Surah Fatir.........Prologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4M4cAUN0Rc


friends, dato and tansri,

try listening to the whole surah fatir 'unplugged', listen to this beautiful rendition of the surah by mishary rashid al afasy [ with direct transliteration into english ], minus any tafseer.
the qur'an is best heard in its raw qur'anic arabic without any transliteration but 99 % of us are  ' maa fi araby...' unfortunately.

i have tried this , 3, 4 and finally for the 5 th time.
it has it's special effect, listening it 'raw' and 'unplug'.

i know my good friend and classmate, dr tuan syed abdul kadir al sagoff and another childhood friend , tuan hj nadzru azahari, both excellent arabists in their own ways, would liken listening to the qur'an with deep comprehension of qur'anic arabic and all its nuances and its meanings compared to its translation would be a difference between watching hi-definition 64 inches 2017 coloured samsung,  and a 1960 monochrome black and white.

but we mere mortals have to start somewhere.
my advice to people in my position at  the  rather 'cerebrally' brittle age of 65, is 'don't despair'!

if knowing 'arabic' is everything, this current despairing condition in the arabic world would not have occurred.
they know arabic but they disregard the qur'an, despite that.


having said that, if you are still young and have children, please, please, please....learn to speak and comprehend  qur'anic arabic...you and the children......NOW!

your world view will no longer be dominated and tinted by cnn, bbc or aljazera......'language is more than a mean of communication, it is the whole gamut of cultural, political and religious nuance'.

in 2017, more than ever before, we have to look at the world with some semblance of an 'islamic ' tinge'. otherwise we will accept all the 'nonsense' thrown to us on a daily basis by the media, electronic and otherwise.

we are not what the morons out there want us to feel... .and there are many of them: hanson, trump, blair , bush, le pen, wilders etc and etc, just to name a few on the current international scene..

i have said this before and i will say it again, ' when you rubbished the din of 1.6 billion humanities on this earth, you are bound to get carnage from the peripheral elements of the ummah.
there has to be a new world order, an order of mutual respect and tolerance.....

this aside, we can still keep our heads high.
we have a caring and highly nuanced history and past.
we still have our 'book'  100 % intact, and our 'sop's from sayyedina rasullallah.
the 'sop's , while at the fringes are points of contention here and there, the main body is pretty well agreed upon.

the rest of the world have lost their  'books'. 
they are already in their 'dinghies' and what have you, our supertanker are still very much afloat.
yes, accepted, most of the crews are pretty well drunk and seasick, but we are still generally well intact.....


dr nik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJa7gpYozhM
[ ustaz datuk abu hasan din on wahabism......a fair comment ]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYz2t2acGEw

https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danial_Zainal_Abidin
[ a contrarian view from dr daniel, and a fair view as well ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-V9VRZzwmk&spfreload=5


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR97hE7rldY&spfreload=5
[...at the end of the day it is back to my favourite maxim: it is ilm , ilm , ilm and ilm.... if  some muslim must insist they want to go thru life wearing blinkers they are free to do so, and if some others want to go without wearing one they are also welcomed......but the bottomline is, all of them must do it with ilm, ilm and ilm........let us not debate on matters of ugama, leave it to the experts if they have to... ]