"with difficulty, comes ease"

I've seen so much 

of others' sufferings
they're just all around me

some

hit me at the core

while others

just made me think

and appreciate what I have

We are all tested 

in the way we could cope

we are all tested 

to make us stronger than before

some with deaths

some with robbery

and others with ways

we sometimes couldn't have thought of 

snowfall for instance

is a blessing to most 

but to some others 

it just another sign of grief

there's always blessings in disguise

we just have to change the way we see things

there are many angles to see it from

lets see it positively

and believe

good things will happen afterwards 

"with difficulty, comes ease"

lintasan iman

Pernah tak kita terfikir

Kenapa pada masa kita susah,

waktu hampir dengan peperiksaan

Kita lebih mudah untuk dekat dengan Allah?

Kenapa pada hari-hari biasa

kita liat sangat nak bangun qiam

untuk baca Quran satu muka pun payah

susah sangat nak istiqamah solat sunat?

nikmat dalam kesusahan

musibah dalam kesenangan

hanya kita boleh jawab persoalan itu. 

musim pentarbiyahan

disebalik kesusahan

ada kesenangan

tika ditenggelami tugasan

emosi tak terkawal

makan tak terjaga

namun amal terpelihara

untung hidup

bukan untuk sendirian

ada sahabat saling mendoakan

ada yang datang untuk memberi

ada pula pendorong semangat

juga tak lupa yang memperingatkan

jangan hanya ketika sibuk

baru amalan terkehadapan

jangan hanya ketika sedih

baru lama mendekati Tuhan

kesukaran itu tarbiyyah

kesenangan itu tarbiyyah

adakah kita akan sabar

atau sebaliknya?

Tunisian nasyeed

A beautiful nasheed sung by a young Tunisian brother in on live TV. The lyrics of the poem are as follows:

The first thing I'll start my words with saying is Bismillah;

I'll start with the kalima of tahweed: La ilaaha illa Allah.

We'll start by sending blessings on As Sadiq, Al Amin (Rasool Allah);

We'll start by sending blessings on the best of the Messengers. 

Listen to me, my brother, so that I may tell you a story;

I am a Tunisian Arab and my deen is Islam.

You told me I was ignorant; you told me I was backward;

You told me I was an oppressor, that I was an "ikhwani"!

Can you now tell me what is my fault?

For keeping the Qur'an and sunnah as a guide between my eyes?

You like to propagate the "modern Islam"; 

the Islam of sagging trousers and the Islam of miniskirts. 

55 years we lived under a secular regime!

You killed, stole and looted; and kept the people in suffering.

I am a Sunni Muslim; not a Jew or a Christian;

So do not tell me that tale about "separating politics" from my religion!

One word that we have said is that the Qur'an is our constitution; 

One word that we have said is that the Prophet is our role model;

One word that we have said is that the way of the Salaf is our way; 

One word that we have said is that the return of the Khilafah is a promise of Allah!

Talib al Habib -- Song of the Wayfarer Album -- Caravanserai

"You cannot Worship until you Love

You cannot Love until you Feel

You cannot Feel until you Understand

You can’t Understand until you Learn

You cannot Learn until you have been found

Can’t be found until you seek

You will not seek nor find until you yearn

And you will not yearn until you Remember

So remember La ilaha il Allah

Allahu… Allahu…"

pesanan buat adikku ain

Hati kita 
umpama sebendang tanah bendang.

Kebaikan yang kita semai dalam diri 

umpama kita menyemai benih padi. 

Manakala kejahatan yang timbul dalam hati 

umpama lalang yang tumbuh melata. 

Jika kita semai padi, 

lalang tetap akan tumbuh. 

Tapi, jika biar lalang tumbuh melata, 

padi tak akan tersemai dengan sendirinya. 

Begitulah hati kita. 

Jika kita tak didik dengan kebaikan,

kejahatan akan bermaharajalela dengan berleluasa. 

Tapi,

jika kita didik hati kita dengan kebaikan, 

kejahatan tetap akan ada juga, 

namun, 

kita akan boleh kawal ia.

:)


quoted from fb

in search for barakah

it gets busier and busier

hectic term for final students just started

again, i find it hard to balance myself

studies, da'wah and my own

time is pleasure

time is luxury

time is worth ticking

if only i know to prioritise

and to use it wise

two things come at once

and i need to choose

da'wah over studies 

or the other way round

sometimes you can neither choose

nor let one's behind

but to work around it 

i seek for forgiveness
for not doing it right sometimes