Betul lah less people have more.
Tengok lah orang yang kaya (some of them), ada je rasa tak cukup. Still terkejar-kejar harta dunia sampai leka tak solat, zakat entah kemana. Still tak rasa happy. Sebab apa? One word ; keberkatan.
Kadang-kadang orang miskin yang hidup dalam pondok lagi bahagia daripada orang hidup dalam banglo mewah kereta 10 bijik.


Nak keberkatan senang ja. Buat apa yang Allah suruh. Its that easy. But yeah, susah untuk sesetengah orang.


 “Jadikanlah sabar dan solat sebagai penolongmu. Dan sesungguhnya yang demikian itu sungguh berat, kecuali bagi orang-orang khusyuk.” (Al-Baqarah ayat 45)


Bukak mata sikit lihat dunia. Lihat hidup orang lain, stop being self-centered. This world isnt consist of you alone. Orang lain punya struggle kalau nak compare dengan kita ni alahai, celah kuku je problem kita ni nak compare dengan orang kat luar sana tu.


So bila aku tengok documentary tu rasa cam Allahu betapa senangnya hidup aku ni sebenarnya. Jadi bersyukurlah dengan apa yang anda ada sekarang.

“Kalau kamu bersyukur, nescaya Aku akan menambahkan kepadamu.” (Ibrahim:7)


Lagi satu, jangan bandingkan diri dengan orang yang lebih daripada kita. Sentiasa lah bandingkan diri dengan orang yang kurang daripada kita. Bukan dari segi ILMU ya! Ilmu hang kena bandingkan diri dengan orang yang lebih! Hang kena lumba rebut ilmu ni!

Lebih tu bermaksud dari segi harta benda lah. Contohnya barang2 branded, tengok orang ada baju fashionvalet (ops) hang pon nak beli jugak. Adakah baju mahal itu berkat? Tutup aurat ke baju tu? Kebanyakan baju mahal ni, yes bukan semua KEBANYAKAN nya tak ikut syariat sangat. Some are too short, too tight and too transparent.

Aku sebenarnya confuse dengan trend zaman sekarang, baju kurung style baju nya singkat je semua. Baju cam just atas hips. Suppose baju kena lah labuh daripada paras hips tu. Barulah menutup aurat.

Tu lah, bila bab menutup aurat. Bandingkan lah dengan orang yang menutup aurat dengan sempurna. Bandingkan tudung kita dgn tudung labuh. Baju kita dengan baju muslimah. Pakai stoking ke tidak, handsock.


Credit gambar adalah dari blog dirikudrcinta



Sesiapa memakai pakaian kemasyhuran, nescaya Allah akan memakaikan kepadanya pakaian kehinaan pada hari kiamat nanti. Kemudian ia akan dibakar dengan pakaiannya ke dalam neraka”. (Riwayat Ahmad, Abu Daud, Nasai dan Ibnu Majah dari Ibnu ‘Umar r.a.) 



So wahai muslimat semua. Kita kena jadi extra hati-hati dalam memilih pakaian. Biarlah tak hipster ke apa, yang penting Allah berkati kehidupan kita. Hipster2 nak kemana awak? Akhirat yang kekal abadi yang kita tuju, bukannya mata-mata manusia kat dunia yang bersifat temporary ni.

This is a reminder for myself as well. Sama-sama lah kita ubah cara pakaian kita okay? Semoga pakaian kita tu pakaian diredhai Allah dan boleh bawak kita masuk syurga inshaaAllah.


Aiseh nampak tak posting ni macam2 topik ada hahaha biaq pi lah ai memang random orangnya so bear with me ehee.


Doakan saya please boleh buat yang terbaik for everything that is coming through! May Allah ease our journey inshaaAllah!





Saturday, September 5, 2015

Courage - inner battle








Sometimes it's easier to be faking that you are strong, rather than showing people that you're broken inside.

It is so much easier to hide away the tears rather than letting people telling us to "be strong"

Because once you've opened up, you'll have to explain and somehow make them understand. And that is just suffocating. Its just uncomplicated to roll yourself up and let time passes so that you'll heal for a moment.

But deep down we've been telling ourselves to be strong too much that it's tormenting us bit by bit.

It is definitely much more comforting to pretend that you are happy than to let people know you're at your vulnerable point.


But it doesn't give content to be pretending  "I'm doing fine"

Nonetheless, it is easier this way. Its undemanding.


 You sort of just let it pass through, yet at the end of the day you're gonna feel dejected once again.


And you simply repeat the process ; you can't contain your suffocating feelings any longer - but you pretend to be bright cause it makes everyone happy. Well, at least they wouldn't be shouldering more than they already have.






And they thought youre doing just great - because you claimed "I'm excellent. Nothing to be concerned. I'm having the grasp"


Now that's my biggest lie. Cause there isn't much I could do though, unless give some ease to them. At least the thought of they thinking I'm doing fine comforts me somehow.


Just how much longer do I need to deal with this each day. I'm just empty. At least, close to.

Cause this struggle, is only within myself. I stopped sharing my grapple to others, cause people do not really care.


But don't worry though, I'm gonna embrace myself cause all the sayings are beyond question. They are completely doubtless. Courage is not having strength to go on, it's about going on when you don't have the strength. 


I'm coming out as a brand new person. I'm going to own a steel heart afterwards, inshaaAllah.





Guess, what. Indeed. I AM BULLETPROOF!

Friday, August 14, 2015

Worth sharing

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh! Salam sejahtera.

Sebenarnya aku dah lupa aku ada blog kahkah.  So so so so somtam, rasa nak post sebab tgk blog archive 2 posts je baru tahun ni kuikui. Takde idea sangat nak share apa dekat blog ni hm.

So nak share skrg tengah baca novel ni hehe







Belum habis baca lagi, tapi so far best hehe sebab cam dia tak heavy sangat and agak ranggi gitew. Novel ni pasal satu family pergi vacation (ain't it obvious?kahkah).Tapi cam anak2 diorang tak berapa nak gemor sangat berkumpul satu family ni. Pasal two sisters that are being cold to each other merely because of the stabbing words said by the younger sister at first. So biasalah kakak wajiblah berkecik hati nyamuk gitu ha. Nanti dah habis baca i bagi rating eh (bajet penting je rating aku kasi tu wakaka)


Ha, baru teringat. Semalam aku layan Ted talks then I found a video ; North Korean refugees sharing their life struggles. Subhanallah sedih sangat weh. Air mata keluar plus minus sama banyak masa tgk 1liter of tears ha. Sebelum ni aku hanya tau North Korea ni military based governed.


Tahukah anda, North Koreans tak tau kewujudan internet? Mereka tak tau facebook tu apa, youtube tu sejenis haiwan mahupun bunga apatah lagi friendster (kahkah).

Dorang disekat daripada berhubung dengan dunia luar. Dan diorang sangat mengagung-agungkan jeneral diorang. Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Diorang semua pakai badge muka jeneral dorang hari-hari tau tak. Betapa agungnya kim il sung pada dorang.

Tahukah anda lagi, separuh rakyat north korea hidup dalam kemiskinan melampau. Rakyat mati kerana kebuluran. Subhanallah. Sedih sangat.

Nah tengok lah video yang meruntun jiwa kudus aku ni,











Lepas tengok video-video ni, rasa sangat bersyukur dengan kehidupan sekarang. How fortunate we are (well some of us) to at least have regular meals each day, and we don't have to live in constant fear even for a second. Dan jangan lupa jugak dengan keluarga kita di Syria, Palestine. Mereka pun golongan yang dizalimi. Semoga Allah swt berikan mereka kekuatan.



On a side note, aku dah nak habis cuti semester hwahwahwa. Cuti 3 minggu je bukan macam budak ipta cuti berbulan-bulan. Honestly aku sangat jeles dgn budak ipta. They have wider opportunity in term of networking, social activities,  pembangunan sahsiah, mencari calun zauj dan zaujah (eh?) kahkah tak lah tu sambil menyelam minum air je tehee. Jadi students ipta ketahuilah korang ni beruntung tau tak! So janganlah sia-siakan masa uni anda dengan benda yang tidak mendatangkan pekdah. Joinlah activity2 anjuran kampus tu secara maximum dan perbanyakkan networking anda ( bermaksud berkenalan dgn orang as many as u could! tapi jangan berkenalan gatai dgn opposite gender ja hmph *emoji jeling mata*) Jealous ngat ngan diorang nih tapi nak buat camne rezeki dan life journey berbeza kan so appreciate jelah my own path ni hehe.

So i'm just going to pump the best out of me for the next semester inshaaAllah. Hopefully next semester i won't hold myself back from actively involved in any clubs or events cause that's what i enjoy the most to begin with. Aku jadi agak intimidated nak jadi commitee sbb nya semua chinese je active dalam clubs and events ni aha. Plus takde kawan yang minat handle benda camni so it pulled me back couple of times now. Tiap kali nampak commitee reqruitment poster and all hati meraung nak join tapi minda kata jangan lagi. But if i'm just going to listen to my guts, i won't be progressing at all will i? So pray for me will you tehee. Ayoh syafiyah jadi katang sikit knock off the negative thoughts and begin to rock your campus life hahaha.