Wardina Saffiyah

ok, another talk by Wardina Saffiyah (i cant seem to find the talk which i mentioned abt in my previous entry).
Listen to these youtube clips. May we get inspired through this. Amin!

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZRSCpCCxs
Part 2 (30 secs vidz only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5gEPSVjwU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wxd5p1IAOQ&feature=related

My All-Time Fav =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WzwMbjfks

Cinta yg berlandaskan nafsu

One of the worst love to own, is one that berlandaskan nafsu.
Nafsu for money..to have more than what you have now.
Something that will feed our so-called-wants momentary. but disastrous in the long run.
nafsu comes in all kinds of form.

i remember watching Wardina Safiyyah (a well-know TV presenter) talk on youtube.
its about cinta..or was it abt hijab. nevertheless she did mentioned "..klk seorg lelaki itu menyintai awk, dia tak akan sentuh awk. malah dia akan ajak awk bernikah dgn dia. jumpe ibu bapa awk.."
she said it with much conviction! and by the looks u can tell how much she stresses on how ladies should have self respect. =).
i shall provide the link on my later entry k. insyaAllah! follow her twitter (same name for her twitter a/c)
i tink she is one of the good motivators. Simple, beautiful talk. Not the nagging sort, she just loves to emphasise on her beliefs :)

something to share. a doa for those muslimah who are seeking for true love. and those who are not (yet), this doa is good too..invest on doa. to reap future gains :) insyaAllah!

*Ya Allah, jika aku jatuh cinta
Cintakanlah aku pada seseorang yg melabuhkan cintanya padaMu
Agar tambah kekuatanku untuk menyintaimu*

p/s: menambah kekuatan bukan bermaksud memaksa sang kekasih into doing good deed w/o her knowing the asas on it.
e.g menyuruh sang kekasih/ isteri utk sholat tahajjud, tetapi 1) no explaination given why is it supposed to be done. 2) apa bacaan nya (with meaning) (w/o understanding, whats the point of reciting it in arab. kluar dari mulut tapi bkn dari hati)

Note: again this is just a reminder to self.
no intention of hurting/ bringing anyone dwn.

Subjective Matters

Many things in our daily lives are subjective.
Fashion sense. Money worth. Food preference. Ur opinion abt others. Even behaviours.

what u deemed ugly, could be beautiful to another.
what u deemed worth 50cts, may worth millions to others.
what u tasted salty, others may feel its just nice.

do not implement what u feel (read: feel is right. unless its a stated rule (lawful in the eyes of Allah s.w.t. and lawful in the country) is right or worth it to others.
discussion about it, yes, its ok. but ultimately if the other party still has her own stand. deal with it with respect!

subjective matters are linked to our feelings (our emotion connection towards the subject) and feelings matters!

ok, so there.
today's entry may be subjective to some too.
some may agree with my opinion, some may not. Again, its subjective.
Just laying out my thoughts. =) toodles!

Emotionally Distracted

was eager to pen dwn my thoughts on blog today.
but i was too emotionally distracted (read, its distracted not disturbed) till i have forgotten what was that I wanted to "talk" about.
yes, im still clueless. :S

Hijab Woe

Salams there *grins*
hee..here i am suddenly blogging about hijab woe.
Actually yesterday I was half way thru typing out my hijab transition journey..boy it took me a whole hour to "pen it" dwn. ok, my bad..in the midst of blogging, i had numerous "commercial breaks". too many distractions. :P
Ritez, i will get back to it as soon as I have finished this one & my lunch. :) insyaAllah.

This entry was supposed to be a short one. But i had some explanation (above) to do.
Not complaining just merely saying. and highlight that only a small portion of this entry is related to the title.
Ok, sshhh...stop explaining missy. Ritez.

There are many hijab-ers whose woe is "experiencing splitting headache" donning on the hijab.
Well, i tink its because of the "tension feeling" in the head. could be the scarve and/or the weather (yes man. it does la kan) which resulted to the headache.
Anws, my woe is not the head-ache..but my ear-ache. hee! itu je nak cakap. :P this time, i tink its the anak tudung and my way of donning the scarve. too tight i guess. hmmmm...

An unexpected Beautiful Journey

-raw & unedited. this was initially typed out the day before..but it was only 3/4 completed then.-

Its been a while since I've blog.

Tink i owe 2 important entries (on iman & my bandung trip).
Ok, i believe only 2 je lah. sounds like empty promises made. but I am the ikot-mood sort.

Me being me, now ikot mood. nak update on my hijab transition. =) yeay!
Alhamdullilah! Finally, me donning on the hijab and typing out an entry on it. say what? say yeay!!

Ok,serious stuff now.

Few weeks (months in fact) before donning on the hijab. alot of questions pops up in my mind.

I was asking a few of my close friends on their experience before and after donning on the hijab.

Their answers mostly were quite straight forward. Not that I dont value their explanation/ experience..but alot of thoughts went through my mind. Question like "am i ready for this", "what if I realized that I am not ready after i don on it?" and the most frequent pop-up qns is jeng jeng jeng.."what if my character/ behaviour doesnt reflects good on Islam"

MasyaAllah! May He frogives me for questioning myself alot for something that is wajib to be done more than a decade ago. I know its normal that we as humans we questions certain things in our life, but I too learn that just because its human nature,we shouldnt take things lightly. We still need to seek forgiveness from Him. No harm kan? ;)

ok, back to my story. I widen my "search for an answer" radius. Googled and googled. Watched YouTube on reverts to help me strenghten my iman too. (Had a convo with K'Erni - a close fren cum sister- abt reverts being more religious than us borned muslim. so I figured that I wanna feel the same way (or at least half) as they do. Watching YouTube helped. :) Alhamdullilah! I wont say that suddenly I turned into Hulk Hugan or Mighty Mouse..but it was a gradual growth in me. I felt that! (I will be lying if there are no parts that made me wanna skip/ fast forward. My attention span is pretty short. But there were many parts that touches the tiny meat/ muscle inside of me - the heart).

And I stumpled upon this blog (below is one of the entries which touches me)..which answered some of my doubts, etc. http://www.igotitcovered.org/2009/05/13/muslim-girl-my-inner-struggle-for-hijab/ .

After much persuasion, I was determined that I was ready to don on one. This happened in Dec. Told my parents about my intention. But who was I to kid. I "back-out" on the day that I assigned myself to. Reasons. I had reasons. Excuses one may say. Kita hanya mampu merancang, Allah yg menentukan. I wasnt ready deep dwn inside. :(
It saddens me actually coz I made my intention known to my parents (even gave the them the idea that i will don on tudung on our Bandung trip). Mcm disappoint em with my bad results. eeks!
So from then on, I decided to keep my intention low.But I continued reading entries from other muslimah.

9 Jan 2012. The day when I told my coliqs and bosses that I will don on one..this time no given date. I merely say "sooner or later". On that particular day, I can say that I took an extra effort to dress up, wore a dress with leggings. its different from my everyday-gal-next-door- look. ok, compliments. received alot of compliments..even from the boss whom seldom compliments me. The compliments and "look" from people made me a little bit uneasy. A sudden urge to just cover up (at this pt it was just a mere tot of grabbing a cloth and wrap mysef like a dumpling). Few hours later, I just made up my mind that I will don on the tudung the next day. =) Not much persuasion needed to be done. Even the tot of "what if I had nothing nice to wear tmrw?" didnt even strike my mind. I was more thinking about "i need more pins, brooch!" heee...

MasyaAllah, kuasa Allah kan. Just like that and He made me made up my "nagging mind". tak yah susah2.

and syukur Alhamdullilah, 10 Jan 2012 was the first day I don on the hijab. and now, the current blog that i frequent wave hi to is http://www.hijab-scarf.com/

trendy pple donning on the hijabs. =)

Thats it on my transition. Thanks for letting me share my beautiful journey here. lengthy entry i know. somewat dry, i will try to add in more seasonings to my entries yar. ;)

For the hijab-ers (including myself) and the future hijab-ers, May the journey that we will be going thru be a smooth one. Amin! And may our objective of donning on one, be a sincere one (for Him) and meets His requirements as well.

Talking about His requirements, insyaAllah, i will blog in regards to it. To keep myself reminded & for the sake of all sisters including myself. Amin.