Our New Home Is Almost Finish

Assalamualaikum dear friends and readers.

May Allah bless us all with good health (cough, cough) insyaAllah and a happy life with our family wherever we are.

Actually I'm not feeling very well since the Eid day but I think my illness is lesser than my mom who's suffering from fever, sore throat, cough and high blood pressure. I won't whine or sigh because I will always remember that my beloved hard working mom is sicker than me. I would try my best to help her while I still have a few more days at home.

Well, apart from the health thingy, I'd like to share with you that our new home is soon to be finished. You can see part of it in the image above. Currently, workers are doing the flooring job for the second floor after they'd finished the ground floor's yesterday. Alhamdulillah.

The house should have been finished in the middle of this year however due to certain circumstances, it was delayed. I am hoping to move in by early next year, insyaAllah.

I'm living in a kampung (village) that's why you can see there are coconut trees nearby the house. Well a few have been chopped down by the landowner next door to give way for new development (maybe) so now there's no more coconut trees behind my house.

I don't really have a story to write today, so this might be it.

Wassalam.

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Eid and the after effect

Assalamualaikum dear friends and readers. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon all of you. And I hope that everyone is in good health and enjoying your life wherever you are.

Right now, it's raining non-stop in Kota Bharu and the weather seems to be staying like that maybe until tomorrow. The rain has been pouring since early last night and hasn't stop till now. However, alhamdulillah... on the Eid day, the weather was very bright and shining. Thanks to Allah that has bestow upon us the good weather so that we can make the sacrifice in good conditions.

It is a four day Eid for Kelantanese and it has always been like that since I'm small. Kelantanese celebrates Aidul-Adha a bit grander and longer than others in Malaysia. We know that Aidul-Fitr is a big day for everyone but to most of Kelantanese Aidul-Adha is bigger. I don't really know the specific reasons for that but from my own experience, people here start celebrating the coming Eid starting from the 1st. day of Zulhijjah by fasting and the Arafah day. We were taught to feel the same experience of those doing their hajj in Makkah so that we will always thought about performing the hajj too, the mabrur hajj. Anyway this feeling that I'm not able to tell you because my lacking of the right words for it, is starting to loose it's meaning when modernization came.

Well, nobody is to be blamed because I'm also do not do enough efforts in preserving that feeling. I don't know. I think I'm getting sloppy in my ibadah, that's why I am loosing the real spirit and meaning of both Eids especially Aidul-Adha.

Apart from that, Aidul-Adha is the day when people sacrifice a sheep or a goat or a cow as a sacrificial imitation of the Prophet Ibrahim sacrificing his son, the Prophet Ismail (there's more to this story than what I'm stating here, so please do more reading). This year I'm not able to do it but some of my siblings and also my parent did sacrificed a cow. My father slaughtered the cow as always and then many family members helped to cut the meat and devided them into 7 parts. 4 parts are my family's which we then devided again into smaller portions to be devided to our relatives, faqirs (the poors), and some are for us to make food for the helpers and a bit is stored for us. Alhamdulillah all the meat have found the rightful owners.

One of the food is the dalca or mix vege curry that I've eaten with white rice.

Besides that, here and there people are inviting us to their majlis such as wedding celebrations, aqiqahs and 'open house' events which means we will be consuming varieties of food mainly made from meat. Oh my! Just imagine what is the big after effect from those food. Allahu Akbar! They have made me sick of stomach ache and diarrhea since last night. I feel like lying down but today is the KINDY day at our house. There are 7 kids below 11 playing and bickering everywhere in this house. I just couldn't live my mom, sister and maid looking after them without helping at all. So, no napping for me. Actually they are my nieces and nephew who are left here because their parents (my sisters) are already working today while my youngest sister and I are still on holiday.

Between the toilet, kitchen and the kids, I try to sqeeze a little time to write this, hehe. Oh no! Mom is scolding someone out there. Got to go now. Those kids are really pressing their luck with my ill mother. Bye for now. Wassalam.

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EID MUBARAK!

Assalaamu'alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh -

May God's peace and blessings be upon you

Wishing you a very Happy Eid Mubarak.

May the Mercy & Blessing's of the Almighty be with you, your family, and friends during this auspicious Eid Blessings Day and continue to be always, and May Allah (swt) have accepted all our prayers/duas during this blessed month of Zulhijjah, insha'Allah (God Willing).

May your year ahead continue to be filled with a healthy, wealthy, and prosperity life, and May you have a Joyous and Spirited Eid Mubarak (Blessings) day with all your dear ones, including people of all faiths and humanity, filled with Love, Peace, and Happiness .... Ameen

Have A Most Blessed Festival Of Nature.

Respectfully in Prayers & Du'as always / wassalaam,

KakChik

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What Is Eid Ul Adha?

This very important Muslim holiday is celebrated at the end of Hajj, which is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The ‘Festival of Sacrifice’ is followed by a ‘Feast of Sacrifice’, which pays homage to the Prophet Abraham’s(PBUH) unselfish act of sacrificing his son, Ishmael, to God. In turn, God spared the boy’s life and instead substituted a sheep. Now in remembrance, people sacrifice a lamb, goat, or other animal, and give the meat to family, friends, relatives, and most importantly, the poor.

Eid-Ul-Adha is a four-day holiday and celebration. It commences on the 10th day of Thul Hijjah and is celebrated in a manner similar to Eid-Ul-Fitr. It starts with a special holiday prayer, performed in congregation in the Masjid (Mosque) or other suitable place. It is a time of celebration, of visiting family and friends and of thanking ALLAH (Subhanahu wa ta'ala), for all the blessings bestowed upon us. Fasting is prohibited during these days.

Eid Ul Adha Prayer

Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. La ila-ha ill-lal-lah. Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. Wa-lilahill hamd.

(Allah is great, Allah is great. There is no god but Allah. Allah is great, Allah is great. And all praises are for Allah).

The Sacrifice Prayer

Dapatkan Mesej Bergambar di Sini

Innee waj-jahtu wajhiya lilladhee fataras-samaawaati wal-arda haneefan wa maa ana minal-mushrikeen

Inna salaatee wa nusukee wa mahyaaya wa mamaatee lillaahi rabbil-‘aalameen • Laa shareeka lahu wa bi dhalika umirtu wa ana aw-walul-muslimeen.

Allaahumma minka wa laka

Bismillaahi Allaahu akbar

(Verily I divert my attention to the Lord Who has created the heavens and the earth: (I do so) as one by nature upright, and I am not of the idolaters. Truly my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah the Lord of the Worlds He has no partner and thus am I commanded and I am the first of those who surrender to Him. Oh Allah! (This sacrifice is) from You and for You; In the name of Allah. Allah is the Greatest!)

Allaahumma taqabbalhu minnee kamaa taqabbalta min habeebika Muhammadin wa khaleelika Ibraahima ‘alayhimas-salaatu was-salaam.

(O Allah! Accept this from me as You accepted it from Your beloved Muhammad and Your befriended Ibrahim, peace and blessings be upon them both.)

Sources: http://www.eiduladha.com/

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Exclusively Kelantan: The Purchasing Power of Kelantanese!

Assalamualaikum and a very good afternoon everyone. Hopefully all of you are in good health and enjoying your day with your loved ones.

Lately, I'm not much of a writer because I have to allocate more time for my assignments and the coming final exam which will start on the 16 Dec. Actually the exam week started 2 days ago but I don't have any paper until that date. However I still spare some time to read some of my friends blogs and blog-hopping anywhere interesting. From the hopping around that I've made, I found this interesting article about one small part of my beloved home-state, Kelantan. As a good citizen, I'd like to share the article with you, my beloved readers and visitors. InsyaAllah the OWNER of the original article had given his approval for me to re-post it here.

So, here's the article!

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Here are Top Ten "Purchasing Power" as the evidence to the existence of economic growth achieved by the state government through some of the implementation reflecting under the Islamic-approaches of Kelantan state government almost 20 years in the driving seat parallel with prospect of 2015 Kelantan State Growth. The PAS government leading this Mecca-Veranda as dubbed (by Malaysian) apparently interprets the manifestation after massive changes for its dwellers despite mainstream media negatively labeling Kelantan as poverty-stricken state! These are some of the proofs to crystallize the  (accusation from) Malicious Mainstream Media of Malaysia!. I will describe it as Exclusively Kelantan: Republic of Islam: The Purchasing Power of Kelantanese, Kota Bharu The Islamic City's Radius.

This is (one of) the most establish hyper-mart in Kelantan since its opening in 1995. Billion hypermarket (Kota Sri Mutiara) is situated adjoining Renaissance Hotel on the right side.

Kota Bharu Mall or KB Mall is one of the most strong purchasing power for Kelantanese after  it was officially opened 4 years ago because of its strategically-situated at the entrance of Kota Bharu City.

Pelangi Mall, was built beside the Kelantan River's river banks still waiting for its D-Day to be officially opened for public perhaps by early of next year.

Kota Bharu Trade Center or KBTC 's Parkson-cum-Giant was opened to public on September this year is another KB Mall-type shopping mall of strong purchasing power to the Kelantanese particularly in Kota Bharu Radius .

Low-price mart, Tesco enter its first east-coast markets by choosing Kota Bharu, Kelantan as their main destination and reportedly gaining huge returns from their monthly emolument.

Kubang Kerian Square or (in short) KK Square located in Kubang Kerian Satellite Town officially opened for public a couple of months ago. Situated nearby the new Mydin Mart (see below) and in front of the Hospital USM.

This is new Mydin Mart, retails and wholesales hyper-marts located in Kubang Kerian Sattelite Town. This mart was dubbed as Subang Mydin-like because of its capacity to welcome large quantity of customers!

This is Pengkalan Chepa's Pantai Timur Hypermarket, one of the low-price mart in Kota Bharu situated near the entrance of Kelantan domestic airport, the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport.

Ceria Supermarket giving most promising low-price retails and wholesales goods as it serves to the people around Wakaf Che Yeh new-development area, in particular.

Bilal Supermarket, the Islamic-undercover of Chinese company serving low-price for daily chores and fresh goods situated at Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra.

Growth Together With Islam..!

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Hope you find it interesting and informational as I did.
al-Fateh, thank you.

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Rest In Peace

Assalamualaikum.

I've just received a phone call from my cousin.
My maternal uncle just pass away a few minutes ago at his house.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.
I'm going home now and then visit the family.
I'll write again about this later.
See you.
Wassalam.

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The abayat is here and let's have our breakfast

Assalamualaikum and a very good morning everyone!

Alhamdulillah we are blessed again with a new day and hopefully a wonderful one till the end of day. An hour ago my husband and I went to collect our package that have arrived from Dubai. You know... those abayat... yes, the second purchase of 20 pieces of beautiful abayat have safely arrived at my house. FYI, I don't have a real shop yet, for the time being my goods will be arranged nicely in order at one corner of my bedroom. I'm sorry "books" because you would have to spare some space for the abayat now.

As you can guess, I just can't wait to unwrapped the package but I cooled down my eagerness and do the Subh prayer first with as much concentration as I can. I think I thanked Allah so much for making the journey of my package safe from Dubai-Kuala Lumpur-Bangi-Kota Bharu. InsyaAllah my customers who are waiting for their abayat (I think they planned to wear it for Eid) will received them by tomorrow. I shall post them today, got to fulfilled my promise to them. Keeping our promise is wajib.

I've unpacked or unwrapped the package and ... MashaAllah....I'm so so glad to say all of the abayat are made to satisfaction. Need to thank Nani for her efficient services and also her patience with me. Thank you very much Nani, they are gorgeous yet modest!

Upon looking at the clock, I have to leave the abayat at the side for a while and make coffee for dear husband. In this cold and rainy weather, drinking hot coffee and eating sweet hot food is very welcoming. However, I haven't cooked anything yet so just find two packets of Mochachips and gonna enjoy them with my husband.

Mmmm.... they are yummy!

Have you ever eat this cookies? Alhamdulillah there are plenty of Halal biscuits and cookies in Malaysia. Hopefully there are plenty at your place too. Whenever I ate something ready-made which was bought at the supermarket, deli or 24 hours store, I always thought about my sisters who are not so lucky and have difficult access to Halal food. Maybe in todays advance world, Halal products can easily be found in every countries.

I'm thankful for this blessings of Allah and I hope everyone in this world is entitled to clean, healthy food and better if it is Halal. While I'm enjoying this cookies, someone, somewhere is hungry and suffering from hunger. My heart goes to them and I pray to Allah for their rezki (I don't know how to translate this Arabic word to English) and really hope that their hunger will be appeased.

And starting from today I'm gonna quote the translation of an ayat from the Qur'an that I open randomly. Today's translation is from Surah Yunus, verse 24.

24. The likeness of the life on this world is as the water which We send down from the sky, causing all kinds of plants to grow which men and cattle eat; so much so that when the land puts on its golden raiment and is adorned, and its owners think that they are masters over it, there comes to it Our Command by night or by day, so We make it like a clean-mown harvest, as if it had not been there the day before. Thus do We explain the signs for people who reflect.

Bye for now. May Allah bestow upon us His love and blessings and keep our heart firmly on His Deen.
Wassalam.

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Maybe you haven't read this...

I find it interesting and I'd like to share it with you. If you can spare some time to read this, I'll be so happy. Wassalam.

Hugs: KakChik

Accepting Allah in Our Lives *
By Kamal Badr, Editor in Chief — IslamOnline.net

Allah's bounties on His creatures are countless.

This is the message of peace, the message of salvation. This is the message of liberation from being enslaved to mundane things that keep shackling souls with worries and sorrows.

This is a call from the One Who controls everything, calling you, humankind, to submit!

Submit your life to Him and be calm. Make your motto of life La ilaha illa Allah (There is no god but Allah).

By this motto, you testify to your incapacity as a creature provided with limited faculties. You testify that everything in the universe belongs to Him and whatever He wants will come to pass in the way and the time He wants. You testify to your being created by Him in the way He wants:

[He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He likes; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise.](Aal `Imran 3:6)

But despite His absolute power to do everything in anyway He likes, what we notice is that out of His infinite mercy He made everything perfect, created you and all what you see around you in the most beautiful way that we all behold:

[He has created the heavens and the earth in just proportions, and has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful: And to Him is the final Goal.](At-Taghabun 64:3)


[No want of proportion will you see in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious. So turn your vision again: See you any flaw? Again turn your vision a second time: (Your) vision will come back to you dull and discomfited, in a state worn out.](Al-Mulk 67:3-4)

Due to His mercy the abnormalities are subject to the law of rarity; that is, ever since the creation of Heaven and earth and the creation of Adam up to the present day, there is not any irregularity in the pattern of creation, and whatever few abnormalities that we see are also subject to His divine wisdom.

Despite all the constant recklessness of humankind, painful consequences never occur in a proportional measure, subhan Allah (glory be to Allah)! Compared to the high rate of speed-limit violations, how many accidents occur daily? Very few! Actually, His mercy exceeds His wrath.

[Whatever misfortune happens to you is because of the things your hands have wrought, and for many (of them) He grants forgiveness.](Ash-Shura 42:30)

Another point here is, your testifying to Allah's almighty power is an explicit recognition of your limit as a human being. By pronouncing the words "la ilaha illa Allah," you are actually surrendering your limited power to the mighty Lord of unlimited power; you submit your will to Him. This is Islam.

But this attestation can never be genuine if it is not accompanied by love, because faith without love is dead. If you do not love Him, you will not genuinely obey Him. This is different from relationships between mortals where hypocrisy can prevail, making it hard to distinguish between genuine and fake love.

But with Almighty Allah everything is transparent, so when we talk about this highest degree of love we talk about something that is not tainted with any hypocrisy or deceit. So the true and genuine Shahadah in Islam is the one coated with love: loving Allah, which of course is the sublime love. This love will automatically make it easier to show full obedience to His commands,

[Say: If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you and forgive you your faults](Aal `Imran 3:31).

Thus you will find yourself spontaneously pronouncing the phrase "Muhammad Rasul Allah" (Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) which is the second part of Shahadah in Islam.

Then bit by bit you will find yourself on a very smooth spiritual path whereby the relationship you have developed with Allah will direct light into your heart, melting away darkness. Thus the phrase "la ilaha illa Allah" will echo in all what you do, what you see, what you hear, etc.

That is, it will develop into a conviction in your innermost self, reassuring you that it is through His command and wishes that everything happens. Hence this conviction is iman (faith) reposing in your heart. Henceforth your manners will be in proportional compatibility with that faith. That means you have accepted Allah into your life.

* This article first appeared at Islamonline's Shari`ah section.

Kamal Badr holds a masters degree in international studies from Al-Azhar University. His dissertation was “Modes of Reparation: Comparative Study on International Law & Shari`ah.” He is currently the Editor in Chief of IslamOnline.net’s English Web site. You can reach him at kamal.badr@iolteam.com

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