Friday of fear ...

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for Friday of bless and barakah ... selawat dan salam ke atas Junjungan Rasul ... اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

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but for some ... Friday is feared ... because on this day every  week ... without fail they see the ummah gathering ... giving their souls to the Almighty ... and this is too much for some ...

and that is the reason why every Friday there is issue about Palestinians entering Masjid Al Aqsa for Juma'at Prayer ... so for today let us pray that peace prevails in the Haram Al Sharif ... Ameen.

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if we could not perceive the difficulties faced by our Palestinian brethren in the Occupied Territory ... please read this piece ... just a piece of many such pieces written by many who have seen and felt the need to make it known to others ...

http://www.foa.org.uk/news/omar-and-the-checkpoint

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Under the 1940 agreement Jordan is the administrator of the Haram Al Sharif ... but now Israel wants full control ...  more details here ...

Saving the Haram Al Sharif Masjid Al Aqsa

Masjid Qubbat As Sakhrah (Dome of The Rock)

Masjid Al Aqsa (with the black dome south of Dome of the Rock)

... inside Masjid Al Aqsa (also referred to as Jami' Qibli) and the Dome of the Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmkvCKMmOE

inside Masjid Al Aqsa ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfTzwX_mpgI

Haram Al Sharif is the entire walled compound or courtyard of Masjid Al Aqsa and The Dome of the Rock ... 

at 8:08 of the second video is the underground Masjid Marwan. It is just next to Masjid Al Aqsa. It used to be a stable after the Muslims were defeated by Christians hundreds of years ago ...

at 10:54 is the Buraq Wall - the western wall of Masjid Al Aqsa which the Jews refer to as the wailing wall ... 

it is referred to as the Buraq Wall by Muslims because it was narrated that the Buraq that transported RasuluLLAh SAW was tied at the site on The Night Journey Isra' dan Mikraj ... on the night when the Prophet SAW was lifted to Heaven, the Buraq stayed back ...  you may ask why the need to tie the Buraq ... it was not about securing ... rather it is just an indication that it needed to stay put while waiting for the Prophet SAW return.

Allahu'alam ... Allah SWT is Most Knowing ...

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an anxious incident at the Buraq Wall during our ziarah resulted with us having a new nickname for a Sister ... Kakak Buraq ... The sister was on her own exploring the Buraq Wall from the Masjid side, when she was separated from our group ... when we were ready seated for lunch within the Old City ... we realised she was missing ... after a long while ... and anxious search by our Brother Palestine Guide ... Allah SWT brought her back to us ... AlhamduLiLLAH ... but it was a truly anxious longgg minutes for all of us ... because the walled city along with its narrow streets and structures is like a huge maze ...

so please always stay alert of your jema'ah (group) where ever we are ...

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by the way we had that lunch ... at Buraq Restraurant ... a very uniquely built underground restaurant.

 

google image - not from the restaurant - but my favourite bread and spread.

AlhamduLILLAH ... for masyaAllah fresh and nutritious food served  while we were there ...

 but never forget the less fortunates who were also there ... especially when we were in Amman where Syrian Refugee Children were out in the shivering cold ... hungry ...

may Allah SWT ease the burden of those affected ... by war ... and occupation.

Aameen

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aina Umar ...

 Di manakah Umar ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXmG7-_THw

AstaghfiruLLAH ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOIuy6-wS0

Defeated by trees ...

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

 

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for understanding in bits and pieces ...

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I was reading this ...

Al Sisi of Egypt

an article that originally appeared in Utusan Malaysia (in fact i read this in Utusan Malaysia last week and it's somewhere among the pile of "old newspapers" (read it like that of old newspapers buyer - only in Malaysia) ... 

i had a mind to scan that article then ... and write about it but then i procrastinate(d?). Today i came across it again while google searching for something ... as usual :)

Original Article ... : http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/16/al-sisi-jew/

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and that article led me to this ...

for a brief on the event please copy and paste this address ... about Eli Cohen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS2gMWh8-Y

a Zionist spy caught in Syria ... the above was an excerpt from Radio of Israel about their hero ... why i did not link it ... the truth is once in a while i received virtual visitors from Israel ... once in while okay ... but not too often ... i am not important okay :)

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i share this because being a wanita myself i used not to pay heed to such matters of the nations ... because i thought it is beyond my control ... and "i'm not even the mayor of the city" (this is another story altogether :) ...

but then again i realize that however small or insignificant we think we are ... writing and sharing of information is indeed a powerful means of disseminating understanding of real life issues about the ummah ...

we may agree or we may disagree ... but we should be able to ponder based upon varieties of information ... and decide what is closest to the truth - that is in the case where we could not determine the truth ...

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now ... defeated by trees ... alludes to the advice of Eli Cohen to the Syrian to plant trees as shade for  the Syrian Armies ...

and the same trees were used by the Zionist army to locate and destroyed the Syrian ... during the six days war ...

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lesson learned is ... sometimes something appeared to be good advice ... but we also must understand thoroughly the person and his or her agenda for the advice ...

my favourite is the SWOT analysis ... the easiest method for decision making in real life ... and Istikharah Solat seeking Allah's guidance :) ... in this i was reminded by Al Marhum Datin Ustazah (May Allah SWT forgive and redha her) ... she said do Istikharah Solat even for your daily affair ... seeking Allah's guidance for every step we take ...

Allahu'alam

trees in the desert ... google image

 

Ammar ... and Al Faatih

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Alhamdulillah syukur ... for leaders who left us their legacy and history of being the best ... in iman and in their amal ...

age is just but a number ... may Allah SWT give barakah to each moment of our life, for every breath that we take and for every word that we utter ... ameen Allahumma ameen.

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I was reading about the life of a young man Almarhum Ahmad Ammar ... who in death at 20 has started teaching us that it is not about age ... rather it is about strength of iman and character ... and vision for self and the ummah ...

in life he acquired ... and in death he gave ... May Allah SWT be pleased with him and station him among the pious and the shaheed. ameen Allahumma ameen.

Ahmad Ammar Ahmad Azam

Blue Mosque Malaysia

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Almarhum Ahmad Ammar led me to ... the best of rulers who led the best of armies ... Sultan Muhammad Al Faatih who at 19 led the preparation of his army to free Constantinople.

i like the following English version for children ... i hope we can keep on learning from the history of those who have paved the way to meaningful and just life ...

Sultan Muhammad Al Faatih (Chidren's Version) - i appreciate this version - being a child myself :)

And for the adults :) here's a documentary in Arabic with English subtitle ...

سلطان محمد الفاتح

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Blue Mosque Turkey

MasyaAllah ... Allah SWT is the Owner of all things.

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Constantinople Then (Across Sea of Marmara) &  Galata (Across Sea of Bosporus) 1453 M

The Battle 1453 M

Istanbul Now

(Images - Google)

GST and Ain Jalut ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

di pagi minggu yang sejuk ... sekumpulan insan berlawan bicara tentang GST ...

saya pemerhati yang lebih lebih lebih banyak tak faham dari faham apa ke benda nya, kaedah nya dan kesan nya GST ini kepada kita semua ...

tetiba dalam perbincangan muncul nama dan gelaran ini

 Imam Izz Abdul Salam - the Sultan of Ulama

dan Ain Jalut ... the defence of Egypt against The Mongolian Hulagu's Army ...

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what has this got to do with GST ...

more here

http://kadirjasin.blogspot.com/2013/05/let-them-start-by-debating-gst.html

do read comment of Langitbiru ...

and here ...

http://izzsalamah.blogspot.com/2011/08/ain-jalut-rise-of-fall.html

 this gives an overview and timeline of the Ain Jalut history ...

... ... ...

and more if we gugle the Mamalik history and Sultan Saifudin Qutuz of Egypt ...

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now back to GST ... 

kita fikir sendiri sendiri sama sama ye, boleh je make our views known in the first blog indicated above ... either for or against  ... ada rationale both okay ...
but ... boleh je belajar dari sejarah ... kan :)