Twins of Faith 2012: Love is Cinta :)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim (:

Alhamdulillah, setelah berhempas pulas cari masa, akhirnya dapat jugak luangkan sedikit masa di blog usang ni. I know it's a bit too late, but Happy 2013 to youuuu (sape2 la yang tengah baca ni :D) ! So how was 2012 ? :) When my kakak naqibah asked me that question during our new year's eve happy circle, I was dumbfounded. Honestly, lots of things had happened, but unlike any other sisters in that circle that night, I had no life-changing-kind-of-experience in 2012.

That was such. A waste :( 

Nevermind. I prayed to Allah so that 2013 will be way better, ameen2 :) But alhamdulillah, despite the 363 days that drifted by swiftly, my final 3 days in 2012 were ohh-soo-amazingggg ! :D Went to TOF2012 on the 29th and 30th Dec, and spend the night with my beloved sisters on the 31st. Seemed like a perfect year end to me :') Nak cerita semuaaa, but nanti jadi novel pulak. Muqaddimah pun dah panjang bak hang ><" For this post, I want to share about what I learned during TOF2012, insyaAllah :) 

Signs of Love ~

When I listened to the opening remarks by the emcee, I was terkejut bangat, mata bulat punya terkejut O.O, bila dia cakap yang theme for this year's conference, was, LOVE. I was like, heh ? What ? Nak cakap pasal love pun kena bayar beratus ke ? *ceh kejam ayat, I know*. Love tu simple je kot. Orang tepi jalan pun boleh cakap pasal L-O-V-E. Overrated. macam2 la tanggapan negatif yang tak best ada dalam benak pemikiran. Tapi salah Amal jugak, sape suruh tak check awal2 kan, zzz. But when I took a look at the tentative, it was written there For the Love of God.  Sentap jap. Tu la Amal, lenkali husnuzhon. Husnuzhon ! ><

Macam Amal cakap kat atas, kalau nak share semua jadi novel lah kan ^^v So nak share pasal a talk from Sheikh Daood Butt. Kan kadang2 kita macam, tak tau, bila kita in love kan ;) Dalam 3 Idiots dia cakap kita ni in love bila kita tengok shawl perempuan tu macam kena tiup angin laa, then everything moves in slow motion laa, zzz ~ Hindustan en ^^v Sheikh described that there are a few obvious signs of love; 

1) It is easy to serve the one that we love

2) To have shyness 

3) We know everything about the one we love

4) Can sacrifice anything for that person

Ok. Ni dalam konteks yang Amal faham laa. Konteks dunia. Contohnya, Amal ada boyfie *yucks !*, nama die ZZZ. So bila Amal rasa Amal "in love" dengan ZZZ ni kan, Amal rasa senang je nak buat apa yang dia suruh. Kalau dia suruh pakai mekap, pakai. Dia suruh nyanyi, nyanyi. CONTOH yaa, contoh. Takde pengalaman pun, zzz ~ And Amal akan rasa segan ngan dia, kena pakai cantik2 depan dia, kena act like I'm all princess-like depan dia. Hmm, kan aweks2 sekalian ? ;) And hasil daripada "taaruf" kitorang, Amal akan dapat tahu baaaanyak pasal dia. Apa dia suka, malam tadi mimpi apa, ubat gigi brand apa, buang air besar berapa kali sehari, yada yada. Amal jugak, akan sanggup sacrifice apa2 la untuk dia. Beli hadiah mahal2, sacrifice masa study gi dating, tenaga, dan macam2 lagi. 

Pergh. Hebat en. 

Tu cinta haram bro. Cuba kita cinta Dia :) Kita takkan rasa solat tu susah, sebab tu Dia suruh :) Kita akan rasa MALU nak buat dosa, sebab Dia tak suka. Kita akan ingat 99 nama Dia, sebab kita sentiasa berusaha untuk kenal Dia :) and kita akan sanggup korbankan dunia untuk Dia, sebab Dia dah cakap yang dunia ni sementara :) 

KALAU lah, KALAU kita cinta DIA.

Kita selalu claim kita sayang Dia, sayang Rasulullah SAW. Tapi takde langsung kot tanda2 cinta tu dalam diri kita. Amal sentap sangat, amat, sungguh kot bila pikir2 balik. Rasa macam menipu. Rasa, hipokrit.

And yet, Amal selalu cakap Amal benci orang hipokrit. Diri sendiri ? 

Hipokrit dengan Allah SWT. sobs T_T

Recheck !

Sheikh Omar Suleiman in his talk pulak suruh kita muhasabah diri balik, adakah kita cakap kita sayang Allah SWT sebab kita betul2 sayang Dia or sebab kita nak benda2 di dunia ? For example, kita nk sangat2 4 flat, so we keep on praying and praying and praying, sebab kita nak 4 flat tu. So, sayang kita kepada Allah SWT tu sebenarnya bersebab, sebab kita nak meminta-minta kat Dia. Supposedly, sayang tu perlu datang sendiri daripada hati, IKHLAS :) Jom, kita sama2 betulkan niat balik kays !

Give a Little Love ~ 

I also learned that to be loved, you need to LOVE :) Rasulullah SAW is the best example. He was sooooo loving that even a camel pun mengadu kat baginda sebab kena seksa ngan tuan dia. When Fatimah came to him (when she was small), he would kiss her forehead and placed her at his seat ;) Sangat berbeza dengan adat kita zaman sekarang bila kids pegi dekat adults yang tengah bercakap-cakap ke apa, the adults would chase them away and say "Budak2 main jauh2". Pernah dengar kan ? ;) 

Love is like ECHO. You go to a mountain, shout "I hate you !", and "I hate you" will come back to you. Instead, if you shout "I love you", guess what will come in return ? ;) The speaker laughed and said that it was a lame example, but that was exactly how love works actually. 

Cho-mel ;) 

So in order to get love, GIVE LOVE. In order to be loved by Allah SWT, love Him first :) 

Don't Forget Your Home ~

Makin hari Amal rasa makin ramai yang terlibat dengan usrah, yang berusaha bersungguh-sungguh-sungguh-sungguh untuk berdakwah, bawak adek2 dalam bulatan gumbira. Bagus lah, sunnah baginda Rasulullah SAW kan, and apa yang Allah SWT suruh jugak ;) Tapi, pesan Sheikh Daood Butt, sunnah baginda jugak untuk bawa dakwah tu di rumah. Orang pertama yang peluk Islam selepas baginda dapat wahyu, Saidatina Khadijah Khuwailid wifey tercinta. Saidatina Aishah pula antara orang yang paling banyak meriwayatkan hadis and a great murabbiah to para sahabat. So if we claimed that we're a dai'e, we need, NEED, to try to bring the dakwah to our homes ;) Sheikh ada cakap, "What you do outside, do it at home too". Banyak yang Amal dengar daripada akhwat fillah, "Orang yang paling close dengan kita yang paling susah di-dakwah", termasuklah family. Teringat kami pernah diskus pasal topik ni masa bulatan. Kesimpulannya, kita kena CUBA jugak walaupun susah. And kami bersetuju, kita kena bermula dengan qudwah ---> direct translate; contoh/tauladan. So kita cuba tunjuk contoh yang baik; solat awal waktu, ajak mereka jemaah, damaikan rumah dengan ayat2 Allah SWT :) insyaAllah, hidayah tu milik Allah SWT kan. Yang penting kita cuba dulu. YOSH ! \^^/

Main Sorok-sorok ~

"Hide your good deeds just like you hide your sins".

Nuff said la kan ? Sentap jugak bila  Sheikh tu cakap begini. Kita zaman la ni update FB tu macam ambik nafas en, setiap saat pun nak update. So maybe, just maybe, tanpa sengaja kita ter-share amalan-amalan murni mulia terpuji kita tu dengan niat yang salah. NIAT tu penting y'olls ! InsyaAllah, kalau niat kita untuk berdakwah, tak lah dikira riak. Tapi kena la berpada-pada jangan la sampai nak hapdet "Ohhh, tadi I rawatib lepas isyak ! you adeww ?", "Semalam I tahajuud 26 rakaat tawww ! ~" or, "I suka gi masjid, setiap waktu solat pun I gi masjid". Erk. Ramai je para pendakwah yang guna FB/Twit-mwit/belog as medan dakwah. Tapi tu laa, daripada ayat pun kita dah dapat bezakan yang mana menunjuk dan yang tak. So yea, careful y'olls ! Yang penting luruskan niat ! :) 

One last thing

Mesti anda yang baca ni dah merungut sakit jiwa sebab Amal melalut tak habis-habis lagi kan ? :D hoho, sorry lah kalau bosan *ceh bajet ada orang baca je, zzz ~* One last point before I go to bed :) Cuba, cuba, cuba. Kita tanamkan azam untuk spend time ber-"taaruf" dengan Allah SWT dan baginda Rasulullah SAW. Like one of the speakers said, "Don't let the Judgement day becomes the day you are introduced to Allah SWT, but instead, let it be the day you'll be reunited with the One you LOVE."

For the love of Allah SWT, the Creator, the Sustainer, the ONE.

Wallahua'lam.