- Fly to Pakistan
- Master cooking skills
- Master baby skills
- Continue my studies
- Perform Haj in what to be the last yr it will fall in Dec! Until the next 30yrs or so that is.
- Have a baby
- Fluent in Urdu. or at least manageable lah right.
- Read more inspirational books
- Go for more courses under company
My Studies.
As i get very encouraging comments about my Acturial pursuit, i tot, what the hell?, just cont my studies. I have paid it already. Even if i dont continue, i still hafta pay (unless i go thru the taxing legal procedure ergh). Hopefully, if Zubair's got that Bike license already, he can ferry me to n fro. i WILL do it. i WILL get that degree!!
Haj.
My parents are going. The musafir (traveller) rate is SGD6,500 per person. Frankly, i dont know how i will ever make it there. But i leave it to Allah to arrange it for me. Its not just the money... but what if i'd be heavily pregnant by then? Am i fit enough to do all those? My exams would be around that period.
As a young girl, i've always tot its scary to go there bcos of the frequent stampedes in the crowd. I've always imagined that i'd do Umrah first to get the feel of things before going for Haj.
I changed my mind after reading Ahmad Thompson's The Difficult Journey. I realised that you will only appreciate it if u faced difficulties trying to get something. Besides, the author also described how he felt overwhelmed by the Greatness and Beauty of Islam, of Allah when he saw the amount of pple gathering at one place in the name of the lord! to praise him. Doing Umrah first when its not packed, would somehow decrease the nikmat of seeing the Kaabah, the house of Allah, for the first time.
Why i NEED to do it this yr is because i would wanna go to Saudi in winter... when the weather is tolerable. I dont think i can bear to wait 30 odd years for Haj season to reach winter time again. Im afraid the feeling would be lost!
Urdu
Should i attend some courses? Buy some more CDs? Online learning? I hope to buy a pictionary or something when i visit there to help build my vocab. And need to practise constructing sentences!
The best of luck to all in achieving their targets for this yr. May it all be smooth sailing.
2 glasses of Juice:
When you are there, the weather is usually quite tolerable, despite its high temperatures. Even when you are doing the tawaf right at noon, with the sun above your head. Trust me.
Weather is not a concern when you are there. The actual physical challenges will come from the throngs of people and the crowds.
- Kak Adik
Hajj ism Jihad, so said Rasulullah s.a.w. Best to put your trust only in ALLAH when doing Hajj. Not the money, not the crowd, not the carrier, not the agency, not the weather, not hot or cold....but it is just for ALLAH.
Generaslly, jihad means to fight for ALLAH's sake. To uphold the truth of ALLAH. To supress the bathil. That means jihad is a matter of life and death.
Thus as Hajj is jihad, it is a matter of life and death.
If we return alive we get a beautiful experience and total forgive ness from ALLAH AL-MIGHTY AND AL-GHAFUR.
If we die during Hajj then, we will go straight to heaven, as mentioned in many verss of the Quran, those die during jihad for ALLAH's cause, will go straight to heaven....but...
on condition the jihad must be strictly and sincerely for ALLAH (IKHLAS)...
nOT FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, NOT FOR MATERIAL GAIN, NOT FOR PRIDE etc... but must be only for the sake of pursuing ALLAH's forgiveness, acceptance and redha.
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