Crying inside

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Salam.

I've just found a couple of CDs while doing a major spring cleaning in my room, few days back. It's a talk of some of the representatives of Islamic society revealing about murtad cases in Malaysia. It's not that I was purely shocked about it, because I've read most of the stories through e-mails and all, only that in the video, they have proofs, but some of the important points that were presented really caught my attention.

Like when the ustaz said that Christians will and forever will destroy Muslims in any way. Even if we don't directly convert to Christian (Nauzubillah), they'll find ways to make sure that we will follow their way of life. Their style. Their orders. Astaghfirullahalazim. This is really happening. It is so true.

So are we really doing that?

One of the many things said by the ustaz really stucked in my mind till now. I can't believe it but it's so true. Without us realizing, we are following the Christians in one of the many chores in our daily lives. I'll extract some of what he said in the talk. We just celebrated the new year, 2010. Everybody is happy about it. New year, new you, new me. Some like you celebrate it with friends, watching fireworks, having fun. Some like me, just stay at home, going through it like any other day, lying around. As for Muslims, we have the Islamic calendar. Of course, most of us know that it counts the days since the Hijrah of muslims from Mekah to Madinah. We just celebrated the 'new year' in Islam, Awal Muharram on the 1st of Muharram, 1431 AH (after hijrah). It is on the same day as 17 December 2009 AD (anno domini)... What's that? For those of you who're still curious, anno domini means since the birth of Jesus. So all this while we've been celebrating another year of the birth of Jesus? Astaghfirullahalazim. I was unsure of whether I should or should not post this entry but I just feel like this is something that need to be told. Need to be reminded. At least to my generation so that we could teach the next ones with more important Islamic knowledge. Not just about covering up from head to toe for the ladies. And be a responsible leader in the family for the men. Never mind our ignorance and lack of Islamic education, but please do not destroy our children's lives. We want to be successful not only in this world, but also in the hereafter.

There are also many articles and materials being distributed widely to the public which look like the Islamic kitab, written in arabic language/jawi writing, but are full with trash and lies of the Christians. Sad to say, they even imitated Al-Quranul Karim, by inserting 5 false surah in it. The ones in arabic sounded almost exactly like the other ayat, but when I heard the translations, Nauzubillahi min zalik. May Allah protect us from that!

Please note that I'm writing this post to encourage all the muslims especially the young generations to start strengthening our faith and iman. Please do not forget the 5 principles and 6 iman. It may look easy and we could all memorize all of them, but do you really understand each one? Qada' & Qadar. Do you know what it means? Believe in Qada' & Qadar means to believe that whatever happens is by the will of Allah. But how many times we always blame the situation when things go wrong? How many times have we questioned God for why we're not achieving what we're praying for? How many times have we cried and asked for our loss to be returned? Astaghfirullahalazim. How dare we question Allah. How dare we ask for a return. What have we actually done or given to Allah to show that we are just a very super tiny creature created by Allah?

There are so many other things that really touched my heart after listening about how weak the muslims are nowadays. Are we that helpless till the enemies could attack us from whichever point they prefer?

I, myself, have experienced where a group of Christians, knocked at my door, searching for students' houses to spread Allah-knows-what. They are targeting students. Regardless of their beliefs! It was 7-ish in the evening. Maghrib. And, mind you, my house is situated exactly in front of the masjid. They do not care, they will just do whatever to destroy us. Don't let them. Be strong. Have faith. Remember Allah. Do not forget.

Insya Allah. God willing.

So, you're still enjoying your 2010?

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.