Sapa raya kat KL tak balik kampung?

Just remember that quality is better than quantity.

The important thing now is to strenghtened what we already have. History has shown that Islam is at its strongest when there are few in numbers.

In any case, from what I've seen, we (or more precisely those in authority) are approaching this issue the wrong way. Of course that's for bigger kind of discussions and maybe none of us here are actually qualified to discuss them in detail.

However, if seeing someone left Islam makes you sad, I would suggest you to look the other way around. Look fir those who embrace Islam. Not those that became muslim just because they want to marry muslim, but look all over the world where people are embracing Islam because they are truly believe. Those who came to the conclysion by their own research, even by those who actually started the journey to find faults about Islam. We don't need to judge people. Just judge ourselves and let God be the final judge.

Have we considered the 'why' is the prohibition exist ?

Racun tikus.

I supported my ex until she remarried.

Well, my daughter was with her that time. So kira sekali lah. After she remarried, no more lah, but I still give her my daughter punya bahagian.

Tak lama lagu dah pun. This year my daughter final year. Unless dia tetiba nak sambung buat master terus, rasanya next year dah tak da la... 😁

Old enough. Dah dekat nak dapat menantu...

Ada la.... Setakat yang mampu.

Ada.. tapi dah ada bopren...

There are 2 sides of every coin and as for me, both can't be totally believable.

Assad bukan baru. Dah dua keturunan. Sebelum ni elok saja. Nak kata aman ka tak aman pun, tak dak la macam sekarang. Apa yang kita dengar sekarang cuma hearsay, both sides are cerita depa. Cuma tengok kat internet, tapi setakat tengok saja la. Nak percaya bulat bulat tak la. Cuma accept them as face value. Unless yg ceritakan tu yg saya personally kenal, tau udi bicara dia mungkin boleh percaya.

Something to share.



Again, since we are not actually on the ground, just take it with grain of salt.

Note that the journalist (Eva Bartless) is pro Assad.

This link is one of the counter argument.

http://www.snopes.com/syrian-war-victims-a...s-never-bombed/

This post has been edited by aliesterfiend: Apr 10 2017, 04:38 PM

Suppose on a hill above your village which is in the middle of nowhere, there is a man who is famous for being in touch with God. He is virtuous, kind, generous etc. One day you decide to ask him for advice because of some problems in life so you climb up the hill to see him. When you reach there, you ask him:

“Sir, how important is being truthful?”

You must be truthful. Verily, truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise.

Exhibit A:

“Thank you Sir. My neighbour has thrown me out of my house. How do I get it back?”

“I don’t know anything about this. Ask someone else”

“But Sir, I want to know what God would want me to do if fighting happens?”

“I have no experience with fighting. So I cannot advise you. Go ask someone else”

“Sir, If I ask someone else then he may not guide me in the proper way”

Exhibit B:

“Thank you Sir. My neighbour has thrown me out of my house. How do I get it back?”

Fight in the way of God those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors.

“But Sir, how do I fight?”

I advise you ten things Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty, and do not be cowardly.

“Thank you Sir, I understand well now”

Which one would you prefer? Exhibit A or Exhibit B?

Tell you boss it's like paying tax. You may skip it, which makes you a not so good citizen and there might be consequences in the end.

I've read somewhere (cant remember, tru to find online again but cant find) about the physical benefit of praying. It explain why 2 rakaat for subuh, why 4 rakaat after lunch time (zohor), why 4 rakaat for asar and so on. It also explains why phisically it's good to do tahajud if you woke up in the middle of the night etc.

All I can say ia that when I started praying again (yeah, I was once young and wild and ignorant) I can feel great when performing subuh prayer. Better than jogging early morning. The prayer prepares my body for the rest of the day.

Islam and muslim now needs quality instead of quantity now more than ever.

It means that there's no more revelation after the verse revealed.

Article by Imran Khan appeared in Arab News; a leading English daily in Saudi Arabia.
An eye opener which communicates real feelings of many a true Muslims in these trying times.

*WHY The West Craves Materialism & The East Sticks To Religion*
By Imran Khan

My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been slaves and had a huge inferiority complex of the British. The school I went to was similar to all elite schools in Pakistan. Despite gaining independence, they were, and still are, producing replicas of public schoolboys rather than Pakistanis.

I read Shakespeare, which was fine, but no Allama Iqbal - the national poet of Pakistan. The class on Islamic studies was not taken seriously, and when I left school I was considered among the elite of the country because I could speak English and wore Western clothes.

Despite periodically shouting 'Pakistan Zindabad' in school functions, I considered my own culture backward and religion outdated. Among our group if any one talked about religion, prayed or kept a beard he was immediately branded a Mullah.

Because of the power of the Western media, our heroes were Western movie stars or pop stars. When I went to Oxford already burdened with this hang up, things didn't get any easier. At Oxford, not just Islam, but all religions were considered anachronism.

Science had replaced religion and if something couldn't be logically proved it did not exist. All supernatural stuff was confined to the movies. Philosophers like Darwin, who with his half-baked theory of evolution had supposedly disproved the creation of men and hence religion, were read and revered.

Moreover, European history reflected its awful experience with religion. The horrors committed by the Christian clergy during the Inquisition era had left a powerful impact on the Western mind.

To understand why the West is so keen on secularism, one should go to places like Cordoba in Spain and see the torture apparatus used during the Spanish Inquisition. Also the persecution of scientists as heretics by the clergy had convinced the Europeans that all religions are regressive.

However, the biggest factor that drove people like me away from religion was the selective Islam practiced by most of its preachers. In short, there was a huge difference between what they practiced and what they preached. Also, rather than explaining the philosophy behind the religion, there was an overemphasis on rituals.

I feel that humans are different to animals. While, the latter can be drilled, humans need to be intellectually convinced. That is why the Qur'an constantly appeals to reason. The worst, of course, was the exploitation of Islam for political gains by various individuals or groups.

Hence, it was a miracle I did not become an atheist. The only reason why I did not was the powerful religious influence my mother wielded on me since my childhood. It was not so much out of conviction but love for her that I stayed a Muslim.

However, my Islam was selective. I accepted only parts of the religion that suited me. Prayers were restricted to Eid days and occasionally on Fridays, when my father insisted on taking me to the mosque with him.

All in all I was smoothly moving to becoming a Pukka Brown Sahib. After all I had the right credentials in terms of school, university and, above all, acceptability in the English aristocracy, something that our brown sahibs would give their lives for. So what led me to do a 'lota' on the Brown Sahib culture and instead become a 'desi'?

Well it did not just happen overnight.

Firstly, the inferiority complex that my generation had inherited gradually went as I developed into a world-class athlete. Secondly, I was in the unique position of living between two cultures. I began to see the advantages and the disadvantages of both societies.

In Western societies, institutions were strong while they were collapsing in our country. However, there was an area where we were and still are superior, and that is our family life. I began to realize that this was the Western society's biggest loss. In trying to free itself from the oppression of the clergy, they had removed both God and religion from their lives.

While science, no matter how much it progresses, can answer a lot of questions - two questions it will never be able to answer: One, what is the purpose of our existence and two, what happens to us when we die?

It is this vacuum that I felt created the materialistic and the hedonistic culture. If this is the only life then one must make hay while the sun shines - and in order to do so one needs money. Such a culture is bound to cause psychological problems in a human being, as there was going to be an imbalance between the body and the soul.

Consequently, in the US, which has shown the greatest materialistic progress while giving its citizens numerous rights, almost 60 percent of the population consult psychiatrists. Yet, amazingly in modern psychology, there is no study of the human soul. Sweden and Switzerland, who provide the most welfare to their citizens, also have the highest suicide rates. Hence, man is not necessarily content with material well being and needs something more.

Since all morality has it roots in religion, once religion was removed, immorality has progressively grown since the 70s. Its direct impact has been on family life. In the UK, the divorce rate is 60 percent, while it is estimated that there are over 35 percent single mothers. The crime rate is rising in almost all Western societies, but the most disturbing fact is the alarming increase in racism. While science always tries to prove the inequality of man (recent survey showing the American Black to be genetically less intelligent than whites) it is only religion that preaches the equality of man.

Between 1991 and 1997, it was estimated that total immigration into Europe was around 520,000, and there were racially motivated attacks all over, especially in Britain, France and Germany. In Pakistan during the Afghan war, we had over four million refugees, and despite the people being so much poorer, there was no racial tension.
There was a sequence of events in the 80s that moved me toward God as the Qur'an says: 'There are signs for people of understanding. 'One of them was cricket. As I was a student of the game, the more I understood the game, the more I began to realize that what I considered to be chance was, in fact, the will of Allah. A pattern which became clearer with time. But it was not until Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' that my understanding of Islam began to develop.

People like me who were living in the Western world bore the brunt of anti-Islam prejudice that followed the Muslim reaction to the book. We were left with two choices: fight or flight. Since I felt strongly that the attacks on Islam were unfair, I decided to fight. It was then I realized that I was not equipped to do so as my knowledge of Islam was inadequate. Hence I started my research and for me a period of my greatest enlightenment. I read scholars like Ali Shariati, Muhammad Asad, Iqbal, Gai Eaton, plus of course, a study of Qur'an.

I will try to explain as concisely as is possible, what 'discovering the truth' meant for me. When the believers are addressed in the Qur'an, it always says, 'Those who believe and do good deeds.' In other words, a Muslim has dual function, one toward God and the other toward fellow human beings.

The greatest impact of believing in God for me, meant that I lost all fear of human beings. The Qur'an liberates man from man when it says that life and death and respect and humiliation are God's jurisdiction, so we do not have to bow before other human beings.

Moreover, since this is a transitory world where we prepare for the eternal one, I broke out of the self-imposed prisons, such as growing old (such a curse in the Western world, as a result of which, plastic surgeons are having a field day), materialism, ego, what people say and so on. It is important to note that one does not eliminate earthly desires. But instead of being controlled by them, one controls them.

By following the second part of believing in Islam, I have become a better human being. Rather than being self-centered and living for the self, I feel that because the Almighty gave so much to me, in turn I must use that blessing to help the less privileged. This I did by following the fundamentals of Islam rather than becoming a Kalashnikov-wielding fanatic.

I have become a tolerant and a giving human being who feels compassion for the underprivileged. Instead of attributing success to myself, I know it is because of God's will, hence I learned humility instead of arrogance.

Also, instead of the snobbish Brown Sahib attitude toward our masses, I believe in egalitarianism and strongly feel against the injustice done to the weak in our society. According to the Qur'an, 'Oppression is worse than killing.' In fact only now do I understand the true meaning of Islam, if you submit to the will of Allah, you have inner peace.

Through my faith, I have discovered strength within me that I never knew existed and that has released my potential in life. I feel that in Pakistan we have selective Islam. Just believing in God and going through the rituals is not enough. One also has to be a good human being. I feel there are certain Western countries with far more Islamic traits than us in Pakistan, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens, or for that matter their justice system. In fact some of the finest individuals I know live there.

What I dislike about them is their double standards in the way they protect the rights of their citizens but consider citizens of other countries as being somehow inferior to them as human being, e.g. dumping toxic waste in the Third World, advertising cigarettes that are not allowed in the West and selling drugs that are banned in the West.

One of the problems facing Pakistan is the polarization of two reactionary groups. On the one side is the Westernized group that looks upon Islam through Western eyes and has inadequate knowledge about the subject. It reacts strongly to anyone trying to impose Islam in society and wants only a selective part of the religion. On the other extreme is the group that reacts to this Westernized elite and in trying to become a defender of the faith, takes up such intolerant and self-righteous attitudes that are repugnant to the spirit of Islam.

What needs to be done is to somehow start a dialogue between the two extreme. In order for this to happen, the group on whom the greatest proportion of our educational resources are spent in this country must study Islam properly.

Whether they become practicing Muslims or believe in God is entirely a personal choice. As the Qur'an tells us there is 'no compulsion in religion.' However, they must arm themselves with knowledge as a weapon to fight extremism. Just by turning up their noses at extremism the problem is not going to be solved.

The Qur'an calls Muslims 'the middle nation', not of extremes. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was told to simply give the message and not worry whether people converted or not, therefore, there is no question in Islam of forcing your opinions on anyone else.

Moreover, we are told to respect other religions, their places of worship and their prophets. It should be noted that no Muslim missionaries or armies ever went to Malaysia or Indonesia. The people converted to Islam due to the high principles and impeccable character of the Muslim traders. At the moment, the worst advertisements for Islam are the countries with their selective Islam, especially where religion is used to deprive people of their rights. In fact, a society that obeys fundamentals of Islam has to be a liberal one.

If Pakistan's Westernized class starts to study Islam, not only will it be able to help society fight sectarianism and extremism, but it will also make them realize what a progressive religion Islam is. They will also be able to help the Western world by articulating Islamic concepts. Recently, Prince Charles accepted that the Western world can learn from Islam. But how can this happen if the group that is in the best position to project Islam gets its attitudes from the West and considers Islam backward? Islam is a universal religion and that is why our Prophet (peace be upon him) was called a Mercy for all mankind.

_Humbly written by:_

Imran Khan
Prime Minister of Pakistan