Salam to all,

Agak lama jgk aku x update blog ni.Ingat nk ‘shutdown’ dah sb xdak idea nk tulis apa.kalau setakat copy paste bleh ja go on tapi malula if selalu sangat.So what is my decision?hm I think I should proceed with this blog.aku teringat satu hadith nabi saw yang bermaksud orang(muslim) yang terbaik ialah orang yang paling banyak bagi manfaat dekat orang lain.

Tersentuh jugak aku dengan hadith ni,sapa xmau jadi orang yang terbaik yang dikatakan nabi kita kan.so after doing some muhasabah aku tertanya2 apa yang aku tengah or dah buat untuk Islam?apa yang aku buat supaya orang boleh faham Islam dengan lebih jelas?Apa sumbangan aku sebagai orang yang faham serba sikit pasai Islam dekat member2 aku yang kebanyakkannya orang2 yang x berapa faham/ menghayati Islam?

Hm…susah jgk nk jawab 2…so aku rasa melalui blog nila aku boleh share serba sikit apa yang aku dapat melalui buku2 yang aku baca, usrah, kuliah2 yang aku p dan lain2 insyaallah. Soryla aku terlambat sedar yang Islam 2 bukan untuk sorang2 ja tapi untuk dishare dengan semua.Harap Allah bagi aku kekuatan untuk istiqamah dalam usaha yang kecik ni.

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason,the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work. The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.

"Congratulations," the boss said. "Go on that way!" Very motivated for the boss' words, the woodcutter try harder the next day,but he only could bring 15 trees. The third day he try even harder, but he only could bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.

"I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

"When was the last time you sharpened your axe?" the boss asked. "Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees."

Dear friends, our lives are like that. We always get so busy that we don't take time to sharpen the axe." In today's world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less happy than ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay sharp?

There's nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But God doesn't want us to get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like taking time to pray, read,play and 'lepak2' with our friends etc.

If we don't take time to sharpen the axe, we will become dull and lose our effectiveness. So start today. Think about the ways by which we could do our job more effectively and add a lot of value to it.

The story was taking from islamicinformation.net

Dear friends and visitors,

Here I want to share with you about a very famous word or term for those who always care about the Islamic world and the ‘Islamophobia’ phenomenon in the western world specifically which is ‘JIHAD’. A lot of people had been misunderstood or maybe has used (manipulate) the term ‘Jihad’ to spread the ‘propaganda’ or the bad image of Islam throughout this world…

Jihad is almost always wrongly translated as "Holy War." The Arabic word Jihad actually means "to struggle" or "to exert one's utmost."

In the context of the Quran, Jihad means the struggle for good against all evil. This struggle also includes the suppression of the lower self in order to reach a state of higher God-consciousness that leads to a pure soul.

Jihad can take place in many forms, including speaking out against injustice or spending your wealth in the cause of public good, such as alleviating poverty. Jihad does also include armed struggle, which at times becomes necessary in order to protect the weak and to establish freedom of religion. (Jihad in the context of armed struggle is known as Qital.)

Critics of the Quran love to quote passages such as (9:5) of the Quran, which calls for taking up arms against those who assign partners with God. Most often, these critics fail to recognize the context of such passages. Cutting and pasting verses out of their context to lend credence to an argument clouds the more important overall picture.

All verses in the Quran that deal with armed struggle advocate the use of force only for self-defense in the widest sense possible, such as freeing the oppressed and establishing the freedom of worship.

The Scripture clearly says that fighting in the path of God does not include converting people by the sword. The Quran emphatically declares, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256).

All legitimate scholars recognize this essential ethic as one that Muslims must abide by, even during times of war.

i hope this can give you some ideas about what Jihad really means in Islamic perspective...