— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I know it seems so far far away when I think about this, but yeah at times I just think about random things suddenly pops in my mind. One of it, it’s last Thurday (11/4/2012), in this Land Use Planning Class, I suddenly got the idea that I wont keep the job as a lawyer for the rest of my life. Yeah, I want to be A FARMER! Hehe :”)
I want to have 20 hectares field with various crops and plants. My granpop was a farmer, I used to play in the field looking for “Paser”, it’s the flower of sugar cane plants, picking tomattoes for fun, listening to the wind in while having lunch in the hut in the middle of the field, distracting the birds which eating the paddys, looking for the red corns between the yellow ones, collecting the three-seed nuts, and running on the brink of the fields and water. So much fun playing outside with the sun and the wind :”)
Intermezzo ya, I still remember vividly that me and my sisters playing with the sheeps. My sister once tried to ride on the sheep, acting like a rodeo haha. But she fell off the sheep and got hurt. It was funny but I felt bad for her though :P There were about twenties sheeps, we named each one of them. I even claimed one sheep as my favorite. Haha
My uncle kept rabbits too! He built them a house made of bamboos. I liked to ask my friends after school to come over and play with the rabbits. I also had a lovely and faithful Garfield Cat. When I took a nap, she would be sleeping near my feet. I also liked to put her in my head to play with her :”)
When I was little, my uncle would raise me to his shoulder to help me picking the fruits from the tall trees. If it was not ripe yet, then he would help me sticking it into the holes in the wood wall to keep it until it was ripe. Haha
Then what it got to do with me being a farmer? I want to have a large farm field in my hometown, to be precisely I want it to be in the slope of Mount Lawu near my hometown. It would be very nice spending the days in calm, cool and relaxing kinda environment, after me retiring from lawyering. Haha Still, years to go! Even me, I haven’t graduated from law school. But I do dream of being a farmer in my old days, along with the loving family and people around my hometown that I empower through my farm field. Aamiin :”)
In the end of the month I always wish the new month to come faster, but in the beginning of the month I always wonder why the months pass so effing fast -.-
— Hadits Arba’in An Nawawy Nomor 27
Mom once told me if I put too much sugar on my dough to make donuts, it would be easily burnt when it’s fried. Analogically, I think it makes sense why I am easily getting darker under the sunlight, maybe God spilled a little too much sugar when He created me. :D
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Ever wondered why Prophet Muhammad(SAW) asked us to recite Surat Al-Kahf every Friday?
Let’s find out today inshaAllah…
This Surah has Four stories in it,having some morals,lets see them and understand what they are saying to us:
1) The People Of The Cave
Its the story of young men who lived in a disbelieving town, so they decided to migrate for the sake of Allah and run away. -Allah rewards them with mercy in the cave and protection from the sun - They woke up and found the entire village believers.
MORAL:TRIAL OF FAITH.
2) The Owner Of Two Gardens
A story of a man whom Allah blessed with two beautiful gardens, but the man forgot to thank the One who blessed him with everything and he even dared to doubt Allah regarding the afterlife.So His garden was destroyed - He regretted ,but was too late and his regret did not benefit him .
MORAL:TRIAL OF WEALTH.
3) Musa(AS) and Khidr(AS)
When Musa(AS) was asked-“Who’s the most knowledgeable of the people of earth?”” Musa(AS) said:Me…,but Allah revealed to him that there’s someone who Knows more than him.Musa(AS) traveled to the man and learnt how the Divine Wisdom can sometimes be hidden in matters which we perceive as bad.
MORAL:TRIAL OF KNOWLEDGE.
4) Dhul-Qarnayn
Its a story of the great King that was given knowledge and power and was going around the world,helping people and spreading all that’s good.He was able to overcome the problem of Yajooj-Majooj and build a massive dam with the help of people whom he could not even understand.
MORAL:TRIAL OF POWER.
In the middle Allah mentions Iblees as the one who stirs these trials:
Behold! We said to the angels “Bow down to Adam”: they bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrongdoers!
Now let us see what’s the relationship between Surat Al-Kahf and the Dajjal (Anti-Christ)?
Dajjal will appear before Day of Judgement with the 4 trials:
***He’ll ask people to worship him and not Allah:
Trial of Faith .
***He’ll be given powers to start/stop rain and tempt people with his wealth:
Trial of with his wealth. .
***He’ll trial people with the “knowledge” and news he gives them:
Trial of Knowledge .
He’ll control huge parts of the Earth.
Trial of Power .
How to survive these trials? The answers are in Surat Al-Kahf
# Survival Kit 1: Good companionship.
“And keep thy soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and evening, seeking His Face; and let not thine eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp and glitter of this Life; no obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the remembrance of Us, one who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond all bounds.” (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 28)
# Survival Kit 2: Knowing the Truth of this World .
“Set forth to them the similitude of the life of this world: It is like the rain which we send down from the skies: the earth’s vegetation absorbs it, but soon it becomes dry stubble, which the winds do scatter: it is (only) Allah who prevails over all things” (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 45)
# Survival Kit 3: Humbleness.
“Moses said: “Thou wilt find me, if Allah so will, (truly) patient: nor shall I disobey thee in aught.””(Surat Al-Kahf, verse 69)
# Survival Kit 4: Sincerity.
“Say: “I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me, that your Allah is one Allah. whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and, in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner.” (Surat Al- Kahf, verse 110)
# Survival Kit 5: Calling to Allah .
“And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: none can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him.” (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 27)
# Survival Kit 6: Remembering the HereAfter .
“ One Day We shall remove the mountains, and thou wilt see the earth as a level stretch, and We shall gather them, all together, nor shall We leave out any one of them. And they will be marshalled before thy Lord in ranks, (with the announcement), “Now have ye come to Us (bare) as We created you first: aye, ye thought We shall not fulfil the appointment made to you to meet (Us)!”: And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the sinful in great terror because of what is (recorded) therein; they will say, “Ah! woe to us! what a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great,but takes account thereof !” They will find all that they did, placed before them: And not one will thy Lord treat with injustice.” (Surat Al-Kahf, verses 47-49)
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— Harry Potter Goblet of Fire, UK Adult Ed, pg 402
