Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The One I Feed





A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.

He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." 

The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?"

The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."


~ Native American Story ~

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Preoccupied With the Business of The World


(image credit : Mayank Bhatnagar - graphicreflection.org)

The lion of destiny is dragging our souls,
preoccupied with the business of the world,
into the jungles of death.
People fear poverty,
plunged as they are up to their necks in briny water.
If they feared the Creator of poverty,
treasures would reveal themselves.
Through fear of affliction,
they sink into the very essence of affliction:
in their quest for life in the world,
they have lost it.

Mathnawi III:2204-2207
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996



 

Confucius's Confusion

A student asked Confucious: "What surprises you most about mankind?"

Confucius answered: "They lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. By thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future and they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived ..."

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Amazing Numbers In Qur'an

Very interesting findings by Dr. Tariq Al Swaidan... might grasp your attention...


Dr.Tariq Al Swaidan discovered some verses in the Holy Qur'an that mention one thing is equal to another, i.e. men are equal to women. Although this makes sense grammatically, the astonishing fact is that the number of times the word man appears in theHoly Qur'an is 24 and number of times the word woman appears is also 24, therefore not only is this phrase correct in the grammatical sense but also true mathematically, 

Upon further analysis of various verses, he discovered that this is consistent throughout the whole Holy Qur'an where it says one thing is like another. See below for astonishing result of  the words mentioned number of times in Arabic Holy Qur'an
  • Dunia (one name for life) 115... Aakhirat (one name for the life after this world) 115
  • Malaika (Angels) 88 ... Shayteen (Satan) 88
  • Life 145 ...... Death 145
  • Benefit 50 .... Corrupt 50
  • People 50 .... Messengers 50
  • Eblees (king of devils) 11.....  Seek refuge from Eblees 11
  • Museebah (calamity) 75 ..... Thanks! 75
  • Spending (Sadaqah) 73 .... Satisfaction 73
  • People who are mislead 17.....Dead people 17 
  • Muslimeen 41 ....Jihad 41 
  • Gold 8 ...Easy life 8 
  • Magic 60 ....Fitnah (dissuasion, misleading)! 60
  • Zakat (Taxes Muslims pay to the poor) 32...Barakah (blessings of wealth) 32
  • Mind 49 ....Noor 49
  • Tongue 25 ....Sermon 25
  • Desire 8 .... Fear 8
  • Speaking publicly 18 ...Publicizing 18
  • Hardship114. ... Patience114
  • Muhammed 4 ....Sharee'ah (Muhammed's teaching s) 4
Wanna check it out to prove it yourself?

And amazingly enough have a look how many times the following words appear:
  • Salat 5 , Month 12, Day 365,
  • Sea 32 , Land 13
  • Sea + land = 32 + 13 = 45
  • Sea = 32/45*100 = 71.11111111%
  • Land =13/45*100 = 28.88888889%
  • Sea + land 100.00%
Modern science has only recently proven that the water covers 71.111%of the earth, while the land covers28.889% .

Is this a coincidence? Question is that, "Who taught Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) all this?"

Sunday, May 01, 2011

No Escaping But Surrender



Friends, the Beloved has blocked every escape:
we are lame deer and He a prowling lion.
Cornered by a fierce and blood-thirsty lion
what is there to do but surrender?
This Beloved, like the sun, neither sleeps nor eats:
He makes souls sleepless and hungry,
saying,

 "Come, be Me, or one with Me in nature,
so when I unveil Myself, you may behold My Face.
And if you had not beheld it,
how would you have become so distraught?
You were earth, and now
you long to be quickened with spiritual life."

Already the Beloved has bestowed gifts
from that world of spacelessness,
otherwise why would your spiritual eye keep gazing there?

Mathnawi VI: 576-581
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance
Threshold Books, 1996

Thursday, April 21, 2011

True Nature


Recognizing a person's true nature 


If in the darkness of ignorance,

you don't recognize a person's true nature,

look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.


Mathnawi IV: 1640
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

Monday, April 11, 2011

Humankind


Here’s a question that was posed to the Dalai Lama: 

“What thing about humanity surprises you the most?”


His answer was as follows: 

“Man"
 "Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money, 
Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health,
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present, 
And as a result he does not live in the present or the future, 
And he lives as if he’s never going to die, 
And then he dies having never really lived."

Friday, April 01, 2011

Koleksi - Air Masin & Air Tawar

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ALLAH IS GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! 

Kisah Air Masin & Air Tawar

"Dan Dialah yang membiarkan dua laut mengalir (berdampingan) ; yang ini tawar lagi segar dan yang lain masin lagi pahit; dan Dia jadikan antara keduanya dinding dan batas yang menghalangi." (Q.S Al Furqan:53)
Jika Anda termasuk orang yang gemar menonton rancangan TV `Discovery ' pasti kenal Mr.Jacques Yves Costeau , ia seorang ahli oceanografer dan ahli selam terkemuka dari Perancis. Orang tua yang berambut putih ini sepanjang hidupnya menyelam ke perbagai dasar samudera di seantero dunia dan membuat filem dokumentari tentang keindahan alam dasar laut untuk ditonton di seluruh dunia.
Pada suatu hari ketika sedang melakukan eksplorasi di bawah laut, tiba-tiba ia menemui beberapa kumpulan mata air tawar-segar yang sangat sedap rasanya kerana tidak bercampur/tidak melebur dengan air laut yang masin di sekelilingnya, seolah-olah ada dinding atau membran yang membatasi keduanya.
Fenomena ganjil itu memeningkan Mr. Costeau dan mendorongnya untuk mencari penyebab terpisahnya air tawar dari air masin di tengah-tengah lautan. Ia mulai berfikir, jangan-jangan itu hanya halusinansi atau khalayan sewaktu menyelam. Waktu pun terus berlalu setelah kejadian tersebut, namun ia tak kunjung mendapatkan jawapan yang memuaskan tentang fenomena ganjil tersebut.
Sampai pada suatu hari ia bertemu dengan seorang profesor muslim, kemudian ia pun menceritakan fenomena ganjil itu. Profesor itu teringat pada ayat Al Quran tentang bertemunya dua lautan ( surat Ar-Rahman ayat 19-20) yang sering diidentikkan dengan Terusan Suez . Ayat itu berbunyi "Marajal bahraini yaltaqiyaan, bainahumaa barzakhun laa yabghiyaan..." Artinya: "Dia biarkan dua lautan bertemu, di antara keduanya ada batas yang tidak boleh ditembus." Kemudian dibacakan surat Al Furqan ayat 53 di atas.
Selain itu, dalam beberapa kitab tafsir, ayat tentang bertemunya dua lautan tapi tak bercampur airnya diertikan sebagai lokasi muara sungai, di mana terjadi pertemuan antara air tawar dari sungai dan air masin dari laut. Namun tafsir itu tidak menjelaskan ayat berikutnya dari surat Ar-Rahman ayat 22 yang berbunyi "Yakhruju minhuma lu ' lu`u wal marjaan" ertinya "Keluar dari keduanya mutiara dan marjan." Padahal di muara sungai tidak ditemukan mutiara."
Terpesonalah Mr. Costeau mendengar ayat-ayat Al Qur ' an itu, melebihi kekagumannya melihat keajaiban pemandangan yang pernah dilihatnya di lautan yang dalam. Al Qur ' an ini mustahil disusun oleh Muhammad yang hidup di abad ke tujuh, suatu zaman saat belum ada peralatan selam yang canggih untuk mencapai lokasi yang jauh terpencil di kedalaman samudera. Benar-benar suatu mukjizat, berita tentang fenomena ganjil 14 abad yang silam akhirnya terbukti pada abad 20. Mr. Costeau pun berkata bahawa Al Qur ' an memang sesungguhnya kitab suci yang berisi firman Allah, yang seluruh kandungannyamutlak benar. Dengan seketika dia pun memeluk Islam.
Allahu Akbar...! Mr. Costeau mendapat hidayah melalui fenomena teknologi kelautan. Maha Benar Allah yang Maha Agung. Shadaqallahu Al `Azhim.Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda: "Sesungguhnya hati manusia akan berkarat sebagaimana besi yang dikaratkan oleh air." Bila seorang bertanya, "Apakah caranya untuk menjadikan hati-hati ini bersih kembali?" Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda, "Selalulah ingat mati dan membaca Al Quran."

 

Jika anda seorang penyelam, maka anda harus mengunjungi Cenote Angelita , Mexico . Disana ada sebuah gua. Jika anda menyelam sampai kedalaman 30 meter, airnya air segar (tawar), namun jika anda menyelam sampai kedalaman lebih dari 60 meter, airnya menjadi air asin, lalu anda dapat melihat sebuah "sungai" di dasarnya, lengkap dengan pohon dan daun daunan.

Namun pengkaji mengatakan, itu bukanlah sungai biasa, itu adalah lapisan hidrogen sulfida, namun nampak seperti sungai... luar biasa bukan? Lihatlah betapa hebatnya ciptaan Allah s.w.t.

Orang yang mahal harga diri adalah orang yang rendah hati serta miskin di hatinya, rendah nada suaranya bila berbicara, tidak banyak bicara (yang bukan-bukan) , tidak banyak kerenah, kuat berfikir, berani menghadapi kenyataan, tenang, kuat berusaha dan apabila sulit hatinya sabar.
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