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Barakallahu Feek!

Hypocrisy

1. So today we heard alot on bans towards Muslims.

2. New laws and sanctions created with an intentions to pressed Muslim community.

3. Lies has been spread condemning Muslims.

4. Recently New Zealand lawmaker calls for Muslim flight ban.

5. Which surprises me. NZ so far has been very quiet on Islamophobia.

6. Its very rare to hear NZ making such a negative remarks towards certain community.

7. Well thats from my personal point of view.

8. I had a good experience working with New Zealander.

9. For me they are the nice people and very relax. Most of then opted not to be judgmental.

10. In fact I found New Zealander is the nicest to compare with the other whites.

11. I only have good things to say about them.

12. Well of course I do met good whites from other country, but so far from my experience I feel more welcome with New Zealander and they seems very open minded.

13. I remember we can easily discuss about religion. They speak about theirs and I speak mine.

14. And they are so polite. That is why I said I only have good things to say about them.

15. Back in their country, it was very peaceful and relax. They do not tolerate with discrimination. And from all New Zealander that I have met and work with, they rejects the American and co policy towards Muslims and they have no interest supporting them. In fact they condemn the policy for discriminate the Muslims.

16. Of course that is only my personal point of view from my own experience.

17. As we already know that every advantages there are disadvantages and every disadvantages there are advantages.

18. And in every community there's always a blacksheep. Nothing is perfect in this world.

19. So back to the main topic - hypocrisy. As we always saw negatives headlines on Muslims in the media today, but the same time this people are running for the money of the Muslims.

20. For example: In tourism industry as many people starting to know the way of life of the Muslims, today many Muslims tours was designed in order to attract them. This happen when the statistic shows Muslims community is one of the largest community who got power in spending for holiday packages.

21. Islamic financing starts to be accepted by non-muslims just because they found that Islamic financing system is just and minimum chance of bankrupt. I had an experience working with one of the leading Islamic Finance magazine.

22. At first I was shocked. Surprisingly majority those people who works for the magazines are Non-Muslims. Only slight percentage the staffs are Muslims (including myself).

23. Everyday I got to knock my self up to accept the fact how knowledgable they non-Muslim were. Seriously if you look at their lifestyle you wont believe they are so expert in Islamic finance. And how they fight and against their on financial systems (conventional financing).

24. But for them Islamic knowledge were only practiced limited to that.

25. If you got to chance to see them you wouldnt believe they have such a vast knowledge on Islamic finance. During discussions it always the best part when you can see everyone come out with their own referrences from the hadiths all the way to Quran. Amazing.

26. Sadly they only can see the good side of Islam from financing point of view. I remember asked few of colleagues 'If you believe in Islamic Finance as the best financial system, why cant you accept Islam as the best way of life?'.

27. As usual they make a reasons out it. There are also a few who has benefited from the knowledge and accept Islam as complete way of life but most of them only can believe and practices Islam in financial systems.

28. I also used to work with Islamic bank, everyday there are many non-Muslims would like to take an Islamic banking syetems.

29. And currently the most promising industry - Halal industry. You can see how many non-Muslims invested in this nature of business. There are numbers of non Muslims exporting and importing halal products just because the demands are so big. Well we can find Muslims every part of the world.

30. This is the hypocrisy of the world today. Muslims will only be considered when there is money involved.

Rohingya Society in Malaysia

Salamun Alaykom!

So yesterday I went to RSM (Rohingya Society in Malaysia) to meet their President, Dr Hamid and as well administrator Brother Abdul Ghani.

I've first met Brother Abdul Ghani last year in December. During the first meeting in December last year we were only to get the idea and pictures on the conditions and status of the refugees of Rohingya.

I was informed that currently in Malaysia there are about 30 thousand refugees came to Malaysia to get protection. And that figures given are only based on the refugees who came and registered under the organisation. RSM believe there are more refugees out there who did not register with RSM.

Just a brief introduction of the organization. Rohingya Society in Malaysia is an organization under UNCHR. It was set up to oversee the welfare of the refugees of Rohingya in Malaysia. It was set up in year 2010.

RSM at the same time receives help in terms of financial and facilities from NGO and as well as the Government of Malaysia.

Currently they are renting shop house in Lembah Maju, Ampang for both school and office subsidized by PERKIM.

Although with the financial support from few NGOs and the Government they are still lacking of many things.

We - Oummati, would like to see on possibilities on how could we do to ease their burden. The meeting yesterday went well and he have figure out few ideas on which way we can work with them to give them a helping hand, in Sha Allah.

Which One?

Mufti Ismail Menk Live in Malaysia for FREE TALKS

Salamun Alaykom Brothers and Sisters,

Alhamdulillah - good news is that Mufti Ismail Menk will be coming to Malaysia for series of Free Talks, In Sha Allah.  The Sheikh came to Malaysia last year and it was a great news to hear that he is coming again in March this year. Again, if you can't believe it - YES it's true, Mufti Ismail Menk will be giving series of Free Talks In Sha Allah.

  

Do not miss this chance. Register here or you can visit their Facebook Page. 

See you there, In Sha Allah.

The event is organized by Dakwah Corner Publications and Yayasan Ta'lim. May Allah reward them for their good work. Ameen.

Iman of Steel

No more man of steel. Strongest man is a man with iman of steel.

Full Moon Tonight

It's really difficult to get good pictures of the moon using phone camera. But just to share, full moon tonight here in Ampang, Selangor Malaysia. No words can describe its beauty. Masha Allah.

Fatabarakallahu ahsanul khaliqeen. Glory be to Allah The Best to create. Allahu Akbar.

Quoting Syeikh Ahmed Deedat

Can You Believe Them?

1. When someone break into your house and steal your most valuable items, what will you do?

2. You would call the police to hunt them, right?

3. And what if you knew and found the person who break into your house and steals your valuable items?

4. You would catch them hand them to the police and ask them to surrender the valuable items back to you, correct?

5. Well, everybody would do the same. That's your rights. Its just house thieves not easily to be found and caught.

6. That's because they do it secretly and not to be seen by anyone.

7. If they got caught they will be punished. No doubt. Well that's the law.

8. Unless if the thieves are protected by the police, they would not be caught and they are free to do whatever they want.

9. Israel - the thieves stealing the Palestinians openly seen by the whole world.

10. And the US (Police) protects them well. The Palestinians made a police reports and seek help from the neighbours (the world) but no still not actions taken. The thieves (Israel) are still free making crimes.

10. The neighbours (the world) has urged the thieves (Israel) to stop after the police (US) failed to take action on them.

11. Due to that, the victims (Palestine) has to fight the thieves (Israel) alone but the victims (Palestine) was outnumbered by the thieves (Israel) who gets the backing and blessings from the Police (US).

12. The neighbours (The world) are helpless and can only feel sorry for the victims. Some neighbours are willing to help and urged the thieve (Israel) to stop. But the police (US) told the neighbour not intefere in the case and claimed everything is under control.

13. And now the thieves (Israel) told the victims (Palestine) to shut it and give up on their rights.

14. Unbelievable.

Get 'Em!

1. In a day how many mistakes have we done?

2. Countless maybe.

3. We as human will always try to make things right. But we can never run from making mistakes.

4. While the criminals are waiting for us to take mistakes.

5. They will find their way out to succeed.

6. Still not sure what are their motives for commit such crimes, but there must be something benefit them for doing it.

7. Every year cases like this happen.

8. We must learn from this case and other cases.

9. One thing for sure the bad guys never had their off days.

10. We can simply blame the parents for their mistakes.

11. But making mistakes in not a crime.

12. Killing innocent life is.

13. Stop blaming the parents, there's no point charging the parents while the killers are still free out there.

14. Yes the parents was wrong to leave their child unattended. But the killer is still out there waiting for other parents making more mistakes.

15. If we want to charge anyone from this case - charge the killers for their crime. Get 'em, get 'em all!!

Slow Down Fellas

Update on William Yau Case.

"No child should have died this way,” said Satarudin Kamal, 45.

Duo find child’s body floating next to boat at jetty in Port Klang - Nation | The Star Online

Investigators trying to piece together what happened to William Yau - Nation | The Star Online

Penang police on alert for bible-burning ‘fest’

Penang police on alert for bible-burning ‘fest’  
 By Opalyn Mok
January 24, 2013


GEORGE TOWN, Jan 24 ― Heavy police surveillance will be placed on a field in front of Dewan Ahmad Badawi in Bagan Luar, Butterworth on Saturday, ahead of a purported “festival” to torch copies of Malay-language bibles there.
Penang police chief DCP Datuk Abd Rahim Hanafi said the police will not hesitate to take stern action against any groups or individuals who turn up at the site to take part in the event.
On Tuesday, a priest had lodged a police report over the distribution of anonymous pamphlets advertising a “festival” to burn the Malay language bibles at the field on Sunday.
Abd Rahim warned the public not to take part in the event.
“I urge the public not to be influenced but the ‘rumours’ in this pamphlet which was obviously created by irresponsible individuals to threaten the safety and harmony of the public,” he said.
He also warned the public not to spread further rumours on this matter and that those found to spread such rumours will be arrested and charged under Sections 298 and 507 of the Penal Code, for uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any religious groups and criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication respectively.
Earlier this week, Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali also called for the Malay version of the bible containing the word “Allah” and Jawi script to be burned.
The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) has come out to condemn those who had threatened to burn the sacred holy book and had called on those who are spreading hatred through such threats for political gain to cease and desist.
The state government had also urged the police to take the matter seriously.
As extra precaution, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had instructed the Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) president Maimunah Mohd Shariff to ensure that no one enters the Dewan Ahmad Badawi, which belonged to MPSP, at the designated time.
The “Allah” dispute, which first erupted after the watershed Election 2008, remains a hot-button topic in the run-up to this year’s polls.
 
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For our thoughts: 

(1) Muslims shouldn't burn any other religious scriptures. The Holy Prophet Muhammad s.a.w told us to respect other religion.

(2) There are many opinions about the Christians using the word 'Allah' refering to God. The fact is the name Allah is widely used by Christians and other religions out there.

(3) Yes the question is - why only now? Why only now Christians in Malaysia would like to use name of Allah? Why not long time ago? Christians existed in Malaysia since 7th century. And before, they used Tuhan which literally means God in Malay.

(4) We can see where they are going now. It's psychology. They know no Muslim interested in listening to their preaching when they used Tuhan. With using the real name of God - Allah, they will get the attention of Muslims. The name of Allah is no stranger amongst the Christians. The Arab Christians use it and so some English Bible still maintaining the name of Allah referring to God; namely - Eli, Elohim, Elo all referring to God in Hebrew which is a sister language of Arabic.

(5) Their decision of using the name Allah is nothing but to attracts Malay community especially. Sadly to say - Malay Malaysian are born as Muslim but still there are many of them who still do not understand Islam completely. Weak in akidah, Tauhid and Iman. There - the Christians knows the weakness of Malay Muslims here, therefore they would like to take this opportunity to attract these people to join them by preaching in Malay.

(6) Times thought them a lesson. Very important lesson indeed. The Christians in Malaysia used English as their intermediate language. Well, Christianity was brought here by the Englishman therefore English was used in preaching the religion by their missionaries. And English is a common language amongst the non Malay in Malaysia. No offence - although the English level in Malaysia is still not up to the right standards but Malaysian got no problem in understanding the language.

(7) Meanwhile Malays always prefer to speak and communicate in their native language although most of the Malays understood English. But in daily life - they would prefer to communicate in their native language.

(8) Years after years of preaching, the numbers of Christians in Malaysia increased. Large numbers of Malaysian Indians (originally Hindu) and Chinese (originally Buddhist) has converted to Christianity. How is that come about? Well, there are no strong missionaries from the Hindu / Buddhist group in Malaysia. Yes we do have tamples for both respective religions but thats it. We dont see their missionaries running active across the country preaching.

(9) Nowadays if you have a Buddhist / Hindu friends - if you asked them about their religion, I repeat Religion NOT culture - not many of them can answer. Why? Because they dont have the right understanding. That's why. So that shows how limited their knowledge on their religion.

(10) Christian missionaries aware about this. English is not a problem for the Indians and Chinese. They move and preach towards them. As a results numbers of them converting to Christianity.

(11) Christianity is beautiful. Don't get me wrong - when I said it's beautiful, I mean their theory is beautiful. Why did I say that? Ok for one second imagine if someone who has no knowledge about religion, about God, about the meaning of this life. One thing they know is that one day you going to die. And not knowing whats gonna happen after that. You must agree with me for those who has no faith, death is like a worst thing. As a Muslim we know death is part of the process of life and it's not the end of life.

(12) For Buddhist especially they do not believe in heaven. They believe that every soul will be going to hell. There's no good thing about death from their perspective.

(13) This is where the Christian come and offer them some kind of good offer. The Christian believes that everyone can go to heaven as long as you believe that Jesus Christ (pbuh) was born and die as God and believe that Jesus (pbuh) died for our sins and you'll have the ticket to heaven. Simple and beautiful. Who wouldn't want to buy that?

(14) People who has no belief would buy that. Hey come on..you dont have to do anything. The only thing you have to do is to believe that Jesus (pbuh) was born and die as God and believe that he has died for our sins. You believe that, you'll be in heaven once you die. Regardless if you have sins your soul or not but once you believe that, heaven is for you. Your sins will be forgiven immediately once you believe that Jesus has died for your sin. Isn't beautiful? Indeed it is.

(15) We Muslim, we don't buy that. Why not? We understood Islam and we believe in heaven and hell. For someone who has logic, knowledge and faith - the theory above doesn't make any sense. I'm not going to elaborate any further on the differences between Islam and Christianity, that's not the topic here.

(16) It's only to give you the view on why Christian in Malaysia insisted to use the name of Allah. That is to attract Malay Muslim who has no concrete knowledge in their religion and weak in their iman. It's psychological war.

(17) But this doesn't give us any reason to go and burn their book. Why worry? Strengthen your Iman, practice it, preach it to your children, brothers, sisters, family and friends. Isn't Da'wah is part of our responsibility? The responsibilty of Da'wah was not just left to the Messengers but also for us.

(18) In the Holy Quran stated:“Who is better in speech than one who calls to Allah, does righteous deeds and says indeed I am among the Muslims.”
Surah Fussilat 41:33

“Let there arise among you a group inviting to all that is good, enjoining righteousness and forbidding evil. Those are the successful ones.”
Surah Ali-Imran 3:104

“Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good preaching.”
Surah An-Nahl 16:125

(19) But that's not the case. How many of us see da'wah as our responsibility? How many of us would do that? We are too afraid to open our mouth. We're not even dare to open our mouth to teach our own children and family members!

(20) Nowadays most people happily passing their responsibility to teachers and schools. We got money and pay to the school and expect teacher to teach them all? And when something went wrong we blame the friends of our child and the teacher at school for not educating our children good enough? What is wrong with us?

(21) That is responsibility of every parents to educate their children. Yes, no doubt we still need to send our children to school but how much can the school teach our children? They go to school there's like 12 subjects they have to learn. The school have like thousands of children to take care of. When they come home they spend whole night to complete their homework or study for exams. And we thought that we have done our part by waking up in the morning drop them to school, fetch them home and give them money to spend? And when we are at home give the responsibility to the maid to clean them, to clothes them and even to tuck them at night? Seriously.. what is wrong with us? And when something went wrong we blame the other party?

(22) Come on, do not make any reason. Yes we're working but sometime we forgot what are we working for actually. We forgot what is our main responsibility. Alhamdulillah we solat 5 times a day, we fast in Ramadhan, we pay zakat, and we went for Hajj. But we forgot in making da'wah towards our family members. We passed that to their teachers at school. We have let ourselves down again.

(23) And now Muslims in Malaysia is panicking when the Christian decided to use the name Allah in their scripture. With the reason this could get Muslim confused. Come on! What kind of reason is that? That is so lame. 

(24) We wouldn't be confused if we have thought ourselves and our children well. We have the Quran, the hadith and books everywhere in the country. We have classes at Masjid. Go and learn and teach it to your family.

(25) And in order to show our disagreement for Christian using the name Allah, we now going to burn their bible. The same way as how the Christian shows their disagreement with Islam - that is they burn our Quran. And now what? Are we copying them?

(26) We have to understand. They - Christians believes they are correct. Just like everybody else do. They are so eager in preaching their religion. They will find a way what is the best way to get the message to their 'customers'. They are doing the job.

(27) My question is - what are we doing? Whining and complaining, calling the government to stop them. The government couldn't do much. Burning the bible is the best solution we got? Unbelievable.

(28) Steadfast in your religion O Muslim. Learn everyday, be prepared. The Quran and the hadith is everywhere. Ask right people to get the right answer. Once we have understood Islam we will have no problem In Sha Allah. If happen one of the Christian missionaries come to you trying to convert you - if you have the knowledge you will convert them instead In Sha Allah.

(29) May Allah guide us all. Ameen.

Child Trafficking

1. It is sickening to read this kind of news.

2. Human trafficking - Business where human (kids especially) are the product items.

3. Surprisingly this practice is getting bigger here in Malaysia. Its bad..its sad. Its really bad. Really sad.

4. Earlier this week a boy by the name William (inset) was reported missing while he was looking for his parents.

5. Today one body of a boy wearing yellow tee was found floating on the river.

6. Public fear the body could belong to William.

7. We pray for the best.

8. We can simply blame the parents - for leaving their kids in the car unattended while shopping and William left the car with intention looking for his parents when his little sister starting to cry.

9. Yes agree it was a wrong move to leave your kids in the car. But thats what we are all about - human. We make mistake all the time.

10. But come on we cant simply put the blame on them. Whoever who took an advantage when seing that boy wondering around could give him hand and help him. Regardless who we should be concern when we see any child walking around alone in public areas.

11. But we're selfish. That boy is someone else child leave it to his parents. This is usually came up to our mind.

12. Remember - that we too are human. The 'other people' are also human. No difference. Why can't we show some humanity? Be more concern on our surroundings and dont be so selfish? Ah...

13. Another news reported that the police have taken down one of the biggest gang involved in human trafficking syndicate. Numbers of child saved and put under the police custody.

14. It was reported the syndicate is targeting single & pragnant woman who are in desperate for money. They wil offer the woman around RM2,000 to deliver the baby and all documents depending on health of the baby. The baby later will be sold to childless desparate couples for adoption. The price rangebisba roubd RM30,000 depending on the health condition.

15. Astagafirullah.

16. This is sad,this is bad.

17. How did this people sleep at night?

18. We pray for the best and may Allah protect us from any danger. Ameen.

19. We pray for William safety and every other child. Hope for the best.

20. Regardless of whose body that was found floating dead on the river..this shouldn't happen if human can show some humanity and concern towards their fellow species. In sha Allah.

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Why Only Now?

The name of Allah has been widely used by non Muslims around the globe. But it was not common amongst non Muslim in Malaysia. Suddenly the Christians started to use the word Allah after the government granted the permission for The Herald (Christians newspaper) to publish in Malay language in year 2009 for the first time. Here, the word Allah only being used by the Malay Muslims refering to God.
Other religions besides Islam never used the name Allah. The common word for other religion in refering God is 'Tuhan' which literally means God in Malay.
The sudden decision made by the Christians authority & missionaries to use the name of Allah sparks anger of Muslim community. The question is...why only now?

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