Summary – Lailatul Qadar, another POV

We had reached the third phase of Ramadhan. It is popularly connected with one of the greatest gift from Allah himself to us, the Lailatul Qadar.

As a quick introduction to Lailatul Qadar, this night is one of Allah’s secrets. One night in the whole 30 nights of Ramadhan will be chosen by Him and whoever strive to perform “ibadah” that night, will be awarded the same “pahala” as performing “ibadah” for 1000 months.

That is more than 83 years. I’m not sure exactly how Allah will reward that person. But simple logic (within my limited mind) believe that if I perform one “solat sunat” that night, it will be equivalent of me performing one “solat sunat” every night for more than 83 years.

Imagine if we strive every year to find that lailatul qadar, and perform that one “solat sunat” in that night. And imagine we can get hold of this lailatul qadar for 40 years of our life. That would equivalent of us performing one “solat sunat” every night for 3320 years 🙂

There’s so many things we can talk about lailatul qadar. The malay myth of how water will freeze that night, some ignorant folk even stay up that night to see miraculous thing and try to capture it so that their wish is granted.

We can discuss how certain “ulama” had even predicted lailatul qadar based on the day of the first of Ramadhan. Personally, I think this is just a mere conclusion based on experience. Even Rasulullah didn’t disclose the exact date and only specified the range of the nights. And we must not forget, the actual reason lailatul qadar is kept a secret is to motivate muslim to perform “ibadah” the wHOLE month.

It would be very wrong if we aim to find that night and perform all the five solat (Subuh, Zohor, Asar, Maghrib and Isyak) with the intention not having to pray a single day for 83 years. (silly)

We can talk about all that… but what interest me is this

If any “ibadah” we performed in that night, will be rewarded as if we performed it for 83 years, how about if we commit sin that night? What if that night, we stayed up all night talking about other people (mengumpat or fitnah)? What if that night we scold our parent and hurt their feeling?There is no “hadis” explaining this. But I have to say that it is so much easier to commit sins than performing “ibadah”. We need to be very very very careful this time of the month.What do you think? Or maybe you know anything else about Lailatul Qadar worth sharing here?

————–Personal Note————-
I’m not sure whether this is true or not, but I once heard that the next morning after Lailatul Qadar, we can even look at the sun directly. This is because all angels are flying back to the sky that the sun’s brightness is reduced. Again… I’m very not sure whether this is true or not. But when I was in form 2 and 3, I had to travel to my school very early in the morning. And I can assure you that there will be one morning every year in Ramadhan that the sun is very beautiful and I can stare at it for a very long time. At the time, I really believed that lailatul qadar was last night and I had missed it. 🙁  

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First of all, please accept my apology for not updating yesterday. I actually accidentally slept till morning 🙂

Today I want to try something new (at least new to this blog), I’m sure most of you are familiar with the niche of this blog. It is where we share our ideas or experience with the ultimate goal of letting people learn from it.

It can be from as simple as why we have two ears and one mouth. They are maybe meant to show that listening is twice more important than speaking.

Or more complex tips like how to be RM10000 richer by the end of the year. Or lesson that can be learnt from children etc. I think you understand what I meant.

With that remark, I would like to invite you to share your very own stories and ideas here. It can be about anything. It can be short or long (totally up to you). Please send them to me through my email and I will published it here for the rest of us to benefit.

Now why should you publish it here?

• The friends reading here are generally very interested in sharing ideas and learning from them. So your entries will be highly valued and received.

• Obviously all credit will be given to the author, and I will personally put up permanent link to your blog within the post. FYI, link within a post is very valuable in term of SEO (which simply means people using search engine will more likely to find your blog)

• This is actually what this blog is all about. Sharing ideas and experience for the benefit of us all. Again.. the blog is not mine, I am just the person with the password. It is ours 🙂

What are the rules?

• Please do not copy from other resources. If you must, do include the source.

• I will reserve the right to correct / modify the entry, however I will consult the author first before publishing it. If for example the author ask for the entry to be removed, it will be removed.

• I will also reserve the right whether to accept or not an entry. This will be totally according to my discretion. (I will be fair.. no worry 🙂 )

• Both English and Malay language can be used. Maybe yours can be the first Malay entry here. 🙂

• The selected entry will be published once a week, depending on the participation.

So come on guys… I’m sure there’s something about your life and experience that we can all learn from. Short or long, please email them to me ya….

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A rich man gets on a train to go on a trip. Apparently he share his cabin with an old man. To pass the time the man decides to play a game with the old man.

“I will ask you a question and if you get it wrong, you have to pay me RM1 (thinking that the old man must be poor). Then you ask me a question, any question… and if I get it wrong, you get RM10. You ask me a question first.” The old man thinks for a while.

“I know. What has three legs, takes 3 hours to climb up a palm tree, and 12 seconds to get back down?”

The rich man is confused, he thinks long and hard about the question. Finally, the train ride is coming to an end. As it pulls into the station, the rich man takes out 10 ringgits and gives it to the old man.

“I don’t know. What has 3 legs, takes 3 hours to get up a palm tree and 12 seconds to get back down?”

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Summary – Know your extreme limits

Forming the club aside, I really hope this Hari Raya will be the best irregardless of the expenditure. What Ms Intan had commented carry some truth, when this is a once per year occasion. Furthermore it is actually recommended by Islam to honour and celebrate it happily. I guess in short, it is totally up to us to maintain balance between “spending until it hurts” and “saving until it hurts”

Hm I believe the key to better life is always moderation. Sugar if taken excessively will lead to diabetic and if we just cut out anything sugary, we will be equally sick and weak. We need to consume sugar but only in very moderate amount. (Doctors, correct me if I’m wrong).

Even if the example is wrong, we all know this fact long time already. So why is this post will be any different?

Again, we all know the importance of moderation, but the one thing that we don’t know is where is the line separating moderate and extreme. We may think we know, but the truth is we really don’t.

An example, a friend ask for help, how far do we go to help him. We have two option.. We can go to the extreme until we give him all our money in the bank, or the other extreme would be to ignore him entirely. Now we know that we need to help him (this would be the moderation). But how far should we help him. (This is the tricky part)

We must always have certain principle on this matter. Like in this scenario, maybe our principle is to help him in all matters except financially. Because debt can bring the ugliness in a friendship. I wouldn’t say that this is a good principle, but it is a good thing to have that kind of principle / policy beforehand.

The same thing goes to everything. Always have a policy that define what is the extreme of both end. it make things a lot easier, I assure you.

Other scenarios that maybe good for us to have policy
– when to get angry and when to be patient
– when to continue work / study and when to give in to sleeping
– which person to be friend with, and which person shoud be avoided
– etc

Do you have any other scenarios to add where extreme limits need to be clear? Appreciate your feedback…

————–Personal Note————-
Back when I worked in Johor, there was one time I was down with Dengue fever. I was at the time still single and live by myself. So one fine day, I felt very sick. Throwing up every now and then, feeling like you want to go have no 2, but nothing came out. Seriously that was hell. And I can even picture myself dying.One thing about me with fever, I usually try my best to sweat it off. I jog around the house but the condition just worsen. I then decided that this was no ordinary fever, and submitted myself to the hospital to be checked. I was immediately suspected to having dengue fever.

My point is, if I still want to be “degil” and still trying to sweat the fever off, I would probably die due to late detection. That’s just how much important knowing the limits to extreme is.

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