Update & Nikah Abu Bakr

Semalam bersama naqib masa sekolah menengah dahulu, Abg Sarep ke walimah junior kami yang berumur 19 tahun, Abu Bakr Abdullah. Anak pakcik Nicholas Sylvester. Kami berdua naik kereta ke Masjid As-Syafi'e di Taman Maluri. Dia bernikah dengan Khadijah 'Atifah, akhawat sebaya dengan Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr belajar di UTM Skudai dan Khadijah belajar di Mesir.

Bahagia tengok junior dah bernikah. Masa kami makan, kawan rapat aku dan abang kepada Abu Bakr, Omar datang berbual bersama kami. Aku tanya pasal mas kahwin, hantaran, dan perancangan selepas nikah pada abang dia. Alhamdulillah, baik. Mudah dan murah.

Masa kami nak pulang, jumpa ramai ikhwah-ikhwah senior. Presiden Pertubuhan IKRAM Malaysia pun datang, Dr Parid. Bersalam dan berbual sikit sahaja sebab dia pun sibuk. Abang Sarep lah yang seronok nak jumpa salam semua. Pakcik Syed Ibrahim ada, Dr Hatta ada, ramai sungguh. Sebelum nak balik, pakcik Nicholas tepuk belakang aku masa aku ucap tahniah pada dia. Seronok tengok muka dia seorang anak dah kahwin.

Abu, Khadijah, makcik dan pakcik :) Makcik dan pakcik ni sangat baik orangnya. Dua-dua sepadan. Pakcik Nicholas dan isterinya.

Baju pengantin lelaki memang kena gelak dengan abang Sarep sebab macam uniform Jepun. Still, to me it looks good.

Abu dan Abang Sarep [Kredit to Amir Mohsein atas gambar-gambar]

Dulu, masa darah pemuda baru nak bergelojak dengan syahwat dan nafsu, aku pernah tanya pada Abang Sarep kenapa walaupun puasa keinginan itu sangat-sangat kuat? Nabi kata puasa dapat 'hold' keinginan itu. Aku terus sambung soalan aku, aku bukan puasa fizikal sahaja, tapi pancaindera sekali. Tapi kenapa masih kuat dan mengganggu?

Jawapan dia sampai sekarang aku ingat. Adakah kita berpuasa dengan sebenar-benar puasa macam yang nabi maksudkan? Kekuatan datang dari dalam katanya. Inisiatif kita untuk menundukkan nafsu. Inisiatif dan kekuatan dalam diri untuk menolak tepi keinginan dunia untuk fokus pada akhirat. Puasa tahap yang ketiga - bukan sekadar menjaga pancaindera dan mengharapkan hasil, tetapi menjaga hati dari berbuat maksiat kepada Allah. Walaupun kecil. Walaupun ianya hanya lintasan hati.

Allahu Akbar.

Masa dalam kereta on the way balik ke rumah (Yes, he picked me up, and he sent me home. I refused, he insisted), banyak dapat mutiara berharga daripada Abang Sarep. Dia jadi driver untuk kedua-dua Naib Mursyid Am IM yang datang ke Malaysia. Allah susun sangat cantik. Masa tengah cuti - ada orang bawa jalan-jalan sambil bagi nasihat. Masya Allah. Oh. Ya. Abang Sarep, walaupun senior kami, masih belum berkahwin. Belum sampai seru mungkin. Dia menceritakan mengenai komen Syeikh Jum'ah Amin pada ikhwah di Malaysia. Syeikh berkata "Aku hairan pada ikhwah-ikhwah di Malaysia. Bagaimana mereka boleh hidup tanpa bernikah?".

Sampai rumah aku pahat azam baru. Tiada masa akan kosong pada waktu cuti ini. Masa kosong membunuh pemuda seperti aku. Meliarkan angan-angan kosong. Melemahkan jiwa. Tiadalah aku nak melemahkan diri masa cuti setelah aku berdisiplin hempas pulas masa di kampus. No way. Kalau di kampus dah jumpa orang untuk tasmi' al Quran setiap minggu, sini pun jangan miss. Selalu juga cemburu dengan ikhwah akhawat UIA, ada kelas tasmi'. Di kampus, aku mencari orang untuk tasmi' aku. Hidup Allah dah stabilkan, jangan kita kucar kacirkan. Emotion and lust are tools. Tools yang patut digenggam dengan kuat di bawah kawalan. Rindu juga pada suasana Darul Quran. Tapi fikir balik, to what ends am I gonna sit and wait for opportunity to come? Teringat dalam kisah "Cinta di rumah Hasan Al Banna", ahli keluarga Imam Hasan bercerita bahawa Imam Hasan akan sentiasa tasmi' Qurannya dengan mana-mana ahli keluarga. Andai tiada yang dewasa, dengan anak kecil pun jadi. Masya Allah.

Alhamdulillah, kerja dah dapat. Itu pun lagi dua minggu baru mula. Bayaran RM 80 sehari. Insya Allah. Cukup. Sekarang ini mengambil tugas sambilan menulis ringkasan dan nota-nota pelajaran. Ok lah kot satu ringkasan RM20. Kalau banyak. First ringkasan buat pasal Hadith pertama, hadith niat. Last sekali rasa bersalah gila nak ambil upah. -.-

I just love teaching. But now, there's no one to teach. SPM dah hampir. Dan anak murid aku sekarang tengah berhempas pulas untuk prepare SPM. Sebelum raya, aku ada berjumpa dengan manager sebuah kedai buku. Nak pohon kerja. Dia tanya, sebelum ini masa cuti buat apa? Aku jawab mengajar. Subjek Add Math, Biology, Physics as tuition dan mengajar Al Quran di dua buah masjid. Dia membalas, "Oh..Cikgu. Tak payah kerjalah. Cikgu sekarang banyak duit. Sangat banyak". Itu fakta yang baru aku tahu. Aku kemudian gelak besar, menafikan. Aku bukan seorang cikgu dalam kerjaya.

Lusa insyaAllah akan ke seminar finance. Di Hotel Boulevard. Baca The Star dengan kawan, jumpa seminar. Terus daftar. Kawan itu juga lah yang minta nak berusrah Alhamdulillah, setelah satu semester study dengan dia. Dulu langsung tak minat bisnes finance etc. Sekarang ini dah ada tanggungjawab. Asyik fikir macam mana nak pacu IkramSiswa UITMPP punya DnT dan kewangan. Nak fikir projek dana. Kalau ada idea roger lah. Kami open untuk cadangan. Projek jual beli emas dan perak dah ada yang mula.

Dah target nak habiskan dua buku tebal. Buku sirah Raheeq Makhtum, yang selama ini hanya jadi rujukan. Dan fiqh dakwah.

Masuk team RnD Robotic UiTM. Will be busy. Busynya sampai masuk keluar lab sampai pukul 2 pagi. Let's give it a try. Dah dijemput masuk, tak moleklah kalau menolak. Jadi, masa cuti ada pembacaan sikit-sikit.

Itulah rancangan setakat masa cuti.

Masa cuti - aku spend untuk keluarga(family first), kerja dan perancangan untuk Ikram Siswa nanti. Membaca diteruskan.

Anekdot masa cuti. Ayaz selalu, kalau kami jadi imam dia akan sebut masa tengah solat surah yang dia nak revise untuk sekolah, contohnya kalau rakaat pertama tengah imam tengah Al Fatihah dia akan sebut "Al 'Alaq". Kami pun baca al 'Alaq. Kemudian dia sebut al Bayyinah. Kami baca al Bayyinah. Kalau kami tak baca, dia akan ulang dan ulang, "al 'Alaq..al 'Alaq..". Geram juga kadang-kadang. Tapi melayan lah. Dia adik kecil yang aku sayang.

Ada elemen comel terbaru - Meelo. Cucu Avatar Aang, dalam Legend of Korra.

Dia fartbending, extension of airbending. Mengarut betul budak ni.

:)

Itu lah update sedikit sebanyak.

1. "Tafaqqahu qabla an tusawwadu" -Umar al-Khattab r.a [Kata-kata Umar yang menunjukkan peri pentingnya ilmu sebelum dilanti

k sebagai pemimpin (at-Tasawwud bermaksud ar--Riasah) sangat jarang diulas sebagai "tuntutlah ilmu sebelum kamu berkahwin" kerana menurut az-Zabidiy dalam Taj ul-'Arul semasa mensharahkan maksud at-Tasawwud, katanya ia juga bermaksud at-Tazawwuj (berkahwin), justeru membawa maksud pelajarilah ilmu sebelum berkahwin kerana orang yang berkahwin akan disibukkan dengan urusan rumahtangganya.] - FB Marwan Bukhari

2. Oleh itu aku menyeru kamu wahai ikhwah, janganlah kamu berpada hanya sekadar menjadi akh muslim, atau berpuas hati sekadar dirinya telah bersolat, berpuasa dan bermujahadah. Jangan! Menyebarkan dakwah itulah yang dituntut daripada kamu, setiap orang. Maka, awas kamu! Jangan berlengah, jangan bermalas, jangan berasa berat untuk melaksanakan kewajipan ini. Awas! Jangan kamu tanggalkan baju yang telah dipakaikan Allah kepada kamu dengan memilih Muhammad s.a.w. sebagai ikutan dan pemimpin kamu. - zaadut-taqwa

Allahumma solli 'ala Muhammad.

Moga aku dikurniakan cinta pada Allah dan Rasul melebihi segala-galanya.

Roger and out.

Picturesque 4 : Of Superbike and Baby Po

Of A Superbike

Kawasaki Ninja

On road, there are a few types of drivers. Along my years (only 5 years.. heh) of driving, I come to a conclusion that drivers of cool cars aren't the same with drivers of cool bikes. They aren't the same. Still, my conclusion only applies to my living area and its vicinity.

The above picture is one example of great bikes. And drivers of these kind of bikes really have set a very good example on road. Let me tell you a bit about how most of them behave on road.

Of Whys
1. During red light, bikers from 'golongan marhaen', rempit or any kind will ignore the red light, find a space, wait for a clear line and then accelerate. Especially when it is raining or on a very hot day. Most bikers will develop a kind of sharp sense knowing when the lights will turn color, the duration for each color, and few seconds of buffer between colors. If you can see at any time, you can see that they don't actually looking at the light in front of them. They will either look at the traffic light across them, or they will see reflection of colors from either signboards or poles from traffic light they can't see straight. So they can have a good guess when their light will turn green. And then, when the other light turns orange, even when their own light is still red, they will accelerate. Most of them will behave this way. BUT, for superbikers, they are different. Even when all bikes have gone ignoring the red light, you will find them still at their place. Relaxed and cool. I don't know the real reason behind this. Whether if they get a ticket it would be much more expensive than normal bike, wallahu a'lam. But, in term of obeying traffic, yes, they do set a very good example.

2. There was a time, at Youth Leadership Programe URI, I sit beside our van driver for the program. He said to me, the thing he's afraid the most on road was motorcyclists. Because of their unpredictable nature. Well, that's understandable. Often, when a motorcyclist sees a hole to slip in a tight traffic, he/she will try to slip as fast as possible. It is because their size is small, so, any hole will do. We call this 'cilok'. And often too, they forget to give signals. It's like if you draw any graph, their curve will not be very smooth and predictable. Still, a large portion of them gives signals. Same goes to superbikers. They respect the road, and they are respected.

3. Usually, when the light turns green, some motorcyclists will 'press' like heaven sampai yang terpacak-pacak. If not terpacak pun, it's like they are trying to lead and be the first of the horde that's just been released. And you know how cool are superbikers, they don't even get distracted by the other bikers. They just speed up normally, and with their own pace catching up with others. Although initially they are left out from the rest of the speeding bikers, those superbikers will end up un'chase'able by the early speeders. And the way you see how they behave from a spectator's view, so cool.

4. And the best is, they are so polite on road, yet they are so skillful. What does I mean is that they give way to people, they don't just cut people's way, during traffic jam especially, they are so skillful in 'mencelah' to the extend sometimes even when usual bikers are afraid to pass through some narrow slips between cars, they pass through it like nothing. And if they can't pass it, they will stay quiet and wait. On the contrary, some bikers even press in free gear to warn car drivers to make way for them. Some even hit the side mirrors. And most will honk 6 harakat or more.

5. And you know why they can drive so fast? One factor that I know is because of their attire. You know, when you are wearing something loose, and you ride your bike so fast, your shirt and your trousers are flapping so fast, it makes you feel cautious. But, when you wear tight driving jacket, the air doesn't make any of your parts flapping, so you kind of forget how fast you are and you just cruise along the road happily. But, it's a bit dangerous, it can be very deceiving.

Why do I say superbikers are different than expensive car drivers?

From what I've seen and experienced, most BMW and Mercedes drivers in the area of Damansara, PJ, Gombak - they really don't have any sense of giving signals. Most of them. The numbers can go up to 90 percent. Even when I'm driving car, they don't know how to give signals. I don't know why. It happens mostly to people with expensive cars. Proton, Innova, and other normal cars do give signals. But them? Entah. Perhaps I'm committing a fallacy of  generalization - but again, this situation only applies in my living area as far as I'm concerned.

If someone wants to compare drivers of great cars and bikes, I can say, they are not the same. One side have less sensitivities, less skillful, and a bit 'noob' on road (Noob in context of respecting road users), another side is more skillful, does a better job in setting example for other drivers.

Ini pun superb!

There are some things worth sharing here, so that new motorcyclists can take note.

1. If it is too windy, stop. I once drove along MRR2, where at that time, rain started to pour. Few of us motorcyclists still continued, so we sped up hoping to get past the raining cloud. So, in that cluster it was like around 100 km/h or more. Then, all of a sudden, a huge blast of wind passed. My cluster, at that time was in the middle lane, somehow was pushed to the right lane where the cars moved so fast. One of us was even almost hit a big lorry. That wind pushed us to the next lane while we were moving. It felt like your bike moved without you realizing. I never thought that wind could be so powerful. Since, I will always bend my body lower when  I'm speeding in rain in case of emergency.

2. For motorcyclists, it is dangerous if you are travelling when the road is wet and there are thunders dancing upon you. For cars, it is safe. But not for bikers. Because lightning can struck you while you are on bike. Once, when some bikers and I stopped under a fly over during a heavy downpour, a flash of lightning struck very near to us. At the same time, almost all of us under the fly-over felt the 'shock', the same feeling when you touched a leaked circuit - hot and numb. We talked about it, and we never knew that lightning have that kind of 'area-of-effect' (AOE). But then, I still suspended my conclusion, until after I watched River Monster, where in that episode, Jeremy Wade's cameraman was zapped by lightning, and he felt a little dizzy. The lightning didn't hit him directly, but the spot so near it made the cameraman went dizzy and fell. So, watch out if there any thunder festival up there. You might get stunned.


Baby Po
So, since baby Shrek, I've never found anything cuter. But, when Dragon Warrior Po came into action to search for his long-lost history, I found his 'smaller' version very intriguing and exciting. And seriously, I couldn't stand the cuteness. Let the picture tells the cuteness....So, I rank baby Po as the most cutest thing in history.

p/s 1 : There're so much reasons for people out there to continue living, why give up? :D
p/s 2 : I'm towards a healthier life. Just weeks ago, masa program, jadi Faci, seorang budak perempuan datang, 'abang akan jadi lagi hensem kalau kurus lagi skit'. *blushing* .. For that, I've been swimming 0.5 kilometers every day. So, keep motivating me! Haha.. Siapa-siapa nak ajar Butterfly Stroke boleh datang rumah.

Tuntutan Fizikal

Di atas beberapa sebab, keperluan menurunkan berat badan sangat dituntut. Iya.. BERAT badan. =.=

Alhamdulillah, badan masih sihat dan tiada penyakit. Except for yang dah lama reside within me - resdung(thanks to my beloved two cats Kitty and Kidtun - status: deceased), vertigo, and long gone diagnosed low blood pressure. Alhamdulillah. Cuma, apparently my size isn't going any smaller. And all my uncles and aunties were like "OMG Asif, kenapa macam bapak orang?"

Sekitar dua minggu lepas, di surau berdekatan rumah saya, ada perkara menarik berlaku. Kali ini ada seorang pakcik Cina yang nak masuk Islam. Back then, pernah ada seorang yang nak masuk Islam kat surau tersebut. Darah muda saya sedikit menggelegak bila melihatkan AJK-AJK surau dan jemaah memandang pakcik tersebut macam orang yang sangat asing. Langung tidak disantuni. Melihat dari jauh dengan muka yang tidak menggambarkan kemesraan. Malah mereka meneruskan ceramah tanpa ada seorang pun wakil surau yang diwakilkan untuk melayani keperluan beliau. Perlu menunggu sehingga habis. Seorang. Perkara sama berlaku sekali lagi pada pakcik Cina ini. Menerima kemungkinan jemaah-jemaah surau mungkin belum biasa. Tapi, cubalah paling kurang senyum atau berjabat tangan. Few only. Saya langsung mendekati pakcik tersebut. Uncle Ong panggil. Bertanya-tanya. Alhamdulillah. Dia seronok. Masa itu kena balik, ada program. Minta nombor HP pakcik tu. Bercadang nak transfer hubungan dengan Hidayah Centre atau MACMA. Masa nak balik, saya bagi tahu pakcik itu bertuah ada anak perempuan baik macam itu(dia bercerita pasal anak perempuan dia). Kemudian tiba-tiba, "Awak dah ada berapa anak?". Saya macam "what the fish!!" dalam hati. Hati puas menahan nak gelak habis-habis. Sebab ingat duduk dalam surau. Kena hormat. "Umur saya baru 20 lah pakcik.. Kahwin pun tak lagi". Tersenyum lebar tahan gelak menampakkan dua gigi taring saya. Kalau boleh gigit pakcik ni dah gigit dah. Geram. Tapi tak apa lah, dia pun bau arak. Dia balas, "Wahh..u nampak memang tak tua, tapi macam sudah matang macam itu bapa orang". Again, kalau dia ni lembu memang dah kena gulai kawah dah. Sabo je la. Sebelum balik, wish all the best pada pakcik itu. Pada yang sama, berazam saiz kena KECILKAN!

It's not that I'm unhealthy. Every week I jog three to four times, every session 30 minutes or about 2.5 kilometers(Taman Metropolitan!). I also do dumbbells workout every day. I still can dive and swim healthily. Makan malam pun dah kurang. Ala kadar. Air manis pun tak minum. Pagi sahaja beli teh ais. Or it is not sufficient? What is wrong?

Sekarang ini pun saya buka kelas private taekwondo ajar adik-adik. Every Sunday. For sure banyak bakar kalori. Oh..Please help me find more ways! :D

Lifestyle. Ada orang dia ubah sikit dah boleh kecilkan saiz. Tapi ada orang dia ambil banyak usaha dan masa untuk ubah, saiz dia berubah sikiiiiiit je. Apa-apa pun, kena jaga pemakanan. Kena teruskan exercise.

Pembaca yang ada tips - boleh berkongsi atau PM atau mesej. Terima kasih. Bercita-cita nak mengecilkan saiz badan menjadi saiz normal plus healthier. Pernah tengok Ironman tak? Bukan cerita Ironman. Ini pertanding Ironman Kona Championship. I follow this every year since they started few years back. This year akan start October. Di Hawai. Mereka berlumba - berenang for 2.6 miles, kemudian bike 112 miles, kemudian running for 26.2 miles straight. Badan manusia sangat mengagumkan. I do not know if it is appropriate for a Muslim to participate, but if it is appropriate, I wish to finish this race one day. Maybe 10 years from now.

Tengok jangan tak tengok. Even yang tempang dua-dua kaki pun boleh habiskan race ini.

*Towards a healthier lifestyle! :)