Man United Season 2018/19

This 2018/19 season Manchester United began with a slow start.

Mourinho has his fair share of problems.

With this slow start, it is confirmed that they cannot win the EPL this season.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City and Tottenham will be setting the pace.

Next game will be away to Watford, who have won all 4 of their games this season. This will be a really huge test for Man United.

Anyway, I will always enjoy all Man United games.

My prediction is that they will finish either 5th or 6th in EPL.

1. Man City
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Tottenham
5. Man United/Arsenal
6. Arsenal/Man United

Nonetheless Manchester United will be my team!

5 reasons why Allah test you with problems

1. To DIRECT you
"Sometimes, it takes a painful situation to change our ways

2. To CORRECT you
We learn lessons through pain and failure. Sometimes we only learn the value of something.. by losing it

3. To PROTECT you
A problem can be a blessing if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Only Allah Knows what the future holds

4. To INSPECT you
When you have problems/challenges you should be grateful as these troubles test your faith to Allah and your patience.

5. To PERFECT you
Problems, when overcome correctly, are character builders. Your relationship with Allah is what you will bring you to the next life. Patience will develop into strengths and help us to further trust in Allah until we reach TAQWA

Ya Rabb, test me within my limits... so that I can be closer to you..

Aamiin

Ya Allah - Guide me to your straight path

In this world, there are numerous challenges that we face each day.

Challenges in Financial Security, in Career Path, in Raising our Children, at Workplace and the list goes on and on...

Yes, we need to face these challenges.

Not realising these challenges can be overcome by following Allah's manual in Quran and Hadith. We just have to seek for it and to obtain sufficient knowledge..

In this blogpost, it is too short for me to explain in detail.

Sufficient to CONFIRM that Allah (our Creator) has given the answer to all in His Divine Book and in the form of the Messenger.

Something really valuable can be obtained through "struggle" and sacrifice. And this is exactly what happens when you want to seek guidance from Allah.

Believe that once you obtain the guidance, this life with all the challenges are really beautiful and fulfilling. Allah Knows what is best for His TRUE slaves.

I hope everyone can struggle & sacrifice to obtain the Guidance from Allah. That is what we ask for in Surah Fatihah each time we pray.

Join me to make doa for the Guidance from Allah.

Aamiin.

Make the initial effort, then ask for help from Allah

As time passes by, to really consistently learn about Quran is getting more and more difficult (for me).

There is always this distraction that pulls me away from memorizing and learning about this amazing devine book of Allah.

I really have to make extra effort in order to overcome this.

I really make doa to Allah to make things easier for me.

Come to really (deeply) think about it is that there are 2 things here:-

1. You make the initial effort
2. You ask from Allah to make it easier for you.

If we think that it is ME that make it a success, then you are missing the point.

Surah Fatihah verse 4
To you (Allah) we enslave ourselves to
and to you (Allah) we ask for help

We make the effort, we ask for help from Allah.

That was why all good things are difficult initially. Just like driving a car, we start from gear 1 (low gear) and we end up in gear 5 (high gear).

Oh Allah. I have made the effort of learning the Quran. Give me the strength to continue learning your book and implement/practice them in my life

Reminder to me to remember being Slave of Allah

What I constantly remind myself is to be SLAVE of Allah.

Meaning to do what Allah commands and abstain from what Allah forbids in order to achieve Taqwa.

This is our Syahadah:

There is no God but Allah (meaning we enslave ourselves to Allah)
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah (by following what Rasulullah did).

That is the essence of being a true Muslim.

To achieve that, we must acquire the knowledge of Quran and implement the sunnah of Rasulullah. 

Whatever happens is the will of Allah and we as slaves will accept the situation with redha.

Oh Allah. Make me among your slaves.

Aamiin

Close friends passed away

In the past 4 weeks (blessed month of Syaaban), I have been attending many of my friends funeral.

Just before the start of Ramadan for this year (1439H) I have attended 6 of my friend's pengkebumian.

They are
1. Hamzah Nordin (Office colleague) 57
2. Nik Nasir (Family Friend) 62
3. Amir Hamzah (University mate) 54
4. Awaluddin (Office colleague) 54
5. Norlia Harun (Distance relative) 60
6. Latifah Md Salleh(Office colleague) 60 

Hamzah and Latifah were very close to me.

Oh Allah. From You we come and to You we return.

My turn will definitely come and this is a reminder to me that I will have to always be a Muslim at all times, because when I die, I want to die as a Muslim.

Ya Rabb, please make me die as a Muslim. Aamiin..

Hafazan Surah An Naaziaat

I finally succeed in memorizing Surah An Naaziat.

My initial target was end Dec 2017. I manage to achieve it end Mar 2018 ( 3 months delay).

The most difficult Surah to memorize. And the longest Surah (46 ayat).

The key, is to hear it daily.

Thank you Allah....

Let this small achievement be an example to my fellow readers.