Where to begin?

I'm excited at the same time anxious to share the knowledge I've been exposed to at FCR

[Friendly Comparative Religion]. If I don't share, I feel like I owe something to somebody. If I share I hope Allah is guiding my words from making people having misconception about Islam, amin.

InsyaAllah I'll share briefly on topics I have courage to write about. Don't get me wrong. I'm not afraid of anybody, insyaAllah it's just that I don't want to deliver things that will only make people further away from Islam.

As Muslims, we firmly believe

-Lailaha Ilallah-

There is no God but Allah.

We believe this and InsyaAllah have this believe practice in our daily life. But how to convey this message to Those Who Don't Believe?

Here comes Da'wah.

All this while, my understanding about Da'wah is wrong. Da'wah actually define as to invite or to call a person to embrace Islam. Meaning we don't do Da'wah to Muslims. We do to Non - Muslims.

As for Muslims, we do Islah. Islah means to improve or to correct.

Now there, is Da'wah compulsory?

Refer Al-Quran and As-Sunnah to determine.

Looking back in Sirah, our beloved Prophet s.a.w begins with Da'wah . Keep in mind : Da'wah and Islah are both important. What vital is we do something, we contribute something. It may seems tiny to us but insyaAllah our humble effort may is large to Allah, amin.

What I can conclude is Da'wah and Islah are our obligations. This duty in not meant only for

Ustaz / Ustazah / religious dept. If companions view Da'wah such as this, then we may not know who our Creator is today. {Wai'yadzubillah}

I'm sorry as I cannot put more words into my experience. All I can say is, I'm glad I was at 1st a Muslim by chance. Now I want to be a Muslim by choice.

Amin.

1st attempt

may not always be a success. I do get irritated when the result is not what I expected. I gave up before but Alhamdulillah now I no longer want to. I don't have that born talent in cooking but I truly admire by working mommies I know, they devote themselves in the kitchen.

They are professionals at work, also a (beautiful, slim, solehah) wives & mommies at home. I know this because whenever my school is having a program, they normally contribute food to our school.

The food are homemade!

I sometimes wonder how do they juggle.

Anyway, back to my cooking experience.

Last night, I tried bake bread pudding. Alhamdulillah, it was a success but a huge failure on my custard sauce. I'm even too embarrassed to post the pic here except for my pudding.

Still insyaAllah, intending on trying as many new recipes from books I bought at Big Bad Wolf Sale.

Speaking of BBW, it is now on sale again at South City Plaza this Saturday! I may or may not hop myself there since I've date with my fave Nyonya(s).

Till then, ladies.

My (1st attempt) on bread pudding.

.Ingredients for a great Usrah.

Only Allah knows when was the last time I had an Usrah. Clearly Usrah means family, but it's not that kind of Usrah I'm talking about more like a formal Usrah meeting once a week. It was a norm when I was at my University. Usrah was my compulsory activity once a week.

It's been a year since I started working so it means I have spent a year without Usrah.

Just imagine how my Iman must have been.

.Disaster.

Alhamdulillah lately Allah keeps on popping the word Usrah in my mind.

I guess Allah is giving me the signal of urgency to begin it again a.s.a.p!

I'm now in a process of gathering sisters for my Usrah. InsyaAllah plan to have it at my home once a week. Alhamdulillah, My Imam is in full support of this. Meanwhile, I'm trying to carefully have the Usrah organized. I'm no expert in any of the knowledge field but whatever knowledge Allah has instill in me, insyaAllah I'm planning to share with others.

Fiqh? Sirah? Tauhid?

I'm clearly have no idea what to start with. InsyaAllah it all depends on who my Mad'u (s) will be. Then from our 1st meeting, InsyaAllah I'll decide what is the priority.

Anyway, I use this little book for my reference when I started Usrah of my own. Alhamdulillah it has been a great help (may Allah reward the author, amin). The important recipes are all well describe to begin a blessed Usrah of my own.

Last but not least, I want to thank deeply all of my solehah naqibah(s) for helping and guiding me through some part of my life journey. May Allah reward all of you with His Highest Jannah, amin.

Ukhti Safani, Ukhti Siti Aminah, Ukhti Aishah, Ukhti Syida, Ukhti Eqa, Ukhti Wan, Ukhti Wawa, Ukhti Muslihah, Ukhti Wani, Ukhti Norafiza, Ukhti Farhana.

We are physically separated in this temporary world. May Allah gather us eternally in the Jannah, amin.

~ Honeymoon a.g.a.i.n? ~

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.

We did.

Bukit Tinggi was our destination this time around. Celebrating 2 years as husband and wife.

Again Alhamdulillah, we had great moments. The place we chose MasyaAllah is simply amazing. It was very fresh. The air was cool and moist, I wish I could pack them home.

We stayed at The French Village Hotel. Mind you, all the restaurants there serve alcohol. What My Iman and I did was, we ordered the food and ate them in our hotel room.

-Daruroh-

Enough words, just pictures to share some of our stories.

Enjoy.

FCR Workshop

Friendly Comparative Religion Workshop.

MasyaAllah! Alhamdulillah! A workshop, I'm so thankful to Allah for allowing me to join. It was at IIUM on 19th till 20th Nov. It's the same date as my school was organizing a seminar. After thinking deeply, I'm afraid I've to pass my school seminar. This workshop, is simply something I can't afford to miss.

This was the first time, I heard talk from Bro Shah Kirit. Alhamdulillah, he embrace Islam more than 10 years ago and now he is actively doing Da'wah and Islah. The 2 day workshop was overwhelming. I tried my best insyaAllah to cope, digest and grasp the pace and knowledge being shared.

Bro Daud from Canada began the ceremony by asking the audience :

" How many of you here have Non-Muslims family members?"

(Alhamdulillah, I don't have any and pray to Allah to NEVER have any, amin)

I saw 3 or 4 hands went up. Then he continued,

"How many of you here have Non-Muslims colleagues or friends or neighbors?"

Now, I can say all the hands went up including mine.

"You see, this is exactly why we all need to be here."

Bro Daud continued.

And so my journey begins.

To me, it was more like a roller-coaster ride. Lucky, I hold to my seat tightly. Otherwise, I'd simply fall.

2 days sessions include all listed in the tentative below.

Study the pic above?

MasyaAllah, tell you.

I was so excited when I first read the tentative.

I can now say I'm excited to new knowledge as much as I'm excited to try new things I just purchased :p

You know what, insyaAllah after learning all of the things in the itinerary above, I discover myself more as Allah's abd and khalifah. Truthfully, the aqidah differences simply is TERRIFYING. You see, we are so happy as Allah contain us with extra knowledge, but we all know - the more knowledge we acquire, the higher our responsibility will be. Now, that thought is also terrifying.

Da'wah is not easy but it has to be done ;- with wisdom and beautiful preaching (An-Nahl 16 : 125).

Bro Shah Kirit always remind us during his talk. Allah will ask us this obligation in the Hereafter, so we better get ourselves prepared insyaAllah.

-Lailaha Ilallah-

A 'simple' message but extremely huge in meaning. Khalifah, insyaAllah let's try our best in getting this message across to Muslims or Non-Muslims. Remember : recite, believe and practice Lailaha Ilallah [ is 3 different things] I hope you khalifah understand what I mean.

Anyway, the book is one of the gifts I received from joining this workshop.

InsyaAllah am planning to get my mind to explore this book soon. May Allah make easy my plan, amin.

Again, I'll try my best to share with you what I've learn from the workshop with you brothers and sisters.

I don't want to promise but I'll try my best.

Fingers crossed!

I'm so exhausted,

I sometimes found myself cry. It doesn't happen all the time.

Maybe once in a blue moon and even if it occurred it may only take a few moments for me to recover insyaAllah.

Well, it's not like I cry heavily, it happen all of the sudden. Tears just rushing down on my cheeks. Honestly, I'm sort of glad when it happens. As if part of my physical exhaustion is draining out of me. I don't want to sound exaggerative, but when I'm experiencing fatigue, I wish I could drop whatever I'm doing or whatever I'm planning. Of course it never happens so far, Alhamdulillah. If I do that, I'd be the most irresponsible khalifah on earth, wa'iyadzubillah. InsyaAllah troubling others, is the last thing I 'might' want to do.

I don't mean to complain, however house chores (sometimes) really occupy half of my energy I've left after reach home from work. Thinking about this, make me realize no wonder Allah promise such tremendous rewards for wives sacrificing their energy and time completing house works. Alhamdulillah, these beautiful thoughts really help me to continue doing. Hopefully forever, amin.

I always have this silly thoughts in mind :- to hire a maid. Well not like full time maid those kind but more like day-maid for once a week or once a month? You know, to scrub my toilet floor, to sweep the lounge, to wipe off the dust etc.

I recently (finally) voiced out my idea to My Imam. He simply replied :-

"Don't you want to gain those extra pahala anymore?"

I went dumbfounded. "Of course, I do." I answered silently in my heart.

Still, after thinking deeply, I decide to hire "that" maid, once I have a child. Or even better, once I'm pregnant.

*evil grin*

;p

I have 2 weeks of school holiday.

Excited? Unfortunately, NO. After a year of hectic schedule, spare time really terrify me.
Spending time on bed and couch do seems tempting but NO I don't have any plan on doing both of those.

First, I just want to make sure I spend some quality time with my family - especially My Abah and My Nenek.. The last time I met these two lovely human being was ages ago!

Then definitely pampering myself at a spa. I can't afford oversea holiday this time around, so I'm desperately hoping my spa would insyaAllah take my mind off to Italy or at least Bali.

;)

Then, I'm planning to have a quiet date with my favorite man - Edward Cullen.

;)

Afterwards, a buoyant date with Happy Feet and Puss In The Boots - might watch these 2 movies with my siblings.

;)

Catching up is definitely in my schedule during school holiday. (Strengthening ukhwah is a light and easy ibadah insyaAllah, every Muslim should spend our time on working Habbluminannas) I have a few girl friends in mind (& heart) I really want to meet. May Allah make easy my plan, amin.

Any physical activity? Oh, you bet! Intend on having my fingers on handling bowling ball.
Hope I can manage insyaAllah.
Taking my sisters for bowling soon.

Last but not least, I'm thinking of visiting as many 'Gardens' (Majlis Ilmu) as possible insyaAllah. I already have some seminar in my list to join.

Oh not to forget, I also want to get my Master application done.

Allahummayasir wa la tuasir, Rabbitamim bil khair.

Happy holiday Khalifah. Let's spend our time wisely insyaAllah. Remember how Allah stress the importance of time in Al-Asr.

Take care o our Iman and ourselves wisely insyaAllah.

Till then.