Yang kurik itu kundi
Yang merah itu saga
Yang molek itu budi
Yang indah itu bahasa

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Okay terkena diri sendiri secara jelas tak payah bersuluh-suluh lagi. Tahniah Naziha!

1000 places to see before you die

Whether we go to London for the weekend or to a place that's utterly alien, travel changes us, sometimes superficially, sometimes profoundly. It is a classroom without walls.

heh 1000 kali best g kelas yang tade wall ni dari kelas yang start dis Wednesday. Oh noo!

Moment captured!

I would say that this is one of the best moments in my life. Mana nak dapat great combination camni weyy. haha. Tau tak apa yang diorang tengah discuss? whether to stand up or just sit down bila orang besar masuk sbb Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah baru masuk the hall time tu and kitorang semua berdiri. and moment yang lawaknya when Shaykh Abdallah  sorok tangan dia bila Habib Ali nak cium tangan. haha terkial2 cari tangan yang hilang. Lepas tu siap buat small discussion sesi buat fatwa whether to stand up or just sit down. Lawak je sebab semua gelak2 nak tegakkan pegangan masing2. Shaykh Abdallah tak bagi berdiri, Habib Ali suruh berdiri. Tapi malangnya Shaykh Abdallah tak bagi Imam Zaid Syakir terjemahkan apa yang diorg bincang. Precious moment in life, insyaAllah akan ingat smpai bila2.

[Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, Habib Ali AlJifri, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf]

A Land Called Paradise

what do I like most about this vid? One of the sisters wrote:

When I die I hope the poor, the weak and the oppressed miss me.

It makes me think, if I die today, would anyone miss and remember me in his or her dua'?

not significant! boo!
and broccoli can be a jihad too okay. haha comel. 

Europe 2009: Day 5

Innsbruck, Austria

Mari membuka semula buku Europe kita kerana Naziha sedang bosan bekerja. Jadi hari kelima kami semua berada di Austria. Oh ini Austria, theres no kangaroo here okay haha. Sementara menanti orang2 siap mengemas bas (haa kemas bas?), kami berdua bermain di taman pemainan. Everyone surely ada kanak2-side dlm diri kan? eleh tak payah tipu la, kalau nampak buaian tu tanak naik konon, control macho lah tuu. But anyway, we had a great time with these naughty kids. Let see if I still remember their names - Ammar, err anak abg sam (sorang irfan, sorang lagi ali kan?) and Zafri.

We then went to City of Innsbruck. Yes nama de pelik sekali kan? Emm apa ada kat sini haa? ada SWAROVSKI. haha perlukah huruf besar di situ, yes, perlu perlu. hahaha. Oleh kerana we're on a budget trip, kenalah sentiasa berjimat cermat dengan meminimizekan pembelian barang2 tak perlu seperti SWAROVSKI. I'll come back here bila da kaya nanti okay? haha memang da tak dtg balik lah kalau macam tu haha.

Oh Golden balcony. Mengikut sumber yg 90% saya percaya which is Shaykh Wikipedia:

The Golden Roof was built by Archduke Friedrich IV in the early 15th century as the residence of the Tirolean sovereigns. The Golden Roof actually is the three-story balcony on the central plaza at the heart of the Old Town. It was constructed for Emperor Maximilian I to serve as a royal box where he could sit in luxury and enjoy tournaments in the square below. Completed at the dawn of the 16th century, the Golden Roof was built in honor of Maximilian's second marriage, to Bianca Maria Sforza of Milan. Not wishing to alienate the allies gained by his first marriage, to Maria of Burgundy, he had an image of himself between the two women painted on his balcony.

Hmm agak menarik. kawin dua rupanya hahaha. Nampak tak Golden Roof yang kat bangunan depan tu ha. kecik je. Roof tu tau bukan payung tempat org lepak2 tu. Apa2pon, lawa la Insbruck ni sbb dikelilingi gunung2, pastu awan2 sume. It is just perfect! Subhanallah mmg lawa lahhh tak tipuu.

Lepas merayau2 membeli souvenir, dan sebagainya, kami pon pegilaa ke tempat yang namanya sky jump ramp. Time tu saya cam blur2 ayam apalaa abg hairul ckp ni. Len kali sila la membuat homework mengkaji tempat yang anda akan pergi ye cik. So rupa-rupanya sky jump ramp tuuu ialah ini:

So this place was build for Winter Olympics by an architect Zaha Hadid. Cool la sbb Zaha Hadid is a "she". haha. Oh oh nama hill ni bergisel. Lalu kerana curiosity yang tinggi saya pon melihat youtube bagaimana orang bermain ski jump ramp ini. Gosh sangat la menakutkan. Lihat sini. Btw, Zaha Hadid won the international competition for the ski jump in 1999. Agak cool la bnda ni sbb kat atas tu ada public space sume. Go Zaha Hadid! Haha tak pasal2. Architect memang macho. 

But anyway, walaupon saya tak paham apa yang sy tgk time tu, I had an awesome time melihat scenery yg mmg takley blah cantik. Subhanallah!

Next, Italyyy babyyy. 

Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah's advices before he left the retreat.

Taqwa - doing what Allah wants, avoid what Allah prohibited
Taubah - we should all make taubah. This is the foundation and better than all of what muslims fighting over right now.
Learn - study your religion. rules regarding fiqh, etc
Spend - spend your wealth that Allah has given. Do good with the wealth.

It is just a short period of time that you have in this world. Spend it well.

2010 ahead.

Maka membukalah Naziha lembaran baru 2010 dengan gembira sekali. hehe. Toronto was such a beautiful experience despite its extreme weather. Coldness makes me tired but nevertheless subhanallah snow is just amazing. Need to trade something to get something else eh?

2010 will be obviously a huge year for me academically. May Allah make it easy. resolutions? gulp but oh well I need to find what I am actually interested in doing before commencement and ehh you'll never know what life will give you kan? Tu academically lah kan, kalau sudut2 lain semuanya under constructions hehe.
Oh btw, since I just came back from RIS, maknanya ada la buku yang TERbeli kan. Sape2 nak pinjam(Vandy ppl) just let me know, more than glad to give. A great way to spend another week of winter break =D.

• Stories of the Prophets (peace be upon them) by Imam Imaduddin Abul-Fida Ismail Ibn Kathir Ad-Dimashqi  
• Book of The End by Al-Hafiz Ibn Katheer Dimashqi 
• Fiqh According to the Quran and Sunnah compiled by Muhammad Subhi bin Hasan Hallaq 
• The Rights & Responsibilities of Marriage (CD set) by Hamza Yusuf

Every breath you take is a breath closer to your ultimate destination. -Hamza Yusuf-