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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Israk Mikraj

Selamat menyambut Israk Mikraj kepada muslimin dan muslimin.

Sedikit pengisian agama berkaitan Israk Mikraj yg dipetik dari blog Ustaz Abdul Halim Abdullah.
Mari kita hayati:

“Katakan (kepada mereka), ‘Kamu lihatlah apa yang terdapat di langit dan di bumi’..”(Surah Yunus:101). Dari 2 butir pasir di bumi hingga apa sahaja termasuk planet saling menarik antara satu sama lain dengan nilai tetap yang sama di mana-mana alam ini, G=6.67428×10E(-11)m3kg-1s-2 dalam formula F=Gm1m2/r(2) !! Subhanallah !! - Kenangan subjek Physics masa Matriculation 1983 di Australia. (Foto oleh NASA).

Pada hari Jumaat 4.7.2008 (1 Rejab) yang lalu, kita memasuki bulan Rejab yang didalamnya berlaku peristiwa Israk Mikraj yang bersejarah. Peristiwa tersebut bukan sahaja menunjukkan kekuasaan Allah swt di atas sekelian makhluqNya dan benarnya kenabian Muhammad saw, bahkan ianya juga membuka ufuk pemikiran dan cita-cita manusia sejagat dari hanya sekadar terhad kepada muka bumi ini semata-mata kepada cakerawala ciptaan Allah swt yang amat luas dan jauh, siap untuk diamati untuk lebih kita mengenali Tuhan Pencipta Agung, siap untuk diterokai agar manusia memperlengkap dan meninggikan kualiti ilmu pengetahuan demi memenuhi cita-cita tersebut.

Setelah kewafatan Khadijah ra, pendokong moral dan material perjuangan Baginda saw dan kewafatan Abu Talib, pelindung Baginda saw dari ancaman fisikal oleh kafir Quraisy pada Tahun Kesedihan, Dakwah Islam berada diposisi paling tenat disegi saikologi Nabi saw dan para Sahabat ra sendiri, maupun disegi tiadanya kemasukan baru ke dalam agama Islam dari kalangan penduduk Mekah. Dengan azam tidak menyerah kepada keadaan, Baginda saw mencuba nasib, mencari peluang baru untuk Dakwah ini di Taif, 80 km dari Mekah, namun harapan dan sangkaan Baginda saw meleset. Di Taif, Dakwah tidak diterima, Pendakwah dihina dengan dibaling batu oleh penduduknya. Pintu Dakwah ditahun ini hampir tertutup. Namun Allah swt melalui Surah Huud, mengarahkan Nabi saw terus beristiqamah menjalankan amal Dakwah ini meredah fasa-fasa gelap yang sedang menyelubunginya, tanpa isteri yang mendorong dan tanpa bapa saudara yang melindung. “Shayyabatni Huud” (Surah Huud telah mengubankan rambutku !!).

MasyaAllah !! Setelah 9 bulan perjalanan, Amerika menjejakkan alatnya di planet Marikh pada 25.6.2008 lalu dan hari ini menunjukkan fotonya kepada umat manusia di bumi. Tanah Marikh diambil dan dianalisa. Foto ini boleh tiba ke bumi dengan pantasnya, melalui perantaraan apa? Orang kafir sibuk meneroka alam baru sedang umat Islam pula sibuk melayan tuntutan Kuasa-kuasa Besar Dunia dan bercakaran sesama sendiri.

Allah swt tidak membiarkan Rasul Akhir Zaman berpanjangan dalam kemuraman seperti itu. Dakwah ini harus dipacu hingga berjaya bukan sahaja di Mekah, tetapi ke seluruh dunia, merangkumi sekelian jin dan manusia. Pada malam 27 Rejab ~620M, Jibril mengejutkan Rasulullah saw dari lamunan malam dan mengisyaratkan kepada Baginda saw bahawa kenderaan Buraq telah siap di luar sana untuk membawanya ke Masjidil Aqsa di Palestin, naik meredah 7 petala langit, ke Sidradul Muntaha melalui Baitul Makmur, memenuhi undangan Allah swt. Di Masjidil Aqsa Baginda bersolat mengimami kesemua para rasul, melihat bandar Baitul Maqdis, memilih susu dan menolak arak. Di langit, Baginda bertemu sebahagian para rasul, diperlihatkan gelagat penghuni-penghuni Syurga dan Neraka serta tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah swt yang lain. Di Sidratul Muntaha, Baginda diwahyukan Allah swt apa yang hendak diwahyukan olehNya, termasuk kewajipan Solat, ibadah yang paling utama.

Tidak seperti roket yang hanya dipakai buang sekali sahaja disetiap pelancaran dan operasi, “space shuttle” berjaya dicipta Amerika bertindak seperti teksi antara langit dan bumi, boleh diguna berulangkali. Setakat ini 4 buah space shuttle iaitu Columbia (dilancarkan pada 12.4.1981, tepat 20 tahun selepas Yuri Gagarin, manusia pertama ke angkasalepas), Challenger, Endeavour dan Atlantis telah dihasilkan. Tiap satu memakan belanja setahun budget seluruh negara sedang membangun di dunia.

Sekembalinya Nabi saw ke Mekah dari langit, kekuatan Baginda saw untuk berdakwah lebih kental. Segelintir orang Islam murtad kerana tidak dapat menerima hakikat boleh berlakunya peristiwa Muhammad saw pergi ke Palestin dan langit serta kembali semula dalam malam yang sama. Para Sahabat ra yang lain bertambah keyakinan dan kekaguman mereka kepada Nabi tercinta. Bagi Nabi saw pula, melihat sendiri kesudahan manusia di Syurga dan Neraka sudah cukup memberi motovasi penuh untuk menyelamatkan mereka didunia lagi, sebelum mereka menempuh alam Pengadilan dan Pembalasan, belum lagi berpeluang menerima wahyu langsung dari Allah swt di Sidratul Muntaha. Tiga tahun selepas itu, keimanan baru, lebih tinggi dan teruji inilah yang menjadi asas kepada Hijrah dan penegakkan Negara Islam di Madinah.

Ini foto bersejarah kerana kali pertama foto bumi diambil dari angkasalepas (pada ketinggian 300 kilometer). Foto ini diambil oleh Yuri Gagarin, angkasawan Rusia dan manusia ketiga ke angkasalepas pada 12.4.1961, selepas Nabi Isa as (selepas percubaan membunuhnya) dan Rasulullah saw (dalam peristiwa Israk Mikraj).

Dari sinopsis ringkas peristiwa Israk Mikraj, dapat disimpulkan sebahagian pengajaran berguna untuk umat selepasnya dan kita seperti berikut :

  1. Kehebatan dokongan isteri, kerukunan rumahtangga adalah salah satu asas kejayaan dalam diri Pendakwah dan Dakwah itu sendiri.
  2. Perlindungan seperti yang diberi oleh sesiapa contohnya Abu Talib, biar pun dia bukan seorang Islam, adalah penting dalam memastikan Islam berkembang tanpa gangguan terutamanya di fasa awalnya.
  3. Kepentingan Masjidil Aqsa dan Palestin di dalam perjuangan Uslam dan umat.
  4. Dengan Nabi saw menjadi imam semua para Rasul yang lain di Masjidil Aqsa, hari ini dan selepas ini, umat Islam mestilah menjadi imam (pemimpin dan pembimbing) kepada umat-umat yang lain, dan bukan sebaliknya seperti yang berlaku hari ini. Umat Islam mesti bekerja ke arah itu.
  5. Solat adalah ibadah terpenting dalam Islam. Di Hari Kiamat, tidak dinilai amalan-amalan lain jika solatnya dinilai sebagai gagal.
  6. Iman pendokong-pendokong perjuangan Islam, termasuk para Sahabat ra akan terus menerus melalui proses penapisan, untuk membeza dan mengasingkan permata dari kaca.
  7. Negara Islam tertegak bila ada jemaah manusia yang bersedia memikul tanggungjawab tersebut dengan keimanan yang telah teruji seperti para Sahabat ra.
  8. Umat Islam dituntut melihat cakerawala dan kehebatan penciptaannya, bukan terhad atau terkongkong kepada apa yang ada di bumi sahaja.

Masjid Kubah Batu (Pelancaran), di tengah-tengah Masjidil Aqsa, Palestin. Di sini tempat pelancaran kenderaan Buraq membawa Rasulullah saw ke Sidratul Muntaha, menembusi 7 petala langit dan Baitul Makmur. Hari ini ia ditawan oleh Yahudi yang dilaknat Allah swt. Pembebasannya sebelum Hari Kiamat dijamin Allah swt. Bila ? Siapa pembebasnya ? Apa ciri-ciri mereka ? Bagaimana mereka dididik (dihasilkan) ?

Marilah kita sama-sama merai dan memperingati peristiwa bersejarah dan besar ini, dengan mengatur atau menghadiri ceramah mengenainya. Jauh lebih itu ialah mencedok pengajaran-pengajaran darinya untuk kehidupan berkeluarga bersama anak isteri dan perjuangan bersama-sama teman-teman yang beriman. Sekian.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Handover Notes

Uh!Oh! It's time to prepare the handover notes....

But handover to whom?

Had a small talk (very short one!) with that evil boss just now. I think he's in denial stage that I'm leaving....hahaha. Bukan perasan dia suka saya tau.....I think he knows I hate him. But he needs me!!!

And why do I said he's in denial stage? Because he refuse to discuss on the works that I have and suppose to pass to somebody. I tried to discuss about it earlier in the late morning, but he shut me up by saying 'until the day you leave'. Hello!!!!! That day is in 2 days and I hate last minute things, ok! And not that he was busy...he was playing solitaire, mind you!

I know without me around, he would be helpless (not only me saying this, but the whole project team). He's the remote controller. And what is there to remote control when the human device is not available?

Client needs report? Info?

"Ros, prepare bla,bla, bla, I want it tomorrow"

Client visits site early in the morning?

"Ros, this En. A is coming tomorrow. You entertain him"

And all minutes of meeting, progress report, bla and bla....I wonder who's going to do it.

As far as I'm concerned, the HQ has not said anything about sending somebody to replace me. And looking at the condition now, I don't think they would because the works is not so much now. Resident Engineer should be able to do these works without his ARE.

I love to hear if he is in the mess later on (mmg ku tidak punya hati yg baik). It serves him right! But I know if he's miserable, he will mess up other people too. Like, probably asking the supervisor to do stuff he's not supposed to do. And this project is like my baby. I should take a good care of it though I'm not staying to see the plant commissioning.

So, handover notes is a must!

Monday, July 28, 2008

Is That So?

Ever since I put my resignation letter almost 2 months ago, I receive lots of questions, remarks and comments from people around me. When they heard that I have resigned, the question they'd ask was 'So which company you going to join?', instead of asking 'Why do you resign?'

When I told these people that I'm not going for a new job, but I will be a full time housewife (without telling that I'm going abroad), here are some remarks I got:

"Staying at home? Are you sure about this?"
"You have the cert. and experiences. Why you want to waste such things?"
"Your husband must be rich that now you can quit your job and stay at home, huh?"

Hmm....looks like being a housewife is a degrading move to these people.

Then, they heard that I quit my job because I'm to follow my dear cik HB furthering his studies and I receive these comments:

"Can't your husband go alone? Why must you sacrifice your career?"

"Since you are there and doing nothing, why don't you further study as well?"

"Try get a job or do business, don't waste your time there"

Hello! Doing nothing? Don't they think that taking care husband and kids is a job as well, though it's not a paid one (but we're paid by pahala if we are sincere about it, right?).

So is it wrong if a graduate mother leaves her job simply because she wants to give priority to her family?

My two precious girls

I too, heard these phrases number of times before (not meant for me, mind you!):

'Belajar tinggi-tinggi, akhirnya duduk dapur jugak'

or

'Penat2 mak ayah hantar belajar tinggi2, berhenti jaga anak, buat apa?'

Actually if dear cik HB doesn't further his study abroad, quitting job definitely not in my plan, at least not yet. Because other than helping in paying our daily expenses, I'm also giving monthly allowance to my parents. And now with increasing price of almost everything, of course, I would choose to be working.

But it's a married life, when one spouse gets a better chance to upgrade his career, don't you think that the other half must sacrifice? And to live separately for 2 years time......I think I would be so selfish not to follow dear cik HB and it's not fair to the children as well. Besides, there is no financial problems for the family to go along. And we have done some calculation, with the money that cik HB will receive, we can still give monthly allowance to both sides of our parents.

And my career is not at the peak too, I'm still the underpaid engineer, I hate my job, so what's the big deal about quitting my job? Of course I'm aware that if I'm not working for 2 years period of time, chances for me to get the job that I have now is very slim. Anyway, I never thought of working back as engineer. I'm thinking to further study after we come back or I would find a job that is not so demanding. My priority now is my children. I want to spend more quality time with them.

Anyway I don't intend to put aside the idea that I should be studying or working while I'm staying there. I'll see how are the things there. If the opportunity is there, why not?

Whatever it is, I am redha with the choice I make. So 'shuh-shuh' all the negative remarks!

Friday, July 25, 2008

How Sad.....

My heart sank when I read news on a father who suicided after he murdered his two small children. (For more details read here)

I don't understand. First of all, he's a Muslim and self-suicide is a big sin in Islam. Secondly, if you want to be dead, why must your kids die too? I understand this guy was miserable because of his marriage is falling apart. His family said he was a doting father and took turn taking care of the children. How could a doting father kill his own kids? Is this a way to protest to the wife that he didn't want a divorce? To make the wife suffer her whole life, thinking that she is the reason for the death of his husband and children? Like, the news of a mother who killed her kid to revenge her adulterous husband?

True enough we do not know what is it actually going on.....

But one thing for sure, we must have strong iman while going through our life. Life is very challenging, it's up to each of us how we would face it.

Semoga Allah s.w.t melindungi kita semua.......

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Flight Schedule

Yesterday cik HB showed me the flight itinerary he has received from his office to fly to Germany. Though I don't really feel that 6/9 is coming very soon but when he showed me that, then only I have realized that 'Oh! Dah dekat rupanya nak pergi sana'.

Cik HB has to book the flight by now. He's not doing the booking process of course, all will be done by his office but he needs to confirm the flight's date and time. From the itinerary, there are 4 flights to choose from but none of them is MAS and none of them a direct flight as well. Hmmm...why no MAS, eh? Shouldn't government use the national air carrier? Or is MAS expensive in comparison to others? Well, MAS or no MAS, we can't say much, it's not paid by us. It's good enough we still have few options to choose from.

The options we have:

1. Kuwait Airways : KL-Bahrain-Frankfurt
2. Gulf Air: KL-Bahrain-Frankfurt
3. Thai Airways : KL-Bangkok-Frankfurt
4. Emirates Air : KL-Dubai-Frankfurt

Thai Airways is definitely big No-No. And flight at noon also not in our consideration. So we chose Emirates Air. The departure will be at 12.55 a.m and we would be arriving there at 3.55 a.m (Dubai's local time). Then the next flight to Frankfurt will be at 8.25 a.m. I guess that's the best time to be on flight with two small kids. Hopefully they would be sleeping all the way. And it's fasting month! Gosh, it's going to be challenging...

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Plan Re-schedule

Soon obviously is pretty much soon......hahaha (in reference to the last statement of my previous post) I can't help it, I have this urge to blog, so here I am again.

Dear cik HB is supposed to go for his BTN course tomorrow. And because of that, my mum came to stay at my house to accompany me and the kids. But yesterday morning he called me, sounded pretty much disappointed, saying that he couldn't go to that BTN. Apparently the clerk who is supposed to confirm to the BTN on cik HB's participation, did not do so and because of that the place for cik HB has been taken by other people. Karenah biroksi sungguh, kan?

The thing is, we have nicely arranged our plan for August (We even typed it, printed it and pasted it on the fridge door). 9/8/08 should be the target date we move things out from our rented house in Melaka (but we intend to keep the house until mid-Sept, just in case). Other than that, we plan to go back to KB much earlier before my SIL's wedding to help out. Now that cik HB has to go for BTN course on 7/8, and to wait for the result to come out and then handling all the necessary documents, looks like we have to reschedule our plan. And how I hate reschedule...arrggg!!!

And time is running out.....late BTN's result, means late KPT's letter leading to late money to receive! Can we really fly to Germany on 6/9 as we have planned? Hmm....just wait and see lah.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Counting Days...

Only this week and next week.....yeeha!!!!

But I have to limit my time on the Net in order to finish all my outstanding works before my last working day on 31th July. Furthermore, my PC is cranky now, apparently it has some problems related to Window memory low and if I'm online, my PC keeps shutting down on error. So if I were having some works with Excel or Words, they are just gone missing. Well, Words not that bad cause the recovery system is good but Excel....huh!

So friends, if you don't see me on YM or blog has not been updated, you know why. I have to work hard, ok....

See you soon......