[.definisi.]

lumrah manusia itu mudah. tapi kita cuba untuk exploitasi sehingga menjadi sesuatu unit yang rumit. hidup itu kita yang corakkan. walau bagaimana kelam warnanya kita cuba untuk mencalit dengan warna-warna pelangi. cukuplah dengan HIPOKRISI dan PEMBOHONGAN. tak salah kalau jadi diri sendiri.... :)

[.merangkak.]

memang mudah untuk kita gapai awan jika kita berada di puncak. tapi kita lupa masih ada yang 'merangkak' di bawah sana. meraba-raba pasir mencari sebutir permata. entahkan dapat entahkan tidak. tatkala memandang mereka takut untuk mendongak terlalu tinggi, takut nanti terkena silau cahaya. tapi cahaya itu tidak selalunya ada kerana hidup ini kadangkala dilselubungi gelapnya mendung. mungkin kita perlu sedar dan 'bersyukur'. sejuknya puncak ini bukan untuk selama-lamanya.

[.monologue.]

aku sudah penat  'terlukis' dalam potret sendiri. menjejak satu irama yang bukan aku lagunya. melintasi jalan-jalan malam, dan aku bukan neonnya...

keluhan demi keluhan terbit dari hati kecil ini, entahlah... aku bagaikan terperangkap dalam dunia yang tidak pernah aku impikan.

aku letih dan semakin tenat. aku bukan lagi aku yang seperti dulu. HIPOKRIT. istilah yang mungkin tepat untuk aku...aku inginkan kehidupan lama. bebas merenung awan. bagaikan aku bisa terbang sendiri di langit Tuhan yang serba luas. kalaulah aku dapat jadi seperti dulu...

tapi ini jalan yang kau pilih!

ya, jalan yang aku pilih tapi itu bukan yang aku dapat. aku terpaksa demi cita-cita.

kau menyesal? tiada jalan untuk kau berpatah balik. ini yang kau pilih. dan kau berada ditengah impian kau.

kalaulah aku dapat memutar masa...

belum tentu! tak semudah itu. salahkah kalau kau menjadi kuat. bagaikan pepasir di tepi lautan yang sentiasa teguh meski dilanda badai?

aku tidak sekuat itu! aku lemah! aku tewas dalam menggapai cita-citaku sendiri!

kau mampu. yakin dengan diri sendiri itu kunci utama dalam megejar kejayaan. buktinya kau sudah ditahap ini. insan lain belum tentu berjaya hingga tahap ini.

aku dah tak larat. mungkin ini titik noktah buat segalanya. jika mereka tahu betapa aku impukan kehidupan yang dulu.

kau mesti kuat!

mesti kuat!

dan kuat!

seandainya.... kuatkanlah hati ini Tuhan...

setelah sekian lama tintaku berbahasa mereka.

[. Happy Eid Mubarak. ]

Wishing you an Eid you will never forget! No shadows to depress you, Only joys to surround you, God himself to bless you, these are my wishes for you, Today, tomorrow, and every day. Happy Eid Mubarik everyone!

p/s: I'm going back to Johore tomorrow! ^_____^

[.brainless thursday.]

Another subject was added. Headache!

[.Fasting Ramadan.]

"O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you just as it was prescribed for those before you. Perhaps you would attain piety!" 

(Quran 2:183)

Why do we need to fast? It is our experience that temptations and ways of the world tend to spoil our purity and austerity. Thus we indulge in food all of the time, snacking and nibbling the whole day, heading to obesity. We drink too much coffee, or tea, or carbonated drinks. Some sexaholics cannot stay away from sex unless they do it at least once or more a day. When we argue, we leave our decency aside and resort to vulgar talk and even physical fighting.

Now when one is fasting, he or she cannot do all of that. When he looks at the mouth watering food, he cannot even taste it and he has to give up snacking and nibbling as well as smoking cigarettes if he does. No constant coffee, tea or Coke drinking either. Sexual passions have to be curtailed and when he is provoked to fight, he says " I am fasting that I cannot respond to your provocation". To achieve God consciousness or God nearness, a better word, we are advised to do additional prayer and read the Quran.

___________________________________BENEFITS OF RAMADAN_________________________________

Ramadan is a month of self-regulation and self training, with the hope that this training will last beyond the end of Ramadan. If the lessons learned during Ramadan, whether in terms of dietary intake or righteousness, are carried on after Ramadan, there effects will be long lasting. Moreover, the type of food taken during Ramadan does not have any selective criteria of crash diets such as those which are protein only or fruit only type diets. Everything that is permissible is taken in moderate quantities.

The difference between Ramadan and total fasting is the timing of the food; during Ramadan, we basically miss lunch and take an early breakfast and do not eat until dusk. Abstinence from water for 8 to 10 hours is not necessarily bad for health and in fact, it causes concentration of all fluids within the body, producing slight dehydration. The body has its own water conservation mechanism; in fact, it has been shown that slight dehydration and water conservation, at least in plant life, improve their longevity.

The physiological effect of fasting includes lowering of blood sugar, lowering of cholesterol and lowering of the systolic blood pressure. In fact, Ramadan fasting would be an ideal recommendation for the treatment of mild to moderate, stable, non-insulin diabetes, obesity, and essential hypertension. In 1994 the first International Congress on "Health and Ramadan", held in Casablanca, entered 50 extensive studies on the medical ethics of fasting. While improvement in many medical conditions was noted; however, in no way did fasting worsen any patients' health or their baseline medical condition. On the other hand, patients who are suffering from severe diseases, whether type I diabetes or coronary artery disease, kidney stones, etc., are exempt from fasting and should not be allowed to fast.

There are psychological effects of fasting as well. There is a peace and tranquility for those who fast during the month of Ramadan. Personal hostility is at a minimum, and the crime rate decreases. Muslims take advice from the Prophet who said, "If one slanders you or aggresses against you, say I am fasting."

This psychological improvement could be related to better stabilization of blood glucose during fasting as hypoglycemia after eating, aggravates behavior changes. There is a beneficial effect of extra prayer at night. This not only helps with better utilization of food but also helps in energy output. There are 10 extra calories output for each unit of the prayer. Again, we do not do prayers for exercise, but a mild movement of the joints with extra calorie utilization is a better form of exercise. Similarly, recitation of the Quran not only produces a tranquility of heart and mind, but improves the memory.

source: echo-of-islam