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To my beautiful brothers and to my sisters and to the entire community of Muslimeen,

Happy Ramadan!

I know it’s not Ramadan yet but I just wanted to say this. Insha’Allah all of you have a blessed month and all your fasting be accepted by Allaah Subhanahu Wa-Ta’Ala. It is a time of worship and contemplation. A time to strengthen family and community ties. Don’t forget to pray for Afghan women and children and our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Allaah bless us all.

If obedience to your Creator is ugly,

If your only reason to ask him to shave is because it isn’t “attractive” otherwise, perhaps your idea of what attractive is, is distorted.

If you can’t love him enough to help him get to Jannah, how do you love him at all?

Ya Allah! Engkau adalah Tuhanku, tidak ada Tuhan yang berhak disembah kecuali Engkau, Engkaulah yang menciptakan aku. Aku adalah hambaMu. Aku akan setia pada perjanjianku denganMu semampuku. Aku berlindung kepadaMu dari kejelekan yang kuperbuat. Aku mengakui nikmatMu kepadaku dan aku mengakui dosaku, oleh karena itu, ampunilah aku. Sesungguhnya tiada yang mengampuni dosa kecuali Engkau.

Hadith:

Barangsiapa membacanya dengan yakin ketika malam hari, lalu ia meninggal dunia pada malam itu, maka ia masuk syurga. Dan demikian juga ketika pagi hari.” (HR. Al-Bukhari 7/150)

Dua’as for those doing Exams:

Allahumma la sahla illa ma ja’altahu sahla, wa ‘anta taj-alul hazna idha shi’ta sahla

Meaning: “O Allah! There is nothing easy except what You make easy, and You make the difficult easy if it be Your Will.”

Allahumma inii as’aluka fahmal-nabiyyen wa hifthal mursaleen al-muqarrabeen.

O Allah! I ask You for the understanding of the prophets and the memory of  the messengers, and those nearest to You.

Allahumma ijal leesanee ’amiran bi thikrika wa qalbi bi khashyatika.

O Allah! Make my tongue full of Your remembrance, and my heart with consciousness of You.

Innaka ‘ala ma-tasha’-u qadeer wa anta hasbun-allahu wa na’mal wakeel.

(O Allah!) You do whatever You wish, and You are my Availer and Protector and the best of aid.

Dua after Studying:

Allahhumma inni astaodeeuka ma qara’tu wama hafaz-tu. Faradduhu ‘allaya inda hagati elayhi.Innaka ‘ala ma-tasha’-u qadeer wa anta hasbeeya wa na’mal wakeel.

O Allah! I entrust You with what I have read and I have studied.
(O Allah!) Bring it back to me when I am in need of it.(O Allah!) You do whatever You wish, and You are my Availer and Protector and the best of aid.

Dua While Studying Something Difficult:

Allahumma la sahla illama ja-‘altahu sahla wa anta taj ‘alu al hazana etha shi’ta sahla.

O Allah! Nothing is easy except what You have made easy. If You wish, You can make the difficult easy.

There are ahaadeeth which indicate that this is to be said at times of hardship and difficulty. All of that includes exams and other difficulties.

1. t was narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever says – when leaving his house – Bismillaah, tawakkaltu ‘ala Allaah, laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa Billaah (In the name of Allaah, I put my trust in Allaah, there is no power and no strength except with Allaah), it will be said to him: You are taken care of and you are protected, and the Shaytaan will keep away from him.”
2. It was also narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: If something upset him, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would say: “Yaa Hayyu yaa Qayyoom bi rahmatika astagheeth (O Ever Living, O Sustainer, by Your mercy I seek help).”
3. It was also narrated from Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “O Allaah, nothing is easy but that which You make easy and You can make hardship easy if You will.”
4. It was narrated that Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The prayer of Dhu’l-Noon when he was in the belly of the fish: ‘Laa ilaaha illa Anta, subhaanaka inni kuntu min al-zaalimeen (There is no god but You, glory to You, verily I was one of the wrongdoers).’ A Muslim never calls upon his Lord with these words concerning any matter, but his prayer is answered.”

References for the above:

1. Narrated by Abu Dawood, 5095; al-Tirmidhi, 3426; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
2. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 3524; classed as hasan by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 3182.
   
3. Narrated by Ibn Hibbaan, 3/255; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 2886.
   
4. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 3505; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 1644.
   

It really breaks my heart that everywhere, our brothers are being called terrorists because they are following the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad s.a.w., our sisters are being labeled as oppressed just because they wear the niqab (and which they are going to be forced to take it off, Astaghfirullah), and even those wearing hijabs are being denied of jobs… yes, even in good old multiracial Singapore.

Islam started out as a strange religion, and it will end as a strange religion… but it is a religion of truth, so don’t ever, ever sell out your religion for anything, brothers and sisters. Allah will provide in ways you can never imagine, InsyaAllah…

Yaa Latif-an lam yazal
Ultuf binaa feemaa nazal
Innaka Latif-un lam tazal
Ultuf binaa wa’l Muslimin

Budak-budak junior yang baru diserap masuk dalam team futsal MSU. Tidak sampai 2 minggu buat 2 team ini and syukur, they claimed their 3rd place (biru) and 1st place (merah) in UiTM open tourney. All the best boys!

*Merah = Team A

*Biru = Team B

Prof:
So you believe in God?

Student:
Absolutely, sir.

Prof:
Is God good?

Student:
Sure.

Prof:
Is God all-powerful?

Student:
Yes..

Prof:
My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill.
But God didn’t. How is this God good then? Hmm?
(Student is silent.)

Prof:
You can’t answer, can you?
Let’s start again, young fella.
Is God good?

Student:
Yes.

Prof:
Is Satan good?

Student:
No.

Prof:
Where does Satan come from?

Student:
From….God. ..

Prof:
That’s right.
Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student:
Yes.

Prof:
Evil is everywhere, isn’t it?
And God did make everything, Correct?

Student:
Yes.

Prof:
So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)

Prof:
Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student:
Yes, sir.

Prof:
So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)

Prof:
Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you.
Tell me, son…Have you ever seen God?

Student:
No, sir.

Prof:
Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student:
No, sir.

Prof:
Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student:
No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Prof:
Yet you still believe in Him?

Student:
Yes.

Prof:
According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your ‘GOD’ doesn’t exist.
What do you say to that, son?

Student:
Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof:
Yes, Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student:
Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof:
Yes.

Student:
And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof:
Yes.

Student:
No sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student:
Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat..
But we don’t have anything called cold.
We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t
go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold.
Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
We cannot measure cold.
Heat is energy.
Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student:
What about darkness, Professor?
Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof:
Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student :
You’re wrong again, sir.
Darkness is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light….
But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t.
If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Prof:
So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student:
Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof:
Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student:
Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.
You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God.
You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, science can’t even explain a thought..
It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor.
Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof:
If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student:
Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student:
Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)

Student:
Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student:
Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?
No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the established rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. )

Prof:
I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student:
That is it sir… The link between man & god is FAITH.
That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

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