madarij as salikin....station 4.....fear & hope

friends, dato and tansri,


fear and hope is the next station in our journey to god.
a balanced admixture of fear and hope that is.

to the muhsinun and the salik, fear here does not denote fear of the dark; bankruptcy and  poverty; ill health and old age dependency; or at the macro level, fear of the belligerent monarch or dictator.

to them, in this life, it is fear of being distant from god; fear of losing his closeness.
in the next, fear of not being able to see him; the fear of being entirely forgotten for the whole of eternity.
high ideals even the average ordinary muslim cannot comprehend.

hope is an easier quantum to comprehend to the faithful and the non faithful.
this planet is just a small tiny weeny dot in the universe, a very tiny weeny dot in a tiny weeny corner of just one galaxy.
the universe contain at least one hundred billion galaxies!!
trillions and trillions of tiny weeny dots peppering the galaxies and milky ways..

to the agnostics and the atheists, they cannot comprehend why should there be a god asking for acceptance and remembrance from them when  they are just the tiniest of dot within a dot in a tiny weeny corner of a dot within soo many many other dots.
it does not make sense for the necessity of a god, this huge universe.

gasses coming together to form cells.
and cells coalescing together to form multiinuclear cells and finally organism.
from organism , the big leap to monkeys, gazelles and man!!?
this life is just an incidence and accident of time.

but even then they still live in hope.
they hope that their world would just end with their demise on this planet.
so while here 'enjoy and be merry' is their credo.
if things do not go right with them or actually awfully wrong...end the pain with suicide.

to men and women of faith our hope hinges on the preamble to the opening verses of surah al fatihah
and all succeeding surah.
god is most compassionate [ ar rahman], and always compassionate [ar rahim ].
he is also ya wadud, and ya mannan
he is ya ghaniy, ya razak, ya fattah, ya mugni and ya wahab.

the salik and the muhsinun ossilate in their daily life between a  healthy balance of fear and hope.
that is the clever muslim.


do enjoy prof ovamir anjum's beautiful and cogent discourse on the 4th station in out journey to god.


dr nik isahak wan abdullah




part 1:
[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruwTEEjtjII&list=PLDjMooD1jjIp7S4ria0lBFmPRfb7YyiQG&index=12   ]



part 2:
[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKEtypNeHY&index=13&list=PLDjMooD1jjIp7S4ria0lBFmPRfb7YyiQG  ]

of malay college, tunku khursiah college, dsai , rafizi and all that jazz......

an old malay collegian classmate of mine [ fifth formers, class 69 ] and also a close neighbour, the other day , jokingly asked in our class tea tarik session as to what they put in the water at tunku khursiah college that could produce a monstrosity that never tires of having 250 over  hermes and birkins and just only about 114 million rm in lose change in 26 different currencies!!

i pointedly adviced him to ask his dear wife back home, who is also a product of tkc, of course with the proviso that he forewarn me of the time when he would do so.
i would get the subang jaya hospital ambulance ready in front of his bungalow to ferry him pretty quickly to our er , just in case.

this friend of mine also asked me to look into my crystal ball to get answers as to why 'rafizi et  al' is making too much animal noise and whining like a mad dog in the background?

after a lot of thot i told him one does not need crystal ball to answer this paradox.
the whining and barking is surely at the behest of someone more senior.

remember the 1st day of the now forgotten awani tv interview tun dr mahatir when he got news that pakatan harapan had that minimum 112 parliamentary seats.

"we will seek royal pardon foe datuk sri anwar ibrahim but that is going to be a long process, the paperwork, etc and etc...."
while it take waiting more than 12 hours for the young sultan to give a royal audience and consent to tdm , the superquick'' royal pardon coming a day after is a world record of sort..
a  few days later dsai visited johor royalty.
that expansive bowed kissing hand greeting, shown nation wide, very prominent in all viewers minds.

a week later yab wawi and daughter took a flight to kota bharu to pay courtesy visit to spb's mum and dad.

this flurries of activities while the grand old man, tdm, was having sleepless nights and busy , from amongst other things, giving a very public scolding to senior govt offcials at putrajaya for their obvious ommissions and commissions; and conferring with the jedi counsel on how to proceed next; canceling the out of the world sinapo-KL fast train project estimated to cost 100 over billion rm to the taxpayer; thinking about the ramification negative and positive of doing the same to big brother china iwth respect to erl; etc and etc.

[....this is a digression of course, my dear tdm..if you are plying the east coast highway as i do monthly for the past 3 years between telaga papan and KL, you would not have to waste your grey mater over this ecrl issue: there is currently not enough kerepok lekor and nasi dagang buisness to even support the highway for the 5 years, let  alone a 66 billion rm ecrl at the last estimation , and not including cost of land acquisation!  ]

these whinning animal noise coming from rafizi is uncalled for from my perspective oand i suspect of millions others who voted in pakatan harapan.
we voted with our feet down for change , YES! for change for the better.
we did not vote particularly for dap or keadilan.

for most of us keadilan is just a party controlled by a robust crowd of indian socialist lawyers hiding behind the popularity of dsai. take away dsai from keadilan, the party will fall flat on its face.
remember this: we want change and we are significant. you guys better get your act together and give that old man your 100 % support

we know that the monarchies have no love for tdm and would love to see dsai take charge rightaway.
we believe there are elements in keadilan and dap who would not to see tdm having two years at the helm as this will give pribumi time to breath and prosper.

but we , majority of the people who voted for you guys to be in do believe political consideration and infighting has to give way to real work at the top end.
there is much at stake and the complexities of the economic woes that befall us due to najib's avarice and stupidities need  clear head and massive experience to solve.

we believe if dsai and his young punks are too eager to be at the helm too soon, we will be in deeper soup as soon as we just about to get out of it.

that i believe is my very honest 2 cent worth, unadulterated and uncensored... and i think millions other malaysians who care share the same sentiment.

we need not apologies for we know if you guys muck this up we will vote you guys out,come ge15.
if i am you dsai, i will let the old man sort out all the problems, set up the institutions that need to be  propped up.
at 93 tdm will tire himself in say 2 years and your job from there will be much easier.
tdm is great at doing the dirty jobs!

allahualam.


dr nik howk

madarij as salikin........station 3...tafakkur and tazakkur

station 3 on the path to god......
tafakkur & tazakkur,   contemplation and remembrance

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9lRAIjJ3Y&t=147s  ]





more on tafakkur & tazakkur,

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikhzzxkwyIs&list=PLDjMooD1jjIp7S4ria0lBFmPRfb7YyiQG&index=11   ]




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pearls & gem, revisited:
on death and dying.....sept 2008

one of my early write up 10 years back while in a pensive mood.

in a week when we send numero uno packing, and insyaallah to sungai buluh , for a long long time insyaallah, this is a good reminder for pm's , ministers and politicians , and even monarchs,especially monarchs actually.....who may think there is no tomorrow to account for!

every single cent, ill intentions and actual omissions and commissions are actuated, audited and accountable in the supreme court of yaumiddin.

there is no 'pandi' or 'arul anaconda' on that day to say things are all above board!

http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2008/09/pearls-gem-couple-of-milenium-forward.html






an anecdotal recollection of kota bharu in the early 60's

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2017/05/interesting-mad-men-of-kota-bharu-in.html   ]

madarij as salikin..........station 2 , al taubah

station 2 of the path to god, al taubah, repentance....

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjR-9-wg2M   ]





pre-requirements of repentance:
ikhlas, regret and resolve

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Ylqh06XwE&t=22s   ]





still on repentance:
inner secrets of repentance...muhasabah [ deep self accounting ]; takzim al jinayah [enormity of the sin which are relative];
ahzar al khaliq [ self righteousness ]

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRx9U69w6c&t=84s   ]

madarij as salikin......ranks of divine seekers.....stations

stations of path to god...
station 1: al yaqaba, the awakening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR-8PkuNSjE





requirements of station 1, al yaqaba......

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






















episode 9:
repentance part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRx9U69w6c

madarij as salikin.......relationship between the outward and the inner sciences

episode 3 , of prof ovamir anjum's discourse of ibnu qayyim's opus magnum, 
madarij as salikin

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