Ramadhan Day 7

If he does not take my hand, what reliance can there be

On my works and on my prayers, offered so distractedly?

Allahumma Solli 'Ala Saiyidina Muhammad SAW

[Pray My Lord, Nader Khan]

of Palestine

It is indeed OUR land. 

Yasmin Mogahed on Love

Important question: How do you know that you love someone for the sake of Allah? 

May Allah protect all of us

Ameen!

The Prophet of Allah SAW said, “Come near the Mimbar.” And we came near the Mimbar.

When he ascended the first step of the Mimbar, he said, “Aameen”. When he ascended the second step of the Mimbar, he said, “Aameen”. When he ascended the third step, he said, “Aameen”. 

When he descended, we said, “O Apostle of Allah! We have heard from you today something which we never heard before.” 

He said, (When I ascended the first step) Jibrail appeared before me and said, 

“Woe to him who found the blessed month of Ramadan and let it pass by without gaining forgiveness.”

Upon that I said, “Aameen”. 

When I ascended the second step, he said, 

“Woe to him before whom your name is mentioned and then does not read 'selawat' on you.” 

I replied, “Aameen”. 

When I ascended the third step, he said,

“Woe unto the person in whose presence both parents or one of them attain old age, and he failed to serve them, is not allowed to enter Paradise.”

I said, “Aameen”. 

[Hakim, Ibn Hibban, Tabrani, Baihaqi]

Too Late

You're dying, but you haven't died yet

But with every single heartbeat you get closer to your final breath 

Yesterday you were one day closer to your grave

Today who even knows if you'll even make it home ok

I just pray that you are ready for your final exam 

Until then don't you dare die except in a state of Islam

Heaven and Hell are just the choices that we make

So turn back to you Lord, before it's too late

[Too Late, Boona Mohamed]

P/s: What's done is done. It is about now, it is about the future. 

Walal-akhiratu khayrun laka mina al-oola.

Valley of The Wolves: Palestine

A must watch movie. 

I cant help myself from feeling the guilt of not really being a helping hand to the Palestinian. Saddd. 

HambaMu - Mawi feat Akil Hay

Usaha dengan doa

Masanya akan tiba

Dengan restu Ilahi

Kelak pasti akan ditemui

Suluhkan cahaya di hati terang

Tunjukkan jalan seandainnya hilang

Tegakkan perjalanan yang bakal ditempuh

Tegakkan semangat bila runtuh

Setibanya disisiMu ku berserah

Terimalah ku

Hamba mu Allah 

Ps: This song comforts me, somehow. Nak tgk Imam Muda from episode 1 bolehhh? Tsk jakunnya rasa sbb tak penah tgk penuh.  
Psps: I think Im slipping into that scary comfort zone again, even how careful I shield myself. At this point on, I might just wanna enjoy, like I used to do. Hey dont blame me just yet, How could you refuse to love a place that makes you smile almost everyday, a place where strangers are friends. Hihihi. (and I will also pin this at the back of my head, " I'm leaving in a year iA")

Living with purpose

Rindu :'(

Take home message: (in which byk telepas sbb connection sekat2 and saya tak focus)

1. Sembahyang malam SANGAT penting. Tsk.

2. Maintain good relationship with others - being courteous, wanting good in others as much as you want for yourself, forgive and overlook, repels wrong with right, not to be caught up in differences.

3. When a muslim get older, he will remember the future (the akhirah). Not the past. You do more and more ibadah as you get older. Rasulullah taught Fatimah and his son in law to do zikr before go to sleep, it is very important. (This is the same advice both Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah and Habib Al Jifri always give - implying it is very important). May zikr be our last words before we leave this world, Allahumma ameen!

4. Study religion!

5. More zikr. more zikr. more zikr. 

aih sedih2.

Last skali, he emphasized that we will see the fruit of all of this when we die, insyaAllah.

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Q&A Session

Pornography 

• Seek help from patience and prayer. 
• patience is determination involving two aspects - patience in avoiding the sin and patience in staying in obedience of Allah
• prayer is essentially du'a - "guide me", "really ask Allah to help me", "make firm my heart", etc..
• avoid people and places that you know will affect you 
• put internet in places that people can see
• have good company

And banyak sangat soalan tapi tak cukup masa, so Shaykh Hamza ckp kita akan minta Shaykh Abdullah jawab, lepas tu translate and letak di website http://sandala.org/ dan http://www.binbayyah.net, our Islamic internet revolution :)

A Message to the Youth

What do you want to be remembered with after you die?

Travel safely

Rest stop paradise

Pray for #Libya

Karlsruhe, February 2nd

So here is the map. 

I got lotsa questions from people in Karlsruhe like, "Luebeck tu atas Bremen eh?", "Apa bndar2 besar nearby Luebeck?" and semua questions saya start dgn jawapan like, "Aku rasa.. " Hahaha mana lah ingat semua tempat tuuu. Okay Luebeck atas Bremen, atas Hannover, sejam from Hamburg! My geografi is getting better, jom amek PMR sekali lagi! hahaha

Anyway, it's not actually the route of my journey. I remember that I went through Dusseldorf that make me checked the train number again and again as it was a little bit off. 

dalaman ICE yang bergaya

First time naik ICE juga. Last year, I just took picture with the ICE train as the background and never really expected to be on board. Abeje time tu gebang like this is high speed train lepas tu gerabak boleh pecah pecah segala cam seolah olah power tahap dewa la. HAHA. You never know what you will get in life kan. Anyway, what interest me was somehow encik encik kakak kakak yang naik ICE nampak kaya berkot bergaya membawa leather suitcase segala. Interior design train pon power. Haha kantoi observations tak ilmiah langsung. Lepas tu cam nak test la laju ke tak kan, tapi camne nak tau. tiba tiba rail train ni lalu tepi highway and I observed train ni lagi laju dari kereta yang tengah potong kereta kereta dekat highway tu. Dah la Germany tade speed limit so that car must be super laju. tapi train ni lagi laju. Hoh bijok giloss padahal logic ah train lagi laju. Anyway I asked Google just now and he said it can reach 320km/hr depending on the rail. 

Yeah final train station di Frankfurt before reaching Karlsruhe. Kalat sungguh mencari terminal sambil usha usha kiri kanan seperti pelancong haha.

Frankfurt Hbf

Yay sampai alhamdulillah! Nasib baik kawan saya dah tercegat dekat station walaupun saya cepat 7 minit kot. Thanks kawan, ala baru dua kali kot aku menyusahkan kau haha

Karlsruhe Hbf

The next day, interview mission. It was pretty much okay, and I really feel that engineering is man dominated field. Haha tiba tiba padahal memang dah tau. Tak sampai sepuluh minit pon interview, isk, the journey was about 16 hours pergi balik yo! Tak ke menanges tu dah la minggu exam. Nasib baik org urus interview called pagi pagi from Malaysia tanya dah sampai ke, update semua benda. Terubat pemikiran kecewa perjalanan jauh haha. and on top of everything, it was fun walaupun diperli hebat dan ditembak soalan kenapa datang Germany? Susah nak jawab cause I just did what I want to do. Haha yeah right.

Karlsruhe is a big city ada tram segala. The guys brought me around, masuk media mart (tengok tv besar besar and berangan), Zara of course with HUGE SALE, some random stores, and yes being a good girl I didn't buy anything, *bangga di situ*

and no pictures sbb malas. 

Apa yang takde dekat Luebeck tapi ada dekat Karlsruhe? Haaa Karlsruhe ada pyramid. selain dari Egypt dan juga Sunway Pyramid, of course haha.

then we went to Starbucks, borak borak and I have a feeling that they have a better survival skills as I said before. Macam, "kau campak lah mana mana aku boleh hidup." Well, they have those things that you can only learn by experience, those things that make you wise. Respect earned di situ. 

McCafe reminds me of them. you know who you are acewahh  

After Maghrib, I went back to the train station, lepak dekat McD sambil study. Eh sambil buat activity "people watching" kot sebenarnya. Macam macam orang wujud dalam dunia ni hoh.

Pukul sepuluh, naik train ke Frankfurt heading to Luebeck. Dekat Frankfurt, tengah kalat turun train cari tiket tiba tiba ada encik polis tegur. Dah lah ada few minutes gap je sempat lagi dia nak berkenalan cis. 

Encik Po: (speaking something in Deutsch)

Me: Sorry?

Encik Po: Oh, where are you from?

Me: Err what do you actually mean? Well I'm from Malaysia but now I'm going back to Luebeck from Karlsruhe. (This question of where are you from will always make me puzzle for a second)

Encik Po: Oh i see. What's your name?

Me: I'm Naziha Lazim. (Huargh apa kaitannya dengan nama pulak encik? di dalam hati walaupun tersenyum luarannya haha)

Then he was like froze for a second and I'm being kalat thinking of the train said, "All is good, sir?" and bid goodbye to that Mr. Policeman. Hadoi kalat kalat padahal ramai je orang pakai tudung. Ke muka ni cam setonyeh sangat kalat? Heh malam kot and I'm exhausted. 

After about 9 hours of journey, yay sampai Hamburg and gumbira sekali melihat signboard Luebeck in Kasse 7b. Smells like home already haha. 

Hamburg Hbf

I arrived home about 8 in the morning. 

and now I partially blame the trip, sebab dah kantoi Medical Electronics. 

Hahaha salahkan diri sendiri la oi!

My first trip alone in Deutschland was fun. Short and sweet I would say and I'm looking forward for many more to come. Alamak! mood bejalan dia da datang balik!

Al Maghrib is here, in Malaysia!

Al Maghrib is just phenomenal. I mean, when I was in US, I just couldn't get enough of Al Maghrib. Everytime pergi, balik akan rasa awesome. Macam "hoh awesomenya Al-Maghrib kali ni!" Lepas tu, pergi next, eh yang ni pon awesome jugak! 

Kawan kawan di Malaysia, please make time for the event. Bawak kaum kerabat sanak sauudara adik beradik rakan taulan jiran tetangga segala. Kalau tak boleh pergi both weekends, go for just one but I guarantee that you sooo gonna come back for the next one.

because we did come back again and again back then. 

Touched by an Angel - Shaykh Shpendem Nadzaku

Echoes of a Cave - Shaykh AbdulBary Yahya

We drove hundreds miles over the weekends, we worked extra hours to have enough money for the trip, we studied in between the lunch break for the exams/homeworks/projects, we basically did everything we could not to miss the class. because we just love al-maghrib.

Gazillion thanks to Qabeelat Ihsaan, for their tremendous effort bringing Al-Maghrib to Malaysia. 

You guys rock!! 

More info here, here and here.

eh oi, al maghrib bukan waktu semayang, ni nama organisation tau! Aaaahh I wanna go! Lets bring al maghrib to Germany maybe? Hahaha

Pray for #Egypt

The whole world is worrying about whats happening in Egypt but I'm here thinking bout what should I wear for the interview. Someone please slap me in the face already.

Watching al Jazeera made me think hard. Have we ever thank Allah enough for the idea of peace and being able to simply put on our winter jacket to go to nearby store buying needs? Those blessings that we seemed to take for granted.

and those Tyrants and so called leaders should "ketaq lutut" already. China blocked the internet, and even in Egypt itself you'll see peace in the local TV as in it was totally different with what you watched in Al-Jazeera.

Heh walau bukan di dunia justice tertegak, akhirat itu pasti.

Reality check!!

Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such [trial] has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you? They were touched by poverty and hardship and were shaken until [even their] messenger and those who believed with him said,"When is the help of Allah ?" Unquestionably, the help of Allah is near.

[Al Baqarah:214]

and keep praying for safety of innocents and sweethearts in Egypt. 

sambil enjoy mengadap kertas kertas medical electronics -__-'

Do we really?

If I asked for people to die for the sake of God, I would have them lining up at my house; but when I ask people to live for the sake of God, I can’t find anyone.

Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah

Thats deep mannn

10 minutes

and what is the value of 10 minutes in our everyday life?

and his name is Memo! HEH

Jannah

What an excellent Master, of a miserable slave

You forgot and He forgave

He gave you guidance, you still strayed

You asked for mercy, that He gave

and more 

and more and more..

source: IamAmmar, Ammar fanpage

Bila kita rasa susah..

O Allah! There is nothing easy except that which You make easy, 

and You make hardship easy if it be Your will. 

ps: semoga rajin study -___-'

psps: ya Allah, please make a way for us

There is a healthy middle ground

Women and Islam, with Hamza Yusuf

Part 1

• "Thank God I came to know Islam before I came to know muslim". Ouchhhh!
• :') [8:15] This is why I always love Hamza Yusuf 
• "I really think that the women in this country need to wake up.I just feel that there are so much wasted energy on like the latest tadreez of abaya" 
• "If you take any 100 people anywhere in the world, 99% of them are gonna be focused on material pursuit"
• "Theres a place for entertainment, vacations etc.. but when the centrality of your life is the pursuit of materials, I have a real problem with it"

So, what do our lives revolve around?

Part 2

• "When we asked Dr. Heba in Egypt about "A woman does not come out her house except Satan will cause her to appear to men." She said, "Toyyib. Beware men. Get over it.. etc"" Haha
• "If you dont have some internal mechanisms that are preventing you from just becoming a "syahwani", I think dats all of the hadiths are about, to warn the men."
•  It is not all the responsibility of women, but it is for both.
• "The primary role of a woman is to know her Lord, just like the primary role of a man is to know his Lord"

Recheck: what is the centrality of our lives? 

ps: happy birthday Abeje!

psps: 10 days more to 2011! -__-'