Monday, December 26, 2016
UMRAH.......on to the next level
ru, joe, nina , shasha and yazman,
ok guys, you have all completed 5 makkan days following tabung haji's directives from their small booklet to the T.
now papa want you guys to move to the next level. let us all leave the ground level piazza and move on to the next level, to the upper level floor.
join me here for tawaf sunat minimum twice a day for more 'exercise'! it is 0.9 to 1 km in circumference and the whole exercise will take us about 2 hours if we walk daintily and slowly.
with the hard marbled floor and just your stockinged feet, papa would advice that you guys do just that: walk slowly and daintily. or else you will get plantar faciitis in no time , and our spiritual and physical experiment in the masjidil haram will fail right after the 1st attempt!
papa do not want that to happen because papa want to share with you some of the secrets that the haram has to offer, if just its millions and millions of adherrents care to consider.
let us leave the 'too noisy indonesians , malaysians, turks and bangla with their cacaphony of group zikr and oftentimes 'irritating and noisy' and distracting group chanting on the ground floor of the 'mataaf', the pearl white marbled floor of the piazza surrounding the kaabah..
let us also leave those people who are too busy clicking their way in tawaf doing 'selfies' and answering calls on their handphones, to themselves. too many of these nowadays!
come children! join me on the 1st floor.
papa has not entirely abandoned the piazza yet, but when the crowds get busy and noisy, papa go to the relative peace of the upper levels.
over here let us throw away all pre-prepared long doa's and standard chantings.
it is a silent world up on the upper level.....we do zikrullah silently up here,
zikr of the heart rather than the lisan, the mouth.
we have the Qur'an, the 99 names of the asma ul husna and the tasbih, tahmid and tahlil to choose from.
any one of them in xcombination.
the permutations and combinations are endless!
on the upper level papa has even done away with 'la illa haillallah' .
and why not!?
right here, around the kaaabah, 'la illa haillallah' seems superflous.
if you have so far reached the haram, it is a given thing already!
HE is the one. the only substantive one. the rest, including all of us, living and non living, are non entities!
papa's favourite for the 1st round is 'ya allah'
it encompasses all the 99 names.
it is indefinable.
the 2nd is 'ya rahman'.
Allah's mercy does not differentiate whether you are buddhists, christians, jews, muslims or downright secular. HE is mercy to everyone, including the stones and birds....
then we move on to 'ya rahim'.
while 'ya rahman' is for everyone, 'ya rahim' is extra special. 'ya rahim' is only for the people who submit.
by the beginning of the 4th circumbulation, you guys must have covered some three plus kilometres.
tired feet and sore muscles.....but 'ya hayyu ya quyyum', the ever living and the eternal, will soldier you on.
then on to 'ya rabb ya zaljalaliwal ikram'.
you guys will be energized and motivated by now.
if by the beginning of the sixth circumbulation, 'ya fattah ya razak ya wahab ya ghoniy ya mughni' fail to excite you, papa will be utterly disappointed. these most beautiful names are about power, richness, generousity and benevolence.
some shyakhs and tok gurus even dare to suggest that if one make this 'mantra' a daily occurrence, one's life will be 'rich'.
papa is not into this
finally we finish our tawaf with 'ya khadeem,ya daim, ya ahad ya wahid ya samad'.
the one who has no beginning, no ending, no equal , the one and only and the eternal.
you guys have four more makkan days to elevate yourselves beyond the din and commonness of everyday life.
after that we leave for kuala lumpur, back to our ordinariness and oftentimes daily chores and rigours.
when we circumbulate the kaabah, our hearts and mind are focussing on the Owner of the kaabah, the 'ya fattah, ya razak, ya wahab, ya ghoniy ya mughni, ya khadeem, ya daim, ya ahad, ya wahid, ya samad, ya rahman, ya rahim , ya hayyu, ya qayyum, ya rabb, ya zaljala liwalikram'.....in all HIS indefinable majesty, splendour and power.
the trick really is to bring back some hidden secret of the 'baitullah' into one's mundane ordinary day to day life and work,
how can one do this, you may ask?
as papa have told you in our previous communication,umrah is a great open university of life.
it is back to zikrullah during your tawaf......bring it to your work place.
for shasha, do it at the operation table and your er.
yes! even when you are faced with death ond the dying throes of an eight year old down with haemorrhagic dengue.
for ru, do it while you are managing those American visitors in kuala lumpur from remote year.
it seemed incongrous, since they are mainly 'godless and secular' to you.
but you can take it from papa that this is where 'ugama' is needed most.
for yazman, the national oil company and its strategic planning unit would benefit if you can bring back some semblance of ugama into klcc. you guys deal with billion rm projects. a wee bit of 'ugama' may help here.
and for joe, papa know on a scale of things at star cruise, you are still 'gurkha' doing the number crunching and prenegotiations for their tender committee. if you do move on later to managing the nation's ' durian and musang king' plantations, and i hope you will move on subsequently to things more 'halal', since you have the talent, don't ever leat the chinaman's disease of 'that 2.5 per cent' ever percolate into your life.
we already have too much of this lately in putrajaya.
ringgit malaysia has upped the ante and refined it to an art-form.
for you my dear nina, insyaalah, your exam next week will just be a breeze!
insyaallah.
with lots of love and fatherly tenderness,
papa
Thursday, December 8, 2016
UMRAH.......reminiscence of 'old time' and our time for renewal
Labbaik Allah humma labbaik
Labbaik la sharika laka labbaik
Innal hamda
Wan-ni'mata
Laka walmulk
Laa sharika lah.
O my Lord, here I am at Your service, here I am.
There is no partner with You,
here I am.
Truly the praise
and the provisions are Yours,
and so is the dominion and sovereignty.
There is no partner with You.
nadzru, johan, nina , shasha and yazman,
children,
we are coming to the penultimate week before our umrah.
i hope you guys are polishing up yourselves spiritually so that you would not just end up as 'tourists'.
we want to be 'travelers' not tourist....'travelers on the path to allah'
the late ustaz dr harun din once told papa in the eighties before haj and umrah that, 'haj and umrah are essentially a rehearsal of death'.
he was echoing the fact that in a haj mabrur a traveler 'dies to the duniya and lives for the akhirat' after that.
the good shaykh, shaykh ninowy here talks of attachment and detachment.
papa could remember some years back, being an 'old kaki' at umrah and haj, when doing tawaf and papa could feel like acres of space, while some years, when papa was 'sergabuk' and unfocussed, it felt so crowded.
iman , like everything else , waxes and wane, even in the best of circumstances and place, for all of us mere mortals!
life is a mind game.
the relative 'success' or 'failure' in life is determined largely by the paradigm or shift of paradigm that each individual make up there in his cerebral cortex.
and your 'cerebral cortex' is just a servant of your 'heart'
the 'heart' of a believer is malleable.
it is 'moldable', but require a lot of serious work.
it is our choice, to be ok or not ok, to be a good abdal of allah or to be 'always in a state of 'irrational' anger with HIM throughout life.
there are so many example for you guys to see around, people perpetually 'angry with allah'
papa could remember some years back, being an 'old kaki' at umrah and haj, when doing tawaf and papa could feel like acres of space, while some years, when papa was 'sergabuk' and unfocussed, it felt so crowded.
iman , like everything else , waxes and wane, even in the best of circumstances and place, for all of us mere mortals!
life is a mind game.
the relative 'success' or 'failure' in life is determined largely by the paradigm or shift of paradigm that each individual make up there in his cerebral cortex.
and your 'cerebral cortex' is just a servant of your 'heart'
the 'heart' of a believer is malleable.
it is 'moldable', but require a lot of serious work.
it is our choice, to be ok or not ok, to be a good abdal of allah or to be 'always in a state of 'irrational' anger with HIM throughout life.
there are so many example for you guys to see around, people perpetually 'angry with allah'
if you can achieve that detachment, alhamdullillah, if not continue to work on it.
it will come to you, insyaallah.
it is 'dowable' insyaallah.
and in papa's estimation, 'umrah' is a 'great open university' for such game plan to change towards the better.
an expensive one no doubt but you guys are fairly lucky lot since papa is very much an addict to this 'open university'!
it is 'dowable' insyaallah.
and in papa's estimation, 'umrah' is a 'great open university' for such game plan to change towards the better.
an expensive one no doubt but you guys are fairly lucky lot since papa is very much an addict to this 'open university'!
but this is not free guys!
you guys have to some work on your own.
in the equestrian parlance, one can bring the horse to the water but one cannot force it to drink!
to achieve this end it is important in this last week to brush up on the following :
1 . prayers ie sunnat prayers around the compulsory prayers.
2. solatul jenazah
there is jenazah prayer all the time in the haram and masjid nabi
this is papa's favourite prayer. some months ago papa used to do it daily and in ramadan almost twice a day.
now at least twice a week. children, iman and fervour waxes and wane. your dad is no exception.
' why solatul tasbeeh, i heard the hadith is dhaif? ', you asked.
' sons!, forget about dhaif, hasan or soheeh! you are not there 1470 years ago ! if imam al ghazali [circa 300 to 325 year, post nabi ] or al qushairi [ circa 350, post nabi ] did it, i dont care that muhammad ibnu abdul wahab [ circa 1102 to 1192, post nabi ]
and present day wahabbis did not think ibnu abbas' tradition is soheh.
other scholars disagree with them
just do it.
papa's point is this: if you are al ghazali or imam qushairy, your tok gurus were at least tabi-tabi'in or at worst, tabi-tabi-tabi'in. hadiths and memories , especially in the arabian context, were still fresh. if the 'salafis' now whose substantive tok gurus was at least 11 centuries after nabi, what basis of claim can they make that their version, and only their versions are correct , the rest are maudhu' or suspect. these modern day young blinkered wahabbis have to reexamine themselves......just because their 300 to 400 hadith which they commit to memory do not recommend some ibadat does not mean it is bidaah. it may be in the thousands of hadith that they dont know.
in solatul tasbeeh, papa agree with the minority view .
children!,do it daily in the haram for size.
and when you are safely back home in KL , go do tasbeeh daily for 6 months.
then come back tell me whether you think it is dhaif, soheeh, hasan or maudhu'. !
we can discuss further.
we can discuss further.
chances are, you will find solatul tasbeeh bringing in so much solace and pleasure to you, that you would feel embarassed to discuss dhaif, hasan or soheeh anymore!
those who feel happy going thru life wearing blinkers, go ahead.
we have no querrel with these 'blinkered' guys!
' is'nt it time for those who believe in the zikr of allah to taste the sweetness of iman? '
'experiential islam ' is more important than a load of hadiths and theory.
the hadith is not dhaif, the iman is dhaif.
4.night prayer [ tahajjud ]
in the haram, one don't sleep my sons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyF_JaiFKw [ mufti menk short take on night prayer ]
5.sembahyang israk and dhuha
6. zikr
any of those 30 or so zikr, or more.
these are papa's favourites.
they are short and the ma'ana are quite obvious and easy.
we are not 'schooled' in the ugama, so just try do what we know best.
7. and please polish up on the rudiments and doa involved in an 'umrah'.
if you guys find the doa during tawaf and saei too tedious, do a thousand 'kul huwalah' instead.
some 15 years back, papa did the big tawaf, around the kaabah, early morning after sahur and the crowd was too big! the big circle on haram's 1st floor is around 1.2 km or so and that equates to 750 kul huwallah each round!
in the haram, children, do your things.
on that day papa thought papa did very well well until papa met a young somalian teacher, and mashaallah the conversation went on like this:
'assala mualaikum young brother , where are you from'
'somalia...', said he, he carried one sling bag, and later i found out that was his only luggage.
'where are you staying in makkah?'
' i eat, sleep in the haram....i wash and have bath in the public rest room outside sir'
...and papa had a five star hotel room to go back to after the ordeal of the sunat tawaf!!!!
7. solawat to the nabi.
the little time we spend in madinah, try to be in continous solawat to the nabi [ pbuh ].
visit his grave every prayer if you can, otherwise everyday.
read his seerah before our journey to know him better.
martin ling's seerah of the nabi [ pbuh ] in papa's estimation is one of the best.
it is collecting dust on papa's bookshelf for over 40 years!
none of you read it, so occupied you guys with whathapp, misshaps etc etc and etc!
t o love THE BELOVED you must 1st love HIS prophet numero uno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7u6_DZyAIat the end of the day guys, ' what is the heck papa, are these all about!!?? ', you may ask.
it is all about getting closer to HIM.
when HE is your friend, the rest of the world can go and fly kites.
that young somalian teacher had very little.
but papa thought his haj and umrah was 'more mabrur' than papa's.
on the day when nothing else matter, that is the difference between the night and the day.
i am not asking you to be an average worker or citizen.
for from that.
if you are just a bandaraya worker, be the best , honest bandaraya worker.
if you are a shopkeeper in downtown pj, be the best and honest one.
does not matter you earn million rm or just a mussel here, and a mussel there.
if you are a shopkeeper in downtown pj, be the best and honest one.
does not matter you earn million rm or just a mussel here, and a mussel there.
if you are a govt doctor in shah alam, be the best medical officer.
likewise, if you are ceo of malaysia incorporated, please, please, don't be like that shameless numbskull, that clown , that badut, now sleeping and shitting in putrajaya, totally oblivious of what the whole wide world thought of him!
islam is about good intention [ niya'], good thoughts, good deeds and above all good character.
islam is about excellence.
certainly it is not about this kind of utter nonsense!
..... and being quiet on this tantamount to 'subahat'.
where are all the shakers and movers of society!!!??
are we justa nation of 'cari makan' with no 'core' values?
no maruah and no accountability?
certainly it is not about this kind of utter nonsense!
..... and being quiet on this tantamount to 'subahat'.
where are all the shakers and movers of society!!!??
are we justa nation of 'cari makan' with no 'core' values?
no maruah and no accountability?
papa.
Friday, November 25, 2016
...All Of Us Can Fly.......
friends, dato and tansri,
we are all fellow travelers on this planet earth.
this short sojourn in this duniya is just like a transient stop under a tree before our forward journey
our next stop is alam barzark.
a relatively very short stop compared to the next
it is just a 'small' station.
the final stop is beyond the atlantic, beyond the pacific.
it is back to our paradisal origin...the alam akhirat.
the final stop is beyond the atlantic, beyond the pacific.
it is back to our paradisal origin...the alam akhirat.
alam akhirah, just after the sirat, bifurcates into two....al jannah and al jaheem.
there is no return ticket
there is no side station
there is no return ticket
there is no side station
al jannah and al jaheem are for eternity.
[ oops! correction: there is a small sub station, on a plateau called al a'raf where those with 'equal weightage on the 'al mizan' get assessed and reassessed for a couple of hundred thousand earth years , allahualam, before their on-toward final respective destination ]
here, we have a 'potpourri' of related lectures, old and current, by shaykh ninowy of duluth, usa, to invigorate us into the journey.
i count shaykh ninowy as one of my tok guru
we start in a rather inverted way, we start with the 'top end', three khutbah on the 'awliyas'.
their 'karamah etc and etc
then we go back to the nitty gritty of cleansing the 'heart', the tazkiah an naf tazkiah al qulub ,the real hard work......
shaykh abdal qadir isa, [ circa 1920-1991 ], a syrian mujaddid and doyen of ilm tasawuf from aleppo, , in his magnum opus, ' haqa' iq an at-tashawwuf ', realities of sufism, opined , that the journey starts with taubatan nasuha as the first station.
the next station is muhasabah, or introspection.
the third and the fourth stations, khauf [ fear ] and raja' [ hope ], come together.
the careful traveler goes through life till death with both fear and hope.
then the subsequent stations, shidiq, ikhlas, sabr, wara', zuhud, ridha, tawakal, and shukr..........
the fruit of all these is closeness to allah, mahabbatullah
in a tradition from umar al khatab known as hadith al jibril, ' worship allah as if you are seeing HIM and if you can't , be assured that HE is seeing you! '.
all of us want to be people of ihsan.
all of us can fly.
we just need to re-orientate our paradigm.
we just have to re-calibrate our hearts and minds in congruence with the qur'an and sunnah
all of us can fly.
we just need to re-orientate our paradigm.
we just have to re-calibrate our hearts and minds in congruence with the qur'an and sunnah
awliya allah 1
awliya allah 2
awliya allah 3
on shukr
on piety
tazkiah , 4th nov.
ibnu athaillah al iskandari's hikam, part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGPLC0MUNQw[ starts after 26.05 ]
ibnu athaillah al iskandari's hikam, part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIg7A0nxSl0
on detachment & attachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8UeZBU32s[ a lot of us live in a spiritual winter ]
on death, dying and the living dead...
from rituals to spiritual
.....and now, dato and tansri, are we ready to re-testify?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ewZ6uk_98Thursday, October 13, 2016
Shaykh Ninowy......an interview
friends, dato and tansri,
for muslims around the globe now, especially in muslim minority countries, holding on to their 'ugama' is like clenching 'a burning coal ' in the palm of a believer.
muslims are despised everywhere they go.
minimum, we are looked with suspicion and in some place with derision.
masjid and surau got burned; having a qur'an in some airport may end up with you missing or being ejected from a flight etc an etc.
yet, there was a time less than a century ago when even the news of a muslim woman getting raped in belgrade would have launched massive troops movement at the austrian-bosnian border.
now we are 1.6 billions and growing.
but we are like 'foams being pushed around by the ocean'.
what ails us?
listen to one of my current tok gurus and shaykh , shyakh ninowy, for a possible answer and solution to this current ennuie and malaise affecting the ummah
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Shaykh Mukhtar al Marghroui.... 'from spiritual vacuum to al hamdulillah...'
friends, dato and tansri,
i count shyakh mukhtar al marghroui as one of my virtual tok guru, along with shaykh muhammad ninowy of atlanta; shaykh al yacoubi formerly of damascus, syria: the late tok guru nik aziz of pulai melaka, kota bharu; the late prof hamka of indonesia; shaykh hamza yusuf of california usa; and tj winter aka abdal hakim murad of cambridge.
our common denominator was of course abu hamid al ghazali of tus.
abu hamid al ghazali's tok gurus dated back finally to rasullallah, sayyidina muhamad ibnu abdullah [pbuh] of makkah/madinah.
that is the nature of ilm in 'traditional islam'. from one tok guru to another to another , to another and to another, and finally to the murid.
in the twentieth century, the subsequent anak murid could read from books or via the electronic media....this later day 'innovation' cannot replace 'one to one' teaching, but at least it is better than 'nothing'.
one cannot claim, as many young punks are doing now: ' i subscribe to the salaf of the nabi ' and the sunnah' and only my tok guru has the monopoly of knowledge!'....
one young upstart mufti from wang kelian, up north, has also joined this 'band wagon' of thinking, unfortunately.
when one's claim to such fame is that one's tok guru is 8th century or 11 century after the nabi, and only they are the significant 'reformists of the ugama!
only these two have the monopoly of true hadithic knowledge.
the rest of the scholars and ulama' can go and fly kites!
this is bloody nonsense and bullshit!.
'shafei, ahmad hambal and imama malik can go and fly kites because they oftentimes did not follow muslim or bukhari to the T!' , they opined. unfortuntely revealing their utter ignorance about transfer of knowledge and wisdom in our 'ugama'.
these clowns, these intellectual midgets, [ and that is how i feel about some of them, young punks going around rubbishing centuries of scholarship and age-old traditions ],in their haste , forgot that these ulama par excellence predate both bukhari and muslim, some by at least a half century!
this is bloody nonsense by people who should know better.......
ok i have said my piece, let us now get down to business.
here, marghroui, a double phd in physics and electronic engineering and originally from algeria, discusses on the need to fill that spiritual vacuum in our souls.
he wraps up with the sublime meaning and intoxication of tasbih, tahmid and tahlil.
enjoy him.
[ http://almadinainstitute.org/teachers/mokhtar-maghraoui/ ]
Monday, September 19, 2016
islam but no muslim......[ a preamble to surah al ahzab ]
friends, dato ansd tansri,
al junayd al baghdadi, al sultan al awliya, [ circa 835- 910 ce ], was reputed to have been asked by one of his disciples,
'sir, how do you reach the level you are now?'
"by staying under that staircase over there, for over 30 years"
so much for the symbolism of the 'staircase', signifying humility; self reflection and introspection; stoicism; muraqaba; zuhudness; sabr in zikrullah and remembrance and plain hard work , work and work.
in zen buddhism, in old japan, they also have such things.....between the exquisitely divine beautiful ginkakuji temple and chion-in temple in downtown kyoto there is a beautiful path along a small river that weave and meander. they name this 3 km path,the philosophers path.
i could imagine the monks and enthusiast walking this path between two temples, slowly, slowly giving them time to introspect and reflect on the mysteries of life and the universe, centuries back.
as soon as i arrived back at my airbnb bivouac near kinkakuji temple in the higashiyama mountain, i asked my host koji as to what makes a japanese tick,
'koji, the whole world never failed to be amazed by you guys....i mean you guys can still queue in the face of calamities as happened during the tsunami nuclear meltdown in fukushima. elsewhere even in america, and especially in america, a one night total blackout would cause riot and pandemonium..'
koji did not understand what i was drawing at and i don't blame him. apart from running three jobs at the same time, a conceirge by morning, a fairly successful airbnb business in between recess and an avid gardener, in his free evening
the complex interplay of centuries of warring shoganates; geographical isolation from original source china; the stoicism of having to face the world during world war two and the subsequent demoralizing defeat; and in the background all the time with shintoism and zen buddhism rubbing on the psyche and humanity of the japanese collective souls....this cauldron of heat and fire that mould a nation's philosophical psyche were too complicated for koji to comprehend.
i put it to him in simpler term,
'what is it koji, shintoism, taoism or zen buddhism that drive the japanese people?'
' no sir, almost 100 % of japanese do not subscribe to any religion. only when we die we get buried under shinto or taiost culture and ways...'
alas, now japan has islam but no muslims, and a great number of us, majority muslim countries, have got so-called muslims but no islam.
we do not have to go very far.......just visit putrajaya's sri perdana!
the mother of all evil....gross chronic cronyism, out of the world nepotism; unbridled corruption ; shameless avarice and irreligiosity.
there is no more words or adjective to describe this irreverence to such traditional values held in high esteem both in the muslim world as well as the malay world!
there is no more words or adjective to describe this irreverence to such traditional values held in high esteem both in the muslim world as well as the malay world!
elsewhere the scholars and brilliant; the shakers and the movers of society sleep well.
this resounding silence from these 'zombies', these living dead, is deafening!
shame on you guys.
what have we done or not done to deserve this monumental 'bala', i wonder?
and i can assure you we have not reach the trough yet, mind you.
worse is to come.
this resounding silence from these 'zombies', these living dead, is deafening!
shame on you guys.
what have we done or not done to deserve this monumental 'bala', i wonder?
and i can assure you we have not reach the trough yet, mind you.
worse is to come.
'apadah jadi'......reminded me of the croner, the late sm salim
let us once again drown our collective sorrow in the opening gambit of surah al ahzab.
we come to the business part of the qur'an, since surah al ahzab is a madani surah, dealing with the limits and hudud of living..
the early ayat in this important surah discuss the nitty gritty issues of adoption, inheritance etc and etc.
enjoy mufti waseem khan.
i like him for his clarity and preciseness.
i like him for his clarity and preciseness.
dr nik
mountain retreat 2,
higashiyama mountains,
eastern kyoto,
https://www.jtbgenesis.com/pic/tour/141231tenryuji.jpg
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From: Azmi Wa Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 5:59 PM
To: Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah
Cc: jublintan65@yahoogrou
Subject: Re: pariah status......
To: Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah
Cc: jublintan65@yahoogrou
Subject: Re: pariah status......
nikhowk, the only way to live with the reality of external and internal perception, is to reject the conscious and subconscious sense of a relationship to a leadership family/clique/gang/party that you feel only embarassment/humiliation/abhorrence for. push away the subliminal notion that as citizens you have to feel responsible or accountable for those that you find governing you. if they do not subject themselves to some level of accountability to us for the things they do, why should you and i feel a need to feel answerable for the unspeakable things they do? when they appear on the tv screen, change channel; when they pass by you, turn the other way, when they make a speech, get up and leave the hall for the toilet. nothing much you can do, but these little tyrants hate been ignored. eventually, being given the silent censure may just make them disappear up their own arseholes, like pink panther and his vacuum cleaner.
as things stand, it is still legal to do this. it is satyagraha lite, but appropriate for we malays and malaysians are the meekest of God's creatures! peace, my friend!
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brilliant answer ts, plausibly brilliant.
just only plausibly.
but i put it to you that if we, right from the outset, make millions of 'animal noise' on our own, in our own ways special ways, accordingly to our god given talent,collectively, on the street, in the cyberwave, in papers in the airwaves etc etc etc....i dare say these 'animals' that is 'tak ada hati perut dan tak ada malu dan segan', will disappear faster.
instead we have insipid journalists, insipid ulama and complete silence from senior corporate citizens, senior government servants, g25, academicians, and others etc and etc.
our parliementarians, government and opposition are mostly a bunch of brain dead people warming their benches
this seem to be a special malaysian malady....'cari makan', most important than everything else.
but as windstedt observed some 100 years back we malays are truly feudal to the core and probably the meekest animals to walk the earth!
that is our bala.
just look at the pathetic malay hero of old ....hang tuah
we, collectively cannot separate the trees from the forest.
we cannot think straight.
we all are a whole load of 'cari makan ' people.
we are just bloody pathetic...all of us.
i am sorry if by saying so i have pricked your collective conscience.
frankly, we all have not done enough to get better governance.
what need to be said , need to be said.
i am sorry.
i am sorry.
dr nik howk
Thursday, September 8, 2016
spiritual discourse in cyberspace....on ' a soft heart ' and ' God's gst '
[ http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.my/2013/04/surah-as-sajdah-pros tration-32epilogue.html ]
friends, dato and tansri,mufti waseem khan of trinidad/tobago wraps up surah as sajdah in this slot.the ending of surah as sajdah reminded me of a question posed by a dato recently:" doc nik, if islam is truly god's revealed religion, why are the muslims downtrodden and at the bottom of the league table, everywhere around the world?"he is 75, highly schooled....a self confessed secular humanisthis question sounds cheeky and naughty, for someone who professed to be secular and muslim at the same time.
[ i do not know whether in god's book it is acceptable to be such 'animal', but that would entail writing a book, perhaps the likes of prof tariq ramadan would, in future....rather than waste his time trying to reinterpret the qur'an. he neither have the zuhudness nor the humility and wisdom to embark on this project, with due respect and my apology. ]i walk away, allowing his question, unanswered.very sensitive question, especially in the context of malaysia now.we have a whole cabinet here, mostly so-called muslims, suppporting a chap who, the whole world said, rightly or wrongly, had 'songlap' billions from the state coffers.if i answer the dato's question, in the local context, it would mean rubbishing the ugama of the whole cabinet, and even the ulama' and scholars, who stay back in the background 'macam 'lembu lembu kenyang'.dr nik
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From: Dato Rahim Kamil Sulaiman <rahimkamil@
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 6:14 AM
To: Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah
Subject: Re: let us get back to basic....surah as sajdah; epilogue
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 6:14 AM
To: Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah
Subject: Re: let us get back to basic....surah as sajdah; epilogue
That's the answer, Doc Nik!
Sent from my iPhone
Sent from my iPhone
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On 7 Sep 2016 7:45 a.m., "Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah" <drnikisahak@hotmail.com> wrote:
dato Rahim,
the fact i am still walking free is phenomenal.
these ..stards, dato , lack ugama!
they think they have ugama
cabinet, scholars and all.
tansri abu jahals and d ato seri abu lahabs abound
all 'cari makan'
their hearts are hardened
only allah can sodten their hearts!
in equestrian linggo, one can bring a horse to water, but one cannot force it ti drink...
dr nik
shaykh mukctar ash shinqitii on 'softening the hearts'
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