Saturday, March 27, 2010

Nak Habis dah.

Salam.

Bismillah.

Semalam pergi Pesta Buku, asalnya nak pergi satu family, tapi..hmm. Ada hikmah.

Buku-buku tak banyak yang dibeli..(Duit!)

1. The Making of Islamic Science
2. Creation of Universe (Malay Version, English habis)
3. Fascism, The Bloody Ideology of Darwinism
4. The Digital Fortress (Dapat murah, hehe. Tu yang tunggu lama sikit..The Lost Symbol next..)
5. Belajar Dari Perang Khandaq
6. Mirwana Album Baru (I wonder, memang CD lagi murah dari buku-buku ke? Atau kat book fair nak harga? hehe. 4 from 5 buku-buku di atas lagi mahal dari Album ni.)

Insya Allah.
Antara objektif pun, cuma nak tahu buku apa yang EXIST.
Dah taip dalam HP masa itu, buku mana yang akan dibeli.

Oh..I LOVE READINGG SO MUCH!!

Hmm.

Darul Quran, lebih kurang sebulan lagi, before final exam dan menuju ke destinasi seterusnya. Insya ALLAH.

Doakan yang terbaik buat saya.

Dipermudahkan.

Amin.

Tunggu kalau-kalau dapat panggilan temu duga, if not, dah ada tempat di TARC with full A-level scholarship, Insya Allah ke sana next.

Amin.

Ya ALLAH, pandulah hamba MU ini. Amin ya rabbal alamin.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Design Untuk Banat



Salam.

Bismillah.

Ini design untuk banat, jikalau ada design for banat yang untuk 'couple' ana akan update. Apa-apa hal, jikalau ada any enquiry boleh terus tanya pada Person-In-Charge. Terima kasih. Segala sumbangan anda amat dihargai. Jika sesiapa yang nak copy dan tolong promote di blog, silakan. Segala kerjasama anda kami dahulukan dengan doa dan terima kasih.

=)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Mari Order dan Beli! =)

Salam.

Bismillah.


Setelah sekian lama menyepi, kami datang kembali. =) Alhamdulillah, gelombang kali ini telah dicetuskan dan Insya Allah berpanjangan momentumnya. Doa-doa agar berkekalan.

Bagi sesiapa yang pernah mengenali kami, juga pernah melihat produk jualan kami, mahupun mendengar ke'laku'an produk kami, pasti menunggu-nunggu kedatangan kami. (Perasan tahap kapal terbang yang Amirul Arif HM Aerospace tengah bawak!)
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Allahu Akbar. Bimillahirrahmanirrahim.

"Serulah kepada jalan Tuhanmu dengan hikmah, dan nasihat-nasihat yang
baik-baik, dan bertukar fikiranlah dengan cara yang lebih baik, sesungguhnya
Tuhanmu lebih mengetahui siapa yang sesat dari jalan-Nya, dan Dialah yang
mengetahui siapa yang terpimpin." [An-Nahl:125]
Merujuk kepada ayat di atas. Satu usaha telah dicetuskan oleh seorang kawan baik bernama Ahmad Ridhuan Ahmad Yani dengan kolaborasi beberapa orang rakan serta seorang Naqib terhormat. Alhamdulillah. Perniagaan ini merupakan satu usaha untuk berdakwah menggunakan pendekatan yang friendly dan ringan, namun mampu memberi sentuhan dan juga peringatan. Berasaskan baju T-shirt, kami mensasarkan golongan remaja sebagai sasaran golongan utama di samping kami sebagai rakan-rakan kongsi perniagaan juga turut menjadi agen (kena beli sekali la maksudnya..) bagi menyebarluaskan produk kami ini. Pada asalnya, kami dikenali sebagai 'Havoc Clothings' namun atas sebab-sebab tertentu, kami berpayung di bawah nama 'SERBASERBISENI'. Projek Caliph14 ini Alhamdulillah pada gelombang pertama telah mendapat sambutan yang amat-amat menggalakkan dan mengejutkan. Moga dengan gelombang kedua ini juga mendapat sambutan yang menggalakkan.
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Tujuan menggunakan wasilah ini untuk berdakwah agar mesej ini dapat disampaikan dengan lebih meluas, konsisten, ringan dan berkesan. Our job is to CONVEY. Moga dengan usaha ini dapat kita bersama-sama menyebarkan peringatan, untuk diri sendiri(yelah, pakai T-shirt kan..) dan juga masyarakat sekeliling. Usaha kecil, tapi di sisi ALLAH jika ikhlas, penduduk langit mendoakan keampunan dan kerahmatan buat kita. Amin ya Rabbal Alamin..
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FAQ "Ada kesan ke kalau dakwah macam ini? Apa sebab nak dakwah sampai buat t-shirt, diorang bukan kisah pun.."
My personal anwer "L.O.V.E. Meriah sikit syurga kalau ramai orang. Kan? ;)"
Al-Quran ->
"Dan (ingatlah) ketika suatu umat di antara mereka berkata: 'Mengapa kamu menasihati
kaum yang Allah akan membinasakan mereka atau meng'azab mereka dengan azab yang amat
keras?' Mereka menjawab: 'Agar kami mempunyai alasan (pelepas tanggung jawab) kepada
Tuhanmu, dan supaya mereka bertaqwa.

Maka tatkala mereka melupakan apa yang
diperingatkan kepada mereka, Kami selamatkan orang-orang yang melarang dari perbuatan
jahat dan Kami timpalkan kepada orang-orang yang zalim seksaan yang keras, disebabkan
mereka selalu berbuat fasiq." (Al-A'raf: 164-165)

Allahu Akbar. Saja classify dua portion, biar focused ada dua golongan dalam ayat ini. I choose to be the first one. You? Dalam usaha nak menjadi golongan pertama, kita boleh belajar untuk sampaikan mesej-mesej Islam secara berhikmah. Salah satu caranya ialah melalui baju. Mungkin nampak simple, ringan, tapi jangan risau, kalau cukup berani pakai ke mana-mana, akan ada orang bertanya. Kami ada testimoni..(Amirul!!! Kau lagi kena..haha). Alhamdulillah, dalam gelombang kedua ini, kami datangkan anda dengan dua design yang sudah diubah suai.


First design. HIDUP!



Second design. COUPLE



All designs are available in all sizes from S to XL.
The standard price for guys' shirt : RM25.
Interested?You can start order now!
SMS/Call me at 0132724207 (Asif) or Ewan (0132029459)
For those who are interested to purchase any of the stuff in this blog via post:-
Feel free to inform me via sms. sms me your name, colour pattern, address.
- bank in the amount to my friend's account(maybank) :
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- sms me once u banked in the money and the reciept number.
- then, i'll post the stuff that u want a.s.a.p.
post rate:-
+ rm5 for normal post
+ rm10 for post laju

Order is open NOW until 7th April 2010.
Any inqueries, please contact me or Ewan (0132029459)
For UIA Nilai, touch through Auza'ie (0136402450)
And UIA PJ, through Ahmad Amin (0136402466)
And Banat, through Nur(0137215852)

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Jikalau anda ada apa-apa cadangan, dari segi idea, design, mahupun marketing, boleh melalui mana-mana nombor yang tertera. Terima kasih. Barakallahu fiikum...

"Sampaikan dariku walaupun satu ayat." (Riwayat Bukhari)
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Tahniah Generasi Baru

Salam.

Bismillah.


Prologue...

"From one generation to the next... The following one will continue to surpass the previous". The battle was a very long battle. Collosal damages took place. Kakuzu, a criminal, a traitor of his country, lived long enough for three generations. He was able to live with maximum five hearts in his body, pumping different kind of elemental chakra. He was the one who had killed the first Hokage, and still lived after Sarutobi's death. He was one of the Akatsuki members. No one expected that this five-hearted man was killed. But, what Kakashi said was true, Naruto attacked him with a brand new jutsu. An expansion pack of Rasengan, known as Rasen Shuriken.

A nature-chakra jutsu, where he used his wind-nature chakra to form the Rasengan. This attack was furious and critical, piercing his body, sliced into pieces. Before Kakuzu was finished by Kakashi's Chidori....this was what Kakashi said.

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Semalam Ayaz tertinggal van. Hantar budak bijak tu ke tadika lama ana, Tadika Amal. Dalam kereta berdua dengan dia, borak-borak. Macam-macam yang diborakkan. Seronok dengar dia bercerita. Sampai satu simpang, dia kata, "Eh..sini..pusing sini." Masa tu traffic light warna merah. Ana berhenti. Ana ingatkan memang tadika dah pindah, baru nak pusing. Tiba-tiba dia kata "Eh...eh...silap..sorry..(gelak-gelak malu kucing).." Pergh. Memang bajet ar dia. Haha. Ana teruskan perjalanan sampai hantar dia. Borak dengan cikgu ana. Wow. It has been 11 years. Lama betul.

Tahniah personally ana ucapkan pada yang mendapat result yang korang rasa bersyukur dengannya. Alhamdulillah. Whoa. Hebat-hebat semua. Sometimes, I feet it is just a bit unfair, just because Al-Amin private school, kecemerlangan kami tak masuk list PPD. =.=" Moga yang mendapat result syukur dan redha. Kalau nak cuba recheck boleh sahaja =) Ana tak dapat apa-apa makluman lagi, whether Ikhwanul15 beats record Caliph14 or not. Hehe. Because kalau beat, tahniah ana ucapkan. Kalau tak beat, alhamdulillah ana ucapkan. Hehe.

Harap dengan result dapat masing-masing sebarkan ruh Islam. Manfaatkan betul-betul potensi ilmu yang tengah 'panas' dalam diri. Be yourself bak kata omputeh. Tapi, be yourself yang fitrah punya, bukan yang nafsu punya. Masing-masing ada minat masing-masing; bisnes, komputer, math, physics, engine, tafsir n hadith, dan macam-macam lagi. Even music. Before this, I doubted music could bring any effective impact. I mean, not only positive message it relays, but a symphony strong enough to mobilize us. Later then, Maher Zain muncul. Allah, hebat dia. Lyrics, Music, rhythm, sume smart. Maaf, bukan nak defy group nasyid lain ye? =) Cuma, UNIC and the gangs, lagunya bercampur baik dan buruk. Mungkin baik untuk orang awam, tapi cancerous for ikhwah, contohnya. Itu pendapat. Boleh terima boleh tolak. All I want just a pure and clean one. And, Yay! Maher Zain comes to the rescue. Maaflah kalau macam budak-budak, aura gembira junior-junior dapat mantap. Effects nya sampai mak ana pun happy. Tu tak nampak lagi tuan-tuan punya badan. Kalau nampak, Masya Allah.

Yang tak tercapai target, jangan kecewa. SPM bukan segala-galanya. Don't worry, I've felt it for a 'while'. Haha. Doa pada Allah agar dimudahkan jalan ke mana-mana yang diingini. Yang penting, jaga iman di mana sahaja anda berada. Itu penting. Kat sini, dapat result, anytime boleh boost balik. Bagi contoh senior, Syed Huzaifah. SPM agak tak menjadi. Who knows naik Uni mantap habis. Masuk paper lagi dia punya projek. Jadi, don't worry be happy. Bagi yang dah bersedia nak melangkah ke bidang dakwah secara lebih serius, dengar elok-elok kata ana. Jangan jadi fanatik, jangan taksub. Tajarrud atau total boleh, cuma untuk menyalahkan orang lain dan kita sahaja betul, adalah langkah yang amat tidak bijak. Amat-amat. Juga, carilah jalan dakwah yang mana seperti Hasan Al Banna ucapkan, Dakwatuna Bari'ah wa Nazihah. Dakwah kami bersih dan suci. Kalau ada pelik-pelik sikit, buat perkara bertentangan 'urf dan sebagainya hati-hati. Tak perlu terdesak nak helah sana-sini. Di tempat ana, macam itu yang terjadi. Not to be weirdo, cuma, dah ada bukti secara rekod pengakuan dibuat. I wonder, ini hanya berkaitan dengan wisdom. Tak perlu cakap lebih-lebih =)
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Asyraf Roslan mesej tadi, dok mesej-mesej dengan dia pasal result. Hebat tak hebat budak Alamin ni, beza dia dengan best student Malaysia tahun ini A dengan A+. My junior dapat 14 A+ and satu A, best student Malaysia dapat 15 A+. WOw! Hehe. Acap tadi pun macam girang je. Kesian dia dok kat hutan KYUEM. Hehe. Tak lama dah dok hutan, pasni nak oversea dah. Haha.
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Sekarang ini kita generasi baru. Selepas dah kalah teruk dulu masa Khilafah jatuh, umat Islam agak terseksa. Doubled or tripled than before. Sampai sekarang, kita diinjak-injak lagi. I know this topic dah terlalu banyak dibincangkan, sana sini. Cuma ana harap masing-masing lepas ini, bila dah keluar betul-betul, buka mata. Umat tengah tenat sekarang. Masih ada lagikah harapan untuk kita? Baru sehari lepas, Syaikhul Azhar, Prof Dr Sayyid Tantawi meninggal kerana sakit jantung. 'Orang kuat' agama kita. Kalau dulu, ada gelombang fitnah kena tepat pada dia. Pelik bila difikirkan mengenai lumrah manusia. They tend to believe the negative side of a thing rather than the positive side. Imagined, I asked my friend, yang jawa tok-tok punya memang pakar bab-bab ni, yang berita itu salah. Dia siap bagi link lagi. Tapi, orang Malaysia. Susah nak percaya. SUSAH NAK PERCAYA PERKARA BAIK YANG ORANG BUAT!! It brings no harm. Poin di sini, generasi lama sudah makin sikit, orang panggil generasi berkualiti punya. If dahulu, Syeikh Ahmad Deedat meninggal, Dr Zakir Naik muncul. Zaman ini, ana kadang-kadang terfikir, adakah cukup untuk pertolongan Allah datang pada kita? Cukup dekat ke tidak kita dengan Allah?

Let's ponder.. Our beloved Prophet once said.
Dari Nukman bin Basyir katanya, “Suatu ketika kami sedang duduk-duduk di Masjid Nabawi SAW dan Basyir itu adalah seorang yang tidak banyak cakap. Datanglah Abu Saklabah lalu berkata, “Wahai Basyir bin Saad, adakah kamu hafaz hadis Rasulullah SAW tentang para pemerintah?” Huzaifah RA lalu segera menjawab, “Aku hafaz akan khutbah baginda SAW itu.” Maka duduklah Abu Saklabah Al-Khusyna (untuk mendengarkan hadis berkenaan). Maka kata Huzaifah RA, Nabi SAW telah bersabda, “Telah berlaku Zaman Kenabian ke atas kamu. Maka berlakulah zaman itu seperti yang Dia kehendaki, kemudian Allah pun mengangkat zaman itu seperti yang Dia kehendaki. Kemudian berlakulah Zaman Kekhalifahan yang berjalan menurut cara Zaman Kenabian. Maka berlakulah zaman itu seperti yang dikehendaki oleh Allah ia berlaku. Kemudian diangkat-Nya apabila Dia berkehendak mengangkatnya. Kemudian berlakulah pula Zaman Pemerintahan Yang Menggigit (Fitnah). Maka berlakulah zaman itu seperti yang dikehendaki oleh Allah berlakunya. Kemudian Dia mengangkatnya seperti yang Dia kehendaki mengangkatnya. Kemudian berlakulah Zaman Pemerintah Yang Zalim (Diktator). Maka berlakulah zaman itu seperti yang Allah kehendaki ia berlaku. Kemudian Dia mengangkatnya apabila Dia mahu mengangkatnya. Kemudian berlakulah pula Zaman Kekhalifahan yang berlaku menurut cara Zaman Kenabian.” Kata Huzaifah RA, “Kemudian baginda SAW diam.” Hadis ini diriwayatkan oleh Imam Ahmad di dalam kitab Musnad Al-Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Juzuk 4, halaman 273. Juga terdapat di dalam Kitab As-Silsilatus Sahihah, Jilid 1, hadis nombor 5.

Allah.. Sekarang ini zaman pemerintah yang zalim. Agaknya bila pula kita nak melalui zaman terakhir? Ana nak terlibat dalam revolusi dunia yang terakhir ini. Pilihan ada dua sahaja, sama ada kita terlibat atau tak. Doa ana, moga-moga dapat melihat zaman kelima itu tertegak depan mata ana. Kita memang tak akan dapat menandingi generasi-generasi yang Nabi dah sebut sebagai 'unbeatable' seperti generasi Nabi dan sahabat, generasi tabi'in, generasi tabi' at tabi'in, dan dari military aspect generasi Sultan Muhammad Al Fath. Namun kita boleh jadi hampir seperti mereka. Ya! Tak mustahil. So, jadi baik jom. Dapat isteri baik. Dapat anak-anak baik. Hehe... =) Jangan lupa, anak-anak kita ada kat tulang belakang kita, apa kita buat depa tengok. Hidup ini ada dua equation.

“Allah berfirman (dalam hadits qudsi) ‘Apabila hambaku ingin melakukan kejahatan, maka janganlah kamu menulis kejahatan itu atasnya hingga ia melakukannya. Jika ia meninggalkannya karena Aku, maka tulislah untuknya satu kebaikan. Apabila ia ingin melaksanakannya kebaikan lalu ia tidak sempat melaksanakannya, maka tulislah untuknya satu kebaikan. Jika ia telah melaksanakannya, maka tulislah untuknya sepuluh kali lipat hingga tujuh ratus kali lipat.” (H.R Bukhari no. 7501)

Tak seimbang kan? Macam mudah saja dapat pahala. Banyak pahala, makin dekat dengan Allah. Dekat dengan Allah..dapat pertolongan Allah.. well. Itu saja. Cuti dah nak habis dah. Lagi 2 bulan di DQ. Allahu Akbar..
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Akhir kata, tahniah untuk batch Ikhwan15. Personally, pencapaian hebat. Tahniah.
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Sebelum hop ke blog lain, sila layan video ini. Betul cakap, amat terharu. Well-said, cukup untuk mengalirkan air mata, terutamanya buat gamers. Dush..awal-awal tengok memang terasa sangat. By the way, ini memang khas untuk gamers. Truly effective. Harap sama-sama dapat kita muhasabah .... =)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Friendly Discussion - The Big Bang Theory




Type:
Education -
Date:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time:
8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location:
D112, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya

Salam.
Jemput datang la. Kawan-kawan UIA yang sedang bercuti, kawan-kawan DQ yang duduk kawasan sini, and batch Ikhwanul 15 yang dapat result. Silakan. Sama-sama enrich ilmu pengetahuan. Gunakan masa, tenaga dan nikmat yang ada. Syukur nikmat =)

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Tahap ke'poyo'an melampau.

Remember what the greatest man ever lived said, Kalau kita mahu dunia, perlu ilmu. Kalau kita mahu akhirat, perlu ilmu. Kalau kita mahu kedua-duanya juga perlu dengan ilmu. Jadi, kalau ada kelapangan dan kesempatan, mai lah. Tak dapat tak apa.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Hedonism in the Present




Prologue...
Few hundred years ago, there was a meeting between the Pharisees. Pharisees were the ones who had confronted Jesus’ teachings. They met and decided on how to deviate Jesus’ followers. At the end of that legendary meeting, a secret organization was formed. A society named *Freemasonry. This secret organization has been trying to pin Semitic religions down for a long time. At their early period of assault, they fought Christians and Muslims face to face. Later then, they collaborated with Christians in order to destroy Islam. One of their efforts was the Holy War. A massive war between the Crusaders and the Muslims. The war ended with a glorious victory led by Salahuddin Al Ayubi. The Muslims managed to conquer Jerusalem after 800 years. In the meantime, Freemasons learned their mistakes. King Philip, who was once held in captivity by the Muslims, presented his observations during his imprisonment to his people. He said Muslims were invulnerable in physical fights; as they loved to die as Christians loved to live. He said the only way to defeat Muslims is by making them forget their histories and far from their source of strength which is the Quran. Since then, a new kind of war has been engineered to attack Muslims.


-Introduction-
It has been almost 100 years since the Caliphate of Ottoman was tragically overthrown. The conspiracy was planned and executed by Western powers with the help of Turkish Masons. The tragedy brought grief and sorrow to all Muslims around the world. Since then, a new war had been massively waged on Muslims. A war that requires little fund, has a wide range of target, very hard to detect and causes a lot of damages. It is deadlier than biological weapon and much quicker to spread than viral assault. This new war is known as psychological war (Ghazwul Fikr). It has sacrificed many people’s faith and ideologies. Some become the opponents of their own ideology and faith while some destroy their own religion from within. Ideology is the main weapon of this war and one their foremost weapons is hedonism. Before we delve deeper, let us pay a visit to the past to study about the terminology of hedonism and its origin.

-Terminology and origin-
Terminologically, hedonism is derived from a Greek word ‘hedone’ which means sweetness, joy or delight. It refers to theories about the nature and functions of pleasure. Originally hedone was the sort of sweetness that could be appreciated by taste or smell; then hearing was involved; finally it was applied metaphorically to any pleasant sensation or emotion. Hedonism was popularized by Socrates’ student, Aristipus (433-355 BC). One day Socrates asked Aristipus what was the final goal of human life? Aristipus’ answer was to attain the highest pleasure is the purpose of life. Later this idea was developed by various schools of thought such as Democritus, Carvaka, and Cyrenaic schools. Democritus embraced the supreme goal of life ‘contentment’ which was to attain the highest joy and to abolish sorrow. While Carvakan philosophers claimed that pleasure should be the aim of living and there was nothing wrong with sensual indulgence. From its terminology and origin we can conclude that the very basic concept of hedonism is to hold pleasure as the only thing that is good for a person. It acts as a justification for evaluating actions in terms of pleasure and suffers.

-Relationship between Hedonism and Freemasonry-
Before I start to elaborate more on hedonism in the present, I would like to introduce to you the real culprit that had overthrown our Caliphate and their relationship with hedonism. Freemasonry is a secret society that moves underground and works together in order to fulfill their missions. Inside Freemasonry, there is an elite group that acts as the society’s mastermind called Illuminati. According to The Knights Templars by Harun Yahya, Illuminati executes their plans based on a principle, “Novus Ordo Seclorum” which means New Secular Order. The very basic ideology of Illuminati is secularism. If we study deeper there is a very close connection between secularism and hedonism. Secularism is a vast ideology that was built on five principles. Those five principles are Vetalism, Relative, Creativity, Hedonism and power of majority. Interesting enough to note that hedonism is one of the fundamental principles of secularism; an ideology that lies in the heart of every Illuminatus, an idea that promotes destruction of religion and theism.

-Purpose-
Hedonism is not originally a product of Freemasonry. It is only this flawed philosophy was manipulated, channeled and redirected to us. Hedonism has its influence mostly on youth. This group of age has become their main target for two reasons. Firstly, this group holds the majority voice of the community, more familiarly decides the 'public opinion'. Biologically, youth is the range of age where pleasure, satisfaction and self-gratification have the most influences. Any element that is equipped with these factors will be the main choice for youth. As youth holds the majority, hedonism is used to alter and direct the destination of a social system. Hedonism’s pure essence is youth’s effective catalyst which is pleasure.
Secondly, in order to make a community crumbles into pieces, new generation plays an important role. In a community, youth is the indicator of excellence in the future. If a community inherits a powerful young generation, the community soon will pave its way to success. But, if a community inherits a fearful young generation, the community will extinct. As mentioned earlier, hedonism is used to destroy Islam indirectly. Thus, young generation of Muslims must be infected in order to crush the whole system in the future.
In a nutshell, the purpose of hedonism is to destroy our youth. It is natural that new generation will replace the older one. Instead of facing this powerful group face to face, they use hedonism to distract our youth. In a long term, it is our religion that’ll be facing grave dangers. It is a clear-cut evidence that hedonism is used to destroy Islam.

-Mediums-
Hedonism works through small but effective mediums. This ideology mostly is relayed by the media. Basically media is a basic tool of communication that transmits and relays information to the society. Interesting enough, media is also a medium of hedonism. In a smaller scale, these mediums of hedonism are television (TV), music, and internet.
According to a research that was done by Focus Adolescent Service in 2004, about 83 percents of 20 TV shows contained porn pictures and 20 percent of it showed explicit sex scenes. In music aspect, 42 percent of popular lyrics contained sex elements and 19 percent of it described about sexual intercourse. It is clear enough that these mediums were manipulated to carry the messages of hedonism. It is a disastrous symphony in a cancerous melody that tunes the minds of our youth in a deteriorating way.
Besides TV shows and music, internet also plays the role in relaying hedonistic messages. Almost all of us use internet in our daily life. Internet provides undeniable services and helps in our life. Our globalized life will surely be put on a hiatus if internet stops working. Despite its importance, internet also acts as a medium to spread hedonism all around the world. Internet promotes pleasure to be attained as high as possible. With the existence of online-streaming programs, pleasure will be easily available to anyone from anywhere at anytime. Research conducted by the Internet Reviews 2006 shows a very stunning fact. There are around 4.2 millions websites with 372 millions pages which were registered as official porn sites.
As we can see almost everything around us is used to propagate these hedonistic ideas. Without doubt the most affected group is youth. TV, music, and internet are all manipulated for the same purpose.


-Effects-
Although modernization rate increases exponentially, our moral development seems deteriorating day by day. Is moral development inversely proportional to modernization rate? Hedonism has caused many problems to our society. Its effects pierced into the heart of ummah, tearing every potential teenager apart and leaving them strayed from the path. Thus, I would like to present some results from surveys that had been conducted by various agencies.
Some facts here may shock some people, but it is a reality that we have to face. According to Durex Sex Survey, Malaysian teenagers have their first sex around 19.3 to 20 years old on the average. I-Kon Berita Harian also reported another shocking result. Based on their survey, about 23 percent of teenagers in Kuala Lumpur have their first sex before the age of 15. This survey was reported on 30 July 2005 under Seks Luar Nikah. From these surveys, we can conclude that our youth are really thirst for sex. Beside sex, concerts and gigs that are held throughout the year also promote hedonistic cultures. Those who participate will be indulged in pleasure and will somehow find ways to gain more pleasures progressively. By then, more people will start using drugs and stimulants, more people will start drinking wine and beer, and more people will start embracing hedonism indirectly. Consequently, this social sickness will give birth to something darker. Ring a bell? Black Metal, tattoo, prostitution, ‘Mat Rempit’, sex party and many of them to be listed.
Without any doubt, this kind of culture will only reduce moral awareness and highlight individualistic values. It is a culture that encourages violence, selfishness, and self-gratification. If we observe carefully, we will know that hedonism will only make a person become more unstable. Correlation does imply causation. Rape, murder, pre-marital sex, drug addict, and suicide and its correlation with sex, pornography, wine, ecstasy, concert and any way to embrace hedonism prove that the latter is the causation of the former. This fact is undeniable. It is for us to see that hedonism brings only harmful effects to our society.

-Solutions-
Before I focus to the solution, I would like to re-engineer our understanding and explain why we are against this ideology. Islam does not reject every ideology that exists. Indeed, Islam treats it as a natural process as human mind produces personal view of life. As long as it does not against any value in Islam, it is acceptable. If then, why are we against this ideology?
Theologically, hedonism promotes freedom of thinking. On the surface this characteristic may appear normal, but when we look deeper we will find that hedonism encourages values that destroy religion to its very basic pillars. Hedonism encourages human to think and act in accordance to their free will without tied to any divine revelation or religious view. More specifically it encourages us not to follow our two important sources which are Al-Quran and Sunnah. This dangerous principle of hedonism went deep to the root of every religion and infected their followers to rebel against their own religions. Explicitly hedonism promotes values which are against every fundamental principle of religion.
Secondly, hedonism does not fit logically into human society. This argument was voiced out by many philosophers. Why? Hedonism is a doctrine that holds that pleasure is the highest good. Each person is different from one another. So do their kind of pleasures. Not everyone gains pleasure through wine and sex. I have an interesting thought experiment suggested by a philosopher to share. If a person gains his pleasure by killing people and another person gains his pleasure by raping girls, do these persons benefit the community? What could the community do if both of them acted based on hedonism? This example is often used to counter hedonism. It is a very strong argument to deny hedonism and its existence. While hedonism prefers individual pleasure, Islam offers the solution by preferring community’s well-being, interest, and security.
We have seen how bad its effects are, we have known the purpose behind this ideology, we have analyzed its mediums of propagation and we have discovered its relationship with Freemasonry. So what can we do in order to heal this social cancer?

Help one another in righteousness and piety, but do not help one another in sin and rancor
(Al-Ma’idah, 2)


From this verse, we know that cooperation and collaboration in doing good deeds are encouraged. Thus, before we start solving problems, let us learn to cooperate. By working together, we will produce more fruitful decisions and actions. A larger scope will be enveloped and a larger range will be covered.
Secondly, as mentioned by Ustaz Hasrizal(Saifulislam.com), apparent problems and real problems must be recognized. Social and moral collapses are the apparent problems. The real problem is the manipulation of propagation mediums. Those mediums must be then reconstructed in order to heal this social sickness. Most importantly, each of us must learn to lead a real Muslim life. Only by this way can produce a stronger and powerful generation that can resist these hedonistic waves. Each of us must learn to represent Islam to our community. In the midst of social deterioration, Islam offers the solution.

-Conclusion-
In this short essay, I have introduced hedonism from its historical aspect. I have elaborated its terminology. I also have related this ideology with Freemason’s ultimate objective which is secularism. Later I have revealed the true purpose of this ideology and the reasons why youth became their main target. I have listed their main mediums and presented its effects on our society. I have proven theologically and logically why hedonism is flawed. Lastly I have suggested my personal solutions to this problem. Thus, I hope from my little efforts I have illuminated some perspectives in viewing this issue and brought new insights in perceiving this problem. May God Bless All of us. Allahu Akbar!


*Freemasonry - their name wasn't Freemasonry yet at that time, only their movement was known. Official Freemasonry was official when the remnants of Knights Templars fled from Pope Clement's order and conquered mason's societies in the surrounding countries.

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"Salam..bila kita nak kena buat essay ni? Tak tampal apa-apa pun.."
"Eh...kau tak tahu ke? Lagi dua hari nak kena hantar..ni tajuk dia......."
"La..bijaknya..kata haritu akan ditampal..p mana benda tu?"
"Derang kata kena cabut dah..sebab...jadi derang bgtau aku..sorry terlambat bgtahu..lupa."
"Hmm...takpelah..okay je..tak sempat hantar, pujuk teacher hantar lambat sikit..hehe"

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How dare you!! Last-minute notification!

I sent this a day after its deadline. Language Fun Fiesta and I represented my batch, IQRAC. Asked my friend to send it for me. Allah..really..miserable..imagine I only had a BM-BI dictionary besides me, and Quran Saintifik. No research, no internet(my Operamini went screwed), only my friends encouraging me. Alhamdulillah. I won the second place after all. 'Kegelabahan' paid well. Thanks to Him. It is just I really want to share what I know, about hedonism, in this organized essay so that you will also be at least in the same orbit with me. Fighting them, pace by pace. Ya Allah, I pray to you, please enrich every living or dying soul with iman, enlighten our path, crystallize our fikrah, mobilize our harakah, optimize our talents and potentials, and lastly illuminate our world, their world, THIS WHOLE WORLD!! with Your Light.. Ya Allah, Ya Nur..Fill our hearts with Your shining light, as you are the Light of the heaven and earth. Bless this whole world with your glorious light. Amin...


Footnotes.
I don't have the chance to refer anything while writing this essay, due to last minute notification. Only Quran Saintifik for the statistics and my memory for the whole. In case you want to know more about this, do read this book.
Do let me know if any information in my essay were inaccurate or wrong. I would really appreciate your effort to help me to be a better Muslim. Syukran :)

1. The Knights Templars - Harun Yahya
2. Templars and Freemasons - Harun Yahya
3. Global Freemasonry - Harun Yahya
4. The Hand of Iblis - I don't remember the writer, but it is a white colored-covered book, written by a lecturer from ISTAQ, UIAM.
5. Gerakan Freemasonry - Hijjaz Records


Friday, March 5, 2010

Such A Wonderful Journey

Salam.

Bismillah.


Prologue..

Saya dapat tawaran ke Darul Quran. Semasa sedang Explorace, sebetulnya sedang berada di KLCC ketika itu menjual buku sambil dihambat pak guard. Alhamdulillah. Ketika itu, cita-cita Allah tunaikan. Juga menjadi motivasi terus untuk menjuarai Explorace, dan Juara juga. Alhamdulillah.. Nama kumpulan memang unik, Cent-Toot. Asal usul istilah serta falsafah di sebaliknya juga unik. Nak tergelak pun ada bila ingat balik. Habis Explorace ada lebih kurang seminggu sebelum kemasukan pertama ke sana. Kemasukan ke sana sedikit sebanyak dikejutkan dengan dua program pertama yang menyambut kami. Sejujurnya, bukan saya tidak tahan dengan program sebegitu, cuma, agak kecewa apabila bakal-bakal penghafaz Al-Quran diprovokasi secara emosi dan fizikal. Masya Allah..Darul Quran memang unik, dan perancangannya juga haruslah unik untuk mengubah keadaan. Unik, jangka masa panjang serta efektif. Biarlah perlahan. Revolusi mana yang cepat. Mungkin ada hikmah Allah dedahkan perkara-perkara yang berlaku di situ, untuk saya ambil tindakan juga. Siapa sangka, ada juga beberapa orang yang berpendapat sama. Moga Allah kurniakan keberkatan dalam kerjasama kami, biar berbeza jalur dan aliran, namun perkara yang salah harus dibetulkan. Agar haq diberikan pada yang haq. Since then..WE exist..



ALhamdulillah. Jam 11.20 bersamaan dengan 17 Rabiul Awal 1431 Hijrah, 4 Mac 2010, saya telah tamat tasmi' secara mushafahah dengan Ustaz Saiful Nizam kitab Al-Quran. Masya Allah.. saya sendiri tak sangka yang saya sempat habiskan hafalan sebelum mati. Hanya berdoa dari hari ke hari agar sempat mengkhatamkan Quran di dada. Ingin menjadi Quran berjalan, namun saya tahu bahawa ianya berkali-kali ganda lebih susah dari bercakap(menaip?). Kedatangan saya ke Darul Quran dengan harapan yang terlalu menggunung. Harapan untuk menghafal Al-Quran. Saya percaya, ianya memang satu perjalanan yang memeritkan.

Mungkin tidak keterlaluan jika saya katakan tiadalah yang lebih berat seumur hidup saya daripada memahat Quran di dada serta memikirkan tanggungjawab yang bakal ditempuhi. Kadang-kadang secara tidak sedar saya sengaja mengabaikan tanggungjawab, menjadi kebudak-budakan yang teramat sangat, meninggalkan tarbiah, menjadi pelajar yang berbuat salah, dan sebagainya. Kemungkinan ketakutan itu melahirkan satu defense mechanism yang membentuk escapism, melarikan diri daripada realiti. Program-program awal menekankan tentang betapa berat tanggungjawab yang bakal kami galas apabila keluar nanti, bukan sekadar memberi syafaat di akhirat kepada 70 orang. Malah, jangankan memberi syafaat dan memahkotakan kedua ibubapa kami dengan mahkota secerah sinar matahari di akhirat nanti, balasan kami akan jauh berlipat ganda sekiranya kami gagal menunaikan tanggungjawab kami kepada manusia. With Great Power, comes Great Responsibilities. Segala yang saya pahat di dada saya akan disoal oleh Allah di akhirat nanti. Di saat saya sudah hampir dikuasai oleh kegembiraan, ketakutan segera mendampingi. Ianya satu pertaruhan. Sekiranya saya gagal, setidaknya tulang-tulang rusuk saya bakal ranap dan hancur dihimpit tanah kubur sekaligus menikam-nikam jantung saya. Setidaknya saya bakal dipatuk oleh ular-ular yang di mana jika setitik bisanya jatuh ke bumi, nescaya tiada tumbuhan dapat hidup. Itu baru azab kubur, permulaan kepada azab kubur, usah disyarahkan lagi panjang, permulaannya sudah cukup menakutkan.

Namun, jika saya berjaya, hidup saya akan tenteram. Usah dikatakan ketika sudah khatam, ketika sedang memaksa diri menghafal pun hati sudah begitu bahagia, masakan dapat disamakan apabila terbenam di dalam hati satu set lengkap panduan hidup sepanjang zaman. Jika dapat dimanfaatkan dengan hikmah, tepat, dan bijak berapa ramai manusia dapat diselamatkan, usah dikatakan kehebatan kitab ini daripada aspek sainsnya, aspek bahasanya sudah cukup untuk membuat manusia tersedu sedan menangis di satu sudut terpencil, bersendirian. Itu jika orang biasa-biasa, jikalau orang bahasa, alangkah menyesalnya saya tidak mempelajari bahasa arab dengan sepenuh jiwa dahulu. Inti nikmat solat itulah Al-Quran. Jika hati orang kafir dibuai dengan music-music Miley Cyrus, Jay Sean, Cascada, Slipknot, L.P, dan sebagainya, hati orang Muslim dibuai dengan ayat-ayat yang begitu menenangkan jiwa. Masya Allah.. Itu baru di dunia. Saya akan mendapati kubur saya meluas sejauh mata memandang, saya akan mendapati Quran sebagai teman ketika di kubur, syafaat dan hujah ketika di akhirat. Masya Allah.. cerita Al-Quran cerita hebat. Cerita syurga dan neraka. Bagaikan hidup.

Pernah ada satu ketika, saya ditanyakan oleh seorang junior. "Bang, susah tak nta nak hafal Quran?". Saya senyum, "Nta rasa?" Rasulullah ketika musim sejuk, baginda berpeluh ketika turunnya wahyu. Ketika musim panas, baginda kesejukan ketika turunnya wahyu. Unta baginda terduduk ketika turunnya wahyu. Secara maknawi, Al Quran amat berat. Namun, pengalaman saya bersama Al-Quran agak unik. Kami pelajar persijilan dikehendaki menghafal mengikut silibus 1 juz setiap minggu. Saya katakan, ia waktu yang amat berat, pedih, susah, malas, bahagia, ketagih, bengang, kecewa, dan seribu macam perasaan lagi yang bercampur ketika itu. Ada ketika, air mata menitis ke muka-muka surat mushaf tersayang kerana ke'lembab'an menghafal, geram dan kecewa. Ada ketika, rehal terasa mahu dilempar, pintu dihempas, dan meja dihancurkan. Ada ketika juga, terasa mahu dibelasah orang sekeliling kerna terasa diganggu. Ada ketika, terasa diri ini bagaikan kotor apabila membaca Quran. Ada ketika juga, terasa bangga kembang dada dan hidung disebabkan dipuji oleh Allah di dalam Quran. Ada ketika, solat menjadi pelepas tekanan. Ada juga makanan menjadi pembayar stress. Ada ketika juga, bola menjadi mangsa kekejaman kaki-kaki melepas geram. Malah di akhir-akhir hampir khatam, otak-otak kami hampir putus fius. Wujudnya teori-teori sesat yang sekiranya dapat dijual kepada Ayah Pin, Pak Kahar, mahupun Abuya dapat berjuta ringgit. Namun, teori-teori itu lenyap dalam ketawa. Ada juga ketika media dijadikan bahan kami bergurau. Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, dicanangkan kawan agar diadaptasi versi Darul Quran, Ketika Cinta BerTASMI'. Prank-prank Birthday semua tahap menggila. Semacam movie jika dilakonkan semula. Memori bersama Al-Quran itu amat bernilai. Saya katakan, program persijilan memenatkan namun membahagiakan.

Dahulu, saya mengagumi kehebatan Al-Quran kerana kitab lama mana yang mengandungi ayat-ayat yang amat bertepatan dengan fakta sains. Malah, kawan baik saya juga menjumpai ayat-ayat yang berkemungkinan mengatakan mengenai usaha manusia dan kajiannya di CERN dan angkasa. Masya Allah. Betapa hebat AL-Quran ini. Tidak cukup rasanya masa sekiranya saya ingin berkongsi kekaguman saya terhadap ketepatan Al-Quran, tepat dari pelbagai aspek. Undeniable. Jikalau sebelum menghafal dan ketika menghafal, saya boleh dikatakan agak minat, keterlaluan mungkin dalam bidang sains dan Al-Quran. Masya Allah. Namun, setelah masa berlalu kekaguman saya beralih arah. Saya walaupun seorang yang kidal yang mana dikatakan otak kanan lebih aktif, iaitu bahagian seni dan sastera, saya kurang cenderung kepada bahasa mahupun sastera. Keindahan pada saya hanyalah ketepatan susunan ciptaan Allah dalam sains, keunikan, keseimbangan yang menjangkaui pemikiran manusia, serta yang berkaitan dengannya. Akan tetapi, dalam mana saya menghafal Quran, saya melihat Quran memiliki keindahan yang lebih lagi, bukan sekadar himpunan petanda-petanda yang tepat dan halus, malahan ianya merupakan kitab bahasa yang amat indah. Bahasa Al-Quran, masya Allah, amat indah. Sebelum ini, saya hanya menerima ianya sebagai satu fakta yang saya sendiri tidak dapat memahami apakah keindahan bahasanya, dan bagi saya keindahan itu hanya dapat dirasai oleh mereka yang pakar dalam bidang bahasa. Masya Allah.. Akhirnya saya menjadi tertarik dan kagum, betapa indahnya bahasa dalam Al-Quran. Susunannya, logiknya, gaya bahasanya, Allah, memang menusuk kalbu. Kalau baca terjemahan pun sudah boleh kagum, apalagi yang pakar dalam bahasa arab. Mesti nikmat.. (look forward to learn it from anyone who's willing to share)

Gembira pun gembira, jangan lupa ada tanggungjawab. Di period saya khatam, Allah susun beberapa peristiwa pahit namun cantik hikmah dia. Yang tahu, tahu lah. Nak ucapkan terima kasih kerana sudi bersama dan menyokong perjanjian itu, terima kasih juga kepada yang pedas-pedas teguran dia dan demanding agak jugak, terima kasih juga kepada yang berkongsi apa-apa termasuk RAdiX, hehe, terima kasih yang sudi mentarbiah diri, juga terima kasih kepada yang apa-apa lah sama ada positif mahu negatif, saya akan ambil positif, Insya Allah. Most importantly, without doubt, I dedicated my worldly success to my parents and family. As Thrall said during his battle with Aedelas Blackmoore, "I am what he made me". And me, I am what they made me. I am what life made me. And the Cause of everything, I am what Allah made me. May I die, defensing His kalam. Amin.