Mereka di sini...

Alhamdulillah, tadi selamat menghantar mereka balik.. setelah 22 hari bersama mereka di sini.. di bumi UK milik Allah ini..

Menangis tak? Huhu.. semestinya.. air mate deras mengalir sepanjang perjalanan bas dari standsted airport ke victoria station yang mengambil mase kurang lebih 1 jam 35 minit. Namun, tangis saya bukanlah hanya kerana perpisahan kami.. kerana perpisahan adalah rakan kepada pertemuan.. dan.. Alhamdulillah..saya hampir agak masak dengannya..

Lantas, apa yang saya tangiskan?

tangis saya kali ini lebih kepada suatu perasa keharuan.. Perasan Keharuan yang amat sangat pada DIA Yang Maha Baik... DIA yang telah memenuhi hajat saya untuk melepaskan rindu pada ibu dan adik yang amat disayangi kerana-Nya... DIA yang telah mengizinkan segalanya berjalan dengan baik sekali... dari Plymouth, ke Scotland, dan akhirnya di London...kami dapat bersama.. DIA yang mengizinkan setiap memori indah yang tercipta...

Subhanallah.. Maha Suci Allah... Alhamdulillah.. segala puji bagi Allah.. Allahuakbar.. Allah yang Maha Besar..

'Maka nikmat Tuhan kamu yang manakan yang kamu dustakan?'

Ayat ini membuat air mata keharuan lebih deras mengalir... Ya Allah.. bantulah aku untuk menjadi hamba-Mu yang bersyukur....

Sebagai sedikit perkongsian.. saya titipkan gambar-gambar mereka sepanjang kebersamaan kami di sini... Semoga anda juga dapat membayangkan betapa Allah Maha Baik kepada hamba hinanya yang seorang ini....

Ibu tercinta dan Adik tersayang di 'the Hoe', Plymouth, England

Ibu tercinta dan Adik tersayang di Lands End, Cornwall, England

Ibu tercinta dan Adik tersayang di Cairngorm Mountain, Aviemore, Scotland

Ibu tercinta dan Adik tersayang di Edinburgh City, Scotland

Ibu tercinta dan adik tersayang di depan Buckingham Palace, London, England

Ibu tercinta dan Adik tersayang di London City, England

Adik dengan minatnya pada Chelsea

Adik, saya dan Pakcu sekeluarga (Ibu yang ambik gambar)

Tidak tergambar perasaanku sepanjang bersama dengan mereka.. meskipun penat fizikal.. tapi hati saya bahagia.. gembira dan ceria.... sepanjang 22 hari itu.. Alhamdulillah....

Untuk yang tak dapat bersama kali ini.. iaitu abangku yang telah sibuk kerja dan adik perempuanku yang kini di bumi Urdun; tak apa.. ntuma tetap di hati, di bibir dan di dalam doa kami sepanjang musafir kami di sini.... sebagai tanda ingatan....



Doaku setiap masa;

'Ya Allah.. Jadikanlah kami satu usrah (keluarga) di dunia, dan juga satu usrah di akhirat sana..'

With Lots of Love and Care;

Servant

Andalus Kita..

Salam kasih buat semua pengunjung. Di sini, saya sertakan sedikit perkongsian dikala hati teringatkan kenangan di sana.. di bumi Andalus.. tanah tempat Empayar kita pernah berdiri megah..

Ketika ini, saya amat teringat pada perasaan ketika tiba di sana, benar-benar seakan tiba dikampung sendiri.. tidak ada rasa kekok.. tidak ada rasa tak selamat.. dari England kami bertandang ke bumi itu, tpi, Alhamdulillah segalanya mudah..segalanya baik... Dan pulangnya kami, seakan tanpa hati.. kerana hati kami tertinggal di sana.. di bumi Andalus kita.. bumi kita yang diambil kembali..

Sungguh, memahami sejarahnya..membantu saya memahami kondisi palestina saat ini.. wallahua'lam... selamat menatap dan membaca!

Megah bendera mereka di bumi Andalus itu..

Berhala mereka di dalam masjid kita..

Inilah yang tinggal menjadi kenangan kita


Rindu masjid?
Ini bukanlah masjid kita.. ini gereja mereka..



Inilah mereka punya dalam AL-Hambra kita..



ANDALUS KITA

Hati nurani yang suci menangis
dirundung rasa sedih
seperti orang yang dilanda cinta
menangisi pemergian sang kekasih

Menangisi rumah-rumah yang kering
dari siraman kedamaian Islam
sementara kekafiran tumbuh dengan subur

Masjid-masjid yang megah dan anggun
berubah menjadi gereja-gereja tua yang kosong
kecuali hanya loceng dan lambang salib
sebagai tuannya

Mihrab-mihrabpun
benda mati yang tak bergerak
turut menangis
demikian juga mimbar-mimbar
yang hanya berupa bongkahan kayu
meratap merindukannya

-Abul Biqai Al-Barmadi-
dipetik dari buku Kebangkitan Islam di Andalus
oleh Ahmad Mahmud Himayah

ANDALUS adalah 'BINTANG yang JATUH' dari DAULAH ISLAM

-Ahmad Mahmud Himayah-

No one knows no one expects

It is 1 o’clock in the morning.

But, everyone is still busy doing something. Some of them are doing the housekeeping tasks, some are cooking and some are altering their clothes. Everyone is preparing for tomorrow, the day of joy, Eidulfitri.

Suddenly, ‘Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.’

Everyone stops working and remain silent. ‘Who’s that? It’s terribly late already!’ said one of them.

‘Shh…Just remain silent!’ whispered her mate, who is also the house leader.

Everyone feels afraid, thinking who is the person ringing the bell at this time.

Suddenly, ‘Bum, bum, bum, bum!’ somebody knocks roughly the door as if he or she wants to destroy it for good. ‘Who’s inside? Open the door!’ a shouting man’s voice is heard from outside

‘O my God, who’s that? I’m scared!’ cries one of them. Everyone runs in scattered to find places to hide, except one person, the house leader.

‘Bum, bum, bum, bum!’ the door is knocked again.

The house leader comes closer to the door.

‘Don’t, sister!’ cries one of her mates, from her hiding place.

‘It’s okay, dear. Don’t panic. You guys just remain silent!’

Then, she gets to the door closer, and says, ‘Okay, okay, I’ll open it! But, who’s that?’

‘How many of you, inside?’ asked the man.

‘What? He supposed to answer the question, not asking back!’ said one of the mates while hiding.

‘We are 8,’ the leader tells the man.

‘Hey, wait.. Why she answers it. This is so dangerous! We don’t even know who is he,’ murmured one of them, again.

‘Relax, relax. She must know why.. she’s been here so long, dear.’ claims one of them.

‘All are ladies or all are gents?’ asked the main again.

‘We are all ladies,’ said the leader.

‘Okay, open the door. Please be faster!’ asked the man.

Before her mates could say anything, she already opens the door, but only a little bit, just enough for a hand of a man to give out some money through it.

‘What?’ all the members of the house are terribly astonished.

‘Thank you, thank you very much,’ the leader said to the man, from the back of the door.

Then, without any word, the man goes away.

As everyone comes out from their hiding places, they find their house leader is smiling so happily.

‘It’s 1000 syrian pound each!’ said her.

No other words from them, but,

‘Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allahuakbar! May Allah bless him!’

'Maryam, that's how syrian do their charity. No one knows no one expects.' the leader said especially to me. Every one smiles.

the street to Bait Qurratul Ain

in front of Bait Qurratul Ain

After a month of meaningful absences

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi wa Barakatuh...

Peace, respect and love greeting for all.. (especially to my dearest friends and readers).

Thanks a lot guys for keep visiting this page all along my absence.. He who knows how much I miss you guys and this site.. and He who knows how much I am eager and excited to share with all of you what have i had all along the last blissful Ramadhan 1430 H. Really, really, really wanna share with you guys most of the things I got there....

Subhanallah, Alhmadulillah, Allahu Akbar..

Insya-allah, with HIS bless, love and strength.. I'll be able to...

But, because.. right now.. I'm still on my way to the place where I should be (plymouth, of course).. so... for the first updates.. here are some pics of me there.... Well, i definitely can share with all of you.. because.. guess what??

Cause I was fully covered...!

Here you are...

at Jami' Umawi Sahah
(the forth most blissful masjeed after the best three)

at Sultan Salahuddin Al-ayyubid's shrine
(muslims world greatest leader)
al-fatihah and prayers to him

at Manjak street during Eidul Fitri's night
(syrian loves lights and tanglung to celebrate Eid)

half way to Maqam Arba'een
(the story of these forty waliyullah is really close to the story of Ashabul kahfi)

Honestly.. because there are so many things to share.. so... i have no idea where to start.. but.. here what i can say here.. as the first sharing is.. about the pics.. where it's obviously.. I was a niqobee there... ok, right.. I 'd learnt to wear the niqob there.... after I had been dreamt to do so, so long time ago... and.. what I can say is....

It's such a pleasent to be fully covered like that..
and now..
I can say that, I disagree to those who said that Niqob stucks women... because from my personal experience... I really enjoyed to be in it..! Alhamdulillah..
and.. actually I think, Niqob makes women freer...!
Really..!
try it, you'll know it, insya-allah!

wallahua'lam...

ok, that's all of this time.. my lap top battery is low... and cyprus airport limited facilities couldn't help very much..!

ok.. c u again, insya-allah... with better written stories hopefully....

And, finally...

I'm wishing you, Eid Mubarak and Kullu A'maan wa ntum bi Khair..! ( if it's not too late to do so)

wallahua'lam.. wassalam...

With love and care,

Servant

Cyprus Airport
11.00 a.m. (cyprus time)

Me in July

salam kasih dan sayang buat semua..

Alhamdulillah, segala puji bagi Allah Yang Maha Pengasih lagi Maha Penyayang.. Yang Menghidupkan lagi Yang Mematikan.. segala puji bagi Allah atas segala ni'mat kurniaannya.. dan tentu saja ni'mat yang terbesar nilainya ialah Ni'mat Iman dan ISLAM.. Alhamdulillah...

Oleh sebab diri pernah berjanji untuk istiqomah mengupdate blog ini setiap bulan.. maka tidak dapat tidak, hari ini ialah hari terakhir untuk saya menunaikan janji saya pada diri.. Hanya pada Allah, saya mohon ampun atas kelemahan diri ini.

Baik, insya-allah, sebagai tatapan semua..hajat sekali untuk berkongsi sedikit sebanyak tentang aktiviti2 saya sepanjang bulan JULAI ini... maklum saja kerana antara alasan saya untuk tidak meng-update blog ialah untuk meninggalkan alam visual/maya buat sementara waktu dan hidup di alam nyata dan realiti.. Insya-allah, saya cuba listkan mengikut tarikhnya..

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Julai, 6 Monday

Submit the 4th written assignment.

Alhamdulillah, tugasannya tak mudah..dan tak susah.. result? Wallahua'lam.. tak terima lagi.. takut juga.. Anyway, basically, tak de ape yang menarik.. tpi, alhamdulillah, tugasan ini ialah tugasan yang paling awal saya siapkan... syukur pada ALLAH yang memudahkan.. antara asbab yang membolehkan saya siap awal ialah.. TEAM WORK! erm.. tak-tak.. PAIR-WORK!.. benar pesanan seorang pakcik pada saya sebelum berangkat; 'find your sparing partner, and you'll be able to start the kick faster, insya-allah!' Alhamdulillah, saya dah jumpe sparing-partner saya.. yang sama-sama memilik matlamat yang sama.. iaitu JIKA sudah AWAL, boleh ZIARAH orang di tempat lain! Maka, alhamdulillah.. dengan rahmat Allah, kami sudahi tugasan dengan baik dan terbaik awal daripada tarikh hantar.. Alhamdulillah.. Keputusan? Hanya kepada-Nya kami serahkan urusan... insya-allah..

Julai, 11 Saturday

College Trip to Exeter


Alhamdulillah, sampai juga saya ke Exeter! Erm.. apa istimewa tempat ni ye? Tak de ape. sangat.. cuma.. it's considered as one of the most historical places in England.. lebih kurang NOTT.. kerana tempat ni adalah tempat ROME membina empire-nya di BRITANNIA.. Pernah tau sejarah ROME di BRITANNIA? erm.. tak muat kut nak tulis di sini.. lain kali, insya-allah saya share.. tapi, tak la se-best mana.. sekadar untuk tahu dan kenal sejarah mereka.. bukan sejarah KITA.. Sebenarnya, hajat nak tengok Uni Exeter.. Allah izin, tak terjumpa pula kami.. tak pe, mudah2an Allah buka peluang untuk pergi Exeter lain kali khusus untuk ziarah Uni di sana pula..insya-allah..

Julai, 12 Sunday

College Trip to Eden Project, Cornwall

Melihat gambar di atas, di mana agaknya anda akan sangka anda berada? Di Malaysia, bukan? Erm.. anyway, SALAH..! Anda di Eden Project, di Cornwall, di England, UK... Alhamdulillah, trip kami ke tempat ini sangat best.. macam pulang ke kampung PERLIS.. Majoriti tumbuhan2 di Malaysia semua ada di sini.. Rumah kampung Malaysia pun ada.. Macam tak percaya juga mula-mula dengar berita tentang tempat ni.. tapi, itulah.. benar2 ada.. Kalau kita di Malaysia, nak merasa SALJI dan kesejukannya.. mereka di sini, nak merasa HUTAN TROPIKA dan kepanasannya..

Anyway, hutan ciptaan mereka ni, Alhamdulillah, cantik.. tapi tentu saja tak secantik HUTAN ORIGINAL ciptaan ALLAh.. tidak ada bayu sepoi yang mendamaikan.. hanya kepanasan yg ada dalam Biomes Eden Project ni.. kanak-kanak kecil tak tahan.. terus membuka baju-baju mereka.. Alhamdulillah, kami warga Malaysia ni, tentu saja dah biasa, tak de masalah.. cuma kami semakin rasa.. dekat dengan PENCIPTA kami.. yang MENCIPTA kan sesuatu dengan SEBAIK-BAIKnya... Anyway, mereka tak cipta pun tumbuhan2 tu.. mereka cuma cipta tempat yang punya suhu sesuai untuk tumbah-tumbuhan itu hidup.. tentu saja, tumbuhan2 itu hidup hanya dengan Kuasa ALLAH swt.. tidak ada daya dan upaya manusia sedikitpun melainkan ALLAH, yang MAHA SEMPURNA dan MAHA BERKUASA atas segala sesuatu..

Julai, 17-19 Friday to Sunday

Visit Nottingham

Alhamdulillah, weekend seterusnya, saya dan teman-teman Muslimah luangkan masa kami meziarahi bumi Nottingham, England. Erm, tau tak tentang Notts? Basically, di sinilah tempat bertapaknya segala sejarah England.. Berdasarkan pembacaan saya, generasi demi genarasi England Monitary Institution menabalkan raja-raja baru mereka di bumi ini.. Termasuklah, King Richard, the Lion Heart.. sapa tak tau nama ni nak kena.. Beliau yang menjadi Lawan Tentera SALAHUDDIN (semoga Allah rahmati beliau) semasa Perang Salib yang ke berapa, saya tak ingat..minta maaf.. Sezaman dengan beliau juga, ialah RObin Hood, the most famous outlaw..

All along our tour, saya sangat teringat kata-kata seorang pendidik dalam ceramahnya, 'Islam tidak berhajat melahirkan individu seperti Robin Hood, melaksanakan satu kejahatan demi kebaikan lain; kerana dalam Islam, MATLAMAT tidak menghalalkan CARA. Jika NIAT @ MATLAMAT telah BERSIH, maka JALAN-nya juga, harus BERSIH. dan Allah bersama orang-orang yang BERSIH.' Insya-allah, saya akan sentiasa berusaha jalan-jalan yang saya pilih dalam hidup saya BERSIH sejajar dengan NIAT yang bersih di hati..insya-allah..

Julai, 25 Saturday

Have fun in Woodlands, Devon


Finally, Alhamdulillah, minggu berikutnya, saya di ajak untuk sertai keluarga English yang saya baik ke Woodlands theme park. Alhamdulillah.. pengalaman yang sangat menarik. Saya berpeluang bermain bersama kanak-kanak riang yang bersih fitrahnya, Clowie, Taylor dan Laura, di samping bersembang dan berkenalan dengan lebih dekat ibu mereka, Claire. Tambahan pula, sepanjang di sana, Alhamdulillah, dengan izin-Nya, hanya saya wanita Muslimah bertudung yang wujud di sana.. maka, secara tak lansung, saya sedar bahawa terletak di bahu saya tanggungjawab menampilkan imej ISLAM dan MUSLIM sebaik mungkin pada mereka dan masyarakat sekeliling.. dan Alhamdulillah, dengan rahmat Allah, saya berjaya.

Jauh di sudut hati, setinggi kesyukuran saya panjatkan pada-Nya kerana terpilih menjadi penerima ni'mat ALLAh yang terbesar ini (ni'mat IMAN dan ISLAM ini). Ni'mat yang menjadikan hati-hati gelisah menjadi tenang.. dada-dada yang sesak menjadi lapang.. Ni'mat MENTAUHIDKAN ALLAH... Ni'mat MENGIKUTI Sunnah RASULULLAH SAW... Masya-allah, sukar diungkap.. hanya difahami oleh mereka yang turut merasakannya.... Maka, betapa ingin saya kongsi kan ni'mat ini dengan dunia dan seluruhnya.. agar dunia seluruhnya turut merasai ketenangan IMAn dan kedamaian yang dibawa ISLAM, Deen Allah itu... Insya-allah...


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Alhamdulillah.. selesai berkongsi..

Segala Puji bagi Allah yang telah memudahkan penulisan perkongsian ini.. Mohon segala kelemahan dan kekurangan.. semoga perkongsian ini bermanfaat untuk saya dan anda...

With Love and Care,

Servant

Something From ANDALUS (part 1)

Salam everyone.

Hope you and me, both are in good condition; health, mind, and of course our IMAN..Well, firstly, to be honest, I'm not good in putting things into words and words onto paper. Those seem to be among my biggest problems in life. But, of course I found that couldn't be an excuse for me from sharing with others, as our beloved Rasulullah SAW has said, 'Preach, though a sentence'. So, here I am, with whatever I can, trying to share some of the priceless experiences granted by Allah to me, His little and delicate servant throughout my Andalusia Quest with my other Muslimah friends.

What's This?

Understood?

Can you understand the above boards? huhu.. I guess no except those who know Spanish.

Well, starting from our arrival at Malaga airport on April 4 until our next departure flight returned to UK on April 8, there was one prominent thing that I felt challenging throughout my Andalus quest.. It was the Language Barrier.

As Andalusia is considered as southern part of Spain since 16th century, so their first language since that is Spanish. Most of them hardly speak other languages including English. Thus, no matter what, to survive all along our trip, we have to learn to speak Spanish. Could you imagine how difficult it is? All along my student life in UK, good in English and some Arabic phrases help me a lot to survive being here.. If I get lost in the City, at least the language used in sign boards can direct me to home.. But in Spain, things were different. We had to survive two things in a time; being in a real new place and environment with a completely unfamiliar language (Spanish). We had lost so many times, and of course we hardly found way to home or to the place we want to visit because of the language barrier. Reffering to the signs just make us more confuse.. Thus, as the mastermind for this trip, I seemed to be the person who mostly forced to interact and use Spanish with the locals especially to ask them help for directions. To do so, I had to keep referring to the book bought by Husna (Easy Spanish Phrases) each time I wanted to talk to them. Oh, that’s of course not easy! Well, talking or asking them using Spanish is one thing, and trying to understand their answer in Spanish is another thing..! The most often I did while interacting with them were smiling and nodding to the speakers, and said 'Muchas Gracias!' .. that's sort of pretending to understand their words though often I totally wasn’t or sometimes merely a little bit! That’s funny, isn’t it? Yet, what else we can do..

Nevertheless, Alhamdulillah, I salute most Andalus people for their kindness, hospitality and helpfulness. Knowing that we couldn’t understand their language, Andalus people used various ways to help us. Often, they used body languages. Some of them drew maps or pictures on papers. There were times where they themselves brought us to the place we had asked them; in Granda, a Muslim old lady herself brought us to the At-Taqwa Mezquitta while in Cordova, a non-Muslim old man himself brought us to our hostel. Aren't they really nice to do such helps? But, the best of all was when they brought us to those who can speak English!

Well, this experience wasn’t really bad at all. It’s truely challenging, but it’s very precious and of course unforgettable one. Especially to me.. as I love to talk and to know people around me.. So, being in such condition sort of hindering me to be the Real Me. However, Alhamdulillah from zero knowledge I seemed to be gradually familiar to Spanish, which I consider a really good asset.

Well, I really thank Allah for His Mercy for giving me this precious experience. Having language barrier as one of difficulties in our journey made me really pondered and wondered how much other language that I didn’t know in this world! I felt tiny, delicate and powerless. We are no body in this huge wide world. Merely because of LANGUAGE differences, we can turn from being somebody in one condition to a nobody in other conditions... I believe, how smart a person is, there will be no human who able to master ALL the languages in this whole world. This shows Allah’s infinite Greatness.. I reflect one of the Quran verses that always being repeated by my mum when I was little, which means;

“and if all the trees and plants in the earth are turned to be the pens; and if the seas and oceans (are turned to be the inks), and another seven seas and oceans will be added as they have all dried, yet the words of ALLAH (knowledge of Allah) will never ever able to be all written. Indeed, Allah is the Most Powerful and the Most Brilliant.”
(Luqman, 27)

Truly, before this I did understand the phase meaning of this verse.. but, I couldn’t really feel it within my heart.. But, now.. Alhamdulillah.. with Allah’s love and guidance.. I gradually build the real feeling and understanding of this ayat..

ALLAH is the GREATEST and MOST BRILLIANT EVER..

we are really NOBODY to compare with HIM and what more to go against HIM… So, come on..WAKE UP..! Don't be such arrogant...! Let’s realize HOW much small and fragile we are as a servant and as a creation... and HOW GREAT and AL-MIGHTY ALLAH as the CREATOR and as the OWNER...! Let's notice that how ALLAH does not need us at anytime, but We do need HIM all the time..

Erm.. i think that's for now.. Hopefully you'll get something from this.. I'm nobody to tell you all this.... I'm just sharing what ever ALLAH has granted me... May ALLAH accepts this as a part of my good deeds in His eyes...

well, before end, here are some of the Spanish phrases that still remain in my mind.. may be it'll be usefull for you to know some of them..

Muchas Gracias ---> Thank You very much
Day na da --> you're welcome
Despenseme, Ahbla Estes English? ---> excuse me, can you speak English?
Comprendo! ---> I don't understand
Solo Habla English --> I can only speak Englishe
estes el-camino directo .... --> is this path direct to...
Por favour ---> please
Izquirda + Derecha --> left + right
Salida + Entrenda --> exit + entrance
Nueve ---> nine
Una --> one

wallahua'lam. Salamz

With Love and Care
-SERVANT-

Away

Subhanallah. It has been more than a week I haven't written anything here. Indeed, it's merely because of my fully occupied Spring/ Ester Holiday. Insya-allah, with Allah's Blessing and Help, I'll share each of precious experience gained all along my journey later. Anyway, thanks for continue visiting this simple site while I was away. Here, I would like to share some of photos snapped via my old camera lense.. Hopefully they'll help you to share some small peices of my whole journey story...

Stunning Cloud

Green Awesom Granada Moors


A part of Al-hambra

15th century Village, Al-Baycin

The first Mosque established by Local Granada Muslim after 500 years re-conquesta by the Christians