Feel Free Like The Breeze

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

We made us!

Everybody needs everybody. One can never live without others surrounding them. It could be family members, colleagues, servants neighbours, friends and so on. In other words, we need people around us.

Assisting at a wedding.

People used to tell me that, nobody in this world can ever be alone no matter how much they want to. You need somebody to talk to, to love, to accompany, to shout and be shouted at, to hate and of cause to assist you in the best way they can. It is very wrong to say that you can live alone on your own.... No! You can never be alone!

I am already 50 over years old. Along the way, throughout my life, I have met many kinds of people. Starting from my young age...as young as in primary school until to this very day. I have a bunch of siblings, dozens of cousins and lots and loads of friends. My neighbours are the best of friends and are like families.

We are always young at heart.

I considered myself a very lucky girl for living in this neighbourhood we called RSSB in Section 7, Shah Alam in the state of Selangor. I can say that all my neighbours have different backgrounds and professions. We have Administrators, Lawyers, Judges, Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Economists, Politicians, Auditors, Writers, Singers, Printers and many more. In fact, I used to tell people that, should anything happen to this beloved country of ours, RSSB can become a country by itself! hahaha.....nothing is impossible!

Girls power!

At The Cave of The Seven Sleepers in Jordan.

We do things together in this neighbourhood. We get together as much as we can and even take turns to have makan-makan whenever we can. Attending weddings with a group of neighbours is something that we love so much. Everyone will talk and sometimes I wonder if we have any listeners! hahaha. Whoever see us will wonder that we might be old friends whom has not see each other for a long time but actually, we see each other almost every day and we still have so much to say and talk about! And still no listeners! hahhahahah.

Not only seeing each other, we even go vacations together! Travel with the people who really loves and understands you is something that everyone wished for. We cruise to the Meditteranean Sea, The Baltic and The Canary Islands together. It was a company more than 50 people which included mostly neighbours and friends and friends of friends! Oh Wow! We really had a great time together and let the photos show you everything!

In Madeira,

In Portobello, London.

In Portugal.

Cruised together to Morocco and The Canary Islands.

A day at The Palace.

Bangkok Rendevous.

A Concert together.

Cruise to the Baltic.

Majlis Khatam Al Quran Ramadhan.

Majlis Jamuan Hari Raya Aidil Fitri.

Weddings and other functions..

Happy moments during cruising.

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Buroq Camii.

A boat ride at Sea of Galilee.

A birthday celebration.

A visit to Masjidil Al Aqsa.

We.....made us!

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Tak kenal maka tak cinta....

Dari kecil , aku dipaparkan dengan kisah-kisah dari Book of Fairytales. Watak watak seperti Cinderella, Prince Charming, Wicked Witch, Repunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio dan sebagainya sudah terpahat di otak. Fikiranku ketika itu selalu membayangkan dan mengharapkan agar cerita begitu benar-benar wujud. Semuanya berakhir dengan kemenangan dan kegembiraan bagi orang yang baik dan kebinasaan atau kekalahan bagi orang jahat. Kita digalakkan menjadikan ia sebagai bedtime stories. Pementasan sekolah pun berkisarkan Fairytales!

Malangnya, jiwa kita, hati kita dan pemikiran kita terpesong jauh malah tidak mengenali langsung kisah-kisah Nabi dan Rasul. Kisah bermula dari Nabi Adam hingga ke Rasulallah saw. Kisah tentang hubungan baginda Rasulallah dengan isteri-isteri dan ahli-ahli keluarganya, sahabat-sahabat seperti Saiyiddina Abu Bakar, Umar, Uthman dan sebagainya. Kita terpaksa membaca kisah mereka untuk menghafal kerana ia sebahgian dari pelajaran yang masuk dalam peperiksaan. Kita hafal tanpa memahami. Kita langsung tidak mengenali mereka. Kita tidak tahu secara terperinci akan diri mereka dan jasa-jasa mereka. Ya Allah, bertapa ruginya kita. Walhalnya, merekalah yang patut kita kenali dan cerita-cerita mereka kita baca dan sampaikan kepada anak cucu kita sebagai bedtime stories.

Semasa ke bumi ambiya' Palestine baru-baru ini, tersentak aku dibuatnya! Rupanya cetek sungguh pengetahuan tentang mereka walhalnya ini cerita berkenaan agama kita. Semua penceritaan dan kisah-kisah mereka tertulis di dalam AlQuran dan Hadis. Banyak kali di sebut tentang Nabi-nabi dan Rasul, berulangkali kita membaca tetapi setakat itu sahaja. Kita tidak membaca lanjut tentang diri mereka, susah senang mereka, hidup mereka dan wafatnya mereka....langsung tidak mencari! Ketika itu, di saat itu terasa bertapa aku sudah merugikan diriku sendiri tetapi lebih baik lewat dari tidak sedar langsungkan.

Sejak itu aku bertekad untuk belajar dan mencari ilmu Sirah Nabawiyyah. Alhamdulillah sudah mengikuti kelas untuk tujuan ini. Aku akan kumpul sebanyak mungkin bedtime stories berkisarkan kisah-kisah Nabi dan Rasul dan InSyaAllah aku akan pastikan cucu-cucuku tahu kisah-kisah ambiya ' dan mereka akan membesar dengan semangat pemimpin-pemimpin dan pejuang-pejuang Islam di dalam diri mereka. InSyaAllah mereka akan membesar menjadi umat Islam yang berjaya.

Bagiku, tiada yang terlewat. Jika kita sudah mengetahui kelemahan dan kekurangan kita, cepat-cepatlah kita perbaiki dan perelokkannya. Jangan kita bertangguh untuk kebaikan. Peringatanku kepada diriku sendiri dan kepada sahabat handaiku, jangan lalai membaca AlQuran. Jika ada emas dan permata bergunung sekali pun, tapi jika Al Quran ditinggalkan, kita adalah manusia termiskin sekali.

Biar kita Miskin Dunia tapi Kaya Akhirat.

Yang terbaik ialah

Kaya dunia dan Kaya Akhirat.

Tetapi,

Yang paling rugi ialah,

Miskin Dunia dan Miskin Akhirat.

Oleh itu, ayuh kawan-kawan, kita balik pada agama kita. Kita perbaiki diri kita dan menjadi nenek, ibu, kakak, adik, jiran dan sahabat yang lebih berjaya dunia dan akhirat. Mari kita membaca dan ikuti kelas-kelas sirah. Semoga Allah memudahkan segala urusan kita ntuk tujuan ini. InSyaAllah.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

A journey........

A journey back to the land of the Prophets as written in the Zabour, Tau rah, Injil and Quran is one great experience. You really have to be there to really fully understand what it is all about. All that I know of these places is through the media which sometimes is exaggerating, out of contacts and it frightened people. But dear friends, please, you have to be there to know the truth.

I was given the opportunity to visit Jerusalem and it's surroundings with a company of 28. Before leaving, after what was shown on the media, I prepared myself for the worst but never stop praying for the best.

Our first encounter with the immigration officers at the border was smooth. We had to go through 4 booths before we were allowed to enter. We were given an entrance visa and it took us only 30 minutes for clearance and continued our journey to the Holy Land. We were indeed lucky because from previous experiences of other groups, which I heard or told, they were detained for many hours at the checkpoint and sometimes their entrance were denied. It happened to my neighbours. It was a great relief for all of us. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

When we were on the bus, as we entered Jerusalem, from afar, there she was.....The Dome of the Rock. It was easy to locate because of the Golden Dome...so majestic and very commanding view indeed. Allahu Akbar! we were speechless and without realizing that our tears dropped. A sign of happiness and thankful to The Almighty Allah for making our dreams came true. Subhanallah...Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar!

Holy Land? This is our first Qibla, this is the place where the Prophets roam, this is the place of Israk Mikraj Of Prophet Rasulullah s.a.w and many more stories as told in the Al Quran .....everything is here! We felt so blessed being there and stepping on the same soil as the Prophets did. Subhanallah...

Masjid Al Aqsa is a compound. There used to be 7 Masjids but two turned into a museum and a library. All the masjids still function well except for Subuh Prayer ONLY in Camii Qibli. The names of the other Masjids are Dome of the Rock, Masjid Marwan, Masjid Qadim and Masjid Buroq.

All this while, we thought that the Dome of the Rock is the main Camii until we prayed in Masjid Qibli. That is the main masjid and that is our first Qiblah until Allah directed Rasulallah to turn to Kaaba in Mekah. It was originally a small masjid built by Umar, the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. It was then rebuilt by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al Walid in 705CE. but it was destroyed completely in 746 by an earthquake but was then rebuilt again in 754. Unfortunately, another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033 but again two years after that, the structure of the Camii that we saw today still stand strong. Thanks to Caliph Ali az-Zahir. (Wikipedia)

When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they used the Camii as their palace and Dome of the Rock as a church but the functions were restored after Jerusalem was recaptured by Salahuddin al-Ayoubi in 1187. More renovations, repairs and additions were undertaken by the Ayyubids(Kurdish), Mamluk Sultanate from Egypt, Ottomans (Turkish Empire), The Muslim Council and Jordon. Today, Israel controls the Old City but the Masjid Al Aqsa remains under the administration of the Jordanian/Palestinian-led Islamic Waqf. (Wikipedia)

I will forever cherish this journey and if permitted by Allah, I would love to revisit again and again even if it is the last place I can, before the end of my life! It is indeed a journey of a lifetime The feeling of being near to His Love Ones, made this journey ultimate! You have to be there to feel it!