SPLENDOUR - ABOVE THE CLOUDS...

Closer to their god: The Taktshang Tiger's Nest monastery clings to a cliff 2,300 ft above the Paro Valley floor in Bhutan at such a height it looks down on the clouds

MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND

THIS CONTRIBUTED BY A ROMANIAN FRIEND WHOSE PHOTOS I POSTED IN THIS SITE 

ROMANTIC!

ADUHAI! I LIKE THIS - KREATIF

THESE ILLUSTRATIONS CONTRIBUTED BY A TRULY ROMANTIC FRIEND, AN ALGERIAN WHOSE NATIVE LANGUAGE IS FRENCH  WHOSE PHOTOS SYMBOLISE ROMANCE

DAUGHTERS AND SONS

THANK YOU COUSIN SULAIMAN FROM PERTH AND FRIENDS FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL QUOTES

THE SUPPLICATION OF THE WRONGED

Ibraheem at-Tamimi once said.

"When a man wrongs me, I pay him back with an act of mercy."

When some money was stolen from a righteous man who lived in Khurasaan, he began to weep.  Fu'dayl, who saw him in that state, asked, "Why do you cry?"  He answered, "I remembered that Allah shall gather me and the thief together on the Day of Judgement, and I cried, feeling pity for him."

A man slandered a scholar from the early generations of  Islam.  In return, the scholar gave him a gift of dates, and when later asked about the gifts, he said,

"Because he did good to me (ie. on the Day of Judgement the man would have to give him some of his good deeds or take from him some of his bad ones)."

THREE PLAQUES

I AGREE!

A wise person hang up three plaques in his office that he would read daily.

Written on the first was, "Your today, your today!"  Meaning live within the boundaries of today,  working and striving.  

The second said, "Reflect and be thankful."  Meaning, contemplate Allah's blessings upon you and then be grateful.

And "Don't be angry," was written on the third.

DO NOT EXPECT GRATITUDE FROM ANYONE

Allah, the Almighty, created His slaves so that they may worship and remember Him, and He provided sustenance for them so that they may be grateful to Him.  Nevertheless, many have worshipped other than Him and the masses are thankful not to Him, but to others, because the characteristic of ingratitude is widespread among human beings.  So do not be dismayed when you find that others forget your favour or disregard your kind acts.  Some people might even despise you and make you an enemy for no other reason than that you have shown them kindness.

From among the ever-repeating pages of history is a story of a father and his son:  the former raised him, fed him, clothed him and taught him:  he would stay up nights so that his son could sleep, stay hungry so that his son could eat, and he would toil so that his son could feel comfort.   And when the son became older and stronger, he rewarded his father with disobedience, disrespect, and contempt.  

So be at peace if you are requited with ungratefulness for the good you have done.   Rejoice in your knowledge that you will be rewarded from the One Who has unlimited treasures at His disposal.

This is not to say that you should refrain from performing acts of kindness towards others:  the point is that you should be mentally prepared for ingratitude.

Perform acts of charity seeking Allah's pleasure because with this attitude you will assuredly be successful.  The ungrateful person cannot really harm you: praise Allah that that person is the transgressor and that you are the obedient servant.  Also, remember that the hand that gives is better than the hand that receives.  Many people are shocked at the nature of ingratitude in others, as though they had never come across this verse and others like it.

Hence do not be in a state of agitation if you give someone a pen as a gift and he uses it to satirise you, or if you give someone a walking stick to lean upon and he strikes you with it.  As pointed out earlier, most human beings are ungrateful to their Lord, so what treatment should you and I expect?

ENLIGHTENMENT....

BEAUTIFUL QUOTES

SURAH 7 AL-A'RAF (THE HEIGHTS)

Sila lihat website:  www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com (commentary in English in the process)
 
Pintu langit sentiasa mengalu-alukan roh orang Mu'min.

Firman Allah Ta'ala:

'Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang mendustakan keterangan-keterangan Kami, dan memandang rendah terhadap nya, tidak akan dibukakan pintu-pintu langit kepada mereka' 

MY FRUITS OF LABOUR.....

The only form of labour...which gives a workingman a title to its fruits is that which a man exercises as his own master, and by which some new form or new value is produced. - Pope Pius XI

Dear Readers,

I welcome you to my websites:

www.banyuemas21c.blogspot.com and www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com.

I am happy to announce since the inception of netlog.com in April, when I became proactive and Huseyin Meric a netlog friend became a follower of my 2 websites:  I am over the moon....my PAGE VIEWS have peaked up to 14,500 and rising weekly. 99 percent of photos and  illustrations were contributed by professional netlog friends.  Friends, thank very much!  Happy viewing....

Sincerely yours, 

AISHAH SAID

MAYIT MENDAPAT FAEDAH DARI DOA, SEDEKAH DAN BACAAN AL-QURAN

SURAH 112 AL-IKHLAS (PURITY OF FAITH)


Please view commentary of Surah Al-Ikhlas at:  www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com (please save this address or type out, many thanks). 

Hadiah Al-Quran yang sangat memberi manfaat kepada orang mati, kendatipun seluruh Al-Quran itu baik dan penuh berkat, ialah membaca 11 kali dari surat Al-Ikhlas yang sangat mulia itu.  Hal ini telah disandarkan kepada mimpi-mimpi benar dan diberkati.  Lantaran itu hendaklah setiap orang membaca 11 kali dari surat yang mulia itu, pada tiap-tiap malam ataupun tiap-tiap hari, ataupun lebih dari itu, ataupun kurang, meskipun sekali seminggu pada malam Juma'at, dan dihadiahkan pula pahalanya untuk kedua ibu-bapanya, untuk guru-gurunya, ataupun sesiapa yang dipandang berhak atas dirinya. 

Di antara yang mendatangkan faedah bagi si mayit di dalam kuburnya ialah mendoakannya, memohon istighfar baginya dan bersedekah untuknya  ada berbagai-bagai berita yang memberi petunjuk kepada perkara ini, di antaranya mimpi-mimpi yang benar daripada setengah-setengah orang saleh dan orang yang terkenal baik suluknya.

Diriwayatkan di dalam sebuah Hadis, bahawasanya Sa'ad bin Ubaidah r.a. berkata kepada Rasulullah s..a.w.:  Sesungguhnya ibuku telah meninggal dunia secara mengejut.  Kalau dia masih boleh bercakap (dalam sakitnya), niscaya dia akan bersedekah.  Apakah boleh aku bersedekah untuknya.  Maka ujar baginda alaihis-salam: Ya.  Lalu Sa'ad pun mengorek sebuah perigi, dan dijadikan airnya sedekah atas nama ibunya.

Berkata seorang kepada Rasulullah s.a.w.:  Wahai Rasulullah!  Kedua ibu-bapaku telah meninggal dunia, adakah lagi sesuatu kebaktian yang dapat kulakukan untuknya?  Jawab baginda: Ada empat.  Mendoa bagi keduanya, memenuhi segala janjinya, membuat baik kepada teman-temannya, dan menghubungkan silaturrahim yang tidak tersambung kecuali  dengan perantaraaan keduanya.

Diriwayatkan lagi, bahwa baginda pernah bersabda:  Kalau tidak kerana adanya orang yang hidup, niscaya binasalah segala orang yang mati.  Maksudnya:  tidak ada lagi orang yang mendoakan bagi si mati, ataupun memohon istighfar dan belas-kasihan terhadap si mati.

Bersabda Rasulullah s.a..w.:

"Umatku ialah umat yang dirahmati.  Mereka masuk ke dalam kubur dengan dosa-dosa seperti gunung, dan keluar daripadanya sedang mereka telah diampunkan dari dosa-dosa itu, iaitu dengan istighfar orang hidup kepada si mati, sedekah, doa dan bacaan Al-Quran untuk mereka, para Malaikat membawa semua itu dalam piring-piring besar dari cahaya; ditudung pula dengan kain sutera.  Kemudian para Malaikat itu berkata kepada tuan yang punya:  Inilah hadiah yang dikirimkan si fulan untukmu.  Maka si penerima itu akan merasa senang dan gembira."    



    

AL-QURAN SEBAGAI PETUNJUK.....

AL-QURAN SEBAGAI PETUNJUK BAGI  MANUSIA DALAM MENJALANI KEHIDUPAN

Ketika manusia tersesat dari jalannya di masa jahiliyahnya maka ia tertimpa kebingungan, kegelisahan, dan keterasingan, Al-Quranlah yang telah mengenalkan kepada kita hakikat manusia, peranannya dalam kehidupan, dan tujuan ia diciptakan.  Al-Quran adalah petunjuk bagi perjalanan hidup manusia dari awal hingga akhir kehidupannya.  Allah menciptakan alam semesta dari menjadikannya sebuah petunjuk untuk dijadikan pegangan bagi manusia yang hidup di muka bumi.  Tanpa Al-Quran seseorang tidak akan bisa merasakan kehidupan yang seimbang di alam ini.

Di era kita yang serba canggih ini diliputi dengan berbagai perselisihan dan pertentangan, ada pihak-pihak yang menciptakan sarana elektronik yang harus di berikan petunjuk.  Bila tidak, maka manfaatnya akan hilang. Berbagai penelitian mengungkapkan bahawa banyaknya kesah bunuh diri dan pembunuhan di Negara Barat merupakan jauhnya seseorang dari Al-Quran.  Firman Allah Ta'ala:

"Dan barangsiapa berpaling dari peringatan-Ku, maka sesungguhnya baginya penghidupan yang sempit..." (Surah 20: Thoha 124)

Yaitu, sempit dalam jiwa, harta, dan keluarga.  Pertama kali Allah menciptakan manusia berasal dari segenggam tanah lalu meniupkan ruh ke dalamnya.  Selanjutnya Allah mengenalkan tujuan hidupnya.  Allah Ta'ala berfirman:

"Dan Aku tidak menciptakan jin dan manusia melainkan supaya mereka menyembah-Ku." (Surah 51 :Adz-Dzariyat: 56)

Allah mengenalkannya kepada jalan yang harus dipegang kandungannya serta memberikan perincian yang tertera dalam kitab-Nya dan sunnah Rasul-Nya.  Agar manusia mengetahui perjalanannya setelah kematiannya berupa hari kebangkitan, hisab, pemisahan antara yang baik dan yang buruk kemudian akan ada balasan antara syurga dan neraka.  Al-Quran telah menjelaskan fase-fase kehidupan secara lengkap mulai dari awal hingga akhirnya serta menjelaskan pula rambu-rambu dalam kehidupan.



  

QUOTES - JOHN C MAXWELL

Success is a continuing thing;

It is growth and development.

It is achieving one thing and using that as a steppping

stone to achieve something else.

***

The highest 

reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what

you become by it.

***

Life is like riding in a taxi.

Whether you are going anywhere or not, 

the meter keeps ticking

NURTURE YOUR "CHILDREN"

Do you take care of your "children"?  You may never have thought of your dreams as children, but that's what they are. They are your offspring - the joy  of your today and the hope of your future.  Protect them.  Feed them.  Nurture them.  Encourage them to grow.  Care for them.  For someday, they may take care of you.  

Cherish your visions

and your dreams as they are the

children of your soul;

the blueprints of your ultimate 

achievements.

- NAPOLEON HILL  

www: banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com

"And those who say, 'Our Lord, give us joy in our spouses and our children, and make us a model for those who fear You'" (74).  This is a plea from the believers to God to nourish their sense of family feeling and to strengthen the ties of love, emotional stability, and solidarity among their family unit.

Dear Readers,

SURAH 25 Al-Furqan (The Criterion):  welcome to view  a commentary of this Surah at:

www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com  

HAPPY READING

Aishah

MOTHER

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!

A Mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow who can yet recall, with a soften heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. - Bovee

A DEDICATION TO ALL....

GOD HAS PLACED THE GENIUS OF WOMEN IN THEIR HEARTS; BECAUSE THE WORKS OF THIS GENIUS ARE ALWAYS WORKS OF LOVE. - Lamartine

 

 

Dear Friends and Relatives and Friends at NETLOG,

Hope everyone is in the best of health.  I welcome all of you to my family website:  www.banyuemas21c.blogspot.com.  This website was set up in early 2009. I have another website: www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com which is specifically for Al-Quran set up in May 2011. I joined netlog.com in late March of this year.  My good intention is to make more friends and to disseminate quality writings, rest assured.
 
I welcome Huseyin Meric who has recently became a follower of "banyuemas21c" and "banyuemas2qss".  I also would like to thank him very much for linking his websites to mine and hence my 'PAGE VIEWS' upped to more than 13,000 and growing each day.  REALLY AMAZING!  I also would like to thank my Netlog friends who have contributed beautiful pictures (as one you see above).
 
I sign off:  'A GREAT DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE, WHICH IS NOT CAPABLE OF MAKING A MAN WISE, HAS A NATURAL TENDENCY TO MAKE HIM VAIN AND ARROGANT'. - Addison  

HAPPY VIEWING!

Sincerely, 

AISHAH

BARAT MENGAGUMI AKHLAK NABI

Montgomery Watt di dalam Mohammad of Mecca  berkata, "Pada pendapat saya, pekerti Muhammad yang mulia dan kebenaran yang diajarnya adalah sebab utama beliau mendapat sokongan dan kesetiaan Abu Bakar dan Omar serta kekuatan dan kebenarian Khalid bin Walid dan Amru bin As."  

Stanley Lane Poole di dalam The Speeches and Table Talk of Prophet Muhammad berkata, "Terhimpun pada diri (Muhammad) sifat lemah lembut dan gagah berani sehingga seseorang cuba menilainya akhirnya akan mengagumi dan mengasihinya.  Beliau seorang yang sanggup berdepan dengan kemarahan kaumnya.  Beliau juga tidak mudah melepaskan tangannya semasa bersalaman.  Beliau mengasihi kanak kanak dan sentiasa melemparkan senyuman di samping menuturkan kata-kata indah yang mulia kepada mereka.  Persahabatannya  yang tulus, sikap pemurah, berani dan cekal yang ada padanya, semua ini mencairkan kritikan dan sebaliknya melahirkan kekaguman."  

Thomas Carlyle pula di dalam bukunya On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History berkata, "(Muhammad) amat beradab, berbeza dari lelaki lain ketika itu.  Jika tidaklah kerana sifat-sifat ini tidak mungkin orang-orang Arab yang ganas itu akan menghormati dan menyanjungnya." 

Akhlak Nabi Muhammad memang tidak ada tolok bandingannya.  Akhlak yang mulia ini berjaya memikat hati-hati manusia termasuk hati-hati musuh sehingga mereka akhirnya menjadi pengikut nabi yang setia.  Tidakkah ini menunjukkan akhlak mulia adalah kekuatan penting yang mejamin kecermerlangan hidup?

LABOUR DAY

A MAN'S BEST FRIEND ARE HIS TEN FINGERS.

- Robert Collyer







Give me love and work - these two only. - William Morris

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, in the kind one likes best, and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life.  Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his  own work and in that work does what he wants to do. - R. G. Collingwood 

FRIENDSHIP

LIFE IS TO BE FORTIFIED BY MANY FRIENDSHIPS - TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED IS THE GREATEST HAPPPINESS OF EXISTENCE
 - Sydney Smith  

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  It is well worthwhile to learn how to win the heart of the man the right way.  Force is of no use to make or  preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught or tamed but by kindness and pleasure.  Accept them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige  with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own.  - SOCRATES   

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

FLOWERS - These are God's thoughts of beauty taking form to gladden mortal gaze - Wilberforce

The flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty - Croly

Flowers are love's truest language - P. Benjamin 

READING AL-QURAN

SURAH 56 - AL-WAQI'AH 

Those who, in this life, enjoyed reading and studying the Qur'an, shall derive even more enjoyment from doing so in the hereafter.  Believers shall be fully and generously rewarded for their deeds and efforts in this life.  They will be guests of their Lord in the auspicious company of angels and prophets.  They will enjoy more than  kings and emperors here on earth could ever dream of.  

Welcome to view at: www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com. (please save this website address)


I set up this blog in May 2011.


I take this opportunity to thank Huseyin Meric for joining as Follower for "banyuemas2qss"

GOD'S GIFT

CHILDREN

CHILDHOOD SHOWS THE MAN AS MORNING SHOWS THE DAY - Milton

I LOVE THESE LITTLE PEOPLE; AND IT IS NOT A SLIGHT THING, WHEN THEY, WHO ARE SO FRESH FROM GOD, LOVE US - Dickens

THE OTHER SIDE OF ME

LOVE:  
 Quote

 I NEVER COULD EXPLAIN WHY I LOVE ANYBODY, OR ANYTHING - Walt Witman

Unquote

Dear Netlog Readers,

Welcome to this website:  www.banyuemas21c.blogspot.com (please click or type out).  With all good intention,  netlog.com is a platform for me to make more friends. Netlog had been introduced and registered by a cousin in Australia.  Please be informed that we can talk anything under the sun via emails except my love life.  Please understand that I can deny friendship, for a reason.

I thank Huseyin Meric for joining as Follower.  I also thank my Netlog friends, they are professionals,  for contributing photos which all of you will take notice of, as I carry on blogging. I have a good life in this part of the world and never a day is boring with my fifth generation downwards, the eldest is 43 years old.  Alhamdulillah!

I sign off:  KNOWLEDGE ONCE GAINED CASTS A LIGHT BEYOND ITS OWN IMMEDIATE BOUDARIES"  - Tyndall

Happy Viewing!

Sincerely,
AISHAH 

NABI MUHAMMAD S.A.W.

Al-Quran telah menjelaskan hikmah ini dengan kenyataan yang jelas. Firman Allah SWT:

"Dialah yang mengutus kepada kamu yang ummi seorang Rasul di antara mereka, yang membacakan ayat-ayat-Nya kepada mereka, menyucikan mereka dan mereka diajar akan kitab dan hikmah, dan sesungguhnya mereka sebelumnya benar-benar dalam kesesatan yang nyata."  Al-Jumu'ah: 2)

Sesungguhnya umat yang baik adalah umat yang mengerti sejarah hidup Nabinya kemudian mengambil 'iktibar dan pengajaran daripadanya dan seterusnya berusaha untuk meneladani cara hidup yang telah ditunjuk-ajar dengan lengkap dan sempurna.  Bukankah jika seseorang itu memahami Sejarah Rasulullah s.a.w. kemudian ia mengikuti jejak hidupnya bererti ia telah mengamalkan agamanya secara menyeluruh? Kerana itulah dikatakan bahawa peribadi Rasulullah s.a.w. itu ibarat al-Quran yang berjalan di atas bumi.  Sungguh tepatlah apa yang dikatakan bahawa: "Muhammad s.a.w. itu ibarat al-Quran yang berjalan di atas bumi." 

AL-QURAN:  All welcome to view specifically on Al-Quran which I had recently set up at:

www.banyuemas2qss.blogspot.com.  

I set up this website in May 2011

I appreciate my readers to type out or save this website address: any comments you can post at:

www.banyuemas21c.blogspot.com

as I much prefer that Al-Quran webpage is "clear and clean"  

SIMPLY SAID

THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE 

CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED - Victor Hugo

Fresh flowers are such a lovely thing of beauty. Once in a while I pick a bouquet or a single perfect rose to give to a neighbour, friend or relative.

Early one morning I gathered a beautiful bouquet of sweet-smelling long-stemmed roses for myself.  The roses were definitely a delight for my eyes.  While I thought about how pleasing they were for me to enjoy, a calm gentle voice outside of myself simply said, Give them to your friend.

I went straight into the house and arranged the roses in a vase.  Then I wrote this note as small as I could.... For my friend.  I went across the street to my neighbour's who is also one of my closest friends, and I left the bouquet at the front door.

Later that day my friend called to thank me.  She said the flowers were a true blessing.  Late the night before she had been arguing with one of her children.  Being cruel, as teenagers can sometimes be, her child said to her, "You have no friends."

What a surprise when she went to leave for work that morning and found not just the blessings of the bouquet of flowers, but the tiny note which simply said "For my friend."   

NEW LOOK!

A NEW LOOK - HOW TO START BLOGGING - I HAVE GONE NUTS!

TAKING A BREAK.....

BOOK AS A COMPANION

"A BOOK IS A GARDEN, AN ORCHARD, A STOREHOUSE, A PARTY, A COMPANY BY THE WAY, A COUNSELLOR, A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS" - H. W. Beecher

The book is a companion that does not praise you and does not entice you to evil.  It is a friend that does not bore you, and it is a neighbour that causes you no harm. It is an acquaintance that desires not to extract from you favours through flattery, and it does not deceive you with duplicity and lies. When you are pouring through the pages of a book, your senses are stimulated and your intellect sharpens. It can even be said that you sometimes learn from the pages of a book in a month, that which you do not learn from the tongues of men in a century. 

The book obeys you by night as it does by day, both when you are travelling and when you are at home.  A book is not impaired by sleep nor does it tire in the late hours of the night.  It is the teacher who is there for you whenever you are in need of it, and it is the teacher who, if you refuse to give to it, does not refuse to give to you.  If you abandon it, it does not decrease in obedience.  If the only benefit of a book was that it keeps you from foolish daydreaming and prevents you from frivolity, it would certainly be considered a true friend who has given you a great favour.    

UMUR

Madah:

Kenikmatan hidup ialah kesihatan dan masa muda
Tanpa keduanya tiadalah manusia akan bahagia

Si tua mencis bukanlah benci hidup lagi
Tapi yang dikesalkan kelemahan kini menimpa diri

Umur empat puluh itu ialah umur yang disebutkan Allah Ta'ala di dalam firmanNya:

"Bukankah Kami telah memberikan kamu umur yang cukup, dimana setiap orang yang mahu mengingat sudah dapat mengambil peringatan, dan sudah pula tiba kepada kamu orang yang memberi peringatan." (Fathir: 37)

Diriwayatkan, bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. ketika merasakan bahawa umur umatnya terlalu pendek antara umat-umat sebelumnya, baginda pun memohon dan bertadharru' kepada Allah Ta'ala mengadukan kependekan umur umatnya, sehingga tiada terluang masa untuk mereka memperbanyak ketaatan kepada Allah Ta'ala serta mengusahakan amalan untuk akhiratnya. Dengan demikian akan berkuranganlah nasib mereka untuk mendapatkan pahala yang banyak dari Tuhan, atau untuk mencapai darjat dan kedudukan yang tinggi di sisi Allah azzawajalla. Maka Allah s..w.t. pun menganugerahkan kepada umat Muhammad itu malam Lailatul-qadar yang merupakan lebih utama dari seribu bulan, agar kelebihan itu menjadi pengganti kepada umur mereka yang pendek, dan menambah pula pahala dan kebajikan mereka, sehingga apabila seseorang mereka bangun malam dan mengerjakan ibadat kepada Allah Ta'ala pada malam Lailatul-qadar itu, samalah seolah-olahnya ia bangun beramal untuk seribu bulan, iaitu menyamai masa delapan pula tiga tahun empat bulan. Jadi, jika ada orang yang bangun beribadat pada malam Lailatul-qadar selama dua belas tahun, umpamanya, maka samalah ia seperti orang yang membuat ketaatan kepada Allah Ta'ala selama lebih seribu tahun.