Central Intelligence

Wanted to watch Central Intelligence tonight because my friend rated that movie 10/10 like whaaaaaaaat??? but unfortunately the internet is really slow tonight so nvm lol. Therefore I decided to write a new post instead.

So here it is.

Let's talk about a short surah.

This surah is particularly dedicated to the biggest enemy of Islam. Can you guess???




Yezza that's correct. Suratul Masad.

The surah is about Abu Lahab and his wife.
The question is, what did they do that Allah was sooooo angry at them? That He specially dedicated a surah to them? To answer these questions we gotta know them first.

So here is some short biography of them.

Abu Lahab was an uncle to Rasulullah. Blood related. We all know that.
He was a grandson of Hashim and from from hashimi tribe. Two of his sons married to two daughters of Rasulullah.

His real name was Abdul Uzza which means the slave of Uzza (one of the false idol around kaabah).
People called him Abu Lahab. Do you know why? Because he was soooo good-looking. Seriously I'm not kiddin' you. He had some kind of beautiful reddish complexion on his skin. He was soooo good looking he looked like a flame that sticks out in the night because of his skin.

His wife is Ummu Jamil. Well you know what jamil means right? She was sooooo gorgeously beautiful. She was a granddaughter of Umayyah and needless to say from Umayyah tribe.

So yeah they're like pinang dibelah dua. Sama cantik sama padan.
They were not just good looking, they were the most famous and wealthy people too. They got everything. Both are politically influential. Anak ketua tribe kan. Just imagine everyone wanted to be like them. They were like a celebrity. Diorang ni memang disanjung gila-gilalah.

Senang cakap, perfect couple! Like Kate Middleton and Prince William or Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Dia ni hensem sebenarnya kalau tak botak tengah lol. Kesian dia banyak sangat fikir masalah negara.

But why Allah was so mad at them? Am talking about Abu Lahab and his wife not William and Kate. lol

The thing is to be a musyrik is one thing. But to be a musyrik, and a kafir, and an enemy to Rasulullah is way too worse. That's the worst thing you can be.

They were full of hatred toward Rasulullah.

They're a neighbour of Rasulullah. Their houses were separated by a wall and on top of the wall there was a space. You remember P. Ramlee's Masam Masam Manis? You remember when Cikgu Shaari throws kulit pisang into Norkiah's room and Norkiah throws rubbish in return? Haa their houses were something like that.

So what happened was, everytime nabi recites the Quran, Abu Lahab will throw rubbish and animal skin etc into his house. Kuanghajo kan? Even in arabian culture, they have a sense of nobility that they don't do such a thing to their neighbours. But Abu Lahab even crossed that line.

After Islam came, his sons divorced nabi's daughters.
Fast forward, his sons spit to nabi. Then nabi made a doa. Abu Lahab was so terrified by the doa. He was so paranoid. I don't remember the doa but I think it has something to do with his sons la kot. So Abu Lahab so terrified that he uses animals to guard his sons' tent so that nothing won't happen to them. But one night, there was a lion came and passed through the animals and the animals didn't even make a sound. Subhanallah.The lion got into the tent and killed his sons.

Another thing is he celebrated the loss of the son of Rasullulah. When he heard the news, he was overwhelmed by joyness. He's dancing and singing. He enjoyed the news. The news of his own nephew death. What kind of person enjoys the death of his own flesh and blood?????

He also cursed the religion. Because this religion makes him equal to others. Because that is what Islam does. Islam makes everyone equal. When we stand before Him in prayer, our worldly status don't matter anymore, we are all His slave. Besides, if he accept this religion, politically he won't be a leader anymore. Rasulullah will.

He cursed Rasulullah when he made an open invitation to Islam. Even after this surah was revealed, he still took it as a joke.

Actually there's a lot of interesting story regarding this surah that I want to share here but I think this post is long enough so nvm. Maybe I will continue next time.


Till then,
Ciao!

2:30 vs 7:12

Let's compare and contrast these two familiar situations.

If we don't study this carefully, it seems like both the malaikat and iblees are trying to act against Allah.

The malaikat seems to object the decision made by Allah. Like, "You gonna make humans as khalifah? Like seriously? They gonna be criminals. They gonna destroy the earth. Why dont You choose us? We never do bad things like them."

Whereas, the iblees disobeyed the command given by Allah. No need example here because it is clearly stated in the ayat.

The second thing is, between the statements given by malaikat and iblees, which one is more offensive to human? The statement of malaikat. Why?

Because iblees only said that we are made of clay. While the malaikat said we are corrupt and love to shed blood. I mean what's the big deal when people said we made of clay, but to be called as criminals???? That is a big deal. Are we that bad in their eyes? Honestly, which statement you feel offended when you first listened to?

Now hold on there. Calm yourself. I know it's disturbing to be on iblees side. Hahaha

Ok back to our topic.

The third thing is, in malaikat situation the story just ended there. That was it. Allah answered their question and everything was ok. "I know what you dont know so let us move on." Allah seems to be pretty chill about this whole situation, isn't it? C'mon where is the rage???? Where is the anger???? Weren't they trying to object Your decision????

On the other hand, the iblees were very unfortunate. Because of their statement and their disobedience, Allah was very mad at them that He kicked them out of the heaven. Serve your right!

But why did these happened?
Both were trying to act against Allah. But why did He only get mad at the iblees but not at the malaikat?

Why did Allah reacted differently toward these situations?

The answers hidden in their statements.

Look at what they said carefully.

"Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?"

We declare Your praise and sanctify You. Or in arabic nusabbihu bihamdika wanuqaddisu laka.

Kami bertasbih kepada Mu
Kami bertahmid kepada Mu
Kami mensucikan Mu dari segala-galanya.

This is the statement of humbleness.

It is like, "we are asking You this because we are sincerely confuse. We are not trying to object Your decision. Your decision is the best. Kami mensucikan Mu dari segala-galanya. You are free of weakness. You are the Great. It is just that, because of our weaknesses, because of our lack of understanding, our lack of mind, we are unable to comprehend Your decision. We are honestly confuse. No strings attached here."

Because of this humble statement, Allah didn't get mad at them. :)

Now what about the iblees?

"[ Allah ] said, "What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?" [Satan] said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay."

I guess no explanation needed here. Haha. It's obviously they were being arrogant as the next ayat says...

"[ Allah ] said, "Descend from Paradise, for it is not for you to be arrogant therein. So get out; indeed, you are of the debased."

Humble vs arrogant.

Sometimes it has nothing to do with what you say but why you say it.

Wallahualam.


That's it! Moga Allah redha.

2:28

I just found out something very cool, very amazing, and mind-boggling. And I would like to jot it down here.

"How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were dead and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned" [2:28]

There are few stages of life mentioned in this ayat. Let's go through them one by one.

1st stage: When you were dead
2nd stage: He brought you to life
3rd stage: He will cause you to die
4th stage: He will bring you (back) to life

If you notice, the 1st stage is when you USED TO BE DEAD. 

But the thing is, NOT EXISTING and BEING DEAD are two DIFFERENT things. 
Let say ada kawan kita meninggal and then kita pergi ikut kebumi. Adakah arwah kawan kita tu dah tak wujud? Dia still wujud, jenazah dia ada kat situ, cuma dia dah meninggal. They are not some kind of imaginary friends yang tak pernah wujud kan.

Someone can only be dead if they are alive in the first place, yes?

So why does Allah said "when you were dead"? Are we alive before we were born into this world? What does that means? 

Yes, we are 'alive' before we were born into this world. Macam mana tu?? 

Our ruh.

Long story short, the ruh of ALL human beings starting from Adam to akhir zaman were created at the same time. ALL AT THE SAME TIME. We used to be in the company of Allah.

In Islam, being dead and sleeping are closely related. Do you remember doa tidur? Do you remember [36:52]?

When we were in our mother's womb, Allah took that sleeping soul of us and put it in our jasad.
Unlike our jasad, ruh does not have gender, sexuality, race, skin color whatsoever. 

There were a lot of things happened back then. But Allah let us know only a liiiitle bit of conversation between Him and us.
Do you remember when our ruh made a deal with Allah? That we gonna be His slave? That we admit He is our Rabb? That we gonna obey Him? 

Do you remember? Me neither.

Now can you imagine for how many billion light years we were in the company of Allah? And do you know what happens when we spend too much time with someone? We started to be influenced by them. As what Rasulullah said, kalau kita berkawan dengan penjual minyak wangi kita akan bau wangi and vice versa.

Here comes the mind-boggling part.

Allah is the most merciful. Aren't we, as humans, are merciful too?
Allah is full of wisdom. Didn't we have wisdom too?
Allah is Al-Khaliq. Didn't we created things too?

We were with Allah for sooooooo long that we have a glimpse of Him. Iykwim.

Subhanallah... This is so amazing.

So basically, we were made up of jasad and ruh. And we have to remember that jasad was made in this world using worldly materials. Jasad was made in China Dunya. While ruh was made in heaven using heavenly material. 

That's why our bodies always crave for worldly things because they were made here.When bodies get hungry, we feed them with worldly things like food, entertainment, wealth, fame etc. But these same things that satisfy the bodies will never ever satisfy the ruh.

Why???

Because ruh is made in heaven. It craves something from heaven.
So what is the food for ruh? What is it that comes from heaven? 

It's the REVELATION! [2:27]

Wahyu.

The words of Allah.

The holy Quran.

After knowing this, I felt very sorry for my ruh.

I've done so much injustice to my ruh.
I felt like this ruh very much wanted to leave this body and return to where it used to be.
I felt like it suffers a lot to be in this filthy, full of sins body.
It is starved. Almost to death.
I felt like it is longing to go back home.
It is like a helpless child who can do nothing to escape this worldly prison.

Yeah it's kinda weird i know.. It's like i wish for my own death... but idk I got this feeling somehow...

Mia II

*Kakak and Mia are comparing air botol siapa lagi banyak*

Kakak: Haa air kakak banyak, air Mia sikit je, elehhh
Mia: Cikya, Kakak berlagak sangatlah


Hahahahahahahaha nomeyyy :')