Lately.

Salam to all.

Lately I feel so bengong. Orang cakap angguk je. Malas nak membalas. Lebih senang menerima. Terima je lah. Senang, tak payah pikir. Eishhhhh!!! Mesti aku ni nampak mcm lalang yang hanya ikut angin. Orang pressure sket dah tukar fikiran. BENCI! Kenapa tak boleh lawan? Kenapa tak nak lawan? Kenapa aku biar orang tolak aku sana sini? BENCI. Geram. Geram dengan diri sendiri. Geram dengan certain people. Ye, aku tau, dia pun geram kat aku kot. Obviously. Duh. Whatever la weyh, aku dah nak trial dah. Kenapa aku tak leh pressure orang mcm orang pressure aku? Aku tak paham kenapa aku kena jadi BAIK SANGAT nak ikut je. Sampai diri sendiri pun tak nak defend. Asyik asyik 'emm.. ok..' je ayat yang keluar dari mulut. Kenapa aku jadi lemah bila orang tinggikan suara?
Sunyi. Sunyi sekarang. Mana boleh cerita kat daddy, kat mummy. Ni bende remeh temeh je. Nanti kena marah balik kot. Sebab tak focus. Sebab tak ada keberanian. Ye, aku kena berani. Diorang tu pun lebih kurang aku je. Kenapa aku kena rasa low self esteem sangat? Biarlah dia nak fikir apa pasal aku. Daddy pun dah selalu marah sebab i'm thinking too much about what others feel. Yes daddy, you're so right. I wish i could be more like you. I try to be tough daddy, I try to be strong. I try to think like you think. You're right. Buat apa fikir sangat pasal orang. Bukannya we'll see each other forever and ever. Nanti dah ikut laluan masing-masing. I hate myself when this thing happens. I feel so stupid. So weak. So useless. Dah dah. Focus la weyh. Focus. Focus. Nanti tak dapat fly baru nak nangis ke?
Geram. Geram sangat. Bengong terasa otak ni.

Free Hug!


Salam to all.

First things first. The word 'hug' used in this post and all the other posts in this blog refers to 'the type of hug that is within the limits of Islamic laws'. That means no inter-gender hugs between two people who are not related by blood, marriage or 'susuan', okay?

How many times do you hug people in a day?
0?

Okay, so how many times do you hug people in a week?
Still 0?

Hmmm.. If that's the case, you're missing something that makes life, 'life'.

And I would say that I'm currently missing something in my life too. It's nearing a month since I last hug my mom and dad and I couldn't recall when's the last time I hug a person.

I like to see two friends (usually guys will do this) shake hands and then give each other a 'ukhuwwah hug' when they meet. And when a person scores a goal in a game or something and the whole team members will do the 'group hug'.. And when people give 'goodbye hugs' in airports or bus stations.. It's just a simple gesture right?

To me, a simple thing like this really means a lot and I am 100% confident that sometimes, a hug can be a better gift compared to expensive items. Do you agree?
Have you ever felt like giving up on something and you went to a friend to tell him/her your problems? You don't expect her to solve all your problems, do you? But why do you go to her in the first place? And what do you feel after that little chit chat and a really big 'Barney' hug? *Hoho, 'Barney's I Love You' song is playing in my head right now~*

Since my mom and dad are far far away, I bought Romeo, a big brown teddy bear that is nearly as err.. big as my dad (sorry daddy, but it's the truth~) so that I can still get the 'life' of life.
And here's a video about 'Free Hugs Campaign'. It's a good thing (as long as women hug women and men hug men) because as we grow up, we tend to forget how to appreciate others and even ourselves.


Part Khomsah.

Salam to all.

It was a year and three months ago. Madinah will always be the place that I will remember forever. But, well, every meeting will have an end and after spending just two days and two nights in Madinah Al- Munawwarah, we had to leave for Mekah. 15 months is a long time so I hope that you will not expect me to tell the stories in detail, like what I told you in Part Wahid , Part Ithnani , Part Thalathah , and Part Arbaah. (Please take note: The pictures are not in chronological order and not properly grouped.. Sorry~)



My mom and my sis in front of the Masjid Nabawi.


Masjid Nabawi. Alhamdulillah, we got to perform Friday Prayers there. The khutbah was given in Arabic and based on my already rusty Arabic, I think the khutbah was about marriage.. Since I couldn't understand 98% of the khutbah, I let my eyes wonder in an attempt to capture as much memory as possible about this very special Masjid. I did sneak in my camera (I put it in the shoe bag because the 'Askar' didn't check that.. They just look through handbags) and took two pictures of the Masjid's interior.


This is the lobby of our hotel.


The streets in Madinah.

Bir Ali, the place where we officially pronounced our intentions to perform Umrah. Bir Ali has a beautiful garden and yeah, the place is so full of people.



The place where they print Al-Quran. Women are not allowed to enter the factory and so we went straight into the Quran Store. Ayah Mie, my dad and Naim followed the Quran Printing tour and at the end of the tour, each of them got a free Quran Tafsir. (Tak aci betul~)


Masjid Qiblatain. Due to time constraint, we just can see it from our tour bus. I really wanted to see how a masjid can have two qiblats, but then again, I think of it as just another reason to come here again.


Masjid Qiblatain, from a different angle.


I didn't expect to see waterfall in this hot place, haha.


If I'm not mistaken, this is Masjid Firdaus.



Somewhere near Jabal Uhud.


This is not Jabal Uhud. As far as I can remember, our tour guide told us that the building at the top of the hill is the King's palace. And take note of the hillls. They are solid rocks with no trees unlike the hills in Malaysia.. Their hills are of hard stone inside and out, a big difference from ours which mostly made up of soil. And during the tour, the Ustaz said that it kinda reflects the heart of the Arabs. Allah had placed the Ustaz of all Ustaz, Rasulullah PBUH in the land of the Arabs, because Allah knows they will physically go against Islam. But what the people of Tanah Melayu (Melaka) got was only the Arab Muslim merchants.. You get what I mean?


Inside the Quran store. You can find Tafsir Al-Quran in a lot of languages, Al-Quran printed in various sizes and Al-Quran in special boxes.


This is the biggest one that I could find. This one is like the one we have in Raudhatul Muttaqien, where during Ramadhan, the Imam (Ustaz and students alike) would read from it during prayers. Oh, I miss you Ramadhan and Langkawi!


Picture taken when our family wanted to place an order. Mama Shima bought the biggest Quran and I bought the Quran Tafsir in Bahasa Indonesia. No Bahasa Malaysia version was available..


When I first saw this, I instantly thought of Giant back home. Hmmm...


Their highways.. Again, see the rocky hills~


This is somewhere near the Jabal Uhud. It was really hot back then..


Makam Shuhada' near Jabal Uhud. Lets flip through the pages of history, shall we? The Battle of Uhud is the second battle in Islam, after the Battle of Badr. In this battle, 70 Muslim warriors were notoriously killed and Saidina Hamzah Asadullah was one of them. We can learn two main things from this battle. First, never disobey your leader, especially Rasulullah. Before the battle, Rasulullah warned the archers based at the top of the Jabal Uhud not to leave their post until he said so. As the battle took place, it seemed to the archers that Muslims had won the battle and so they ran down the hill to collect the ghanimah (harta rampasan perang). But, the enemy (lead by Khalid Al-Walid before he embrace Islam) re-attacked and at last the Muslims lost. More details available here. Second, do not let worldly matters blind us.


I took a moment to picture how the battle and other battles took place in this setting. I couldn't describe the images I have in my mind. May Allah bless all the Shuhada'. Amiin. Al-Fatihah.

InsyaAllah, I will tell you about Umrah and Mekah later.

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