Salamun Alaykom,
We were quite busy for the past few weeks. We had met with number of organizations for our Halal Products Project. We have to say so far there are only negotiations, quotations and plans but we expect to get some products running by early next year, In Sha Allah.
We face a few setback and challenges. Yes there are things that goes not as planned. Fixing it up takes time. But Alhamdulillah, we managed to keep it going. Well nobody said its going to be easy.
Beside that we're busy making contacts and connections to build awareness towards public on our existence. Latest - We're in negotiations process with few Islamic book stores to get our our da'wah concept t-shirs (Oummati's Mightee Da'wah Project) in their shops In Sha Allah, make a du'a for us to succeed.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
Journal: Oummati Team at Dr Zakir Naik's Talk in PWTC, 7 Oct 2012
Salamun Alaykom,
Dr. Zakir Naik was in Malaysia for the past 2 weeks for his Malaysian Tour 2012. He started off in Johor Bahru, Shah Alam, Kuantan and last Kuala Lumpur. We were fortunate enough to be presence for his last talk in PWTC, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Alhamdulillah the whole team - Ihsan, Bilal, Mehdi and Arafat was there to listen to his speeches and able to take some pictures as well. We're not able to get closed up photos with him, but it was good enough for us to be able to see him in real life. Except for Bilal - he able to exchange handshakes with Dr. Zakir Naik and also he's able to be in the pictures with the group photos with him. We were grateful to be able to attend to his talk, usually only watch through youtube. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
We arrived at PWTC after Asar somewhere around 5pm Malaysian time. We were there early for distributing our Oummati T-shirts to public. We would like to thank the organizer for allowing us distributing our free T-shirts during the event. We're based at the last booth where the organizer held a sadaqah campaign for Hotel Quran Project. 100 pieces was distributed to the public who attended Dr. Zakir Naik's talk yesterday. Alhamdulillah, we also received a good feedback from the public as they like our design. Alhamdulillah.
Here are some of the pictures from the event yesterday
Top Left: Dr. Zakir Naik with the volunteer group.
Top Right: Dr. Zakir Naik walking towards the crowds
Bottom Left: Dr. Zakir Naik at his best
Bottom Right: The Audience
Top Left: Dr. Zakir Naik arrives at the venue after Maghrib
Top Right: The big screen
Bottom Left: The VIPs
Bottom Right: Dr. Zakir Naik giving his speeches.
Dr. Zakir Naik was in Malaysia for the past 2 weeks for his Malaysian Tour 2012. He started off in Johor Bahru, Shah Alam, Kuantan and last Kuala Lumpur. We were fortunate enough to be presence for his last talk in PWTC, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Alhamdulillah the whole team - Ihsan, Bilal, Mehdi and Arafat was there to listen to his speeches and able to take some pictures as well. We're not able to get closed up photos with him, but it was good enough for us to be able to see him in real life. Except for Bilal - he able to exchange handshakes with Dr. Zakir Naik and also he's able to be in the pictures with the group photos with him. We were grateful to be able to attend to his talk, usually only watch through youtube. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
We arrived at PWTC after Asar somewhere around 5pm Malaysian time. We were there early for distributing our Oummati T-shirts to public. We would like to thank the organizer for allowing us distributing our free T-shirts during the event. We're based at the last booth where the organizer held a sadaqah campaign for Hotel Quran Project. 100 pieces was distributed to the public who attended Dr. Zakir Naik's talk yesterday. Alhamdulillah, we also received a good feedback from the public as they like our design. Alhamdulillah.
Here are some of the pictures from the event yesterday
Top Right: Dr. Zakir Naik walking towards the crowds
Bottom Left: Dr. Zakir Naik at his best
Bottom Right: The Audience
Top Left: Dr. Zakir Naik arrives at the venue after MaghribTop Right: The big screen
Bottom Left: The VIPs
Bottom Right: Dr. Zakir Naik giving his speeches.
Oummati T-shirts
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Journal: 28 August 2012
Salamun Alaykom,
We are currently experiencing some network issues. Therefore we're unable post up our latest updates. Not very sure what's exactly the problem is. The connection is very slow and to upload pictures and stuff it takes like forever. We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused - Insya Allah we will try our best to keep you updated from time to time with our activities. Thank you very much for bearing with us.
Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
We are currently experiencing some network issues. Therefore we're unable post up our latest updates. Not very sure what's exactly the problem is. The connection is very slow and to upload pictures and stuff it takes like forever. We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused - Insya Allah we will try our best to keep you updated from time to time with our activities. Thank you very much for bearing with us.
Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Journal: 26 August 2012
Salamun Alaykom,
Finally got my internet connection back. Something went wrong with the connection for the last 2 days. But it's good now. Alhamdulillah.
It's already Sunday - time is really fast. Holiday is almost over, will start working tomorrow Insya Allah.
Anyway - yesterday I was at my uncle's place for a visit. I was planning to meet him earlier but did not had a chance. Well, this uncle of mine he owns a Batik business here in Malaysia.
There are several types of batik actually, but here in Malaysia the most common batik is known as Malaysian Batik My uncle had this business running for more than 10 years where he also have his own factory for making this batik. The special of batik, it's handmade. Here in Malaysia batik are famous among both female and male. For male they used the textile to make Baju Batik. It's actually a traditional wear for Malay Male - usually they wear this to attend formal event such as dinner & weddings. Beside than that we also have Baju Melayu as our traditional wears but this one are not made of batik.
As for Batik - its more famous amongst the women. With it - they can use it to make several types of dresses such as Baju Kurung, Baju Kebaya, Kaftan, Batik Blouse and many more. Batik simply can be used to make different kind of dresses.
We at Oummati are interested to have Batik one of our products. So I was at my uncle's place yesterday to discuss on possibilities for us to bring this market further in Europe in this near future Insya Allah. Currently we have a contact with fashion designers in France who are so keen to have this products. From our contacts - we also aware there are demands from the US.
The discussion went well yesterday. Insya Allah next week I together with Bilal, Mehdi & Ihsan will be going to his office for further discussion on this matter.
For those who are interested for the product and if you have any inquiries kindly email us at oummati.team@gmail.com
Arafat of Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
1330 Hours . 26 August 2012
Finally got my internet connection back. Something went wrong with the connection for the last 2 days. But it's good now. Alhamdulillah.
It's already Sunday - time is really fast. Holiday is almost over, will start working tomorrow Insya Allah.
Anyway - yesterday I was at my uncle's place for a visit. I was planning to meet him earlier but did not had a chance. Well, this uncle of mine he owns a Batik business here in Malaysia.
There are several types of batik actually, but here in Malaysia the most common batik is known as Malaysian Batik My uncle had this business running for more than 10 years where he also have his own factory for making this batik. The special of batik, it's handmade. Here in Malaysia batik are famous among both female and male. For male they used the textile to make Baju Batik. It's actually a traditional wear for Malay Male - usually they wear this to attend formal event such as dinner & weddings. Beside than that we also have Baju Melayu as our traditional wears but this one are not made of batik.
As for Batik - its more famous amongst the women. With it - they can use it to make several types of dresses such as Baju Kurung, Baju Kebaya, Kaftan, Batik Blouse and many more. Batik simply can be used to make different kind of dresses.
We at Oummati are interested to have Batik one of our products. So I was at my uncle's place yesterday to discuss on possibilities for us to bring this market further in Europe in this near future Insya Allah. Currently we have a contact with fashion designers in France who are so keen to have this products. From our contacts - we also aware there are demands from the US.
The discussion went well yesterday. Insya Allah next week I together with Bilal, Mehdi & Ihsan will be going to his office for further discussion on this matter.
For those who are interested for the product and if you have any inquiries kindly email us at oummati.team@gmail.com
Arafat of Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
1330 Hours . 26 August 2012
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Journal: Eidul Fitr.
Salamun Alaykom,
This year Eidul Fitr in Malaysia falls on Sunday, 19 August 2012. Most of us spent most of our times with family, which is a very good thing. Some of us were out of town to celebrate Eidul Fitr. Only me & Bilal managed to meet up for awhile on the 1st day of Eid - where we both went to perform Solat Eidul Fitr in the morning together. But Insya Allah we will go for a visit together when everybody is back in town. 3 of us minus Mehdi managed to meet up for a while tonight - but I had to go home early as I was not feeling well. Flu - always knock me out :) but Alhamdulillah it still manageable. Everybody seems enjoying the break to make use most of the time to spend with their family members. This is good - once in a year we manage to have a break after working so hard throughout the year. Alhamdulillah. We hope that everybody had a good time on this year Eidul Fitr and enjoy this meaningful moment with your family members, relatives and friends. Again we would like to wish every Muslims around world and of course to our reader - Eid Mubarak! May Allah bless us all. Ameen.
Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
This year Eidul Fitr in Malaysia falls on Sunday, 19 August 2012. Most of us spent most of our times with family, which is a very good thing. Some of us were out of town to celebrate Eidul Fitr. Only me & Bilal managed to meet up for awhile on the 1st day of Eid - where we both went to perform Solat Eidul Fitr in the morning together. But Insya Allah we will go for a visit together when everybody is back in town. 3 of us minus Mehdi managed to meet up for a while tonight - but I had to go home early as I was not feeling well. Flu - always knock me out :) but Alhamdulillah it still manageable. Everybody seems enjoying the break to make use most of the time to spend with their family members. This is good - once in a year we manage to have a break after working so hard throughout the year. Alhamdulillah. We hope that everybody had a good time on this year Eidul Fitr and enjoy this meaningful moment with your family members, relatives and friends. Again we would like to wish every Muslims around world and of course to our reader - Eid Mubarak! May Allah bless us all. Ameen.
Team Oummati
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Journal: 7 August 2012
Salamun Alaykom,
It has been a very tiring day - with work and work and again work. Currently we are still waiting for the incorporation of Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd to be finalized. Yes we had signed the agreement and officially registered the company under SSM Malaysia still there is a process for the incorporation of the company. Insya Allah the process will be done by next week latest by early of September.
As much as we want to get started like right now but we got to be patience. It is not gonna make things any better if we just rush things up so okay we'll take our time. Insya Allah we can start sooner than later.
Well there's must be a reason, Ramadan is a holy month where we Muslim should be more focus on doing ibadah - let say we start to operates by this month maybe it get us distracted with work. Alhamdulillah - we're thankful for everything.
I've mentioned about work at the beginning of this post - that's actually for my other job. Besides Ummati, I'm currently still working in private sector. So once Ummati start to operates I will be doing 2 jobs, Insya Allah. Alhamdulillah.
Currently I'm working on a big event which will take place on early September. That will be like 2 weeks after Eidul Fitr celebration. So I'm kind of stressed up + we got only like 1 week to get things done since on the 3rd week of August everybody will be away for the holiday for Eid. Insya Allah, things will go smoothly.
Another 2 days for the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Times fly very fast. It seems like we just started fasting like yesterday. Masha Allah. I still can remember when I was still young - a day feels like forever. When I was like 6 years of age - my parents got me to do fasting and waiting for Iftar its like forever. And now day past by just like that. Subhanallah.
That reminds me of the words of our beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW where he said:
The full Hadith:
Anas reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The hour shall not come until time will be considered short, and a year will appear like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour and an hour like a flash of fire." (Tirmidhi)
Indeed - the time fly very fast today, we can feel it.
Arafat of Team Oummati
Co-Founder
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
It has been a very tiring day - with work and work and again work. Currently we are still waiting for the incorporation of Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd to be finalized. Yes we had signed the agreement and officially registered the company under SSM Malaysia still there is a process for the incorporation of the company. Insya Allah the process will be done by next week latest by early of September.
As much as we want to get started like right now but we got to be patience. It is not gonna make things any better if we just rush things up so okay we'll take our time. Insya Allah we can start sooner than later.
Well there's must be a reason, Ramadan is a holy month where we Muslim should be more focus on doing ibadah - let say we start to operates by this month maybe it get us distracted with work. Alhamdulillah - we're thankful for everything.
I've mentioned about work at the beginning of this post - that's actually for my other job. Besides Ummati, I'm currently still working in private sector. So once Ummati start to operates I will be doing 2 jobs, Insya Allah. Alhamdulillah.
Currently I'm working on a big event which will take place on early September. That will be like 2 weeks after Eidul Fitr celebration. So I'm kind of stressed up + we got only like 1 week to get things done since on the 3rd week of August everybody will be away for the holiday for Eid. Insya Allah, things will go smoothly.
Another 2 days for the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Times fly very fast. It seems like we just started fasting like yesterday. Masha Allah. I still can remember when I was still young - a day feels like forever. When I was like 6 years of age - my parents got me to do fasting and waiting for Iftar its like forever. And now day past by just like that. Subhanallah.
That reminds me of the words of our beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW where he said:
"a day like a year, a day like a month, a day like a week, and the rest of his days like your days."
The full Hadith:
Anas reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The hour shall not come until time will be considered short, and a year will appear like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour and an hour like a flash of fire." (Tirmidhi)
Indeed - the time fly very fast today, we can feel it.
Arafat of Team Oummati
Co-Founder
Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Journal: 4 Aug 2012
Salamun Alaykom,
Alhamdulillah, today was a good day. After few meetings has been cancelled due to work hectic all of us managed to sit down for a meeting. We should have this meeting done on last Thursday then we postponed it to Friday and again we have postponed it.
So tonight after Tarawih four of us meet at our usual 'lepak' spot - Bilal's place. FYI 'lepak' is a Malaysian terms for hang out. Few years ago the word 'lepak' was used to described a group of people wasting times by lepak-ing (hang out) for hours for nothing. The favorite spots for this activity will be at friend's house, gerai (Malaysian tearms for food stalls), and video game arcades. Teenagers & young adults between age of 15 - 35 years were usually involved with this budaya lepak (lepak-ing culture).
But today - lepak are commonly used to described meeting and hang out. It also can be use to described berbincang which means discussing. Malay language is special - every year we always have a new words to describe actions, behaviors or anything. It's a jargon. You can't find most of these Malay jargon in any Malay dictionary nor you could translate it using google translator. Not only that - even a Malay will have a hard time to describe their own Malay-made jargon. Sometime it is impossible for us to explain it regardless in Malay or in any other language.And plus each Malay speaker will have their own dialect and jargon which only can be understood by their native speakers.
For example: That is why in Malaysia today we say our national language is Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian Language) and in Indonesia who also speaks Malay generally say Bahasa Indonesia as their national language. It is impossible to generalize the Malay language anymore today but of course the roots of the language is still Malay. Although we speak differently but most of the time we still can understand each other - only when we speak slooooowly. lol. Some other country like Brunei - they also have their own dialect and jargon - and in fact they called their language as Bahasa Brunei. It is just that they have yet to make it official, so officially they claimed Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) as their national language although they all speak Bahasa Brunei. Some other minor area such as small province in Singapore (Malay used to be the majority population in Singapore, today the Chinese is the majority group) Philippines, Australia, and Africa who also have Malay speakers over there - they claimed Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) as their mother tongue. Since they are the minority group in the country there's no point of them to segregate their dialect accordingly. After all it is still Malay.
How is that come about? From my point of view this could happen because Malay Language sounds very formal. Especially when we speak - it was as if we are reading news script. Not only that, Malay - we also import of so many foreign words due to reason of we do not have the right word to described of that particular word. So to avoid any complication and to make it more 'conversable' we started to creates our own jargon and made it as if it has been there for such a long time. Complicated eh? But its fun - you (non Malay speaker) should try to learn. Actually it's not that complicated after all. Bilal and Mehdi started to pick up few words just few months after they arrived here in Malaysia such as Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice), Teh Tarik (Pulled Tea), Teh O Ais (Ice Tea), Ayam goreng (Fried chicken), Roti Canai, Telur (Egg) etc. Oh and Boleh (Can), Tak Boleh (Cannot). Well, that's all they know so far and that is because they used these words to order their food from restaurant. Haha! But its good - practice makes perfect, right? They stilling picking up new words from me and Ihsan. lol.
Ok enough of that.
Back to the story, at Bilal's place there we discussed on our projects and 'what next' of our long lists. So when I said we 'lepak' it doesn't mean that we were wasting our time for nothing .. ok we did ended up battling FIFA on PS3 but that only happen when we have done with our discussion and was about to go home. So technically we don't waste time. For the record - I beat the self-proclaimed Master FIFA Bilal...and of course he beat me too (that's because I give him face - you don't want the owner of the house got upset with you) Haha. I joke. He's actually a good player, very hard to beat. But I love challenges so I beat him although most of the time I was on the losing side. And his son can play too. Just like father like son.
Well - on top of that, during the meeting Bilal, Mehdi, Ihsan and I have signed on the agreement - acting as the directors of Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd. Ihsan got the papers from our company secretary who we had a meeting appointment on last Friday but we have to cancel it at last minute because everyone was so busy + with Bilal having a problem with his eye. Alhamdulillah, we have signed the papers and now it is just matter of time to officially incorporated Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd as a company. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. It was a relieved for us and now we can move on and to put full concentration on our upcoming projects. Although we faced set backs occasionally but it's worth it. All the struggle won't be for nothing. Insya Allah we will do our best in order to achieve the organization missions and objective - to provide halal necessity to Muslim Ummah and to promote da'wah around the globe. Insya Allah.
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Alhamdulillah, today was a good day. After few meetings has been cancelled due to work hectic all of us managed to sit down for a meeting. We should have this meeting done on last Thursday then we postponed it to Friday and again we have postponed it.
So tonight after Tarawih four of us meet at our usual 'lepak' spot - Bilal's place. FYI 'lepak' is a Malaysian terms for hang out. Few years ago the word 'lepak' was used to described a group of people wasting times by lepak-ing (hang out) for hours for nothing. The favorite spots for this activity will be at friend's house, gerai (Malaysian tearms for food stalls), and video game arcades. Teenagers & young adults between age of 15 - 35 years were usually involved with this budaya lepak (lepak-ing culture).
But today - lepak are commonly used to described meeting and hang out. It also can be use to described berbincang which means discussing. Malay language is special - every year we always have a new words to describe actions, behaviors or anything. It's a jargon. You can't find most of these Malay jargon in any Malay dictionary nor you could translate it using google translator. Not only that - even a Malay will have a hard time to describe their own Malay-made jargon. Sometime it is impossible for us to explain it regardless in Malay or in any other language.And plus each Malay speaker will have their own dialect and jargon which only can be understood by their native speakers.
For example: That is why in Malaysia today we say our national language is Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian Language) and in Indonesia who also speaks Malay generally say Bahasa Indonesia as their national language. It is impossible to generalize the Malay language anymore today but of course the roots of the language is still Malay. Although we speak differently but most of the time we still can understand each other - only when we speak slooooowly. lol. Some other country like Brunei - they also have their own dialect and jargon - and in fact they called their language as Bahasa Brunei. It is just that they have yet to make it official, so officially they claimed Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) as their national language although they all speak Bahasa Brunei. Some other minor area such as small province in Singapore (Malay used to be the majority population in Singapore, today the Chinese is the majority group) Philippines, Australia, and Africa who also have Malay speakers over there - they claimed Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) as their mother tongue. Since they are the minority group in the country there's no point of them to segregate their dialect accordingly. After all it is still Malay.
How is that come about? From my point of view this could happen because Malay Language sounds very formal. Especially when we speak - it was as if we are reading news script. Not only that, Malay - we also import of so many foreign words due to reason of we do not have the right word to described of that particular word. So to avoid any complication and to make it more 'conversable' we started to creates our own jargon and made it as if it has been there for such a long time. Complicated eh? But its fun - you (non Malay speaker) should try to learn. Actually it's not that complicated after all. Bilal and Mehdi started to pick up few words just few months after they arrived here in Malaysia such as Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice), Teh Tarik (Pulled Tea), Teh O Ais (Ice Tea), Ayam goreng (Fried chicken), Roti Canai, Telur (Egg) etc. Oh and Boleh (Can), Tak Boleh (Cannot). Well, that's all they know so far and that is because they used these words to order their food from restaurant. Haha! But its good - practice makes perfect, right? They stilling picking up new words from me and Ihsan. lol.
Ok enough of that.
Back to the story, at Bilal's place there we discussed on our projects and 'what next' of our long lists. So when I said we 'lepak' it doesn't mean that we were wasting our time for nothing .. ok we did ended up battling FIFA on PS3 but that only happen when we have done with our discussion and was about to go home. So technically we don't waste time. For the record - I beat the self-proclaimed Master FIFA Bilal...and of course he beat me too (that's because I give him face - you don't want the owner of the house got upset with you) Haha. I joke. He's actually a good player, very hard to beat. But I love challenges so I beat him although most of the time I was on the losing side. And his son can play too. Just like father like son.
Well - on top of that, during the meeting Bilal, Mehdi, Ihsan and I have signed on the agreement - acting as the directors of Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd. Ihsan got the papers from our company secretary who we had a meeting appointment on last Friday but we have to cancel it at last minute because everyone was so busy + with Bilal having a problem with his eye. Alhamdulillah, we have signed the papers and now it is just matter of time to officially incorporated Ummati Trading Sdn Bhd as a company. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. It was a relieved for us and now we can move on and to put full concentration on our upcoming projects. Although we faced set backs occasionally but it's worth it. All the struggle won't be for nothing. Insya Allah we will do our best in order to achieve the organization missions and objective - to provide halal necessity to Muslim Ummah and to promote da'wah around the globe. Insya Allah.
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