Truncated Lives....

Prof,

We met just now in the evening along the hospital corridor.

You told me your cancer has recurred. You must have been in a state of shock at 1st impact, I am sure.

One hour earlier I visited a friend of mine with severe dilated congestive cardiomyopathy,  a serious heart failure condition. He, at best only have  'X' days to live, in my estimation, only on statistical ground.

All of us only have 'X' days   to live technically speaking, only that most of us take for granted that that 'X' days  is automatically translated as being, 15 to 20 years!!

Which bring me to an anecdote which i can recall in my clinic the other day. A mak chik in her late 70's asked me for sleeping pills to cure her insomnia. I retorted, much to the happiness of he accompanying son, that, " Mak Haji, at your age and mine, not being able to sleep is a blessing!.....we have been sleeping much too long all our lives! Do the tahajjud, the hajat and the tasbeeh......and if you dont find pleasure in this , watch cnn or aljazira...".

Life is, just at best, a number of measured, already actuated, already accounted for, and precalculated, number of breaths. If you are apportioned a total of 'Z' breaths in your lifetime and you have reached your sixth decades and three and used already 'Y' number of breath, you have only ' Z - Y ' breaths left!

Simple arithmetic we all choose to forget.

I was woken up at 2 am  just now still thinking what practical advice I could offer both of you guys apart from advising both of you to get the best technological and medical treatment that 2015 has to offer. 

Actually off the cuff, I would have blurted it out right away in the hospital corridor to you but political correctness and politeness prevented me from doing so.

I find myself still stuck to a famous tabi'in, Hasan al Basri's advisory on life, his trilogy of :

1. Solat [ in your situation, 'extreme situation' requires 'extreme measures',throw in  daily Tahajjud, Tasbeeh , Taubat , Israq and Dhuha as well....they are therapeutic. And if you want to add a wee bit of stevia, daily hajat prayer will not harm you. That is DOA, also another form of Zikrullah ]

2. Daily dose of Qu'ran [ with some understanding, would be infinitely better ]. The accent is on daily. Does not matter the size of the dose. Like low dose aspirin, which is in vogue nowadays, daily dose of Qur'an, even in small quantity, is effective. The smaller the dose, the bigger the reflection.

3. And thirdly,Zikr [ lots and lots of it ]

Especially Zikr. 24 hours of Zikr would not make one mad. It is the antidote and panacea of all ills.

And one more thing, and I am not trying to be better than Hasan here.

Lots of taubatan nasuha.

Taubatan nasuha is part of Zikr thus Hasan al Basri sticked to his trilogy.

Just sleep on this thot:

Allah promised the new Muslim revert to erase all his sins if he says ' laila haillallah...' and if that revert dies that day, he is promised automatic Jannah!

And here we are , 50, 60 years being nominal Muslims, with our occasional solat, zikr and all......

You have your Solat, and your Qu'ran and your Zikr and lots  and lots of Taubat.....albeit quite late in life.

So what?

You are OK.

Insyaallah.

Dr Nik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMhVwM7Ovs

[ Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson on Zikr ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKBf3kGbbg

[ Shaykh Muhammad al Yacoubi ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJ8neV3wYU

[ Shaykh Muhammad al Ninowy.....Levels of Zikr ]


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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 03:14:32 +0800
Subject: Re: truncated lives.......
From: nj@gmail.com
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

Dear Dr Nik

Thank you for the guidance to preparing myself to face the inevitable reality. My meeting with you that Wednesday was part of His Grand plan. I have been going to the hospital for consultations with the oncologist many times but never have i crossed path with you before. But that very day when I received my blood results of the cancer marker God had willed it for me to meet you for a purpose. 

When you  personally emailed your thoughts and advice to me,  it made me reflect further the purpose of that meeting. Every word you said aptly describe  the state of my soul and my health condition. Your  response to my disappointment(which may be more obvious to you than anybody else) is reflected further in your email. Such a response is just what I needed and which I didnt even realise. Most friends who knew abt my recent progress would give me  standard responses such as "take care of yourself" and "have faith in the Almighty." Masha Allah I shouldn't complain for those are encouraging phrases to keep one strong in the face of life's trials. I thank God for such friends. But your response contains the message which I have been thinking about a lot lately.  

The time given to me by God is measured. No one knows when Allah SWT will call us back from this world. My illness is actually an opportunity, not an end. I ask: Have I completed my mission in life? Have I done my best to please God? But you are certainly right--- move on, give yourself a chance by preparing for the inevitable. Dont waste anymore time. The time is measured.

 What is important--act fast before the time comes. Thank you Dr Nik. I have shared your writing with close friends. They said masha Allah it is a reminder for those who forget and need to be reminded of the measured life by God and of the Day that we will all face, that is, to answer for all our deeds. I'm most grateful to Allah SWT for giving me the chance to  meet you on that day. May Allah continue to have mercy on us.

With respect
Nj

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On 5 Nov 2015 07:53, "Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah" <drnikisahak@hotmail.com> wrote:

Prof,

tq and I hope you don't mind if i publish your response under a pseudonym of course, for general 'kebaikan bersama' .

But if you have any reservation i would not.

There are ways and ways to occupying  oneself in HIS remembrance.

Science based individuals like you and myself will put it as 'unlimited permutations and combinations'.

But here is just one way on how you might want to start your day, if you may allow me to bore you.

Hopefully it would just serve as a guide and you may want to personalize it to your favourite one, adding here and 'minusing' there, as you get better and better in your remembrance , as you go along the path.

[     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEf5l2cuoo  ]

I assume here you are still having your work and career to content with, but this suggestion is still  very 'dowable ', even if you are working fulltime. You just need to make some adjustment to how you go about in your waking hours day .

Try to keep your night in remembrance and this require some change in your sleeping pattern ie sleep early, say after isyak and wake up at 3 or 4 am, 1 to 2 hours before subuh daily.

This is the best hours. Having a short nap post Zohor would certainly help.

Start your qiam with astagfirullah , say 30, 40, of your favourite ones, short one will do.   
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSoO0OCRHk  ].  
Then do a cycle or two or three of tahajjud.

Another 30 to 40 astagfirullah, followed by a cycle of tasbeeh prayer of 4 rakaats. This is specially illuminating.

Punctuated again by another cycle of astagfirullah.

Followed by a cycle or two cycles hajat prayers.

My favourite is, when I have the time, to do 2 cycles of two rakaat each, with 99 kulhuawallah total, 9 in the 1st rakaat, 20 in the second. 30 in the 1st rakaat of the second cycle followed by 40 in the second rakaat. 99 kulhuallah in all. Don't ask me where I learn it. It was years back from a 'Tok guru', I have forgotten his name.

Purists may have 'some ' reservations about both hajat and tasbeeh prayers but we do not want to go into debates on this. There are scholars who strongly recommend it and there are cynics who say, NO! Nabi did not do it. [ as if they were there during Nabi's time! ]. If they want to remain at their level  and feel at home with it, well and good. This is a free country.

After the tahajjud, the lenghty tasbih and the 99 kulhuallah hajat, it is now ' ripe  to open your heart's content to HIM and ask. Ask forgiveness....long life..health..and most importantly, husnul khatimah.

Remember you are in the realm of  the Sultan of the sultans! 

Do your two rakaat taubat prayer. More doa yet again while in sajadah position. Cry if you have too!....it would be good for you.

Polish off with your witr.

It  may be possible that you would be just in time for your subuh prayer.

otherwise 'wax and polish' all these prayers and doa with a hundred selawat on the nabi and then followed by subuh.

Post subuh, do your usual tahmid and tasbih.

Followed by fatihah 7x, an nas 7x, al falah 7x, kulhuwallah 7x, kulia 7x, kursi 7x, and the last 3 ayats of al baqarah 7x.

That would bring you to solat israq.

During the rest of the day do your tasbih, tahlil and tasmid as and when you feel your are 'witnessing' events around you unfolding right in front of your mind's eyes.

and lots of ' laila haillah huwah dahu lasyari kallah lahul mulku walahul hamdu wahuwa ala kulli syaiin qadir'

They say  your abode in jannah is a'vast empty  plain for miles and miles as far as the eyes can see' and for the owner to fill it with 'trees, garden  and a palatial home', the above two  forms of zikr will do the job!

Allahualam.

Have a wonderful journey experimenting  and 'enjoying' with your zikr.

Prof, 

Very rarely we find ourselves  sandwiched  in between the lion and the deep blue sea and unable to change the 'parameters' on the ground. You are in that rare position now.

I always believe that , even if one cannot change the paradigm  and the parameters on the ground, insyaallah, with the right attitude and focus, one can change the paradigm in one's qalb.
And in the final analysis, that is all that matters!

Since when we go to meet HIM, it is all at HIS pleasure and grace, not what we do. HE is after all al Rahman and al Rahim.

Yours sincerely,

dr nik

ps : I have omitted the use of HIS 99 beautiful names. These are for the ' specialists from amongst us 'and require a tok guru to guide you. I am just a novice. But from what I heard and read, reciting 'ya Salam, ya Salam...' or ' ya Latiff, ya Latiff...' any number of time would be good for you.

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from Nj :

Not at all Doc. 

Go ahead (even with my name on it). I'm accountable for what I wrote. You certainly woke me up and many others who I shared your writing with. I am admitted in hospital now but I doing fine alhamdullilah. 

Thank you  so much Dr Nik. May Allah SWT include you among those He is please with and reward you with Jannatul Firdauz Aamiin.

Wassalam
Nj

Similar articles in the blog :

1. http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2014/12/on-death-dyingthe-friend-revisited.html 

2.   http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2014/12/a-long-prescription-for-friend.html 

3.  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2013/11/just-visiting.html

Of Red Wine, 'Halal Pork' and The Way of Muhammad.....

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:07:38 +0800
Subject: Re: Study shows a glass of red wine at dinner good for diabetics
From: hamzah@cempaka
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

This is a scientific finding. A glass, just one glass, of red wine is good for diabetics anf heart patients. Reduces their blood sugar, and LDL levels, and raises their HDL levels.
As a cardiologist, how would you advise your patients?

AFP-Relaxnews  :.

""Between too much and not enough, the right amount for type 2 diabetics is one glass of red wine, just one. — Reuters picNEGEV, Oct 14 — One glass of red wine at dinner was found to help sufferers of type 2 diabetes sleep better, improve their metabolism and increase levels of “good cholesterol” to protect against cardiovascular disease, according to an international study.
Between too much and not enough, the right amount is one glass of red wine, just one, if possible taken at dinner. That is the conclusion of an international study published in the 13 October edition of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
The researchers, most of who were from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, studied type 2 diabetes patients controlled by drugs. The researchers said that these patients were chosen because they are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, have a lower level of “good” cholesterol and are also less inclined to drink a lot because of their condition.
Their aim, via this study, was to examine the impact, in safety and efficacy terms, of moderate intake of wine on health on this group of patients.
The team chose 224 people with type 2 diabetes who drank moderate levels of alcohol. During their evening meal, the volunteers had to drink the equivalent of 5 ounces (142 ml) of one of the following drinks: mineral water, dry white wine or dry red wine.
With a dietician’s guidance, the participants also followed a Mediterranean diet without calorific restriction for a two-year period.
Each participant had to fill in a questionnaire and undertook blood tests to identify various biological markers including glucose, lipids and markers associated with various liver functions.
Their findings indicate that the group of participants who chose to drink red wine had a greater amount of “good” cholesterol (HDL cholesterol), as well as better cholesterol ratio compared to the participants who drank water.
The researchers also noted that with the volunteers who drank wine, there was a significant reduction in the number of components of the metabolic syndrome (the presence of a combination of signs which increase the risk of acquiring diabetes, cardiac conditions and strokes, editor’s note).
The researchers found that drinking red or white wine was also associated with improved sleep.The researchers concluded that this long term study suggests that combining a healthy diet with moderate wine intake, especially red wine, helps to lower cardio-metabolic risks. "" — AFP-Relaxnews 

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tq dato,

I know you are being 'naughty' here, but I will answer you.

As what all good muslim doctors  would do.......I will look at the red wine advisory from a  more global perspective. This red wine study is certainly very good for the world red wine industry. It is great for them but this is not new This news is already 40 years old!. It keep surfacing as if it is new information. That is the nature of industries. The benefit conferred to risk reduction and protection is very minimal compared to the classical advice of :

DONT SMOKE, 
Keep your weight to your precollege days weigh IDEAL 
EXERCISE EXERCISE AND EXERCISE AND exercise.
Look after your cholestrol etc etc .
Control of hypertension if you have one
And above all , avoid and prevent the onset of diabetes

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:30:16 +0800
Subject: RE: Study shows a glass of red wine at dinner good for diabetics
From: hamzah@cempaka
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

Cuit, cuit, sahaja Doc!

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On 16 Oct 2015 8:10 am, "Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah" <drnikisahak@hotmail.com> wrote:

            I know
            This red wine thing has been there over 40 years already dato.

I think it act via anti oxidant and another pathway, but the benefit is very minimal compared to dieting, low cholesterol. exercise , control of hypertension and diabetes, no smoking et c etcetc.

In fact if one were to make an objective study on the effect of life of piety [ ie; zikrullah, solat etc etc ], on the lifespan of people already proven to have heart problem, the prolongation to life would be more significant.

But piety is not an easily quantifiable 'variable' and there is no 'industry driven' motivation to spend millions on such study.

But having said that, I always advice my non muslim patients who take alcohol to change their beer drinking habit to just a touch of 'red wine'.

For  Muslims, my accent is on walking that extra kilometre to their nearest surau for their isha and subuh prayer and 'NO CORNER BARING'.

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2011/02/unto-him-is-journeying.html ]

A footnote and disclaimer though need to be inserted here.

Despite what we cardiologists do, that sword of Damocle is always on the head for guys already proven to have coronary disease.

Some degree of uncertainty is always there, therefore when you ask me about the miniscule effect of red wine, I consider it quite peripheral...

              Consider this hypothetical scenario :

One fine morning , when you go to your school for an important board meeting,  your chairman of the board fired you summarily for no apparent reason. That same  morning CIMB Damansara phoned in to say they are foreclosing your bungalows in TTDI, Damansara Height and your London  and San marino apartments, because your massive business loan has been withdrawned , due to your apparently lack of show of public support to 'Ringgit Malaysia' in her time of need. Coming home your dear wife of 50 over years asked for an instant divorce. My God ! ..and she has always been very loving.She wants to go on in life and lives on with your business partner! Your must have not been performing, one can presume!

Your BP suddenly shot up to 240/140 . That paper-thin vessel , the circle of Willis, that all important roundabout up in the center of your brain remained intact and does not burst. Lucky you!  But this sudden burst of high pressure was too much for your coronary tree. The undiagnosed , subclinical, unimportant, 20 % narrowing  plaque in your Left Main Stem coronary artery ruptured and become suddenly 100 % block. You had it even before you can say,'abradacabra...' Not even enough time to say the shahadah.

              The news in NST the next day emblazoned on page 2:
          'Former DG Tourism, vibrant entreprenuer, educator par    excellence of Cempaka, found dead on kitchen table at his palatial Damansara Height home...foul play excluded'

          A life of piety, a zikr  and solat laden life.
          This is not easily quantifiable by any study.
          But I put it to you that it is far better than your  glass
          of red wine daily! It can help 'modulate' and 'cushion out'
          all the rough edges and uncertainties related to living this 
          transient and superficial life of ours on this earth.
       
          It is better a 1000 times than your RED WINE!

Life from my perspective is pretty fragile.

It is human to plan, but GOD directs!

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:44:28 +0800
Subject: RE: Study shows a glass of red wine at dinner good for diabetics
From: hamzah@cempaka.edu.my
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

I agree with what you say doc, to which l add the benefits of clean, unpolluted air. A study was done on a small, remote village on the Tibetan side of the Himalayan range. A statistically significant percentage of the Buddhist village elders there live actively to well over 100 years, many over 110!

They were lean and wiry, and lived on a simple diet of yogourt, unleavened bread, tofu, vegetables, nuts, tea, and occasional meat. No sugar. Basic in calories quantum. But they a do a lot of walking and climbing in the open CLEAN AIR. The air quality was very good.

The researchers monitored their bloods and found the LDL and triglycerides low, HDL high, liver and kidney functions good.

The scientists attribibuted the longivity mainly to the walks in the great open spaces, very clean air, and a simple, low calorie diet, and absence of sugar.

I am sure you would have come across this study.

H.

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To: Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah, hamzah@cempaka.edu.my

yes i do dato.

i wrote a  3-article series on ' longevity 101 ' in  my 'mutiara dan zamrud' blog [ pearls & gem ] some 7 years back.

[      https://bay182.mail.live.com/?tid=cmnR5Oc1l05RG6dgAiZMFUZg2&fid=flinbox  ]

you are welcomed to read it.

we have to be, lean, hungry and moving, and lead spiritually simple life.

easier said than done now of course in our highly geared , high level-consumerist, the more the better, economy, that is expounded everywhere today.

in the 3rd article, 'longevity and the way of rasullallah', i posed the view that at 1450 years ago rasullallah's 6 decades and three was probably equivalent to a hundred now.

he had nine wives and never failed to visit all of them in the course of a day's work; ran the affairs of  the  state and fight many  wars in the name of defence of a fledgling nation state, surrounded in the north by a belligerent super-power, the roman empire, to the west,  the  indomitable persians, in the south,  the musrikuns of mekkah and worse off, peripherally on the edge of madinah by the jews of najran and internally within madinah, the al munafikuns.; sell things in the market place for his own and family sustanence right after subuh prayer up to zohor; eat little and stopped before reaching satiety; slept immediately after isha and and do qiam around 2 or 3 in the wee hours of the morning and had a light nap after zohor, etc and etc  and etc.

and no red wine of course!

red wine is a peripheral issue.

the porcine protein [ pork ] has the lowest antigenicity to human protein and in medicine, can be beneficial.

but halal is halal. haram is haram.

in 10 years if they come up with pork that live in lab and feed on corn, and rid of dangerous parasite, and some studies show it is excellent for universal consumption, you may pose to me another questionaire.....

haram is still haramdato, i would write.
halal is halal.
God in HIS infinite wisdom,KNOWS all and HE is just testing our faith.

HE throw in 'some spanners in the engine' and see whether we 'blink or not'

same with Riba , futures trading, etc, etc etc and etc.

Seven Mountains of Gold!!.....

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 20

Subject: Malaysia
From: hamzah@cempaka
To: kadird88@, dr nik howk@hotmail.com

Today's International New York Times page 3.....

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On 8 Oct 2015 1:26 pm, "Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah" <drnikisahak@hotmail.com> wrote:

dato, 

i just wonder why currently people your stature seemed to be very quiet nowadays.

just happy with passing overseas news report here and there to friends.frankly tell me, are you worried of 'sokmo'. 

not even dare to add comments even!

dr nik howk 

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:29:46 +0800
Subject: RE: Malaysia
From: hamzah@cempaka.edu.my
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

Doc Nik. I am just a retired civil servant. A pensioner. No stature at all.
H.

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  On 8 Oct 2015 1:41 pm, "Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah" <drnikisahak@hotmail.com> wrote:

dato,

when more people of your stature, very senior  retired , high profile retired govt servants and successful business men, make more animal noise, this would give more credibility to the volume of noise from the 'raayat'.

ntr will feel he need to go faster. please do not under rate the volume of animal noise in the web and your guys' influence.

ntr is a lalang all his life. and a lalang he will always be.

          he does listen , and to him volume matters

if you examine his past record carefully, there has been nothing substantive that he did, even in this premiership of his. just swaying with the wind,that is his forte in life.

he is waiting for the right cue. for instance,the rapt from the istanas yesterday, is an avalanche. anyone who has integrity would take that to heart and reexamine his own soul and resign.

likewise,we should not under rate the influence of retired senior government servants  and people in your position as well. we just need more volume.

as it is now there is a deafening silence from this group and those of the g25. deafening silence. it is embarassing.

g25 has been too bising on matters of islam but so very quiet like a kitten on the  gross vulgarities  and excesses related to the  executive

how long we can stand these nonsensical callous behavior from numero uno, i wonder

it is suffocating, to say the least.

substantially it is bleeding the nation's foreign reserve on a daily basis, to say the least. ask zeti akhtar if you dont believe me. the game they play to support the weak ringgit!
how many more billion rm of our reserve left??

......but for you guys,currently, at least it seemed to me ,it is like  'cari makan as usual'

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:13:38 +0800
Subject: RE: Malaysia
From: hamzah@cempaka.edu.my
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

Doc
The G25 was formed, and is only concerned with, the vital issue of constitutional jurisdiction. It was not meant to comment on other political or financial issues, no matter how serious and important they may be. 
That is how l understand their raison de'tre

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om: drnikisahak@hotmail.com
To: hamzah@cempaka.edu.my
CC: azmiwanham
Subject: RE: Malaysia
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:14:22 +0800

dato,

very sad, if that is indeed their only reason for existence!

i guess they have  selective myopia to start with and a very narrow outlook to politics.

lord reid has been dead for almost more than half a century and who are these g25 anyway, 'muslim kah depa' or are there melayu with too much cheese for their own good!?

typical senior govt servitude to not come into confrontation with those who govern and determine the quantum of one's pension

just yesterday, a senior retired judge , somehow related to me via marriage , also 3 years my senior at mckk, proudly parade in the malay mail , was so proud that he has been invited to join the g25. I am not going to be personal but if you ask me, i would not join g25 even if people promise me 20 million rm!!! not even 50 million rm or 100. come think about it, not even seven mountains of gold!

 you can ask me why? i will answer you.

if i am a retired judge ,or a retired ambassador just back from my champange filled days in europe or america, or a retired dg of some important ministries, and

even if i am   relatively ignorant of the meaning and ramifications of HIS divine letters, i would just keep my mouth shut  and stay in the sideline. it is better that way.

being in g25 is akin to drawing a definitive line in the sand......saying NO to Allah's  divine advisories is no small matter. i would rather keep it in my chest, so that in yaumiddin, i would not be held accountable. let the top amenu politicians do it. leave it to them. they are, at least from their recent behaviour, quite Godless. at least there is no inkling of an iota of  fear of god in their most recent behaviour. even the godless japanese would have done a harakiri of sort by now, given the gravity of their missdeeds.

i do not mind drawing sword with ntr. the worst case scenario is that i would get to see dr m  and his lawyer brian chung as my neighbours.

but if you draw lines in the sand against  Allah, you are trading your posterity. and that is for eternity

if ex ambassadors, and ex judges  and ex dg's know their quran a wee bit more, they will be more careful. that is my 'not so humble opinion', if you may.

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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 09:11:00 +0800
Subject: RE: Malaysia
From: hamzah@cempak
To: drnikisahak@hotmail.com

I think you refer to the retired Appeals Court judge .

I do not know him personally but, from his work on the Bench, think he is an honourable man. I studied Law at Middle Temple, and l think he is a judge who understands Jurisprudence well. Our Constitution is Secular in content, meaning there is a SEPARATION between individual belief and the State powers.

As a judge he took an oath to uphold the law in context of the Constitution, just like you took the Hyppocratic oath when you started to practice Medicine. In our system, The Agong, Sultans, Parliament, the Cabinet, and the Judiciary, are all PART of the Constitution, never above it. Justice Hishamuddin was true to his oath. That was why he joined the G 25 when he retired.

I think he has no sympathy with theocracy, having seen and deeply understands the modern examples of blood-lust ISIS and KSA, and many others in the OIC. Our Constitution protects us from such dangers.

Hence my view diverges from yours.

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From: drnikisahak@hotmail.com
To:  hamzah@cempaka.edu.my; 
Subject: FW: Malaysia
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:56:50 +0800

dato,

personalities aside, g25 is a great letdown. does not matter it is not within the ambit of their term of reference, as you say earlier.

nothing personal.

as a group they are very quiet , almost total deafening silence on the issue of ntr's gross intransigence, morally and legally.

on islam they make too much noise against it

my pakmat nyadap of pasir puteh , the proverbial uncouth , uneducated chap from kelantan, would exclaim:

guano demo ning. pasa islae gege machae nok pecoh bumi.

pasa najib , tok bunying lasong. senyap macae orghe bisu.

if pak mat is from kuala ketil he would ask:

'depa ni, sekolah kat pondok mana?'

again i would reiterate i would not join g25, even if you promise me the world

i do not want to exchange my posterity even if you can give me seven mountains of gold!

allah put it more succintly, in al baqarah i think, i have forgotten the exact ayat:

" ...these clowns sell my ayats for a few ringgit....", and i do not have to add what HE promised these people.

and talking about the ringgit ringgit lately, it has gone up to 4.10 sen to the dollar.

malaysians can sigh some relief.

but my friends in bank negara, they are having heartburn seeing our reserve diminishing by the days to support even 4.10

when is najib going to end his madness and call it a day ?

not that it is going to solve our problem rightaway because we have very very senior people in the present cabinet who have been known to accept outright bribes of even 500k  rm cash in school bag in his office several years back!!!!

i know this for a fact.
i know who gave it and to whom, but as a gentleman i will keep it a secret.

this is the level of governance that we have collectively sunk to.

not only we do not have the institutions.

we do not even have the people.

so, dato, are we at all surprised to hear from the ag's office today that oneamgedebe does need to answer anything!!!!!!!! 
the  chap who broke the not so unexpected news was, i recall in his younger days, just  a bag carrier during the  celebrated mona fandi trial. 
'cari makan punya pasal' , he remains a bag carrier. 
but he deserve an instant tansriship by our present malaysian standard.

and all these clowns in the present cabinet can say is that the royal council is not quite serious in their deliberation..

oh common, hishamuddin tun hussien, dont be stupid...
we all know what the sultans are alluding to.

ntr , PLEASE RESIGN Sir!
so that justice can be done or seen to be done.
if you have to go to prison, go to prison please.
at least by your example , malaysia can move on to greater height.
that would be your greatest contribution.

dr nik howk