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Dearly Beloved

The email that I received some time back told the story behind the above photo. It was said that a boy who was madly in love with a girl, had sent each and every lady occupants in the two-block dormitory, a box of chocolate. In it, there was a message that told them to either switch on the light of their rooms or to switch it off at exactly 12 midnight (or something like that).

The result – well, the girl got to see the ‘love show’ and realise the kind of trouble that her boyfriend had gone through, to prove that he loved her.

Before I continue on, I would like to make it clear that this entry is NOT about Valentine’s Day and I am NOT trying to spread the Valentine ‘spirit’ whatsoever. This is because I have made a pact to myself that, I shall NOT celebrate or eagerly anticipate any festivals unless it’s an Islamic celebration or a non-religious national holiday like the Independence Day or Labour Day.

Don’t get me wrong! I'm not against other religious festivals. I will still wish those who celebrate other festivals, but that is just how far I will go.

With regard to Valentine, do you know that it is one of the peak seasons (other than during New Year and Merdeka celebrations) where many Malaysian Muslim girls lose their virginities, either willingly or after being tricked into having a pre-marital sex with their boy friends/fiances. This statistic is not a made up story, but said so by a religious leader recently.

Meantime, back to the topic of love - never did I realise before, that as the Valentine’s Day drew nearer, more and more vendors are selling some real nice and cute gifts. Now that I’ve found the love of my life, those gifts really grabbed my attention, enticing me to grab hold of at least one of them. Not wanting to break my pact and being a hypocrite or anything, I admit that I did buy a gift for my wife, solely from-a-husband-to-his-wife kind of gift. With no Valentine’s card or even a wish came out of my mouth, my wife perfectly understood the purpose of the gift, and she accepted it whole-heartedly.

LOVE affects people in many different ways. It is amazing sometimes, just how far some of us are willing to do or go through to prove their love, or at least that’s what they say they are willing to do, haha. Surely you've read somewhere (or perhaps, you have used those words yourselves) that a man is willing to swim the ocean of fire to get to the girl of his dreams, or a man loses his sleep, eat and shower just thinking of his girl.

Wow! Talk about love struck!

The topic of love has also been covered extensively. The word is mentioned and discussed many times in the Al Qur’an and Sunnah; the theme is used in lyrics and scripts and the love symbol is (arguably) one of the most used in drawings and sketches.

I’m not really a sucker of love movies. However, I can name a few which are directly or indirectly about love.

- A woman is hell bent in ruining her friend’s wedding after realises that all this while, he’s the love of her life in My Best Friend’s Wedding.

- A woman falls in love during her most awkward and vulnerable situations like while disguising herself as a man in She's The Man or a reporter posing as a high school student in Never Been Kissed.

- A true story that portrays how a woman losts her life due to her love in protecting the gorillas in Gorillas In The Mist.

- A fury giant monster in the closet grows (not in size!) very much attached to a human girl in Monsters Inc.

- A young couple finds true love on board of a ship and tries desperately to keep their love (and themselves) afloat in Titanic.

- A man desperately in need of money, finds that a brotherly love is all he needs when he discovers that he has an autistic brother in Rain Man.

- In Flightplan, a mother is all determined to search through the corners of a passenger flight, causing panic and chaos on board, when her daughter suddenly turns missing on the plane.

Love can also bring dire consequences. Here are some real life situations:

- when an Dutch girl who had been raised by her Asian parents was about to be deported back to her home country, a bloodbath ensued after village folks tried to protect her.

- when a woman turns her back on her religion after marrying a man of a different religion, a nation goes unrest after some groups of people dare to challenge the course of her original religion.

- lack of love has given birth to some of the most notorious criminals and serial killers ever recorded in history.

- beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but one should be aware of what kind of beauty that he or she is attracted to, as there are those who are blind (and stupid) enough to still marry their partners despite knowing that the partners are HIV positive or drug addicts.

To my fellow Muslims, no matter how strongly we love, care and feel passionate towards another living thing, never forget the other MOST IMPORTANT LOVE OF ALL. A love that is pure, divine and accepts no substitutes.

Should we feel there is no one else to turn to, turn to Allah. As in Surah Al-Ikhlas (verses 1 to 4):

Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim........

Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;
Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;
He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;
And there is none like unto Him.

In Surah Al-Baqarah (verse 45):

Nay, seek (Allah's) help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed hard, except to those who bring a lowly spirit,-

In Surah At-Taubah (verse 129):

But if they turn away, Say: "Allah sufficeth me: there is no god but He: On Him is my trust,- He the Lord of the Throne (of Glory) Supreme!"

In Surah Al-Baqarah (verse 286):

On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. (Pray:) "Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which Thou didst lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. Thou art our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith."

Allah has touched and helped us in many ways that no one on Earth could have possibly granted the same. How can we turn our back on Allah and not feel grateful to Him just because we have fallen in love with a human being of different beliefs, or we have acquired so much wealth and power that we feel invincible or we feel we have the right to commit sins whether openly or secretly?

Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim........

Surah Ali Imran (verses 8-9 and 192-194)

"Our Lord!" (they say), "Let not our hearts deviate now after Thou hast guided us, but grant us mercy from Thine own Presence; for Thou art the Grantor of bounties without measure.
"Our Lord! Thou art He that will gather mankind Together against a day about which there is no doubt; for Allah never fails in His promise."

"Our Lord! any whom Thou dost admit to the Fire, Truly Thou coverest with shame, and never will wrong-doers Find any helpers!
"Our Lord! we have heard the call of one calling (Us) to Faith, 'Believe ye in the Lord,' and we have believed. Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, blot out from us our iniquities, and take to Thyself our souls in the company of the righteous.
"Our Lord! Grant us what Thou didst promise unto us through Thine messengers, and save us from shame on the Day of Judgment: For Thou never breakest Thy promise."

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Some says that HATE is not the opposite of love, it's INDIFFERENCE. Whichever it is, an act of hate or indifference can bring much worse dire consequences. For examples:

- a broken hearted man or woman may close his/her heart to love and may even despise those of an opposite gender.

- fuelled by hatred and hurt, a disgruntled student may start (and end) a shooting rampage at his school, causing the loss of lives of many.

- due to hatred and vengence (if any), some country leaders have sent their whole batallions of army to attack other countries (instead of coming in peace), in the name of searching for weapons of NO destruction or hunting down a terrorist mastermind (nowadays I'm starting to REALLY wonder whether this person really exists or not, or if he does exist, whether he's actually a fabrication of some corrupted and lunatic minds).

- due to hatred of a certain religion, some people had the hearts to form the most heinous and devilish plan, mankind had ever seen:

by disguising someone to look like suicide bombers, to make us believe they acted as such, in the name of that certain religion;

by camouflaging the fighter planes to look like passenger flights to kill thousands of lives.

All this, so that these MASTERMINDS could embark on attacking countless others whose most of them, embraced that certain religion; killing and maiming them in their own backyards. These MASTERMINDS sure have managed to fool so many - even their own countrymen and women and people of all religions.

P/S: With regard to my final point on hatred, Insha' Allah, with the permission of Allah, I will expose in this blog, a conspiracy behind the September 11 attack. A conspiracy that is supported by ONLY facts, logic and reasoning - that can make us re-think our belief and perception and realise that it's not really a theory after all. It's what really happened!

Regardless of religous beliefs, those with the right frame of minds and souls, would be able to accept that, it is the only logical explanation behind the whole tragedy.

YA ALLAH! GRANT US YOUR POWERS AND SHOW US THE TRUTH OF ALL TRUTHS... MAY THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF BUSH AND THOSE OTHER MASTERMINDS, SUFFER YOUR MOST HORRIFIC PUNISHMENT AND THEY GET TO WITNESS YOUR PUNISHMENT AND LIVE. JUST LIKE THOSE MANY OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD (INCLUDING THEIR OWN CITIZENS) WHO WITNESSED THE HORROR THAT BEFELL UPON THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS DUE TO THEIR HORRIFIC AND MOST INHUMANE ACTS OF TERRORISM! AAAAAAMEEEEENNNN.....

Labels: Al Qur'an, Doa', Life, Love

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