Alhamdulillah.. I finally have time to update this blog =)
One week have been past after Monash opened again. For this semester, one of my core subject is Laboratory and Workplace Management (SCI3716). The subject's name sounds bored right? Well, I like the lecturer for this subject, Prof Chow, because he is a great scientist with a lot of experience and scientific knowledge loaded in his brain. So, his one hour lecture was actually full with sharing of his experience and knowledge while went through all the lecture slides.
But, many of my friends do not like him.. mainly because his tone during lecturing was not attracting people to listen at all.
Anyway, the first topic in this subject is about Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). Under this topic we learned that there are so many acts, regulations, codes and standards have been created to protect people from any hazards that potentially encountered. Moreover, under OHS, everyone has duty of care on everyone else around him/her.
However, all of these are not the promising to a decrease number of accidents or dangerous occurrences unless we put an enforcement on people to force them to follow the rules that have been setting up to protect them. Like in Europe, camera were placed on satellite in outer space to observe people on road and once people break the road rules, they are definitely able to be caught by the policeman. Malaysia do not have this kind of enforcement and this might be one reason why we have a numerous number of accident occur everyday.
Argghh!! so complicated isn't it? Need to think how to avoid potential dangerous and then after you have listed a number of precautions steps, you need to think how to make people follow the steps to avoid the potential dangerous! It is just like "pi mai pi mai tang tu"!
I just think if we apply islam fully in our life, we do not have to encounter all sort of problems like these. This is because Allah already asked us to care about others, to avoid ourselves from any potential hazards, to follow the instructions from our leader as long as his commands are not against Allah's rules. So, everything in OHS have been completely cover in islam, am I right?
p/s: Dai'e is the most caring person. They try hard to protect us from the most dangerous thing that waiting for us in akhirah!
New semester begins today and so I start to attend my lecture as scheduled. My first and the only lecture for today was at noon just now. As a routine in student's life, I attended it without any feeling, neither excited to start my last semester in Monash nor sad as my long holiday has ended.
But, after a while listening to the lecture, the lecturer said ".. in this subject, you will learn about the application of biotechnology..". I suddenly felt excited to go through this subject. May be because I hate to just learning theories and then don't know when and how to use them in real life. I just hate the fact that I just need to pick all the theories given during lectures and then put them back on my assignment and exam sheets to pass the subject. What I want is to apply what I know so that I know what I know!
I know the laboratory sessions that I have for almost all of my subjects were created for student to apply the theories they learn in class. But I just found that this system didn't work well for myself. Maybe because in laboratory, every sources are limited so that we cannot make any mistake. This give me pressure because as someone who just learn about the thing, of course making mistake is normal. The pressure prevents me to relate what I did in lab with those theories in class. Even though after a mistake, that is not the end of your life as you can explain the mistake in your report and there is where you learn both theory and reality. But, I think it is better if we have the chance to repeat again. I think I will learn more this way. To make thing worse, there are always a lot theory that were not covered during the lab session. Huh!
However, I know there are so many obstacles to make a system that fit with everyone. Even the lecturer I mentioned also said that the students will do a project where one mistake will cause everything goes wrong. Well, human-created system always has so many flaws.. especially when the system was created without basing on Al-Quran and As-Sunnah. Now I wonder how was the education system during Abbasiyah period, a period when there were so many amazingly excellent, educated and talented people were produced.
And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you. AndWe did not make the qiblah which you used to face except that We might make evident who would follow the Messenger from who would turn back on his heels. And indeed, it is difficult except for those whom Allah has guided.And never would Allah have caused you to lose your faith. Indeed Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
... and We did not appoint, make, the direction, for you now, the direction, you were facing, that is the Ka‘ba: the Prophet (s) used to face it in prayer, but when he emigrated he was commanded to face the Holy House [of Jerusalem], in order to win the hearts of the Jews.He prayed in this direction for sixteen or seventeen months before he changed direction;except that We might know, [that it become] manifest knowledge, who followed the Messenger, and believed in him, from him who turned on his heels, and returned to unbeliefdoubting the religion and thinking that the Prophet (s) was confused about this issue; and a number of them apostatised as a result of this— though it,the change of direction, were (wa-in, ‘though’, is softened, and its noun apocopated, originally being: wa-innahā)a grave thing, troublesome for people, save for those, of them, whom God has guided;but God would never cause your faith, that is, your prayers towards the Holy House [of Jerusalem], to be wasted, but He will reward you for them(the reason that this [verse] was revealed was that some had asked about the status of those that had died before the change of direction [of prayer]); truly, God is Gentle with, believing, people, Merciful, when He does not let their deeds go to waste (al-ra’fa means ‘intensity of mercy’, and is mentioned first to allow for the end rhyme of the verse [with the preceding one]).
Al-Baqarah, 2: 216
Meaning
Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.
I was with Atiqah, stood up near to BSN atm in Sunway Pyramid withdrawing money.
We were going to do shopping!
I was so happy and excited, because I have suffered for a week due to lack of stuff at home. Plus, hanging out with friend is just something that I love to do.
Then I just felt like to check my phone.. O, I've got two new text messages.
One from Auni. Another from Suekecik.
Same information.
"Acapkali dh xde.alfatihah"
I was shock. Atiqah too.
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He was not a friend that close to me.
I even can't be sure whether or not we have talked to each other.
But still the message was enough to get rid the mood to shop.
It is just unbelievable.
He died at a very young age. And he even 1 year younger than me.
But that is the fact.
Allah just used an extremely small organism, a bacterium, to be the reason of his death. He was infected by a spirochaete bacterium called leptospira spp. that destroyed his body and finally killed him in just about a week.
Allahuakbar!
They said young people are strong.
They said humankind are the greatest creation.
But indeed, we are so weak in front of our god, Allah.
We can't go against Allah's will.
We can't resist our fate.
We can't escape from death.
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The breath that I still have now, I never know when it will stop.
What I know is that Allah still give me time.
Time to choose between two ways of life.
One is headed to the heaven and another one to the hell
And Allah have described about both ways
clear and complete
in Al-Quran and As-Sunnah
The breath that I still have now, I never know when it will stop.
What I know is that it will be at anytime.
Thus, I should not waste anymore time
So that I won't regret it later
When Allah show me the record of my deeds
AL-HAQQAH, 69: 18-31
Meaning That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: On that day you will be exposed, before the Reckoning. No hidden thing of yours, in the way of secrets, will remain hidden.
Meaning
So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here, read my record!
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: As for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say, addressing those around him, on account of the joy that has come to him: ‘Here, take [and], read my book!.
Meaning
Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account." Tafsir al-Jalalayn: I was truly certain that I would encounter my account’.
Meaning
So he will be in a pleasant life Tafsir al-Jalalayn: So he will enjoy a pleasant living,
Meaning
In an elevated garden, Tafsir al-Jalalayn: in a lofty Garden,
Meaning
Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: whose clusters, whose fruits, are in easy reach, nearby, reached [easily] by one who may be standing, or sitting or reclining.
Meaning
[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth in the days past." Tafsir al-Jalalayn: And so it will be said to them: ‘Eat and drink in enjoyment (hanī’an is a circumstantial qualifier, that is to say, mutahanni’īna, ‘while you are enjoying [them]’) for what you did in advance in former days’, [in days] that have passed during the [life of the] world.
Meaning
But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record Tafsir al-Jalalayn: But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he will say, ‘O (yā is for calling attention [to something]) would that I had not been given my book,
Meaning
And had not known what is my account. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: and not known what my account were!
Meaning
I wish my death had been the decisive one. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: O would that it, namely, death in [the life of] this world, had been the [final] end, that had terminated my life, so that I am not resurrected.
Meaning
My wealth has not availed me. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: My wealth has not availed me.
Meaning
Gone from me is my authority." Tafsir al-Jalalayn: My authority, my strength, my argument, has gone from me’.
Meaning
[ Allah will say], "Seize him and shackle him. Tafsir al-Jalalayn: ‘Seize him — addressing the keepers of Hell — then fetter him, bind his hands to his necks in fetters,
Meaning
Then into Hellfire drive him. Tafsir al-Jalalayn:then admit him into Hell-fire, into the scorching Fire,
Meaning
Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him." Tafsir al-Jalalayn: then in a chain whose length is seventy cubits — [each cubit being] that of an angel’s forearm — insert him, after admitting him into the Fire (the fā’ [of fa’slukūhu] does not prevent the verb from being semantically connected to the preceding adverbial clause).
But both told us that time keeps moving on and on.
And keeps being closer to our death!
p/s: may Allah bless all of you ~my atuk, my embah, my nenek, my ayah ngah, my mak yong, my tuk sani, my tuk wan, and my friend afif asyraf (acapkali)~ Al-Fatihah..
