Steps to Prosperity

If you live in the second or third floor, you would take the elevator, rather than walking up the stairs. Even if you have to wait for it. But if you are going out from your place, you would just take the stairs down if the elevator is full. Why? Simply because you know that going up the stairs is much difficult than going down. Why? Because of something that we name as "gravity". Sir Isaac Newton, the infamous scientist who "discovered" the gravity. Some uneducated people might mistakenly use the word "created." Now, if someone comes and denies gravity, you would say he is mad, of course. How can you deny something we see with our eyes every day. The apply falls from the tree, because of gravity. Well, both of you are wrong. Gravity does exist, but we cannot see it. What we observe or see, is the effect of gravity. And through which we established that there is something unseen, that makes the apple falls on the ground. We do not know how it wor

97. it is He who has set the stars for you, so that You may Guide Your course with their help through the darkness of the land and the sea. we have (indeed) explained In detail Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) for people who know. 98. it is He who has created You from a single person (Adam), and has given You a place of residing (on the earth or In Your mother's wombs) and a place of storage [in the earth (in Your graves) or In Your father's loins]. indeed, we have explained In detail Our revelations (this Qur'ân) for people who understand. 99. it is He who sends down water (rain) from the sky, and with it we bring forth vegetation of All kinds, and out of it we bring forth green stalks, from which we bring forth thick clustered grain. and out of the date­palm and its spathe come forth clusters of dates hanging low and near, and Gardens of grapes, olives and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) yet different (in variety and t

I look back, in my previous posts, and I see the development of my character. As reading a novel, there are ups and downs...and lots of unexpected plot-twists. This is one of the reasons that keeps me writing until now, and honestly, I am not quite sure what I started this. However, day by day, page by page, my story evolves to its final and ultimate plot twist which will be unexpected. The audience, the followers will wish nothing more as at that point, they will understand that it was a perfect story. What has happened to me, exactly one month ago, made me reflect back on my life. It was a turning point...a plot twist indeed...I have been immobilized for a month so far. I was not planning to give my body a vacation, but it was a heavenly forced holiday. In this period, I have developed other experience including intellectual and philosophical. It made me also dependent on others, which is something really rare for me...Of course, for security reasons, the details of what happen

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole. Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough -- so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that w

First, you learn how to count from one to ten. You feel that happiness. The feeling of satisfaction. Then you realize that numbers are not limited to ten. You work very hard to learn how to count up to a hundred, a thousand, a million. Then you figured out that numbers can go to infinity. Until finally you realize than you cannot count until the end. And then, you learn about fractions. You learned than even between one and two, there are infinite numbers of fractions. Not only that numbers can increase until infinity, even between two subsequent integers, there are infinity of possibilities. Two dimensions of infinities.... Now, you learn that numbers can be positive, as well as negative. You can also go infinitely in the negative direction, thus, adding another level or dimension of infinity...unlimited positive numbers, unlimited negative numbers, and unlimited possibilities of fractions... You go further in learning the numbers....you are introduced to the complex num

If we say like that, then we are nullifying the attribute of Justice from Him, the almighty. If we believe that He is All-knowing, and that He WROTE EVERYTHING for us, then we are saying that He is not fair. However, He has the absolute knowledge as well as He is the Just. So how? Yes, it has been written for some to go to hell. (No, the correct way to say: It has been written that some of us will go hell.) BUT that does not mean they were forced to act in such a way that will lead them to hell fire.  Before the creation of everything, Allah already knows what will happen. He knew already that some people will go to hell, although He gave them options and sent messengers to warn them. When we say He wrote that a person A would go to Hell, it is not mean that He is forcing him. He knew that this person A will choose the wrong way by his own free will. Knowledge does not necessary means forcing. In the things that we will be asked in the day of judgement, these things we have t

I was raised to be one of them. I admired them more and more. I really wished to be one of them. I tried my best to be one of them. Yet, still, I far away from them. Maybe it was destined for me not to be among the pure ones. However, I would not give up have way. Even if it was written that I would die as a normal person, I would like to die as near as to them. Before, I always used to wonder why my Lord did chose me to be among them. Although I decided to walk their path, many diversions I had no choice but to take. But now, I understand why. Up until now, I am not up to their level of sincerity. I am not ready yet to be up there among them. Maybe some of my traits and characteristics, that I need to throw away. No matter how much I wished from Him to include me among His chosen ones, He ultimately knows that if I were there, it is not the absolute best. The seats are limited, so better give it to the best of the best. It breaks my heart to finally realize that

When I was a kohai, I got selected in the university team for MASUM 2011. As we trained for 3 or 4 months, I got appointed as a captain despite being the most kohai. I was a third year student, and about to start my internship. I declined an offer from Proton, the HQ, and settled to work as a mechanic in a small workshop for Perodua...that was because of the fear that I would not fulfill my duties as a captain. Fast forwarding, during my last semester in my degree, choosing my next university...as my supervisor got a good link with Nottingham university, I got the chance to continue my studies there, one year in Malaysia, and three years in UK. A PhD program, skipping Msc. Yet, it was another decline from me. As my sensei was travelling away, someone must be there to take care of that dojo. There are a lot of opportunities I have missed, because of me putting other before me. So far I have not regretted. But if you were in my shoes maybe you would. We are different people, we have

Being a bachelor student in the Kulliyyah of Engineering was a great experience in my life. It truly has transformed to a better person. As I was a direct intake student, I faced some academic difficulties in my first semester. It was my first time studying with English as medium language. However, alhamdulillah with the help of my colleagues and friends, I managed to overcome all the difficulties. I started being a tutor for different subjects at the Kulliyyah of Engineering in my second year and managed to graduate as a rector list student, alhamdulillah. From my observation, what really makes the Kulliyyah of Engineering different from other the other faculties in IIUM is its number of international students and lecturers. Thus, as an international student, I did not feel left behind. However, we also have good local lecturers in the Kulliyyah. Seeing both of local and international lecturers and staff working together shows me how truly Muslims should treat each other irrespe