MySerenity&Peace

U feel feel like u've done everything right to keep things good and happy and working.

U pray  a lot..have been praying days and nights and days and nights, asking for things to run smooth and easy.

U cud feel something - the Serenity and Peace, so indescribable, it makes u want to cry only by thinking of it. Every time u consult HIM, the series of spiritual chattings  reward you none other but Serenity and Peace.

U cud feel it, strongly, you said to yourself..YES..this is IT..

Yet...

 

 

Truly, Allah has all the knowledge and power over every thing..and...

 you are crying..

crying..

and

crying.

Dear Mr & Mrs Piggy

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Dear Mr & Mrs Piggy,

I'm Gie, from Malaysia. I'd like to offer my sincere apologies for the way my fellow Malaysians (read fellow muslims) might have surprised you and the whole clan in the latest "porcinated" Cadbury commotion. I believe, you have seen the many videos and read the many news reportings demanding un-clever things - from asking the gov to shut the company down to urging Cadbury to pay the lard-tainted consumers for blood transfusion (so that the blood could be cleansed once and for all?hahhaaaaaaaa!oppss..forgive my un-ladylike burst of laughters!I found this ridiculously FUNNY, really)

The thing is Mr & Mrs Piggy, though I'm well aware of the unlawfulness of your blood, meat etc (Al-Quran 5:3), I'd like to assure you that I, personally refuse to jump on the bandwagon for I found those demands lack "hikmah" when uttered. 

For long have I wondered, until when will I get to see the beauty of hikmah-laden utterences, poisely coming out from my Malaysian muslim bros and sisters, when things like this happen. For long have I waited, to really witness the beautiful mind working at its fullest, controlling the messed brain, mindless tongue and the angered heart of my brethren when faced with challenges. For long have I waited to really see the beautiful Quran be opened, read, understood and referred to by my Muslim brothers and sisters when their heart gets down and disappointed, when they get provoked and hurt. For long have I waited when will I get to see "hikmah", graciously placed, when "hikmah" is needed. Please and please...pray with me Mr & Mrs Piggy, that, the beauty of our Merciful Creator's teaching soars above any other - defeating all those untruths and a speck of nonsense.

p/s: i don't agree with what ACCIN's rep says regarding blood transfusion, even if it is not supposed to be taken literally, as suggested by some. It just sounds awfully "funny" and "un-intelligent". Just why must we say something unnecessary and unneeded in the event like this?Isn't it unintentional consuming of pork is forgiven in Islam as mentioned in Al-An'am 145, here (please any friends..enlighten me on this if you feel I'm not)

[Say (O Muhammad), "I find not in that which has been inspired to me anything forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be Maytah (a dead animal) or blood poured forth (by slaughtering or the like), or the flesh of swine (pork, etc.) for that surely is filth, or impious (unlawful) meat (of an animal) which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah (or has been slaughtered for idols, etc., or on which Allah's Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering). But whosoever is forced by necessity without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, (for him) certainly, your Lord is Oft­ Forgiving, Most Merciful.]  

On "Bila nak Kawin????

Pre/Script: To those pestering  us ----“the H.O.T single ladies”---- on the Whens, Whys, Whats, Hows, Wheres, Whos, Whoses and Whoms of getting married/of having that H.O.T diamond ring on our “jari manis” thingys…please laa…try to “minimize” your pestering. We will be married when it is the right thing to be done, at the right time, in the right mental, physical, emotional and spiritual space/state. Most importantly – we will marry NOT because others want us too. We marry because Allah has planned it, the way HE wants it… not you :)

I believe in “life is not all a bed of roses”. Pessimistic, you may call me. But, trust me - that adjective does not do me justice. I believe I am practical - that is how I always see myself, at least. 

I don’t believe in achieving life perfection simply because there is none to me. Instead, I believe in owning a happiness by doing things right, at the right time, with the best of my ability. I believe in having my own standards in my doings – be it working, communicating, socializing, studying, reading, movie/drama watching, music listening, thinking etc. I set the standards that work to/with me and that in itself makes me happy :)

Whether my doing turns out to be “perfect, nearly perfect, far from perfect, etc” – it is just not up to me to feel, say and think. I do things – other people? Judging, grading, assessing, evaluating. And when people start to be judges, graders, assessors and evaluators with: some are so genuine and some awfully fake, with: each having his own definition of “PERFECTION”- pray, tell me, what, which and whose PERFECTION should I subscribe to? Achieving perfection did not make, is not making, will not make me happy. But doing things right did make me happy all the time and will always be.

 So, please…when you wanna sell me a story titled "Your Life Will Be Perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect If You Are Married, Gie!", don’t bluff me! I won’t buy it! Try something else, pls  :)  I like this one better: “Marriage will complement your life, Gie!” because that is what I have always believed in – Marriage as a blessed path for a married couple to complement each other, not PERFECTING each other. There is nothing so philosophical or so utopian-like with this belief, right? Simple and practical and achievable as compared to those- “marriage perfecting life and soul” thingys.

 -HE knows, and ye know not-

p/s: This post is inspired by stories of friends 1) who (for ages) have been married but pestered for not yet having kids, 2) who have just married but pestered for tying the knot too soon, for not inviting the whole mukim to her nikah and 3) friends who are contemplating to end their marriage. 

pot smokin', high gettin'.

great art found in nonprint.com

Orwell's 1984:

 "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" 

 am reading this piece of literature at the mo.like fellas smoking pot, this high piece makes me high - full of dreams and hopes.simply irresistible.ciao!

p/s: hey dude...just gimme pot, this kinda pot, yes.please.

Rasa Celaka.

Rasa 1:Celaka

Celakalah aku jika tahun ini jauh buruk dari dulu.Dan makin-makin 

cElaka

Lah 

Aku 

Kalau tahun 

bAru

masih seperti lalu..

Kecelakaan ini...Tuhan, jauhkanlah..Amin #

The Man I Love

One of my favourite poems. Can't help it - I really love it. I hope Mohja Kahf will keep on writing poems like this. I should write to her...one fine day, Insyaallah.

 

p/s: thank you loveinshallah.com.

A Man Who Washes Dishes

by

Mohja Kahf

 

I love a man who clears my table
I love a man who knows how to use
a wire scouring brush on my pots
till they sparkle so
He brings out my shine
 

I love a man who washes my dishes,
making small soapy circles with his manly hands
around the curves of my delicate glassware,
sliding lathery down the slimmest stem
 

I love a man who moves patiently
around my kitchen, turning like a deft spatula,
remembering the places and purposes
of every latch, knob, and cubby
 

 

I love a man who takes responsibility
in the tired aftermath of a meal
down to the wiping of the last counter,
chasing the last honeyed crumb
into the moist corners of the basin,
 

neatly grinding the coiled peel of the final tangerine
He is not afraid to descend into the maelstrom of the disposal
and explore the sharp blades with naked fingers–
I love a man who washes my dishes

 

 

of child bride, shiah & marriage

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I found myself  blog walking in this space called, OutSyed the Box yesterday, got attracted by a discussion on - Feeling Embarrassed Over "Prophet Marrying A Six Year Old".

As I always am attached to matters like this - masked cultural practices, women related issues, demonization of Islam (which in most instances rooted from some muslims' misinterpretation of Islam/ Quran/ Sunnah & cultural interpretation of many practices which often time patriarchal), the discussion over this issue has stirred my psyche. really.

There was a sudden urge that said I needed to respond to the issue posted in this "Tuan Syed's" blog, intending to share and expand the discussion to something fruitful (I badly need to be back to school again, having f2f discussion with some cikgus, friends like I used to. Amin, ya Rabb!).Sadly enough: my sloth-cursed-internet connection had failed my good intention. And tonight, this is where it takes me: blogging about this.

I don't wish to go deeper tonight as I need to go to bed real soon :) I just wanna place something that is supposed to be my "comment" on this Tuan Syed's comment box, here. Things, I feel so strongly about, so that they would be kept here: becoming a proof of my stirred heart and worked brain :)

Salam,

Some would delve into the differences (physical especially) between a small kid today and a kid of prophet’s days. That needs years of research to find the truth, I believe. Some would simply play finger-pointing, making matters so small big and bigger and some would deviate a little/a lot from the real topic, i.e: child marriage --> allowed or not allowed --> prophet’s story vs modern story --> shiah’s doing???duh..

When things got so messed up like this, I love to think that Islam is so beautiful, there is nothing in Islam that will conflict with 1) the fitrah of mankind (physical, mental, emotional, even spiritual immaturity in most of the kids are their fitrah, aren’t they?) and 2) things like basic human rights that the child bride so deserve i.e: good education, health etc.

Child marriage denies all the above. It takes away small girls’ innocence; it breaks the very fitrah of the girls. And definitely, in most cases, it denies them the rights to go to school, to blossom into maturity naturally, to be healthy etc.

Isn’t it contradictory to what Islam teach when small girls of immaturity be married off?

I cringe at the cultural practices so called “islamic” and “prophet-following” like this one. And wonder, why those practicing don’t care to look at the purpose of marriage in Islam itself: to create Mawaddah & Rahmah between the husband and wife.

Would/could an 8-yr-old wife understand marriage itself and mawaddah and rahmah in one?

Of shiah’s doing – I cringe again and again at some muslims’ preference of finger-pointing, proving their inability to exercise their brain to the fullest and practice logic even in a matter like this. 

Why is it so difficult for us to understand that “Islam itu agama fitrah, sangatlah secocok dgn fitrah manusia”? and..where will this Shiah’s doings finger-pointing take us as far as child marriage is concerned?

Wallahua’lam.

For a full discussion by the blogger named above, pls go to: http://syedsoutsidethebox.blogspot.com/2013/10/feeling-embarrassed-over-prophet.html