Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Malaysia's New Prime Minister!!


Hey, believe it or not..Malaysia is going to have a new prime minister this Friday.
The long waited Najib Tun Razak is going to have the highest power in the government of Malaysia soon enough. Question rises, is he capable of leading Malaysia to continue its so called glories and magnificent achievement's since Independence despite his hideous Altantunya case or his plays with "politik wang"? Perhaps other controversial events that might have not been told by the media? Who know's?

Well, like it or not, he's gonna be our new leader. Here's some facts throughout Najib's background and you judge yourself whether he is qualified or not.

Birth : 1953, Kuala Lipis, Pahang
Father : Tun Abdul Razak Hussein (2nd Prime Minister)
Mother : Toh Puan Rahah Mohamad Noah

Education
:
1. St John Institution, Kuala Lumpur
2. Maven Boy's College, Worchestershire, England
3. University Of Nottingham, England (Degree in Industrial Economy, 1974)


Involvement in Politics
1. Elected as a Parliament member at the age of 23 (youngest member ever) after winning the Pekan Parliamentary seat (replacing his late father when he died in 14 Januari 1976).
2. Deputy Minister of Power, Telekom and Posts in 1978 (25 y/o). Also Deputy Minister of Education and Deputy Minister of Finance.
3. In 1982-1986, he became the Chief Minister of Pahang after winning the Bandar Pekan DUN seat.
4. 1986 - Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.
1990 - Ministry of Defense
1995 - Ministry of Education
5. After the 1999 General Elections, he replace Datuk Seri Abdullah as the Minister of Defense and later became the Deputy Prime Minister in 6 Januari 2004. He is also the current Minister of Finance.

information source: malaysia kini

Quite of a colourful background huh...final words to Najib..."Please lead our country well, bring more justice and peace at the same time not forgetting the basic Islamic Principles..". Good luck all Malaysians~


Sunday, March 29, 2009

Who created evil if there is God?


Assalamualaikum..we meet again after again 2 weeks of absence.
Busy?, nope, just don't have the mood to update..
Anyway, this post will explain a trivial question that might have been playing in our minds since, i dunno, if your really start thinking about it, Why did ever god created evil?
The ideas written have been customized from a lecture given by Syakh Yasir Qahdi, an active daie in the States.
So lets begin...


The question rises like this, if there is a god who creates, then did this god
created evil, if He didnt't created it, who else created it? Or simply the question could be, did god create evil or not?

Every different religion has offered different responses to this question. In fact even within religions, we have various movements within Islam, within Christianity, within Judaism, within the Hindus that has tried to give response to the issue
Theodessy, or the question of god and evil. If there is a god, and f there is evil, what is the relationship between the two, a profound and deep question that cannot be explained by anybody or by simple words. This what Syaikh Yasir explained.

Muslims have a deeper and more profound response to this and that is as follows,

1. First and foremost, we as Muslim does not believe that there is anything that is pure evil and we do not believe in the existence of an ultimate evil. Everything that the God has created has some benefit and some good. Some things have nothing but benefit and good, but there is nothing that comes from God that is pure evil. Some of the matters that god reveals or sends down, for example the speech of god
or gods revelation, the messengers, they are good and pure in of themselves. The book of god is nothing but purity and good. No aspect of anything negative. Believing it is good, reciting it is good, worshiping god through it is
good, reading is good, everything about it is good.

2. Gods creation also usually have good and little bit of harm as well, but this harm is not an intended harm. It is a harm that comes about not because God created it to do harm, but because there a lot of good, and there is some harm also in there and the harm leads to good. The harm that is present in any aspect brings about good. For example, God says that drinking alcohol has some good to it, there is some positive, but there's also bad, and the bad outweighs the good. Even alcohol is not pure evil, there's some good that comes out of it. Of course Allah forbids us to drink alcohol.

In fact, even the creation of satan has some good. Satan in generality speaking is the embodiment of evil, but still there is some good out of it. Whats the good in there? Well the fact that you know that there is an enemy out there trying to harm you, trying to mislead you, it makes you concious, it puts your guards up. The fact that you will enter paradise by not obeying satan is good for you. It might not be good for the satan, but its good for you. So every element, of the creation is either pure good, or there is good and bad, and there is no such thing as pure evil.

3. Human will never be able to judge what evil is completely, especially in the actions of God around you. When somethings happens, tsunami wave happens, a thunderstorm happens, tremendous disaster, how it came? a tornado, earthquake. People will say, why did these evil happen to us? and the response is, in deed some evil came after that no body can deny it, but there is also good that comes out of it. What is the good that comes out of it? Mankind shows their true nature in their sympathy and mercy. They send money, they send food, they come together at times of distress and so on.
Its simple logic, if there were people who striving, how could you show your generosity? If was no evil, how could you show your good. So there has to be some negatives, in order for you to bring the positives.

4. There's another aspect as well, you can say okay fine you understand that when there is a tsunami wave, I can be generous to the people who are affected and so god
rewards me. How about the people who suffered at that wave? who lost a child,
somebody who lost their parents. How about them? The response is very simple. You are judging the negatives and the positives based on this world and your forgetting that there is something that is called the hereafter, and that is possible that the reward that the person gets in the hereafter for a problem that he or she suffers
is much more than if he did not suffer that problem at all.

In fact, if your patient, and you put your trust in god and you show your fortitude, your belief in god, believe that in the hereafter you would actually wanted more problems so that could of have showed more of your patience to get more reward. See the blessings of God, can you see how the god have rewarded you for your suffering. You would in fact wish, not in this world, because non of us wishes it, and thats natural, but in here after when its all gone and done, and you see the rewards of God, you would actually wish that, oh why wasn't I tested more so that I could be rewarded more.

5. A question, how many times have you done something, and you were so sure there was good in that thing, and then within a week a month, a year, you intergrated your decision, and oh man i've shouldn't have done that. I was a big mistake that I did it. How many times has it happen in your own daily life you thought something was good, and it turned out to be evil. Conversely as well, how many times that something happens to you, and you thought it bad, but then when in retrospect, in hind side, oh it was actually better that it would have happen. In other words, you know this in your own thoughtability, you know that in your own limited wisdom, when you experience your limited wisdom in your own daily life, why don't you just give up that wisdom to God, and say, you know what, God, you created me, gave me
everything that I have, you've taken me so far, I put my trust in you, and everything that happens, it happens for the best.

Nothing happens to you except that it is for your own good, wether you realize it or not, wether in this world or in the hereafter.

So to respond to the question in deep, everything of the world happens by the knowledge of the god and will of god , and god creates everything, we affirm that. But that doesn't mean that we ascribe evil to god. All that we say, that Allah created everything and portions of creation, some his creation has some good and bad, but even the evil in it, it leads to good, and it is necessary for evil to exist
in order to manifest the good. So leave it at that, and we put our trust in our judgement. We don't judge God. We say "oh Allah is the all wise, we know for our experiences, that our wisdom is limited"

In deed God knows what is best, and he is the most lovely and most merciful, and the
most wise. We leave that to him, and we say, Allah knows best. Why? everything that happens, it happens for a divine wisdom and decree. If you believe in god and you put your trust in him, and we have a firm commandment in the Quran, that everything that happens, happen for our own best, wether you realize it or not.

I hope that does answer the question in a very basic level. Of course there
is so much more we can say about it. This is the conclusion of this episode.

Thanx for reading till the end...:)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Ulat Bulu~

Hey guys, its been 2 weeks since 1 march,
dunno y I did not post any entries since then,
nampaknye susah jugak nak maintain blog2 ni,
dah naek nyampah ade gak, anyway here's just a simple video to share with
though very nice.
Soutul jihad, a nasyid 'band' of my former school, which i was a former member of it
played percussion's.
well, they've managed to sing this cute song, ENJOY!!



Ada Sang Ulat Bulu,
Punya Kaki Seribu,
Siapa Jumpa Kakiku Kakiku.

Jikalau Tak Dapat,
Terpaksa Ku Melompat,
Dengan Kaki Seribu Kurang Satu.

(Ulang banyak2 kali)wuahaha...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Young Papa~



Greetings oh reader~

Seems like its been a while since I've updated my blog, dunno what to post actually.
Well yesterday it happens that I've encountered a lecture given by Ust Ismail Kamus about marriage. It was in one of my friends WMP playlist I shared in my home local network, since all the musics in my laptop had to be deleted to give way to all the video making and designing things as they eat up a lot of space.

Back to be lecture, he said a jungle of things about marriage in the malay custom. Lots of hilarious jokes and stories, but thats not the issue. He was saying that when we were a child, marrying someone would be nonsense, like eeeiii, gelinya nak kawen....or wut ever. Though as we approach the 20's, everybody thinks of starting a of relationship and then later marriage. Its common and its a normal human instinct.

The problems lies when we see marriage as something like going to a dreampark or sunway lagoon or any other fun-like things. Its not like yayyy..i'm married, oh i'm so happy, and then what..?? Its great to get married and gain love and happiness, but its not a game were you buy a token and play in an arcade for one round, you get happy and then it ends..Instead, your couple will be beside you for rest of your life!! yeah your whole life. So the question rises, are you really prepared physically, mentally and spiritually...!! (it feels weird talking about this marriage stuff). Bottom line, it's what plays in our minds day and night.

Alright, to my post topic. Young Papa is one of the few Japanese drama series that i've watched and really enjoyed. In fact, I watched 2 times, which I think is a great achievement. Its a family-ship based drama where a young man (dun remember his name) marrying a women 10 years older than him and which is also a widow. As usual, in the beginning some conflicts, disagreements and eventually they did get married. Unfortunately and really unfortunate the girl died in a car accident. The result?? he had to raise her two girls and boys, the three children which she had with her former husband. As a common drama plot, each child had their own conflict to adapt with this new young papa. Finally they did it, but in the middle, the part where I really felt touched (thats why I loved the series), the 'real father' came home and wanted the children back. So, he tried to be good again with them, but it appears that all he wanted was the money left by the late mother. So the Young Papa, did something which ended by the father left with the money and the children crying sadly..isk..isk..isk.. I nearly cried. Dunno how to describe it dramatically, see for yourselves and you'll know how it feels like.

Honestly, watching these kind of dramas make me feel like wanna be a papa. And for that reason i've stopped watching such drama's of familyness-like either Japan or Korea to avoid such feelings....bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha...Focus on studies and building self-skills..cehhwaahhh~(terharu gile).

Moral of the story = DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO A PAPA??