Why I hate Israel

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Salam,

You may ask me why I put the 'Boycott Israel' logo as my signature thumbnail. This recent news is one of million reasons that I can give. Israel illegal occupation on Palestinian land has long history. You can read the story, the struggle, plot and meticulous strategy and planning by the early zionist entities to create the state of Israel - and they succeeded.


Since then, the hardship of the Palestinian began. The tears and blood. The the Muslim world - watch closely....and watch....and watch...and see....and see.....Oh! I See (OIC) can only see until now...


Who to blame?

The Jews? The Christians? The Arabs?

I think we should blame ourselves first before pointing our fingers to others. The jews (Zionis) had planned 100 years ahead of us in shaping the world order. And we are struggling to be united even in a stand against a common enemy. We cooperate with the enemy to kill own brothers-in-Islam, to destroy and impose sanction on neighbouring Muslim state, to seek medical treatment in their countries (and put your heart/life in their hand), do you believe in them more than your own Muslim brothers?(I am referring to the Saudi King recent visit to USA). I think you do.


Waahh...I am talking at state level, maybe that's too much for you. Maybe, we should just look at ourselves first then (to talk at personal level, and to be more realistic and easier to ponder...)


Why don't we answer these few simple questions first before we talk big:

1. When was the last time I pray in congregation in the mosque (excluding friday prayer)?
2. Do I perform non obligatory prayer? Solat sunat - rawaatib, dhuha, witir. Are my prayer perfect enough to gain ticket to the heaven? You can go to Bukit Jalil to buy ticket to a football match, but not for this one bro...
   
3. When was the last time I make non-obligatory fasting?
4. When was the last time I visit a sick Muslim brothers/sisters-in-Islam
5. How many Istighfar a day do I say? Tasbih? Tahmid? Tahlil?
   
6. Do I make du'a everytime I perform prayer? or I just leave immediately after salam? Do I understand the meaning of the du'a?
   
7. Do I understand the meaning of Al-Fatihah? How old are you now? How many times have your perform salat and read al-Fatihah (at least 17 times per day) for how many years now and you can't even at least memorize the meaning of al-Fatihah? You can memorise lyrics of many songs right? how many songs? Siti Norhaliza songs? Faizal Tahir songs? Awie? Search? Wings?
   
8. Do I struggle financially to meet my needs every month? Very low income huh? Why don't you change it then?
   
9. Who is my idol? A singer? A western singer? Actors? Actress? Fasha Sandha is it? or Pierre Andre? Rosham Noor? Can they give you syafaat (help and blessings) in the hereafter?
   
10. Do I prefer to go to a musical concert, or to a nasyeed performance? Francisca Peters vs Maher Zain? Wings Vs Raihan?
    
11. Do I prefer to watch a movie at the cinema. or to go to Islamic forum? Anugerah Juara Lagu (AJL)? - Is it entertaining? Can bring you to the Jannah is it?
    
12. Do I watch 'Forum Perdana' in the TV when it is on? or do I change it to different channel?
13. Does my wife wear veil (tudung)? What about my sister? My mother? My cousin? Do I care?
    
14. Do I take care of my aurat (body parts that are forbidden for others to see)?, Or do I prefer others to see them? Or do I care about it at all? Is my shirt and pants tight? Do I expose my forearms? Does my veil (tudung) cover my chest? Do I wear stocking? Is't your feet and forearms are aurah as well?
    

Bla...bla...bla...Do you ask yourselves these questions??? You ask yourself and I ask my self. You know yourselves better than other people. Am I asking questions that are too much to ask? Am I a fundamentalist? Islamic fundamentalist? If you said, Islamic fundamentalists are those who want to stick to the fundamentals of Islam - then, I am.

Don't talk big, don't talk about uniting the people, the country or the Muslim world if you can't even do simple thing... to change your own self. Israel can do whatsoever it wants for the next 100 years, there is nothing for them to worry, as long as WE ARE LIKE WE ARE at the current state.


Enough said. This is what I think.

The Story of Appreciation

Salam.

A very close friend of mine forwarded this story to me. I want to share it with you too. Hopefully it will give us insight into our daily life.

Here goes:-

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never had a year when he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?"
The youth answered "none".

The director asked, " Was it your father who paid for your school fees?"
The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees.

The director asked, " Where did your mother work?"
The youth answered, "My mother worked as clothes cleaner.

The director requested the youth
to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked, " Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?"
The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.


The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.*


The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.


The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when they were cleaned with water.


This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his future.


After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.


That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.


Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.


The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, asked: " Can you
tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished
cleaning all the remaining clothes'


The Director asked, " please tell me your feelings."

The youth said

• Number 1, I know now what is appreciation. Without my mother, there would not the successful me today.
  

• Number 2, by working together and helping my mother, only I now realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.
  

• Number 3, I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family relationship.
  

The director said, " This is what I am looking for to be my manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life. You are hired."


Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked diligently and as a team. The company's performance improved tremendously.


A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop "entitlement mentality" and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent's efforts. When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the sufferings of his employees and would always blame others.


For this kind of people, who may be good academically, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement. He will grumble and be full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying the kid instead?*



You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done.



Let us share this story with as many as people as possible...this may change somebody's fate!...

A rewarding journey up north...

Assalamualaikum,
Yesterday was an exhilarating day for me....
Unbelievable...


0630 Woke up from sleep. Prayed Fajr prayer. Packed some bread and beverage for breakfast.


0730 Fetched Lenie and Azwan from their apartment in Taman Midah and headed north
towards Sabak Bernam. Had breakfast while driving


0945 Reached Kolej Komuniti Sabak Bernam. Nobody was there...(sigh). Supposed to start at
10am. Waited till 11am. 3 participants came accompanied by my sister-in-law (Intan)
and her hubby (Mokhlis).


1130 I began the session with 'Al-Fatihah'. 2 speakers - Dr. Shahnaz talked about the Score A
programme, an excellent online education portal for Malaysian students followed by Dr.
Lenie who explained thoroughly regarding the marketing plan for those interested to
make this programme as a business. Intan and Mokhlis also gave their heart-touching sharing regarding the programme. Congrats!! The session ended at 1245 noon.


1315 Continued the journey up north. Had some bread again for lunch.... Then, we had trouble
finding our way out to the North-South Highway Exit...luckily Azwan brought his GPS
along. Fuhh...what a relief!


1445 Reached North-South Highway. Drove up north...so hungry but could not afford to stop
as the session in Alor Setar was supposed to start at 1630 (4.30pm). We got the news
form Dr. Nini, who is our leader in this programme that 30 people attended the session
in Penang this morning! Great news! Hopefully we got an excellent turn-out too in Alor
Setar yeay!


1730 Reached Alor Setar. Had problem to find Regent Hotel (the hotel was not shown on GPS
hahaha). After 3 phone calls asking the hotel staff, finally we arrived to the hotel. No
wonder it was not in the GPS, it was a small, and old 3-storey hotel. But, the interior was
not too bad, no prayer room though...and guess what? Only a friend was there, waiting
for us...(sigh). We took it positively, doesn't matter!! This is only a challenge...


1800 We prayed Zuhur/Asar prayer in the hall corner while waiting for other participants to
come. Yet, nobody came except 6 persons who already joined the programme. We
changed the session as a small group meeting (SGM) instead. Started the session at 1830
(6.30pm)


2000 We prayed maghrib/Isha. Had an excellent dinner at PakDa Restaurant, Alor Setar.
Thanks Lenie for the great dinner (that was our lunch too actually). We ate rice, tomyam,
vegetable soup and 'sotong celup tepung'...burrppp!!


2200 Drove further up to Perlis. Reached Dr. Lenie's home...met her mother. Took shower,
refreshed myself. Had a good boost of Nescafeeee....


2345 Begin the journey back home.


0430 Dropped Lenie and Azwan at their Apartment.


0500 Reached home, finally. AlhamdulilLah...Thank Allah for the safe journey, Now, I can rest
my back on my bed....



The journey took almost 24 hours...from KL-Sabak Bernam-Alor Setar-Perlis-KL. Unimaginable initially that I can do that. The aim was just to spread the knowledge about Score A, assist our children to excel in education and at the same time to share the opportunity for those who wants to make this Score A as a business, find extra income, give regular money to our parents especially in the challenging world we're living right now...

I will continue this struggle...insyaAllah. Those who are interested can email me. You can also read more on this programme here. Our company info is here.