Monday, July 11, 2011

Orang Melayu tak tau diuntung!

Entry ni susulan kepada video pekerja KFC yang dengan pengotornya dan dengan jahatnya meletakkan ayam yang baru disalut tepung di tapak kaki. Yes, perbuatan tu sengaja and itu yang membuatkan satu Malaysia bengang. And disebabkan KFC is my favorite fast food, of course aku bengang. Terfikir yang selama ni kita makan kat KFC and fast food restaurant yang lain, tah macam manala keadaan kat dapur tu kan? Ingatkan warung tepi longkang yang banyak lalat je yang tak boleh dipercayai kebersihannya. Tapi rupa-rupanya restoran yang selesa dan terkenal pun tak terjamin kebersihannya. Eiii geli!!!!

Bila tengok video tu, marah betul aku dengan orang Melayu ni. Kau dah tentu-tentu kerja kat bahagian yang memerlukan tahap kebersihan tahap dewa punya. Keadaan sekeliling dah mungkin ok, terjamin kebersihan tapi korang pulak yang sengaja mengotorkan makanan tu. Jijik sungguh perbuatan tu. Orang-orang ni memang tak sedar diuntung. Tak tau ke yang tempat kat mana korang berada sekarang ni adalah nikmat kurniaan tuhan, rezeki korang kat muka bumi tuhan ni. Tapi korang buat perbuatan yang menjijikkan ni kan? Kalau orang yang makan ayam yang korang kotorkan tu, tak rasa bersalah ke?

Korang dah dapat bekerja pun dah kira cukup bagus. Kalau nak dibandingkan dengan orang yang menganggur. Tapi korang tak sedar tu semua kan? Orang nak tolong korang, anak-anak Melayu ni, dah cukup bagus. Tapi apa yang korang buat? Tak amanah langsung dengan kerja. Hai...budak kalau dah tak cukup ilmu kat kepla otak memanglah macam ni. Kalau dilabel dengan panggilan yang kesat, tentulah mereka marah. Tapi perbuatan sendiri dah memang mintak orang melabel dengan semua perkataan tu. Balik rumah, bawak-bawaklah berfikir. Kalaulah saudara mara, adik beradik or mak bapak korang yang makan ayam yang korang sapu kat tapak kasut tu, agak-agaknya camane korang rasa eh?



Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Suggie Post

Hehe..feeling like talking about suggie or sugar glider this time hmm..hmm.. ;p. Few months back I've been heard about this cute little thing. Yeah I do want to own it for myself but then the cost for me to adopt this cute animal is quite high so I hold myself first. Then last week, this animal became so popular as there was a documentary about the suggie on the TV.

As been influenced by the TV, my sister wanted to own one. So yesterday we went to the Suggie Shop to have a look at those little ones. At first I thought this cute little thing is just like a normal pet where they are not moving too much but people, this kangaroo family is not as such. They jump A LOT! But having this cute animal is a fun thing because they are so cute of course, and need to socialize, if not...they can die (T_T).

For the time being, I still have to still hold myself back yet after some adjustment, maybe I'll have one too ;)




Wednesday, June 29, 2011

How to Wake up for Fajr?

How do you wake up for fajr? And I don’t mean wake up for a day or two, but how do you keep waking up for fajr, constantly, everyday, without fail.
There’s loads & loads of websites online giving you tips and advice on how to wake up early. But our focus is not on worldly tips (which should be taken by all means, part of tying the camel ;)), our focus is on the spiritual means.
My dear brothers/sisters, every day when you read Surat Al-Fatiha, at least 17 times a day, you recite the verse “You Alone we Worship, and You Alone we Seek Help from”: You want to worship Allah? “Yes!” You need His help then. You want to wake up for Fajr? “Yes please!” Guess what, you need Allah. You cannot, I repeat, cannot, wake up for fajr without Allah’s help. Now ask yourself the question, what can I do to show Allah that I truly and utterly want to wake up for fajr?!

Have you ever had days when you’re about to go to sleep, and you have this deep feeling that you’ll definitely wake up for fajr? And have you ever had days when you know for certain that you’ll oversleep? Imagine the two scenarios, which I’m sure some of us have gone through:

Scenario 1:

You feel high with Eman, you’ve prayed your witr, read some Quran, and even though you’ve got 2 hours to sleep till fajr, you’re certain you’ll wake up because you’ve set your mind, heart and body to make sure you wake up. In fact, sometimes you keep on waking in the middle of the night thinking it’s fajr time out of fear that you’re going to miss it. If you haven’t experienced this, think of a time when you had to catch an early flight or a bus/train, and think of how your mind, heart and body were switched on, and it doesn’t matter what time you slept, you’ll wake up.

Scenario 2:

There are days when deep down you really don’t want to wake up, you hope that you “oversleep” so you feel less guilty about it, and Allah may have mercy upon you and still wake you up, and that’s when the battle with the snooze alarm starts and the classic shaytaan trick “just 5 more minutes…” begins.
How do we maintain scenario 1 everyday?
With these 2 scenarios, one details a feeling deep down inside that you’re definitely waking up, and another where you know you won’t wake up because deep down inside you don’t want to and you’re not ready to take the fight against shaytaan of waking up in the morning.
Below I detail some practical and spiritual tools, that will help you in achieving scenario 1 all the time inshaAllah:

Spiritual Tools

  • Know who Allah is: This is the key and number one tool to waking up for Fajr. If you know Who you’re worshipping, and you know that He requests that you get up in the morning and pray to Him, you’ll wake up. It’s our lack of understanding of who Allah is that makes us slump into scenario 2 all the time. Know your Lord, that’s key.
  • Sincerity: Be sincere about waking up for fajr, don’t just say to yourself: “InshaAllah, it’ll be nice if I wake up for fajr” be sincere about it, and say: “I will wake up for fajr” I find it useful sometimes to talk to myself about it before going to sleep and say: “I will wake up for fajr, i don’t care how, but I’ll definitely will!”
  • Wudu before sleep: Ibn Abbas reported that Allah’s Messenger said: “Purify these bodies and Allah will purify you, for there is no slave who goes to sleep in a state of purity but an Angel spends the night with him, and every time he turns over, [the Angel] says, ‘O Allah! Forgive Your slave, for he went to bed in a state of purity.” Do you think that such a person would be left to oversleep and miss fajr?
  • Witr Prayer + Dua: Make sure you don’t sleep before performing your witr prayer, and supplicate to Allah during your Witr prayer to help you wake up for Fajr, remember, “You Alone we Worship, and You Alone we Seek help from”
  • Read some Quran: Ending the day with verses of the Noble Quran will sure put your focus straight on waking up for salaat. Prophet Muhammad used to recommend that we recite Surat Al-Sajdah, and Surat Al-Mulk (Chapters 32 and 67) before going to sleep.
  • Remember Allah before you go to Sleep: This is part of the first point I made, and you can find all the supplications you need to recite before going to sleep here. You might need to print them off and read them off paper at first, but within a week or two you should be able to memorize them fully and just recite them before dozing off.
  • Remember the rewards attached to Fajr Salaat: from being safe from being a hypocrite, to having light on the day of judgement, to being under Allah’s protection the whole day, to having laziness removed from us that day and being productive. Remember these rewards and you’ll sure wake up.

Other tools I use that help me a lot:

Ask a friend/family member to wake you up: This is the number one rule for me to wake up. Get a family, friend, spouse to wake up, and help each other, if you get up before them, don’t be selfish and make sure they are awake too.
  • 1.5 hours sleep rule: Aaaah.. here’s a secret trick, there’s a theory in the Sleep science that says that every human being completes an entire sleep cycle in 1.5 hours, therefore, if you can wake up at the end of a multiple of 1.5 hours (e.g. 1.5 hours, or 3 hours, or 4.5 hours..etc) you’ll wake up fresh and rejuvenated. Otherwise, you’ll wake up lazy. So if fajr is at 5am, and you sleep at 12am, make sure you set your alarm at 4.30am, because that gives you 4.5 hours to sleep. (Of course, if you take 1/2 an hour to fall to sleep, you might need to add that into your calculation).
  • Nap in the afternoon: Another lifehack, taken from the Sunnah and recommended by many, make sure you nap in the afternoon, for just 20 minutes! yup, just 20 minutes. Trust me, for the past 3 years, I’ve mastered the 20 min nap, and everytime it never fails to rejuvenate me. If you need to train yourself to nap for that long, I highly recommend www.pzizz.com, a wonderful software that trains you for these short naps, it’s what I used to train myself.
  • Promise yourself a grand breakfast if you wake up for Fajr: I’m a breakfast guy, so if I wake up early, I sure like to have a big breakfast. Sometimes i look forward to my breakfast from the afternoon before, and just like a small reward, treat yourself to a massive breakfast in the morning. It’ll definitely set your day straight as well inshaAllah.

Source:ProductiveMuslim.com