Puisi Kerdil buat Baginda

Qalbuku penuh dimomok debu,

Ianya hitam lambang khilafku,

Tidak kusangka dapat mendekatimu,

Wahai Habibullah,

Kaulah yang kami rindu,

Saban tahun kami berselawat,

Kononnya kami beringat-ingat,

Kalam diulang ketika pemergianmu bagai hikayat,

Ummati,ummati pelbagai makna tersurat&tersirat,

Namun kami dibuai kealpaan akan ibrah pemergianmu,

Diakhir hayatmu masih dikau mengenang kami,

Kami yang lalai sekian hari,

Kami yang makin jauh dengan peribadimu,

Kami yang tidak pertahankan hadiahNya menjadi umatmu,

Tidak langsung pernah terlintas,

Aku yang kerdil,

Aku yang hina dina,

Dapat mengamati,

Walau sehelai peninggalanmu,

Qalbu ini tersemat dengan titisan insafi,

Qalbu ini mula menangis tidak terperi,

Aqalku merangkak cuba menyusun kalami,

Ya Rasulullah!

Daku ingin kembali,

Daku ingin mencari!

Hakikat cintamu sebenar yang pudar dimamah duniawi.

p/s: tak sangka terlepas aku melawat Tanah Haram, diberi hadiah menjulang Janggut Junjungan Mulia. Hari yang tidak akan sekali ku lupakan. Akan kusambung perjalanan Ibrahku dalam siri2 seterusnya dengan izin Allah.

Elegy : Sand Storm Hullabaloo

Desert Storm comes to fruition,

Tainted imagery of this imagination,

Finding justice in midst of all this pollution,

Minds are sullied with vague vexation,

Cerebration demolition of the population,

Wake up and recognize your mission!

#SandStormHullabaloo

Epilog: Talking Heads

• As of late and as ever, everyone has something to say about every single issue that arises.

• This is a commoner practice which is good in essence if done in the right way.

• Now I am not saying that I know the right way,rather its a point of observation amongst peers, and what we could see manifesting around us everyday.

• I believe in freedom of speech of course when practised in its fine right way. But it is a virulent practice that everyone is indeed threading on a very fine line.

• If you go overboard you might find yourself akin to the evillest of perceptions and if you're not going to say anything you'd be a passive passenger on God's earth.

• A fatal mistake that many of us seemingly commit every single day without fail is that we love to lash out criticism without any substance. It's the infamously named cheap-shots that we sometime use to get back on certain issues that doesn't bode well with our train of thoughts.

"Speaking little and listening much are virtues and signs of maturity. The desire to make oneself heard at all times is a sign of spiritual imbalance and shamelessness, even if some explain it away as a form of insanity"-Fethullah Gulen

• We often let emotions cloud our judgement. It's the very microcosm to the ever perishable healthy discourse between two parties engaging in a beautiful collision of ideas. Not akin to demonize each other, but rather trying to find a common ground and if a disagreement arises, respect each others personal views.

• The very art of a healthy discussion is to never allow, at any point, your emotions get in your way.

• Yes, principals are key, but as Professor Tariq Ramadan once mentioned "Without discipline, my ego is the first jail of myself".

• This is the thin line we're threading. Often we fall prey to our own egos, getting entrapped in our own prison of our mindset, wanting to champion a debate, the negative desire to see our counterpart fall and eat their own views up.

• We claim to be wanting to correct or to amend the situation, but in essence our "words of wisdom" just made things worse. Unfortunately, intentions never justify the end of our means.

• Existence of a check and balance principality is pivotal in order to ensure we do not skew off the thin line drawn over the years by our community's psychosocial aspects.

• Nothing that I have put together in the paragraphs above have not already been playing in our very minds, it is the implementation that becomes the problem. We all know the words, the wisdom, the mechanics but what we do not know is to reach out.

• It starts with us, change our perceived thoughts, be more flexible in taking our stand and never go astray with the principals and guidance that is drawn from the Quran and authentic Hadith.

• Never allow ourselves to be caught in a maze of zealotry or even fanaticism, but instead always have an open mind with regards to issues happening in and around us.

• Finally, The populous masquerade their cerebration in such a way they each think that the world envelopes around their train of thought processes. Sadly,it does not work that way. Voice your opinions with nuance and if you find it necessary to criticize, do it, constructively with compassion lingering in your very souls and minds

• Spread peace, diffuse any form of tension that arises and educate ourselves by reading more. =)

Epilog: Time-Continuum

• Time. A figurative discrepancy of sorts. A four lettered concise entity.

• A vestiture worn by some as an element of success. A determinant of sorts of how distinguished one could be.

• Time. A conundrum for those suffering from long standing chronic illnesses. A savoury account for those benefiting from it.

• Time. A cruelty. A sanctity. Everyone have their own definitions of what time is, but what it is, is exactly a variable that is constantly moving in a forward direction.

• I am reminded by a splendid saying by Golda Meir "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it"
  

• Albeit time being a nonadjustable variable, come what may, you could still alter the course of its succession.
  

• What happens today, tomorrow or even the next ten years , might as well be out of our cerebral reach, but we could work towards the betterment of it all.

Ibn Abbas narrated that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said:

"There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) health and free time for doing good." (Bukhari 8/421)

• Time is of the essence. Never abuse it, never languish yourselves with procrastination. Never allow it to manipulate us, instead we should assert our dominance upon it.

Allah mentioned in the Holy Quran

By the time (1) verily man is in loss. (2) But not those who believe and work righteous deeds, and enjoin upon each other the truth and enjoin upon each other steadfastness. (3) [Al-asr; Holy Quran]

• Time. A four lettered word. A sanctity if we protect its course. A conundrum if we falter in process of governing it.

Epilog: Faculties of the Mind

• 4 months, and nothing to show for.That was how dry it was. Well I reckon it was longer than that.

• This bottomless well of once deep thought processes and thinking could not express itself into words.

• It wasn't only the writers block, its my thoughts itself, shying away from being put into proper words.

• It's obvious I need to read more, more than what I've been reading and I have to widen the genre, to allow the ideas to flow.

• Also the productivity level and the urge to write down an idea on a notebook, a skill many of us have yet to master.

• So simple is it not, just carry a small notebook,notepad or some papers what have you and a pen.

• Every time that light-bulb in our faculty of minds flashes, get the pen and paper out, and jot that good stuff down, it may never resurface,ever again!

• Ahoy! Set sail, lets give it a try then!