Salam and hello all. Just a short entry from me to say my condolences for the death of one talented artist, Michael Jackson or his Islam name, Mikael Jibril. Please correct me if I got this information wrongly. I have watched news on television tonight and his brother’s statement about Michael Jackson’s death somehow at the end likely said, Michael Jackson had already a Muslim before his death. After I’m asking some feedback from my friends on Twitter, I got some verifications about this and some of them have responded positively, Michael Jackson is already a Muslim. Hence, Al-Fatihah to him.

I’m not a big fan of Michael Jackson, but I’ve listened his song before and I like some of his songs. Even though I can’t remember the song’s titles even one.

UPDATE! Michael Jackson (Mikaeel Jibril) is already a Muslim before his death. Here are some sources that prove he is a Muslim.

• Daily Mail
• The Sun
• The News.Com
• News 24.Com

Source: Wikipedia

Credit to Kujie2.com for providing these links.

p/s: Twitter has crowded with so many tweets about Michael Jackson’s death and somehow even Google has slowed down because of too many search from over the globe about his death. Read more here.
p/p/s: Don’t question why he died unexpectedly because death is naturely unpredictable and we as human must always be ready for it. Every day, hour, minute and second. When HE wants us back to HIM, HE just do it as HE has planned.
p/p/p/s: One of this blog reader has left a comment here about some rumors regarding the death of Michael Jackson, but the link is broken. May you please repost the link?

Salam and hello all. If you watch Buletin Utama on TV3 in these few days, you might noticed that the current hot news now is not about isu penceraian Norman Hakim and Abby Abadi but about the video called Sajak Kematian that has been showed to a group of primary school students. Honestly, I already watched this video about months ago when my mom found it on Youtube. My youngest brother of me who currently in standard 4 also has watched this video. Although my youngest brother can accept such video positively, but for other kids especially primary school students, we can’t do the assumption that they can accept it. What I just want to highlight is, this kind of video should be reconsider to be presented to primary school students. Why I’m saying that? Here are some of my personal points of view regarding the effects of showing this kind of video to a young student:

• They are still young and might be can’t accept such video.
• This kind of video for me is not suitable for them as according to the news it cause the student live in scared. Its not because they scared to do bad things but scared of ‘something’ that showed in the video.
• There’s another way of teaching them to be a good person. This kind of way of teaching from my personal view is not suitable for them; teachers should use another effective method that can come out with more good result, not causing them to live in scared.

You can watch the video above and judge it by yourself either its suitable or not for primary school students. I know teachers did this to teach the students to be a good people and to prevent social problems that currently going worst now, but this kind of method is not suitable for a primary school student. I’ll agree if this method applied to secondary school students since they are matured enough and maybe their level of acceptance can help them to understand better what the video trying to deliver compare to primary school students. Have me hear some of your words regarding this issue by drop your comment below.

p/s: Prevention is better than cure but is this kind of prevention is effective?

Salam.
Tadi selepas habis solat terawih, saya surf beberapa blog dan terjumpa la blog Aisaralex. Apa yang begitu menarik minat saya ialah post terkini oleh blogger tersebut mengenai kalimah Allah di kaki langit Putrajaya. Untuk pengetahuan semua, semua shot gambar ni diambil ketika berlangsungnya Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2007 (MIFC07). Saya ada pergi tengok jugak firework tu pada malam akhir iaitu malam Grand Finale competition tersebut. Walaumacamanapun, shot ini diambil sebelum malam akhir tersebut, malam akhir ialah pada 2 September manakala shot ini diambil pada 18 August. So,untuk kisah lagi lanjut kalo korang nak baca, boleh rujuk disini. Saya cadangkan anda baca kisah disebalik waktu gambar ini diambil.

shot ini diambil pada jam 8:57pm

ini diambil pada jam 8:58pm
ini pula diambil pada jam 8:59pm

Terpulang kepada diri anda untuk mempercayai mata anugerah Allah kepada anda. Sesungguhnya Allah itu Maha Besar dan Maha Mengetahui Segalanya. Subhanallah.

This is a story for Muslim readers..
An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Qur’an.
His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa,I try to read the Qur’an just like you but I don’t understand it,and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Qur’an do?”The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home.Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.The old man said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water.You’re just not trying hard enough,”and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.
At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty.Out of breath, he said, “See Grandpa, it’s useless!”
“So you think it is useless?” The oldman said, “Look at the basket.”The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.
“Son, that’s what happens when you read the Qur’an.You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will bechanged, inside and out. That is the work of Allah in our lives.”
Jazakallahukhairankathira….
“It is better to try and fail, than not try at all”