i look, i forget, i look again, i forget again, i inspect, i recite it loud, i write it down, i remember... heh!
Mawlid Nabi Kita
Banyakkanlah berselawat... sewaktu tengah duduk saja-saja, duduk relax-relax, duduk sembang-sembang, duduk makan-makan, duduk rehat-rehat, duduk tidur-tidur, duduk fikir-fikir...
Apa-apa pun, kecintaan kita terhadap nabi mestilah dimanifestasikan, yalah kata cinta, takkan sekadar manis di bibir. Dari ikut jalan nabi kita untuk turun padang berdakwah, berakhlak ikut cara Nabi, berusrah, telaah sirah beliau, rajin berselawat, mendoakan beliau dan keluarganya, merinduinya hinggalah tanam azam untuk mencontohinya - this is the lowest you can go I suppose.
Heh, Mawlid di sini mesti jumpa macam-macam orang. Dari yang mengerutkan muka bila sebut Mawlid (I don't know what he was thinking then), hinggalah yang tak kisah dan peduli pun (ini lebih merisaukan).
Harapnya entry ini mengingatkan aku apa erti sebenarnya Rindu dan Cinta kepada Muhammad Rasulullah...
Ole-ole kali ini, Ahbab Mustafa rendition of Burdah Al-Busiri, Bab 5 - Tentang Dakwah dan Mukjizat Baginda. If you know Arabic, you'll appreciate ketinggian bahasanya...
Download:
Puisi (dalam Bahasa Arab) dan terjemahannya
Ahbab Mustafa - Fasl 5
Next entry? Rasanya nak tulis tentang Tony Fernandez, sebab hadir ke talk dia di Uni College London minggu lepas.
On Being Mute
My classmate took all the troubles and hassles to make this video. So, sit tight! I hope this could benefit all the viewers...
Next projects, maybe? Mimpi ke apa aku?
- Life as a cheapskate doc-wannabe in Dublin (short documentary)
- Irish Muslims (short documentary)
- Videoing a theatre performance (seriously I need to read alot on this)
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Sewaktu sedang menunggu bas untuk ke Beaumont semalam, tiba-tiba terfikir, macam mana ya dunia seorang yang bisu? atau yang menghidapi expressive dysphasia?
Sudah tentu peribahasa "Kerana pulut santan binasa, kerana mulut badan binasa" tak relevan, kan?
Apa-apa pun, hargailah nikmat boleh berkata-kata.
Kritik Sosial
//Sedap betul gitar akustik yang dimainkan...
Jeritan Rakyat dendangan Kanvas
Hidup di negeri ini, fikiran bingung
Sawah ladang disulap menjadi gedung
Gedung-gedung tinggi menjulang
Tapi berjuta rakyatnya tak bisa pulang
Apa lagi zaman kini
Jadi kuli di negeri sendiri
Keringat diperas setiap hari
Banting tulang untuk anak isteri
Tapi semua tak pernah terbeli
Kerana harga-harga melambung tinggi
Bagaimana ini bapak menteri
Harga BBM (bahan bakar mobil) meroket lagi
Bapak DPR kami menanti
Kebijakan yang manusiawi
Agar rakyat senang di hati
Cukup makan tak ditipu lagi
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http://www.muslim-a-day.com/
This website will be a bomb one day. The aim is simple - to portray how Muslims around the world live their life. Cool...
Articles of note:
Durian
For the love of our prophet
Improving our schools
Sejukkan hati
Tombo Ati
Tombo ati iku lima perkarane
Kaping pisan maca qur’an sak maknane
Kaping pindo solat wengi lakonono
Kaping telu wong kang soleh kumpulana
Kaping papat, iku weteng ingkang luwe
Kaping lima, dzikir wengi ingkang suwe
Salah sakwijine sapa bisa ngelakoni
Mugi-mugi gusti Allah nyembadani
Obat Hati
Obat hati itu lima perkaranya
Yang pertama baca qu’an dan maknanya
Yang kedua, solat malam dirikanlah
Yang ketiga berkumpullah dengan orang soleh
Yang keempat perbanyaklah berpuasa
Yang kelima dzikir malam berpanjanglah
Salah satunya siapa bisa menjalani
Moga-moga Allah Ta’ala mencukupi
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Hmmm... can't imagine how tangled the whole thing will be if Janes decided to procure Elsevier. Wow! What a diversity!
Reed Elsevier's arms trade
Scientific communities must work together to prevent the sale of arms
In a recent editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Richard Smith drew attention once again to the paradoxical and disturbing association between Reed Elsevier, a huge global publishing company, and the international arms trade.1 While promoting world health through its publications, including the Lancet, Reed Elsevier also organises international trade fairs for the arms industry. By facilitating the sale of armaments, Reed Elsevier is directly implicated in causing untold damage to health. This hypocrisy is well illustrated by Smith's "absurd" example of an imaginary tobacco company that publishes health journals to increase tobacco sales. Sadly, his example is neither absurd nor imaginary. In 2005, an article in the Lancet reported undisclosed relations between the tobacco industry and the health related journal Indoor and Built Environment.2
Reed Elsevier's purpose in publishing the Lancet and other health related journals is not to covertly support arms trade revenues. Reed Elsevier, like any other company, aims to make money through business activities that have diversified over time. But its activities in organising exhibitions for the arms trade are only a small part (we believe about 1%) of its turnover. Why would Reed Elsevier risk alienating the essential part of its money making business—the health, science, and education sector—to allow a continued association with a much smaller asset—the arms trade?
For alienation is what's happening. In the short term, the publicity surrounding this controversy may be good for Reed Elsevier, if all publicity really is good publicity. In the long term, however, the consequences of the debate could be disastrous for the company's reputation and profits, and, if journals do more good than harm, for world health.
In September 2005, when the Lancet first highlighted Reed Elsevier's links with the arms trade, there was an appropriate outcry from the journal's international advisory board and global opinion leaders.3 4 More recently, condemnation of Reed Elsevier has come in a letter to the Times signed by 140 prominent academics,5 in rapid responses to a BMJ news article,6 and via an online petition that has collected approaching 1000 signatures (http://idiolect.org.uk/elsevier/petition.php).
This continued and growing negative publicity could have several possible effects. The inevitable damage to Reed Elsevier's global corporate reputation will probably lead to lost business opportunities and thus reduced profits. Damage to the reputation of Reed Elsevier publications, such as the Lancet, may lead to fewer high profile submissions, for which journals fiercely compete, and so a reduction in essential revenue derived from the sale of reprints. Furthermore, damage to the reputations of health journals including the Lancet could have a negative impact on global health, which these journals strive so hard to improve.
It has not been a straightforward decision to speak out directly on this issue. The BMJ is often seen as being in competition with the Lancet and might be seen to be cashing in on the Lancet's discomfort. But the BMJ has no wish to see the Lancet diminished. The two publications are in many ways complementary, and together they represent important evidence of the continuing influence of British publishing and science around the world. Collaborations between the BMJ and the Lancet have repeatedly helped raise awareness of important issues in health care and research, 7 8 9 10 and more are planned. Anyone interested in global health should want the Lancet to continue to thrive unhampered by such disastrous bedfellows. As Smith says in his recent rapid response to a BMJ news article on this subject, "Are people not bothered or are they scared to speak up? Or perhaps people think that it would be disloyal to the journals, which include the Lancet. If people are wary of being disloyal I urge you not to be. You do nothing but good for the Lancet and the other journals by speaking up."6 So the BMJ joins the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in calling for action against Reed Elsevier.
The scientific and health communities with which Reed Elsevier is linked in a symbiotic relationship have a clear opportunity to exert their influence. As a group, these communities have the power to influence corporate strategy. They must sign petitions such as the one identified here, the societies for which Reed Elsevier publishes journals must look for alternative publishers, and editors of journals must express their disgust at the company's arms trade activities through collectives such as the World Association of Medical Editors (http://www.wame.org/). Furthermore, academic and industry funded researchers should now agree not to submit their high profile randomised control trials to Reed Elsevier journals until links with the arms trade are ended. They should make these decisions public, thus ending their tacit support for the company's links with the arms trade. Direct loss of revenue in this way would quickly identify to Reed Elsevier that the scientific world will no longer tolerate its warmongering and health damaging business activities.
Charles Young, editor1, Fiona Godlee, editor fgodlee@bmj.com2
1 BMJ Clinical Evidence, London WC1H 9JR , 2 BMJ, BMA House
Competing interests: CY was previously an executive editor at the Lancet. FG is the editor of the BMJ. She is paid a fixed salary and does not benefit personally from advertising or reprint revenues that may result from article submissions to the BMJ.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned, not externally peer reviewed.
References
- Smith R. Reed-Elsevier's hypocrisy in selling arms and health. J R Soc Med 2007;100:114-6.
[Free Full Text] - Garne D, Watson M, Chapman S, Byrne F. Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environment and associations with the tobacco industry. Lancet 2005;365:804-9.[ISI][Medline]
- Feder G, Rohde J, Sebastian M, et al. Reed Elsevier and the international arms trade. Lancet 2005;366:889.[ISI][Medline]
- The Lancet and the Lancet's International Advisory Board. Reed Elsevier and the arms trade. Lancet 2005;366:868.[CrossRef][ISI][Medline]
- Times higher education supplement. Ethics before arms. .www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=2035528
- Dyer O. Boycott publisher because of holdings in arms trade, readers told. BMJ 2007;334:389.
[Free Full Text] - Farthing M, Horton R, Smith R. Research misconduct: Britain's failure to act. BMJ 2000;321:1485-6.
[Free Full Text] - Godlee F, Horton R, Smith R. Global information flow. BMJ 2000;321:776-7.
[Free Full Text] - Horton R, Smith R. Time to register randomised trials. BMJ 1999;319:865-6.
[Free Full Text] - Horton R, Smith R. Time to redefine authorship. BMJ 1996;312:723.
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Integrasi dan Toleransi
Pada saya, kedua-duanya boleh saja seiring dengan Islam. Tapi ada hadnya. Kerja apa menjual agama... tak takut Allah murka ke? Atau, tak takut Tuhan murka ke? Untuk yang tidak bertuhan (atau yang berpura-pura juga), mungkin anda tiada rasa takut akan hilangnya harga diri apabila anda ingin memberikan semuanya kepada orang. Would you? I bet not. Oh ya, please stop whining about relative morality, relativism, and what not. This is not the right place to debate endlessly without purpose ie. cakap tin kosong. Kita berdiskusi dengan tujuan untuk kita lebih faham, bukannya untuk berlawan siapa lebih bijak. Kecerdikan ini pun Allah juga yang berikan, ye tak?
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2 minggu lepas, kami Al-Qamar (The Purnama?) ke NEXT 2007, untuk bernasyid, dengan temanya Keamanan dan Perpaduan (Peace & Unity). Lagu yang kami bawa ada 2 - satu medley (petik-petik lagu), dan satu lagi, cover Lagu Kedamaian dendangan kumpulan nasyid yang tersohor, Brothers.
Medley, terkantoi. Oh well. I was not that confident with my French musical gymnastic, though I fully understand what exactly I am muttering...
//Rasa macam boyband. Di manakah semangat Butterfingers, Korn, Polythene, Rage Against The Machine, dan Redline Shizuka? Argggghhh!
After all that sweats and shivering, Alhamdulillah we managed to win the consolation prize. Not bad for newbies like us. The next NEXT, we'll push harder to get the first prize...
On this note, I would to thank to the manager cum teacher Adlan. Also, the whole group too. Asrih - leading vocal. Kamal - another leading vocal. Khalil - vocal plus mid. Taro - mid and high vocal. Muhaimin - bass. You guys really rocked the show!
//Trio dari Manchester. Menang no 3. Memang cool, macam John Mayer...
//Group dari Nottingham. Pergh dot com.
Aisemen... time's up. Will write more tentang NEXT later on. Yang pasal FOSIS Conference hari itu pun tak siap lagi... apa dah.....
Err... I just arrived here last week...
Oleh kerana lampu basikal hanya ada dua - lampu merah dan lampu depan, kami bersepakat untuk berbasikal secara berturutan. Hazim di hadapan sekali dengan lampu depan, saya di belakang dengan lampu merah disangkutkan atas jaket, manakala Alif di tengah-tengah.
Kami pun cool saja menyusuri kegelapan malam... tetapi setelah baru saja membelok masuk ke Canal Road, tak sampai 10 meter Garda telah pun sedia menunggu... Aisehmen... dan ketika itu jugalah Alif yang malam itu berjaket oren memecut lari...
"Where's your light?"
"Errr... I don't know that I have to put up some lights... I just arrived here last week..."
"Well you need to think about safety beforehand... It is just common sense... Now I want you to call your friend, the one in orange top that went away"
"Err... okay..."
Sahlah Alif takkan angkat... ye tak?
Dan malam itu juga kami mendapat tazkirah percuma dari Garda. Yup, safety first. Kes cyclist dan pedestrians yang maut dalam kemalangan semakin naik dari tahun ke tahun. Sampai ada protes aman (protes keras masa zaman kebangkitan IRA dulu) oleh mahasiswa di Cork (aiseh tak berapa ingat baru keluar headline semalam).
Apa-apa pun, taktik "Err... I just arrived here last week" berkesan... jika tidak disamanlah aku jawabnya.

Dah nak balik rupanya sahabat yang seorang ini. Jumpa lagi tahun depan!
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The vision of the Taskforce is expressed as: An Irish society that enables people through health promotion, prevention and care to achieve and maintain healthy eating and active living throughout their lifespan.Pada penggal kali ini, Projek Health, Disease & Society difatwakan sebagai wajib oleh kolej. Dan saya diwahyukan topik Obesity in children. Fokus negara yang mana nak dikaji, adalah negara bumi kuberpijak sekarang...From:
http://www.dohc.ie/publications/report_taskforce_on_obesity_es.html
What can the government do in the face of the growing epidemic of obesity?
Report of the National Taskforce on Obesity: Obesity - the policy challenges
Rasa bersyukur, walaupun kadang-kadang rasa terasa ditekan sebab mendapat grup yang terus masuk gear 5. 2 Irish, 1 Norwegian, 1 Canadian, dan all of them I presume berada dalam top 20% of the class, bakinya 2 Melayu - insha Allah top of the class gak... Amin... tengah berusaha keras sekarang... Pergh.
Haih, pelik sungguh makhluk bernama manusia. Di kala ramai orang di Afrika boleh tak cukup makan, ada juga yang terlebih makan. Di Malaysia, ada yang makan siput (semoga Allah meringankan beban mereka), bagaimana pula yang terlebih makan?
Forget about being connoseiur - bahasa mudahnya cerewet tak tentu pasal. Instead, makan apa yang ada dan eat healthy food... Nafsu makan memanglah besar, tetapi kalau dididik betul-betul, insha Allah okay... Lagi pun banyak makan pun mendatangkan banyak masalah. Duit habis, darah tinggi dapat, diabetes pun kena...
Apa-apa pun, makan untuk hidup, atau hidup untuk makan?
postscriptum - sebenarnya tertulis entry sebab terfikir tak bosan ke makan chicken leg hari-hari... sahabat-sahabat di Dublin mesti faham situasi di sini... kan?
Kurang ajar
Apa-apapun, rentak Intermediate Cycle Semester 1 mula rancak. Keluar pagi hari balik senja sudah jadi norma. Namun aku tak boleh mengeluh banyak, dah ini asam garamnya, jadi merasa sajalah. Amat jauh perjalanan... jangankan nak jadi Neurologist, nak habiskan mengaji pun dah tercungap...
Dan dalam banyak-banyak hari aku di sini sejak masuk universiti balik, hari ini memang cukup terkesan. Sebab? Seorang murid telah kurang ajar kepada Prof Arnie Hill. Dah lah yang kurang ajarnya Muslim Timur Tengah atau dengan bahasa directnya Pak Arab. Memalukan. Huh! Ketika sandiwara yang membakar jiwa itu berlangsung, hatiku terus carut cela maki hamun. Hanya Allah saja yang tahu. Marah betul. Ish ish ish. Ini kena masuk course anger management.
Kisahnya begini...
Professor Arnold Hill amat gemar menyoal terus pelajar-pelajar sewaktu beliau mengajar dan kadang-kala memanggil seorang dua datang ke pentas dewan kuliah secara 'paksarela'.
Pada hari ini, beliau ingin melihat sendiri seorang pelajarnya turun dan mengambil history dari seorang pesakit yang beliau datangkan khas dari wad di hospital Beaumont.
"The back row, you, over there, would you mind coming down here and take a history from this gentlemen?"
"No, thanks."
He was taken aback. Yang menjawab langsung tidak memandangnya, sebaliknya menulis nota dengan lagak 'cool'. Seluruh kelas mula berbisik-bisik tak puas hati. Was he out of his mind?
Beberapa kali lagi Prof Arnie Hill cuba memujuk dan air mukanya mulai berubah. Senyumnya berbaur geram. Namun yang dipanggil tetap buat tak kisah. Lantak kaulah labu...
"...It's part of learning process, so if you don't come down here, you might as well leave the theatre..."
"No, thanks."
Beliau kemudiannya memanggil orang lain. Kuliah terus berjalan seperti biasa. Yang kurang ajar tadi terus dengan lagak 'cool'nya.
Hmmm... Barakah ilmu ini datangnya dari guru, tak kira siapa. Mengenai peristiwa hari ini, huh! Pesan ayah dulu, kalau kurang ajar dengan guru mahupun orang tua, silap-silap boleh didoanya kita bodoh dan dungu seumur hidup!
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Selamat Tahun Baru Cina!
Di mana nak beli limau mandarin sekotak ya?
Depa nak balik dah...
//Antara yang terawal, Razmi (di tengah-tengah)
[...]Now I've been happy lately,
thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be,
something good has begun
Oh I've been smiling lately,
dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be,
some day it's going to come[...]
Dan ini adalah rakan-rakan di belah Clonskeagh sana yang buat. Cara!
Challenge yourself - Be a daie!
Kindly note that:- All seminars will be conducted on Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
- The forum will be conducted from 1pm to 3pm.
- Refreshments will be provided.
- Please bring your own stationeries.
Who are the speakers?
- Seminars 1, 2 and 3 : Mr. Mustafidh
Mr. Mustafidh obtained MA in Islamic studies from Birmingham University. He works with Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland (ICCI) and specialized in Islamic Sciences and Thought.
- Seminar 4 : Mr Marwan
Mr. Marwan is currently a student in University College Cork. He’s really interested about evolution and has conducted an in-depth research on it.
- Seminar 5 : Dr. Maamun Mobayed
Dr. Maamun Mobayed is a Muslim psychiatrist. He currently works as a lecturer in Queen’s University Belfast.
- Seminar 6 : Mr. Ali Selim
Mr. Ali Selim graduated from Al-Azhar University, Cairo. He’s currently working with ICCI as a theologian and has a deep understanding about major religions in Europe.
FORUM:
It will conducted by students, whom are new muslims. Find out how they embrace Islam, their new lifestyle and how they facing the new challenges…
First thing first
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Berita baik - The one-year sentence is now over... Alhamdulillah. The longest sentence so far unless I am ISA-ed.
Sekarang perlulah rajin-rajin mencari tiket pulang yang termurah. Duit baki bolehlah beli ole-ole. Purchasing power di sini lebih besar... Wish list? Hadji Murad, My Story, Freakonomics, buku-buku Pastest, Tuesday with Morrie, Great War For Civilisation, Dilbert... hmmm apa lagi?
Betullah... first thing first. Baru tak bingung.
Hmmm... sekarang berusaha menghadamkan ini. Pening!
Podcast @ iTunes Music Store
Podcast menurut definisi Wikipedia:A podcast is a media file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.[1] Like 'radio', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
Di iTunes Music Store, banyak podcast yang menarik. Politik, lawak jenaka spontan, tutorial-tutorial, rancangan memasak, hatta tentang Islam pun ada, walaupun hampir semuanya dalam English. Good good.
Podcast dapat diakses di bahagian Music Store > Podcast > Religion & Spirituality > Islam.
Antara yang popular dan diyakini, adalah Zaytuna dan Q-News. Keduanya banyak membawa isu semasa sebagai tajuk utama podcast.
Yang lain, khutbah jumaat NYU (New York University barangkali). Elok untuk praktis public speaking.
Oh yang Bahasa Melayu pun ada - Suara Hikmah dan Kuliah Pengurusan Cinta. Wow!
Hmmm... di luar iTunes, lebih banyak sebenarnya podcast-podcast di Clickcaster.com, Libsyn.com, dan Nature.com dan lain-lain... banyak sangat.