Hari Bomba ... bukan Hari Bonda

Something positive ... I've read somewhere Chief Police of a state has done similarly i.e. reading the kutbah.

OK now I know 5th May is Hari BOMBA ... errr Elisa ... bukan hari BONDA tau !

-ninuk

http://www.bharian.com.my/Current_News/BH/Wednesday/EdisiWilayah/20080514100222/Article/

Sentral: Pegawai bomba sampaikan khutbah


SHAH ALAM: Lazimnya jemaah melihat imam berjubah ketika menyampaikan khutbah Jumaat tetapi baru-baru ini imam di Masjid Al-Hidayah, Seksyen 18, di sini, menjadi tumpuan apabila segak duduk di mimbar dengan berpakaian seragam pasukan bomba dan penyelamat sambil berkhutbah.

Penampilan Penolong Penguasa Bomba dan Penyelamat Subang Jaya, Abdul Rashid Hassan untuk menyampaikan khutbah Jumaat di masjid itu adalah sempena sambutan Hari Bomba pada setiap 5 Mei.

Ketika berkhutbah di hadapan kira-kira 2,000 jemaah, beliau berkata, sebanyak 4,486 panggilan kecemasan kebakaran direkodkan di Selangor tahun lalu dengan kelalaian manusia menjadi faktor utama kebakaran.


Katanya, tujuh kematian akibat kebakaran tahun lalu dengan taksiran kerugian RM292 juta manakala taksiran harta yang diselamatkan berjumlah RM1.4 bilion.

"Ini menunjukkan tahap kesedaran di kalangan masyarakat masih kurang. Kita mungkin mengambil sikap sambil lewa atau jalan mudah sehingga terlupa tragedi kebakaran.

"Justeru dalam menentukan tahap keselamatan, ibu bapa perlu memainkan peranan dalam memberi kesedaran kepada anak-anak mengenai bahaya kebakaran," katanya.

Abdul Rashid berkata, adalah menjadi tugas dan tanggungjawab umat Islam untuk menjaga harta benda serta nyawa kerana ia disuruh oleh agama.

Katanya, tugas anggota jabatan bomba dan penyelamat lebih berbahaya serta memerlukan pengorbanan masa, tenaga dan ada kala jiwa mereka sendiri terkorban demi menyelamatkan harta benda dan nyawa orang lain.

Sehubungan itu, katanya, masyarakat seharusnya menghargai pengorbanan dan jasa mereka.

Ketika ditemui selepas menyampaikan khutbah, Abdul Rashid yang juga imam pasukan Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Selangor berkata, ini kali kedua beliau berpakaian sedemikian ketika membaca khutbah bagi membolehkan penyampaian dilakukan lebih berkesan.

Katanya, ia perlu bagi menyedarkan umat Islam mematuhi nasihat bagi mengelak tragedi memusnahkan harta benda dan mengorbankan nyawa.

Abdul Rashid yang juga imam Masjid SS4, Kelana Jaya dekat sini berkata, teks khutbah Jumaat yang dibacakan itu sudah diluluskan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor.

The expeditor

Today I've a chance to listen to The Expeditor's motivational talk - talking about Dreaming the Impossible Dream.

I've heard/read so much about her from the media and also from my office mates who have attended her talk (invited by the Co mid 2007).

I've nothing but admiration of her perseverance and determination.
Mokcik nak dukung anak 12kg pun mengah giler - she drag a 69kg sled through the North and South poles.

More stories and photos of her pole-to-pole expedition at http://www.sharifahpole2pole.com/

Beliau telah kembali kepada Tuhannya

Alfatihah ... for whatever he has done, rightfully and wrongfully ... the lives of 240million people have to go on ...
Forgiveness is in the heart of each and every life he has touched, gracefully or brutally.
When I visited Bandung a few years ago, the sentiments of my immediate family memberes were crystal clear. Things were better "dulu", goods were more affordable, life was more "tolerable" ...

For whatever it's worth, my prayers are for the rest of the nation to move forward.

Use a nicer name please ...

My mother, being a true Indonesian in her heart, for years has always
been complaining about this. She dislike the word "Indon" so much. It
is demeaning to her, and apparently, to majority of Indonesian.

I figure for them to fight the independence so fiercefully and
declared themselves an Independent Nation and Bangsa Indonesia - such
a beautiful name to their ears .... tup tup tup ... di pendekkan jadi
Indon, it hurts.

So my friends, I don't want to create a racial thread here, but if we
already know a certain party does prefer to be called Indonesia rather
than Indon, panggil je lah guna nama yang mereka suka. Tak rugi pun.

Furthermore, I can't recall the exact hadith, but in Islam we are not
allowed to call people with the names that they don't like.

I remembered some of my HK friends, during my study in the UK, told me
personally that they didn't like to be referred as Hong Kie" because
they felt it's demeaning.

Sekian. Terimakasih !

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Perkataan Indon tak diiktiraf


KUALA LUMPUR: Cendekiawan dan pakar bahasa Melayu tidak merestui penggunaan perkataan 'Indon' bagi merujuk kepada warga Indonesia di negara ini kerana tidak diiktiraf sebagai perkataan dan memberi pengertian negatif.

Sambil menyambut baik saranan Naib Ketua Pemuda Umno, Khairy Jamaludin kelmarin yang mahu rakyat menghentikan panggilan itu, mereka mahu kerajaan terutama Kementerian Penerangan mengeluarkan garis panduan kepada media massa supaya supaya masyarakat luar tidak terikut-ikut.

Ketua Pengarah Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), Datuk Dr Firdaus Abdullah, berkata DBP sejak dulu memang tidak mengiktiraf perkataan itu kerana ia tidak memberi sebarang pengertian dan seharusnya ditukar kepada orang Indonesia atau warga Indonesia.



"Lagipun, sejarah di negara luar dan negara kita sendiri menunjukkan panggilan itu sebagai menghina. Sejarah di negara luar juga membuktikan panggilan seumpama itu lebih kepada berunsurkan menghina seperti berlaku di Amerika Syarikat (AS) apabila orang berkulit putih memanggil orang kulit hitam dengan perkataan 'nigger'.

"Jadi, saya menyokong supaya dihapuskan penggunaan perkataan Indon kerana tidak mendapat pengiktirafan DBP sebagai perkataan dan menghina warga Indonesia yang sudah lama menjadi rakan negara kita," katanya di sini, semalam.

Beliau diminta mengulas kenyataan Khairy pada hari terakhir Dialog Malindo 2008 kelmarin yang mahu rakyat menghentikan penggunaan gelaran itu yang dianggap menghina dan menjatuhkan maruah mereka.

To do or not to do

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When I'm feeling blue ....

* Tiupan angin lintang telah berlalu buat masa ini. Walaupun begitu cuaca masih sangat tidak menentu. Beberapa guruh dan petir masih sabung menyabung di selangi dengan gerimis, hujan panas dan juga hujan lebat. Untung saja belum ada hujan batu. Anyway, I pray the out-going Mdm will be blessed with more rezeki and for the up-going Mdm to be blessed with a lot of strength and wisdom. Me, the mokcik, will be happy still sitting by the pantry.

* Having "makan gaji" for close to 15 years, "politics" suprise me no more, but what still took me by suprise yesterday, was the "doer". I have thought of the person, with previous dealing, have been a more "better" person but then again, reality check, people do change when the carrot is "orange-ier". I must hv been ignoring the sign for too long, orrrr may be not ignoring, but more of "bersangka baik", or may be as my meal-mate says ... I am the very blurrr one. But my principle "do not harm others" stays ... tak pe lah kan, the truth will prevail.

* Charity side - I was again sadden by 2 incidents. Again the most unexpected turndown happen. Tak pe lah ... again ... anyway ... my friends at RALK is planning for a Hi Tea Amal Kasih ... do kelik-kelik here for more details.

*****Tuan-tuan dan Puan-puan, mari kita sama-sama tarik nafas ... hembus nafas ... dan nyanyikan lagu di bawah **********

When I am feeling blue, all I need to do is take a look at you ...

Then I am not so blue ...

Name ... what's in a name

Story1 : On the phone. A call from a vendor who have so far been communication with me via email.
After finish the work-talk, now start to talk not-work-talk.

Me : OK lah yea, I nak pergi solat ni. Kejap lagi terlepas Zuhur.
Not Me1 : You nak solat ? You Islam ke ?
Me : Yes I am one. Apasal ... tak percaya ke ?
Not Me1 : Ingatkan you bukan Islam, pasal nama you tu tak bunyi macam Islam.
Me : Sekolah mana you pergi ni ada nama Islam ke tak Islam. Yang I tau ada nama tu ikut bahasa ... arab ke, melayu ke, siam ke, jawa ke. Anjuran agama bagi nama yang maknanya baik, tak de pulak specify bahasa apa.
Not Me1 : Never thought of that, I learn something new today. Actually nama you ni canggih jugak.
Me : Thank you. Itulah kreativiti mak bapak I. Now, shall we chat about naming convention some other time ? Bye ... ooops Assalammualaikum
Not Me1: Waalaikumsalam warahmatullah

Story2 : The current Big Boss of my current employer.

Not Me2 : laaa dia bukan Islam ke ...
Me : Not that I know of. What makes you think so ?
Not Me2 : Nama dia lah
Me : Apasal ngan nama dia, nama dia nama one of the Prophet so ?
Not Me2 : Ya lah dah nama nabi kan, kenapa tak Islam
Me : Let me try to explain, see if you can follow this line of thought. Nama Nabi tak semestinya nama Islam ... lagipun sejak bila ada nama Islam ke tak Islam. Nama arab, melayu, mat saleh, jawa, siam ada le.

Not Me2 : Betul jugak kau cakap ni. Dia ni confuse kan orang je.

Me : Dia tak confuse kan orang, korang je yang sah katak di bawah tempurung. Minda tertutup.

p/s: this post is not undermining the general idea to name our children with good meaning name but this post is to dispell the notion of religious-related name because in my humble opinion, names are language based not and never religious based.

What Would Muhammad Do?

The following is taken from www.cair-net.org
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What Would Muhammad Do?
By Ibrahim Hooper


[Ibrahim Hooper is National Communications Director for the
Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the
nation's largest Muslim civil liberties group. He may be contacted
at: ihooper@cair-net.org ]

"You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with
them with forgiveness and kindness." (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

That description of Islam's Prophet Muhammad is a summary of how he
reacted to personal attacks and abuse.

Islamic traditions include a number of instances of the prophet
having the opportunity to strike back at those who attacked him, but
refraining from doing so.

These traditions are particularly important as we witness outrage in
the Islamic world over cartoons, initially published in a Danish
newspaper, that were viewed as intentional attacks on the prophet.

Peaceful and not-so-peaceful protests have occurred from Gaza to
Indonesia. Boycotts have targeted companies based in Denmark and in
other nations that reprinted the offensive caricatures.

We all, Muslims and people of other faiths, seem to be locked into a
downward spiral of mutual mistrust and hostility based on self-
perpetuating stereotypes.

As Muslims, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves, "What
would the Prophet Muhammad do?"

Muslims are taught the tradition of the woman who would regularly
throw trash on the prophet as he walked down a particular path. The
prophet never responded in kind to the woman's abuse. Instead, when
she one day failed to attack him, he went to her home to inquire
about her condition.

In another tradition, the prophet was offered the opportunity to have
God punish the people of a town near Mecca who refused the message of
Islam and attacked him with stones. Again, the prophet did not choose
to respond in kind to the abuse.

A companion of the prophet noted his forgiving disposition. He
said: "I served the prophet for ten years, and he never said `uf' (a
word indicating impatience) to me and never blamed me by saying, `Why
did you do so or why didn't you do so?'" (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

Even when the prophet was in a position of power, he chose the path
of kindness and reconciliation.

When he returned to Mecca after years of exile and personal attacks,
he did not take revenge on the people of the city, but instead
offered a general amnesty.

In the Quran, Islam's revealed text, God states: "When (the
righteous) hear vain talk, they withdraw from it saying: `Our deeds
are for us and yours for you; peace be on to you. We do not desire
the way of the ignorant'. . .O Prophet (Muhammad), you cannot give
guidance to whom you wish, it is God Who gives guidance to whom He
pleases, and He is quite aware of those who are guided." (28:55-56)

The Quran also says: "Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom
and beautiful preaching, and argue with them in ways that are best
and most gracious: for thy Lord knows best who have strayed from His
Path and who receive guidance." (16:125)

Another verse tells the prophet to "show forgiveness, speak for
justice and avoid the ignorant." (7:199)

These are the examples that Muslims should follow as they express
justifiable concern at the publication of the cartoons.

This unfortunate episode can be used as a learning opportunity for
people of all faiths who sincerely wish to know more about Islam and
Muslims. It can also be viewed as a "teaching moment" for Muslims who
want to exemplify the prophet's teachings through the example of
their good character and dignified behavior in the face of
provocation and abuse.

As the Quran states: "It may well be that God will bring about love
(and friendship) between you and those with whom you are now at
odds." (60:7)

Taken from: www.cair-net.org