Lengkapilah dirimu... hiasilah dirimu

          Baru-baru ni beberapa teman rapatku pergi buat selamanya. Siapa yang tidak rasa sedih. Setiap seorang dari mereka meninggalkan kenangan  yang tidak akan kulupakan. Setiap seorang dari mereka punya keistimewaan masing-masing dan pastinya  menjadi ingatan selagi hayat dikandung badan. Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh mereka di ditempatkan dikalangan orang-orang yang beriman. Semoga Allah memberi kekuatan dan meninggikan kesabaran bagi keluarga arwah-arwah. Insyaallah. Bagi diriku, apabila teringat sahaja akan wajah ceria arwah Shima, arwah Norlila Samad,  arwah Mohd Ali Manaf dan arwah Srizana, aku sedekahkan bacaan Al Fatihah dan mendoakan mereka. Kesemua mereka merupakan insan-insan yang sangat mulia dan istimewa dihatiku....... kerana mereka semua adalah sahabatku! 

Arwah Shima

Arwah Norlila Samad 

Arwah Mohd Ali Manaf

Hidup Turtles!

Bergambar bersama di tapak permulaan persahabatan kami di MPKT.

           Dalam aku merasa kehilangan, terlintas dibenak fikiranku tentang hidup ini. Dimanakah dan bagaimanakah kesudahan diri ini. Apakah pencapaianku selama hidupku sebagai seorang Islam? Cukupkah bekalanku? Masyaallah..... amat menakutkan dan amat membimbangkan. Bila kukaji semula waktu yang berlalu, bertapa banyak masaku terbuang tanpa cukup lengkap  pengisian yang bisa membantuku di sana nanti!  Aku tidak boleh mengharapkan kepada anak-anakku kerana bila ku lihat kembali diriku, berapa banyak doa yang mampu ku hulurkan kepada kedua arawah mak dan arwah abah? Memang tidak cukup...... Tetapi yang pasti aku pasti akan menghadiahkan doa buat mereka setiap kali selepas solat. Semoga Allah mengampuni segala dosa-dosa mereka . Semoga Allah mengasihani mereka sebagaimana mereka mengasihiku semasa kecilku......Amiiin.

kiri sekali....Arwah SriZana

           Kematian menjadi iktibar pada yang masih hidup. Empat hari yang lalu, seorang jemaah masjid wanita meninggal dunia kerana demam denggi. Perginya amat mengejut. Pelbagai komplikasi arwah hadapi dihujung hidupnya. Namun , pada hari arwah meninggal dunia, boleh dikatakan seluruh Shah Alam terkejut dan bersedih . Arwah bukanlah seorang yang ternama tetapi arwah sangat aktif sebagai ahli jawatankuasa masjid. Dikatakan sangat peramah dan sesiapa sahaja yang kali pertama menemuinya pasti menyayanginya. Dikatakan lebih dari seribu jemaah datang ke masjid untuk solat jenazah dan menghantarnya ke tanah perkuburan. Ustaznya sendiri yang mengendalikan pengkebumiannya. Masyaallah, bertapa mulianya arwah. Di dunia sudah diagungkan sebegitu rupa.... apa tah lagi di sana.  Sehingga ke hari ini pemergiannya masih dirasainya dan masih lagi ada yang menangisi.....Hebatnya arwah! Semoga rohya dicucuri rahmat!  Melihatkan senario ini, membuatkan aku terfikir akan diriku ini.....apakah nasibku nanti? Ya Allah, tunjukkanlah aku jalan yang benar........ janganlah Kau berpaling dariku Ya Allah....Pandanglah aku dengan KasihMu dan IhsanMu. Ampunilah aku Ya Allah....... Ampunilah Aku!

Semoga kami bersama hingga ke Jannah!

          Kedua Mak dan Abahku serta kedua ibubapa mertuaku sudah tiada. Pergi buat selamanya. Segala apa milik mereka ditinggalkan buat anak cucu. Harta yang bertimbun dan wang yang berjuta, tidak akan boleh di bawa bila kita sudah tiada. Semuanya akan tinggal untuk mereka yang masih hidup. Seeloknya, wakafkan sedikit harta kita sebagai saham akhirat buat kita sendiri. Sehingga kiamat kita akan dapat merasa bonus dan dividennya!  Seorang teman mengatakan.....Berhentilah mencari wang setelah berumur 50 tahun dan mulalah berbelanja untuk diri kamu sendiri. Aku percaya akan kebenarannya. Wang ringgit, selagi kita cari selagi kita dapat dan selagi itu tidak pernah mencukupi...... Pergilah mencari ilmu akhirat untuk bekalan diri. Banyakkan membaca alQuran walaupun sebaris sehari. Carilah guru untuk mengajar mengaji seramai yang boleh. Banyakkan menghadirkan diri ke majlis-majlis ilmu kerana di situlah kebahagiaan. Buanglah perasaan malu kalau tidak pandai mengaji. Bermulalah dari Iqra! Segalanya bermula dari bawah......

          Biar orang ketawakan kita asalkan ilmu kita dapat.  Pokok pangkalnya kita mahu dan pasti dan yakinlah yang Allah akan membuka pintu hati kita dan melembutkan lidah kita untuk membaca dan menyebut kalimah-kalimahNya dengan sebaik-baiknya! Janganlah kita menjadi orang yang rugi di dunia dan yang paling sedih rugi di akhirat. Percayalah, janganlah kita mengharapkan orang lain seperti suami, isteri atau anak-anak untuk membantu kita, tapi kita kena berusaha sendiri untuk diri kita sendiri sebenarnya. Lengkapkanlah dan hiasilah diri kita dengan ilmu . Insyaallah kita akan selamat dan hidup penuh barakah! Insyaallah.

Friends forever!

It is not easy when you lose someone. It is even harder when you lose three people whom you knew and very close to..... very close! Arwah Ali, Arwah Mohd Nor and Arwah Sri Zana.......

Arwah Ali Manaf

He will always be remembered as  our brother.

Both Arwah Ali and Arwah Norlila attended our
first reunions of the Turtles down to memory lane.

             I started my journey to Kuala Terengganu with my husband on the 22nd of January to visit , greet and meet our friends . we started quite late and I was very sleepy . So I stopped quite a number of times to fill up the fuel, to set our prayers and most of all to freshen up. At last by 10pm, we arrived safely in Felda Residence Hotel in Kuala Terengganu! What a relief. Upon arrival, my husband's friends called him and promised to fetch him up for dinner! I skipped. I had my late dinner in my room and off to sleep. He came back late that night and I knew he had a good time with his friends. Good for him. Six series men get together after so many years separated!

The Felda Residence in Kuala Terengganu

            We woke up for Subuh prayers and I realised that I forgot to charge my phone. Oh dear! That was a mistake. I turned on my Facebook and read through . I was shocked. I had to read over and over again to absorb the news. Ya Allah! One of my best buddy in MPKT passed away last night! Inalillahi Wainalillahirojiuun!  How to call to confirm when my phone was out of battery! Helpless!  Lucky me that my husband kept some of my MPKT friends' numbers but none of them answered!  It was terrible! Of all the days, today my phone failed me! Helpless.... Speechless..... 

                   When my phone came back to live, I managed to contact Titina and we both planned to drive to Kuantan and we did! We stopped by Dungun to fetch Kasmawati but we were late. The funeral was over and we failed to pay our last respect to him...... very sad  but we managed to see old friends like Taksiah, Amin, Azman, Nik, Zin, Azman Kecik, Rostam and Syikin. We even met Encik Hamid, our lecturer whom I did not recognise at first sight! We visited Arwah Ali's wife Norihan and his four daughters. It was a great lost to all of us. Then we went to Nik's place since we were in Kuantan! We left Kuantan quite late and arrived Kuala Terengganu by midnight. Throughout the way, we talked about our good old days with him..... we truly miss him. Because of him, I missed my husband's gathering with his old friends but I met mine..... eventhough I had to lose one!

 

Our first MPKT reunion..... TURTLES in MPKT.

              We left  Kuala Terengganu for Kota Bahru.  My daughter and family gave us a great surprise. They were there too in Kota Bahru to attend the same wedding in Bachok!  My heart lifted when I saw them. It eased my pain after losing a friend..... Masyaallah! We stayed in Kota Bahru for a couple of nights and revisited Kuala Terengganu! My eldest grandson tagged along with us all the way in our Starex..... What a feeling!

                Below are photographs of ASAS69/72 get together in Kuala Terengganu. Nice to see when many turned up from the early rise of the sun until late night.

Terengganu vs Kelate

Two doctors came all the way from Kuala Lumpur....

it is also a get togetrher for the wives.

Meet the organizer!

              Then I drove to Kota Bahru , Kelantan for another of ASAS69/72 gathering with those who are living there.  Che Din Sulaiman and Hajjah Wan Remlah tagged along with us.  Along the way we stopped by the mosque  for Friday prayers. I stayed at my friend, Akhtar Zaiti and her hubby Wan Ikram as promised. That night we had dinner with the ASAS 6972 Kelate  citizens whom I have not met before. Just imagine  for some of them, like my husband, this is the first time he only met his ex schoolmates after 43 years! Most of them were in tears......  Most remembered one another  but some need to be reminded.....hehhehhe.

Everybody is trying hard to guess the images of their Terengganu n
Kuala friends.

                It hurts so much when you lost somebody but Allah knows BEST. We have to accept the fact that they are gone but never forgotten. Whenever they flashed into my mind, I recited Al Fatihah as a sadakah for them. The momories together with them  will be in my memory forever. So, my dear friends, we all are getting older. Try in any ways to call one another, get together as frequently as possible because we all are living on borrowed time...... we just have to plan a get together soon. We already lost Norlila Samad and recently Ali Manaf. Who is next in line.... it could be any one of us. Attending weddings of your friends' children is another way of getting together. Try not to miss any!

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ASAS6972 ...... old boys!

A happy family.

Akhtar tagged along with me to the wedding in Bachok.

Spend some time bringing along you own family to visit your friends in other places. It is good to do so for we hope that this friendship will not stop until our generation only but prolong forever. Insyaallah.

Ny daughter n her family with Ikram.

Ikram enteratining my grandsons in his birds cage.

Visiting Akhtar n family in Kota Bahru.

Meet the MPKT Turtles!

Fahmi and Edward

Recently, my primary ex students came to my place.  They both looked good, young, vibrant, handsome and available. Fahmi, a promising young director with RTM,  stayed in Kuala Lumpur and Edward is currently doing trading in Guangzhou, China. So nice of him to bring along his mum Christine  whom I knew 27 years ago! I am so proud of them. I hope to have more of my ex students to come over to visit me in future.