Saya berkesempatan bertemu dengan beberapa rakan lama sekolah sewaktu saya menghadiri majlis perkahwinan rakan yang lain. Ternyata, selepas hampir lapan tahun meninggalkan alam persekolahan, perubahan wajah seorang rakan wanita menyebabkan saya hampir tidak mengenalinya. Setelah beberapa ketika dengan sedikit clue yang diberikan, barulah saya dapat mengingatnya kembali. Sewaktu hendak pulang dia melihat kepada saya dengan wajah yang seolah-olah teruja. Mungkin terkejut dengan perubahan ketara saya yang dahulunya adalah sorang yang pemalu.
Selepas selesai menunaikan solat maghrib di surau taman berhampiran, saya terus ke cybercafe. Internet broadband yang perlahan memang menyusahkan dan rasa menyampah. Kadang-kadang kerana kesuntukan masa, maka pilihan yang lebih baik adalah menghabiskan masa di cybercafe tanpa perlu menungggu terlalu lama untuk loading page jika menggunakan internet broadband.
Di zaman moden, berita dari seluruh dunia berkembang pantas. Begitulah juga berita gemba bumi berskala 8.9 Richter dan tsunami yang melanda Jepun minggu lepas. Ketika saya melayari Facebook, malapetaka alam semulajadi ini menjadi update popular dikalangan pengunjung Facebook. Di google homepage juga, amaran diberikan bahawa tsunami mungkin akan melanda beberapa negara (more…)
Alhamdullilah, we all praise to Allah, another famous person become a muslim.
Sonny Bill Williams, as has been reported in The Herald has made a spiritual conversion to Islam.
Williams converted two years ago, before he returned to New Zealand to play rugby, and requested halal food during the All Blacks’ northern hemisphere tour last year, the newspaper said.
Friends said he regularly attends Friday prayer sessions at a Christchurch mosque.
Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand first vice-president Javed Khan told the Herald Williams’ allegiance was commonly known among the Muslim community.
“He is practising the religion and he is a great role model for the youngsters. We will pray to Allah that he will win the World Cup for us. Everyone talks (more…)
Sebuah organisasi terkenal Yahudi Amerika,Simon Wiesenthal Center telah melancarkan satu senarai top 10 individu-individu di seluruh dunia yang disifatkan sebagai anti Yahudi dan mengeluarkan kenyataan menghina Yahudi 2010.
Personaliti yang tersenarai tersebut antaranya ialah bekas UPI Wartawan Senior Rumah Putih Helen Thomas, pengarah filem Oliver stone dan Bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed.Nama-nama lain yang tersenarai ialah Al-Mutawakil Taha,(Deputy Minister of Information for the Palestinian Authority),Thilo Sarrazin(Central Bank Executive for the German Government),Karel de Gucht ( European Union’s Chief Trade Negotiator),Rick Sanchez(former CNN correspondent),Dr Petras Stankeras(historian and Interior Ministry advisor, Lithuania),Christina Patterson journalist(The Independent newspaper, UK) dan Social Networks and Anti-Semitism.
Senarai ini dibuat berdasarkan kenyataan individu-individu tersebut yang berbaur menentang yahudi.
Bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia Tun Mahathir yang sedia maklum sememangnya terkenal dengan sikapnya yang anti Yahudi sejak dahulu lagi dinobatkan ditempat ketiga berdasarkan kenyataan beliau yang berbunyi:
“Jews “had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred.” … “Even after the massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.” –January 2010
Komen Tun Mahathir
Bekas Perdana Menteri itu dalam laman blognya, Chedet menyifatkan apa yang dilakukannya selama ini adalah penentangan ke atas ketidakadilan, kekejaman dan penindasan oleh orang-orang yahudi terutamanya kepada penduduk Palestine. Ini termasuk sikap Israel yang tidak menghormati undang-undang antarbangsa sewaktu misi bantuan kemanusiaan Rachiel Corrie dan Mavi Marmara.
17. I am simply against injustice, against oppression and unmitigated and illegal violence.
18. If that makes me anti-Semitic then I am proud to be anti-Semitic, even though the term anti-Semitic is wrong.
Tetapi hairan juga kerana beberapa individu yang selalu mengkritik yahudi seperti presiden Iran, Ahmadenijad tidak pula tersenarai dalam top 10.Mungkin ada muslihatnya.
People Seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smiles- Lee Mildon
Smile,it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart- J. D’Angel
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles- George Eliot
Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him)
Do not belittle even the smallest act kindness, even if it were no more than meeting your brother with a smiling and cheerful face- Muslim
Photos from around the world.Please enjoys….
1) Indonesia
Two happy children at a center helping people affected by the 2004 tsunami. (more…)
Pada 12 April lepas,Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Presiden Barack Obama mengadakan perbincangan dua hala di Washington dalam pertemuan yang dilihat sebagai satu lagi langkah ke hadapan dalam hubungan Malaysia dan Amerika Syarikat.Kedua-dua pemimpin itu berbincang di Pusat Konvensyen Walter E. Washington sebelum berlangsungnya Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear(Nuclear Security Summit).
Najib dan Obama kelihatan tenang semasa mereka mengadakan pertemuan yang berlangsung selama 40 minit, lebih lama daripada yang dijadualkan selama setengah jam. Mereka diapit oleh Pemangku Menteri Luar Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim yang juga Menteri Penerangan Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan serta Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat Hillary Clinton. Perdana Menteri merupakan antara hanya dua pemimpin dari Asia yang (more…)
I was attending the Asean Logic Conference last Tuesday, 2 February 2010, organized by few IIUM organizations. The conference was conducted for the purpose to discuss some issues face by the ASEAN countries.
There were five speakers that deliver the speech: Dato Khaleed Nordin, Bro Feriz Omar, Prof Emeritus Dr. Khoo Khai Kim, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar and Tun Mahathir Mohamad.
I was thinking not to attend the conference because I forgot to take the ticket. However, at last I managed to came but only at the end of the conference. Luckily, the last speaker was the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Mahathir Mohamad.
Tun Mahathir is always an impressive speaker. I still remember when I was child, whenever he appeared on (more…)
Akhirnya selepas bertungkus lumus bergelut dengan masalah kewangan, menara tertinggi di dunia, Burj Dubai atau nama barunya Burj Khalifa berjaya dirasmikan pada 4 Januari 2010 oleh pemerintah Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad Rashed al-Maktoum. Majlis perasmiaan telah disakikan oleh hampir 6000 orang.Walaupun syarikat pemaju hartanah gergasi Nakheel, iaitu anak syarikat Dubai World dihimpit hutang sehingga US$80 billion, bangunan dan menara tertinggi dunia yang baru baru telah berjaya dibuka dengan rasminya dengan ketinggian 828m, lebih kurang dua kali ganda dari bangunan pencakra langit KLCC. Dubai mengalami kejatuhan ekonomi yang teruk semenjak November 2008 berikutan krisis kemuncupan kredit di mana apabila bank-bank tidak mempunyai cukup nilai aset cair untuk diberikan sebagai pinjaman bagi menjana lagi ekonomi yang (more…)
That day, I was listening to the IKIM.fm, an Islamic radio when the DJ suddenly played a good song We Will Not Go Down,an inspiring song written by a heartful artist on the consequences that have been happening lately to the poor palestinians. They are being thrown with bombs by Israelis and massacred. Most of the civillians murdered with cruelty are women and children in schools. Make the Prayer for Palestinians…and spread the word. That was the first time ever I heard the song since the song has been produced early this January. I surf the YouTube and downloaded the video clip along with the lyrics.
Perhaps, this is not a nasyed song ,but the lyrics is really touching and meaningful .It’s like all the English Nasyeed songs that ever listened before such as Queen of The Land, Mu’allim, I’m Not Afraid To Stand Alone and Better days. My interest on English Nasyeed songs was started a year ago, overwhelmed with the amazing journey of Yusuf Islam who turn to music industry after many years. Most of his songs even before became a Muslim are great and teach about life, perhaps his song that brought him to new way of life, Islam.
Here is the song, We Will Not Go Down. Please listen to it carefully….
Composed By Michael Heart Production of Music Video By Ahmed Alkhawaja Documentary Clips from “Death in Gaza”
WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza) (Composed by Michael Heart) Copyright 2009
A blinding flash of white light Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight People running for cover Not knowing whether theyre dead or alive
They came with their tanks and their planes With ravaging fiery flames And nothing remains Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
We will not go down In the night, without a fight You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools But our spirit will never die We will not go down In Gaza tonight
Women and children alike Murdered and massacred night after night While the so-called leaders of countries afar Debated on whos wrong or right
But their powerless words were in vain And the bombs fell down like acid rain But through the tears and the blood and the pain You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze
We will not go down In the night, without a fight You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools But our spirit will never die We will not go down In Gaza tonight
Who is Michael Heart? Michael is an unsigned singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles. He has just released his Pop/Rock debut CD titled “Unsolicited Material”, in March 2008.
Michael’s background is as diverse as can be. Born in Syria and raised in Europe (Switzerland and Austria), the Middle East and the United States, he has lived a multi-cultural life and absorbed the music of different parts of the world (although his current CD release is purely categorized as Pop/Rock).He started out on piano and guitar at age 10.Shortly thereafter, he began dabbling in songwriting and eventually made the natural progression towards recording.After earning his audio engineering degree from Full Sail (recording school), he moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and spent the past 18 years working on the local studio circuit both as a session guitarist and a recording engineer. In that time, he has worked with such artists as Brandy, Will Smith, Toto, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, Phil Collins, Patty LaBelle, The Pointer Sisters, Earth Wind & Fire, Ricky Lee Jones, Lou Rawls, Jesse McCartney, Hillary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Paige, Al Jarreau, K-Ci & Jojo, Deborah Cox, Monica, Taylor Dayne, Keiko Matsui, Steve Nieves, Luis Miguel and Tarkan. Michael’s fluency in French was definitely an added bonus when he also worked in the studio with French artists like Calogero (The Charts), Marc Lavoine and Veronique Sanson. Other projects also included work with producers Rodney Jerkins, Philippe Saisse and David Foster. (note: on most of these recording credits, Michael is credited as “Annas Allaf”, his real name, Michael Heart being the stage name). Although most of Michael’s work has been in the recording studio, he also done some touring (notably back in the early 90’s, when he toured as a Flamenco guitarist in a guitar trio with Juan Manuel Canizares, opening for Dire Straits). He has also recorded and toured with the smooth jazz band Jango.
Michael is also a producer and studio guitarist, currently producing tracks in his home studio, for various local artists in the Los Angeles area.
He has also recently written and recorded a song about the horrific situation of the Palestinian people in Gaza. The song is called “We will not go down”.
::Written by Faisal ::8:51 p.m ::Sunday,February 22, 2009
To: Barrack Hussein Obama Jr., The President of United States of America, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500,
Dear Mr. President,
First of all, I want to congratulate you for being the first ever African American President .I did not watch full of your inauguration, because that time it was midnight in Malaysia and I felt very sleepy. But, I know many people all around the world were watched the ceremony because your presidency has become an icon for most of the people. Other than American people who watched your ceremony in the Capitol Building, there were thousand of Millions who watched through the television and internet. They want to be a part of the historical moment in the history of United States. Despite your country facing worst economic downturn since the great depression, your inauguration has come with a hefty price tag estimated at more than $ 170 million. This cost was many times higher than the inauguration of others President such as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. These show your inauguration is the greatest in the history of United States of America.
Since the night you have been announced as the new US President last year by defeated John McCain, all the people over the world cheer and happy with the new Uncle Sam country’s leadership. From China to Mexico, from Antarctica to Arctic, and from Malaysia to Nigeria, they hope the change that you always speak out during the campaign will bring a new situation to the world, the world with peace and harmony contrary with the President bush’s administration that always try to spread bloodshed and make unilateral decisions.
Your historical backgrounds always make Muslims wonder. They always question whether your are Muslim or not. Even though, you had declared that you were never practicing Islam before, most of the Muslim, based on the fact that you were live in Indonesia during your childhood and descendant of Muslim family, they believe that at least you know more about Islam compared with the other US Presidents. Thus, you should be more concern about the Muslim world.
Recently, there was an attack on Gaza by Israel Regime. This is not the first time ever the Palestinian were oppressed, killed and injured by Israel armies. It has been normal for Israel to killed people and also normal for the world’s society to watch the same thing goes again and again on television, internet and newspapers. As a former lawyer and lecturer of laws, I do believe that you have deep understanding on the Palestinian-Israel conflict that has been going for more than fifty years. Unfortunately, after more than 1300 Palestinians has been killed and thousands more were injured, you did not released any statement regarding this matter. Your attitude to just silence on this issue slightly show your support to Israel ‘Holocoust’ on Palestinians. Only after you officially become the US President, you did show a little pity to the Palestinian’s suffered.
In the book about you that I read, you mention that you got inspiration from your mother. Even though your mother was Christian, she did not fully follow the teaching. She teach you about patience, discipline and to defend what is right without told you it’s relation to religion. For your mother, religion only the expression of the human cultures and can be used to control human behaviors. So,the only way to know what is right and what is wrong is solely by using rational minds. If that the principle that believe in, why when it come to the Palestine issue and Israel interest, you seem to be like an ignorant leader, just keep quit and let hundreds of innocent Palestinians to died. Most of them are childrens, women and eldest, even babies who perhaps just being life for few days before Israel bomb strike their house and died. Where are the humanity values that your mother teaches you? Where the entire spiritual words about liberty, opportunity, freedom and democracy that you always mention the campaign? Where the change that you always promote in your slogan “Change, We Need, Change, We can Believe”.?
It seems to me that your life’s principles are only working if the matters are not related to Israel.
If that true that you really want to bring change to the world, it should be done in all aspects. The hope of the people on you as A Black Kennedy should be reality. I hope that you will make change especially regarding the US policies in the Middle East. If I do not see any changes in year of your presidency especially in solving the Palestinians-Israel conflict, I will throw away all my full support that I give to you since the day I know you as the Democrat’s candidate until now as the 44 President of United States and I urge Muslims and all people who love peace, security, liberty, democracy and freedom to so. I end my letter with the quote from your Inaugural Address;
The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness
Thank you.
From: A Muslim Youth; who loves peace, Engineering Student, International Islamic University Malaysia.
::Written by Faisal ::11:32 p.m ::Saturday,January 24, 2009
Saya berkesempatan bertemu dengan beberapa rakan lama sekolah sewaktu saya menghadiri majlis perkahwinan rakan yang lain. Ternyata, selepas hampir lapan tahun meninggalkan alam persekolahan, perubahan wajah seorang rakan wanita menyebabkan saya hampir tidak mengenalinya. Setelah beberapa ketika dengan sedikit clue yang diberikan, barulah saya dapat mengingatnya kembali. Sewaktu hendak pulang dia melihat kepada saya dengan wajah yang seolah-olah teruja. Mungkin terkejut dengan perubahan ketara saya yang dahulunya adalah sorang yang pemalu.
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