Mangchik La

Insan ~ Hamza Namira

2012-01-20T22:42:00.003+08:00

إنسان

ياما نفسي أعيش انسان قلبه على كفه
Oh how I wish to live like a human being who carries his heart in his hand
كل اللي بردانين ف كفوفه يتدفوا
All those feeling cold would find warmth in the palms of his hands

يضحك يضحّك خلق الله
When he laughs all of God’s creation laughs
يفرح يفرّح كله معاه
When he’s happy he makes everyone else happy
إنسان جواك وجوايا

A human being inside you and me
إنسان له حلم له غاية
A human being who has a dream and an aim

اللي معاه على طول مش ليه
He’s always giving away everything he has
ولا حتى روحه ملك إيديه
And he doesn’t even own his own spirit
جواه في قلبه ونن عينيه
Inside his heart and in the depths of his eyes
شايل أمل وشروق وحياة
He carries hope, sunrise and life

إنسان بيحب ولا يكره
A human being who loves and never hates
إنسان شايل أمل بكره
A human being who has hope for a better tomorrow
بيبان في الشدة ويطمّن
He appears in the midst of hardship and reassures others
ولا خان ولا عمره هيخوّن
Never has he betrayed nor will he ever accuse anyone of treason

كلمات: حازم ويفي
لحن: حمزة نمرة

Something different..

2012-01-02T19:13:00.002+08:00

Staged at Dataran Shah Alam.. 31st Dec 2011

Resurgence - Intifada'

2012-01-02T12:39:00.000+08:00

Ustaz Azhar & Azizang... Countdown 2012

2012-01-02T11:07:00.004+08:00

Courtesy of Zakitudios with thanks..

Kenapa kata bodoh - Ustaz Azhar

2011-12-31T12:57:00.006+08:00

Credit to TH Filem (Original)

'Dan di antara manusia ada yang berkata: "Kami telah beriman kepada Allah dan kepada hari akhirat"; padahal mereka sebenarnya tidak beriman.
Mereka hendak memperdayakan Allah dan orang-orang yang beriman, padahal mereka hanya memperdaya dirinya sendiri, sedang mereka tidak menyedarinya.
Dalam hati mereka (golongan yang munafik itu) terdapat penyakit (syak dan hasad dengki), maka Allah tambahkan lagi penyakit itu kepada mereka; dan mereka pula akan beroleh azab seksa yang tidak terperi sakitnya, dengan sebab mereka berdusta (dan mendustakan kebenaran).
Dan apabila dikatakan kepada mereka: "Janganlah kamu membuat bencana dan kerosakan di muka bumi", mereka menjawab: " Sesungguhnya kami orang-orang yang hanya membuat kebaikan".
Ketahuilah! Bahawa sesungguhnya mereka itulah orang-orang yang sebenar-benarnya membuat bencana dan kerosakan, tetapi mereka tidak menyedarinya.
Dan apabila dikatakan kepada mereka: "Berimanlah kamu sebagaimana orang-orang itu telah beriman". Mereka menjawab: "Patutkah kami ini beriman sebagaimana berimannya orang-orang bodoh itu?" Ketahuilah! Sesungguhnya merekalah orang-orang yang bodoh, tetapi mereka tidak mengetahui (hakikat yang sebenarnya).
Dan apabila mereka bertemu dengan orang-orang yang beriman, mereka berkata: " Kami telah beriman ", dan manakala mereka kembali kepada syaitan-syaitan mereka, mereka berkata pula:" Sesungguhnya kami tetap bersama kamu, sebenarnya kami hanya memperolok-olok (akan orang-orang yang beriman)".

Al Baqarah ~ 8 - 14

'Hang ada amik pil kuda?'

2011-12-31T12:52:00.003+08:00

Credit to TH Filem (Original)

Rasulullah SAW bersabda :

'Solat yg berjemaah itu lebih baik daripada mendirikan solat secara bersendirian sebanyak dua puloh tujh (27) darjat iaitu ganjaran

(Riwayat Bukhari dan Muslim)

kelalaian TV - Ustaz Azhar

2011-12-31T12:44:00.001+08:00

Credit to TH Filem (Original)

Dari Abu Hurairah ra katanya: 'Nabi SAW bersabda yang maksudnya:

'Sesungguhnya agama (Islam) itu ringan. Sesiapa yang mempeberat-berakannya dia akan dikalahkan oleh agama. Oleh tiu kerjakanlah (agama itu) mengikut sepatutnya atau mendekatinya dengan yang sepatutnya dan gembiralah (keana akan beroleh pahala) serta beribadatlah (mohonlah akan pertolongan Allah) pada waktu pag, petang dan sebahgian malam.' '

(Bukhari)

Akhir zaman mereka dijulang - Ustaz Azhar

2011-12-31T12:38:00.002+08:00

Credit To TH Filem (Original)

Firman Allah swt :

'... Sesungguhnya solat itu mencegah dari perbuatan yangkeji dan mungkar.. ' Surah Al-Ankabut (Ayat 45)

ilmu duniawi diutamakan - Ustaz Azhar

2011-12-31T12:32:00.001+08:00

Credit to TH Filem (Original)

Diriwayat hadis dari Syadad bin Ausin ra, daripada Nabi SaW bersabda:

'Orang yang bijak, hanyalah orang yang lihat kekurangan diri, dan bersedia (atau menyediakan) amalan-amalan, untuk menolong dia, selepas die mati..'

Your ten questions with Tan Sri Ambrin Buang..

2011-12-31T11:53:00.002+08:00

Courtesy of The Star

The Tan Sri's Credentials...

The Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang answers your 10 questions.

1. How successful have you been in putting the much wrong, right in government agencies that flout financial regulations year after year? Or are you by any measure a failure here? Bulbir Singh, Seremban

The onus of putting right what is wrong is on the controlling officers the secretaries-general and the directors-general. My job is to raise awareness that there are certain things that need to be put right and we offer suggestions as to how to right the wrong.

2. The MACC deputy commissioner said that the purchase of two pairs of night vision binoculars which cost 10 times more than the market price was no element of corruption. What is your comment on this? Alan Choo, Jakarta

Apparently the deputy commissioner must have had good reasons not to have pressed charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act. What is needed then is for the Ministry to investigate as to whether there was willful negligence, by the officers concerned, which warrant disciplinary action since the Treasury Instruction requires proper market study on government purchases even if they are done through open tenders.

3. What is the significance of being transparent in the things we do, especially in the things we do for other people? In what sort of professions would integrity be most required? Bernard Gideon Lim, Penang

We are accountable to our stakeholders. Therefore our actions must be transparent to them. I think integrity must be present in all professions. Wherever we are, we must strive to become men or women of integrity, not just by staying away from acts of corruption but also by beingethical, honest, sincere and diligent in our work and we must be ready to face media and public scrutiny.

4. Speaking of ways to improve the system, how about placing a representative from the audit department in all tender boards of the various ministries and agencies to reduce incidences of wastage? Yeoh Cheow Tim, Subang Jaya

Auditors should not be directly involved in management or operational matters such as being part of any procurement decision-making. However, internal auditors in ministries should scrutinise procurement exercises in their organisation on a regular basis.

5. Do you think there could be a day when the Auditor-General's Department would find zero irregularities in the financial conduct of the government? Madeleine, Kajang

That is what we want but it is difficult to achieve. Irregularities will continue to occur as humans will make mistakes from time to time and sometimes these mistakes will cost the government and the public dearly. That is why control is so important and why the internal control mechanisms must function effectively. This is where leadership is is needed to nip problems in the bud arising from having people who lack competence, diligence or are corrupt in their work.

6. What is the most daunting thing about auditing the government? Tell us about the process. George Lam, Cheras

What is perhaps daunting is the difficulty sometimes in getting the relevant documents from our auditees during the auditing period. Some auditees do not keep their records properly. We base our findings on evidence adduced from departmental records and sometimes people dispute our findings. But we don't manufacture information as it is in fact given by our auditees. We take pains to verify the accuracy of the data given while the process of engagement with our auditees can last for as long as six months before a report is finalised.

7. How does your relationship with senior government officials influence your work? Does it compromise your position as the Auditor-General? Choon Beng, Subang Jaya

My job is not just to scrutinise the work of the administrators but also to advocate good governance and best practices in financial and project management. This is done not just through my recommendations in the AG's Report but also through high-level meetings with senior government officials. So, there is always positive engagement and mutual respect. I don't think my position is compromised through such relationships.

8. What do you find most satisfying about your job? Mohd Asri, PJ

It gives me great satisfaction every time I learn that things have improved after remedial actions have been taken on our audit findings. Every penjawat awam must strive for excellence and learn from past mistakes and shortcomings. I am also happy to be given space and time to air my views in the course of my work.

9. What do you think has been your contribution during your tenure as Auditor-General? Soilendra, via email

If any, it is the introduction of the Accountability Index (AI) that several other countries have shown interest in. The AI is an innovative instrument to ensure compliance with financial regulations. I am happy that the Government has adopted the AI as a Key Performance Index to evaluate financial management performance in the public service. I am also happy that our Akademi Audit Negara has obtained worldwide recognition as a centre of excellence for the training of public-sector auditors.

10. Financial mismanagement seems to be a yearly affair with the government. Why can't stricter penalties be imposed, since the present ones do not seem to do the job? Lindsay Lee, Mont Kiara

Actually, penalties are already there for criminal cases such as for bribery or negligence/dereliction of duty in causing losses to the government or tarnishing the good image of the public service. To me it is a matter of conviction in taking action against the wrongdoers. Some heads of department/agencies are reluctant to take action out of sympathy or simply to protect the “good image” of their organisation.

2011-12-11T12:11:00.000+08:00

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2011-11-11T23:25:00.001+08:00

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Malaysia very own 'Oxford wizard'

2011-11-11T23:13:00.004+08:00

Jayenjr · 6 hours ago

KJ, a couple of questions for you

Firstly, who appointed you to be spokesperson for NMLC? Did the management of NMCL appoint you? Why aren't the directors or Shahrizat answering the issues directly?

Secondly, you say, the condo was purchased to "reap some returns". Were this reasons minuted in the Board of Directors meeting? Could you please upload said minutes as evidence for taxpayers to appreciate?

And even if the Board did authorise it, could you give us the IRR (internal rate of return) of the condo purchase? What returns was NMLC looking for - capital gain or rental yield? Please give details if said rate of return has been achieved based on prevailing market conditions.

Thirdly, why wasn't the money returned to the government instead whilst waiting for production to take off? It seems to me that you deem buying a condo was the "best" option, but were other options explored?

If NMLC had returned said money to the government, maybe a few more students of ours would have obtained scholarships instead of hearing, "no allocation this year".

Fourthly, have you done project financing before? You are supposed to be from Oxford, and you even had a go at investment banking with ECM. Tell me, WHICH bank would lend to you a project facility, and later allow you to draw down and utilise or invest said funds for something that has got no connection whatsoever with that project (unless of course, NMLC meant to house them cows inside the condo?)

Do you know how that if the bank allows the borrower to do that, it would compromise on one of its core corporate governance criteria - if they were to close one eye and allow their borrower to use the credit facility for something other than its intended reason?

Tell me which bank does that in Malaysia?

Or is it only the Malaysian government that is so dumb to appreciate banking rules 101?

PS - KJ, if you're reading this, or if your trooper boys are, then may I suggest that you take us - the taxpayers and voters on - instead of Saifuddin Nasution or Rafizi Ramli.

We are your real assessors and evaluator. You don't have to tayang your belang to them.

Face us instead.

Takened from 'The Malaysian Insider' dated 11/11/11 ~ 'RM10m cattle condo was an investment, says Khairy'

Arwah Col Zakaria Saleh, Ex F5 Pilot

2011-06-26T08:29:00.001+08:00

No need la ...

2011-04-06T14:06:00.000+08:00

TIDAK PERLU LAFAZ- NABI ADALAH CONTOH -DR YUSUF AL-QARADAWI

by DrMAZA.com on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 2:01pm

Kata al-Syeikh Dr YUSUF AL-QARADAWI: "Niat ini adalah amalan hati semata. Bukan amalan lidah. Tidak diketahui daripada Nabi s.a.w., tidak juga dari para sahabah dan para tabi’in yang mengikut mereka dengan baik -yang merupakan salaf umat ini- sebarang lafaz bagi niat ibadat, seperti solat, puasa, mandi, berwuduk dan seumpamanya, apa yang kita lihat sebahagian manusia bersungguh-sungguh melakukannya, seperti mereka menyebut: Aku berniat mengangkat hadas kecil, atau besar, atau solat zohor, atau asar empat rakaat kerana Allah Yang Maha Besar, atau aku berniat puasa esok hari pada bulan ramadan dan sebagainya. Ini semua tidak dibawa (diajar) oleh sebarang ayat al-Quran atau Sunnah. Tiada faedah baginya, di mana seorang insan tidak akan berkata ketika hendak ke pasar: aku niat hendak ke pasar. Atau ketika dia hendak bermusafir: Aku niat bermusafir. Al-Zarkasyi dalam fatwa-fatwanya memetik perkataan al-Ghazali: “Urusan niat dalam ibadah itu, namun apa yang menyusahkan ialah disebabkan kejahilan dengan hakikat niat atau (disebabkan) was-was”. (http//: qaradawi.net)

Addinun Nasihah.... Nasihat dari sa orang ayah kepada anak ...Pt 2

2011-03-10T23:37:00.001+08:00

Hadith of the Day
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) having said: "By Him in Whose Hand is my life, if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin and seek forgiveness from Allah, and He would have pardoned them." [Sahih Muslim]

Addinun Nasihah.... Nasihat dari sa orang ayah kepada anak ...Pt 1

Kantoi...

2011-03-08T14:03:00.003+08:00

Dicedok dari malaysiakini

Nik Aziz mahu jumpa mufti Perak

Mac 8, 11 11:15am

Kongsi 91

Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat telah menghantar surat rasmi menyatakan hasrat mahu bertemu dengan mufti Perak, Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria.

Surat yang dihantar pagi tadi itu antara lain mahu mufti Perak itu menjelaskan kenyataannya sebelum ini yang mendakwa Nik Aziz yzng juga menteri besar Kelantan, pernah berkata 'undi PAS masuk syurga'.

Tulisan mufti itu disiarkan oleh akhbar Mingguan Malaysia 6 Mac lalu, iaitu hari pengundian bagi pilihan raya kecil dewan undangan negeri Kerdau dan Merlimau.

"Hari ini saya telah menghantar surat rasmi kepada sohibus samahah Tan Sri Harussani, mufti Perak memohon penjelasan di atas tulisan beliau di dalam Mingguan Malaysia 6 Mac 2011.

"Saya memohon supaya beliau menjelaskan bilakah saya menyatakan bahawa undi PAS masuk syurga," katanya melalui Facebook hari ini.

Kedua-dua tokoh itu sering bercanggah pendapat berhubung isu agama dan jika pertemuan yang dicadangkan itu menjadi kenyataan, ini adalah kali pertama berlaku mereka akan duduk semeja.

Beri respon

"Semoga beliau memberikan respon,"kata Nik Aziz lagi.

Semalam, Dewan Pemuda PAS Perak juga telah menghantar surat jemputan kepada Harussani berhubung perkara yang sama.

Mereka menawarkan diri untuk menjadi orang tengah bagi menjayakan pertemuan tersebut.

Menurut Pemuda PAS Perak, sudah tiba masanya untuk kedua-dua tokoh itu bersemuka dengan cara yang lebih terhormat dan beradab bagi menjernihkan keadaan dan menyelesaikan kemelut yang hanya merugikan umat Islam.

Mereka berpendapat, dengan menghormati ilmu Harussani, pihaknya merasakan kaedah itu adalah yang terbaik bagi menidakkan semua pandangan yang telah dikemukakan secara terbuka.

Pemuda PAS Perak juga sebelum ini antara yang tidak senang dengan beberapa pandangan mufti itu khususnya dalam isu ancak membabitkan Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir.

Between a rock and a hard place..

2011-02-24T16:07:00.003+08:00

For once , a 'Minister or his deputy is actually talking sense instead of talking thru his small orifice at the rear end. And as usual the 'public servant' is at the receiving end,which i am sure, acted on the behest of his political masters.... article below courtesy of Malaysiakini.

P'raya kampus: Timbalan menteri jumpa pelajar UPM

Abdul Rahim Sabri
Feb 24, 11
1:24pm

Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah hari ini mengadakan pertemuan berasingan dua kumpulan mahasiwa Universiti Putra Malaysia berhubung isu berbangkit dalam pilihan raya kampus di UPM Isnin lalu. Dua kumpulan mahasiswa tersebut ialah kumpulan Pro-Aspirasi UPM dan Persatuan Mahasiswa Islam UPM.

Dalam satu kenyataan, Saifuddin berkata, dalam kedua-dua pertemuan tersebut beliau menekankan bahawa pilihan raya kampus (PRK) seharusnya dijadikan medan terbaik memberikan pendidikan politik dan demokrasi kepada mahasiswa.

Menurutnya, pendidikan politik dan demokrasi seharusnya merintis ke arah amalan demokrasi yang lebih matang di negara ini.

"Dalam konteks PRK, Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi (KPT) berkecuali dan tidak memihak kepada mana-mana kumpulan mahasiswa atau mana-mana individu yang bertanding," tegasnya.

KPT juga, tambahnya, mahu PRK menjadi gelanggang politik yang sihat dan menyuburkan idealisme mahasiswa; dijalankan dengan, licin, telus dan adil; serta meningkatkan partisipasi mahasiswa dalam proses tersebut.

"Berhubung dengan isu di UPM, saya telah menghubungi Naib Canselor, Prof Dato' Ir. Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi pada pagi 23 Februari 2011, apabila dimaklumkan bahawa kemenangan sekumpulan mahasiswa dalam PRK (pada 22 Februari 2011) telah dibatalkan oleh pihak universiti atas alasan yang tidak munasabah.

"Saya ingin ulangi kenyataan saya sebelum ini, bahawa saya “tidak mengarahkan” Naib Canselor, sebaliknya “memberi pandangan” kepada pihak universiti tentang cara terbaik mengatasi isu tersebut.

"Pada saya, alasan membatalkan kemenangan sekumpulan mahasiswa itu tidak wajar kerana:

"Alasannya ialah kumpulan tersebut berkempen secara kumpulan. Saya anggap alasan ini tidak munasabah kerana umum tahu bahawa pihak yang membuat bantahan itu sendiri adalah sebuah kumpulan juga. Ini diakui sendiri oleh seorang daripadanya dalam perbincangannya dengan saya hari ini.

"Pembatalan itu dibuat tanpa memberi peluang pihak yang dibatalkan itu untuk membela diri.

"Jika berlaku pembatalan atas alasan yang tidak munasabah ini, saya bimbang kita akan dilabelkan sama seperti Burma yang tidak mengiktiraf kemenangan Parti Liga Demokrasi Kebangsaan pimpinan Aun San Su Kyi dalam pilihanraya pada 1990, atau AS, EU dan Israel yang tidak mengiktiraf kemenangan Hamas dalam pilihanraya Palestin pada 2006.

"Saya memuji kesediaan dan keterbukaan naib canselor UPM bertemu
dan mendengar aduan kelompok mahasiswa yang tidak berpuas hati dengan keputusan tersebut. Malah keterbukaan beliau telah berjaya menyelesaikan isu tersebut dengan baik," tegasnya.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, beliau kesal kerana terdapat juga sesuatu permintaan sekumpulan mahasiswa yang diinginkan daripada pegawai tertentu, tidak dilayan sehingga menyebabkan insiden yang tidak diingini berlaku.

"Saya bukan menyokong permintaan mahasiswa itu, saya cuma kesal ia tidak dilayan.

"Saya juga kesal dan tidak bersetuju dengan tindakan sekumpulan mahasiswa yang menyebabkan kerosakan harta benda awam.

"Pun begitu, saya percaya jika permintaan kumpulan tersebut dilayan, maka insiden tersebut mungkin tidak akan berlaku," tegasnya.

Semalam, pintu kaca bangunan pentadbiran UPM yang menempatkan pejabat Timbalan Naib Canselor Hal Ehwal Pelajar (HEP) Prof Dr Mohd Fauzi Ramlan, pecah selepas dirempuh sekumpulan mahasiswa pro-M.

Mereka dilaporkan bertindak demikian selepas Dr Mohd Fauzi enggan memberikan penjelasan mengapa kemenangan calon mereka dalam pilihan raya kampus itu kelmarin dibatalkan. Difahamkan mereka berkumpul di bangunan selama 19 jam - sejak jam 10 malam kelmarin.

Ia ekoran keputusan pentadbiran universiti menarik balik pembatalan kemenangan 11 calon pro-M selepas menolak tiga bantahan kerana "tidak berasas disebabkan di luar skop pemilihan Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP) UPM 2011 dan kesalahan teknikal".

TNC HEP kemudian memanggil beberapa wakil pelajar untuk berbincang dan beliau bersetuju untuk mengadakan perbincangan lanjutan dengannya mereka pagi ini.

Bagaimanapun, ia dibatalkan atas permintaan pro-M 'kerana susana masih panas'.

Sebaliknya, mereka mencadangkan pertemuan itu diadakan selepas solat Jumaat esok di Kolej Kediaman 13.

Menurutnya, cadangan tersebut telah dimaklumkan kepada pegawai TNC HEP dan telah dipersetujui.

Antara yang akan dibincangkan, katanya, adalah mengenai cadangan mereka berhubung penambahbaikan pilihan raya kampus.

Cucu Tok Kenali

2011-02-21T18:59:00.007+08:00

Harakahdaily , 21 Feb 2011

Harakahdaily: Apa yang menyebabkan saudara Bob terdorong untuk memilih dan menyertai PAS?

Bob Lokman: Sebab saya rasa ada masalah dengan sistem kehidupan. Saya nak mendidik anak saya dengan jalan Islam tetapi dia ada masalah dengan sistem persekolahan, sistem pergaulan, dan sistem masyarakat.

Bila saya di rumah suruh dia sembahyang, di luar ada kumpulan yang suruh dia buat benda lagha. Masa saya muda dulu saya tak sedar, dan itu berlaku pada anak saya sekarang, dan sekarang sara rasa tanggungjawab pada anak.

Tengok anak kita tidak menjadikan Allah nombor satu... dia duk ikut ‘rakyat didahulukan pencapaian diutamakan’, pada hal Allah nombor satu, takwa diutamakan tapi anak-kita tak tahu.

And 'Bob Lokman' continued ~ 'Saya serahkan rezeki saya bulat-bulat pada Allah, yang penting saya dapat selamatkan kehidupan anak saya di dunia dan saya tak masuk neraka," kata Bob Lokman.'

My sons & daughters , learn a thing or two from brutha 'Bob Lokman' and not 'Bob da Builder' here ... :D

The meaning of repentance - Bro Suhaib Webb

2011-02-20T21:06:00.004+08:00

Hubby : " u look good, I don wanna go fajr..",
Wifey : " u look good too yeah, but Brad Pitt was Kufr . Go ta da mosque , git some of them Nur and bring them back, coz that's what we are...'

Tarak cakap tarak buat - bo liau..,

2011-02-20T18:02:00.001+08:00

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Allah has forgiven my followers the evil thoughts that occur to their minds, as long as such thoughts are not put into action or uttered." And Qatada said, "If someone divorces his wife just in his mind, such an unuttered divorce has no effect. [Bukhari, Book 63, Number 194] -

The son returns.... 12th Feb 2011

2011-02-14T21:42:00.003+08:00

Kalah 'Nuh Hujan'

First confession and first impression of a parish priest

2011-02-14T16:39:00.001+08:00

Priest’s Retirement Dinner courtesy of 'Kosong cafe'

A Priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner.

However, since the politician was delayed, the Priest decided to say his own few words while they waited:

‘I got my first impression of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place The very first person who entered my confessional told me he had stolen a television set and, when questioned by the police, was able to lie his way out of it. He had stolen money from his parents, embezzled from his employer, had an affair with his boss's wife, taken illegal drugs and gave VD to his sister. I was appalled. But as the days went, on I learned that my people were not all like that and I had, indeed, come to a fine parish full of good and loving people’.

Just as the Priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies at being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and gave his talk:

‘I’ll never forget the first day our parish Priest arrived, said the politician’. ‘In fact, I had the honor of being the first person to go to him for confession...’

Ops Rumah Firaun - Apabila pahat berbunyi selepas rumah siap...

2011-02-14T09:43:00.003+08:00

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'Pelajar perempuan dan lelaki bebas bergaul tanpa batasan dan boleh duduk berdua-dua waktu malam tanpa ada kawalan atau penguatkuasaan, Pihak KMJ dan MBC mahu membuat taskirah tidak dibenarkan; Banyak pelajar pengajian Islam dari Universiti Al Azhar dan Tanta yang mahu menganjurkan kuliah agama dan tazkirah tetapi tidak dibenarkan atas alasan takut ada propaganda politik; Terlalu banyak pegawai yang berada dalam bilik operasi dan bermesyuarat setiap hari tetapi tidak tahu apa keputusan dan kesudahannya;'

Wael Ghonim...

2011-02-13T11:03:00.002+08:00

'I want to tell every mother and father that lost a son, I'm sorry it's not our fault (cries). I swear to God it's not our fault. It's the fault of everyone who held to power and clung to it!(cries). I want to leave.'

End of a journey...

2011-02-12T01:38:00.003+08:00

Who's afraid of the Muslim Brothers?

2011-02-09T22:08:00.002+08:00

"Islamism" has been sending jitters through Western political corridors over recent years readily aided and abetted by Arab autocrats who have exaggerated and harnessed the "Islamist" threat to prolong their iron-fisted rule.

In the case of Egypt, the biggest bogeyman in this long-running battle over political supremacy with the state is the Muslim Brotherhood (the Ikhwan al-Muslimun) whose influence extends across the Arab and Islamic world.

With the Middle East and North Africa currently convulsed by popular uprisings against political repression, the Muslim Brotherhood has been thrust into the limelight, not only by those seeking a better insight into the origins and goals of the movement as they try to peer into Egypt's future, but also by those whose entire raison d'etre consists of demonising the Ikhwan for ulterior political ends.

"I'm fed up" of ruling Egypt, complained Hosni Mubarak to an American news channel on February 4 as protests against his 30-year presidency accelerated. "But if I resign now, there will be chaos. And I'm afraid the Muslim Brotherhood will take over," he warned.

In a couple of short sentences, Mubarak wonderfully encapsulated the fear that his regime has generated over three decades in order to maintain control. With little concern for the sentiments of his people, Mubarak played directly to the fears of his Western backers: Either support my despotism, whatever its limitations, he was saying, or face having to deal with the "Islamists".

While leaders in the US and the EU stutter over how to respond to the new realities in the region, unfortunately for Mubarak, the people of Egypt are refusing to buy into his fear-mongering. The Muslim Brotherhood - whether Mubarak's regime and his backers like it or not - is part and parcel of Egyptian society.

The Ikhwan is the "father" of Islamic political activism, tracing its roots back to 1928 when it emerged as a movement advocating a return to Islamic morals. Its early political activism was against British rule in Egypt when it opposed the Westernisation of the country. While its formative years were devoted to overcoming imperialism, its history has been marked by challenges to the political status quo and, thus, to fending off state repression. The Muslim Brotherhood has alternately been tolerated, outlawed, its leaders assassinated and/or executed.

Despite the suppression, its popularity has grown owing mainly to a network of medical, legal, social and charitable services that it continues to provide. Where the state has failed Egyptians, the Ikhwan has helped prop up peoples' lives.

Such is its influence that it has spawned offshoots in Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya and Somalia in Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel in the Levant, across the Gulf States and further afield in places such as Pakistan. Misconceptions in the West about the movement do not detract from the Brotherhood's popular following in Egypt and beyond.

Milestones to where?

One of the most seminal works to emanate from the ranks of the Ikhwan, one which led the Egyptian regime at the time to clamp down massively against the movement, was Milestones, written by a powerful Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, in 1964.

The publication of Qutb's book, which called for the reinstatement of Sharia as the basis of Egyptian law and for the overthrow of what he labelled the "Jahili" (i.e. pre-Islamic) system prevalent in the country, led to his execution.

That Milestones is today considered the principal reference book for a myriad of armed Islamic groups across the world is testament to its influence. The book was used to discredit the entire Muslim Brotherhood with accusations that it advocated the violent overthrow of secular regimes. Anti-Ikhwan proponents felt little need to explain the circumstances under which Qutb penned his treatise: The fact that he was utterly disillusioned with the prevailing system after being subjected to years of solitary confinement and torture for his political beliefs made little difference to his opponents who sought to characterise his rejectionism as representative of Islamic political movements in their entirety.

Despite proclaiming to be a bottom-up "reformist" movement and eschewing violence, the charge of extremism has subsequently hung over the Brotherhood. Given the historical antipathy of the Ikhwan to the West, furthermore, Western governments have easily bought into the Egyptian regime's claims that the movement is a threat to their way of life. The old fears of, and tricks against, the Ikhwan are once again being employed as the most organised challenger to Mubarak's despotism joins (not leads) protesters in calling for his removal.

Although depicted as a regressive movement, the Brotherhood's membership is anything but unenlightened. The top tier of the movement is made up of doctors, lawyers, engineers and teachers, or the crème de la crème of the Egyptian middle class. The Ikhwan's social activism is derived from its members' ability to live and breathe the problems that average Egyptians face.

It is essentially a grassroots movement campaigning for the betterment of Egyptian society. That the movement gained an impressive 88 seats in the 2005 parliamentary election, or 20 per cent of the total, despite widespread electoral fraud (in 2010 it lost all its seats after Mubarak's National Democratic Party massively rigged the election once more, this time leaving nothing to chance) speaks volumes about its popularity.

Even in districts that are predominantly Christian, many voters opted to back the Ikhwan against the regime. Christian protesters are as resolute against Mubarak's dictatorship as their Muslim counterparts and many have expressed little worry about the Muslim Brotherhood despite the fear perpetuated by the regime.

In talks with senior US officials in 2006, the newly-appointed Egyptian vice-president, Omar Suleiman, termed the Ikhwan's parliamentary success in 2005 "unfortunate". Private US cables released by Wikileaks (from where the previous quote was taken) reveal starkly the obstacles that the Brotherhood has faced under Mubarak.

Opponents of the movement will continue to stoke fears about its apparent "clandestine" motives. The cry of "one man, one vote, one time" will be heard loudly and relentlessly from those seeking to deny the Brotherhood a role in Egypt's political future. This is one scare tactic, however, that the people of Egypt will not fall for. Political Islam is a force with strong roots in the country and in the wider Islamic world and will continue to remain so.

Algeria set a precedent in the early 1990s of the levels to which opponents of Islamic movements will sink to deny them a political role. A brutal civil war was the cost of voting for the Islamic Salvation Front back then. The people of Palestine are similarly being ostracised by the "international community" for voting in Hamas, an offshoot of the Ikhwan.

However, the people of Egypt, and only the people of Egypt, will decide what part the Muslim Brotherhood will play in Egypt's future development.

What will its detractors do in response? Scream, shout, curse and maybe try to prevent such an eventuality, if recent history is any guide.

Mohammed Khan is a political analyst based in the UAE.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Source:

Al Jazeera

"#Jan25"

2011-02-09T21:18:00.004+08:00

'I heard them say the revolution won’t be televised. Al Jazeera proved them wrong, Twitter has them paralysed' ~

Omar Offendum, The Narcicyst, Freeway, Ayah, Amir Sulaiman - #Jan25 (Produced by Sami Matar)

Thrilla's gone .. The demise of Gary Moore, 6th Feb 2011

2011-02-07T09:06:00.002+08:00

'Mubarak “is like Dracula..'

2011-02-04T14:33:00.003+08:00

Muslim Brotherhood strategist calls for Mubarak trial

'He must be held to account,' longtime official of Islamic group's tells NBC

By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent

NBC News

updated 2/3/2011 7:35:29 PM ET

A longtime strategist for the Muslim Brotherhood said Thursday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his senior associates must be put on trial and held to account for their “crimes” against the Egyptian people.

Mubarak “is like Dracula,” said Youssef Nada, an Egyptian-born banker who served for decades as the Muslim Brotherhood’s de facto “foreign minister” and remains an influential adviser. “He is a ruthless dictator who betrayed his people and killed a lot of people. He must be tried for what he did and held to account.”

Nada’s comments, made in a telephone interview from his home in a tiny Italian enclave in the Swiss Alps, appear to signal a more aggressive -- and potentially dangerous -- stance by the Islamic group on Egypt’s political crisis. Just moments before he spoke to NBC News, the Muslim Brotherhood, which had largely remained quiet during the first few days of demonstrations last week, released a formal statement demanding that Mubarak immediately step down. “We demand that this regime is overthrown and we demand the formation of a national unity government for all the factions,” it said.

Although the 80-year-old Nada no longer holds a formal position with the Muslim Brotherhood, he told NBC News that he is in “continuous touch” with its leaders in Cairo and advised them on the statement calling for Mubarak’s ouster. Asked if his call for criminal trials of Mubarak and other leaders of his regime is shared by the group’s leadership, Nada replied: “Yes, in general, it is their opinion.”

Among those who should be tried, he said, is Mubarak’s new vice president, Omar Suleiman, the longtime chief of Egypt’s security service. In addition to his role in the suppression of Egyptian democracy, Nada said, Suleiman was responsible for the “torture of people the CIA sent to him,” referring to the security chief’s role as liaison with the agency during its “extraordinary rendition” program, which brought dozens of terrorist detainees to Egypt for harsh interrogations.

As Egypt’s largest political opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals and motives have been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate among U.S. officials. An Islamist movement founded in 1928, the organization remains formally committed to the imposition of Islamic law and refuses to recognize the validity of Egypt’s treaty with Israel. But in recent years, it also has renounced violence and some U.S. officials have argued that its leaders should be brought into a political dialogue.

Nada’s role in the organization goes back decades. He was first imprisoned for his involvement in Muslim Brotherhood activities in the early 1950s and, after leaving Egypt in the late 1970s, served for years as the group’s official foreign envoy. In 2007, he was tried and convicted by an Egyptian court in absentia for allegedly financing its activities.

Accused al-Qaida financier
Nada was also accused by the Bush administration in 2001 of using an international financial institution he once ran -- the Al Taqwa Bank -- to finance the al-Qaida terror network. The worldwide assets of the bank were frozen at the U.S. government’s request in 2002.

Nada has consistently denied the charges. He claimed vindication two years ago when the United Nations formally removed him from a list of individuals allegedly tied to al-Qaida. Previously, Swiss prosecutors had dropped their own investigation of Nada, claiming that the U.S. government had refused to turn over its evidence against him. (U.S. officials have said they were unable to do so because most of its evidence was classified. Although his bank has long since been shut down, Nada remains on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of terrorist financiers.)

Throughout this period, Nada has remained a key figure in Brotherhood circles, serving as the group’s spokesman to select journalists and attempting to shape the group’s international image. In his interview with NBC, Nada insisted that the Muslim Brotherhood is misunderstood and the American people have no reason to fear it.

He said the group does not want political power, but would push to align Egyptian society with Islamic principles, he said. Asked about Egypt’s treaty with Israel, which some fear a Muslim Brotherhood dominated government would renounce, Nada replied: “The treaty must be rewritten—to be fair to everyone.”

But while insisting that the group has no intention of instigating violence, Nada left little doubt that there would be plenty of violence if Mubarak does not heed the calls for his resignation. If the president doesn’t leave soon, he said, “It will be a disaster.”

:D , Melayu mudah luper..

2011-02-03T12:40:00.000+08:00

Jawapan saya untuk Tun Mahathir — Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat
February 03, 2011

3 FEB — Saya gembira apabila Tun Dr Mahathir memberikan ulasan berkenaan pandangan saya tentang nasionalisme. Bagi saya, ini membuktikan kesediaan beliau untuk mendengar pandangan dan berhujah. Ia baik untuk percambahan minda masyarakat agar masyarakat segar dengan hujah dan tidak bergantung kepada seringgit dua habuan menjelang pilihanraya semata-mata.

Jawapan saya ini bukan hanya untuk Tun Dr Mahathir sahaja, tetapi juga merupakan jawapan yang saya cadangkan untuk dijawab pada hari di mana saya, Tun Mahathir dan manusia keseluruhannya berdiri di hadapan Allah SWT satu masa nanti. Ini kerana saya beriman dengan hakikat bahawa setiap apa yang dipertuturkan di dunia ini akan diadili di akhirat nanti. Setiap kenyataan yang keluar melalui televisyen, akhbar bahkan blog sekalipun direkod oleh malaikat-malaikat yang ditugaskan oleh Allah SWT untuk dibentangkan di hari yang kita tidak lagi mempunyai kuasa ke atasnya.

Firman Allah SWT:

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم

بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Yang bermaksud : Pada hari (ketika), lidah, tangan dan kaki mereka menjadi saksi atas mereka terhadap apa yang dahulu mereka kerjakan. — Surah al-Nur, ayat 24

Hakikatnya saya sebenarnya diajak untuk menari dengan irama yang gendangnya dipalu oleh Umno. Saya diajak untuk turut sama mengutuk Lee Kuan Yew seperti pimpinan Umno. Padahal, apa yang berlaku di seberang sini jauh lebih dahsyat daripada apa yang dilakukan oleh Lee Kuan Yew.

Pertama saya ingin nyatakan kepada Tun Mahathir bahawa asas Islam tidak sama dengan nasionalisme. Di dalam ajaran nasionalisme, tidak pernah dinyatakan apakah tujuan hidup ini. Tidak pernah saya terdengar sepatah kata dari pimpinan Umno yang menghuraikan berkenaan tujuan hidup seorang manusia di muka bumi. Jikapun ada, hanya sebaris dua dari menteri yang dimanahkan menjaga hal ehwal agama. Adapun pemimpin utama Umno, tujuan hidup ini seolah-olah tidak menjadi agenda penting sehingga tidak pernah sedikitpun terkeluar isu ini dari bibir mereka.

Islam meletakkan bahawa tujuan hidup untuk mengabdikan diri kepada Allah SWT. Justeru, manusia dihidupkan untuk diuji oleh Allah SWT siapakah di kalangan mereka yang terbaik amalannya. Firman Allah SWT:

الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ

أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ

Yang bermaksud : Dia lah yang telah mentakdirkan adanya mati dan hidup (kamu) — untuk menguji dan menzahirkan keadaan kamu: siapakah di antara kamu yang lebih baik amal dan aktivitinya ; dan Ia Maha Kuasa (membalas amal kamu), lagi Maha Pengampun, (bagi orang-orang yang bertaubat) (Surah al-Mulk, ayat 2)

Apabila tujuan hidup untuk mengabdi kepada Allah SWT, dan hidup sendiri merupakan ujian untuk menguji siapakah yang beramal soleh, justeru manusia perlu bersyahadah dengan maksud sanggup menjadi saksi untuk menyatakan ketuhanan Allah SWT dan kenabian Nabi Muhammad SAW. Jika syahadah manusia pada lafaznya, maka syahadahnya pertubuhan ialah pada dasarnya. Ingin saya bertanya kepada Tun Mahathir, apakah dasar perjuangan Umno? Di celah manakah Umno meletakkan Islam setelah dasar kebangsaan dijadikan sebagai dasar perjuangannya? Dari sudut praktikalnya, adakah perjuangan Umno merupakan satu amal soleh? Adakah pada saat Umno yang menjadi tulang belakang kerajaan mengeluarkan lesen judi itu merupakan amal soleh? Adakah pada saat Umno menghapuskan tulisan Jawi pada tahun 1968 sehingga melahirkan generasi yang buta al-Quran itu merupakan amal soleh? Adakah pada waktu Tun Mahathir menarik balik peruntukan perkapita untuk sekolah agama rakyat itu merupakan amalan soleh?

Kedua, Tun Mahathir melabelkan saya dan PAS sendiri sebagai punca pecah belah orang Melayu. Barangkali kerana sayalah yang menyebabkan parti Umno diharamkan pada tahun 1987 yang membawa kepada penubuhan Semangat 46. Barangkali sayalah juga penyebabnya sehingga terpecat Timbalan Presiden Umno pada tahun 1999 yang membawa kepada penubuhan parti Keadilan dan kini dikenali sebagai Parti Keadilan Rakyat. Saya bimbang, Tun Mahathir sudah dijangkiti penyakit Melayu Mudah Lupa yang pernah disebutnya satu ketika dahulu.

Suka saya jelaskan. Islam meletakkan bahawa pecah belah ialah satu perkara yang pasti berlaku di kalangan masyarakat manusia. Allah SWT berfirman:

وَقُلْنَا اهْبِطُوا بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ وَلَكُمْ فِي الأَرْضِ

مُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ إِلَى حِينٍ

Yang bermaksud: “..dan Kami berfirman: "Turunlah kamu! Sebahagian dari kamu menjadi musuh kepada sebahagian yang lain dan bagi kamu semua disediakan tempat kediaman di bumi, serta mendapat kesenangan hingga ke suatu masa (mati)". — (Surah al-Baqarah, ayat 36)

Perpecahan telah digazetkan oleh Allah SWT di dalam al-Quran lama sebelum PAS ditubuhkan lagi. Ia berlaku apabila ada yang memilih hidayah dan ada yang menolaknya. Nabi Muhammad SAW datang membawa hidayah daripada Allah SWT dan ditolak oleh kaum yang sebangsa dengannya. Utbah bin Rabiah yang mewakili gerakan nasionalis Quraisy pada zamannya, bangkit dengan tegar melabelkan bahawa Nabi Muhammad SAW sebagai pemecah belah dengan kata-katanya:

فرقت به جماعتهم!

Yang bermaksud: Dengan agama yang kamu bawa, kamu telah memecahbelahkan kesatuan mereka!

Adakah benar baginda merupakan pemecah belah? Tentu sekali tidak, tetapi itulah natijahnya apabila membawa kebenaran seperti yang dilakukan oleh Rasulullah SAW.

Dari zahirnya kelihatan Tun Mahathir sebagai seorang yang sangat cintakan perpaduan Melayu. Sedarkah Tun Mahathir bahawa Umnolah selama ini yang menzalimi orang-orang Melayu? Pada tahun 1961, siapakah yang menculik ADUN-ADUN PAS di Terengganu yang menyebabkan akhirnya kerajaan PAS pimpinan Allahyarham Daud Samad digulingkan dari pintu belakang? Di Kelantan, mereka juga menculik lima wakil rakyat PAS dengan tujuan menggulingkan kerajaan yang dipimpinan oleh Allahyarham Dato Asri Muda namun usaha mereka gagal. Ini boleh disahkan oleh bekas wakil rakyat Tanah Merah Timur yang masih hidup sekarang ini, Che Omar Mohamad yang turut menjadi mangsa. Siapakah yang bertanggungjawab melakukan perbuatan tidak demokratik ini kalau bukan Umno? Episod-episod kezaliman ini masih segar di ingatan pejuang-pejuang PAS. Bukan untuk menyemarak api permusuhan lama jauh sekali menyimpan dendam, tetapi sekadar untuk memperkukuhkan fakta sejarah buat generasi muda yang saya bimbang terbuai dengan dodoi Ketuanan Melayu yang ditaja oleh Umno.

Di zaman Tun Mahathir, siapakah yang bertanggungjawab melakukan persempadanan pilihanraya pada tahun 2003 yang menafikan pertambahan kerusi parlimen dari negeri yang majoritinya orang Melayu kalau bukan Umno di zaman Tun Mahathir? Siapakah yang bertanggungjawab mengarahkan pembunuhan beramai-ramai Ibrahim Libya di Memali bersama pengikut-pengikutnya yang kesemuanya terdiri daripada orang Melayu tanpa sebarang sebab yang munasabah kalau bukan Umno di zaman Tun Mahathir? Siapakah yang memperkenalkan pengajian Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris yang kemudiannya ditolak sendiri oleh Umno kalau bukan Tun Mahathir?

Hari ini, Umno masih lagi menjuarai amalan tidak demokratik. Di Perak, mereka gulingkan kerajaan dari pintu belakang. Di Selangor, mereka melantik Setiausaha Kerajaan tanpa sedikitpun perbincangan dengan Menteri Besar. Peliknya, juara Ketuanan Melayu inilah pula yang menentang usul mengembalikan kuasa Sultan di Selangor. Tidak malukah mereka kepada DAP yang mereka dakwa sebagai parti cauvinis Cina? Di Kelantan, mereka nafikan royalti minyak serta menubuhkan Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan (JPP). Jika begini, demokrasi pun tidak, federalism pun tidak, Islam jauh sekali!

Apa yang lebih penting, Islam tidak akan sempurna tanpa iman. Al-Quran sering menyebut Wahai orang-orang yang beriman tetapi al-Quran tidak menyebut Wahai orang-orang Islam. Ini kerana seorang yang mengerjakan rukun Islam sahaja belum layak dipanggil orang yang beriman jika hatinya tidak beriman dengan yakin kepada Allah SWT.

Jika Tun Mahathir berkata bukti Umno berjasa kepada Islam dengan membina masjid, maka Abdullah bin Ubay di zaman Rasulullah SAW lebih dahulu membina masjid yang dikenali sebagai Masjid Dhirar. Jika Tun Mahathir menyatakan bahawa Umno berjasa kepada Islam dengan membina sekolah agama, maka di Thailand juga wujud sekolah-sekolah agama. Bahkan jika Tun Mahathir berkata bahawa jasa Umno ialah arak tidak dihidangkan di majlis rasmi kerajaan, maka apakah bezanya jika arak tetap diberikan lesen secara besar-besaran dan judi pula terus dinikmati sekalipun bertentangan dengan nilai-nilai Islam dan kemanusiaan. Pertanyaan saya pula kepada Tun Mahathir, sebutkan apakah yang saya lakukan di Kelantan yang bertentangan dengan Islam. Jika tidak ada, maka untuk apa kami dilawan?

Akhir kata, saya akui Tun Mahathir seorang yang bijak, dan alangkah baiknya kebijaksanaannya digunakan untuk Islam. Nasihat saya kepada Tun Mahathir, sebelum terlambat marilah sama-sama berfikir untuk menempuhi hari pengadilan yang dijanjikan oleh Allah SWT. Jika saya ditanya adakah saya telah mengajak Tun Mahathir dan rakan-rakan sealiran dengannya agar meninggalkan aliran nasionalis sekular dan menerima Islam yang syumul, saya Insya-Allah akan menjawab: اللهم قد بلغت (Ya Allah, aku telah menyampaikan.)

* Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat adalah Mentri Besar Kelantan dan Murshidul Am PAS.

Game Over Najib,oooops!, err.. I mean , 'Mubarak'!

2011-01-31T04:47:00.002+08:00

All things 'Pincuk', 'Sorok' & 'Kawin'

2011-01-24T10:09:00.004+08:00

Kinda bored yesterday mornin' so made my way to mak's house. I was sitting n staring at my laptop when mak came and plonked herself next to me. She started to reminisce on the good old days , specifically the absurdities of folks celebrating a wedding. The one she's referring to was that of her eldest bro whom we called 'Pak Long', Arwah. this was in the mid fifties. 'Org dulu dulu pelik pelik. Bersanding p.long tuh dia buat jam 12 malam. Loudspeaker tu diorang pasang kat atas pokok tinggi pastu pasang kuat kuat. Depa ajak org datang kenduri tu pakai mulut ja, tak pakai kad - 'mai la datang kenduri kawin.' Pehtu , sebelum kenduri kawin esok pagi , depa siap nasi utk makan depa pangge nasi 'sorok'. Nasi 'sorok' ni makan dgn 'pincuk'. 'Pincuk' , ingat ingat lupa lak, tak silap buat daripada pisang muda, ngan jantung depa gaul dengan ayer asam jawa pekat , boh gula sikit, belacan , garam, pehtu makan ngan nasi. Abi la depa pi kait jantung pisang kat umah org. Depa mintak izin dulu la kottt....'

hmmm I 'google' on 'pincuk' n found the recipe as follows:

RESIPI PINCUK
Bahan-bahan:
1 - 2 mangkuk buah-buahan muda (buah cerami, kundang, mangga muda pisang muda etc)
1 - 2 genggam cili kering
1 - 2 genggam cili padi
segenggam udang kering
1 - 2 ulas bawang merah
belacan & garam secukup rasa
1/4 - 1/2 cawan kecil air asam jawa pekat - di masak hingga didih
secubit gula (putih atau merah)
Cara-cara:

Bersihkan buah muda pilihan. Rendam dengan air garam sekurang-kurang untuk 10 minit. Tuskan kering. Jika buah mangga dan seumpamanya, potong anggaran 1 inci.
Rendam cili dan udang kering 5 - 10 minit secara berasingan. Tuskan.
Buang tangkai cili padi dan bersihkan.
Kupas bawang merah dan bersihkan.
Goreng semua bahan-bahan di atas tanpa minyak hingga kering dan naik bau.
Tumbuk cili-cili, udang kering, belacan dan sedikit garam hingga 3/4 lumat.
Campurkan air asam jawa, sedikit garam lagi dan gula. Goles rata beberapa kali. Sesuaikan rasanya.
Masukkan buah muda pilihan dan ditumbuk-tumbuk biar pecah-pecah sedikit.
Gaul rata. Siap untuk dimakan. Waduhhh, enaknya! :) Bagi mereka yang suka le ... Hehe.

** Ada juga orang suka makan pincuk jantung pisang. Jika nak cuba bolehlah. Rebus jantung pisang hingga masak. Potong anggaran 1 inci. Ikut resipi seperti di atas juga, cuma gantikan dengan jantung pisang la.

Looks more like 'Pecal' to me. End of another boring day.. :D

Israel's Lackey or in Malay , 'Barua Israel' .. It doesn't require a genious to figure out who or what the 'barua' is referring to...

2011-01-24T10:05:00.003+08:00

Palestinians offered major Jerusalem concessions
January 24, 2011

JERUSALEM, Jan 24 — Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep vast swathes of occupied East Jerusalem, according to leaked documents that show Palestinians offering much bigger concessions than previously revealed.

The documents, obtained by the Al Jazeera television channel, could undermine the position of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose public declarations about Jerusalem are at odds with what his officials were promising in private.

Equally sobering for the Palestinian people, who want to create a state on land Israel seized in a 1967 war, is the fact that Israel offered nothing in return for the concessions and turned down the offer, saying it did not go far enough.

The leaked minutes of a 2008 meeting between Palestinian, US and Israeli officials showed a senior Palestinian proposing that Israel annex all but one of its major Jerusalem settlements as part of a broad deal to end their decades-old conflict.

Al Jazeera said it had other documents that it would shortly published showing the Palestinians were also ready to make other massive concessions on the hugely sensitive issue of the right to return for Palestinian refugees.

“This exposes the Palestinian leadership, putting it in a position where it will be impossible to win the confidence of the people,” Zakaria al-Qaq, Palestinian commentator.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed the documents as “a bunch of lies” during an appearance on Al Jazeera shortly after the documents were released.

In a heated exchange on Al Jazeera, Erekat was confronted by critics including Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al -Quds al-Arabi newspaper, who asked him who had authorised him or the Palestinian leadership “to give up Islamic holy sites”.

HISTORIC OFFER

Ahmed Qurie, the lead Palestinian negotiator in 2008, proposed that Israel annex all Jewish settlements in Jerusalem except Har Homa. He also said Israel could keep control of a part of the Old City of Jerusalem.

“This is the first time in history that we make such a proposition,” the document quoted Ahmed Qurie as saying.

He added that the Palestinians had refused to make such a concession during negotiations led by the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 2000.

Israel has always said it would keep the main settlement blocs around Jerusalem, but the Palestinian leadership has adopted a tougher stance in its public declarations, never letting on it was ready to make such ground.

Abbas said as recently as last week the fate of Jerusalem was not up for discussion. “From our perspective, there are no negotiations over Jerusalem. Jerusalem is ours,” he said.

However, he has also made clear that West Jerusalem was Israeli and could be the capital of the Jewish State.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in a 1967 war, annexing the walled Old City and a belt of surrounding West Bank land shortly after the conflict in a move that has never won international recognition. Both sides want Jerusalem as their capital.

The 2008 transcript was one of some 1,600 documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that the Qatar-based channel said it had obtained from a variety of sources. Britain’s Guardian newspaper had early access to the documents and said it had verified most of them.

The peace talks are at a standstill due to a dispute over Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, with the Palestinians refusing to return to the negotiating table until Israel halts the building programmes.

The 2008 meeting was part of talks held at the time between the Palestinians and the Israeli government of the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert. They came to an end when Olmert was forced from office over corruption allegations in 2009.

Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has traditionally taken a much tough stance than his predecessor. — Reuters

Cerita Adzan

2011-01-14T18:30:00.002+08:00

Dari Facebook Dr Maza

KRITIKAN AL-IMAM IBN AL-JAUZI TENTANG BACAAN DI MENARA MASJID

by DrMAZA.com on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 2:42pm

Al-Imam al-Hafizd Ibn Jauzi (meninggal 597H) pernah berkata:“Antara tipu daya Iblis ialah mereka yang mencampur adukkan azan dengan peringatan, tasbih dan nasihat. Mereka jadikan azan di antaranya lalu bercampur aduk. Para ulama membenci segala yang ditambah kepada azan. Banyak kita lihat orang yang bangun waktu malam lalu memberikan peringatan dan nasihat atas menara azan. Di kalangan mereka ada yang membaca al-Quran dengan suara yang tinggi lalu menghalang tidur orang ramai dan mengganggu bacaan orang yang bertahajjud. Kesemuanya itu adalah perkara-perkara munkar”. ( Ibn Jauzi, Talbis Iblis, 159, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah).

Dari segi Adab dah tak betoi, pi ikut watper..

2010-12-27T13:53:00.003+08:00

Pakai Seluar Londeh DiDenda USD200 Di Giorgia, US

Orang yang memakai seluar londeh dan menampakkan seluar dalamnya atau bahagian bawah pinggang disama tarafkan dengan mereka yang beraksi tidak senonoh seperti mastubarsi, kencing di tempat awam atau mencabul. Begitulah rumusannya apabila peraturan ini dikuat kuasakan di Dublin - Giorgia, Riviera Beach - Florida dan Flint - Michigan, Amerika Syarikat. Lagi sini

BBQ - Bersama Bina Qudwah ,Dar An Nahl

2010-12-07T16:57:00.003+08:00

'Ali at minute 1:06

Alang main bola di Tanta

2010-12-04T18:34:00.002+08:00

2010-12-04T11:03:00.003+08:00

Maka barang siapa yg berat timbangan amal baiknya, maka mereka itu org2 yg berjaya.

Al Mukminun , 102

'Eee che Dah, berjaya awak ye, anak2 engineer, lectutrer cucu pon nak jadi doktor, dentist la ek..' dan yg sering di ungkapkan org dan kita apabila anak2 berjaya mendapat segulung tauliah ~ 'Tahniah!!!' Semoga Anak2 kita membesar menjadi anak2 yg soleh yg memlihara akan agama mereka , ameen

Ustaz Emran

2010-12-03T11:03:00.001+08:00

Jangan lah kamu berputus asa dari Rahmat ALLAH...

2010-11-28T22:46:00.003+08:00

" Katakan lah: Hai hamba-hamba ku yang banyak berbuat dosa, jangan lah kamu berputus asa dari Rahmat ALLAH. Sesungguhnys ALLAH mengampuni dosa semuanya apabila kamu bertaubat. Sesungguhnys ALLAH amat Pengasih lagi amat Penyanyang"

Surah Az Zumar Ayat 53

Berkawan kerana Allah

2010-11-23T23:18:00.004+08:00

Dari Nasbun Nurani

Posted on April 21, 2008 by sulaiman

Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda: “Orang yang menyayangi satu sama lain semata-mata kerana Allah akan berada di atas kursi yang diperbuat dari yaqut (delima) di keliling arasy”

Orang Islam kena sayang antara satu sama lain. Menyayangi satu sama lain semata-mata kerana Allah ialah berkawan tanpa kepentingan peribadi (untuk mendapatkan sesuatu) atau kerana nafsu (contohnya sama-sama meminati perkara yang tidak baik seperti judi).

Rasululah saw yang bermaksud: “ Seseorang itu adalah mengikut agama temannya, oleh itu hendaklah seseorang itu meneliti siapa yang menjadi temannya” (H.R Abu Daud). Bak kata pepatah Arab, “ Bersahabat dengan penjual minyak wangi, kita akan menerima percikan wangiannya, manakala bersahabat dengan tukang besi, percikan apinya akan mencarikkan baju kita.”

Tuhan menghargai persahabatan yang tulus ikhlas kerananya dengan memberi tempat ‘special’ di akhirat iaitu di atas kursi yang diperbuat dari delima di keliling arasy. Arasy itu lebih tinggi dari syurga, ia seolah-olah bumbung syurga (tetapi bukan). Para malaikat juga beredar di sekeliling Arasy:-

Az-Zumar [75] Dan (pada hari itu) engkau akan melihat malaikat beredar di sekeliling Arasy dengan bertasbih memuji Tuhan mereka,

Addinun Nasihah....

2010-11-23T00:53:00.002+08:00

Nasihat dari sa orang ayah kepada anak ...

luas

semalam hari kesungulan gua. sekali lagi gua terkedu dan hampir tersungkur. gua merasakan satu kepedihan hidup yang amat menyakitkan. seringkali gua terhenti dan mengelamun.sekiranya ada yang terhenti dan kemudian ter'refleks' akan dirinya sebentar, gua rasa ianya sangat beruntung kerana tuhan masih lagi memberi peringatan.

gua suka. gua suka bila jadi macam ni. gua jadi lemah dan sentiasa mencari-cari orang yang baik untuk memberi nasihat. sepanjang hidup gua, gua bukan suka mengadu, tapi tak salahkan kalau gua suka bertanya. gua tertanya-tanya bagaimana manusia dan maksiat. gua sering lakukan maksiat dan kemudian bertaubat.kemudian maksiat balik dan kembali lagi bertaubat. "apa gua menganjing tuhan ke?" sentap hati gua. tu yang gua rasa serba salah, letih dan rimas.

lalu gua beranikan diri tanya-tanya manusia yang lebih bijak dari gua. yang lebih berpengalaman dari gua. apa punca. punca segala keluh kesah yang bertatang di dada. rahsia-rahsia penguat dan pembaikpulih jiwa yang rosak dan amalan yang korup.

gua cakap gua nak jadi baik. dia cakap "rahmat tuhan tu maha luas"
gua cakap gua nak jadi baik tapi banyak halangan. "biasalah tu"
gua cakap gua payah nak kawal diri. dia cakap "banyakkan sedekah, puasa sunat dan amalan-amalan sunat yang lain".
gua cakap gua sering buat dosa. dia cakap "kalau satu kaum tu berhenti buat dosa, dah tentu tuhan akan gantikan dengan satu kaum yang lain yang buat dosa dan kemudian bertaubat"
gua cakap gua buat dosa lagi dalampada nak bertaubat. dia cakap "biasalah tu"
gua mengeluh. dia kata "tuhan tak akan sia-siakan orang yang nak kembali pada-Nya".

dia cakap lagi "jangan sekali-kali putus asa dengan tuhan"

dada gua kembali normal dan gua sedut cukup-cukup.

syukran abah.

Du'a

2010-11-08T18:15:00.000+08:00

:D

2010-11-05T11:50:00.005+08:00

Test borang hehhehe picit la.

Tut Tut :D

2010-10-26T14:28:00.005+08:00

Da boys having a great time in Tanta :D My son , let this be your friends' your goodself's hijrah for the sake of Allah & Rasul, ameen

Wayyy ta go dude!!!!

2010-10-12T19:37:00.003+08:00

Begin Quote

Walaupun begitu, selaku seorang yang taat beragama, sudah tentulah Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Muhammad Ke-V juga berhasrat untuk memenuhi tuntutan agamanya. Untuk itu, sama-samalah kita mendoakan agar Baginda dikurniakan seorang permaisuri yang memenuhi ciri-ciri yang diingini oleh Baginda, khususnya yang berakhlak mulia, yang menguasai dengan baik al-Qur’an dan yang menutup dengan sempurna auratnya.

Allahu Akbar.

End Quote

Excerpt taken from Kelatte Insider :D

Finally , since the 27th Sept 2010 and on the 3rd Oct 2010, he finally called online :D

2010-10-04T20:49:00.005+08:00

"Barang sini murahhhh, arab ni kasar lah. cuaca panas sgt, tapi nak masuk musim sejuk... makan sedapppppp" patutlah nampak 'cendul' je pipi

On why the long silence a week "senior tgh nak beli SIM card. Yg lain pon camtu gak" Sure u do!!!

Maka terubatlah rindu seorang ibu terhadap anaknya... abah die rock steady je heheh

A Tribute to Ali by Zaharie Xaharie

2010-09-28T07:10:00.003+08:00

The never ending story of Satang..Greed & Power

2010-09-28T07:07:00.003+08:00

Monday September 27, 2010

Satang lacks fast-track solutions to exit PN17

By EDY SARIF
edy@thestar.com.my

It’s still grappling with pressing issues, which needs serious attention

SATANG Holdings Bhd is still making no headway in its attempt to get out of the PN17 status after being delisted from Bursa Malaysia for more than a year.

Despite the emergence of Pascal Resources Sdn Bhd as its largest controlling shareholder in July last year, the maintainance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service provider to the Defense Ministry is still grappling with various pressing issues, which warrant serious attention but sadly “no” fast track solutions to streamline its operation and business activities.

Several attempts to put Satang’s house in order include the proposed rights issue and a capital reduction exercise to remedy its financial position but still has yet to obtain the approvals from regulators as well as the revised listing application submitted last month which is still waiting the greenlight from Bursa Malaysia.

Pascal meanwhile, since acquiring a 26.43% stake from the previous controlling shareholder Datuk Jamaluddin Hassan, had been actively bringing in new board members including another shareholder Lofti Miskam.

As of last Monday, the latest to join the board was Dr Mohamad Salmi Mohd Sohod as director.

Despite facing the turbulences, Satang, which provides maintainance, repair and overhaul services to the Defense Ministry, still managed to make profit.

Jamaluddin, a former staff officer of the Royal Malaysian Air Force headquarters at MINDEF had since resigned from the company after disposing his entire stake in Satang.

Last week, however, Satang was again confronted with another stumbling block. It was reported that a boardroom tussle was brewing between Pascal Resources and the non-aligned independent directors pertaining to the reinstatement of its managing director Malim Mohamed last week. The board members of Satang were believed to have form an alliance with Pascal Resources to reinstate Malim who was suspended by the board in the middle of last month, according to recent reports quoting sources.

The unexpected move came about after a board meeting last Tuesday to discuss queries raised by Bursa Malaysia, including the appointment of a reputable independent audit firm to review the internal controls of Satang.

It was learnt that eight of the 10 board members attended the meeting but only seven voted on the matter.

Five board members voted in favour of Malim’s reinstatement, while one voted against and one abstained. Two independent board members were away.

Malim who holds a degree in chemical engineering (natural gas) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, has a vast experience in the oil and gas sector.

In a filing to Bursa last Friday, Satang said its decision to lift the suspension on Malim was among others, to ensure a smooth day-to-day operation for Satang.

During Malim’s suspension, a management committee was established to run the company’s operation.

Malim was earlier suspended based on an undated report of alleged irregularities presented to the board on August 11 with auditing firm Ernst & Young to conduct in-depth investigation into the alleged irregularities.

The suspension on Malim had been lifted with conditions that the management committee appointed on August 11 continue to monitor Malim while Ernst & Young should be retained as the audit firm to investigate the alleged irregularities.

However, despite facing all these turbulences, Satang somehow still managed to make profit for its business. For the first nine months ended June 30, the group posted a net profit of RM1.1mil for on the back of RM36.98mil in revenue.

According to Satang, it wants to merge several workshop operations offering MRO services under its subsidiary Satang Jaya Sdn Bhd. It also planned to enhance Satang Dagangan Sdn Bhd’s product range, thus making it the group’s sole trading arm for safety, survival and rescue equipment.

Based on previous report, Satang’s contract for the maintenance of Mindef’s safety and survival equipment would end in September next year.

27th Sept 2010 - My son left for Tonta U to further his studies in Medicine

2010-09-27T23:45:00.004+08:00

May Allah look upon u with compassion and enhance your Iman, ameen

woooooooooowaaaaaaaaaiiii. sapo la enyo dari Cairo nih hah ;-)

2010-09-25T03:01:00.003+08:00

Lesson in Islam - 1924, the Khilafah

2010-09-03T22:16:00.002+08:00

Ruben Abu Bkr ~ Open up your eyes , Maher Zain

2010-09-03T22:04:00.003+08:00

I've almost had an ice-cream once if not for an uncle who reminded me it was Ramadhan ;D

2010-09-03T22:01:00.002+08:00

Hadith of the Day Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet (may peace be upon him) said, "If somebody eats something forgetfully while he is fasting, then he should complete his fast, for Allah has made him eat and drink." [Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol 8, Hadith No. 662] Thanks to sister Irfana for posting this on HOTD earlier :)

One breast bouncing... Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un

2010-07-22T07:00:00.003+08:00

Raden Galoh, She died a 19th Jul 2010. A comment on her last blog entry, presumably her doctor (?):

Quote:

Dr. Hasanah said...: Salam Dalilah,

I tengah bercuti satu minggu sekarang and getting a glimpse of your current condition quickly.

Takut tak sempat nak wish for your coming trip, I pohon kemaafan daripda you dan I memberi kemafaan kepada you juga.

Semoga you tabah dan berjaya dalam perjalanan nanti.

Amin.
Unquote

Al Ulama Al Fadil Kickdfella speaketh...

2010-06-22T11:27:00.001+08:00

Why not allow sports betting too, Kelantan Govt told

KOTA BARU: Controversial blogger Kickdefella has questioned why PAS leaders are vehemently against legalising sports betting when Kelantan allows the sale of alcohol to non-Muslims.

“I do not understand why the PAS government in Kelantan is against sports betting when they can legalise alcohol consumption for non-Muslims,” said the blogger whose name is Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz.

“One sin is not lesser than the other,” he said when interviewed.

Syed Azidi said on Nov 19, 1992, Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat issued a statement that alcohol could only be sold to non-Muslims.

“He had said that if the sale of such beverages was banned, it would make things difficult for non-Muslims..”

Damai Bersamamu

2010-06-22T11:04:00.001+08:00

Aku Termenung Di Bawah Mentari
Di Antara Megahnya Alam Ini
Menikmati Indahnya Kasih-Mu
Kurasakan Damainya Hatiku

Sabda-Mu Bagai Air Yang Mengalir
Basahi Panas Terik Di Hatiku
Menerangi Semua Jalanku
Kurasakan Tenteramnya Hatiku

Reff;
Jangan Biarkan Damai Ini Pergi
Jangan Biarkan Semuanya Berlalu
Hanya Pada-Mu Tuhan
Tempatku Berteduh
Dari Semua Kepalsuan Dunia

Bila Ku Jauh Dari Diri-Mu
Akan Kutempuh Semua Perjalanan
Agar Selalu Ada Dekat-Mu
Biar Kurasakan Lembutnya Kasih-Mu

Bill Clinton called his as 'socks' n daughter Chelsea loves it so much!.... Welldone UPCO :D

2010-06-18T20:30:00.002+08:00

Najib asks names for his new cat

June 18, 2010

Najib up close with his new pet.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak welcomes suggestions of names for the kitten he bought yesterday.

“My family and I are in the process of picking out a name for it, but I welcome suggestions from you,” he said in his blog www.1malaysia.com.my today.

The prime minister said that having had cats for pets before, he picked it up and was instantly taken by this cuddly creature.

“I am sure my daughter will be excited to meet it the next time she comes home,” he said.

Najib said that at the launch of the “Buy Malaysia” campaign yesterday, he was able to make some personal purchases and among these was a spur-of-the-moment buy — an orange-and-white Persian kitten. — Bernama

When it comes to subsidies, the ppl will decide. When it comes to Tanjung Pagar, UMNO will decide...:D

2010-05-27T19:46:00.002+08:00

Thursday May 27, 2010

PM: The people will decide if subsidies stay or go

The people will decide if subsidies are maintained or abolished but the important point is that they must fully understand the consequences of that decision, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said on Thursday. Earlier, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala said that Malaysia would be bankrupt in nine years if it failed to cut subsidies and rein in borrowings. ~ The Star

Najib says Umno backs Singapore deal

KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak declared today that he had obtained the backing of the Umno supreme council for the government’s decision to relocate the Tanjong Pagar railway station in Singapore.

The prime minister also said more meetings with Singapore would be required to solve other contentious bilateral issues. ~ Malaysian insider

It's not good talking thru your below the stomach orifice....

2010-05-06T09:26:00.005+08:00

Thursday May 6, 2010

Minor at fault in shooting incident, says expert

KUALA LUMPUR: It is clear that 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah was at fault in his shooting, leading him to being accidentally shot by police who were only discharging their duties, a clinical psychologist said.

Assoc Prof Dr Teoh Hsien Jin said the situation was getting out of proportion and that the public had overlooked the most important issue, which was that of a minor driving a car without a driving licence.

He said that as far as the law was concerned, such an act was an offence.

“The crime rate in Selangor is worrying and the police have taken the necessary steps to reduce crime in the state by putting more men on patrol to react to any perceived threat.

“A lot of violent crime takes place after midnight and a speeding car pursued by a group of motorcyclists fits the scenario perfectly,” said Dr Teoh who is the Head of the School of Natural Health and Sciences in Sunway University College.

Dr Teoh, a former journalist, said the usual procedure for policemen in a patrol car or at roadblocks would be to pull a suspicious car over and shine a torchlight into it.

“But the policemen may not have had the chance to do that in Aminulrasyid’s case as the minor sped off, which led to the police firing at the speeding car.

“Police on shifts are normally armed with automatic firearms because they do not know who or what they will be up against. You just have to react to dangerous situations.

“When they opened fire, it is likely that one stray bullet could have hit him. In the dark, they were probably shooting to stop the car,” said Dr Teoh, who was also a Territorial Army officer.

He said he sympathised with the Inspector-General of Police who had come under fire from various quarters for threatening to pull his men off the streets following a public outcry over the incident.

“They are already overworked and underpaid and politicising the matter does not help. It is only making them more frustrated and angry,” he said.

Yeawwww, Mr Professor man, read this dude, n see if fathom this, congrat to these breed of police officers man, I commend u for using your brain unlike the professor quoted above:

takened also from The Star

Teen robber shot in cybercafe

By RASHITHA A. HAMID
rashitha@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: A 17-year-old who robbed a cybercafe with seven accomplices was shot in the leg and arrested when he tried to attack a policeman.

However, his accomplices managed to flee with RM1,300 taken from the cybercafe in Jalan Genting Klang here.

Sentul OCPD Asst Comm Zakaria Pagan said two plainclothes policemen were in the cybercafe on crime prevention rounds when the robbers armed with machetes, knives, a saw and an axe entered the premises.

Dangerous weapon: ACP Zakaria showing the saw which was used by the teenager during the cybercafe robbery.

He said the policemen, who were in the washroom, were shocked to find the robbers waving their weapons at the manager when they came out.

They pretended to be patrons and waited for the right time to act. There were also other customers in the premises.

“When the manager handed over the money to the suspects, one of the policemen shouted ‘police’ and all the suspects turned towards them,” ACP Zakaria told a press conference here yesterday.

The 17-year-old, who was armed with a saw and a chopper, tried to attack one of the policemen, forcing him to open fire. Two shots hit the suspect in the leg, while a third went wide.

ACP Zakaria said the other suspects fled in a BMW waiting outside, but one of them escaped on foot.

The youth is reported to be in stable condition at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Police have yet to interrogate him.

Initial investigations revealed that the suspect is believed to have been involved in seven other robberies in Ampang and Keramat.

“We are looking for the other suspects aged between 17 and 24 years,” said ACP Zakaria.

I see the bad moon rising.... First day out

2010-04-04T20:35:00.001+08:00

'I see the bad moon rising
I see the trouble on the way
I see earthquake n lightnin'
I see bad times today... '

~ Creedence Clearwater Revival

Pain Remover...

2010-04-02T18:59:00.000+08:00

'Uthman ibn Abu Al-'As relates that "once he complained of pain in his body to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) The Messenger of Allah, (pbuh), said: 'Put your hand where you feel pain in your body and say, "Bismillah (in the name of Allah)," and say, "A 'udhu bi 'izzatillah wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uha...dhiru (I seek refuge in the might of Allah and in His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear)," seven times'." 'Uthman continued: "I did that a few times and Allah removed my pain. I always advised my family and others to do the same." (Muslim)

Pig Cells in Cigarette

2010-04-01T18:53:00.001+08:00

kosmo

Rokok ada sel darah babi

ROKOK bukan sahaja berbahaya tetapi kini timbul isu kandungan darah babi di dalamnya.

KUALA LUMPUR - Seorang pakar akademik dari Australia semalam mendedahkan satu hasil kajian di Belanda baru-baru ini yang mendakwa menemui sel darah merah babi sebagai kandungan penyekat bahan kimia dalam puntung rokok.

Profesor Simon Chapman dari Universiti Sydney dilaporkan berkata, kajian itu mendapati babi digunakan dalam 185 jenis industri termasuk penemuan sel darah merah haiwan itu dalam penapis (filter) rokok.

Kenyataan beliau yang disiarkan oleh akhbar Daily Telegraph kelmarin menjelaskan, hasil kajian tersebut pastinya mengejutkan perokok yang beragama Islam serta Yahudi yang diharamkan memakan babi.

Menurutnya, setakat ini satu jenama rokok yang dijual di Greece telah didapati mengandungi darah babi.

Makkkk!!!!!.......

2010-03-05T12:11:00.003+08:00

Telling isn't it?

Istirja

2010-02-17T12:14:00.001+08:00

'Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'uun'

Imam Ahmad reported that Umm Salamah narrated:

Once, Abu Salamah came back after he was with Allah’s Messenger and said: I heard Allah’s Messenger recite a statement that made me delighted. He said:(No Muslim is struck with an affliction and then says Istirja` when the affliction strikes, and then says: `O Allah! Reward me for my loss and give me what is better than it,’ but Allah will do just that.) Umm Salamah said: So I memorized these words. When Abu Salamah died I said Istirja` and said: "O Allah! Compensate me for my loss and give me what is better than it.” I then thought about it and said, "Who is better than Abu Salamah” When my `Iddah (the period of time before the widow or divorced woman can remarry) finished, Allah’s Messenger asked for permission to see me while I was dyeing a skin that I had. I washed my hands, gave him permission to enter and handed him a pillow, and he sat on it.

He then asked me for marriage and when he finished his speech, I said, "O Messenger of Allah! It is not because I do not want you, but I am very jealous and I fear that you might experience some wrong mannerism from me for which Allah would punish me. I am old and have children.” He said: (As for the jealousy that you mentioned, Allah the Exalted will remove it from you. As for your being old as you mentioned, I have suffered what you have suffered. And for your having children, they are my children too.) She said, "I have surrendered to Allah’s Messenger.” Allah’s Messenger married her and Umm Salamah said later, "Allah compensated me with who is better than Abu Salamah: Allah’s Messenger .’ [ Muslim reported a shorter version of this Hadith]

Gheerah - Part 2. To my sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, bros , sisters, wife

2009-12-15T12:05:00.002+08:00

My dear sons n daughters. I was visiting Ustaz 'Emran's blog n find his latest entry as significant n is reproduced below. The subject is on 'Gheerah' but it encompasses everything else with regards to male-female interaction which have no lawful relationship. There's was another related article on 'Gheerah' by Muhamad 'Abduh which u may find here . Many among us be it the old or the young are guilty of such behavior. In this respect, my sons and daughters, lower your sights, do not engage in any form of communication with the non muhrim unless necessary either through conversation,blog, emailing, chatting, especially chatting. This is not from m but is taught by Islam. To my daughters especially, yr whole being are Aurat, your voice, the manner u speak, the way u walk and carry yourself be it in front of lecturers , colleagues, classmates, seniors, juniors, etc. Your every move can be construed as fitnah. Take heed of the following hadeeth which i found from the web:

'Ibnu Mas’ud ra telah meriwayatkan bahawa Rasulullah saw telah bersabda , “Wanita adalah objek yang tersorok , di mana ,apabila ia keluar syaitan akan menghias mereka untuk menggoda kaum lelaki” At-Tirmizi'

To my sons as well, do not let Syaitan manipulate your heart with this concept of 'couple', 'lovers tiff'', clamouring for love either via smses, penning your emotions via blogs, facebook, hanging on to yr hps for hours with mindless chatters, pouring sweet nothings only to be fooled by Syaitans. Perhaps u may want to revert to this article 'Jangan tertipu dengan fitrah cinta' i've posted earlier. U have other things to worry about instead of indulging yourself into sinful behaviors. Always keep on remembering why we are here, where are going and that we are accountable for all deeds done on this earth.

My dear sons and daughters, as a parting gift:

"2 lubang yang terbanyak memasukkan manusia ke dalam neraka, yaitu mulut dan kemaluan" (HR shahihain)"

Wallahu 'aklam

"Apabila cemburu sudah tiada..."

Baru-baru ini saya dikejutkan oleh beberapa email yang bertanya kepada saya berkenaan hukum berzina dan meminta nasihat daripada saya berkenaan kecurangan isteri dengan rakan sekerjanya.

Telah banyak berlaku dan telah ramai yang tahu berkenaan hubungan lelaki dan wanita secara bebas di mana-mana. Bukan sekali dua kita dengar isteri atau suami yang melakukan kecurangan dengan rakan sekerja akibat daripada pergaulan bebas.

Saya hairan sekali dengan budaya Malaysia.

“Kami tidak berbuat apa-apa”, itulah slogan utama menghalalkan hubungan lelaki dan wanita yang diharamkan oleh Allah SWT melainkan dengan jalan pernikahan.

Allah SWT befirman : “Dan di antara tanda-tanda kekuasaan-Nya dan rahmat-Nya, bahawa Dia menciptakan untuk kamu isteri-isteri dari jenis kamu sendiri, supaya kamu bersenang hati dan hidup mesra dengannya, dan dijadikan-Nya di antara kamu (suami isteri) perasaan kasih sayang dan belas kasihan.” (Ar-Rum: 21)

Dijadikan oleh Allah SWT akan sunnah perkahwinan itu sebagai satu-satunya jalan untuk membolehkan lelaki dan wanita saling bemesra dan berkasih-kasihan serta bersenang hati dan bukan selainnya.

Hal ini jelas di sebutkan oleh Allah SWT : “Dan janganlah kamu mendekati zina, sesungguhnya zina itu adalah suatu perbuatan yang keji. Dan suatu jalan yang buruk.” (Al-Isra : 32)

Larangan berzina bukanlah hanya pada perbuatannya tetapi termasuk seluruh jalan yang boleh membawa ke arahnya. Namun malangnya syaitan itu menghiasi jalan kejahatan dan mengaburi mata manusia sehingga perhubungan haram itu menjadi senang dan memudahkan serta menyenangkan.

Kita lihat hari ini lelaki dan wanita senang bersenda gurau dan mudah bermesra walau tanpa melalui perkahwinan. Melalui pelbagai cara sehinggalah di tempat kerja, di pusat pengajian, di medan-medan perniagaan, di dalam kehidupan realiti dan juga di alam maya.

Suami orang bersenda gurau dengan isteri orang atau dengan anak gadis tanpa ada rasa malu atau segan sehingga kadang-kadang timbul persoalan iaitu di manakah sifat cemburu mereka ?

Sifat Cemburu adalah Wajib dimiliki oleh orang yang beriman kerana lawan perasaan cemburu yang disebut sebagai (ghirah) ini adalah dayus dan hukumnya ialah haram serta berdosa besar.

Ini berdasarkan sabda nabi SAW yang bermaksud : "Tiga golongan yang Allah tidak akan melihat mereka di hari kiamat ialah penderhaka kepada ibu bapa,perempuan yang menyerupai lelaki dan lelaki yang dayus." (Hadis riwayat Ahmad)

Dalam hadis yang lain baginda Rasulullah ditanya tentang apakah erti dayus lalu dijawab oleh baginda nabi dengan bersabda : “Iaitu orang yang tidak mempedulikan siapakah yang berjumpa dengan ahlinya (iaitu isteri dan anak-anaknya).” ( Riwayat At-Tibrani)

Malangnya hari ini kita lihat kaum wanita bebas bertemu sesiapa sahaja lelaki yang disukainya tanpa diketahui oleh ibubapa, suami, wali dan warisnya. Hal ini disebabkan oleh perkembangan zaman moden yang sudah mengalih alih manusia daripada ajaran Islam versi ahlul sunnah wal jamaah.

Ketika saya di tanah arab, saya cukup mengkagumi sifat cemburu bangsa mereka yang begitu besar. Di sana jangankan hendak bergurau senda dengan isteri orang, hendak memandang pun akan akan mengundang ancaman dan celaan.

Hal ini adalah perkara yang terpuji berdasarkan hadis Ubadah bin Somit r.a yang berkata : "Jika aku nampak ada lelaki bersama isteriku, nescaya akan aku pukulnya dengan pedangku", maka disampaikan kepada Nabi akan kata-kata Sa'ad tadi, lalu nabi memberi jawapan balas : "Adakah kamu kagum dengan sifat cemburu yang dipunyai oleh Sa'ad ? , Demi Allah, aku lebih kuat cemburu berbandingnya, malah Allah lebih cemburu daripadaku, kerana kecemburuan Allah itulah maka diharamkan setiap perkara keji yang nyata dan tersembunyi. " ( Hadis riwayat Bukhari dan Muslim)

Di Malaysia hari ini, rakan-rakan isteri pun tidak kita kenali, ada pula yang isterinya dihantar pulang ke rumah oleh teman lelaki. Begitulah juga sebaliknya.

Di laman-laman forum maya, lelaki dan wanita boleh bergurau senda tanpa batasan kerana ianya tidak kelihatan jadi suami orang boleh sahaja berhubung dengan para gadis dan sebaliknya isteri orang boleh pula bemesra dengan teman-teman chatting dan rakan forum lelaki secara selamba dan biasa tanpa ada rasa bersalah.

Sekali lagi slogan yang membosankan akan digunakan iaitu : “Kami tidak berbuat apa-apa.”

Nabi SAW bersabda : “Sesungguhnya Allah itu cemburu, dan kecemburuan Allah itu ialah apabila seseorang hamba itu melakukan apa yang diharamkan oleh Allah.” (Hadis Muttafaq 'Alaihi)

DI dalam Kitab Tuhfatul Ahwazi ada menyebutkan bahawa cemburu itu adalah bermaksud seorang lelaki itu melindungi isterinya dan ahli keluarganya daripada ditemui dan dilihat oleh lelaki bukan mahram.

Maka hendaklah kita mengembalikan umat Islam kepada penghayatan Islam seperti yang dituntut oleh Allah SWT dan rasulnya serta menjauhi takwilan-takwilan mereka yang jahil dan dibesarkan di dalam suasana rosak sehingga menganggap pergaulan bebas dan kerosakkan akhlak hari ini adalah sebagai lumrah yang biasa.

Ada ramai orang sebegini yang merasa tidak bersalah dan tidak mengapa kaum wanita itu bebas bercampur gaul mesra dengan kaum lelaki. Islam ini agama yang memudahkan dan jangan mempersulitkan lalu hasil kerana kejahilan dan takwilan salah mereka terhadap perkara syarak menyaksikan kerosakkan demi kerosakkan yang dilakukan di atas nama Agama.

Berapa ramai pendakwah yang hanyut di atas nama cinta ? Berapa ramai ahli agama yang tersangkut dengan isteri orang dan suami orang ? Juga jangan dilupa bahawa yang kerap kali menggunakan agama untuk kepentingan mereka ialah juga golongan agama termasuk mereka yang bergelar professional agama.

Namun apa boleh buat, mereka tidak merasa bersalah.

Rasulullah SAW pernah bersabda : "Sesungguhnya diantara ajaran yang didapati oleh manusia daripada kalam (perkataan) nubuwwah yang pertama ialah "Apabila kamu tidak malu maka buatlah apa yang kamu suka." (hadis riwayat Bukhari no. 5769)

Omak masuk Spital..

2009-12-11T00:07:00.006+08:00

Mondooooo la yg d tulih...

"Please, please, please.. kamu jangan nakal.. nanti aku datang bawa yang kau pesan...."

Yo momma , wassupppp..

Naik hancur tangan den.. x jumpo jumpo urek...aduuuuuhhhhh

"takpe la makcik , saya cucuk celah jari..."

"Sakik tangan wan 'Aliah...."

Ubat Hati

2009-12-05T17:50:00.001+08:00

Karim's Blog:

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Ahmad Ismail Al-Khawwash (men. 291H/904M), pernah memberi nasihat:

“Ubat hati ada lima perkara: Membaca Al Quran dengan merenungkan isi dan ertinya, berpuasa dengan mengosongkan perut, bangun malam beribadat, bermunajat/tadharru’ di waktu sahur, dan berkumpul dengan orang-orang soleh”

Fasting on the day of 'Arafah.. 9th Zulhijjah

2009-11-25T19:21:00.002+08:00

Muxlim Blogs

Abu Hafasah (raa) said the Prophet (saas) said: "Fasting on the day of 'Arafah absolves the sins for two years: the previous year and the coming years, and fasting on 'Ashura, (the tenth day) of Muharram atones for the sins of previous years." (Reported by Jama'ah except Bukhari and Tirmidhi)

Yo guys, we need to be more careful with our gender interactions, insha’Allah...

2009-11-24T16:53:00.002+08:00

Scary: Da story of Barsisa

There were three brothers from Bani Israel who were called upon to go on Jihad. These three brothers had a sister who did not have any one else to be taken care other that by them. They did not know under whose care could they leave the young woman. Then they thought that the most reasonable place to leave her was with the Abid (worshipper) because he was the most trusted man in town. Barsisa, the Abid was a man who used to be in a monastery devoted to worship of ALLAH.

So they went to him and said, ” We are being enlisted to go on Jihad and we want to leave our sister with you. We trust no one in town but you.”

Barsisa replied “Audhu billah, get away from me.” This was an Abid who was not married and he did not want to deal with these problems.

The brothers said, “We have no where else to leave our sister but with you. We don’t trust anyone else.”

So Shaytan came to Barsisa and said, “If u don’t accept, she might be left with somebody who might not be trustworthy.You have to step-up and take this responsibility.”

So Barsisa told the brothers, “Leave her in the empty house.” (which was seperate from the monastery where he was staying). The brothers then left her there and went on Jihad.

After that, Barsisa the Abid used to leave food at his doorstep and the young woman had to come out of her house and walk all the way to take the food from his doorstep. Barsisa never used to leave from his monastery. Barsisa had never met her and they were not seeing each other. Days passed by like this.

One day, Shaytan came to Barsisa and said, “Somebody might see her when she is walking out. So rather than have her leave from her house. You need to carry it and leave at her doorstep.” So he started leaving the food at her doorstep. This happened for many days.

Again one day, Shaytan came to Barsisa and said, “You can’t just leave the food at her doorstep. Somebody might see her when she opens the door and she is very beautiful. You would have to take the food and leave it inside her room.” So Barsisa would go and knock on the door. She would open and he would walk inside and leave the food there. That continued for a while.

Then again one day Shaytan said, “You can’t leave this poor woman alone without giving her any company. Nobody is speaking to her. So she may be feeling very lonely and that might lead to haram. So why don’t you go and talk to her from behind the door.” Barsisa liked the idea and so for a while he would sit outside and just talk to her for HOURS. Slowly and slowly the relationship was building up and Shaytan was finding it easier to drag him to the next step.

Shaytan then came and said, “You can’t just sit there talking to her, people might see you. You need to go inside, just sit in another room without looking at her and talk to her.” So for sometime that is what he did. Slowly she started getting closer to him and everytime they got more and more close to the extent that eventually he comitted zina (fornication) with her.

So the Abid, the worshipper who devoted his life to service in the monastery comitted zina. Because of that, she became pregnant and delivered a boy.

Then Shaytan came to Barsisa and said,”Now when the brothers come back and find out that their sister has a child you are going to be in big trouble. The only way for you to put an end to this issue is to kill the baby.” Barsisa followed the advice of Shaytan and killed the child.

But it didn’t end there. Shaytan came to him and said, “Do you think that this woman will keep the secret after you kill her own child? The only way out is to kill her.” So Barsisa killed her and burried both mother and child in a certain location inside the house.

Later the brothers came back and inquired about their sister. Barsisa gave some reason and said, “She had passed away and this is where she is burried.” Saying that he pointed to a false grave.

Then Shaytan went to the brothers and made them see a dream. In that dream they were told that Barsisa killed their sister and the proof was that she was burried in a different location (i.e. under the rock inside the house).

When the brothers woke up they started talking to each other and found out that they all had seen the same dream. They thought that there must be some truth in it. So they went and uncovered the grave which Barsisa had pointed to and found it empty. Then they went inside the house and found the rock as mentioned in the dream. On digging underneath the rock they found their sister’s dead body along with that of the child.

So they went to Barsisa and forced him to disclose the secret of what happened. He went ahead and told them the whole story. The three brothers took Barsisa to the king’s court and he was given punishment of execution.

While Barsisa was being dragged to his execution spot, Shaytan came to him and said, “Listen Barsisa I am Shaytan and it was me who was in communication with you since this whole thing started and not your inner thoughts. Now I can get u out of this trouble if you want. I am the one who put you in this trouble in the first place and I can get u out of it.”

Barsisa asked, “What should I do?”

Shaytan said, “Do sujood to me and I will save you.”

Barsisa did sujood to Shaytan (i.e. committed shirk) and as soon as he did so, Shaytan ran away and Barsisa was executed.

Lamo ambo dok nulih..

2009-11-24T14:39:00.005+08:00

My son, May Allah reward u with Iman, n may u do well in yr SPM....

Damai bersamamu...

Aku termenung di bawah mentari.
Di antara megahnya alam ini.
Menikmati indahnya kasih-Mu.
Kurasakan damainya hatiku…
Sabda-Mu bagai air yang mengalir.
Basahi panas terik di hatiku.
Menerangi semua jalanku.
Kurasakan tenteramnya hatiku…
Jangan biarkan damai ini pergi…
Jangan biarkan semuanya berlalu…
Hanya pada-Mu Tuhan tempatku berteduh.
Dari semua kepalsuan dunia…
Bila ku jauh dari diri-Mu,
akan kutempuh semua PERJALANAN agar selalu ada dekat-Mu.
Biar kurasakan lembutnya kasih-Mu…

Been a long time since ...

2009-10-30T19:22:00.001+08:00

"Uish.. Ade lagi. Ingat dah lebur dah..". "Saje je nak pakai..." . Jari yang masih 'dompok dompok' hahahaha

Come Dec 2009, it'll be 23 years being 'hitched' to the lady below ;-). Masya Allah...

Semasa di kedai mamak.....

2009-10-20T23:16:00.004+08:00

Incoming : ' Abah send kat cheq no giliran cheq.'

Outgoing : 'Awat, hang x gheti bagi salam ka. X ketahuan sungguh cek naa. Hang ada plak top up naa, psai pa tak tepon ummi, sian dia. Tgh pekena teh tarik ngan ummi. Mai la...'

Incoming: 'Haha. nak mai cmna cheq kat perlis. cheq bru tepon ummi.ada la topup rm3. haha nnti abah kasi angka giliran.'

Outgoing : 'Ummi hang merajuk sbb hang x ckp tima kasi. Dok bagi kat hang nala raka seluaq tepon. Kecik ati dia.'

Incoming: 'Haha tima kasih! nala raka tu apa?'

Selang beberapa minit kemudiannn.... (mcm cite melayu lak...akakakak)

Incoming : 'Abah ckp kat Imran jgn suka kentut2! hahaha'

Boghok bebenor org kuale Lompor cakap loghat utara ek.....

Aiii Ustaz, mung pon gi ngundi ker ..layanggggg

2009-10-11T17:48:00.001+08:00

Ustaz Azhar in Bagan Pinang. His 'ceramah' can be seen here

Tuhan Allah juga yang akan beri kemenangan...

2009-10-11T17:00:00.000+08:00

Bagan Pinang, 11hb Okt 2009

Nite out in Bagan Pinang last night .. Voting today

2009-10-11T09:52:00.010+08:00

Big Daddy's nite out... ;-)

2009-10-10T12:01:00.003+08:00

Turned 80 last night. Ate Mee Jawa n Air Bandung, bopoluh poluh, morocik rocik kek muko ... 'Tak serupo mee jawo, di taruk udang..."

;-)

2009-09-26T10:15:00.002+08:00

Ultraman Taro in Sana'a, celebrating 'Eid Al Fitri, 1430 Hijrah...

2009-09-24T18:17:00.004+08:00

My son, get 'hitch' for your own good and health, comprende?

Yg jadi mangsa kucing....

2009-09-24T10:19:00.003+08:00

After a week of celebration

Untuk Abdul Razin, تَقَبَّلَ اللهُ مِنَّا وَمِنْكُمْ, dari ibu, ayah , adek adek dan kami di Pantai

2009-09-20T13:37:00.009+08:00

Al Quran Dusturuna , Jihad Sabiluna

1 World...

2009-09-20T13:15:00.000+08:00

KL Lengang...

2009-09-20T13:00:00.006+08:00

Dalam perjalanan ke UIA Gombak...

Macam orang Endon mauk pulang....

2009-09-19T20:04:00.001+08:00

Gue ingin ucapkan selamat ari lebaran pak!!!

"This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed"

2009-09-19T11:59:00.004+08:00

From 'The Guardian', UK

Why I threw the shoe..

I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents

I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.

Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.

We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.

Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.

I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.

As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.

The opportunity came, and I took it.

I took it out of loyalty to every drop of innocent blood that has been shed through the occupation or because of it, every scream of a bereaved mother, every moan of an orphan, the sorrow of a rape victim, the teardrop of an orphan.

I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.

When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.

If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.

I didn't do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.

Muntazer al-Zaidi is an Iraqi reporter who was freed this week after serving nine months in prison for throwing his shoe at former US president George Bush at a press conference. This edited statement was translated by McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Sahar Issa www.mcclatchydc.com

Anok Sedagho Ambo...Weillllooooooo...

2009-09-16T14:48:00.002+08:00

Maso kecik... comeyyy deeyyyy

Besar sikik.. comeyy gokkkkk.. tughung sapoooo...

Wallaaaaaaaaaaaah hai... comey la u Mek Nad, gedio tuh , Star buck ko...

Ambo baghuuuuuu kecek semeta..

Tingak maso anta mu gi Muhammadi, masa tuh dalam van, si Jo'i dok lalok... mu pong dok lalok nok balik... sa'at sa'at bahgioo tuh do'o sumo jupo di jannah belako

Berdailog dengan 'Rasul Melayu'

2009-09-16T14:10:00.001+08:00

‘Rasul Melayu’ ditangkap

Pengamal ajaran sesat yang mengaku dirinya ‘Rasul Melayu’, Kahar Yahaya ditahan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) di Kajang, pukul 8 pagi ini.

Suspek kini berada di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Kajang dan akan dituduh di Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam, di sini hari ini juga.

Sebelum ini, Ketua kumpulan ajaran sesat Haji Kahar Ahmad, Abdul Kahar Ahmad Jalal, 55, pernah berkata bukan saja mendakwa dilantik Tuhan sebagai rasul khusus untuk orang Melayu, malah memberi jaminan pengikutnya pasti masuk syurga berkat daripada syafaatnya.

Malah, dia tidak gentar menghantar surat kepada ahli politik, pembesar negeri dan menteri Kabinet termasuk Perdana Menteri, untuk mengaku dirinya sebagai rasul. Abdul Kahar juga mengeluarkan pelbagai dakyah yang boleh menjejaskan akidah seperti solat lima waktu tidak wajib, al-Quran sekadar catatan, hadis hanya rekaan manusia malah mendakwa dia mempunyai mukjizat sama seperti nabi dan rasul lain.

Beberapa perkara lain yang jelas bertentangan dengan akidah juga dinyatakan Abdul Kahar ketika dia disoal kira-kira 30 minit oleh pegawai Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) selain wartawan selepas ditahan di kediamannya di Kampung Kemensah, Hulu Klang, satu ketika dulu.

Soalan (S) : Macam mana haji dilantik (sebagai rasul)?
Jawapan (J): Itu urusan Tuhan. Tuhan tidak bagi tahu kepada manusia biasa, bagaimana ditiupkan roh itu kepada Adam (Nabi Adam as). Kalau roh Tuhan itu tidak ditiup kepada seorang rasul dia tidak layak digelar rasul tetapi pendusta.
Saolan : Umat Islam diwajibkan menunaikan sembahyang lima waktu tetapi haji (Kahar) mengatakan sembahyang lima waktu itu tidak perlu?
J : Awak tunjukkan ayat mana, surah mana yang mengatakan Tuhan suruh sembahyang lima waktu.
S: Kalau macam itu, haji tunjukkan surah mana dan ayat mana yang menunjukkan haji dilantik sebagai rasul?
J : Surah Yasin dan Surah Ibrahim, ayat empat. (Abdul Kahar bagaimanapun tidak menghuraikan makna ayat berkenaan)
S: Adakah haji dilantik (sebagai rasul) untuk mewakili Malaysia?
J: Bagi kaum Melayu saja. Untuk yang faham bahasa saya.
S: Adakah haji boleh memberi syafaat sama seperti Nabi Muhammad saw?
J: Ya. Sebab saya boleh mengeluarkan manusia daripada kegelapan kekafiran kepada cahaya keimanan.
S: Jadi adakah pengikut haji dijamin masuk syurga?
J: Pasti. Tuhan yang menjanjikan. Barang siapa yang mentaati Allah dan rasul-Nya, pasti Tuhan akan memasukkan ke dalam syurga yang mengalir sungai di bawahnya. Itulah kemenangan yang besar. (Sambil merujuk surah An-Nisa’)
S: Apa perbezaan antara ajaran haji dengan Islam sekarang?
J: Sekarang orang Islam di negara ini membuat dusta dengan Tuhan. (Abdul Kahar diminta memberi contoh) Ayat yang diucapkan ketika sembahyang lima waktu tidak sama dengan apa yang dibuat untuk Tuhan.(Ketika itu Abdul Kahar diminta memberi contoh sekali lagi) Masa tuan-tuan sembahyang itu berkata dengan Tuhan. Tetapi apabila kata ‘Ya aiyuhal kafirun’ (Abdul Kahar merujuk kepada ayat pertama surah Al-Kafirun tetapi tidak lengkap) tuan-tuan mengkafirkan Allah kerana maknanya ‘hai orang kafir’, kamu berkata kepada Allah. Tuhan yang memberi petunjuk, kamu boleh kafirkan Dia. Ayat itu kita sepatutnya berkata kepada orang kafir, tetapi ia mesti dikatakan oleh rasul dan orang yang beriman kepada rasul.
S: Haji pernah buat sembahyang lima waktu?
J: Dulu saya buat, tetapi selepas Tuhan katakan itu tidak betul saya tidak buat lagi… saya buat ikut sunnah dan al-Quran.
S: Macam mana haji sembahyang?
J: Saya buat macam mana Nabi Ibrahim sembahyang iaitu mencegah benda keji mungkar. Macam mana ibu bapanya yang menyembah berhala dan dia cegah.
S: Rasulullah saw sendiri solat lima waktu, bagaimana haji boleh katakan ia tidak wajib?
J: Can you prove to me (Boleh awak buktikan pada saya) awak pernah jumpa dia (Nabi Muhammad), tengok sendiri dia sembahyang? Jika hanya secara lisan, itu tidak boleh.
S: Dalam hadis perkara itu disebut. (Pegawai Jais kemudian membaca hadis dalam bahasa Arab tetapi, Abdul Kahar meminta dijelaskan dalam bahasa Melayu). Maksudnya, sembahyang kamu sebagaimana kamu melihat aku (Rasulullah saw) sembahyang.
J: Hadis itu siapa yang buat? Siapa yang mengarangnya, siapa perawinya? (Pegawai Jais menjawab hadis itu diriwayatkan al-Bukhari.) Adakah awak kenal dia. Awak tahu biodata dia. Awak pernah lihat dia. Adakah awak dengar sendiri dia cerita dengan awak. Jika tidak, benda itu tidak benar. Itu bukan daripada Tuhan.

Mak Ence

2009-09-11T12:20:00.003+08:00

Berita Harian , 11th Sept 09

Jo pi Mydin Subang ..besaqqqqqq..

2009-09-08T23:27:00.007+08:00

It took me two hours to complete the tour...

Dan Ramadhan itu mengajar Displin.. continued

2009-09-07T23:21:00.000+08:00

After picking up 'Imran from school, i took the route home via seksyen 23... As of today , the fences are no longer there

Dan ramadhan itu mengajar disiplin...

2009-09-06T15:40:00.002+08:00

Lihat incident pada minit ke 6.00

A step closer to Barzakh....

2009-09-02T20:11:00.005+08:00

Today is 2nd Sept 09.... Zaujah is 47. Iftar at Plaza Ala Sentral . Bought SE C 502 for Ali. Hoping he mend his attitude and be a good Muslim, insya Allah

Mari kita berpuasa...

2009-09-02T20:08:00.001+08:00

Priceless...

And the daughters also followed sooth...

2009-08-28T23:05:00.001+08:00

Both of them arrived from Kuantan at Petronas Ulu Klang at about 8:30 pm travelling with their friend who is enroute to Ampang...

Earlier on I had iftar at umah mak , and she prepared my favorite dish , 'nasi ulam'.. never fails each Ramadhan.

Ali balik

2009-08-27T23:30:00.003+08:00

Welcome home son. He came back this morning.

Unique...

2009-08-26T23:23:00.000+08:00

Trawih Masjid Negri

2009-08-26T23:13:00.000+08:00

Lailatul Qadar ..The night of Power..

2009-08-25T11:24:00.003+08:00

Received via email ~

"Lepas basuh pinggan, ikut Abah pergi masjid " kata Abah separuh memerintah. Aku memandang kepada Emak. Emak angguk sahaja. Maksudnya emak mahu aku ikut Abah solat subuh ke masjid. Jangan melawan. Nampaknya, aku kena batalkan niat untuk sambung tarik gebar selepas kenyang bersahur. Aku bonceng di belakang. Kami tidak pakai helmet. Kopiah sahaja. Ganjil. Dalam cahaya suram menjelang subuh, aku lihat kubah masjid berada di tanah. Bukan di bumbung masjid. Ajaib. Abah macam tidak nampak keganjilan itu. Aku cuit bahu dia dan tunjukkan ke arah kubah yang berada di tanah. Mungkin kubah itu tengah sujud fikir aku. " Kenapa? " tanya Abah. " Lailatuqadar " kata aku dengan jari masih menunjuk kepada kubah. "Kepala otak engkau. Berapa lama engkau tak ke masjid? " Tidak pasal-pasal aku kena marah. Rosak pengalaman suci aku ini. " Diorang tengah renovate masjid la. Bumbung masjid bocor.. pasal tu kubah tu dorg angkat letak kat tanah..Bodoh, " sambung Abah memaki lagi

~~Hanya perlukan seminit untuk menafsir seseorang, sejam untuk menyukai seseorang, dan
sehari untuk mencintai seseorang, Tapi.....,perlu seumur hidup untuk melupakan seseorang~~~

All in a day's work

2009-08-24T19:19:00.002+08:00

Accident on returning to the office form bank..

Dzuhr