Tempat : Kelana Sentral, Kelana Jaya

Tarikh : 4 September 2009

Tempat : PWTC

Tarikh : 8 Sept 2009

p/s: tahun depan mesti datang ramai-ramai!

Every friday we muslims in malaysia go in droves to the masjid to listen to the friday sermons (khutbahs) and perform the friday prayers

And every friday when I listen to the khutbahs , I can’t help but feel annoyed at the level of ‘maturity’ and ‘intelligence’ the content of the khutbahs and the way the khatib/imam delivers it. To put it simpley, it is outright patronising.

Let us first look at the topics of the khutbah delivered.

More often than not, the content of the khutbah itself are an insult to our intelligence because it usually concerns of issues so minute and insignificant, that members of the audience couldn’t be bothered with.

Take this week. Bapa mithali. I assume this is because father s day is not many days away from now.

But what is so significant about bapa mithali??

How many of the audience are interested to listen to a lecture abt bapa mithali??

Islamist has to be real and updated to world challenges, and so does the khutbah s delivered every week.

Shouldn’t we be talking abt the challenges of a world facing with energy crisis? Shoudlt we be questioning why is the muslim world, who owns almost 60percent of the known oil reserves, are the worst affected by the current energy crisis? And shouldn’t we be talking abt how islam itself is a religion which speaks of a world that is too consumed by worldly matters, that it is a reminder for us all that there is a limit to everything?

And we want to talk abt bapa mithali?

How stupid we malaysian islamist are sometimes.

The problem is, how can we have a khutbah speech which is more updated to the current issues, when the very people who writes those khutbah’s are the very islamist who are katak di bawah tempurung that even though they studied overseas (read al azhar) they only mix with malaysians, and they don’t even have friends, who are not malaysians. Pi mai pi mai, tang tu jugak.

To make it even worse, more often than not we get really old imams, who reads the sermon, word by word.no intonation whatsoever. Well not that our national leader don’t do the same.

We should send this imams to the toastmasters club or something!!

At least, have some energy lah in delivering the khutbah.khutbah are suppose to be fiery and motivating, not a sleeping pill!

With this kind of topics and this kind of imams, they expect us, the mamums not to fall asleep during the khutbahs?

I think I’m gonna fall asleep now..

ZzzzZzzz….

by:Wan Mohd Firdaus

Malam tadi saya sempat berbual dengan abang Zam (Teman UM).Topiknya macam biasalah.Bab-bab rumahtangga dan terselit sedikit tentang sastera Melayu.Tapi banyaknya tentang soal jodoh, pinangan dan bakal-bakal calonlah.

Ada satu cerita itu tentang kawannya, seorang teruna yang bakal melangsungkan perkahwinan dengan seorang awek Terengganu.Tapi bila hantar rombongan meminang, pihak laki-laki terus ubah fikiran untuk tidak teruskan hasrat itu.

Menurut abg Zam, alasannya cuma kerana pihak perempuan (terutamanya ahli keluarga perempuan) dilihat amat kasar seolah-olah kurang ajar.Terkejut juga saya.Bagi saya,aweks-aweks atau mak cik-mak cik Terengganu biasa saja.Macam rakyat negeri lain jugak

Nak kata kasar pun tidak.nak kata lembut lagilah tidak.Cuma peramah dan ‘Gasang‘ sikit dalam percakapan mereka.Bagi orang yang tak biasa,memang lah nampak kasar.

Berbeza dengan orang Kelantan,gaya marah mereka pun nampak lembut.Tapi itulah budaya.Kita perlu faham keadaan dan waqi’ tempat itu dahulu,baru kita muda memahami budaya mereka.

Saya sebenarnya nak ulas panjang lagi tentang soal ni.Tapi masa macam tak berapa nak cukup.Ada slide pembentangan yang nak disiapkan.

Ok lah jumpa lagi nanti.

sumber:http://hasbie.blogspot.com

“Saya ni, kalau nak bukak restoran, saya bukak restoran mamak. Saya suruh Aslam yang jadi tauke.” Ujar Dr A sambil menepuk-nepuk belakang Aslam.

Kami semua tergelak. Maklumlah, sahabat kami tu memang muka ala-ala kawan Shah Rukh Khan. Jadi sesuai benarlah kalau dia nak bukak restoran mamak.

“Kamu tengok macam mana kedai mamak boleh ramai orang. Macam tu lah nanti kalau semua nak berniaga.” Sambung Dr A lagi sebelum meneruskan perbualan ke agenda yang sebenar.

“Roti kosong, teh tarik kurang gula satu!”

Barangkali itulah dialog ribuan penduduk Malaysia yang gemar menikmati roti canai dan teh tarik di pagi hari sebelum masuk ke pejabat.  Bukan sekadar orang Melayu, orang Cina pun suka makan di kedai mamak. Restoran mamak memang menjadi faktor perpaduan rakyat Malaysia.

Yang bujang berkumpul dengan kawan-kawan tengok English Premier League. Yang dah kahwin, saja malas nak minum air teh yang bini buat. Yang buat bisnes, cari prospect dan layan client pun di kedai mamak. Ngeteh.

Tetapi kepada peminat restoran mamak di luar sana, barangkali pendedahan Saudara Afyan di blog nya bakal mengubah sedikit sebanyak persepsi anda terhadap mereka. Tidak semua restoran mamak itu tulen. Ada palsu. Tidak ori. Cetak rompak sahaja. Luar sahaja nampak macam mamak Muslim, dalam bukan.

1. Mamak oh Mamak
2. Mamak oh Mamak (2)

Apa kes? Hotel pun banyak yang tak halal. Kedai mamak pun satu lagi isu. Macam mana lah nak cuti-cuti Malaysia ni?

Sebab tak jaga makan minum sebegini, gamaknya tak hairan lah ramai lelaki mudah tergoda dan terangsang melihat budak sekolah perempuan pakai uniform putih lebih-lebih lagi kalau ada yang berani pakai bra berwarna warni! Er … mungkin.

by:PakDi