define celebration

13 December 2009

tiada apa yang perlu disambut.

perjuangan kita masih belum selesai.

Alhamdulillah ya allah, subhanallah ya allah, allahuakbar ya allah.
hari ini Kau beri kesempatan utk ku menigisinya keranaMu, di atas jalanMu.
Terima kasih ya Allah atas semangat & kekuatan yg Kau beri,
atas ilham yang Kau kurniakan kepada kami.
Insyaallah, segalanya atas izinMu, Allah :)
sungguh,
hati kami ini hanya untukMu, Allah :)
Ameen.

p/s: thanks 4 besday card n phone call from mak n ayah @ makkah, sms from aziz n izzati, msgs from ayiep n kakak, choc bar from sisters @ hanan, wooden wishes from housemates, early wishes from iqbal n ashira, phonecall from sabrina @dublin n heni,skype call from kuri @ iowa,faiza @ dublin, najah,ijah n kautharians @ pmc,sms from nurus,kak fina,kak diba,kak dib,kak dmad,izza,muiz,adlan,zuhri.meaningful facebuk posts from ayuni,seha,jihan,hanis,hammad,akmal,nik syuk,sabrina,tipah, zuleeza, syafiqjohar,kakzam, faiqah n so many others,juniors & seniors. (x larat nk taip dah.) u guys made my day :)

sparks fly ~

The wind blew.
The grass was damp. Thanks to the rain.
Small Island stood in the middle of the valley,
And there were we.
It was a campfire.
The warmth envelopes cold hearts.

staring at the flame,
feels like being absorbed,
pulled into the unknown world of it.
It was magical.
From the core of the flame to the darkness of the sky,
The sparks flew up into the night.
But it's for mere seconds.
Disappear, beaten by the cold night.
A beauty that never lasts.

But Lord, Your flame will never fade.
The sparks will burn, stabbing the core of unfaithful hearts.
A fire that will never be a beauty anymore.
Indeed, a nightmare.
The sparks will never fade, never disappear,
Because You promised,
The Fire of Yours will alight till eternity.

Safe us Allah,
Because we don’t want to wake up into nightmare.

Safe us Allah,
Because You are our saviour.
Our One and only.
Ameen.

"Those who reject
Our signs, We shall soon
Cast into the Fire;
As often as their skins
Are roasted through,
We shall change them
For fresh skins,
That they may taste
The penalty: for Allah
Is Exalted in Power, Wise"
[Al-Quran 4:56]

"He who created Death
And life that He
May try which of you
Is best in deed;
And He is the Exalted
In Might, Oft-Forgiving"
[Al-Quran 67:2]

6 december 2009. Happy anniversary!

It has been 5 months since the day that truly change my life.
You show me,
"Basirah, what you want isnt always what you will get.
Take this.
I'll see how you will handle this test."

Name any emotion that cross your mind,
that's how I felt the moment I know that my future will utterly change.
Expect the unexpected?
I dont think so.
Unexpected things is expected when you know that your life is truly in His hands.

Away from my closest sahabiah(s),
You put me in a situation that I know,
"my life will totally depends on You."

Tears never will change a thing,
Regret never turns back time.

One thing I know,
strength is with none but You.

Guide me Allah,
pull me back if I astray from You.

Here I am in this land,
trying to prove You
that I'll try to pass Your challenge.
5 years from now onwards,
we will see.

Happy 5th month anniversary to That day.

p/s: 6 December is also Siti Aisyah Hussin's besday. In Dabelin now, growing to become a better servant of Yours. Grant her happiness Allah, guide her every single way. Let us meet Allah, though not here, insyaAllah in the hereafter.
kepada teman2 lain, semoga kita sama2 thabat di atas jalan-Nya. ^_^


saya tak kan lupa hari ni :)

Plato, aku dan Dia (pt.2)

Okies. The last post was about Plato's thought, which align with Allah's description of alam ruh and the hereafter.
Now.let's continue.

3) Menurut Plato lagi, dunia ini terbahagi kepada 2 bahagian, iaitu dunia fizikal dan dunia idea. ‘Realiti’ yang sentiasa berubah adalah dunia fizikal, manakala realiti yang sempurna dan hakikat yang sebenar adalah dunia idea.

4) Plato menolak pendapat Protagoras yg meragui adanya kebenaran. Bagi Plato, ada pengetahuan yg sempurna. Ada kebenaran abadi yg tidak dapat dijangkau oleh setiap orang.

* Hidup di dunia sekarang ini, memang bukan realiti hidup sebenar, sebab kehidupan yg abadi tu hanyalah apabila kita di ‘sana’ nanti. Pada kenyataan 3, Plato sendiri mengakui bahawa dunia fizikal yg kita lalui sekarang adalah berubah- ubah, tidak kekal. Namun, dunia idea @ alam ruh@ alam ghaib itulah yg sebenarnya hakikat kehidupan kita nanti. Kehidupan selepas kematian kita adalah perkara ghaib kerana masih belum berlaku.

Kenyataan 4 Plato juga amat menarik. Dia mengakui adanya pengetahuan yang sempurna yg tak terjangkau manusia biasa. Milik siapakah pengetahuan sempurna itu? Pastinya Dia Yang Maha Mengetahui. Ilmu Allah itu amat luas, walau dicatat dengan dakwat dari 7 lautan masih tidak akan habis tercatat.

"Dan sekiranya segala pohon yang ada di bumi menjadi pena, dan segala lautan (menjadi tinta), dengan dibantu kepadanya tujuh lautan lagi sesudah itu, nescaya tidak akan habis Kalimah-kalimah Allah itu ditulis. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Kuasa, lagi Maha Bijaksana."
(Surah Luqman:27)

Still remember about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave? Recall it back and then you will realize that this world that we are living now is just a shadow, satu bayangan awal tentang kehidupan akhirat nanti. The real world is out there, beyond our grasp if we don’t open our eyes to see the real truth. If our eyes are wide open to see the truth, then we will never be cheated by this impermanent world. The shadow.

5)Plato: manusia bersifat dualistic (jiwa n jasad). Jiwa terperangkap dlm tubuh.
Menurut Aristotle: jiwa sbg suatu yg menjiwai/ menggerakkan badan.

*masih ingat hadis Qalb?

"dlm tubuh manusia itu ada seketul daging, jika baik daging itu, maka baiklah jasadnya..jika buruk daging itu maka buruklh jasad itu. Maka ketahuilah bhw daging itu adalah hati".

6)Filsafat secara dasarnya mahu memecahkan 3 persoalan ini:

- siapakah manusia itu?
- Apakah hidup ini sebenarnya?
- Adakah hidup ini sekadar peluang dengan nasib yang melempar dadu rawak?

* tak perlu untuk kita membongkar semua buku2 falsafah yang ada. The best encyclopedia ever was written by HIm. turn back to al-Quran, your life questions will be asnwered, for those who thinks.

Plato, aku dan Dia (pt.1)

For our general knowledge subject module, we need to learn filsafat ilmu (philosophy @ theory of knowledge, and critical thinking).
Okies.
Firstly, who is Mr. Plato?
Plato or his real name is Aristokles is a great philosopher long time ago, and was called as Plato by his teacher.
How did he got ‘Plato’?
Plato = plateau= dahi lebar. hohohoh.
His thoughts were greatly influenced by big names like Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitos and Socrates.

There are few things about Plato’s way of thinking that makes me wonder, as if he was been given ‘enlightenment’ by the Almighty.

1) According to Parmenides: Realiti adalah kenyataan yg abadi, tidak berubah oleh waktu. Plato menyebutnya sebagai dunia idea. Menurutnya, dunia idea adalah dunia gagasan, yang merupakan tempat nyawa- nyawa manusia sebenarnya berada.

2) Plato: “Pengetahuan bukanlah hasil pengamatan deria, kerana dunia yang kita amati ini hanyalah bayangan daripada dunia idea.”
- kerana realiti adalah bayangan dunia idea, maka pengetahuan kita tentang realiti dunia fizikal ini bersifat kabur. Ketika kita lahir, kita membawa pengetahuan bawaan, iaitu pengetahuan yg diperoleh semasa jiwa kita masih di dunia idea.

* Bila diteliti kembali pandangan Plato ini, lampu di minda saya tiba2 menyala. Pertamanya, saya terfikir bahawa ‘dunia idea’ yang dinyatakan Plato ini sebenarnya adalah alam ruh. Pada pernyataan 1 & 2, cuba kita renung kembali firman-Nya;

“Dan ingatlah ketika Tuhanmu mengeluarkan dari sulbi anak cucu Adam keturunan mereka dan Allah mengambil kesaksian terhadap roh mereka “Bukankah Aku ini Tuhanmu?” Mereka menjawab, “Betul (Engkau tuhan kami), kami bersaksi.”
(Al- A’raf: 172)

Janji yang kita lafazkan di hadapan Allah ini diungkapkan semasa kita masih belum bernama, masih sebagai suatu ruh yang belum ditiupkan ke dalam jasad seorang manusia.Di Alam Ruh. Janji yang telah diungkapkan ini menjadi fitrah kita sebagai manusia, iaitu mengakui adanya Dia sebagai Tuhan kita. Fitrah inilah yang sepatutnya (supposedly) mencorakkan pemikiran kita di dunia ini, sebagaimana yang dinyatakan Plato sebagai “pengetahuan bawaan.”


p/s: My intention of writing this isnt to show off Plato as someone genius or superior. Absolutely no. Let's open our eyes to see that He is true, His words are the truth. whenever we learn something, try not to just swallow it. Think, as He asks us to think.