After First Three-Week Holiday

Well, now it's already three weeks since I started the long holiday. although it is a long holiday, it still feel bored as usual. Well, I think the boredom level is greater than usual. Previously I had planned some activities to kill this boredom. However, the plan seemed to be failed.

Well, this time I'm not going to rebuilt my plan. I have more works to be done.

I still have 9 surahs to be memorised before the date of the Majlis Tadarus al-Quran (MTAQ) for 2009. However, I do not have any idea of the date for MTAQ. So, I have to memorised them before it is too late for me.


It seemed that the collecting and recording hadith project is interrupted. I just found another alternative for the next year kuliah hadith. So, the project on At-Targhib wa at-Tarhib was going to be cancelled. However, the prject on Al-Musnad Lukhman Al-Yusufi and the calligraphy project are still going on.


Two weeks after today, I am going to attend Multiracial Authors Meeting at Pen View Hotel, Kuching. However, in this meeting there was an poem reading acitivity. I am not sure whether the participants are supposed to prepare their poem(s), but I think I should take extra precaution.
(Err, anyone of you can guide me to the Pen View Hotel...?)


Well, that's all for today.

P/S: The pictures above are just for decoration to make the readers easy to imagine the real situation. :D

Kolokium Penulis Pelbagai Kaum (Multiracial Authors Meeting)

Kolokium Penulis Pelbagai Kaum (or Multiracial Authors Meeting) is a program organised by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, which will be held at Pen View Hotel, Kuching. Yesterday, I already fill in the invitation form to the meeting.

And these are the programs for the three days (12 - 14 December).

Click on the image to enlarge.







Actually, I just received this schedule via mail from Mr. Jaafar Hamdan, since he was out when I arrived at DBP yesterday.

Lonely ...

Today, I went to the city again to check the latest magazine for next month issue. But then, there's no latest magazine.

* * *

Yesterday, I spent one hour just to send comments to her. She reply my comments so fast. However, after one hour, I didn't received any comments. Probably she did not received any notification email from Friendster team.

Today, the same thing goes. However, after sending a number of comments, I could not send her comments anymore since I have reached maximum allowable comments for her profile. What the ****. =.=

* * *

Today is my first time went to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Sarawak branch. The aim is to meet Mr. Jaafar to get my entry form to the Multiracial Authors Meeting. However, when I and my uncle arrived, we were informed that Mr. Jaafar already went out to Pen View Hotel.

However, the entry form filling process still went on. His workmate gave me a piece of green paper. Then, I filled in the entry form.

Now, I'm awaiting for his email for the schedule of the Multiracial Authors Meeting.

Three In One

At first, I thought that she is one year older than me.

Yesterday: after coming back from the surau, I checked my email inbox. I received a comments from her. In the Require Approval box (I have not approve her comment yet at that time), she seemed to be shocked when I said that to her.

Then, I have to apologize to her.

Argh, what kind of start is this?

***

Today: before Asar prayer, I called Mr. Jaafar Hamdan for the third time, to ask him about the Kolokium Penulis Pelbagai Kaum (Multiracial Authors Meeting). Refer to the My Upcoming Program column.

Woman A: Hello.
Me: Err may I speak to Mr Hamdan?
Woman A: Please wait for a while.

Then...

Woman B: Hello.
Me: Err may I speak to Mr Hamdan?
Woman B: Please wait for a while.

After a while...

Woman B: May I know who's speaking?
Me: (state my name and location, of course from Kuching).
- pause -
Woman B: Please wait.

Why must be so 'filtering'?

Anyway, according to Mr Hamdan, the closing date for submitting the entry is 30th November, and the registeration will be done at Pen View Hotel, the place where the meeting will be held.

30th November? Crap, 4 days left. Arghh...

***

I really do not have any idea what happen to this girl: Conan Dakwah.

(Please note that, 'she' I'm referring here is different with 'she' I stated before this part).

I already apologized her for mentioning something that raised up my anger.

Today, she still sulking.

I know you hate this message when you received it. You want to hate, just hate la. You want to mad, just mad la ... (so many words, I don't know how to translate it) ... but I want to tell you, please be open-minded and matched. If you cannot accept what I have said, you have a very high ego. If you want to mad at me, you are welcomed to do so! ... (so on)

Of course I cannot accept what she have said, because she had made wrong accusation. She did not respect my principles and policies, but I apologized her. Now, she said like this to me.

Nah, I don't have high ego as she said when I cannot accept her words.

So I replied:

Oh yeah, forgot to tell. I repeat again: please respect my policies and principles. I respect your policies and principle (if you have). I can be open-minded, but not in all issues. You accused me that I'm ego, go ahead, I'm not angry... I let this thing to Allah to judge it. And I already apologized you yesterday, why you still mad at me? It's clear that it's you who have high ego, not me...

Ahh, girls ...

I Did Not Expect That ...

Last Friday, I did the most 'nonsense', unusual thing ever in my life. Send a smile (in the Friendster) to a number of friends. Including her.

Well, I did not expect that she will send comment to me.

Even though I know her MSN (she's from the other city in Sarawak), and she sometimes online, I did not take that chance to have a chat with her.

And after sending her a smile, she send a comment.

Starting from there, both of us sending comments to each other.

I should do it earlier. Huh, well....

Hadith Collecting and Recording

This entry is for my future reference. Before understand this entry, first, we need to know what is hadith and what is the main structure in a hadith.

Hadith and Its Structure

Hadith (pl. ahadith; lit. "narrative") are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Hadith collections are regarded as important tools for determining the Sunnah, or Muslim way of life, by all traditional schools of jurisprudence.

(Wikipedia)

One example of hadith is:

Narrated by Umar ibn Al-Khattab, "I heard the Messenger of Allah s.a.w. say: Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he intended. Thus he whose migration was for Allah and His messenger, his migration was for Allah and His messenger, and he whose migration was to achieve some worldly benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was for that for which he migrated."

The red one indicates the narrators, while the blue one indicates the text of the hadith.

Collecting and Recording Hadith
Just like Gospel for the Christians, the Muslims also have their own main books telling the story of our prophet. The only difference is, the Christians have 4 main Gospels (Mark, Luke, John, Matthew), whereas we have six main books of hadith, named Kutub as-Sittah (The Six Books), which consist of:

1. Sahih Al-Bukhari by Imam Al-Bukhari;
2. Sahih Muslim by Imam Muslim;
3. Sunan At-Tirmizi by Imam At-Tirmizi;
4. Sunan Abu Daud by Imam Abu Daud;
5. Sunan An-Nasa'i by Imam An-Nasa'i;
6. Sunan Ibnu Majah by Imam Ibnu Majah.

However, every book was compiled in a number of volumes, makes the price for the books become expensive (even for the translation). And I (as a student who are planning to take hadith courses at the university) need to know hadith well, including the science of hadith.

About the hadith collection, I do not have the authentic hadith books (for example, The Six Books) at my home as my reference. Therefore, I took the iniciative to collect and record the hadith in my own books: At-Targhib wa at-Tarhib and Al-Musnad Lukhman al-Yusufi.

My Ways in Collecting and Recording Hadith
Since hadith is uncountable, so it is very hard to collect all hadith. Please note that.

My reference to find the hadith are these:


I have my own criteria in choosing the hadith from these books to be collected and recorded:

• There must the the original text in Arabic and the translation.
• In a hadith, there must be the second narrators (after Rasulullah s.a.w.), the hadith text, and the last narrators of the hadith.

On the authority of Abu Abdul Rahman Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Islam has been built on five [pillars]: testifying that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, performing the Prayers, paying the Zakat, making the Pilgrimage to the House, and fasting in Ramadan."
Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim

• If the status of a hadith are known (authentic or weak), state its status.

At-Targhib wa at-Tarhib (The Recommended and the Intimidation)

In this book, 20 hadith which are chosen as students' analysis are recorded in this book. suitable to the title, every hadith are explained in the form of short notes for my use.

This book will be used for kuliah hadith next year. So, if you want to the result of composing this book, you are welcomed to the lecture at a surau in St. Joseph Secondary School, every Saturday morning. I will announce the starting date, insya-Allah.

Al-Musnad Lukhman al-Yusufi
This is not a copy of Al-Musnad Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal. This is my own version of musnad.

In a musnad, the hadith are arranged according to the name of the second narrator, either according to the alphabet or the Sahabats' rank.

For my own musnad, I planned to arrange the hadith according to the name alphabetically.

Quranic Guardian

Previously, when I changed the display name at my Friendster profile, a girl asked me: "Does A.H. means al-hafiz?"

Oh my goodness. I am not that smart to memorised 100 000 hadith complete with their narrators and chains of transmission.

But, I know, to her and most Malays, al-hafiz is a title given to a person who memorised the complete 30 volumes of al-Quran. Well, Malays. =.= This misunderstood need to be corrected. She should call me 'Hamil' (literally means the one who carries).

Anyway, thanks to her for reminding me to do important mission to me: memorising surahs (chapters) of al-Quran for the next year's competition. Well, to be more specific term, guarding the Quranic Verses.

I have joined the Majlis Tadarus al-Quran competition since Year Three. From Year 3 to Year 4, I was under Quranic memorizing (Hafazan Al-Quran) category. Then, from Year 5 to Year 6, I was moved to Quran reciting (Tilawah Al-Quran).

When I was in Form 1 at SAS, I was placed in Syarahan Agama category managed to represent Sarikei to Sri Aman. However, since the SAS student for the hafazan al-Quran was going to finish his secondary education, so the teacher-in-charge put me under that job.


So, from Form 2 until last year, again I participated the Quranic memorizing category. I managed to represent Sarikei again to Samarahan last year. Until now, the memories at Samarahan still frsh in my mind.

But, memorising al-Quran is not as easy as you memorise Biology facts for SPM. In fact, the verses that you have memorised must be maintained in a your mind. And you must always do special revision, in order to prevent any forgotten verses. Talk about strictness.

According to most scholars' tradition, they memorised al-Quran at a very young age, at least before 17. Ibnu Shihab Az-Zuhri memorised Quran before he was seven in only eight days. Huh, sounds impossible.

Back to our main topic. For hafazan al-Quran secondary school, the list of chapters needed to be memorised are:

• Surah Yaasin (Ya-Sin Chapter) : 83 Verses
• Surah as-Sajdah (The Prostration Chapter) : 30 Verses
• Surah al-Waqi'ah (The Event Chapter) : 96 Verses
• Surah al-Jumu'ah (Friday Chapter) : 11 Verses
• Surah al-Mulk (Dominion Chapter) : 30 Verses
• Surah Nuh (Noah Chapter) : 28 Verses
• Surah al-Insan (Man Chapter) : 31 Verses
• Surah as-Saff (The Row Chapter) : 14 Verses - added last year

And according to rumours, this year the organiser added another chapter, that is:

• Surah al-Dzariyat (The Scattering Winds Chapter) : 60 Verses

The total number of verses need to be memorised is 383 Verses - about 6% of total number of Verses in al-Quran.

Honestly, I had memorised a few chapters previously, but because I'm too lazy to revise, some chapter are forgotten. Even the 11-Verses Surah al-Jumu'ah.

I have made up my mind: the way to memorise the Verses.

First, I have to listen to some recitation about a chapter from different reciters. The list of reciter in my choice are:

1. Sheikh Mahir Al-Mu'aiqely - imam of Masjid al-Haram;
2. Sheikh Abdur Rahman As-Sudais - Grand Imam of Masjid al-Haram;
3. the Late Sheikh Ali Jabir - imam of Masjid al-Haram previously.

However, I'm now imitating Sheikh Mahir's style.

Second, I have to memorise 3 Verses in each day. However, for Surah al-Waqi'ah, I have to memorise 9 Verses in a day. Don't worry, the sentences in each Verses of Surah al-Waqi'ah are short.

Third, I have to do revision for the verses I have memorised. To do this, I have to hold my position as the imam (at Surau Darul Ibadah) for Maghrib, Isyak and Subuh prayer for a longer time. Also, I have to wake up at the night to do recommended, optional night prayer. Then, I have to ask my friends or Muslim teacher to check my memorisation.

Duhh, what a hard work. :(

Tagged

Instructions: Remove one question from above and add in your personal question. Make a total of 20 questions and tag 5 people. List them out at the end of the post. Notify them in their chatbox that they've been tagged. Whoever that does the tag will have blessings from all (yeah, right).

1. What's your most favourite colour?
Black, blue, green.

2. Who is the most important to you?
God!

3. How often do you think of committing suicide?
Everytime I have the saddest, over-emotional moment.

4. Do you think you have enough confidence?
Lack of condifence is bad, but over condifence also bad.

5. How many babies do you want?
3.

6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
It's scientifically true. So, of course I see.

7. What is your goal for this year?
Representing Sarawak for MTAQ Hafazan al-Quran (to be postponed to next year)

8. Do you believe in eternal love?
Yes.

9. Do you think that the person who tagged you, likes to play kidnapping?
Roland: It's better you ask him personally.

10. What are you really afraid of?
Unaccepted truth.

11. What is your bad habit?
Easily bad-tempered.

12. Do you have a secret crush?
Yap.

13. Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
Of course.

14. What does flying means to you?
It means flying to the other world from this world.

15. In your phonebook (for your mobile phone), how many contacts in there are those of whom you REALLY know?
1, 2, ... more than 5, less than 15.

16. Are you single/in a relationship?
For now, I'm single.

17. Describe the person whom tagged you in 5 words.
Roland: humour, unexpected, band major, smart, violinist.

18. What have you done to yourself to make yourself happy?
Playing with Audacity, until I managed to turn Dato' Siti Nurhaliza's voice into a man voice.

19. What is your little wish? (As in little stuff like dying your hair orange and stuff.)
I hope that my sixth crush is my last but successful one.

20: Who do you find easier to deduce: man or woman?
Man. Woman is very unexpected.

I tagged Amirah, Kelvin Ting, James Lai, Mohd Zaki and Sabrina.

Kucing, Saya dan dot dot dot

Saya masih hairan mengenai kucing-kucing milik salah seorang jiran saya. (Perlu diingat, tempat saya tinggal sekarang ini ialah Kuching!)

Setiap kali saya keluar, ketika saya menuju ke lif, kucing-kucing itu akan memandang saya dengan pandangan yang semacam, seolah-olah saya akan menyeksa mereka atau membuli mereka.

Apabila saya semakin hampit dengan lif, mereka akan berlari masuk ke dalam rumah tuan mereka, sedangkan saya tak pun ganggu mereka. Pelik, bukan?

Kadang-kadang, saya cuba dekati mereka (tapi saya tak ganggu kucing-kucing itu). Malangnya, mereka kelihatan sangat takut dengan manusia yang bercermin mata dan kurus kering seperti lidi.

Barangkali ada benarnya hipotesis yang pernah saya simpulkan suatu ketika dahulu mengenai kucing dan anjing. Hipotesis itu berbunyi:

Kucing/anjing yang jinak tidak akan mudah mesra dengan orang yang tidak dikenalinya melainkan tuannya atau ahli keluarganya sahaja. Namun, bagi kucing yang liar, ia lebih mudah mesra dengan orang lain, tetapi bagi anjing liar, ia takut kepada manusia,

Huh, kucing, kucing ...

 

 

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

My Expression

I was just rejected. Again.

I told her via Windows Live Messenger (she's at Sarikei, and I'm at Kuching). Then, she replied that she has boyfriend.

Honestly, I already predicted that.

But, as normal human, I also have feelings.

So, of course, I'm quite sad.

Well, I should tell her last year, shouldn't I?

Arghh...

Now is the time for me to be really serious and no more play-play, isn't it?

Bunch of Problems, Reaching Its Climax (IV)

This is the fourth sequel of my serious inner problem. It is up to you all, whether you want to give your advice, or just be the reader.

Something Wrong ...
Since my mum pregnant again (for my future brother/sister), I observed something wrong in this situation, and these made me feel worry.

First, she was ordered to stayed at the ward for high blood pressure. Alhamdulillah, all praise to God, she was allowed to go out after a day. But, that's not the end.

Second, she had bad cough, and she had difficulty to throw out the phlegm from her throat. And this became worse, when she seemed to be choked by the phlegm. Until my dad had to hit her back a few times before she was okay again.

Now, she was not able to sleep, neither in air-conditioning room nor under the running fan.

To make my situation worst, my dad will be going outstation to Sarikei and Sibu for court case for a week. And I have to take care of my mum. when she sleep Thus, I have to postponed some of the planned activity, including leading the Subuh prayer.

I know, God want to test me, but why must make my mum suffer...? I don't care if He want to test in any ways, but not using my family and relatives.

Arghh...

After 7 Months and 23 Days
It has been 7 months and 23 days since my family moved to Kuching and I started new school life at SJS. And the time passed in a really fast speed.

I bet most of my friends at Sarikei forgotten about a man named Lukhman. Well, it's a bit painful truth to me, but I have no choice except to accept it. When they come to Kuching, not even one of them neither want to meet me, nor (at least) informing me.

Well, I'm not talking about the entire friends. I just said most of them. (this sounds sulky. =.=) But, I have to be grateful because I moved to Kuching. Here, one important lesson I learnt is about a true friend.

Well, I meet different people in different situation. And they have different, unique interest and ability.

For example, I'm very envious to Roland, for such a young age, he managed to get diploma in music recital. This makes me even more spirited to find a teacher to teach me about Arabic caligraphy and then get my degree from the teacher.

I also very envious to Kelvin Ting, for a Malaysian like him have the most fluent English among us (from my view). I'm very grateful, because I can learn more about word usage in English from him. One of them is the usage of the word crap. =.=

Well, these examples I can't find at Sarikei.

But, again, it is very painful for a sensitive person (like me) for some of his friends forgotten about him after a long period of time, even though he always remember his friends.

Well, this worldly life is really like a mirage.

This is the only gift I received from a friend of mine. Well, fortunately she did not forgotten me.

Composed by,

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

Muslim Nowadays

Believe me, I'm not forcing the non-Muslim reader to embrace Islam. I just want to talk about current issues nowadays in the different situation.

Before Asar prayer, a man from Bahagian Agama dan Kaunseling (known as BAKA) placed some notice at the surau's noticeboard. The notices were about the name of appointed imam and bilal for Zuhur and Asar prayer. To my shock, the date for that duty was started last month.

Today, there was nobody came for the duty. Even the imam and bilal did not come. Only the normal people (for instance, me) came early to the surau. I and the other people waited for the bilal to come, but after two minutes from the actual time, the bilal who was supposed to be on duty today did not come. Under the name of responsibility, I took the job as bilal, giving the azan for Zuhur prayer (but not as imam).

And the same thing went for the Asar prayer. Imagine that.

If no one (in the list of appointed imam and bilal) come, then what for they put the notice? Really baka. (Baka in Japanese means idiot, stupid)

Why don't they appoint more imam and bilal for Maghrib, Isyak and Subuh prayer? Then, I and Uncle Rasyid can relax from being bilal and imam.

Muslim nowadays. Seldom to find a real Muslim. =.=

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Before maghrib this evening, a few people from BAKA came. I thought they will be going to lead the prayers. To my disappointment, they came just want to took quite a number of Surah Yaasin books. They took it because there's a religious ceremony at Kota Sentosa.

While taking the books, Uncle Rasyid complained, "The new one they go, the old one they leave it."

I replied, "Just like human. They leave the old, ugly wife, then find the new, beautiful girl."

Uncle Rasyid laughed. He agreed.

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After the Maghrib prayer, I and the other people who came to the surau talking about things that happening around us. Talk about the behaviour most of Muslim policemen leaving the old surau, pig farm, donating blood, and rugby. =.=

Talk about donating blood. I really sad when I hear some of us said that some of the policemen does not want the donated blood to be donated to the non-Muslim. Really rascist. Really orthodox, short-minded people.

That's just about donating blood. The worst thing is some of the policemen did not want his sub-ordinates' work time to be disturbed with the prayer time. If the people who said that is non-Muslim, I understand. But, these word are said by a Muslim.

Really, Muslim nowadays. No wonder, most the non-Muslim cannot understand Islam, even after 51 years of independence.


Written by,

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

Di Sebalik Setiap Sajak

Di dalam dunia ni, setiap yang berlaku pasti ada sebab dan akibat. Itulah yang terkandung dalam hukum karma. Begitulah juga dengan setiap sajak yang saya karang. Hanya saya belum lihat akibatnya sahaja. Saya rasa ada yang tidak mengetahui sejarah di sebalik puisi/sajak yang karang. Di sini saya hendak perturunkan sedikit sebanyak sejarah bagi beberapa sajak yang saya rasa penting.

Sejarah Sajak Sentiasa
Percaya atau tidak, sajak ini terbina setelah membaca sajak karangan Mufti Perlis (yang bakal bersara akhir bulan ini). Sajaknya yang berjudul Yang Benar Tetap Benar sedikit sebanyak memberi kesan kepada saya. Saya rasa sajak inilah yang telah memabawa perubahan yang ketara kepada ideologi pemikiran saya.

Lalu, saya nukilkan segala ideologi dan pendirian saya yang telah berubah sama sekali. Boleh dikatakan, puisi ini sebenarnya ditujukan kepada Dr. Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin merangkap Mufti Kerajaan Negeri Perlis.

Sajak Ujian, Cabaran, Dugaan : Kisah di Sebaliknya
Sebenarnya, sajak ini ditulis atas dua kisah:

1. Sajak ini mula ditulis semasa saya menunggu keputusan peperiksaan saya yang pertama setelah melangkah ke tahap menengah tinggi. Ketika itu, kebanyakan kertas telah saya perolehi markahnya, sehingga membuatkan saya berasa gelisah tetapi ghairah untuk mengetahui keputusan peperiksaan saya.
2. Pada masa yang sama, masih hangat di dalam kelas saya (di SAS, bukan di SJS) gosip antara saya dengan seorang gadis Cina (bagi yang belum tahu cerita ni, biarlah ia menjadi rahsia antara saya, dia dan Allah). Tetapi, sebenarnya memang saya ada menaruh perasaan padanya. Dia ni, kelihatan seperti tidak menyedari akan kebenaran gosip itu, hingga menyebabkan saya rasa terseksa menunggu respon daripadanya. Dari situlah, keinginan saya untuk mengarang sajak ini semakin kuat.

Peristiwa di Sebalik Seloka Kelas 4A
Anda boleh membaca Seloka Kelas 4A di sini.

Di sebalik seloka ini, berlaku sebuah peristiwa / kisah benar yang telah menggegarkan kelas saya. Peristiwa ini berlaku dalam bulan September, di mana seluruh pelajar SJS menduduki Ujian Ke-3 bulan September 2008. Bagi persepsi orang ramai, kelas A pastinya bersih daripada sebarang kes meniru atau menipu. Namun hakikatnya, bagi kelas saya, Tingkatan 4A, ianya indah khabar daripada rupa.

Yang pasti, kes meniru berlaku dalam Ujian Sejarah dan Ujian Bahasa Melayu. Malah, rakan saya sendiri yang duduk di sebelah saya ketika Ujian Sejarah dengan rahsia membuka buku teks Sejarah. Tentang percubaan meniru ketika Ujian Bahasa Melayu, saya hanya mengetahui tentangnya apabila seorang pelajar memberitahu kepada Puan Halipah secara rahsia. Malangnya, ada pelajar yang menuduh bahawa sayalah yang memberitahu Puan Halipah tentang hal tersebut.

Puan Rauzan guru Sejarah kelas kami sebenarnya mengetahui mengenai hal itu, namun dia tidak berdaya memarahi kami disebabkan beliau masih mengandung anaknya yang sulung ketika itu. Namun, bagi Puan Halipah, hal itu merupakan suatu kesalahan yang serius. Masa 35 minit kelas BM dihabiskan dengan menegur perbuatan mereka yang meniru.

Tersentak dengan teguran keras Puan Halipah, saya menjadi kesal bercampur baur marah dan tak puas hati. Dari situ, terbinalah Seloka Kelas 4A yang kini tersiar dalam antologi Lambaian Teluk (diterbitkan bulan ini) terbitan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.

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Begitulah sedikit sebanyak proses mengarang setiap sajak nukilan saya (sama ada yang tersiar mahupun tidak).


Nukilan,

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

The Two Poems

Today, I'm going to republish my poems that are published in the anthology Lambaian Teluk for your reading. I chose two poems to be sent to the publisher: Sentiasa and Seloka Kelas 4A. Please enjoy and understand them.

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SENTIASA

Sentiasa
sebarkan kebenaran
kepada manusia
walau ada yang menghalang
walau dilempar maki hamun
walau dijijik dihina

Sentiasa
menjadi orang yang benar
jangan menjadi pendusta
walau ada yang tidak membenar
walau ada yang mendusta

Sentiasa
tegakkan kebenaran
walau nyawa menjadi taruhan
di medan kebenaran syahidnya diri
kerana janji Allah tak pernah dimungkiri
ganjaran syurga menjadi bukti
syahidnya diri di jalan Tuhan Yang Maha Mengetahui

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi
Sarikei, Sarawak

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SELOKA KELAS 4A

Aduhai 4A, wahai 4A!
Malang sungguh nasibmu 4A,
Dipenuhi dengan manusia dusta,
Manusia jujur sedikit sahaja.

Dalam ujian ada yang meniru,
Ujian Sejarah, Ujian Bahasa Melayu,
Puan Rauzan sedih pilu,
Puan Halipah sesal tidak menentu.

Nasihat lembut tidak diendahkan,
Nasihat keras tidak memberi kesan.

Akal bijak disalahgunakan,
Akhirnya akhlak menjadi pinggiran.

Ada akal disalahguna,
Ada amanah dinista,
Ada ilmu tidak diguna,
Ada cerdik tidak bertempat,
Ada cergas membawa mudarat,
Ada cikgu tidak dihormat.

Sayang! Sayang!
Patutkah mereka dibiarkan
Sehingga mereka kebuluran
Akhlak dan kesopanan?
Sehingga mereka miskin
Budi dan nilai murni?

Biarkan, biarkan...!
Mereka tidak mungkin berjaya,
Kerana Allah sangat murka,
Maka mereka gagallah sentiasa
Maka mereka bodohlah sentiasa
Kerana amalan mereka.

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi
Kuching, Sarawak

I know, the second poem will lead to a controversy. But, I can't let other people doing the same mistake....

Good News and Bad News

At the moment I write the title of today's entry, I was wondering, which one should I share with you all first: good news or bad news? Then, I decided to wrote about bad news first, although it came after good news actually.

Bad News
My mum went to clinic as usual today. Well, she's now pregnant for my future-younger-brother/sister. However, she did not come home at the afternoon. Only my dad came back at 1 o'clock, then went to the clinic again at 2.

At 3 o'clock, he came back and told me, my mum was placed in ward for high blood pressure.

O.O

Decided to follow my dad, we went to Sarawak General Hospital, which are located near our home. At there, she was sent to Maternity Ward II. And she will stay there until her blood pressure is back to normal.

I was praying for her health (although she always lecturing me and give me harsh words). :P

Good News
This is the courtesy of yesterday's entry. No complains here, for sure.

After taking short nap at the afternoon, I woke up at 4 p.m. I opened my computer to upload my calligraphy signature (as you can see at the end of every entry, starting yesterday). I was told by one of my online friends, who also a young author (just like me) and a big fan of Ramlee Awang Murshid (:D), Nurfatihah Athirah about a good news to me (below are the translation of our conversation yesterday):

Nurfatihah Athirah: Assalamualaikum...
Abdul Hakim Lukhman: Walaikumussalam...
Nurfatihah Athirah: Just now I'm online, but you didn't... hehehehe...
Nurfatihah Athirah: Emm... I want to tell you that...
Abdul Hakim Lukhman: Yea?
Nurfatihah Athirah: About your poems... they now published in the anthology Lambaian Teluk
Abdul Hakim Lukhman: Ohhh...
Abdul Hakim Lukhman: Really...?
Abdul Hakim Lukhman: All praise to God...
Nurfatihah Athirah: My mum and I already tried to talk with the Sarawakian authors from PERKASA to send tyhe anthology book with the bags for the present participants (there's still more bags, it's a coincidence)
Nurfatihah Athirah: But, maybe they haven't arrived back yet.. I'm not sure when they arrived at Kuching..
Nurfatihah Athirah: So, try to contact Cikgu Zaidie...

And that's did not end there.

This morning, I visit some of updated blogs, including her blog. To my surprise, she wrote this:

Sekali yang terbit, hanya karya kami penulis Labuan dan juga satu karya dari seorang penulis di Sarawak. Itupun dihantar melalui penulis Labuan.

(The Sarawakian author mentioned in her blog is me. I send my poems via her.)

And this:

Cikgu Awang Asim cakap juga terdapat karya dari seorang penulis Sarawak dalam antologi tu. (karyanya pertama ditulis dalam antologi, kemudian barulah diikuti oleh karya-karya dari penulis-penulis Labuan). Ini disebabkan Nama dia lagi yang pertama muncul dalam antologi tu penyusunan karya itu mengikut huruf ejaan nama penulis. Dan huruf namanya dimulakan dengan huruf 'AB'. Senang cari di mana karya sendiri tu. Hehehe... (sempat lagi mengatil???)

(This is because, I used the pseudonym Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi, so of course my poems appear first)

And this:

Hmm... aku dan ibu sempat berurusan dengan orang Sarawak untuk menghantar barang-barang - yang utama ilah antologi Lambaian Teluk tu - kepada penulis Sarawak yang karyanya termasuk dalam antologi tu - Abdul Hakim Lukhman al-Yusufi.

Kata ibu, kena beri perhatianlah Lukhman tu nanti. Sebab dia penulis yang tak disangka-sangka dari Sarawak tu boleh pulak masuk karyanya di dalam antologi yang semua karya dari Labuan saja tu. Tambahan pula dia merupakan penulis muda.

Insya-Allah dia akan diberi perhatian. Orang yang kami berurusan tu pulak ialah orang GAPENA, Cikgu Zaidie (PERKASA pun sebenarnya, tapi, ada perantaraan - kira ada orang tengah lah dari kami kepada wakil PERKASA). Yang teratas sekali. Boleh dikatakan ketua kepada bahagian-bahagian persatuan penulis. Yang turut membantu tu pun ialah penulis dari Miri, Sarawak tu. Iaitu JAYA RAMBA.

What the...? =.=

Now, I'm on the way getting my copy of Lambaian Teluk and the articles during the Dialog Teluk VI.


Written by,

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

Nikmat, Diskriminasi dan dot dot dot

Semenjak saya menulis entri ini, masih tersemat di dalam hati dan ingatan saya perlakuan Editor BM Sidang Redaksi Majalah The Anthonian terhadap karya saya. Begitu tergamak guru penasihat dan editor bahagian BM (yang merupakan sahabat dan rakan sekelas saya sendiri suatu ketika dahulu) tidak menyiarkan karya saya, malah editor dan sahabat karibnya sendiri menyiarkan karya mereka di antara karya-karya yang terpilih.

Sedangkan, saya telah menghantar dua sajak utama saya, Sentiasa dan Ujian, Cabaran, Dugaan kepada editor itu sendiri sebelum saya berpindah ke Kuching. Saya juga telah menghantar cerpen BI saya kepada editor BI (yang juga merupakan sahabat dan rakan sekelas saya tahun ini di SAS). Namun, saya diberitahu oleh Ahmad Faiz bahawa ada kemungkinan cerpen itu tidak dapat disiarkan kerana ruangan yang terhad.

Kalau mengenai cerpen saya yang tidak tersiar itu, tidak mengapalah, saya pun faham. Namun, yang membuatkan saya bingung, celaru, sedih, dan berkecamuk hati ialah sajak-sajak saya yang tidak disiarkan. Malah, ada di antara karya-karya yang tersiar di dalam majalah The Anthonian itu hasil nukilan editor itu sendiri. Mana ada editor yang menyiarkan karyanya sendiri. Sungguh menyanggahi logik akal. Sungguh aneh. Sungguh absurd.

Semenjak saya memasuki SAS, saya mula tidak senang dengan perkara sebegini. Pelajar yang dilantik menjadi editor menyalahgunakan kedudukan mereka untuk kepentingan diri sendiri. Itu baru jadi editor, belum lagi bercakap fasal ketua tingkatan dan pengawas di SAS. Kalau diikutkan, memang saya suarakan ketidakpuasan hati saya ketika itu. Namun, apa yang membimbangkan saya ialah tentangan daripada banyak pihak, termasuk rakan saya sendiri.

Saya mula merasakan hal ini bukan setakat itu sahaja. Saya mula mengesyaki, wujudnya diskriminasi terhadap saya, yang diketuai oleh 'pihak' yang berpengaruh (besar kemungkinan, guru).

Apa nak jadi, sana salahguna kuasa, sini salahguna kuasa. Dari perkara yang besar sampai ke perkara yang kecil, ada saja penyalahgunaan kuasa. Hish... nak kiamat agaknya dunia ni.

(Memang nak kiamat pun.)

Namun, perkara sebegitu tidak berlaku di SJS. Selepas saya berpindah ke Kuching dan memulakan pengajian saya di SJS, saya telah menghantar sebuah cerpen dan dua sajak yang sama (yang telah saya hantar kepada Editor BM Majalah The Anthonian). Dan pada bulan September yang lalu pula, rakan online saya telah mempelawa saya untuk menghantarkan sajak nukilan saya kepada pihak DBP untuk dibukukan dalam antologi Lambaian Teluk sempena Dialog Teluk VI di Labuan. Untuk itu, saya sekali lagi menghantar sajak-sajak yang sama.

Comment Nurfatihah Athirah kepada saya pada September yang lalu

Dan hasilnya: kesemua karya saya yang telah dihantar disiarkan. Cerpen Letupan dan dua sajak yang saya sebutkan tadi tersiar dalam majalah Ad Astra Volume 48 untuk tahun ini. Dan apa yang saya perhatikan, Editor dan Penolongnya - BM dan BI - tidak pula menggunakan kedudukan mereka sebagai editor untuk menyiarkan karya mereka. Malah, mereka lebih adil dalam memilih. Editor bagi BM pernah meminta kepada saya agar cerpen saya disunting bagi menjimatkan ruang. Saya dengan mudah bersetuju, kerana saya percaya pada keadilan dan amanah mereka.

Dan hari ini pula, saya menerima berita yang tidak disangka-sangka selepas bangun daripada tidur petang hari ini. Nurfatihah Athirah memberitahu bahawa sajak-sajak yang saya hantar (melalui Labuan) disiarkan dalam antologi Lambaian Teluk.

Petikan perbualan antara saya dan Athirah hari ini. Klik pada imej untuk melihat dengan lebih jelas

Apabila saya diberitahu akan hal tersebut, saya merasakan seolah-olah hujan turun melimpah sekali lagi (kerana semasa saya bangun daripada tidur petang, hujan turun sebentar). Ahh, betapa tingginya nilai nikmat yang Allah kurniakan hari ini kepada saya. Dan saya pula selalu melupakan-Nya. Namun, Dia tetap mengurniakan nikmat demi nikmat kepada hamba-Nya yang bacul seperti saya.

Namun begitu, saat-saat 'diskriminasi' yang dilakukan oleh Sidang Redaksi The Anthonian kepada saya begitu sukar untuk saya lupakan. Hanya Allah saja yang mampu membalas. Saya sudah cukup penat dengan hal-hal seperti ini. Saya hanya serahkan hal ini kepada Allah. Kalau Allah maafkan, maka saya maafkan. Tetapi kalau sebaliknya, saya pun begitu juga.

Nota: Kalau anda merupakan Editor BM atau BI The Anthonian yang saya sebutkan di sini, kalau terasa tu, rasalah. Memang itu hakikat yang berlaku. Dan bagi Editor Ad Astra, kalau terasa saya puji tu, terimalah pujian saya ni.


Al-Faqir Al-Haqir ila Rahmat Allah,

Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi

Saya Baru Menyedari...

Entri hari ini saya ingin menulis dalam bahasa Melayu. Sudah lama saya tidak berbuat demikian. Selalunya saya menulis entri-entri saya di dalam bahasa Inggeris.

Sudah tiga hari saya tidak menulis apa-apa di blog ini. Jumaat lepas saya terpaksa reformat komputer saya sebelum kedatangan abang saya pertengahan bulan hadapan (kalau dia guna komputer ini, memang saya tidak pernah difikirkan. Bagus lagi kalau dia tak datang ke sini). Dan semalam saya menginstall beberapa program di komputer saya ini.

Sepanjang computer reformatting, saya tidak melayari internet. Namun, saya tidak sedar, saya teringin sangat untuk melihat wajahnya.

Astaghfirullah, adakah ini bermakna saya 'jatuh cinta' buat kali keenam?

Arghh....

Nota: penggunaan tanda bacaan '...' adalah disengajakan...

Islamic-themed Detective Fiction

Well, today's literature talk.

Today, I put this sentence as my personal message for Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger:

Is it possible for me to produce Islamic-theme detective story?

And today also, I found the possibility for it.

First Evidence:
Criminal investigation (or rather called it forensic science) had been used since the early era of Islam. For instance, Messenger of Allah (p.b.u.h.) was able to recognize the father of a baby by just comparing the baby's face with the face of the man (who made illegal sex intercourse with the woman).

Source: AL ISLAM magazine May 2007 Edition

Second Evidence:
After the Battle of Badar, there were two Muslim men, went to meet the Messenger of Allah (p.b.u.h.), each of them claimed that they killed Abu Jahal. The Messenger of Allah asked them whether they had cleaned their swords. Both of them brought their swords that had not been cleaned (still got blood stains on the swords), and the Messenger of Allah examine the swords before determining the man who killed Abu Jahal. However, the way the Messenger of Allah did to determine it was not stated.

Source: Turuq al-Hukmiyyah

Third Evidence:
In the time of Caliph Umar bin Al-Khattab's reign, there was an Ansari woman who fell in love to a handsome man. She tried to seduce the man, but failed. One day, she accused the man for doing something onto her.

Caliph Umar nearly believe the woman's accusation. If not because Ali bin Abu Talib, the innocent man already had been executed by Caliph Umar.

Ali bin Abu Talib - imagined by Shiites

A few women were gathered to recognize the semen trace on the Ansari woman's clothes. They recognized the traces left as the dried semen trace.

However, Ali bin Abu Talib wisely poured hot water onto the clothes, and the semen trace turned into a white solid. Indeed, Ali bin Abu Talib tasted the white solid until the Ansari woman became afraid. Then, the woman admitted that she lied, by wiping white egg at her clothes.

Source: Ask Faisal Tehrani. I found this fact in his novel Detektif Indigo Kembali.

Fourth Evidence:
In the famous Islamic literature story One Thousand and One Nights, there was a story where can be said that the first detective fiction in Arabic literature.

In that part of the story, Caliph Harun al-Rasyid ordered his vizier Jaafar bin Yahya to investigate the murder case in three days. If Jaafar bin Yahya failed to found out the culprit, he will be executed.

Caliph Harun al-Rasyid, the fifth Abbasid caliph

For more information: Wikipedia - One Thousand and One Nights


Honestly, when I found out the fact in the Fourth Evidence, I was surprised. I did not expect that the Muslims were among the earliest people founding the detective fiction with the Chinese. Indeed, they were among the earliest people practicing forensic investigation. I really salute them for their creativity.

Tag: Work Station

Rules:

• took a picture of your work station;
• put the links of the blogger who tagged you from the first person until the last person who get the tag (that is, you), below the picture
• please tag 7 bloggers in your list.

I was tagged by a Multiply blogger, Abang Mohd Zaki. Since I was too 'busy' and in the mood of holiday, so my work station is:

@LiYaNNuaR, azza, kinhashim, kakchik, zaki, lukhman

This is my table, where I spent my time here to do works, including my calligraphy arts work. This table just inovated by me last Sunday, since my books on the table look messy.

7 people I want to tag:

• Amirah Aminuddin
• Claudia Law
• Gabrielle Tan
• James Lai
• Jessie Tan
• Kelvin Jong
  
• Kelvin Ting (purposely added)
  
• Roland Teo

Another School Magazine

If I am not mistaken, around 11.25 am, a postman came to my house while I was busy composing new short story. The postman brought a parcel, which are sent to me, Lukhman bin Abdul Taib. At first, I was surprised and wondering who is the person who sent me that parcel. But then, I quickly remembered that my old best friend was going to send a copy of school magazine to me.

I think I should delete the letter 'h' in my name, since they (not my friend Ahmad Faiz) misspell my name

And this is the cover for this year's The Anthonian magazine.

I was quite surprised with the design for the cover. And the thing that make me even more surprised, I did not expect that the deginer will put the pictures of PMR 2007 8A's students as the decoration for the cover.

The pictures of PMR 2007 8A's candidates - well, it's blur, I know.

Notice the red circle? It's me actually. Well, it's just half of my face, since the other half was covered by Li Mei Yih's head. =.=

Is it just she growing taller or is it me who try to avoid 'something' or being amused?

List of the 'cemerlang' students. Just find a man with songkok on his head, and that's me.

At least, I appeared twice in that school magazine, once in the list of top PMR students, and once at the cover.

Unfortunately, my English short story and two Malay poems that I sent to the editors were not published. Instead, they published other students', including the editors'. =.=

I wonder how Cikgu F***** (as the teacher-in-charge for BM column) and the editor chose the poems? I already sent my poems earlier before I transferred.

I wonder, is this we called fair and square? Or discrimination?

Producing First Masterpiece Process (1)

My first going-to-be masterpiece is the calligraphy of Surah at-Taubah Verses 128 - 129. I started the process from last Monday, and now it's 50% finished for calligraphy part. (Well, maybe after I finished all my masterpieces, I will do the decorations).

These are the progress for today:

Menemui Jalan Keluar

Benarlah, sekiranya kita memohon pertolongan daripada Tuhan agar ditunjukkan jalan keluar bagi sesuatu masalah dengan ikhlas dan bersungguh-sungguh, memang Tuhan akan tunjukkan jalan keluar.

Semalam, saya telah menyatakan di dalam blog ini bahawa saya mengalami masalah untuk mencari buku yang sesuai untuk dijadikan bahan rujukan ketika kuliah hadis tahun hadapan (saja bersiap sedia agar saya mempunyai masa untuk mengulangkaji). Buku pilihan saya ialah Imam Nawawi Al-Wafi Syarah 40 Hadith (gambar kanan). Namun, buku tersebut berharga RM40.00!

Di mana saya boleh mencari wang sebanyak itu? Wang simpanan dompet saya sekarang hanyalah berjumlah RM10.00!

Sehingga pagi tadi, saya masih memikirkan penyelesaian bagi masalah tersebut. Secara tiba-tiba, saya teringatkan buku-buku teks Pendidikan al-Quran dan as-Sunnah dan Pendidikan Syariah Islamiah yang telah saya beli dan kumpul (untuk dijadikan rujukan). Di dalamnya terkandung sebuah bahagian yang khusus menjelaskan secara terperinci hadis yang dikaji dalam setiap buku.

Saya bagaikan dibasahi air hujan setelah lama dilanda kemarau. Saya juga merasakan bahawa diri saya bodoh. (Arghh kenapa aku tak terfikirkan benda ni dari awal?)

Buku-buku teks Pendidikan al-Quran dan as-Sunnah (dua paling atas) dan Pendidikan Syariah Islamiah (dua paling bawah)

Saya segera menyelak-nyelak dan meneliti kandungan keempat-empat buah buku itu. Ya, akhirnya saya mendapat jalan penyelesaiannya!

Alhamdulillah...

My Plans for These Long Holidays

Actually, all students in Malaysia are officially start their holidays on next Saturday, but since St. Joe have so many hari ganti, so all Josephians officially started our holidays today.

Talking about holidays, it will be good opportunity to me after long time of study and school activities. However, these holidays can also be a boredom and nuisance to me if it is too long. So I had plan my activities to avoid such boredom.

Some of these activities I already stated at Sekapur Sirih daripada Saya column. But there are some activities that I could not state at that limited space.

1. Study, Study, and Study...
Even though it is holiday season, I cannot put my studies aside. Since my Additional Mathematics and Biology marks did not show any improvement (indeed, it is decreasing), so I cannot just sit and doing nothing. Maybe I will spent some times to read Bio books and make exercise on Add Maths.

Since my another blog is become more quiet as days passing by, so I cannot let it deserted. So, I made up my mind, insya-Allah, to produces short notes on Pendidikan Islam and Tasawwur Islam to be shared with others (who are taking these subjects). So be updated to get free short notes from me.

2. Literary Works
Do not think that science-stream students cannot have times for literary works. Some of these science-stream students have creative thinking to be potential in creative writing field (such as me and Emmanuel). And the result: just read our works in Ad Astra Volume 58. You can find my works under the pseudonym of Abdul Hakim Lukhman Al-Yusufi.

Since it is holidays, so insya-Allah I will give some times for composing new short stories and poems. And these works I will send to editor of some potential magazines such as AL ISLAM, Tunas Cipta and Dewan Sastera.

The themes? For short stories, probably the themes is about Islamic, motivational and mystery genres. For poems, the theme is about life. So (for approved readers) keep updated with Galeri Abdul Hakim Lukhman for more poems and unpublished short stories.

3. Calligraphy Tasks
I just started learning Arabic calligraphy seriously last year. My ustazah gave me two books of Arabic calligraphy textbooks: both are primary school textbooks. =.= Well, they were her husband's.

And now, I am still an amateur. Now, I try mastering difficult styles of calligraphy such as Thuluth, Diwani family, and Ijazah styles.

Now, I was assigned by Ustazah Mona to produces several masterpieces to be used as decoration in the school surau. seeing these as opportunity, I took that job. I had made up my mind to give one hour in the morning after Fajr prayer to finish my job, insya-Allah. Please wish me to do my best.

This is a part of my unfinished task

4. Translating Friday Sermon Text
I am planning to give more sermons for next year's prayer services. I also decided to use Friday sermons from two Holy Mosques (Makkah's Sacred Mosque and Madinah's Prophet Mosque).

A few months ago, I found a website that collects current Friday sermon texts from both mosques. And the texts are already translated from Arabic to English. Now, my another job is to translate it from English to Malay (but still need to refer to original language texts), insya-Allah.

5. Preparing for Hadith Lecture and Hadith Brochure
During the first meeting of 2008/2009 Highest Board of Directors, the first wish from previous JOSIPA President, Wan Mohd. Fahrurrazi was to continue hadith lecture and hadith brochure. During that meeting, I volunteering myself to do that job.

About preparing hadith brochure to every class, I did not have any problem. But regarding hadith lecture, I need special book for my reference. And I just thought about a book I found at MPH.

Imam Nawawi's Al-Wafi Syarah 40 Hadith

This book is very suitable for my reference, since inside that book there were detailed explanation to every hadith stated in that book (actually there was 42 hadiths, but I do not have idea why Imam Nawawi put the title as 40 Hadith).

However, there was a problem. The price for this book was RM40.00 for softcover. Argh, where I can find that sum of money?


That's for my plans. What about yours?

Friday Prayer with Inspector-General of Police

He is Tan Sri Dato' Musa bin Dato' Haji Hassan, Malaysia's current Inspector-General of Police. Probably you have never heard or have no idea about this man, but do you know that he is the elder brother of Malaysia's famous actor, Dato' Jalaluddin Hassan?

Believe me, he is.

Yesterday, he arrived from Kuala Lumpur to make a visit at Kuching. Since he will be staying here until this evening, so I and the others had the opportunity to perform Friday prayer with him. The Friday prayer was performed at Masjid al-Muttaqin, Kompleks Perumahan Polis Tabuan Jaya.

Masjid al-Muttaqin - very nostalgic. I had once came to this mosque last year.

My father and I had to go from our house at Badruddin Road at 11.15. This is to avoid serious traffic jam at the afternoon. However, we still had to face the same problem. At Masjid al-Muttaqin, we waited for Tan Sri Musa's arrival. However, we did not notice his arrival until we saw he entered the mosque.

The condition insde the mosque before and after friday prayer azan

Today's Friday sermon was delivered by DSP Ibrahim about the significant of human as the ruler of the Earth. I managed to take a video of this sermon, but for five minutes only (to save space and batteries).

Petikan khutbah Jumaat

After the prayer, people in the mosque took the opportunity to shake hands with Tan Sri Musa Hassan. I managed shook his hands. However, when I was about to take his picture shaking hand with my father, I had to capture the picture twice even though the pictures are blur. Embarrassing me. Gila, gila...

I know my skill is very bad...

My father kept blabbering about my clumsiness. Actually it's not because of my clumsiness, but because of less experience in taking such photos. I am not like my father, who had attended several classes and courses about photography. Moreover, I was using Sony Ericsson W910i, which was only have the camera of 2 megapixels.

Maybe I should join Photography Club next year, shouldn't I?

For more photos, please click here.

Kelajuan Masa

Kelajuan masa? Siapa yang boleh kirakan kelajuan masa dengan begitu terperinci? Sesungguhnya ini merupakan kerja yang sia-sia.

Hari Kedua Terakhir Persekolahan

Tinggal sehari lagi untuk berada di St. Joseph. Sememangnya keadaannya tidak begitu ketara perbezaannya berbanding di St. Anthony.

Hari ini, semua kerja-kerja pengurusan kelas dilaksanakan oleh saya sendirian. Menyusun meja kerusi, mengambil kedatangan; semuanya saya lakukan bersendirian. Penolong saya sudah pun 'bercuti' awal atas sebab-sebab tertentu. Tak mengapalah, alang-alang sahaja musim persekolahan akan berakhir.

Usai lagu Ibu Pertiwiku dinyanyikan, keadaan kelas kembali hingar bingar seperti pasar (tapi tidaklah terlalu bising). Kegawatan keadaan itu (sebenarnya tidaklah begitu gawat) menjadi reda buat seketika semasa kedatangan Pn. Sii ke kelas kami. Beliau telah memanggil beberapa nama, termasuklah nama saya. :0

Di luar kelas 4A, kami diberitahu oleh Pn. Sii bahawa ada di antara kami akan menerima anugerah ketua tingkatan, Program NILAM, dan Bintang Murid Terpuji (memandangkan saya telah menerima anugerah yang sama, maka saya rasakan tentu ada sebab pihak penilai tidak memilih nama saya buat kali kedua). Namun, yang membuatkan saya begitu hairan hingga tahap 'hairan bin ajaib' ialah saya mendapat tempat kedua dalam Program NILAM, sedangkan saya baru sahaja berpindah ke SJS dan hanya berkesempatan menulis review untuk beberapa buah buku.

Di dalam kelas, semua pelajar mempunyai aktiviti masing-masing. Ada yang bermain catur, ada yang membaca majalah dan komik, ada yang baru mempelajari cara bermain gitar (semoga berjaya, Roland dan Daryl!), dan tidak kurang juga ada yang bermain permainan komputer Counter-Strike!

Saya berkesempatan bermain catur. Lawan saya ialah Allistair Adam, pengerusi Kelab Lanskap SJS. Dua pertarungan kami sertai. Pertarungan pertama saya segera menyerah kalah sebelum buah catur king saya dicheckmate. Pertarungan kedua pula saya berjaya mengalahkan Adam. Rahsianya ialah dengan membunuh buah-buah catur yang dianggap berkuasa seperti Queen, Bishop, Knight dan Castle. Kali pertama saya berjaya mengalahkan lawan saya.

Saya (seperti biasa) tidak tahu apa yang harus saya lakukan. Memandangkan saya jenis yang tidak boleh duduk diam (kalau bosan), maka saya hari ini kerap berulang alik dari bilik guru ke kelas. Melecet kaki saya dibuatnya.

Bermacam-macam perkara yang saya lakukan. Daripada menulis khat, mempelajari cara bermain gitar, kemudian bermain catur, selepas itu berjalan ke sana ke mari, dan akhirnya membaca komik, masih terasa kebosanan dalam diri saya. Mungkin saya patut bawa manuskrip cerpen saya dan siapkannya di kelas hari ini.

Tinggal beberapa jam lagi, dan bermulalah sekali lagi saat yang membosankan dalam hidup saya....

CUTI PERSEKOLAHAN!

What Should I Do?

New Magazine
Finished performing Zuhr prayer, I quickly went to Sinar Suci Bookstore. I was very eager to buy the latest edition of Tunas Cipta magazine. Now, Tunas Cipta replacing my interest towards Dewan Sastera magazine. Not just cheaper, but also the content of Tunas Cipta is very suitable for the teenagers and those who are interested in literary field.


At first, when I was going to pay the price of the magazine, I was very surprised that the price of Tunas Cipta is only RM2.00. The cashier girl realized that I was surprised, so she rechecked the actual price. Again, I was shocked for the second time. The price shown at the screen was RM4.40. The original price for East Malaysia region was RM5.50.

Whatever.

So, I gladly gave the girl a RM5 note and she gave RM0.60 for the balance.

Tunas Cipta was offically rebirth last month, and this is my second collection of Tunas Cipta magazine. I am awaiting for the next edition.

Praise to God, I managed to arrive at school before raining time.

New President
Alif Azni had resigned offically from being the President of JOSIPA Society.

Today, the Highest Board of Directors made another meeting, with the choosing new presdient as today's agenda. Three potential candidated are selected for the President post: Lukhman (me), Mohd. Qamarul (the Vice-President 2) and Raufa Azlan (Form Lower 6 student).

After so much disucssion, we finally made up our mind to choose Raufa Azlan as our leader.

The second agenda for today's meeting was to discuss about the activities that need to be do next year. Two activities that must be done next year: hadith lecture (every Saturday) and spreading hadith brochure to every class every month. I volunteering myself to do that stuff, since I have interest towards that field.

However, I have no idea how should I do that activities. What is the way should I give lecture? What is the format of the brochure I need to do? And where I can get the moeny for the brochures?

These things made my head felt serabut.

Needs for Changes

Yesterday, I discussed with my friend (who must not be named, to protect his privacies) about several candidates of Lower 6 students to replace Alif Azni holding the position as President in JOSIPA Society. He suggested that to we (The Highest Board of Directors) to choose anybody except our current Head Boy.

At there, he complained about the way choosing our Head Prefect. According to him, Head Boy are chosen based on the vote in the Prefectorial Board (which are just 1/3 from the whole students) and not by students' vote. I kept reminding him that we are not in USA, where Head Student are chosen in a very democratic way.

He also suggested to us that we should change the name of the society. For him, the name JOSIPA is not symboling the image of Muslim students. In other words, the name JOSIPA (according to him) is not very Islamic.

I just be the listener. After all, I just the Vice-President 1.

Insya-Allah, I'm going to bring this topic in our First Highest Board of Directors Meeting (or next) and discuss about it with the other directors.

After all, I cannot force them to use my view. Different people have different view. (now, this is more sounds like Islamic).

:D

* * *

Today, during recess time, I just sat alone, with my Jacob crackers and Syariah Islamiah Studies Form 4 textbook. (Well, I suppose you know what I'm doing with that).

There, Mdm. Liew my Add Maths teacher passed by and saw me reading while eating. Then, she have a look to my book.

After that, she said: "I wish I can read this (textbook)."

I replied: "Never mind, teacher. I will translate it (from Jawi scripts to Rumi scripts)."

Nevertheless, what she said made me think deeply. Isn't it now the time to change? Putting ourselves in the old ways made ourselves outdated. This is going against the principles of Islam, which are suitable to any time, place and situation.

I then remembered what I had read in AL ISLAM magazine.

"Apa yang perlu kita pertahankan adalah prinsip syariah dan cuba cipta fikah yang ada sekarang (fikah baru). Sebab itu saya usulkan terutamanya sekarang ini, diwujudkan fiqah tempatan (local fiqh) supaya kita dapat merumuskan keperluan-keperluan kita. Kalau tidak, banyak benda yang kita tidak boleh buat, contohnya aktiviti pemeliharaan buaya, cacing dan lintah.

"Kalau kita lihat realiti sekarang dan pakai ketentuan fikah lama, tentulah kita tidak boleh bergerak ke hadapan. Contohnya, dalam kitab-kitab lama tertulis, buaya itu tidak ada faedah, maka ia bukan harta. Begitu juga kedudukan cacing dan lintah. Jadi, bila ia bukan harta maka tidak boleh dijual beli. Kalau dijual beli maka haram. Sedangkan sekarang ini keuntungan daripada penternakan haiwan-haiwan seperti cacing dan lintah ini begitu besar sekali, malah sudah menjadi satu manfaat kepada manusia," jelasnya.

Sementara itu, beliau (Datuk Paduka Dr. Mahmood Zuhdi Abdul Majid) menyelar ulama sekarang yang terlalu terikat dengan paradigma sempit. Kata beliau, kalau ulama zaman dulu itu masih hidup, tentu ulama zaman dulu itu marah dengan ulama kita sekarang ini kerana paradigma mereka terikat sangat.

Jelas beliau, perkara begini berlaku disebabkan mereka tidak diberi latihan untuk mengkritik dan menganalisis. Terlampau takut untuk berubah. Ada di kalangan mereka ini ortodoks. Jadi, orang-orang beginilah yang menyebabkan masyarakat ragu terhadap Islam. Orang kata, Islam ini sudah habis fungsinya dan hilang asalnya, dan sebagainya.

Extract from AL ISLAM magazine November 2008 edition.

Please, think beyond what Dr. Mahmood Zuhdi had said.