Finally, I felt what Muslims feel when they are in true prayer: a bolt of sweet harmony, a shudder of joy in which I was grateful for everything I have (my children) and secure in the certainty that I need nothing more (along with prayer) to be utterly content. I prayed in the Mesumeh shrine in Iran after ritually cleansing my forearms, face, head and feet with water. And nothing could be the same again. It was as simple as that.
Mashallah. May Allah bless her and her family.
November 2010
21 posts
October 2010
13 posts
oh its been a month since the last personal/non-reblog entry.
october was a crazyass month! hahh. where do i start.
KL shopping spree was really awesome and insanely exhausting. but it was really fun traveling and shopping and pigging out with the girls (:

back from KL and off to sentosa. hard rock hotel was such a funky hotel. the bed was ohmygoshbabyilikeitiiiiilikeit! i wanted to steal that bed and the pillows and the comforter real bad. and since i was extremely in need of sleep, i ditched my alarm, let it snooze countless of time and totally overslept. oh btw my roomie brought her daughter along. such a cutie, i wanted to bite her cheeks. eee.geram! anyways, unfortunately, the stay at the hotel was short-lived. and universal studios too. but i had fun! :D


and back from sentosa, i was.dead.beat. BUT i had to catch a flight the next morning to cambodia and packing was beyond my physical and mental capacity! oh heeeee. worldtraveller-wannabe. :P cambodia was quite an experience. love the weather there and the awesommemmeeee beef balls satay.




and then halloween came a week earlier for us. the spooktacular event in sentosa (yeah sentosa again) was pretty good. i was initially damn horrified by the ghostly screams, i just wanted to plug on my ipod and walk through the haunted house, deaf to the sounds of the ghosts. hahah. but of course. i didnt.

till next time.
cambodia, vietnam and laos in december.
and SCHOOL in jan! (:
<3
Imam Ali (a.s) (Nahjul Balagha Sermon 1)
my job has been awesome and i’ve learnt so much than i ever had. and i just loveeee the elegant fusion of science and children (:
did you know, kids shoes that come with lights and sounds are invented not just to excite kids and annoy adults? they actually do serve a functional purpose. interesting.
Truly in the heart there is a void that cannot be removed except with the company of Allah.
And in it there is a sadness that cannot be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him.
And in it there is an emptiness that cannot be filled except
with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him
And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it
would not fill this emptiness.
The thing to remember is that the better a person can manage a life as a single. The better chance that person will have of establishing a successful marriage relationship.
i don’t understand why people think that if you pray 5 times a day you’rereligious. doesn’t praying salah come right after knowing the shahada? i’ll never get why people think that praying is not even a part of Islam. like really?!!
When Ali was asked about a woman who did not pray, he replied,”The one who does not pray is an unbeliever.” Ibn Mas’ood said that the one who does not pray has no religion, and Ibn Abbas said,”The one who leaves off a single prayer will find,when he meets Allah Most High, that He is angry with him.”
you shouldn’t even think about praying salah. It’s something that we have to do, whether you may like it or not. Allah has perfected our religion for us already. you aren’t supposed to make ‘touch ups’ to have Islam according to your way.
^Ditto. A muslim not performing his/her salah is like a fish who doesn’t want to swim and wants to live on land instead. Or a bird who doesn’t want to fly and wants to live under water instead. I know my analogies suck but that’s pretty much how I see it anyway.
September 2010
35 posts
so the much awaited news came last week (: NUS has decided to offer me a place in the master prog. my hands shook so hard when i saw the email. still couldnt believe that my prayers have been answered! i really thought when i stepped out of the test venue, my chances of getting in were so slimmmm. like the legs of the girl i saw in the train yesterday. haha. but… Alhamdulillah! thanks Allah for this gift, Alhamdulillah!
If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.” —Umar [ibn al-Khattab] (may Allah be well pleased with him)