Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Nak Kahwin??

Anda mahu kahwin tapi takda duit?
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Rasa yang anda terpaksa bekerja dari pukul 9 pagi hingga 5 petang hingga anda berumur 95 tahun baru anda cukup duit untuk kahwin?

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Tidak! Anda tidak perlu merompak bank untuk kahwin..

Mahu tahu cara yang lebih mudah?

Bukalah account anda di Bank Mama saya mau kahwin!!
Bank pilihan anda..
Bank yang membantu anda untuk mempercepatkan hasrat anda untuk mendirikan masjid.
Untuk maklumat lanjut sila hubungi Abang Kahwin dengan siapa saja di talian berikut.

644 - Siapa cepat dia dapat

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Ok on a more serious note.

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Selamat pengantin baru kepada kedua mempelai kita Bro Hafiz Noorahman dan Sis Nur Afifah. Semoga berkekalan hingga akhir hayat dan dikurniakan dengan zuriat2 yang memberi manfaat kepada generasi yang akan datang Insya`Allah..

:)

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Children of Iraq



Watching the video is so so painful to watch. So painful that it brings tears to my eyes.

In youtube, it warns that this video may not be suitable for minors but ironically majority of the pictures depicts of minors who doesn't deserve to suffer in this war.

It's quite sad that here in this country people are grumbling about the price of chicken rice going up when halfway across the world this children are lucky to even get food!! Look at the kid with the bloated stomach! Astaghfirullah... How ungrateful I am Ya Allah..
What are my problems compared to their tribulations Ya Allah :(

Watching this video makes me wonder if I can do sumthing to help them.
Anything for that matter..

Even had a thought of setting up my own non-profit organisation.
Mission, to collect all the unwanted clothings from the people in this country and send them to these countries.
Or sell the clothings and profits are then used for necessities like food and blankets to tide these children over the upcoming winter season.
I`ll call my organisation: Just clothes & Pants
Anyone wanna join me?

But for now i think i will support organisation like http://www.alyateem.com/_en/
:(

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Muka ayah bertukar menjadi himar

Dalam terik panas mentari yang memancar menyinari tanah Baitul Haram, seorang ulama zuhud yang bernama Muhammad Abdullah al-Mubarak keluar dari rumahnya untuk menunaikan ibadah haji. Di sana dia leka melihat seorang pemuda yang asyik membaca selawat dalam keadaan ihram. Malah di Padang Arafah dan di Mina pemuda tersebut hanya membasahkan lidahnya dengan selawat ke atas Nabi.

“Hai saudara,” tegur Abdullah kepada pemuda tersebut. “Setiap tempat ada bacaannya tersendiri. Kenapa saudara tidak membanyakkan doa dan solat sedangkan itu yang lebih dituntut? Saya lihat saudara asyik membaca selawat saja.”

“Saya ada alasan tersendiri,” jawab pemuda itu. “Saya meninggalkan Khurasan, tanahair saya untuk menunaikan haji bersama ayah saya. Apabila kami sampai di Kufah, tiba-tiba ayah saya sakit kuat. Dia telah menghembuskan nafas terakhir di hadapan saya sendiri. Dengan kain sarung yang ada, saya tutup mukanya. Malangnya, apabila saya membuka semula kain tersebut, rupa ayah saya telah bertukar menjadi himar. Saya malu. Bagaimana saya mahu memberitahu orang ramai tentang kematian ayah saya sedangkan wajahnya begitu hodoh sekali?

“Saya terduduk di sisi mayat ayah saya dalam keadaan kebingungan. Akhirnya saya tertidur dan bermimpi. Dalam mimpi itu saya melihat seorang pemuda yang tampan dan baik akhlaknya. Pemuda itu memakai tutup muka. Dia lantas membuka penutup mukanya apabila melihat saya dan berkata, “Mengapa kamu susah hati dengan apa yang telah berlaku?”

“Maka saya menjawab, “Bagaimana saya tidak susah hati sedangkan dialah orang yang paling saya sayangi?”

“Pemuda itu pun mendekati ayah saya dan mengusap wajahnya sehingga ayah saya berubah wajahnya menjadi seperti sediakala. Saya segera mendekati ayah dan melihat ada cahaya dari wajahnya seperti bulan yang baru terbit pada malam bulan purnama.

“Engkau siapa?” tanya saya kepada pemuda yang baik hati itu.

“Saya yang terpilih (Muhammad).”

“Saya lantas memegang jarinya dan berkata, “Wahai tuan, beritahulah saya, mengapa peristiwa ini boleh berlaku?”

“Sebenarnya ayahmu seorang pemakan harta riba. Allah telah menetapkan agar orang yang memakan harta riba akan ditukar wajahnya menjadi himar di dunia dan di akhirat. Allah telah menjatuhkan hukuman itu di dunia dan tidak di akhirat.

“Semasa hayatnya juga ayahmu seorang yang istiqamah mengamalkan selawat sebanyak seratus kali sebelum tidur. Maka ketika semua amalan umatku ditontonkan, malaikat telah memberi tahu keadaan ayahmu kepadaku. Aku telah memohon kepada Allah agar Dia mengizinkan aku memberi syafaat kepada ayahmu. Dan inilah aku datang untuk memulihkan semula keadaan ayahmu.”

:)

Friday, November 16, 2007

Dunia yang terbabas keutamaannya

Charlotte Denny daripada Guardian melaporkan pada 22 Ogos, 2.8 bilion manusia di negara-negara membangun membelanjakan wang kurang daripada $2 sehari bagi menyara hidup mereka sedangkan lembu-lembu di Eropah mendapat subsidi bernilai $2.20 sehari untuk hidup.

Ini bermaksud, lembu-lembu di Eropah hidup lebih senang daripada 2.8 bilion manusia di dunia. Selain dari itu, di dalam Human Development Report tahun 1998 oleh Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu mendapati:


$11 bilion dibelanjakan setiap tahun untuk membeli aiskrim di Eropah.
$17 bilion dibelanjakan untuk membeli makanan binatang peliharaan di Eropah
$50 bilion dibelanjakan untuk rokok di Eropah
$105 bilion dibelanjakan untuk minuman keras di Eropah
$8 bilion dibelanjakan untuk alat-alat kosmetik di Amerika
$35 bilion dibelanjakan untuk hiburan di Jepun
$400 bilion dibelanjakan untuk membeli dadah di seluruh dunia

Ini bentuk pembaziran yang sedang berlaku pada hari ini, sedangkan dunia hanya memerlukan $6 bilion bagi memberikan pendidikan asas kepada semua dan $9 bilion bagi menyediakan kemudahan-kemudahan asas terutamanya di negara-negara miskin.

Tidak dapat dinafikan, ramai manusia hari ini terbabas keutamaan hidup mereka. Justeru kezaliman, ketidakadilan, penipuan, rasuah, peperangan, pembunuhan dan pemujaan nafsu wujud di mana-mana.

Sebaliknya semasa umat Islam memerintah dunia sebelum ini dengan keutamaan dan formula yang betul, kebaikan serta tamadun tersebar di seluruh dunia. Sebagai contoh, pada zaman khalifah Omar bin Abdul Aziz, berjaya membanteras kemiskinan.

Yaha bin Said berkata, "Khalifah Omar Abdul Aziz mengutus aku untuk mengutip zakat di Afrika. Aku pun melaksanakan tugas ini dan kemudiannya aku pun mencari golongan fakir miskin untuk diberikan zakat namun golongan itu tidak aku temui. Sesungguhnya khalifah Omar Abdul Aziz telah menjadikan kami manusia yang kaya raya"

Dari buku "7 Formula Individu Cemerlang" - Dr Danial Zainal Abidin :)

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Qurban for a cause

Is your qurban reaching those who needs it the most?
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Till this day, there are still many of those Muslims around the world who are suffering and living in poverty, due to natural disasters, or war.

We, the youth of Saff-Perdaus, would like to invite you to be with us, to do your Qurban for those who really need it the most. For this year's Qurban, we will be distributing the canned meat to the Palestin refugees in Beirut, Lebanon and also those who are in need in Darfur, Sudan.

Each sacrificed animal can be produced into 24 canned meats that can be distributed to 5 families and last for a week.

Appreciate and understand the Qurban you make.

:)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Great Wheel of China

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BEIJING (Reuters) - You've climbed the Great Wall of China, now Beijing wants you to "fly" the Great Wheel of China.

Higher than both the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer, which opens in March, the Beijing Great Wheel will tower 208 metres (682 ft) when finished in 2009, executives said on Monday, which would make it the highest and largest in the world.

The giant ferris wheel will have 48 air conditioned observation capsules, each of which can carry up to 40 passengers, and on a good day even the Great Wall is expected to be visible in the mountains to Beijing's north.

"The wheel itself is a nice add-on to the city. It's a new icon for the city," Great Wheel Corp Chief Executive Officer Stephan Matter told Reuters ahead of the ground-breaking ceremony.

The wheel will stand in eastern Beijing's Chaoyang Park, where beach volleyball events will take place at next year's Olympics, and have far greater capacity than the London Eye, Matter said.

"The capsule in London caters for 25. Ours will cater for 40 people. It's like a little bus. It's 18 tonnes heavy. It's like your living room," he added.

Costing a total of around 200 million euros (139 million pounds), tickets will go for about 100 yuan (6 pounds) a head, Matter said, though final prices have yet to be decided.

"The Beijing one will be very affordable," he added.

The experience will be like flying, said chairman Florian Bollen, whose company is also involved in the Singapore wheel.

"It will allow the people of Beijing to rise up and see the city from a completely new perspective," he said. "It is a flight."

Matter brushed off worries Beijing's notorious smog may spoil the party.

"It is an issue, but it's increasingly better," he said. "I believe the Chinese government will improve it further and yes you will have pollution, but the wheel itself is an attraction. From that perspective, I'm not worried at all."

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Actually I saw this coming... I still remembered a few months back when I took a taxi driving past the Singapore Flyer and I commented to the uncle about Singapore's Flyer being the largest in the world. The uncle's response took me back for a second.

Uncle: Hah! World's biggest? China see, few years time they will make even bigger I tell you. Confirm one..

So yah.. who benefits from all this ferris wheel thingy? The same construction company involved in both project of course. Lauging all the way to their bank. I wonder if Dubai is planning to have one soon..

:)

Sunday, November 04, 2007

7 cara syaitan menggoda manusia

Imam Ghazali menerangkan yang mendorong kita untuk berusaha menentang syaitan itu ada dua hal.

a) kerana syaitan itu diterangkan Allah s.w.t di dalam Al`Quran adalah musuh manusia dan syaitan jangan dijadikan kawan tetapi hendaknya dijadikan lawan

b) syaitan tidak bosan-bosan berusaha menyesatkan manusia dengan pelbagai cara

Imam Ghazali menerangkan cara kita mengatasi syaitan ini, ialah dengan memohon pertolongan dan batuan kepada Allah, kerana syaitan itu adalah anjing yang dilepaskan untuk mencoba manusia. Apabila manusia melawan anjing itu kemungkinan akan menambah kegalakannya, kerana itu salah satu cara ialah dengan meminta pertolongan kepada pemiliknya.

Di samping itu, kita harus mengetahui cara-cara dan perangkap syaitan dalam menyesatkan manusia. Dalam hal ini, Imam Ghazali menerangkan ada tujuh cara yang selalu dipergunakan syaitan dalam menyesatkan manusia dah menggagalkan manusia dari berbuat ketaatan kepada Allah.

Tujuh cara-cara syaitan menggoda manusia ialah

1) syaitan mencegah manusia memperbuat ibadah

2) apabila manusia dapat mengatasinya, syaitan berusaha menanam keraguan

3) kalau juga dapat diatasi, syaitan berusaha agar ibadah yang dikerjakan tadi secara gegabah

4) apabila dapat diatasi, syaitan membiarkanya menyempurnakan ibadahya, namun ditanamkan sifat riya'

5) apabila riya' dapat diatasi, syaitan berusaha menanamkan sifat 'ujub (menganggap ibadah itu semata dari dirinya sendiri)

6) apabila 'ujub telah dapat diatasi serta ibadah itu dikerjakan dalam keadaan sembunyi, syaitan membisikkan kepadanya bahawa Allah menghendaki perbuatan itu dikerjakan dengan cara terang-terangan di tengah orang banyak, hal ini akan menyebabkan timbul riya'

7) apabila manusia tidak mengikuti kehendaknya, maka syaitan berusaha membisikkan, bahawa tidak ada gunanya ibadah itu kalau Allah telah mentakdirkan bahawa ia termasuk orang yang berbahagia, dan juga tidak ada gunanya dan tidak ada pengaruhnya kalau Allah telah mentakdirkan ia termasuk orang yang celaka

Maka apabila manusia dapat mengatasi semua ini, barulah ia selamat dari godaan dan pujukannya.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Perceptions

So is it Half-full or Half-empty?

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:)

Friday, November 02, 2007

How Islamic inventors changed the world

By Paul Vallely

From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential innovations:

(1) The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry.

He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645.

It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic "qahwa" became the Turkish "kahve" then the Italian "caffé" and then English "coffee".

(2) The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham.

He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word "qamara" for a dark or private room).

He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

(3) A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe ­ where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century ­ and eastward as far as Japan. The word "rook" comes from the Persian "rukh", which means chariot.

(4) A thousand years before the Wright brothers, a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts.

He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries.

In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing ­ concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

(5) Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade.

But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash.

Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

(6) Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today ­ liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration.

As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

(7) The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation.

His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

(8) Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China.

However, it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation ­ so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

(9) The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings.

Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's ­ with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. The architect of Henry V's castle was a Muslim.

(10) Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon.

It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules.

In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslim doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

(11) The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

(12) The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

(13) The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

(14) The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825.

Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi's book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci.

Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

(15) Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal ­ soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas).

(16) Carpets were regarded as part of paradise by mediaeval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam's non-representational art.

In contrast, Europe's floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were "covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned". Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

(17) The modern cheque comes from the Arabic "saqq", a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.

(18) By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo.

The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40, 253.4km ­ less than 200km out. Al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

(19) Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders.

By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo ­ a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

(20) Mediaeval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

source:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science3.htm

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Empat perkara sebelum tidur

Rasulullah S.A.W berpesan kepada Aisyah ra : " Ya Aisyah jangan engkau
tidur sebelum melakukan empat perkara, yaitu :

1.Sebelum khatam Al Qur'an.
2.Sebelum membuat para Nabi memberimu syafaat di hari akhir.
3.Sebelum para muslim meredhai kamu.
4.Sebelum kau laksanakan haji dan umrah...

" Bertanya Aisyah :
" Ya Rasulullah .............Bagaimana aku dapat melaksanakan 4
perkara seketika.?"

Rasul tersenyum dan bersabda :
"Jika engkau tidur bacalah : Al Ikhlas tiga kali seakan-akan kau
mengkhatamkan Al Qur'an."

"Membacalah Selawat untuk Ku dan para nabi sebelum aku, maka kami
semua akan memberi syafaat dihari kiamat "

"Beristighfarlah untuk para muslimin maka meraka akan meredhai
kamu."

"Dan perbanyaklah bertasbih,bertahmid,bertahlil,bertakbir maka
seakan-akan kamu telah melaksanakan ibadah haji dan umrah."