Halaqah Iman (English Version)

Assalaamu'alaikum, everyone.
Can you spend your time with me? :D

Alhamdulillah, we're destined to meet again for another boost of iman of ours.

Everyday, if you stop the hustle and bustle of your work and try to wonder what is happening around you, you might discover not one or two but billions of ni'mah (blessings) from God, Allah SWT.
Why not? Ask yourself,
How could hydrogen and oxygen that is harmful for us (because they can support combustion), became water for our body?
What will happen if we have no hands or legs? Can we eat easily, walk easily, play football easily?
Ever wonder how you became you from a tiny hideous sperm?
Yes, how can anything just happens like that?

If there is an atheist among us, let me ask you,
can a building builds up itself? Or there is someone builds it?

Questions by questions, we will come back to Allah SWT as the answer.
He is the One who created us, control us, guide us, and everything is destined by Him.
When we start believe in Him, this is what we call iman.
This ni'mah is the MOST precious one that can't be overcomed by any other ni'mah (Woooowwwwww!)
Yes, indeed! With it, you can get into heaven surely (How fast is based on what do we do for our iman)(Overexcited reaction)

But, a ticket for a carnival can be lost easily, iman is as much as like that.

Why? There's a creature that never knows tiredness who always tries to pollute our iman? No one else but shaytan la'natullah alaih. He sweared in front of Allah that he will make sons of Adam go astray.

But don't be afraid, there are many way to secure our iman and strenghen it. One of it is well share this of course (but not just sharing by clicking the share button, wonder about it, talk about it with the others, siblings, family, neighbours or anyone!)
Not only that, do what He asks you to do and don't do what He prohibits you from doing it. Pray 5 times a daily or more like 5 times you date with Him and asks Him anything you want that is good for you and your soul. InsyaAllah, you will be safe here and in the Hereafter.

InsyaAllah, we will meet again next, Assalamualaikum!

Halaqah Iman Versi Melayu

(Aktiviti ini selalu digalakkan dibuat setiap hari di asrama oleh seorang warden yang dipanggil Ustaz Del. Ini merupakan latihan lidah kita bercakap kebesaran Allah pada masa yang sama meningkatkan iman kita hari demi hari. Di bawah ini merupakan contoh sahaja. (Nape skema sangat ayat aku ni?) Cuba la buat setiap hari dengan family ke, kawan ke, jiran ke mahupun saudara seIslam yang tidak dikenali.)

Alhamdulillah,

Bersyukur ke hadratNya yang pertemukan kita sekali lagi dalam post kali ini setelah Dia berikan nikmat yang berbagai-bagai kepada kita.

Contoh?
Ape contohnye?
Banyak contohnye!
Kita ambik yg simple.

1. Oksigen yg kita ambik ni, yang memang diperlukan pun kalau Allah nk ambik balik senang, cuba tahan nafas 1 minit. Ok, 2 minit. Lame lagi? 5 minit. Dahsyatnya. 10 minit.
(Yela tu, susah nk tahan 10 minit, 1 minit pun ada yg nk pengsan.)

2. Mata korang tu, yg sdg baca post ni, kalau Allah SWT nk butakan mata korg, macam mane korang nk memandu, potong makanan, tengok jalan?


Baru 2 beb! Belum kira nikmat ada adik, kakak, mak bapak, kawan baik, rumah selesa, duduk negara Malaysia dan banyak lagi.

Tapi, dalam semua nikmat tu kan,  2 je yg paling bermakna (ada sebut kan dalam post sebelum ni? x pe ulang lagi) Nikmat iman dan islam.
Kenapa?
Tanpa 2 nikmat ni, mustahil ko nak masuk syurga!

Sesungguhnya sesiapa yang mati dalam keadaan beriman, nescaya dia akan masuk syurga.

Tengok! Betapa berharganya nikmat ini, saudaraku sekalian.

Namun, ada pencuri yang memang licik dalam 'mencuri' nikmat ini.
Sepertimana berlian beribu-ribu karat boleh dicuri, apatah lagi iman dan islam. Siapa 'pencuri'nya?
Syaitan laknatUllah alaih.(Bunyi petir) Dia ni paham nilai iman dan islam. Malah dia berjanji depan Allah SWT yang dia akan menyesatkan anak Adam untuk masukkan diorang ke neraka.

Jadi, bagaimana hendak menjaga iman kita?
Kita cakap pasal kebesaran Allah hari demi hari untuk mempertingkatkan iman. Jumpa kawan lama tepi jalan cakap sikit pasal kebesaran Allah. Kita masukkan kalimah La Ilaha Illa Allah ke dalam hati kita agar kita percaya bahawa ALLAHlah yg menciptakan segalanya.
Kipas tak bagi kita sejuk, Allah yang bagi. Makanan tak bagi kita kenyang, Allah yang bagi.
Tapi jangan pulak tak makan, kata Allah yang bagi nanti. Allah hanya bagi kalau kita usaha.

Jadi insyaAllah, apa yang saya 'sebut' (sebenarnya tulis) ini bolehla kita ulang hari demi hari dengan orang lain untuk tingkatkan iman kita.

Assalamualaikum!

Implementation of Iman

Maybe some of us might knew what does iman is. 
To those who are still spinning around their heads, iman is one of the two most valuable ni'mah in this world and hereafter. Why? Because these things are compulsary if you want to stay in heaven.

Whoever dies with the bits of iman inside his heart, insyaAllah Allah will place him in paradise as his permanent home forever.

However, some of us still view it without any values. It is like it is a piece of junk.
Don't they realise that they will be thrown in hell without iman? Moreover, do we know when the death will take us? (Thunderstorm strikes)

While for us who realise the importance of iman, Allah had obligated to His beloved prophet Muhammad PBUH NOT for himself or his tribes but for the mankind. But prophet Muhammad PBUH can't do it alone, so Allah had chose us, his ummah as the ancestors of his powerful job, which is to spread the word.

Now, back to the topic, to retain our iman is actually not simple, I mean NOT SIMPLE. We have to remind ourselves about iman and its importance more than 10 times or even a 100 times a day (Seriously?). For what? To secure our vunerable iman from being stolen by the syaitan.

Even prophet Muhammad PBUH, the best teacher with his companions, the best students, took 13 years to streghen their iman only before any other obligations was written. (Serious face)

So, why don't we even care about this? Because it is simple (Simply simple to be accurate)?
Maybe because the way is too 'simple', we can easily forget about it. How about we applicate some steps to ensure the security of our iman daily? What are they?

Come on, let's join me.

1. Pray and always have a 'meeting' with Allah.
Get used with masjid and musolla oftenly, always do i'tiqaf. Pray as you're having a meeting with Allah. Plead Him untill those tears roll down your face. Don't be shy, Allah is NOT like humans, He accept the repentation from His servants open-hearted (this is just an idiom, ok?). Always keep calm and feel the peace in every move you make. Most of all, focus or khusyu'. By then, you will put yourself closer and closer to Allah SWT and you will love Him. For sure, if you love someone, would you like to make him/her angry?
These are the mu'minoon, they are afraid of being disobedient in front of their God (He's our God too). 
Nowadays, we 'pray' but we don't actually pray. (Thunderstorm strikes) It is because we didn't fulfill the rules and regulations. That's why most of muslims have problems in their lives.

2. Always remember Allah everytime everywhere.
Sometimes people often forget their God in a particular situation, but even worse, every situation. Spontaneously, they might had said negative words that disturbs their iman. Such as 'f@#%' and 'b*&#@' or whatsoever. Even weak, lazy and abnormal are negative too! (Thunderstorm strikes. Seriously, how many strikes had been done?) Words always and ALWAYS resembles our morality or immorality. How about........... we try to adapt ourselves with dzikr, istighfar and anything positive that upgrade our iman. When you are used these words, unconciously, you will cut down the usage of bad words and increase the good words everytime. Isn't that beautiful?

3. Be in enviroment and choose friends wisely.
To keep our security tight, it is compulsary have an Islamic enviroment. It is usually found in musolla and masajid. Anyways, we can't stand alone on our own feet against the world, right? We need some support, am I right? There are no heroes in any movies except they have a few companions by their side.
Even our beloved prophet PBUH has his companion so that there's an enviroment a.k.a base camp to replenish their iman.
If we jump into lagha enviroment, we can go astray from the truth (well, unless your iman is strong, is it?) But if we jump into Islamic enviroment, insyaAllah we won't go astray.

4. Have this 'mu'aqabah'.
Didn't get it? Ok, this is a little bit weird. It is to manipulate the shaytan. How? By giving yourself penalties everytime you make wrong doings with ibadah. Still don't get it? Ok, here are some simple examples:-
Everytime you don't wake up for qiamullail, you must finish 1 surah of the Quran and explain it to someone else.
or
Everytime you don't pray Subuh in masjid, you must find a person and make him revert to Islam.
Now, get it? Alhamdulillah. 
So how can this thing help us? For your information, shaytan swore to Allah to make us astray from His way since the creation of Adam. So we do this 'mu'aqabah', their heads are spinning around, 
'Should I make this fellow forget about qiamullail or not? I'm afraid that when he missed qiamullail, he will explain the Quran to someone and that person will get hidayah.'
Finally, they will become your slaves waking you up for qiamullail (Handclaps!Yippee!). Just one thing if you want to do this, istiqamah and DON'T BE A COUCH POTATO.

5. Learn more about Islam.
There's so much for me to write down. But I think it is enough for me. There are more ways to improve our iman daily. So I'm not going to put everything down. It is time for you to search it for yourself. Indeed, the more we learn, insyaAllah we will be better. If we are doing ibadah but we have no knowledge about it, it is like you shoot an arrow but you don't know which is your target. 

So that's it for this post, insyaAllah we will meet again next time. Assalamualaikum!

Iman dan Islam

Alhamdulillah, bersyukur ke hadrat Ilahi kerana telah mempertemukan kita dalam post pertama ini.

Ini merupakan kali pertama saya membuat blog, jadi insyaAllah apa-apa motivasi, mahupun ilmu yang ingin dikongsi bersama-sama kalian akan saya postkan di sini.

Jadi dalam post pertama ini, kita akan mempelajari nikmat iman dan islam.

Sesungguhnya iman bermaksud kepercayaan dari segi bahasa dan islam itu berserah diri.
Dari segi istilah pula, iman ni kita yakin bahawa Allah SWT sahaja yang mampu menciptakan segalanya dan menentukan kadar masing-masing, islam pula kita berserah diri kepada Tuhan kita, Rabb kita, Allah Azza Wajalla dalam semua urusan.

Kedua-dua ini merupakan nikmat terbesar dan yang paling bernilai dalam hidup di dunia dan di akhirat nanti. Kenapa agaknya eh?
Kerana jika seseorang itu mati dalam keadaan beriman mahupun mengatakan kalimah 'La Ilaha Illa Allah' tanpa mensyirikkan Allah, nescaya syurga terus baginya, tak kiralah dosa dia menggunung mana sekalipun tetap Allah ampunkan.
Nikmat yang lain di dunia? Itu sementara je (bunyi petir), kalau Allah letakkan nilai padanya walaupun sebesar lalat, hmmph, langsung tak de peluang untuk orang kafir menikmatinya walaupun seteguk air.
Tengok, hanya iman dan islam sahaja boleh menjamin syurga yang selama-lamanya.

Inilah apa yang cuba dibawa oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW, rasul junjungan kita. Cuba mengembalikan manusia sekalian alam kepada Allah yang satu. Menghentikan anasir-anasir kuffar (a.k.a menyeleweng) dan perhambaan manusia.

Sabar jap (bunyi cd muzik tersekat),
Iman dan islam ni macam mane ehh, apa cara nak tau kita beriman???
Senang je,
Setiap kata-kata kita merujuk kepada Allah,
Contoh, ketika lapar,
'Ya Allah, bantulah aku untuk mencari makanan'
atau
'Ya Allah, aku nak sangat makan agar dapat beribadat kepadaMu'
BUKAN NI,
'Laparnya, aku nak makan doh, kalau tak nanti mati'
Nampak senang kan?
Tapi cuba istiqamah cakap macam tu.
Itu challengenya.
Ada berani?

Itu sajalah santapan hati buat masa ni, segala kebaikan itu datang dari Allah dan yang buruk itu kelemahan diri sendiri, namun hakikatnya dua-dua sudah Allah takdirkan. InsyaAllah kita bertemu lagi dalam post yang lain.