malangnya

malangnya kalau nilai iman dan taqwa diletak pada bilangan masjid dalam negara.

malangnya kalau negara disebut bebas beragama tetapi agama lain dihina tanpa sekatan.

malangnya negara disebut bertoleransi dalam agama kalau sebuah perkataan perlu ke mahkamah.

malangnya kalau terus lali dengan kelebihan tanpa ingin memperbaiki kekurangan yang ada.

malangnya kalau agama hanya dimartabatkan dengan dinisbahkan pada bangsa, seolah-olah Islam itu hanya boleh tinggi kalau bangsa itu tinggi.

malangnya kalau hamba berasa diri tuan sedangkan hamba itu dulu hanyalah seorang 'pendatang' juga.

malangnya kalau bandingan yang dibuat hanya dengan negara dunia ketiga, bukankah wujud negara maju?kenapa tiada bandingan dengan negara2 maju. adakah supaya kita terus rasa bersyukur tanpa ada rasa mengukur.

malangnya kalau yang kaya terus dikayakan, yang miskin dianggap memadai dengan wang ihsan 5 tahun sekali.

malangnya seorang melayu yang berjaya kerana akhirnya kejayaannya dikaitkan dengan hak yang diberi bukan kerana usaha diri.

malangnya ahmad, ah wong dan raju yang melarat kerana hak mereka diberi kepada ali, ah peng dan muthu yang lebih ber'hak'.

malangnya Islam hanya pada binaan yang kaku sedangkan yang akan dihitung pada manusia yang mengimarahkan.

malangnya masjid yang hanya berdua pada lima waktu walaupun mahligai indah dihuni beratus orang hanya beberapa meter dari masjid.

malangnya kalau prinsip bertukar apabila berubah hambanya.

malangnya, malangnya.....

Sesat di hujung jalan, masih sempatkah pulang ke pangkal jalan?

Tak dapat dinafikan, melayu memang sangat kaya dengan peribahasa. Salah satu yang sangat menarik perhatian adalah 'Sesat di hujung jalan, balik ke pangkal jalan'. Sampai mana benda nie benar? Cuba Kita fikir sebentar. Adakalanya, ada maksud lain yang dapat dicapai kalau kita tahu gunakan akal yang dikurniakan-Nya.

Mereka yang telah sesat di hujung jalan adalah mereka yang pada mulanya telah dapat sebarang petunjuk ataupun tunjuk ajar pada pangkal jalannya. Alangkahnya ruginya mereka yang telah mensia-siakan petunjuk yang diberi. Kalau mereka sempat sedar dan memulakan jalan yang baru, syukur yang tak terhingga tetapi kalau mereka terus leka dan menyusuri jalan yang sesat hingga ke akhirnya, alangkah buruknya akhiran yang bakal ditempuhi.

Benda yang sama berlaku dalam Islam. Sesungguhnya hanya mereka yang mendapat hidayah dan petunjuk-Nya akan mengikut jalan yang lurus tapi kita sering merasakan diri lebih hebat apabila mendapat sedikit kemuliaan dan mula terjerumus ke lorong kesesatan. Sungguh malang jika hujung jalannya adalah kematian kerna peluangnya sudah tertutup untuk pulang ke pangkal jalan. Berharaplah andainya kita sesat kerna izin-Nya, biarlah hujung jalan kesesatan itu di tengah-tengah perjalanan kehidupan supaya masih diberi peluang kedua untuk pulang kepada-Nya.

kisah di sebalik kisah

"kenapa ang nak ikot depa? depa tue bukannya betul pun. ikot ja abang nie. apa yang depa gtau tue salah, bukan ada pa yang betol pn," kata misa kat adiknya. adiknya hanya terpinga-pinga mendengar abangnya berleter.

"abang kau yang lain pun sama ja. tengok si hasni tue. dia dah la mula jadik liberal. pergaulan pun dah mula longgar. abis suma dia bantai bersembang, laki pompuan sama ja. rosak kau nanti kalau ikot dia. ikot ja abang nie."

"Askam pun tak bezanya. yang nie lagi teruk. dah tak boleh buat apa g. dah tak dak harapan dah nak tengok dia berubah. sekurang-kurangya hasni ada lagi nampak islamnya, askam tue dah terpesong jauh, jauh dari islam."

"kau jangan dok ikot program-program yang depa pi. rosak akhlak kau nanti. ikot ja program yang abang pi. program-program abang sumanya islamik,tak dak campur laki pompuan. akhlak terjaga. pandangan terjaga. iman terjaga. Insyaallah kau tak kecewanya ikot abang."

"alahai abangku sayang, tak ka apa yang dibuat ini pun dah jauh dari islam. memburuk-burukkan orang lain, merasan diri sahaja yang terbaik, merasakan diri dah layak untuk merasa mulia. di mana Islamnya? bukan Islam kalau taasub dengan kumpulan. bukan Islam kalau hanya mendengar pendapat dari sebelah pihak semata-mata. lebih hina jika merasa megah dengan hidayah yang diberi Allah dan merendah-rendahkan mereka yang dianggap tak 'islamik'. wahai abangku, jangan lupa hidayah itu miliknya Allah bukannya kau. mungkin di hujungnya, akhiran mereka lebih baik dari diri yang merasa mulia."

Moga Allah merahmati mereka yang benar, mereka yang menghampiri kebenaran dan memberi hidayah kepada mereka yang terpinggir

Malaysia/Malay as collectivist?

With psych as my final paper, i hereby officially end my 1st year life in melbourne as a uni student. there are a lot of story and experience that i gained through one whole year. there are one point that i learned in psych that really make me think.

we learn in psych that countries in this world are divided into two categories, individualist and collectivist. individualist is a country where everyone supposed to take care of themselves and it emphasized more on self-identity while for a collectivist country, everyone supposed to take care of each other where the social identity is a prominent feature. plus, in a collectivist society, people are expected to act with the good of society in their mind and never had the intention to rock the boat.

not surprising, most of asian countries including malaysia is a collectivist country. this has greatly influenced the citizen of malaysia and the most greatest influence is on malay. we can see that in a malay society, everything that goes against the norm, that go against what the society had used to do is deemed as a wrongdoing or a crime eventhough it is not actually wrong. everyone is required to lead their life the way everyone else do it. this had actually hindered a lot of improvement as improvement is seen as something wrong, not appropriate, something new that might ruined the society.

because of this, we as malay had been left out in from the progress of the world. how come the mentality of citizens that had been independent for more than 50 years still not improved. no one dared to try and venture into the uncertainty. we feel safe to be in the same place, feel secure with our own kind.

*continue in next post. stuck with word......

On Hold.....

This blog will be on hold....

Too many things to write,

too little time.....

to revile; to revere; to respect

9 Sep 09 : 8.27PM 

By Katrina Jorene Maliamauv editor@thenutgraph.com 

Here is land. Go pray on it.  

Here is land. But remember;  

I do not want to see your crosses, 

I do not want to hear your church bells;  

Shut the lid on that age old organ, 

And turn your trumpets in.  

Keep your deities away from me,

Lest my eyes fall upon its evil;  

Silence your prayers from this air that is mine,  

Lest my ears be tainted by their devotion  

Keep away from my sight your statues 

In all their colour and splendour,  

For your statues are not my statues  

And only what's mine shall exist.  

Snuff out your candles, And pour out the oil,  

For only the light in my lamps Shall flicker for all.  

Here is land. I''ll tolerate you here.  

But this is my fence. And cross it you shall not.  

~ Why, brethren, why?  

Why do my prayers offend you so?  

Do we both not ask for mercy and grace?  

Do we both not seek strength for kindness and love?  

Do we both not fall on our knees for forgiveness?  

Do we both not hold out our hands in thanks?  

Why do you anger at the sight of my cross?  

Why must I hide the symbols of my faith?  

Why do my steeples, my statues, 

my stupas and my structures of belief drive you to hatred?  

My beliefs needn't be your beliefs 

As yours needn't be mine.  

But is not your God My God, too?  

And is this land not yours or mine,  

But that of the Lord of all mankind?  

9 Sept 2009

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How many times have we, malay-muslim think as if the land belong to us only?  

How many times have we actually deny the right of other to practice their religion whereas we never practice our own religion eventhough there is no barrier or obligation to stop us compared with other religion?  

How many times have we tear down temple and church whereas we never realize that there is mosque in every 10km with only 2 peoples using it each day?  

REMEMBER!!!!!  

We give them loud noise and smell to accompany their prayer and we might get that back someday, maybe not in 'our' land or 'our' time but our children might get it in 'their' land and 'their' time. 

AS THEY HAD TOLERATE OUR EID CELEBRATION AND WE TOLERATE THEIR HOLY DAY,TOLERATE THEIR PRAYER AS THEY HAD TOLERATE OUR AZAN FOR 52 YEARS.....

Response to a post....

this post is in response to a post by my frens. sumtimes a misunderstanding may arise without communication. so i'll try my best to give my opinion in matter in question.

one of the situation is when he said tat what the point of having that forum as malaysia already have great thinker and lawyer like karpal singh and so on, they should be able to give great opinion regarding the matter discuss in the forum. well, if we want to use that kind of logic, then let me ask back; what the point of some of the groups keep fighting for the full implementation of Islam in malaysia? just let the great ulama', mufti and Islamic scholar that have great knowledge do the talking. they that have more knowledge than us should know what best for Islam and malaysia. why we want to make a fuss about that when mufti and great ulama' don't say anything? surely it because we must and should try to do something about Islam rather than just left everything to them. the same goes for the forum. we as malaysian must try to do something. YES, i agree that there are great thinkers in malaysia but do they actually care about that matter?

the second matter regarding a comment made on one of the speakers. i not going to comment on the comment but rather on the way the comment is made. when the comment is made, is it made with the full knowledge on what the speaker had really said or is it just the same pattern "i hear that my friend said that my friend said that the speaker is (fill up the comment)"? if this is the way it is, how sure that the comment made is really true and just mrely an assumption? because remember if it just an assumption and it is not true, then it is consider a 'fitnah' already. 

my last point is what wrong with hearing point from both side rather than think that 'I already in the right way. there no point for me to hear the opinion from the other side of argument.' justice cannot be uplift by just hear from one side of argument. eventhough if you already in the right way, then hear the opinion from the other group that is wrong, detect what is wrong and try to change it. nothing can come up from doing nothing and keep confine ourselves in the right way. it is true that yourself will be saved but how about other people that is deemed wrong?

this all just my opinion. if there is anything wrong in my words, it is due to my weakness that come from the Above