Sunday 7 February 2010

Climb for Gaza/Haiti!



Alhamdulillah! Subhanallah! Allahuakbar!

Words cannot describe the feelings I had here after reaching the top of Mount Snowdon (the highest peak in Wales) which is 4-5 hour journey from Cardiff. The setting was so fantastic, very beautiful subhanallah and I've captured some scenic views from above, plus the nice weather alhamdulillah making our journey to the top much easier than I could imagine. Frankly speaking, I was so nervous the day before I could hardly sleep well. Anyway, praise be to Him for our safe journey and the climb went smoothly.

This Snowdon challenge was set up by Islamic Relief to raise money for Gaza and Haiti people. Every participant must collect a minimum amount of money and all proceeds go to charity insyaAllah may Allah help them to ease their sufferings. I would like to thank for all donations given, also for continuous support and du'aas. May Allah bless you and your family.

Now, let's see the photos! =)




It was truly a great experience indeed! ^_^ I'll definitely will do this again in some other time insyaAllah. Anyone wants to join me?? And let's do our bits to help other people around the world.

Thursday 4 February 2010

Hubb fillah

Hubb = cinta? kaseh? sayang? rindu?
What do you think??

for me as simple as L.O.V.E. (in my very own version) ;P
L is for lavish
O is for only
V is for valuable
E is for essential

Lavish means to expend or give in great amounts or without limit aka abundance/excessive. If we love so much towards somebody or something, we will do our best to please the person with the 'lavish of affection' while 'lavish of his/her time' for the favourite activity that she/he love. The same scenario applies if we truly love Allah, we will do whatever He asked us to do and without any doubt, obey Him in order to please Him.

Only here means solely and exclusively. So love will be a unique kind of feeling that cannot be described by few words and is specifically for the ones that we love. Allah, Rasul, Parents, Family, friends etc only will know how much we love and care for them.

Valuable, of course! Nothing compared to Allah's love towards us, He gave us everything in this whole universe; just look around yourself, water for living, oxygen to breathe, all kinds of sources of food, and so many more and the best thing is safety in dunia wal akhirat insyaAllah. Not to mention the love that we share among us muslims, priceless! =)

Essential in life, yes it is! Without love we are nobody. Without love we would have the tendency to be heartless and inhumane towards others. Even animals can show their affection towards their own offsprings especially the mammals. Believe it or not, with love we can create a more peaceful world insyaAllah!

And...the best of all love is the grand act of Loving for the sake of Allah = Hubb fillah! (of course it must be in a halal way eg marriage, among the muhrims and sahabah of the same gender)

This what's all about, we should love anybody or anything because of Him not because the person is so beautiful/handsome and sweet/nice or the activity that we love to do is so interesting and the 'in-thing' but all must be due to Allah.

One hadith says,
" Allah shall ask on the Day of Judgement, ' Where are those who loved for the
sake of my Greatness? Today when there is no shade save Mine, I shall have them
in My Shade.'" (Sahih Muslim: Kitab al Birr wa al Silah)

What a great love, that raises a man to a position where Allah (subhanahu wa ta`ala) loves him and is pleased with him! Let's celebrate the love for the sake of Allah insyaAllah!

Salaam Ukhuwwah fillah dedicated to catarina and all my beautiful friends! ^_^


So, what's your LOVE means to you?

Monday 1 February 2010

special dedication!;)

salam wbt...
it has been a long time since i last contacted u h5!how r u dearie??^^ we seem to be very busy with our own 'dunya' business!but i do hope we r also busy in doing things to get into jannah!!=(

anyway, i wish to dedicate this song specially 4 u with the message "i'm missing u so much!May Allah gives u strenght in every difficulties!!amin...uhibbukifillah ukhti!!=)"



Miley Cyrus-The Climb!
I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith