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  I’ve been reading the Quran translations lately. At first I thought it might be a wee bit dry, but I make full use of today’s advanced technology I’m a modern Muslimah eh? :p Anyways, I downloaded a Quran Translation Software in English Version to my phone! Alhamdulillah, I’m enjoying and loving it. Whenever I couldn’t shut my eyes at night, Quran software is just a click away. There was a time during my pre-hijab days, all that I know is that Quran have all the answers to your questions. I know that everything is in there. But being heedless dulu, I didn’t have the heart to look up to the translation. I was being narrow-minded to think that the Malay translation was a bit complicated for me to understand. And I didn’t even make an effort to look for English Quran translations. To be frank, I never thought English Quran translations exist! Yes, I was shallow -.-” Alhamdulillah, Allah has given me lots of pertunjuk and has made his right path visible to my eyes.

Let me share something worth knowing and worth thinking with all my habibi here.

How far do you know about your religion, Islam?

How far do you understand your religion, Islam?

Is there even a difference between knowing and understanding our great religion, Islam?

Lets take a typical example of whats happening in our country Brunei Darussalam these days. Religious studies is available in almost all schools in Brunei. In government schools, this noble subject is compulsory to all the students, regardless of their races and religions. Meaning to say that even the Chinese, Indians or any other races need to learn about our religion as a subject. Sad to say that most of the times, they are the ones who score higher marks in IRK (religious studies) than the Muslims themselves. We know our religion because we learned it in school. They know our religion because they learned it in school too! But again, a very disappointing fact but true, the Muslims are just similar to the non-Muslims because majority of the Muslims failed to understand our noble religion, Islam. Shouldn’t we be ashamed of this people? Us Muslims, do not want to be like the non-Muslims. So sahabat-sahabat ku, lets do our duty as a Muslim. Usahakanlah.

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Kita gunakan otak kita untuk mengetahui agama kita. Tapi untuk memahami agama kita, kita tidak gunakan otak, tetapi kita gunakan hati kita. To understand our religion, we need our heart to do its job. We use our heart to appreciate ayat-ayat Allah , not our brains my dear friends. We will never understand Islam using our brains. Why? It’s like when you learn the sciences, mathematics and all, all those subjects need our brains! Blerrgh. But bila kita read novels, boleh menangis di buat nya kan? Why? Because kita baca gunakan hati. I’m speaking of the FEEEEEEELLL. Why can’t we understand our Quran dengan hati kita? Rather than just reciting the Quran without understanding its meaning? I tell you, Quran can make you cryyy pun! So we should have that FEEEEEEL when we understand and appreciate Quran.

” Ketahuilah bahawa dalam setiap jasad itu ada seketul daging yang apabila ia baik, maka baiklah seluruh jasad dan apabila ia rosak, maka rosaklah seluruh jasad. Ketahuilah ia adalah hati.” 

(Hadith Sahih Bukhari.)

So sahabat-sahabat ku, it is a must to cleanse our heart. Why? Because basically our heart is rusty with all the minor and major sins we’ve done intentionally or not. But how? La Tahzan. We have our ‘life-manual’, Al-Quran. We can always cleanse our heart by reciting the magnificent Quran. At the same time, when we recite the Quran, Allah is ‘talking’ to us. And when we pray, we are ‘talking’ to Allah The Almighty. Masya Allah .

Always remind yourself with these Quran Verses:

Remind yourself of WHY are you on this earth?

” And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me. “

” I do not desire from them any sustenance and I do not desire that they should feed Me. “

” Surely Allah is the Bestower of sustenance, the Lord of Power, the Strong. ”

( Quran Verse; 51:56-58 ) 

Masya Allah . This verse is one of my favorite verses!

I hope you learn something from this post, Insya Allah .

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Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to change to be a better person, repent and fully submit to Allah ? Not just that, in order to achieve that we will definitely go through a lot of dugaan. Dugaan in terms of what’s happening to your surroundings. Especially when we are around a group of people, a group of family & friends, today’s trend and all. Basically just our surroundings. This dugaan, my dear readers is a test from Allah . When we promised to Allah that we want to change, we want to repent and submit to Him Allah The Almighty, Allah will give us test by test to check if we keep our promise to him and if we protect our Iman or not.

6:116 – ” Dan jika kamu mengikuti kebanyakkan orang di bumi ini, nescaya mereka akan menyesatkan dari jalan Allah . Yang mereka ikuti hanya persangkaan belaka dan mereka hanyalah membuat kebohongan. “

To get rid of being influenced by our surroundings is to have a group of friends who has the same ‘intention’ as ours. That way, we can remind each other of our idleness or our wrongdoings. Alhamdulillah, I have my group of friends/sisters which absolutely helped me a lot. (: And yes, Allah tested me many-many times already. -.- Iman goes up and down. I definitely have lots and lots more to learn to keep my Iman safe (:

Let me just share with all of you here a little bit about Iman.

Iman is like an Anti Virus Program. An AVP protects our computer from any virus and makes sure that the computer is ‘clean’. This program can run on its own manually or we can set it to run automatically. Hmm -.- now lets apply it to our Iman. Each and every single day we must update our Iman. How is it similar to the AVP? How do we actually update our Iman manually? So, basically we upate our Iman manually by doing amal ibadah (: e.g. our solat 5 times a day, learning/tarbiyyah, attending majlis ilmu and etc. And how do we update our Iman automatically? It is when Allah tests us. Dapatkah inda kitani protect our Iman? Kuat kah Iman kitani to not fail the test Allah gives to us? Thats why my dear readers, we need to update our Iman everyday to protect our Iman hence to remove all the rust in our heart. Insyallah. (:

Okie, hopefully this short post of mine is useful & helpful

I shall be on hiatus now. exam, exam! -.-

Salaaaaaaam to all (:

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Should I apologize for the lack of update? (:

Before it’s too late, Eid Mubarak to all Muslims out there. Maaf Zahir & Batin.

So, I’m not gonna type much here. But I have something to share with all of you here.

Go on and read (:

Siapakah orang yang sombong?

Orang yang sombong adalah orang yang di beri penghidupan tapi tidak mahu sujud pada yang menjadikan kehidupan itu iaitu Allah Rabbul alaamin, Tuhan sekelian alam. Maka bertasbihlah segala apa yang ada di bumi dan langit pada TuhanNya kecuali jin dan manusia yang sombong diri.

Siapakah orang yang kuat?

Orang yang kuat ialah orang yang dapat menahan kemarahannya ketika ia dalam kemarahan.

Siapakah orang yang telah mati hatinya?
Orang yang telah mati hatinya adalah orang yang diberi petunjuk melalui ayat-ayat Quran, Hadis dan cerita-cerita kebaikan namun merasa tidak ada apa-apa kesan di dalam jiwa untuk bertaubat.

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