And Your Heart...
Your heart is the strongest muscle. Imagine pumping the blood to all the vessels in your body 60 secs a minute, 60 min an hour, 24 hrs a day, 365.25 days a year, all the years you've been living. Perhaps your heart had stopped a second or two when a window curtain sway softly touched your neck while you're reading a book at midnight (what were you thinking), or when the cup you were about pick was suddenly a huge white rat. But all in all, it averages out to being in action all the time. Otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this.
I think I should stop blabbering about all the pain, body parts, this sore, bla.. bla.. bla.. the chicken's getting cold. I mean, it's getting old. Let's focus on other things.
There's another part of heart that some of us seldom explore, if at all, and for some, it's something that has to be done every day. Even though it's physically tough, the heart is just as easily and emotionally fragile. And spiritually, it's the one that we have to purify and solidify from the trials and tribulations of desire and worldly temptations.
It all started when a former Imam of Masjidil Aqsa had given us a message at the Masjid As-Syakirin before the Azan and Khutbah earlier today. He was speaking full Arabic, intermittent English for a sentence or two, with a translator deciphering the speech at intervals. That's like the utmost peak of my communication Arabic while paying super attention to what he was saying, and I could only make up 20 to 30 % of the meaning roughly, clarification of which was performed when his translator deciphered it. Maybe I need to attend Aliya's classes. Can we do it online? Ihsan, help!
He was medium in height, wearing a light gray robe (like Jubah) that had yellow linings inside. The Imam looked like he's in his 60s, apparent by the whitest and the thickest beard I've ever seen. His fairly strong gesticulation and comportment however suggested that he was 20 years younger. He started slow and deliberately articulated each words -- a very wise and smart move to attract moderate to low percentage of Arabic savvy audience attention.
His message was mainly this:
Lots of issues are happening to Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Phillipines, and more, but the root cause is Palestine. Had the case there been resolved, others will slowly follow suit. After so many efforts of peace talks and negotiations, most of which had doomed to fail, Palestinians couldn't help but to switch to the way of Jihad to protect Islam.
He said he's grateful to be in Malaysia. And he's been to Kelantan, Terengganu, Melaka, and Kedah and so on, to convey the story of Palestines. Muslims in Malaysia are very kind and have great sympathy towards the misfortunes of others. The brothers in Islam in Palestine, who are fighting every day to uphold the Deen are very relieved to receive such care, and they only hope for prayers from their brothers all over the world. They're willing to bear and sacrifice their younger generations for the fight, but only two worries come to mind. 1 - There is an internal conflict between Fatah and Hamas, and 2 - the government of Saudis (not the people/Arabs) is not even helping but somehow going in the other direction instead.
Masjidil Aqsa has not been taken away from only the Palestinians but also from the Muslims all over the world.
It's a reminder for myself at the very least.
Please pray for our suffering brothers and sisters, and for Muslims to come together again, cleansing the general inner diseases and plagues throughout. It's our fault if we don't come together and if we don't care.
I think I should stop blabbering about all the pain, body parts, this sore, bla.. bla.. bla.. the chicken's getting cold. I mean, it's getting old. Let's focus on other things.
There's another part of heart that some of us seldom explore, if at all, and for some, it's something that has to be done every day. Even though it's physically tough, the heart is just as easily and emotionally fragile. And spiritually, it's the one that we have to purify and solidify from the trials and tribulations of desire and worldly temptations.
It all started when a former Imam of Masjidil Aqsa had given us a message at the Masjid As-Syakirin before the Azan and Khutbah earlier today. He was speaking full Arabic, intermittent English for a sentence or two, with a translator deciphering the speech at intervals. That's like the utmost peak of my communication Arabic while paying super attention to what he was saying, and I could only make up 20 to 30 % of the meaning roughly, clarification of which was performed when his translator deciphered it. Maybe I need to attend Aliya's classes. Can we do it online? Ihsan, help!
He was medium in height, wearing a light gray robe (like Jubah) that had yellow linings inside. The Imam looked like he's in his 60s, apparent by the whitest and the thickest beard I've ever seen. His fairly strong gesticulation and comportment however suggested that he was 20 years younger. He started slow and deliberately articulated each words -- a very wise and smart move to attract moderate to low percentage of Arabic savvy audience attention.
His message was mainly this:
Lots of issues are happening to Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Phillipines, and more, but the root cause is Palestine. Had the case there been resolved, others will slowly follow suit. After so many efforts of peace talks and negotiations, most of which had doomed to fail, Palestinians couldn't help but to switch to the way of Jihad to protect Islam.
He said he's grateful to be in Malaysia. And he's been to Kelantan, Terengganu, Melaka, and Kedah and so on, to convey the story of Palestines. Muslims in Malaysia are very kind and have great sympathy towards the misfortunes of others. The brothers in Islam in Palestine, who are fighting every day to uphold the Deen are very relieved to receive such care, and they only hope for prayers from their brothers all over the world. They're willing to bear and sacrifice their younger generations for the fight, but only two worries come to mind. 1 - There is an internal conflict between Fatah and Hamas, and 2 - the government of Saudis (not the people/Arabs) is not even helping but somehow going in the other direction instead.
Masjidil Aqsa has not been taken away from only the Palestinians but also from the Muslims all over the world.
It's a reminder for myself at the very least.
Please pray for our suffering brothers and sisters, and for Muslims to come together again, cleansing the general inner diseases and plagues throughout. It's our fault if we don't come together and if we don't care.
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