Thursday, April 29, 2010

Kelebihan Membaca Al-Quran

Kelebihan Membaca Al-Quran

1. Ibadah yang paling utama dari segi bacaan

2. Pahala membaca satu huruf daripada Al-Quran: Menurut Ibn Majah digandakan hingga 400 kali dan Ibn al-Jauzi pula berpendapat digandakan sebanyak 700 kali.

3. Balasan satu huruf yang dibaca ialah bidadari di syurga, juga dikatakan balasan sebatang pokok di syurga.

4. Mengikut Ibn Abbas r.a., pembaca al-Quran ialah seorang hartawan dan pahala membaca tidak akan putus.

5. Selamat daripada api neraka, mendapat kedudukan yang tinggi dan mulia bersama malaikat.

6. Pada hari kiamat, al-Quran menjadi pembela.

7. Pembaca akan memperolehi keamanan di dunia dan kemuliaan di syurga.

8. Membaca sebelum tidur akan mendapat kawalan malaikat.

9. Pembaca akan dimasukkan ke dalam golongan Siddiqin, Syuhada dan Solehin.

10. Membaca al-Quran secara kumpulan akan diampun dosa mereka.

11. Mendapat cahaya di bumi dan menjadi sebutan oleh malaikat di langit.

12. Jika dibaca dalam rumah, akan memberi cahaya kepada rumah itu.

13. Membaca secara tadarrus(bergilir-gilir) mendapat ketenangan, rahmat dan dikelilingi oleh malaikat.

14. Pembaca yang mahir dan baik diutamakan menjadi imam solat.

15. Seutama-utama manusia ialah yang mempelajari, mengajar dan menghayati ajaran al-Quran.

16. Mempelajari satu ayat al-Quran lebih baik daripada solat sunat 1000 rakaat.

17. Mempelajari dan membaca mendapat keberkatan dan keharmonian hidup.

18. Mendapat perlindungan di padang Mahsyar kelak.

19. Pembaca akan dilindungi daripada godaan syaitan.

Petikan dari buku ‘Indahnya Hidup Bersyariat’ – terbitan Telaga Biru

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Quotes

Abraham Lincoln said: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”.

Clarence Darrow said: “As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever”.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Dekat Dengan Allah

Allah berfirman:

Dan apabila hambaKu bertanya kepadamu mengenaiKU, maka (beritahu mereka): "Sesungguhnya Aku sentiasa dekat (kepada mereka). Aku memperkenankan permohonan orang yg berdoa apabila dia berdoa kepadaKu. Maka hendaklah mereka menyahut seruanKu (iaitu dgn mematuhi perintahKu), dna hendaklah mereka beriman supaya mereka mendapat petunjuk."

(Surah Al-Baqarah 2: 186)

Tip dan Pantang Larang Sirat

Seperti disebut Rasullah:

Banyakkan sedekah - siapa yg perbaguskan sedekah di dunia, ia berjaya melintasi sirat

Melazikan diri ke masjid - org menjadikan masjid rumahnya, maka Allah menjamin untuknya rahmat, kenikmatan dan berjaya melintasi sirat

Amalan buruk yg merencatkan kelancaran titian sirat: Membuat tuduhan dusta ke atas mukmin.

Abu Daud meriwayatkan dari Muaz bin Anas al-Jauhani:
"Sesiapa yg menjaga seorang mukmin daripada munafik (gangguan), maka Allah akan mengutus seorang malaikat untuk menjaga tubuhnya daripada api neraka jahana. Dan sesiapa berbuat dusta kepada seornag mukmin untuk memburukkan namanya, maka Allah akan menghentikan langkahnya di atas titian sirat hingga ia bersedia melepaskan tuduhan tersebut."

Sumber: Solusi

You are what you read

- Bahan bacaan = makanan kepada akal.
- Jika akal kotor, hati pun kotor.
- Berhenti membaca = berhenti memimpin
- Leaders are learners
- Membaca perlu liputi: Kenal huruf, baca, faham, serap, amal, kritik, buat perbandingan, analisa, buat kesimpulan
- Ilmu bertambah bila digunakan
- Ilmu lindungi pemilik. Harta perlukan perlindungan oleh pemilik
- Ilmu dan amal bantu meniti sirat


Piramid Bacaan:

1 - Ql-quran (paling byk dan paling perlu)
2 - Hadis
3 - Ilmu2 asas syariah - aqidah, fiqah, akhlak
4 - Buku2 pengetahuan am/ pengkhususan
5 - Buku motivasi dan pengalaman hidup org lain yg ada 'ibrah
6 - Buku tentang pendidikan anak2, keluarga, masyarakat etc
7 - Buku tentang analisis sejarah - terutama sirah Nabi dan sahabat
9 - Bacaan hiburan yg tak tersasar dari ajaran Islam i.e. novel, sajak

Sumber: Solusi

Cinta Akhirat

Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w:

Sesiapa yg menjadikan akhirat harapannya Allah akan menjadikan rasa cukup di dalam hatinya serta mempersatukannya, dan dunia akan datang kepadanya dalam keadaan menyerah diri. Tetapi siapa yang dunia menjadi harapannya, Allah akan menjadikan kefakiran berada di depan matanya serta mencerai-beraikannya, dan dunia tidak akan datang kepadanya kecuali sekadar apa yang telah ditetapkan baginya. (Riwayat at-Tirmizi)


Firman Allah yg bermaksud:

Sesiapa yg mengkehendari keuntungan di akhirat akan Kami tambah keuntungan itu baginya. Dan sesiapa yang menkehendati keuntungan di dunia Kami berikan kepadanya sebahagian dari keuntungan dunia dan tidak ada baginya suatu bahagian pun di akhirat. (Surah al-Syura 42:20)


Untung cinta akhirat:
1. Siapa yg beramal untuk akhiratnya, Allah akan mencukupkan dunianya.
2. Siapa yg memperbaiki hubungan antara dirinya dengan Allah, Allah akan memperbaiki hubungan dirinya dengan manusia lain.
3. Siapa yg memperbaiki keadaan batinnya, Allah akan memperbaiki keadaan lahirnya
4. Siapa menjadikan aktivitinya untuk akhirat, maka tidak akan terlewat satu hari pun melainkan dia akan kembali.

Sumber: Solusi

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Amin dlm Al-fatihah

Ni dgr kat Radio - tak ingt ustaz nama apa.
Katanya nabi smlm sebut amin, dia sebut "rabbighfirli" - Tuhanku, ampunkan aku.

Lagi yg lain, kalu solat dgn imam kne tunggu kejap slm kata Amin, supaya amin sama dgn amin malaikat.

Yg ni pulak dgr kat tv.
Ustaz tu kata Amin tu, "min" bleh baca 2, 4 atau 6 haraat bergantung kepada pjg mad (aridh lissukun ke?)ayat2 sebelumnya.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Hati & Bekas

Wahai Kumail bin Ziyad! Sesungguhnya hati itu bagaikan satu bekas. Bekas yang baik adalah yg mampu menampung dan menjaga isinya. Maka perkatikanlah perkara yg aku ucapkan kepada mu. Manusia itu ada 3 jenis. Orang yang alim dan teguh akan agamanya, orang yg belajar dalam perkara yg dapat menguntungkan dan orang yg dungu dan tidak berhagra adalah manusia y selalu menuruti kejahatannya. Dia tidak mempunyai pendirian, tidak mengambil cahaya ilmu dan tidak bersandar pada tiang yagn kukuh."

- Saiyidina Ali bin Abi Tolib

3 Perkara Yg Menghancurkan

Ada tiga perkara yg menghancurkan. Orang yg menganggap banyak amal perbuatannya, lupa akan dosa yg dilakukannya dan merasa kagun dengan pendapatnya sendiri

- Muhammad Baqir bin Ali Zainal Abidin

Kejayaan Noriah - Atikah Songket

Rancangan Ustazah FAtimah Azzahra di Astro Oasis smlm pagi (ulangan kut).

Ustazah ni perkenalkan sorang anak murid dia yg berjaya, setelah kenal dan belajar dgn dia selama 10 tahun.
This women teruskan perusahaan songket family, dia adalah 3rd generation kalu tak silap, namanya Noriah, mengusahakan Atikah Songket.

So antara faktor kejayaan yg dia ckp ialah
- jujur
- ikhlas
- tak tipu sukatan kain
- tekad utk jaga nama baik arwah mak yg dia warisi bisnes
- bakti pada org tua

Satu lg berkat amalkan doa yg ustazah Fatimah ajar. Doa ni dia kata sort of penarik rezeki - so utk org yg bisnes atau kontraktor projek, tak perlu rasuah etc, sbb doa ni mmg "mujarab".

Allaahumma innii as-alukan an tarzuqnii rizqan halalan waasi'an toyyiban min ghairi ta'ab wa laa mashaqqah wa laa nasobin innaka 'alaa kulli syai-in qodiir

Point lagi dia cakap "kalau kita tak ikhlas, rezeki tuhan nk bagi (contoh sedepa tangan), dia bagi separuh je".
Lagi, kena berbaik sangka dgn Allah. Kalau tak dapat, jgn kata Allah tak bagi tapi dia akan bagi cuma mungkin lambat.

http://www.peniagawati.org.my/direktori/profil%20noriah.html

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Kata-kata ahli falsafah Cina, Konfucius

If you want to rule the state, first put your house in order,
to put your house in order, first cultivate yourself morally,
to cultivate yourself morally, first put your heart right,
to put your heart right, you must be sincere.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Diri Dalam Tetapi ~ A Aziz Deraman

Diri Dalam Tetapi ~ A Aziz Deraman
Disember 2, 2007

Diri ada keberanian
tetapi tiada kejujuran
diri ada kesungguhan
tetapi tiada keikhlasan
antara berani jujur sungguh ikhlas
tetapi tiada satu tindak berbalas.

Engkau kuat pantas berlari
tetapi tiada kaukejari pahala diri
engkau hebat melayari samudera
tetapi tiada jasa mengasuh manusia
engkau harapkan malam jadi siang
tetapi tiada peduli anugerah Tuhan
engkau lihat mentari dan nyaman bulan
tetapi tiada tekuni fitrah alam
engkau inginkan sejahtera kehidupan
tetapi tiada hayati makna kebajikan
engkau kuasai segenap penjuru kuasa
tetapi tiada pernah kembali kepada-Nya
diri dalam tetapi
tetapi dalam diri
engkau dalam tetapi
tetapi kekal tetapi.

A AZIZ DERAMAN
Putera Permai,
Selangor
28 Mac 2007

Tetamu Senja ~ A. Samad Said

Moga sama2 kita hayati, buat peringatan bahawa hidup kita di dunia ini sgt singkat.


Tetamu Senja ~ A. Samad Said
--------------------------------

Kita datang ini hanya sebagai tetamu senja
Bila cukup detik kembalilah
Kita kepadanya
Kita datang ini kosong tangan dada
Bila pulang nanti bawa dosa bawa pahala

Pada tetamu yang datang dan
Kenal jalan pulang
Bawalah bakti mesra kepada
Tuhan kepada Insan
Pada tetamu yang datang
Dan lupa jalan pulang
Usahlah derhaka pula
Pada Tuhan kepada insan

Bila kita lihat manusia lupa tempat
Atau segera sesat puja darjat
Puja pangkat
Segera kita insaf kita ini punya kiblat
Segera kita ingat kita ini punya tekad

Bila kita lihat manusia terbiar larat
Hingga mesti merempat ke laut biru
Ke kuning darat
Harus kita lekas sedar penuh pada tugas
Harus kita tegas sembah
Seluruh rasa belas

Kita datang ini satu roh satu jasad
Bila pulang nanti bawa bakti padat berkat
Kita datang ini satu roh satu jasad
Bila pulang nanti bawa bakti padat berkat

~ A. Samad Said

Jangan ambil Al-quran hanya bila terdesak

Org melayu sering guna al-quran untuk bersumpah bila dh rasa takde lain yg boleh tologn utk katakan kebenaran seolah2 dia berkata "Hanyaa Allah menjadi saksiku"

Ironinya kadang2 cara dia atur hidup tak pula cerminkan yang dia junjung Quran, bila ditimpa masalah baru nk cari Quran.

Inilah sikap escapism org Islam dlm selesaikan masalah.

Sepatutnya semua penyelesaian permasalahan mesti bersifat "dari dalam ke luar" dan akar umbi ialah iman dan taqwa.

Quran tak patut dijadikan saksi pi pertengahan jalan saja. Ia mesti dijadikan panduan di permulaan, di tengah di hujung bahkan di sepanjang perjalanan.

Sumber: Solusi

Di Sebalik Iqra'

Terlalu sikit daripada umat yg membaca
Dan sikit dari yg membaca tu sikit je yg fahaminya
Daripada sedikit yg fahami tu sikit pula yg menguasai
Dan daripada sikit yang kuasai tu lebih sikit yg mengamalkannya.

Komen tokoh Yahudi tentang kelembapan budaya membaca org Islam:
"Kita tak takut dgn org Islam. Sbb mereka skrg adalah umat yg tak membaca"

Sumber: majalah Solusi

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Cabaran Menjadi Guru & Masalah Displin

Di radio IKIM fm

Kisah 1 - Kena Rotan

Pemanggil ni citer masa skolah dulu dia nakal sgt, dan mmg tu cara tunjuk lagak.
Dia mmg nakal, samapai ayahnya kne panggil ke skolah dan dh taktau nak buat apa dgn dia ni. SAmpai ayah dia pun kata "cikgu rotanlah"
Jadi, suatu hari cikgu rotan, dan dia mmg dendam dan adalah buat khianat kat harta cikgu tu. SPM pun tak lulus cemerlang.

Tapi dia mau pk balik kesalahan dia, and tersedar bahawa cikgu rotan sbb sayang nk suruh jadi org berguna.

Dia pun ambik kelas, belajar dan skrg sampai ke peringkat master


Kisah 2 - Ayah sporting

Seorang pemanggil cerita kisah2 dari kawannya yg jadi guru. SAlah satu kes, pelajar pompuan kne tangkap hisap rokok.
So panggil ayah ke sekoah dan ayah dia kata kat girl tu "Kan ayah dh kata jgn merokok kat sekolah". Ha..mau tak terkedu gurunya tu.


Kisah 3 - Segalanya Bermula Dari Rumah

CIkgu sendiri yg call ni. Katanya mmg mcm2 kes kat sekolah tapi byk masalah berpunca dari didikan parent di rumah. Kalau parents keje sampai mlm, biasanya anak2 mmg problem.

Kisah 4 - Tgk Perangai Mak Pak Dia

Pemanggil ni kata biasa budak bermasalah ni ikut perangai mak pak dia. Betul jgk tu..manat umpah kuah kalu tak ke nasi - most of the cases la kan.

Kisah 5 - Faktor Pemakanan

Ni bukan kisah la tapi cadangan. Pemanggil ni kata kene selidik apa anak2 diberi makan i.e. sumber, kelalalan.


Kisah 6 - Pelajar Pompuan pun sama

Pemanggil ni kata di satu sekolah masalah pelajar pompuan pun sama jugak


Kisah 7 - Ada ketua yg pengaruhi pelajar baik

Kisah akak ni tgk budak2 skolah dlm ting 1-2 jdkan tepi umah dia sbg pot melepak dan ponteng solat jumaat. Dia kata kne tegur la dh tgk byk jumaat mcm tu. Bila ditegur, ketuanya kata "takpe...aku ada"... akak tu kata, ada la bbrapa org nmpak baik dan takut2 tapi ketua tulah berperanan pengaruhi budak2 tu. Inilah dikatakan peer pressure.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

LATE BLOOMERS - Why do we equate genius with precocity?

LATE BLOOMERS
Why do we equate genius with precocity?
by Malcolm Gladwell
OCTOBER 20, 2008
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en Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. His literary training consisted of a handful of creative-writing classes in college. He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job.
“I was tremendously apprehensive,” Fountain recalls. “I felt like I’d stepped off a cliff and I didn’t know if the parachute was going to open. Nobody wants to waste their life, and I was doing well at the practice of law. I could have had a good career. And my parents were very proud of me—my dad was so proud of me. . . . It was crazy.”
He began his new life on a February morning—a Monday. He sat down at his kitchen table at 7:30 A.M. He made a plan. Every day, he would write until lunchtime. Then he would lie down on the floor for twenty minutes to rest his mind. Then he would return to work for a few more hours. He was a lawyer. He had discipline. “I figured out very early on that if I didn’t get my writing done I felt terrible. So I always got my writing done. I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.” His first story was about a stockbroker who uses inside information and crosses a moral line. It was sixty pages long and took him three months to write. When he finished that story, he went back to work and wrote another—and then another.
In his first year, Fountain sold two stories. He gained confidence. He wrote a novel. He decided it wasn’t very good, and he ended up putting it in a drawer. Then came what he describes as his dark period, when he adjusted his expectations and started again. He got a short story published in Harper’s. A New York literary agent saw it and signed him up. He put together a collection of short stories titled “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,” and Ecco, a HarperCollins imprint, published it. The reviews were sensational. The Times Book Review called it “heartbreaking.” It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. It was named a No. 1 Book Sense Pick. It made major regional best-seller lists, was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews, and drew comparisons to Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Stone, and John le Carré.
Ben Fountain’s rise sounds like a familiar story: the young man from the provinces suddenly takes the literary world by storm. But Ben Fountain’s success was far from sudden. He quit his job at Akin, Gump in 1988. For every story he published in those early years, he had at least thirty rejections. The novel that he put away in a drawer took him four years. The dark period lasted for the entire second half of the nineteen-nineties. His breakthrough with “Brief Encounters” came in 2006, eighteen years after he first sat down to write at his kitchen table. The “young” writer from the provinces took the literary world by storm at the age of forty-eight.

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enius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, “Citizen Kane,” at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year through his late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with “Moby-Dick.” Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat-Major at the age of twenty-one. In some creative forms, like lyric poetry, the importance of precocity has hardened into an iron law. How old was T. S. Eliot when he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (“I grow old . . . I grow old”)? Twenty-three. “Poets peak young,” the creativity researcher James Kaufman maintains. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the author of “Flow,” agrees: “The most creative lyric verse is believed to be that written by the young.” According to the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, a leading authority on creativity, “Lyric poetry is a domain where talent is discovered early, burns brightly, and then peters out at an early age.”
A few years ago, an economist at the University of Chicago named David Galenson decided to find out whether this assumption about creativity was true. He looked through forty-seven major poetry anthologies published since 1980 and counted the poems that appear most frequently. Some people, of course, would quarrel with the notion that literary merit can be quantified. But Galenson simply wanted to poll a broad cross-section of literary scholars about which poems they felt were the most important in the American canon. The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William Carlos Williams’s “Red Wheelbarrow,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife,” Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” Frost’s “Mending Wall,” Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” and Williams’s “The Dance.” Those eleven were composed at the ages of twenty-three, forty-one, forty-eight, forty, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty, twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-two, and fifty-nine, respectively. There is no evidence, Galenson concluded, for the notion that lyric poetry is a young person’s game. Some poets do their best work at the beginning of their careers. Others do their best work decades later. Forty-two per cent of Frost’s anthologized poems were written after the age of fifty. For Williams, it’s forty-four per cent. For Stevens, it’s forty-nine per cent.
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PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd Mencari Penulis Berbakat Bagi Novel Islami

PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd Mencari Penulis Berbakat Bagi Novel Islami

Posted on 09. May, 2007 by Fauzul Na'im Ishak in Coretan
Pihak PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd melancarkan produk baru berbentuk fiksyen. Ia berkonsepkan novel yang berunsurkan Islam. Antara ciri-ciri novel ini adalah :
Isu semasa Islam, Cinta Anta Anti, Perjuangan berfikrah, Perbandingan Agama dan apa saja cadangan yang wajar dengan konsep ini
Kupasan setiap isu diberikan penelitian daripada sudut pandangan Islam
Gaya persembahan moden & Islami
Gaya novel popular
Pihak PTS Millennia dalam proses mencari penulis berbakat bagi menyumbangkan karya untuk penerbitan novel ini. Spesifikasi penghantaran manuskrip adalah seperti berikut :
Saiz : A4
Font 12 :
Bilangan Halaman : 200 Halaman
Selang Baris : Satu Baris (Single Spacing)
Tarikh Penghantaran Manuskrip : Setiap bulan, bila-bila masa
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ataupun berhubung terus dengan editor perolehan kami, Cik Nurul Hafizah Mokhtar di talian 0192488900 ataupun email terus kepada nurulhafizah@ptsmillennia.com atau nurulhafizah@pts.com.my
Kami menunggu karya kreatif daripada anda.
Hasil tulisan :
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Pemilik Blog
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Malcolm Gladwell on "Outliers"

What is Outliers about?
1. What is an outlier?

"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.

2. Why did you write Outliers?

I write books when I find myself returning again and again, in my mind, to the same themes. I wrote Tipping Point because I was fascinated by the sudden drop in crime in New York City—and that fascination grew to an interest in the whole idea of epidemics and epidemic processes. I wrote Blink because I began to get obsessed, in the same way, with the way that all of us seem to make up our minds about other people in an instant—without really doing any real thinking. In the case of Outliers, the book grew out a frustration I found myself having with the way we explain the careers of really successful people. You know how you hear someone say of Bill Gates or some rock star or some other outlier—"they're really smart," or "they're really ambitious?' Well, I know lots of people who are really smart and really ambitious, and they aren't worth 60 billion dollars. It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations.

3. In what way are our explanations of success "crude?"

That's a bit of a puzzle because we certainly don't lack for interest in the subject. If you go to the bookstore, you can find a hundred success manuals, or biographies of famous people, or self-help books that promise to outline the six keys to great achievement. (Or is it seven?) So we should be pretty sophisticated on the topic. What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that we've been far too focused on the individual—on describing the characteristics and habits and personality traits of those who get furthest ahead in the world. And that's the problem, because in order to understand the outlier I think you have to look around them—at their culture and community and family and generation. We've been looking at tall trees, and I think we should have been looking at the forest.

4. Can you give some examples?

Sure. For example, one of the chapters looks at the fact that a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography: they are Jewish men, born in the Bronx or Brooklyn in the mid-1930's to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry. Now, you can call that a coincidence. Or you can ask—as I do—what is about being Jewish and being part of the generation born in the Depression and having parents who worked in the garment business that might have something to do with turning someone into a really, really successful lawyer? And the answer is that you can learn a huge amount about why someone reaches the top of that profession by asking those questions.

5. Doesn't that make it sound like success is something outside of an individual's control?

I don't mean to go that far. But I do think that we vastly underestimate the extent to which success happens because of things the individual has nothing to do with. Outliers opens, for example, by examining why a hugely disproportionate number of professional hockey and soccer players are born in January, February and March. I'm not going to spoil things for you by giving you the answer. But the point is that very best hockey players are people who are talented and work hard but who also benefit from the weird and largely unexamined and peculiar ways in which their world is organized. I actually have a lot of fun with birthdates in Outliers. Did you know that there's a magic year to be born if you want to be a software entrepreneur? And another magic year to be born if you want to be really rich? In fact, one nine year stretch turns out to have produced more Outliers than any other period in history. It's remarkable how many patterns you can find in the lives of successful people, when you look closely.

6. What's the most surprising pattern you uncovered in the book?

It's probably the chapter nearly the end of Outliers where I talk about plane crashes. How good a pilot is, it turns out, has a lot to do with where that pilot is from—that is, the culture he or she was raised in. I was actually stunned by how strong the connection is between culture and crashes, and it's something that I would never have dreamed was true, in a million years.

7. Wait. Does this mean that there are some airlines that I should avoid?

Yes. Although, as I point out in Outliers, by acknowledging the role that culture plays in piloting, some of the most unsafe airlines have actually begun to clean up their act.

8. In Tipping Point, you had an entire chapter on suicide. In Blink, you ended the book with a long chapter on the Diallo shooting—and now plane crashes. Do you have a macabre side?

Yes! I'm a frustrated thriller writer! But seriously, there's a good reason for that. I think that we learn more from extreme circumstances than anything else; disasters tell us something about the way we think and behave that we can't learn from ordinary life. That's the premise of Outliers. It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

9. How does this book compare to Blink and The Tipping Point?

It's different, in the sense that it's much more focused on people and their stories. The subtitle—"The Story of Success"—is supposed to signal that. A lot of the book is an attempt to describe the lives of successful people, but to tell their stories in a different way than we're used to. I have a chapter that deals, in part, with explaining the extraordinary success of Bill Gates. But I'm not interested in anything that happened to him past the age of about 17. Or I have a chapter explaining why Asian schoolchildren are so good at math. But it's focused almost entirely on what the grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great grandparents of those schoolchildren did for a living. You'll meet more people in Outliers than in my previous two books.

10. What was your most memorable experience in researching Outliers?

There were so many! I'll never forget the time I spent with Chris Langan, who might be the smartest man in the world. I've never been able to feel someone's intellect before, the way I could with him. It was an intimidating experience, but also profoundly heartbreaking—as I hope becomes apparent in "The Trouble with Geniuses" chapter. I also went to south China and hung out in rice paddies, and went to this weird little town in eastern Pennsylvania where no one ever has a heart attack, and deciphered aircraft "black box" recorders with crash investigators. I should warn all potential readers that once you get interested in the world of plane crashes, it becomes very hard to tear yourself away. I'm still obsessed.

11. What do you want people to take away from Outliers?

I think this is the way in which Outliers is a lot like Blink and Tipping Point. They are all attempts to make us think about the world a little differently. The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances— and that means that we, as a society, have more control about who succeeds—and how many of us succeed—than we think. That's an amazingly hopeful and uplifting idea.

12. I noticed that the book is dedicated to "Daisy." Who is she?

Daisy is my grandmother. She was a remarkable woman, who was responsible for my mother's success—for the fact that my mother was able to get out of the little rural village in Jamaica where she grew up, get a University education in England and ultimately meet and marry my father. The last chapter of Outliers is an attempt to understand how Daisy was able to make that happen—using all the lessons learned over the course of the book. I've never written something quite this personal before. I hope readers find her story as moving as I did.

Buku Isteri dan Puteri Rasulullah

Dari FB Ustaz Zahazan Mohamed
Buku ini bermula dengan membawa pros­pektif dan senario kaum wanita sebelum Islam daripada pelbagai bangsa dan agama di dunia. Kemudian dibentangkan profil dan ciri-ciri wanita Mus limah. Seterusnya dipersembahkan riwayat hidup dan keistimewaan para isteri Rasulullah SAW serta perbandingannya dengan peranan Muslimah kontempo rari. Berikutnya digarap peranan Rasulullah sebagai suami misali yang ber tanggungjawab. Kemudian dibawakan pula biodata serta peranan yang dimainkan oleh puteri-puteri Rasulullah SAW yang menjadi figur untuk melahirkan contoh wanita pendidik dan pejuang yang menanamkan keberanian dan kejujuran kepada generasi akan datang. Buku ini disudahi dengan menyenaraikan peranan Baginda sebagai bapa dan ketua keluarga yang mampu untuk memimpin ahli keluarga serta masyarakat ke arah melahirkan generasi pelapis yang sanggup untuk memikul tugas mengembalikan agama Islam dianuti oleh pengikut-pengikut yang bertakwa supaya Islam itu sekali lagi menuju ke zaman keagungannya.

Nama Penulis: Muhammad Mahdi al-Istambuli & Musthafa Abu Nashr al-Syilby
Penerbit: Telaga Biru Sdn Bhd
Harga: Semenanjung M’sia: RM23.00 / Sabah & S’wak: RM25.00
Kod Produk: TBBK1150
ISBN: 978-967-5102-80-6
Saiz: 14 x 21 (cm)
Mukasurat: 192 msTarikh produk berada di pasaran: Mac 2010
Boleh didapati di MPH, Popular, Kedai2 buku agama dan stesen Petronas terpilih. Juga boleh didapati di kedai-kedai maya dari pengedar2 stormreaders.

Lagi Pasal Solat - Nawawi Yusof

Solat itu mencegah dari perbuatan keji dan mungkar.
Kalau kita solat tapi perangai masih tak betul i.e. tipu, curi tulang, mengata, rasuah, maka beleklah solat kita.
Mana tau ia belum sempurna.
Org yg solat sepatutnya baik dari segi akal, hati dan perbuatan.

Dlm satu surah (tak ingt surah apa), disebut pasal kisah suami isteri dan masalah rumahtangga, dan disebut pasal solat. Maksudnya org yg tak solat rumahtangga berisiko utk tak stabil.

Hmm..make me wonder kisah cerai berai artis. Bukanlah buta2 nak menilai mereka, tapi drg dari mulut wardina sendiri, agak2 kita tau cara hidup mereka.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Hadis Pasal Hati Berkarat

“Sesungguhnya hati manusia akan berkarat sebagaimana besi yang dikaratkan oleh air.” Bila seorang bertanya, “Apakah caranya untuk menjadikan hati-hati ini bersih kembali?” Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda, “Selalulah ingat mati dan membaca Al Quran.”

How to Work Less & Achieve More

How to Work Less & Achieve More
http://bigpeace.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/how-to-work-less-achieve-more/
August 6, 2006 by bigpeace
by Philip Humbert

We are all “too busy!” We work hard, we have enormous “to-do” lists, and most of the time we feel at least slightly “inadequate” because at the end of the day, there is still so much more to accomplish.

We return all the calls we can, and yet there are still more messages waiting on our desks. We deal with all the email we can, and our inboxes are still full. We go to the meetings, we do the paperwork, we run the errands, and at the end of the day, we try to spend quality time with loved ones. Sometimes it just seems like TOO MUCH! (Ever been there? Done that? Of course you have!)

So, in the midst of the “have-to’s,” what happens to our “want-to’s?” We want to build our businesses. We want to exercise more, we want to take the kids to a ball game, and we want to relax! We want to make things better, buy a sailboat, take a vacation, read a book, or pursue a favorite hobby. (Does anyone else miss the “good old days” when fishing was an actual option? How about gardening or flying a kite, or taking a nap in an old-fashioned hammock?)

Now – just to rub a bit of salt in the wound – here’s the really painful part: The rich DO all the things we want to do! No one sees Donald Trump running to catch an elevator. Oprah Winfrey gets to go to the parties, has time to exercise (with her personal trainer) and vacation around the world. Bill Gates takes a vacation every 3 months! How do these super-stars do it?

The answer is super-productivity, what I call MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort. What are the secrets? How (exactly) can we do it?

That’s our challenge, and fortunately, the answers are available. They are available to you, to me, to each of us, and we’ll learn them in this series.

Just to give you a preview, here are the six basic elements super-achievers use to achieve MAXIMUM RESULTS with minimum time and effort:

1. Clear VALUES. They know what’s important, and what is trivial. They understand that some of our “have-to’s” are simply an illusion. Some things are not as important as they seem. The key is knowing what to do and what not to do.

2. Clear PRIORITIES. In any given moment, there is only ONE thing that needs your time/attention/energy MOST. That ONE thing will bring results, that ONE thing will move you forward, and IT should be done, and everything else should be delegated or set aside.

3. Clear FOCUS. Whatever you do, do it with all your heart. Do it efficiently. Do it skillfully. Super-achievers are not confused or distracted. They do not “multi-task” because they know human beings can only FOCUS on one thing at a time. We’ll learn this!

4. Clear CHOICES. They know where their unique abilities should be applied and how to delegate everything else. They make decisions knowing they have limited time, energy and skills, and they make careful choices to get MAXIMUM RESULTS. We can, too.

5. Clear BOUNDARIES. Super-achievers are not interrupted. They do not work in chaos. They create Personal Eco-Systems? that allow them to use all their time, talents and skills to maximum advantage. We’ll learn how to do that.

6. Clear OUTCOMES. They are precise about what they want, and settle for nothing less. They know exactly which results they need to move them forward, and they keep track. As Peter Drucker said, “what gets measured, gets done!”

There is no mystery to getting more done. Each of us has the same amount of time each day. We have about the same amount of energy, but fortunately, we all have enormous potential. The difference between the super-achievers and the rest of us is a set of skills! They know how to get things done, or in my favorite phrase, they have a “recipe” for success and we can all learn to use it!

In August, we’ll learn their “recipe.” Stay tuned and if you have friends, co-workers or family members who need this information, please encourage them to subscribe! Invite them to visit my website at: http://philiphumbert.com or send an email to: Subscribe@philiphumbert.com Together, we’ll all become MAXIMUM ACHIEVERS!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Kualiti Solat - Ust Nawawi Yusof

Di IKIM FM.

- berapa lama kita solat tapi ramai yg tak tau makna bacaaan yg diulang2 5 kali sehari. Mesti pastikan tahu makna bacaan sbb solat ini adalah waktu dan cara kita berkomunikasi dgn pencipta. Jadi kena faham makna
- solat di akhir waktu. patutnya kita tunggu Allah utk solat
- solat tergesa2. patutnya dlm keadaan tenang
- pastikan bersuci dgn sempurna sblm solat
- org yg solat akan betul dlm semua perkara i.e. tak tipu org, tak khianat, kerja sungguh2, tak rasuah
- org yg solat sentiasa rasa diperhatikan

Friday, April 2, 2010

Amalan Solat Istikharah dan Manfaat

Istikharah berasal daripada perkataan Arab yang bermaksud meminta pilihan yang baik. Biasanya solat istikharah dilakukan apabila seseorang itu ingin melakukan sesuatu perkara tetapi dia tidak pasti apakah perbuatan atau tindakannya itu membawa kebaikan atau tidak.

Solat Istikharah ini sangat-sangat di galakkan oleh Rasulullah sebagaimana disebut dalam hadis yang diriwayatkan oleh Imam Bukhari;

Mahfum Hadis: Dari Jabir ra., ia berkata: “Nabi pernah mengajarkan kepada kami Istikharah dalam berbagai urusan, seperti mengajarkan sebuah surah dalam Al Quran. Kalau seseorang dari kamu menghendaki sesuatu, maka hendaklah ia solat dua rakaat, kemudian berdoa:

“Ya Allah! Aku mohon pemilihan Mu menerusi pengetahuan Mu dan aku mohon kekuatan Mu menerusi kudrat Mu serta aku minta pada Mu sebahagian dari limpah kurnia Mu yang sangat besar. Sesungguhnya Engkau amat berkuasa sedangkan aku tidak berkuasa, Engkau amat mengetahui sedangkan aku tidak mengetahui dan sesungguhnya Engkau amat mengetahui segala yang ghaib. Ya Allah kiranya Engkau mengetahui bahawa perkara ini adalah baik bagiku dalam urusan agama ku juga dalam urusan penghidupan ku serta natijah pada urusan ku, kini dan akan datang, maka tetapkan lah ia bagi ku dan permudahkanlah ia untukku, serta berkatilah daku padanya. Dan kiranya Engkau mengetahui bahawa perkara ini membawa kejahatan kepadaku dalam urusan agamaku, juga dalam urusan penghidupanku dan natijah urusanku, kini dan akan datang, maka elakkanlah ia dariku dan tetapkanlah kebaikan untukku sebagaimana sepatutnya, kemudian jadikanlah daku meredhainya.”

Boleh dilakukan bila2 masa tapi waktu terbaik ialah pada dua per tiga malam.

Yes, You Can! - Follow this Simple Guide to Becoming More Self-Assured

Yes, you can!

Many people lack self-confidence. This is a common phenomenon that varies in intensity and is often situational.

The good news is that if you examine some of the causes of a lack of confidence, they will illustrate that it is self-inflicted — and can be improved, if not eliminated, with a change of behaviour.

Here are some basic tips on how to start breaking down the barrier to a more confident and balanced life.


With increased self-esteem, a more balanced and purposeful life will follow. - Filepic
1 Fear of rejection

One of the most basic human needs is to be loved and accepted. Some people go to extraordinary lengths to fulfil this need.

People who excessively strive to be wanted, accepted and loved may be doing themselves more harm than good, because they do things to please others in the hope of “buying” their acceptance. They fear that standing up for themselves or for what they believe in will make others reject them.

On the contrary, standing your ground is the clue to getting other people to respect you. If the people you want to please only accept you for what you can give them, they are probably not worth your time.

Give yourself the chance to be with people who like you for yourself. Learn to see rejection as the opportunity to move on to better things.

Tip: Say to yourself that “perceived rejection” is only feedback. Not giving in to others who want to impose their will on you for selfish reasons will benefit you in the long term.

2 Self-doubt

Negative self-talk creates selfdoubt. This is when we convince ourselves that we are not good enough and it becomes a selffulfilling prophecy.

Every single day of your life, the person you talk to the most is yourself. That is why training yourself to talk positively is so important.

An example of this: one of my clients — an entrepreneur — started to doubt his abilities when some of his prospects refused to buy his products. He soon came to realise, through positive self-talk, that these people were rejecting his products, not him. It was nothing personal.

Tip: Practise turning every negative thought into a positive — from a “cannot” to a “maybe”’. Eventually, you will acquire a “can do” mindset.

3 What will others think of me?

You are likely to ask this when you have to make a presentation or when you are expected to make conversation at a social gathering.

The root cause is selfconsciousness. If you focus only on yourself or on possible negative outcomes (loss of face), sharing a thought or point of view becomes difficult.

In a social setting, try to worry less about being interesting and more about being interested in other people. Focus on your audience, not yourself!

If you are giving a speech, make sure you thoroughly prepare for it — that is the least your listeners expect from you. If you try to “wing it”, you will not sound confident and will be more likely to worry about what others will think!

Tip: Focus less on yourself. You will be lifting a huge barrier in interpersonal communication.

4 It is situational

Your self-confidence can take a dive in certain situations.

If you are generally able to put forward your views confidently with friends and colleagues, why is it that you feel less sure of yourself when engaging in conversation with “important” people, such as your boss or a high-ranking client?

The answer lies in your aversion to risk taking — you want to make a good impression and become extra careful about what you say.

I am not suggesting that when addressing a Board of Directors you should treat them like buddies — that would be inappropriate.

The thing to do is to adapt your communication style to the circumstances — treat people with the respect that is their due but don’t apologise for having opinions.

Tip: If you encounter circumstances where you feel uneasy, think of a similar situation when you felt totally selfconfident.

Capture that positive situation in your mind with the feelings that go with it: your demeanour will follow in a positive way.

The key is to start your journey to more self-confidence in a small way. As the old adage goes: “A journey starts with the first step.”

With increased self-esteem, a more balanced and purposeful life will follow.

- Source: Straits Times/Asia News Network

Article by Bernard Bulens, chief executive office of Ashmore International.

http://star-jobs.com/services/printerfriendly.asp?file=/2010/3/30/starjobs/5891374&sec=starjobs

Belanja Harta - Surah Al-Baqarah (Ayat 215)

Surah Al-Baqarah (Ayat 215)

Mereka bertanya kepadamu (wahai Muhammad): Apakah yang akan mereka belanjakan (dan kepada siapakah)? Katakanlah: Apa jua harta benda (yang halal) yang kamu belanjakan maka berikanlah kepada: Kedua ibu bapa dan kaum kerabat dan anak-anak yatim dan orang-orang miskin dan orang-orang yang terlantar dalam perjalanan dan (ingatlah), apa jua yang kamu buat dari jenis-jenis kebaikan, maka sesungguhnya Allah sentiasa mengetahuiNya (dan akan membalas dengan sebaik-baiknya).

Kabul Doa

Wahai manusia ketahuilah, apabila kamu minta Aku memberimu, Jika kamu berdoa' kepadaKu Aku kabulkan, dan apabila kamu sakit Aku sembuhkan dan jika kamu berserah diri Aku memberimu rezeki, dan jika kamu mendatangi-Ku Aku menerimamu, dan bila kamu bertaubat Aku ampuni (dosa-dosa)mu, Aku Maha Penerima Taubat dan Maha Pengasih.

(Hr. Attirmidzi dan Al Hakim)

Buku 'Anak Sihat & Genius'

Sesuai buat ibu yang bekerja untuk memahami 5 karenah/karekter anak2.



POSITIF

Anak- anak yang masuk dalam kategori ini adalah anak yang mudah diuruskan. Ramai ibu bapa yang menginginkan mempunyai anak seperti ini. Biasanya Si kecil mudah menerima orang baru dan tidak mudah meragam jika pertama kali bertemu dengan orang asing. Si kecil ini ketegori lebih mudah memahami berbanding kanak-kanak sebayanya.

Kalau dia menginginkan sesuatu, ibu bapa tidak susah unutk mengalihkan perhatiannya. Dia tidak akan mengamuk hanya kerana tidak dapat apa yang diingininya. Jika anak ini sedang meragam, anda boleh memujuknya dengan mudah, malah dia juga mudah bergaul dengan rakan-rakan kerana dia boleh menyesuaikan diri dengan cepat.

SI BUKU
Semua proses pembesaran anak dalam golongan ini, sama seperti turutan dalam sebuah buku. Biasanya, Si kecil tidak mudah meragam kala bertemu degan orang asing walaupun pada peringkat awal dia mempunyai sikap malu-malu.

Anak dalam golongan ini lebih suka berada dalam lingkungan orang yang dikenalinya. Namun, jika anda sudah mendidiknya untuk bergaul dengan orang lain sedari awal, dia tidak akan menimbulkan masalah. Cuma, sebagai ibu bapa, anda perlu faham yang Si kecil dalam kategori ini lebih suka melakukan sesuatu yang ditentukan mengikut jadual.


SI SENSITIF

Anak kecil dalam kategori ini memiliki sifat sensitif dan lambat menyesuaikan diri dengan keadaan baru. Dia lebih menyukai dunia yang sudah dikenalnya. Dia juga tidak suka diganggu ketika sedang asyik dengan aktivitinya. Malah, jika anda mengganggunya, dia mungkin akan marah dan menangis.

Si kecil anda mungkin disebut sebagai seorang yang pemalu itu memang benar. Di kurang bersosial dan tidak selesa dengan rakan barunya. Malah dia juga sukar berkongsi barang miliknya dengan orang lain.

Anak dalam kategori ini lebih suka melakukan aktiviti sendiri. Jadi sebagai ibu bapa lebih baik anda memberi kepercayaan kepadanya untuk berdikari. Si kecil anda pasti lebih berhati-hati dan peka dalam melakukan sesuatu kerana sifat mereka yang sensitif itu. Biasanya mereka sangat berbakat dalam bidang seni.


SI SEMANGAT

Si kecil dalam kategori ini merupakan seorang yang sangat aktif tetapi mudah marah. Biasanya marahnya sukar dikawal dan difahami. Dia suka berkawan dan mempunyai sifat ingin tahu yang sangat tinggi. Dia akan suka melakukan perbuatan yang disukainya dan tidak suka dihalang. Anak ini akan merasa bangga andai berjaya melakukan sesuatu.

Sebagai ibu bapa, anda perlu menjelaskan pada apa yang boleh dan tidak boleh dilakukannya. Anak ini mudah menangis dan sukar dipujuk. Malah dia boleh menangis berpanjangan. (Macam Najmi ni - sebijik)

Sewaktu menghabiskan masa bersamanya, anda perlu menetapkan aturan supaya dia tidak bersikap mengikut kepalanya sahaja. Anda juga perlu bijak mencari permainan yang sesuai untuk dia melepaskan kehendaknya. Si kecil dalam kategori ini biasanya berbakat menjadi pemimpin dan akan berusaha mencapai kehendaknya.


SI PEMARAH

Si kecil dalam kategori ini merupakan seorang yang keras kepala, pemarah dan mahukan semua benda mengikut kehendaknya sahaja. Malah, jika dia dipaksa melakukan sesuatu sebelum dia bersedia, dia akan mengamuk dan menolaknya. Dia juga tidak boleh diajar kerana dia lebih suka melakukan semuanya sendiri.

Oleh kerana sebagai anak kecil tidak banyak yang boleh dilakukannya tetapi kerana sikap ingin tahunya, dia akan menjadi kecewa dan marah kerana tidak dapat melakukan apa yang dikehendakinya.

Anak ini sering menangis akibat marah, bukan kerana sedih. Malah dia juga sukar melahirkan perasaanya, membuatkan dia menjadi seorang yang suka memaksa. Dia juga suka melakukan sesuatu mengikut moodnya. Dia juga tidak boleh dipaksa kerana ini menjadikan dia lebih keras kepala. Namun begitu, anak dalam ketegori ini biasanya kreatif, banyak akal dan bijak.


Source:http://www.mummyisma.com/

REFERENCE:
Anak Sihat & Genius: 1001 tip dari 0 hingga 6 tahun. 2010. 4th Edn. Selangor: Teguh Ringgit Publishing House.

Belajar Tajwid

Cedok dari forum:

"Sebaik-baik kamu ialah yg mempelajari al-Quran dan kemudian mengajarkannya" (maksud hadith riwayat Bukhari)

Jumhur ulama telah menjelaskan bahawa hukum mempelajari ilmu Tajwid adalah Fardhu Kifayah, manakala hukum beramal dengannya adalah Fardhu 'Ain ke atas orang Islam yg Mukallaf dan berdosa sesiapa yg membaca al-Quran tanpa memelihara hukum Tajwid.

"Orang yg membaca al-Quran lagi mahir, kelak akan dapat bersama para Rasul yg mulia dalam syurga, dan orang yg membaca tetapi tidak mahir, dalam keadaan trpegun-pegun dan nampak agak berat lidahnya, ia akan mendapat dua pahala" (maksud hadith riwayat Muslim)

"Bacalah al-Quran, kerana sesungguhnya al-Quran itu akan mensyafaatkan orang yg membacanya pada hari kiamat" (maksud hadith riwayat Muslim)

ikhfa' agak susah skt sebab bunyinya antara izhar dan idgham, tapi kalau sebut depan tok guru dan praktis selalu insyaAllah boleh.. Dalam ilmu tajwid, sebutan kena betul, barulah mudah belajar hukum2 seperti idgham, izhar dan ikhfa', serta mad dan huruf2 tebal & nipisnya, dll. Apapun, yg penting wajib berguru, bertalaqqi, seperti mana Rasulullah saw buat setiap tahun dengan malaikat Jibrail alaihissalam. Membaca buku2 rujukan, mendengar cd, tv dsbnya sekadar boleh membantu. wallahu'alam.


http://akademikemahiran-quran.blogspot.com/