*THIS ENTRY WAS POSTED ON JULY 2013
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
Thought I shared what I got in the BeingME Conference.
It is my first time to Ladies’ Only conference. Alhamdulillah. Disebabkan itu, Pali tak dapat join so aku tumpang kak Nuenue and Kak Su pegi PICC.
Just sharing my notes, sikit2 from each speakers. May it beneficial for me and everyone, let’s try to apply the knowledge bit by bit, do continuously follow up your iman and amal, any unclear statement boleh lah email nrahmah@gmail.com
First speaker, Profesor Muhaya. Frankly speaking it was my first time listening to her. Even kat youtube pn tak pernah pun bukak. TV jangan la cakap, aku memang tak tengok tv since sekoah menengah.
1. Gratitude Journal. Prof tanya sape yang ada buat GJ ni? Bersyukur ni something yang kita sometimes tak fully aware. Jarang bersyukur akan buat kita sentiasa rasa tak berkecukupan. Nauzubillah. So by having a personal GJ, insya Allah our gratitude and thankfulness will increase and bring us closer to Him.
2. Physically tired, Spiritually enlightened. This one memang terasa. Whole day of working kita penat, satisfied with our work, tapi spiritually nothing. Meniatkan kerja sebagai ibadah, meniatkan kerja kerana Allah, meniatkan kerja untuk Islam.
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Sheikh Yusha Evans
1. Al Quran - to reach the destination. Al Quran macam GPS. Kalau takde GPS, we’ll get lost, taktau the exact direction to our destination. And kalau ade GPS, tapi bila GPS kate ‘turn right’ yet kte turn left pulak, pun boleh sesat jugak. So bile Allah dah provide kat kte AlQuran tu, read it, understand, hayati as it’s our perfect life manual, life guidelines.
2. Sh. Yusha ni seorang revert. Mase tu die jumpa Imam kat Masjid and asking for proof yang Islam ni sesuatu yg benar. So Imam tu tunjukkan Quran and nak explain kat Sh. Yusha. Tapi Sh. Yusha kate,
"Let the book speak for itself, you dont have to sell it to me"
And mase Sh. Yusha baca Al-Fatihah for the first time, die memang rase surah tu adalah satu doa yang sangat genuine dari seorang hamba kepada al-Khaliq.
The next surah yang Sh Yusha baca is al-Baqarah and ayat first yang menyentap hati dia “this book has no doubt”
Dari situ Sh Yusha bawak balik Quran read it and Alhamdulillah sekarang he is a Muslim and spreading it.
3. Sh Yusha cerita jugak kisah masa Nabi Adam diciptakan. Syaitan taknak sujud kepada Adam a.s and mintak kat Allah untuk sesatkan seluruh umat manusia and Allah bagi permission tapi Allah kata,
"You might trick them but not my chosen slave"
T_T are we that chosen slave yet..?
4. Sangat menyentuh hati masa Sh Yusha cerita, masa Nabi Adam a.s terhasut dengan Syaitan suruh makan buah larangan, Nabi Adam a.s tanya Allah,
"O Allah, u do know that I’m going to eat that fruit, You have to know because You know everything. Will You forgive my sin?"
Dan ketahuilah, every sons of Adam will sins. We will harm our perfect soul. But, know this, Allah loves to forgive. Repent, bertaubat. Allah suka memaafkan.
Kalau Allah bukan yang memaafkan, kita akan jadi LOSER yang teramat atas muka bumi ni. Ask for Allah’s forgiveness.
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Sheikh Daood Butt
One of my favourite sheikh. Been attending his classes and courses. Macam weekend ni jugak insya Allah. Sape pergi Drops of Guidance? :)
1. There are things that will bring you closer to the remembrance of Allah and could also be the distractions; Wealth, Children, Desire. Kita sendri yang allow these three things to be a distraction or not. Always hold on to the guidelines to ensure this.
2. We can live in a way we decide, we choose, as long as we’re living in the pleasure to Allah.
3. If you’re doing something for fame, eventhough it benefits other people, you’re destroying yourself.
3. Often it’s people who is behind the scenes, behind every success stories yang contribute paling banyak.
4. Remembrance of Allah. Always, when it’s time for solah, we try to finish everything, semua kerja dulu, baru pegi solat, when hakikatnya it’s Allah yang izinkan, Allah yang berkuasa ke atas semua kerja tu and Allah yang izinkan rezeki tu datang dari kerja tu, yet kita selalu hold Allah’s calling. Selalu istighfar, to bring us to the remembrance of Allah. Latih diri untuk solat awal waktu and tinggalkan kejap semua urusan.
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Sister Tasneem
1. Every verse in the Quran is like dates. The more you taste, the sweeter it gets. :) Baca Quran banyak kali, everytime kita baca, we’ll always get penghayatan and penerimaan yang berbeza sesuai dengan situasi kita. :)
2. “Be not like those who forgot Allah, then He will make they forgot they ownselves” Masa dengar the first part of the sentence, I thought the second part was “then He will forget them” tapi rupanya lagi dasyat, Allah akan buat kita lupa diri kita sendiri.. nauzubillah.. Janganlah kita tergolong dalam golongan ini.
3. We will not understand our responsibility in this world if first, we didn’t recognize Allah swt.
4. Sis. Tasneem ni suka buat cake. Dia share kalau dia buat cake, it’s her own recipe, die tau all ingredients, all the measurement, the quality, the taste. Dia master of the recipe. Tapi bila orang lain ambik recipe tu and modified, it’s not Sis Tasneem’s recipe anymore. Sama jugak macam Allah’s creation, and his BEST creation is us, the human. He knows everything that is good for us. He knows. He knows what we should do, what we shouldn’t do etc. How can we say “it should be like this, it should be like that?” We are Allah’s recipe, our Creator’s. If we change the recipe, whose recipe are we?
4. As a mother did not want to throw her own children intio fire, that’s how Allah didn’t want to put us into the fire of Jahannam. T_T
5. Self-expression will make you become closer to Allah. Look into yourself. Really look into yourself. If you look further, you will come into the remembrance of Allah.
6. Another analogy from Sis Tasneem that I like. About thumb and moon. When you compare your thumb and the moon, you’ll know that the moon is bigger. But if you put your thumb in front of your eyes, the thumb will blocked your sight of the moon. The thumb is like the dunya. The world. Everything seems BIG, everything seems NOW. That you have to always do everything NOW, when you actually forget to look further. You forget Him.
7. God doesn’t made a mistake when He made you. See yourself as God sees you.
8. Be beneficial to the word. We’re moving forward in some things, and moving backward in another things. What we have ponder upon.
9. Everything for the sake of Allah, will not be overlooked, will not belittle.
Sisters
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Sh Yusha Evans (second session)
1. Kisah ibu kepada Maryam. She prayed for a son to serve the deen, but she got a daughter and that’s Maryam. And Allah gave the most righteous man from Maryam’s womb that is Isa a.s
2. Thank Allah for your suffering He sends you, it’s indeed a purification.
3. Why is this place is not the best place to be, because of you?
4. You’re the frontline of the Ummah.
5. Hadith Ghuraba’. They’re the people who correct the mankind when they’re corrupted. They are actively involve in changing the society.
6. Sh. Yusha asked, “Can you imagine if Khadija r.a or A’isya r.a act like you’re acting now??” *dushdush*
7. Remember this once a day for the rest of your life. The first thing Allah made was a pen. And He asked the pen to write all, everything that is going to happen int his world; the Lauhul Mahfuz. Remember, Allah wrote your name to be gifted with ISLAM. Remember this. This really touched my heart…
And Sh Yusha continued,
"What have you done to deserve this precious gift of Islam?"
Wallahualam.