Surah ad Dukhan.........shaykh haitham al haddad, lecture 5

friends, dato and tansri,

listening to the tafseer of  this series  of ayat brought me back to standard three in kota bharu, panggung lido, by the kelantan river, in the early sixties.

cheap matinee of 'the ten commandments', at 45 cent per child, for primary school children.  
a 1956 epic movie directed by cecil b demille, starring yul bryner as rameses and charlton heston as moses, and john carradine as aaron.

the movie ended with rameses slowly disappearing in to the sea with his chariot and whole army. that epic battle between  right and wrong, stuck in psyche of most children my age till today.

[ our numero uno now and some non political head of states currently, from timbuktu to  pasir mas, probably  missed this great movie in their childhood days, that is probably why a couple of 2 to 10 billion rm is still small change to them! ...or they never ponder about the qur'an.  too busy chasing the duniya! ]

later in the early 80's i was lucky enough to meet yul bryner in real life, along with his chinese wife coming out of a chinese restaurant around praed street. he drove off in a royal blue merc convertible.
i was there then, doing my posgraduate attachment  in cardiology at st mary's hospital, just around the corner of praed street.

in london, at that time,one cannot be sure into whom one bumped into.
i was hawking around in harrod one day at a book stall and lo and behold there stood before me, mr dracula himself the legendary christopher lee, reading a book in one corner.

'sir, are you the great christopher lee?.... can i shake your hand'...i blurted  out unashamedly.

another place you are bound to cross the whose who in filmdom is hyde park.
i bumped into dustin hoffman playing kite with his young son.

i was not yet into daawah at that time otherwise i would have steered my conversation towards the qur'an.


dr nik isahak



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxgjcgO4Rdc
shaykh haitham al haddad, lecture 5

.... doa in any language in sujud   47.00

.....basic tafseer need to be known in taddabur of the qur'an   54.12

.... take from the duniya whatever is good for your akhirat   55.20