5 Productive Qualities for Effective Studying

Many people read books but when asked to recall, they struggle to recall. Are you one of them? Have you been attending classes of knowledge, eager to learn about the deen, but feel you’re not retaining anything? During the lesson do you say to yourself “there’s no way I’m going to forget this point so no need writing it down”; and then a week later you cannot recall a line of the session you attended?

Whenever you go to a class or read a book, or even listen to an Islamic talk on your mp3 player, there are some productive attitudes before studying you should try to implement. Below are just a few attitudes one should have:

Ikhlas

You need to ask yourself “why am I learning or reading this book”? “Is it so people can call me a knowledgeable person”? “Is it to win in debates”? Is it to draw people’s faces towards you? If any of these questions apply this is the case then you will not benefit at all in your studies.

Ibn Masud said, “Knowledge is not constant narration, rather it is a light that is placed in the heart.

“Indeed those who fear Allah are those who have knowledge.” [Surah Fatir verse 28]

Sufyaan Ath-Thawree said: ”The excellence of knowledge is due only to the fact that it causes a person to fear and obey Allah, otherwise it is just like anything else.”

Intention

The very first thing one must take into consideration is that the knowledge you are about to learn is ibadah, it is a form of private worship, an action between you and Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala).

Sufyaan Ath-Thawree said: ”I have never found anything more difficult than my own intentions.”

Look at your deeds, those that are done in public and those done secretly, are your public deeds more than your secret deeds, do you enjoy the public deeds more than the secret? If that is the case you need to deeply look at your intention. Who are you doing it for, the people or Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala)?

Taqwa

The likeness of the one who remembers his Rabb and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

The student of knowledge should begin with the Name of Allah and be aware that Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) is watching them. This will bring barakah to your studies insha’Allah.

“Whoever attempts to be successful in seeking knowledge while insisting upon excessive eating, drinking, and sleeping is attempting the impossible.” [Excerpts taken from book ‘The Manners of the Knowledge Seeker’]

Silence

Sometimes when you learn and have studied you are tempted to make your tongue loose, and you sometimes like to talk more than you like to listen.

“Whoever believes in the last day let him say what is good or remain silent” [Bukhari]

Imam Shafi’ee said if you wish to say something, let him think, if you conclude that there is no harm, speak. If you conclude that your words will bring about harm, do not speak.

Luqman (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked “How did you become so wise? He replied: I do not ask for what I don’t need, and I don’t speak about what does not concern me.” [Excerpts taken from book ‘The Manners of the Knowledge Seeker’]

Humility

Another attitude we should have is to respect our teachers and know that there is someone always more knowledgeable than ourselves.

Imam Shafi’ee said, ”I would turn the pages of my books in front of Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) in a very soft and quite way so that he wouldn’t be bothered by noise, out of respect for him.”

Ibn Abbas: “I humbled myself as a student so I became honourable as a teacher.”

Conclusion

When one learns knowledge, it should humble them. If you say, I see knowledgeable people with bad manners, what you see is mere speech that they concoct up with their tongues at times, and reject at times with their hearts. This is not sincere knowledge that has penetrated into their lives.

In order to be productive we need to learn manners, manners with knowledge. Abdullah ibn Mubarak said: “I spent thirty years learning manners and twenty years learning knowledge.”

The next time we want to study let us see if we can have these 5 simple productive attitudes to increase the benefits of our efforts.

SOURCE: http://www.productivemuslim.com/5-productive-qualities-for-effective-studying/

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WAN NUR HASNIZA BINTI WAN MUSTAPHA RMUTP

Tolong Fotostet

Hi~ I have something to share here. Some random stuff.

Hari ini adalah hari pertama Sepiah bekerja, jadi masa mula-mula kerja

nie, dia kena la baik-baik dengan boss. Jam dah pukul 6:30 petang Sepiah

bersiap-siap untuk balik. Tiba-tiba nambak boss dia (En Zain) dok dekat 1

mesin shredder tengah nak letak kertas kat situ dan terkial-kial nak

mengendalikan mesin tu.

Bila ternampak Sepiah belum balik, En Zain panggil Sepiah “Sepiah, awak

tau cara operate this thing?” Sepiah jawap “Sure, Tekan je button ni”

“Dokumen ni penting ni, seketari saya lupa nak buat sebelum dia balik

tadi” terang En Zain. “Awak boleh buatkan untuk saya?” sambung En Zain.

“Boleh” jawap Sepiah dengan confident lalu tekan button dan dokumen tu

shredded la. Kemudian ada bunyi telefon dan En Zain angkat, setelah

bercakap seketika, En Zain memberitahu Sepiah…

“Sepiah, boleh tak dokumen yg awak photostat tadi tu buat 3 copy”

Has: my father has one shop - for photostat n all (MOST) My Own Service Trading

Promoter. LOL

source : lawaksengal.com

SEX Itu Apa?

Alkisah seorang anak perempuan yang baru masuk tadika bertanya kepada mummynya..

‘Mummy, mummy? sex itu apa mi?’..



Terkedulah si ibu.. Terasalah akanarus  kemodenan zaman sekarang yang berjaya membuatkan manusia berfikiran lebih terbuka.

Sesuai dengan konsep pendidikan seks yang sedang hangat diperkatakan, mulalah si ibu mencari jawapan yg sesuai untuk anaknya dengan harapan anaknya takkan tertinggal dalam arus pendidikan sejagat.

Maka si ibu pun mula memberikan jawapan mengenai apa itu sex dengan perumpamaan antara kumbang dan bunga, diikuti dengan pembentukkan bayi dalam kandungan dan

diselitkan juga dengan kisah percintaan antara dirinya dan suaminya dari zaman universiti lagi sehinggalah kepada kehadiran si comel iaitu anak gadisnya yang bertanya itu..

Selepas begitu panjang lebar dan teliti memberikan jawapan, secara tiba-tiba si anak menangis teresak-esk.. Si ibu kehairanan dan bertanya mengapa dia bersikap seperti itu.

Si anak menjawab dalam tangisan.. Jawapan mummy tu panjang, ruangan jawabannya pendek saja ni…seraya menyerahkan buku latihan yang tertulis kat depannya (cover)..

NAME:………..

SEX:…………

Class:……….

Subject:……….

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In The Midst of Hardship

In The Midst of Hardship by Latiff Mohidin

At dawn they returned home

their soaky clothes torn

and approached the stove

their limbs marked by scratches

their legs full of wounds

but on their brows

there was not a sign of despair

The whole day and night just passed

they had to brave the horrendous flood

in the water all the time

between bloated carcasses

and tiny chips of tree barks

desperately looking for their son’s

albino buffalo that was never found

They were born amidst hardship

and grew up without a sigh or a complaint

now they are in the kitchen, making

jokes while rolling their ciggarete leaves

Hello Everyone (well reader of course, walaupun sikit. ha5)~ xD

Dah lama x update blog.

well, I've been busy as an inventor. LOL <--poyo.

Humm, nk share yg atas nye poem, by Latiff Mohidin translated by Salleh Ben Joned.

Mase form 5 dulu xlah blajar novel nie, nie kementerian bru je wt kuar suruh blajar.

Straight to the point,

"This poem is about a family who faces  hardship whereby their son’s albino buffalo is nowhere to be found. A flood occurs and they go out to find the buffalo. They reach home early in the morning without the buffalo and yet there is no  sign of despair in them. Meanwhile, they can still crack jokes and roll the cigarettes."

yg nie version malay punye:

Dalam Bencana

Mereka pulang ke rumah

waktu subuh hari

dengan pakaian robek basah

menghampiri api tungku

lengan mereka penuh calar

kaki mereka penuh luka

tapi di kening mereka

tidak kelihatan rasa kecewa

Sehari semalaman

mereka mengharungi banjir

berendam antara bangkai ternakan

dan serpihan kulit tumbuhan

kerbau balar si buyung

masih belum ditemui.

Mereka dilahirkan dalam bencana

tidak ada keluhan dan kutukan

kini mereka berjenaka di dapur

sambil menggulung rokok daun.

1978

Okay. Dlm panjang2 post nie, point sy sikit jew.yg psl kesusahan 2 sume dh faham kn? :)

Question 1: ape perasaan membaca yg dalam kte punye bahasa ibunda dan bahasa lain?

Question 2: selepas ditranslate kan, adakah yg disampaikan sama dengan yg telah ditranslatekan?

to cut to the chase:

Bahasa Asal bibble klo x silap Herbew. 

dan telah ditranslatekan oleh beberapa org secara berperingkat(copy n paste)

semasa sebelum printer/mesin cetak dicipta.

Kalau kte tengok sekarang, bibble nie ade byk version dan isi2 dalamannya

banyak berbeza antara satu sama lain.

Sebagai muslim/muslimah, kita wajib mempercayai kitab2 terdahulu termasuk 

Injil(yg original)

Question: salahkan bagi org Islam membaca injil?

soalan dari saya: kenapa nk baca injil? dah memang khatam ke sume sudut dari Al Quran?

ha7. 

Okay, klau saya salah tolong betulkan.

Dalam Islam terdapat pergerakan dakwah melalui Perbandingan Agama

'Comparative Religion'.

Pernah dengar Ahmed Deedat x?

link: www.ahmed-deedat.co.za/

atau tanya ajew pakcik google.

Shaikh Ahmed Deedat nie salah seorang umala' dalam

'Comparative Religion'.

Beliau mengkaji bibble dan kitab2 agama lain 

untuk menunjukkan bukti sedikit persamaan dalam agama

dan menunjukkan bukti kebenaran Al Quran.

"Pada awal dakwah rasulullah, baginda melarang
daripada membacanya(injil) 
disebabkan umat Islam pada masa itu sedikit pada jumlah dan masih
lemah imannya. 'Pada awal waktu dakwah- "

Dekat Malaysia pon ade yg membawa comparative religion nie dalam dakwah mereka.

salah seorangnya, Bro Shah Kirit. 

Setelah beliau mengkaji tentang Al Quran dan Islam, saudara kita nie masuk Islam.

(kalau x silap la, ke asalnya sbb perkahwinan?? nevermind.)

Ckp pasal Al Quran nie, mesti sume dah taw pasal kenapa Al Quran punye kandungan

dijaga dan x berubah sehingga kiamat kan?

Jadi berbalik kpd yg tadi...

***

Tabligh atau penyampai ialah salah satu sifat rasul.

dan kita wajib berdakwah. Tp x semistinya berdakwah 2 kne jadi mcm tabligh2 2.

Dakwah is easy.

Okay, now I'll share one video. *like this one a lot* xD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8fr_D3yOvk

LOL. oklah. dah panjang mengarut.
fin. xD

"to relate the unrelated"

5 Kesilapan Kewangan

Hampir semua orang pernah melakukan kesilapan berhubung isu wang. Ketahuilah beberapa kesilapan yang biasa dilakukan oleh kebanyakan ibu bapa ketika mendidik anak tentang kewangan dan cara membetulkannya. Berikut adalah antara kesilapan yang kerap dilakukan ibu bapa.

1. Menjadi mesin pengeluar wang versi manusia

Menguruskan segala urusan jual beli anak membuatkan anda kelihatan seperti menjadi mesin pengeluar wang versi manusia. Sepatutnya, berikan anak elaun dan ingatkan mereka untuk membuat pembayaran bagi apa-apa yang ingin mereka miliki. Sama ada untuk membeli buku dari kedai atau mendapatkan barangan permainan kegemaran, anak seharusnya bijak membuat pembayaran sendiri. Tindakan itu boleh mengurangkan mereka daripada merungut sekali gus membolehkan mereka mengasah kemahiran mengira atau matematik. Menerusi cara itu juga, anak-anak boleh belajar daripada kesilapan mereka. Dengan membuat pembayaran sendiri, anak-anak akan lebih menghargai barangan yang diperoleh atau dibeli.

2. Terlepas pandang pengajaran harian

Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk berbincang dengan anak tentang isu-isu berkenaan ekonomi yang ringkas dalam persekitaran berbeza setiap hari. Sewaktu membeli-belah, ibu bapa boleh menerangkan mengapa tindakan memilih bungkusan produk berkos lebih rendah lebih baik. Terangkan juga mengapa menambah stok barangan dapur ketika musim jualan murah merupakan satu tindakan yang baik. Berikan penjelasan kepada anak bahawa dengan menjimatkan RM10 setiap minggu, jumlah yang dijimat dalam tempoh sebulan boleh mencecah RM40 atau sekitar RM480 setahun. ANDAINYA terdapat duit kecil, masukkan wang tersebut ke dalam bank dan tunjukkan kepada anak bagaimana duit itu bertambah.

3. Tidak melibatkan anak dalam matlamat jangka masa panjang

Pengurusan wang yang kukuh melibatkan dua perkara penting. Pertama, membuat perancangan awal dan kedua, membuat pilihan. Jika anda merancang sebuah percutian, beritahu anak tentang isu bajet yang melibatkan kos tiket penerbangan, hiburan dan penginapan. Andainya terdapat duit kecil, masukkan wang tersebut ke dalam bank dan tunjukkan kepada anak bagaimana duit itu bertambah.

4. Terlepas peluang untuk memberi anak motivasi tentang tabiat menabung

Jika ada peluang, tunjukkan kepada anak bagaimana sesuatu pelan kewangan berfungsi dan mengapa sumbangan atau tabungan wang yang sedikit adalah penting dalam jangka masa panjang.

5. Tidak menerangkan bagaimana kad kredit berfungsi

Seorang pelajar firma pinjaman wang, Nellie Mae pernah menganggarkan, purata hutang yang ditanggung oleh seseorang pelajar universiti ialah sekitar RM5,000. Jumlah tersebut berkemungkinan besar berganda apabila mereka tamat pengajian di menara gading. Dari situlah bermulanya satu masalah sebenar. Anak remaja yang gagal memahami atau menguruskan hutang kad kredit seawal usia 18 tahun, lebih cenderung berdepan dengan masalah besar di kemudian hari. Benarkan anak berlatih menggunakan kad pra-bayar atau kad debit terlebih dahulu. Kad-kad seperti itu menawarkan kemudahan bagi menetapkan had tunai mingguan yang terhad. Ibu bapa juga boleh mendapatkan status penggunaan wang itu menerusi e-mel dan menentukan sama ada perlu atau tidak perbincangan lanjutan untuk mendidik anak agar mereka lebih berhemah ketika berbelanja.

 

credits:http://malay.uptomu.net/2011/08/5-kesilapan-kewangan.html

Fairy Tales: Origin part 1

Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. These days, companies like Disney have sanitized them for a modern audience that is clearly deemed unable to cope, and so we see happy endings everywhere. This list looks at some of the common endings we are familiar with – and explains the original gruesome origins. If you know of any others, be sure to mention it in the comments – or if you know of a fairy tale that is just outright gruesome (in its original or modern form), speak up.

10

The Pied Piper

In the tale of the Pied Piper, we have a village overrun with rats. A man arrives dressed in clothes of pied (a patchwork of colors) and offers to rid the town of the vermin. The villagers agree to pay a vast sum of money if the piper can do it – and he does. He plays music on his pipe which draws all the rats out of the town. When he returns for payment – the villagers won’t cough up so the Pied Piper decides to rid the town of children too! In most modern variants, the piper draws the children to a cave out of the town and when the townsfolk finally agree to pay up, he sends them back. In the darker original, the piper leads the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who couldn’t keep up). Some modern scholars say that there are connotations of pedophilia in this fairy tale.

9

Little Red Riding Hood

The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers.

8

The Little Mermaid

The 1989 version of the Little Mermaid might be better known as “The big whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth. Hans Christian Andersen modified the ending slightly to make it more pleasant. In his new ending, instead of dying when turned to froth, she becomes a “daughter of the air” waiting to go to heaven – so, frankly, she is still dead for all intents and purposes.

7

Snow White

In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!

6

Sleeping Beauty

In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.

5

Rumpelstiltskin

This fair tale is a little different from the others because rather than sanitizing the original, it was modified by the original author to make it more gruesome. In the original tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold for a young girl who faces death unless she is able to perform the feat. In return, he asks for her first born child. She agrees – but when the day comes to hand over the kid, she can’t do it. Rumpelstiltskin tells her that he will let her off the bargain if she can guess his name. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half. Needless to say this kills him.

4

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

In this heart warming tale, we hear of pretty little goldilocks who finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep – she awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”.

3

Hansel and Gretel

In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their way to a gingerbread house which belongs to a wicked witch. The children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for eating. They figure their way out and throw the witch in a fire and escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost Children), instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel) but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape.

2

The Girl Without Hands

Frankly, the revised version of this fairy tale is not a great deal better than the original, but there are sufficient differences to include it here. In the new version, a poor man is offered wealth by the devil if he gives him whatever is standing behind his mill. The poor man thinks it is an apple tree and agrees – but it is actually his daughter. The devil tries to take the daughter but can’t – because she is pure, so he threatens to take the father unless the daughter allows her father to chop off her hands. She agrees and the father does the deed. Now – that is not particularly nice, but it is slightly worse in some of the earlier variants in which the young girl chops off her own arms in order to make herself ugly to her brother who is trying to rape her. In another variant, the father chops off the daughter’s hands because she refuses to let him have sex with her.

1

Cinderella

In the modern Cinderella fairy tale we have the beautiful Cinderella swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying two lords – with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has its origins way back in the 1st century BC where Strabo’s heroine was actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to the modern one with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper – hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge about in luxury at the prince’s castle.

Contributor: JFrater