Surah at Tur, 52,.......Prologue

friends, dato and tansri,

as an opening gambit to surah at tur let us move back 10 years and visit shaykh ninowy during his much younger days, giving a friday prayer khutbah in his masjid in atlanta, usa.

the audio is not great but bear with me.
i count the shaykh as one of my living tok guru having had taken baa'iah under him some 4 years ago in ipoh.
he is a frequent visitor to our shores.


just a digression here about 'moments of stillness', as shaykh hamza yusuf mentioned in his  discourse on imam alghazali in the last slot.

i had a very full day yesterday at the hospital.
a busy morning clinic followed by a quick rush to the masjid for friday prayer , a quick bite of lunch in the lift, then back to the hospital for a quick coronary angiogram on a lady and followed by and angioplasty and stenting on a chairman of our local masjid in subang jaya.

on my way out of the lift  at late evening, just about to catch a very very late asar prayer, i met a senior consultant radiologist , in her exercise pants and t-shirt carrying an exercise mat.

'what are you doing malkit?'

'oh! nik...i just finish a session of yoga on the 6th floor of the mediplex....'

'oh! they have yoga here!..... '

indeed we muslims are very blessed!
we have mental 'yoga' at least 5 times a day!......if we care to add  muraqaba [ always aware about god's presence and oneself being watched all the time ], it'kon[ do the recommended things in the best possible way ie excellence  ] , and ikhlas to our daily routine.

in our 'subha nallah,w al hamdullillah, wala illah haillallah huwallah hu akbar'' 33 times, 100 times, 1000 times or 10,000 times a day we have 'yoga'

we have 'yoga' even in 'atagfirullah' and 'selawat on the nabi'.

we have 'yoga' even in 'allah allah allah....', in 'ya latif ya latif, ya latif..'.
in all of the rest of allah's 99 names!

we just need to change our paradigm.
we can be alone.
we can be very very busy
we can be a sultan or two, even an agong.
we can be a millionaire or by present standard even a billionaire.
or we can be just an mppj worker and minding our business on the street of ampang.
but all of us must at least attempt to be  'people of stillness', as imam ghazali expounded.

and madam and sir....stop complaining about life!
be content with allah!
for you complain about your life, you are not contented with HIM......
with the slot HE gives you!



dr nik isahak






opening commentary by shaykh ninowy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7nbWoTP7G0





recitation by shaykh mahir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI14gMdFF4w