Apabila Allah membuat keputusan menciptakan Adam, kelompok makluk yang lain mempersoalkan keputusanNya. Kelompok Malaikat: Adakah Engkau (Ya Tuhan kami) hendak menjadikan di bumi itu orang yang akan membuat bencana dan menumpahkan darah (berbunuh-bunuhan), padahal kami...
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Islam On Receiving Guests
A woman came to The Prophet ﷺ and complained to him about her husband that he invites too many guests and she has become weary from preparing food for them and hosting them. The Prophet...
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“Seorang anak muda liberal pernah tanya saya, apa dalil wajib pakai tudung bagi perempuan? “Saya jawab dalilnya surah an-nur ayat 31. “Dia jawab, dalil tersebut tak kuat utk katakan wajib. Ada dalil lain yg kata...
Continue reading...The Tourist of the Koran
I chanced upon Lesley Hazleton’s Ted Talk video “A “Tourist” Reading the Koran” recently. She is a British author whose work focuses on “intersection and interactions between politics and religion”. She is also an Agnostic...
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We plan so much for success. But we don’t usually plan for failures. Planning for failures means to avoid it. Or to minimise the impact of it. Insurance doesn’t just come from financial planners. They...
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The problem with our community is that there are far too many judgement based on too much assumptions. “Hold fast to the rope of Allah,” as the tradition goes. But we are debating over how...
Continue reading...Power = Wealth = Energy
Power, wealth and energy. What do they have in common? They cannot be destroyed. Only transferred and changed.
Continue reading...AR RAHEEM (The All-Merciful): A Woman’s Worth
قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالى: أَنَا الرَّحْمنُ خَلَقْتُ الرَّحِمَ وَشَقَقْتُ لَهَا اسْمًا مِنِ اسْمِي، فَمَنْ وَصَلَهَا وَصَلْتُهُ وَمَنْ قَطَعَها قَطَعْتُهُ“ Allah the Exalted said, ‘I Am Ar-Rahman. I created the Raham (womb, i.e. family relations) and derived...
Continue reading...AR RAHMAN (The All-Compassionate): About My Father
My late father’s name was Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah. It means “Servant of The All Compassionate, son of a servant of God.” Perhaps there’s a slight variation to the Romanised spelling but the translation in...
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Your destiny is already written in the Book (Luh Mahfuz). You are destined to achieve such and such, do such and such, say such and such, go to such and such. It is written. Your...
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