Surah al Mursalat, 77......" woe to those liars! ''

Surah Al-Mursalat
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another (1) By the raging hurricanes, (2) By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive; (3) By those who winnow with a winnowing, (4) By those who bring down the Reminder, (5)

recitation by shaykh mishary rashid

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deOR4UjzMGY   ]

commentary by shaykh tawfique chowdhury

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riEPDpLJZY  ]



' did We not put you, an insignificant pungent fluid, into that protective vessel.......'





most of us treat or have treated our elderly parents badly...
i know i put this up 5 times the last seven years!
it is still relevant......you guys are not listening!!

[  https://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2019/01/before-we-move-on-to-surah-nuh-71doing.html ]


" ayah kito gedebe..biar lah dio gedebe...dio bining sano bining sini , tu dio punyo hal....tapi kito sebagai anok dia tok leh gedebe dengan dia...terutama sekali bial dio dah tua, duduk dengan kito "


" what a monumental waste! when my name is mentioned and man does not give selawat to me..
 what a monumental waste!, when ramadan passes, and his taubat is not received...
 what a monumental waste!, when he has two of elderly parents with him, but they cannot open the door of jannah for him..."

a hadith soheeh.

Surah al Insan, 76......

recitation, shaykh omar hisham al arabi..

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRn8Xc41nUI   ]





commentary by shaykh tawfique chowdhury..

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYUwjLXkMk&t=16s  ]


'...oh people, feed people the poor and the wayfarers..
give salam, and stay awake in the depth of the night when other people are asleep ..
these are the ways to jannah..'





from pearls & gem of yester years : ' a matter of the heart '

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2016/04/levels-and-levels.html   ]

Sural al Qiyama, 75.....

recitation, by shaykh abdul rahman al sudais

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZl1ITyahzU  ]




commentary by shaykh tawfique chowdhury

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lrdf9dyNjg  ]

' today we are an ummah full of al munafikuns '

' in my experience, only 0.1 % of people able to say the shahadah at the point of their death! '
anecdotal data from dr nik howk's life experience.





'on death and dying'
a 2009 article from pearls & gem

[ http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2009/01/pearld-gem-cancer.html  ]


it must have been late 1990 or probably early 1991.
i was in gay paris with my mrs, attending a cardiological conference.

took a short break to go 'shopping' for some branded bow ties and a couple of ysl shirts at 316, rue saint honore.
met wawi, [ we did housemanship same year in ghkl in 1978 ], and her husband, the then minister of education in the same store..

they were in paris for some unesco things.

she carried the same small shopping  basket as my wife....and noticeably with less shirts in there! 
our ringgit malaysia was already shrinking against the franc, even then!

across the english channel around the same time, harrod of london opened up late evening just specially for madame of the then minister of defence.
madame was on a shopping spree!

he was on a 'look & see' trip, 'chopping' for  a couple of submarines for the country.
2 decades later he was numero uno..... 

Before We Move On To Surah al Qiyama, 75........Will The Real Rumi Stand Up Please!

friends, dato and tanseri,

i like to push the envelope wider and wider all the time.
this has been a 'bad' habit of mine.
to get beyond the comfort zone, and enjoy it's moments.
i know some of you guys are 'allergic' to terms like tarekat, sufi , whirling dervish etc and etc.

be in the rain and enjoy been soaked wet!

let us get beyond our usual nasi goreng and nasi lemak; beyond our favourite ustaz azhar idrus 's querrels with the young mufti from wang kelian, dr rozmi ramlie or ustaz rasul dahri etc and etc

let us  just go and have a short peep into the world of sham tabrizi, rumi and shems friedlander, and see how the rest of the muslim world , past and present, fare.

forget the incesant  and tedious argumentations about bida'ah, ablution and whether bismillah shoud be 'sirr' or 'jarr' etc and etc for a short while....

today let us get beyond hadith and tafseer and join shems friedlander, author, film maker, lover and student of rumi, sufi adherrent, and above all muslim.

let us listen to his short discourse on rumi....a very much maligned poet within the arab and the muslim world today.
he is an afghan, who spoke persian and lived his whole life in turkey...a 7th century 'saint'....a very international chap!

you may not have to agree with rumi.
you may even dislike him.
but there is big world there who love him
most of them not yet muslim.
some, on the brink of being muslim.

listen all the same!listen to the end.
the pearls & gem are towards the end....


dr nik howk



shems friedlander's rumi,
[ he was addressing a motley group of people, mainly american, europeans....non-muslims and muslims, but all lovers of rumi  ]

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEuGJkyd38  ]

Shems Friedlander—writer, artist, film maker, photographer and educator—has published his 10th book, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s Forgotten Message. The book contains interactive digital content via QR codes. Among his other books are Winter Harvest, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes and When You Hear Hoofbeats Think of a Zebra. Friedlander has recently been appointed Emeritus Prof at the American University in Cairo where he taught graphic design and painting for 20 years. He has won over 30 awards for graphic design. Friedlander has also written two monodramas and his documentary films have been shown at film festivals in the US and abroad.



only breath.....

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZqAnIp5dMQ  ]

Surah al Muddathir, 74................Shaykh Abu Talha

commentary by shaykh abu talha,

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYb4A7m2P0  ].....3 hour plus

' your rabb must always be in the foreground and back ground of all your dealings! '



'  you guys are like donkeys running away from a lion!.... '
[ ayat 50,51 of surah al muddathir ]


' islam is an idea that is long overdue! '
author : patrick buchanan




eric margolis : ' american's shameful war in afghanistan '

[  https://www.unz.com/emargolis/americas-shameful-war/   ]


' i used to cry because i had no shoes until i met a man who has no legs..'
hafez, persian poet of old

Before We Move To Surah al Mudathir......" Ya Rabb, Give Us A 2nd Chance!.."

friends, dato and tanseri,

BN won in cameroon highland.
this is great news for the raayat.
we are growing in maturity and this is prerequisite for democracy.
also a shock for dap and pkr.
kalau tidak depa 'naik tocang' !

the politicians got to get back to the drawing boards and reconfigure themselves.
we, the raayat should not be too bothered that roti canai and toll and gasoline at the pump still are not coming down.
be shukr that we are still not yet greece!

we still look forward  to seeing ntr and his gang of robbers being sent to sungai buluh asap.
and we also look forward for the second wave of apandi, the lembu chap siregar etc etc following suit.
all these 'baduts' almost nearly bankcrupted us all!
we have to send all of them behind bars for along long time.
when the raayat can see all these clowns queieng to be in sungai buluh only will ph see a bright future in winning the the next pru15.

but who cares which side wins .
we the raaayat just want a clean govt at present .
a govt who cares!

otherwise they are still shameless morons out there ; tanseris, dato sri and dato padukas;  making animal noise as if they have done nothing wrong!

we are living in interesting time!

..................................

in this slot, we have our favourite ustad from the north , ustad shamsuri discussing two hadith and ustad adi adiyat's discourse on solat tahajjud.


dr nik howk





ustad dato shamsuri bin ahmad, " ya rabb!..give us a 2nd chance! ", & ranting and branches issues during sahabat and tabi'in's times........

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDka_TOGVY  ]




ustad adi adiyat  on tahajjud prayer, in 'bahasa'

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpl3qHELc6s ]

Surah al Muzzammil, 73........Closing Ayats..

commentary by shaykh abu talha,

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFC9JGVCl3o  ]


......i am your al wakeel..i will take care of them!

.......all tyrants share a common denominator: all of them think they are on the correct path!

........our nabi will be our witness!

.......[only 20 % of people who received this tafseer listen to it.! ...
        dont be dismayed. nabi nuh did daawah for 950 years! only 5 couples joined him on
        his ark.you are just a postman. ya mukalobal qulub is the one who change and open 
        hearts!.]

.......russian and american collusion.

.......if the quraish dont take you seriously, I will take care of them in the same manner i dealt 
        with pharaoh

.......the greying of the young: a sign of atrocities committed by people.

........this promise has already been done: rabb transcends time.

........i am not politically correct. i have to be correct to allah alone.
        ' innasolati wanusuki wamahyaa wawa maa ti wanusuki  ....lillah hi rabbir alamin.'


........these paths are all not in congruent with allah's path. i dont take these.


.........any thing that you do for allah, even if people do not respond , is not a waste! so carry on!
         HE is the greatest rewarder!

..........we all want to be in the maghfirah and rahmah of allah

........astagfirullah. innallah ha ghafur rurrahim

Surah al Muzammil, 73.......Shaykh Abu Talha Commentary, Part 2

shaykh abu talha, commentary part 2

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvLONMDplQ&t=18s  ]



" it is just tempting to just go to the mountains and withdraw, but that is not a correct approach....withdraw mentally, but not physically...stick to our ideals. we are muslims! continue the daawah"

" over the years we have collected millions and zillions of wrong ideas in our brains and minds, it is up to us to use our 'islamic filters' to clean up all the garbage built on wrong premises..."







shaykh abu talha on al fatihah,
http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2012/09/surah-al-fatiha-1-1-7.html

' at worse, they would love to drone him, if political correctness would not be a major issue'.
their rationale is that they say this is 'qutbism', and any reminder of this should be nipped in the bud.

''you muslims can have your god, but no Rabb please!''

.....that summarises the credo of the western world  on islam now.
"if you must still insist to have your Rabb, and practice in the public space,we will drone and declare war on you....1stly we get our mega propanganda machine, cnn, bbc and aljazira to demonise you guys years ahead...we will put economic sanctions on you ...we will arm your rebel fractions to the teeth............we will get security council to vote and declare that it is legal to rape and plunder your country! ".

that have happened in afghanistan, syria and yemen,libya, somalia and any where for that matter in future....any thing ok except your Rabb.

Surah al Muzammil, 73..........let us be provocative!

friends, dato and tanseri,


with surah al muzammil, the 4th surah to be revealed to our nabi[pbuh],we have several choice here. 
we can remain with prof quraish shihab or shaykh tawfique chowdhury or even listen to ustad nouman ali khan or shamsuri......all 'run of the mill' tafseer, with a high degree of 'political correctness'.

but i want to be a wee bit provocative today. 
we listen to shaykh abu talha.
his commentary is original and 'no hold barred'.

i love his take on surah al fatihah which we did at the start of our long , wonderful journey  weaving thru the qur'an from al fatihah, thru to juz amma and then on to al baqarah  and thereafter..
we started in sept 2012 and insyaallah by end of march we should qatam our tafseer masterclass when we reach surah abasa.


shaykh abu talha has been labelled many thing by his detractors, .....a return to 'qutbism' etc and etc.
this is of course scandalous game of labelling.
just listen to him and then make up your mind.


put yourselves in the shoes of our nabi[pbuh]
bear in mind when nabi had this surah, it was only the 4th surah handed to him..ie after iqra'. followed by surah al mudhatir and surah al qalam.

not much of qur'an as yet revealed to our nabi [pbuh] up to that point.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

O thou wrapped up in thy raiment! (1) Keep vigil the night long, save a little - (2) A half thereof, or abate a little thereof (3) Or add (a little) thereto - and chant the Qur'an in measure, (4) For we shall charge thee with a word of weight. (5) Lo! the vigil of the night is (a time) when impression is more keen and speech more certain. (6) Lo! thou hast by day a chain of business. (7) So remember the name of thy Lord and devote thyself with a complete devotion - (8) Lord of the East and the West; there is no God save Him; so choose thou Him alone for thy defender - (9) And bear with patience what they utter, and part from them with a fair leave-taking. (10) Leave Me to deal with the deniers, lords of ease and comfort (in this life); and do thou respite them awhile. (11) 

masha allah!
seven long years
this life is not a picnic but alhamdullillah we are almost there!

the quran is a universal need...and those who think and ponder will benefit most from it.



dr nik howk

ps: i am sorry, the audio is not great.







recitation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQdJKlZOVt8





shaykh abu talha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjHmYT12R4

" the issue of muhammad with the quraish of his time over the issue of god or gods was not the issue of god or no god....the quraish also have god, too many of them in fact.
 the issue is in fact about having a Rabb!.."

" keep your Rabb always in the foreground  and background in whatever you do or perceive in your life..."






shaykh abu talha on al fatihah,
http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2012/09/surah-al-fatiha-1-1-7.html

' at worse, they would love to drone him, if political correctness would not be a major issue'.
their rationale is that they say this is 'qutbism', and any reminder of this should be nipped in the bud.
you muslims can have your god, but no Rabb please!'
.....that summarises the credo of the western world now.
if you must have your Rabb, we will drone and declare war on you.
that have happened in afghanistan, syria and yemen and any where for that matter in future....

Before We Move On to Surah al Muzammil, 73.........On Zikr Using Asma al Husna; Solat Hajat & Virtues of Istagfirullah....

friends, dato and tanseri,


before we move on to surah al muzammil let us make a brief stopover at a pesantren in downtown jakarta....have a peep at up and coming ustaz, ustaz adi adiyat and also ustad abdul somad.

ustaz adiyat had his early education in several pesantren in indonesia and after his degree in islamic study locally , later went on to libya to study under several luminous figures there.

let us pick his 'brain' and wisdom on several issues pertaining to asma al husna, solat hajat and istigfar.

these constitute  'ranting' and 'branch' issues in the ugama along with issues such as maulid, 'talkin', tahlil etc etc and etc, but take prominence in our bumi malaysia due to our relative overall ignorance in our ugama and also the bludgeoning number of graduates from the nedj peninsula and also jordan who are more schooled in the fundamentalist approach to the ugama.
these people choose to go around with blinkers and wanted  the rest to follow them as well

the great majority of our ustaz however come from the pondok- indian subcontinent route and later in their education got 'washed' up in the azhari school in egypt.

they constitute the mainstream and are in control of jakim etc etc and etc., the controlling body of 'ugama' administration in the country. they are generally older and thus less internet savvy, but their leverage over the ummah are the suraus, masjid and madrasah. 
jakim controls all these.
..................

i choose ustaz adi adiyat here because he was initially from the pesantren, then joined the salafiyah schools in jakarta  and later went on to libya to polish off his education.
thus he has a balance view of the issues involved.

we close off with ustaz as somad, also of indonesia whom i like for his wise attitude towards branch issues in our din, or what we term as 'benda2 khalifiah ulama'.
ustaz somad is of the sunni-maturidi-shafei--azhari school and it is interesting how he gauge ustaz adi adiyat, despite their obvious difference in  orientation.

follow his short discourse as well on jemaah tabligh whom the rest of the daawah flocks generally looks down and consider lower in the 'animal scale of things'.

......................

in life we can of course go around with blinkers  and join the 'wahabis' if we choose to, i call them 'school prefects'.
excellent.
but  personally i 'condong' towards the 'lovers'
life is much sweeter and kinder. ..to wake in the wee hours of the morning and whisper 'sweet nothings' day in and day out when the rest of the world are sleeping, all the rules and regulation of the ugama you may know, but to push you forward you need 'love'.
the 'wahabis' ore generally not 'professors of love', in my humble estimation.
at best they are overglorified 'school prefects' who are able to commit to memory a few hundred more selected hadiths of their choice over socalled 'morons like me and you'

beside this, i do not enjoy going thru life saying, "this is bidaah, that is bidaah and that my friend is also bidaaah".
i love to hear dr maza the mufti from wang kelian a lot  but he and his men are overdoing the 'bidaah ' thing.

let us listen to both ustaz adi adiyat and ustaz abdul somad.
a long discussion but great education for us 'newbies'.

listen.



dr nik howk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jsUl_JF69g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGh1l3wx-74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m9INKmtkBs

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmoeIKaHRA

ustaz somad on ustaz adi adiyat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3iLm6HEt0

ustad abdul somad on jemaah tablighh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwi5NB7jz2A

Surah al Jinn, 72........Prof Quraish Shihab; Ayat 19 to Ayat 28

commentary of ayat 19 to ayat 24 by prof quraish shihab, in 'bahasa'

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtfawSpe8Yg&t=2097s  ]







from pearls & gem, a 2011 article on death and dying : 

'unto HIM is the journeying..'

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2011/02/unto-him-is-journeying.html  ]





' alchemy is the difference between dust and gold. for the sufi  though, there is no difference between dust and gold'

shems friedlander

Surah al Jinn, 72..........Ayat 11 to Ayat 18; Prof Quraish Shihab

prof quraish shihab, commentary of ayat 11 to ayat 18, in 'bahasa'

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfhuHv7jhrk&t=2s  ]

' ya rabb, dont judge me for i am certainly of the zholim...embrace me with your mercy and     your rahmah.'







stories from pearls & gem : tales from al qalwa, 2017...the exorcist

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2017/01/al-qalwa-tales-from-crocodile-dundee-to.html  ]

Suraj al Jinn, 72........Prof Quraish Shihab & Shaykh Tawfique Chowdhury

recitation  surah al jinn by shaykh abu bakr ash shatiri

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPVv7a4w640  ]






shaykh tawfique chowdhury, commentary of surah al jinn

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2w15AjOhpM&t=55s  ]








prof quresh shihab, commentary  ayat 1 to ayat 10 [ 'bahasa' ]

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzJiyoRlRY  ]

Surah Nuh, 71.............Shaykh Tawfique Chowdhury

friends, dato and tanseri,

it must have been 5 pm plus or there about, 4th january.
i was on a firefly, atr 72-500 twin turbo-prop aircraft flight to beautiful terengganu, despite a weather report  earlier warning of cyclone pabuk hitting the state that day.

'we are landing shortly, put back up your table, and straighten your seat...'

after a long choppy 15 minutes, and this part of teganung just over kenyir is always turbulent, i could just  see the runaway coming up....and my favourite nasi kerabu breakfast makan place near the end of the terengganu airport western side of the runway  coming into view.

this is 2 days post umrah.
i was still in continuous zikr mode irrespective of the time.
i stopped my usual 'tasbih, tahlil and tahmid' for a while and start  dreaming of  having 3 days of bliss at 'the sanctuary', my pantai telaga papan beach pondok. 

i need that 3 days of respite to rest my aching body , before serious work at the hospital back in KL. 
the last 11 days of umrah has surely taken it's toll!
an aching back from spinal stenosis due to years of abuse from horse back riding, a bad catarrhal cough from bronchitis and a brain and muscles full of virus......

" oops, i am sorry we cannot land...we will try another one. ', came the young pilot's voice over the intercom.
i assumed there must be a strong whiff of crosswind that must have pushed the small aircraft off course at the last minute. 
visibility was otherwise good . 
i  knew that landing standard operating procedures dictates all pilot to abort landing if at 500 feet, the runway could not be seen visibly.
it was impossible he could not see the runway. 
the green roof of nasi kerabu mak cik gemok  at batu rakit i could see!


'it must a strong whiff of wind ', i reassured myself.

after a long further 20 minute of circling the airport we still could not land!
the cabin was dead quiet. 
malaysians, especially the malay terengganu crowd are not particularly expressive.

i had a foreboding sense of panic by now.
i was still in ' full  tahlil, tahmid and tasbih' mode  continuously. i dont know about the rest.
the long one with even 'lau haula wala kuwatta illa billa hilaliyyul azim' thrown in.

the pilot this time took a long route towards phillipines. i could see the outline of pulau redang on my left, being left far behind, then he turned the plane back to KT.
I felt a sense of panic.
the cabin still very quiet.
could even hear a pin drop!

" mashaalah!...do we have enough fuel? this economy air carriers usually carry just enough to land only twice!! ", played into my mind.

" do we have enough fuel!?.....do we have enough fuel?''

the light aircraft was definitely dropping in height  all the time.
"full instrumental landing ", i assumed myself,but we were in the cloud for a good 5 minutes, i think perhaps longer. 
nothing to be seen except the white fluffiness of the cloud and water vapour.

" omg! omg!", i changed gear.
no more the long tasbih, tahlil and tahmid but  just 'astagfirullah hal azim astagfirullah hal azim
astagfirullah hal azim....'

still in the cloud , more than 5 minutes now already!
still dropping!

it is time for panic now,  another gear change,''la ila haillallah, laila haillah, la ila haillallah....''..

" this is it! ", i told myself.
must be ready for a sea landing and an 'instant maggi mee' delight for the barracudas of teganung. 

''omg....can death be this easy!? "

and just then i saw choppy blue water of the sea....then the beginning of the eastern side of the terengganu runway.

al hamdullillah! what a flight!
occasionally situation like this is healthy to the soul!

when life is just a collection of breaths, one always has to be in constant remembrance.
mashaaallah!


today we start on surah nuh with shaykh tawfique chowdhury.
it is certainly nice to be alive and still able to whisper things to allah!


dr nik howk




commentary by shaykh tawfique chowdhury,

[   https://namvideo.com/watch/pMRY0gpJgYU  ]







recitation,

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJXVwAE-_Y  ]

Before We Move On to Surah Nuh, 71..........Doing Good To Elderly Parents.

friends, dato and tanseri,


[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXctdAwhEU4&t=2935s   ]


there is a well known hadith as narrated by abu hurairah radiallahuan alluding to nabi [ pbuh ] as saying,

..a person is damned if every time he mentions me he does not send selawat to me.
..a person is damned if every time ramadan passes, he is still not forgiven.
..a person is damned if he has elderly parents and both of them could not carry him to jannah.

ustaz dr ismail lotfi al patani here softly discusses ayat 23, 24 and 25 of surah al isra' on our relationship and interactions with our parents, especially with elderly parents, an issue neglected today, in this fast moving world.

i have lost 2 precious doors to jannah because both my parents died early.
my only recompense is this short doa here...

"rabbir firli waliwa lidayya...." [ nuh, 28 ]
my lord, forgive me and my parents.

this short doa, which i read during my sujud and duduk antara dua sujud, al most always for the last 34 years, was given to me by shaykh al banjari, a malay alim teaching in masjidil haram, in the early 80's in the haram.

we have these kind of alim given tauliah teaching in the haram that time in bahasa.
not at the present time.
this short doa  is my only connection to them now.

sedeqah, done in their name, is the other avenue.

these are 'doors to jannah' open to us guys!
listen to ustaz dr ismail lotfi.


[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXctdAwhEU4&t=2935s   ]



dr nik howk

Surah al Ma'arij, 70...........Ayat 36 to Ayat 44

friends , dato and tanseri,

we close surah al ma'arij with this final slot from prof qureah shihab, across the java sea.







prof quresh shihab's commentaty of ayat 36 to 44

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0tLliClf0A   ]






from pearls & gem : be forewarned....

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2019/01/clever-bastards-this-digital-robbers.html  ]

Surah al Ma'arij, 70............tafsir al misbah, ayat 19 to ayat 35

friends, dato and tanseri,

there is a silver lining.
the 'king's sacrifice'  from royal pahang may avert a possible future unwarranted head on collision between the monarch and the  executive.
if  a collision  does happen in the near future i dare say the raayat are almost 100 % behind tdm!
the royal houses collectively have failed to show their relevency during the last administration's almost total sellout of the nation!

that damage  to the national psyche was damning!

we move on across the java sea to join prof qureah shihab in his commentary of ayat 19 to ayat 35

dr nik howk





tafsir al misbah, ayat 19 to ayat 35

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Z4xamBK7c   ]






from pearls & gem:

'what is not mine is not mine.....'

https://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2019/01/clever-bastards-this-digital-robbers.html


........clever bastards this robbers!

Surah al Ma'arij, 70........Ustaz Dato Shamshuri Ahmad, Ayat 1 to Ayat 18

friends, dato and tansri,

so they have finally forced the king to resign!!
omg!!

and they think replacing an ineffective one with a highly confrontational and a recalcitrant one would serve the  institution's interest better.

tdm ,with the aggrieved raayats at large all behind him, with popular rating all the way from timbuktu to solomon island sky high, will not  take too kindly to being incessantly insulted by still wet in between the ears young punk of a sounding board from down south.

there is currently too many problems on tdm's plate....

the issue of succession is still undecided.
the country is not yet greece but almost there.
the ecrl agreement with china, which entails a massive penalty payment for non delivery, is not yet ironed out with big bully, china.
etc. etc and etc.
having to deal with royal houses wanting to make big bucks here and there is the least of his problem...

tdm does not need the endless whining from  down south  to add to his headache!

en passant, queen's defence and sicilian defence all are aggressive opening moves in chess.
the old man is a consumate 'chess player'.

i hope he will not be moved too much to a corner  by whoever is the new player, whoever he is, that he will have to contemplate to do the unthinkable.



in my humble opinion, this move forcing the young king to resign  by his peers at this juncture is counterproductive and an ill advised one!
these people are not thinkers!

but so be it.

we now move to ustaz dato shamsuri to go slowly over surah al ma'arij.
i like ustaz shamsuri.
myself,being a northerner by education, [ mckk ], his 'depa' , hangpa', kome and othe northern li9nggo bring back happy memories of my young days in kuala kangsar, when things were more clear cut and much easier.

listen to ustaz shamsuri.


dr nik howk


ps:

the ball really lies with royal pahang's ailing sultan.
only a king's sacrifice here will change the game!







recitation by shaykh abdul aziz az zahrani,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-HJXbPnEs

commentary by dato ustaz shamsuri hj ahmad, ayat 1 hingga ayat 18, in 'bahasa'

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvl8D6l6irU  ]

Surah al Ma'arij, 70................

friends, dato and tansri,

i just came back from mohd bin sultan's future heirloom, kingdom of two holy mosques just now with the usual body ache , general malaise, [ not malays please ! ] and debility, fever and cough. this visist this time came with ahefty price of 2k rm per head!......just for visa

at the ka'abah and raudhah, i could see all around me a sea of brown, yellow and black with very little red and white.

why the americas and europe are still either totally godless or moving around like lost sheep ascribing varying level of divinity to nabi isa and his mum, sayyeditina maryam,could well be explained in the main partly, by the fact that, we, practitioners of the faith
are ourselves fairly lost in limbo.
we, in general, from the bottommost, to the elites of the elites, have not shown the 'akhlak' that typifies one as being muslim.

we are not supreme examples for the 'ugama'!

with clowns like mbs, etc etc and etc and i would not name names here as i will get into trouble locally, why are we surprised?!

surah al maa'rij, a mid makkan surah, however has very distinct dichotomy about it all.

you guys are either with ME or with them .
if you are  not with ME, I will fill hell with all you guys to be its fuel and 'kayu api'!
and MY hell is for eternity.

shaykh tawfique chowdhury who is based in down under but has open up an islamic school here in kl, open our understanding of the surah.

in our second outing ustaz shamsuri will insyaallah beef up our understanding with a local content.

dr nik howk






recitation,...

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcXMJf6-iM  ]






shaykh tawfique chowdhury's commentary,

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8wEXY6BR8    ]