70 Tahun dan 1 Malam

1. Semasa Nabi Ibrahim as didatangi oleh seorang yang bukan Islam pada suatu malam kerana ingin menumpang berteduh dan makanan dirumahnya maka Nabi Ibrahim as tidak melayan orang tersebut. Maka orang tersebut pun berlalu. Tiba setengah malam tersebut maka Nabi Ibrahim as pergi mencari orang tersebut dan didapati ia dalam kesejukan dibawah pokok dan terus Nabi Ibrahim menjemputnya kerumah dan diberi makan minum.
2. Orang itu kehairanan lalu bertanya kepada Nabi Ibrahim mengapa tadi beliau seolah-olah dihalau tapi kini melayannya dengan begitu baik sekali. Maka Nabi Ibrahim menjawab dengan mengatakan bahawa sebentar tadi ia bermimpi dan ALLAH SWT menyatakan bahawa DIA melayan orang tua tersebut selama 70 tahun dengan memberi pakaian, makan minum dan lainnya secukupnya dan tidak pernah mengungkitnya walaupun ia engkar kepada AKU. Namun apabila ia hanya ingin menumpang mungkin hanya 1 malam engkau (Nabi Ibrahim as) tidak memperdulikannya. Lalu ALLAH SWT menyifatkan aku seorang yang sombong.
3. Begitulah ALLAH SWT mengajar Nabi Ibrahim as dan kita juga supaya berbuat baik kepada sesiapa walaupun kadang-kadang orang itu tidak beriman kerana mungkin dengan kebaikan kita tersebut membuat orang itu ingin memeluk Islam. Begitulah yang sentiasa diamalkan oleh Nabi kita Muhammad SAW sepanjang hidupnya.

Bila Kita Mulai Bercakap

1. Ada yang mengatakan kita mulai pandai berkata-kata ketika berumur beberapa bulan mungkin dengan awalnya menyebut nama untuk panggilan ibu atau ayah. Selepas itu mungkin lain-lain perkataan sepatah demi sepatah dan makin lama pandai pula membuat ayat.
2. Itu semua memamg betul apabila kita dilahirkan didunia ini. Tetapi sebelum kita dilahirkan didunia ini pun kita memang sudah pandai berkata-kata. Contohnya di Alam Arwah apabiala ALLAH SWT memanggil semua roh-roh dan bertanya Adakah AKU ini tuhan kamu, maka roh-roh menjawab BAH KAN benar KAMU iaitu ALLAH SWT tuhan kami. Itulah janji kita denganNYA.
3. Tetapi masa itu kita berjanji hanya dengan kata-kata sahaja. Walaubagaimanapun satu-satu janji tidak cukup hanya dengan kata-kata sahaja. Jadi bagi membuktikan memang kita menepati janji kita diturunkan kedunia bersama jasad sekali. Adakah kita berjaya menunaikan janji dengan mengerjakan segala suruhannya.

Huge earthquake strikes Chile, 85 dead

Huge earthquake strikes Chile, 85 dead

27 Feb 2010 14:31:00 GMT

Source: Reuters

* Quake kills at least 78 people * Buildings toppled, bridges and roads damaged * Operations halted at two major copper mines (Updates toll, adds details on damage, tsunami quote) By Alonso Soto SANTIAGO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 85 people, knocking down buildings, homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami. Local television TV Chile reported that a 15-storey building collapsed in the hardest-hit city of Concepcion, where cracks opened up in the streets. Buildings caught fire, road bridges collapsed and residents huddled in streets full of rubble of masonry and glass from destroyed homes. Many were terrified by powerful aftershocks and desperately trying to call friends and family. President Michelle Bachelet said there were more than 85 deaths just in the Maule region at the quake's epicenter, and that more were possible. Telephone and power lines were down, making it difficult to assess the full extent of the damage close to the epicenter. Chile is the world's No. 1 copper producer, and the quake halted operations at two major mines. "Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it's like the end of the world," one man told local television from the city of Temuco, where the quake damaged homes and forced staff to evacuate the regional hospital. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck 70 miles (115 km) northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles (35 km) at 3:34 a.m. (0634 GMT). The capital Santiago, about 200 miles (320 km) north of the epicenter, was also badly hit. The international airport was closed for at least 24 hours as the quake destroyed passenger walkways and shook glass out of doors and windows. Chile's main copper producing region and some of the world's largest copper mines are in the far north of the country near its border with Peru, but there are also major copper deposits near Santiago. Production was halted at the Los Bronces and El Soldado copper mines, owned by Anglo American Plc following the quake, but Chile's biggest copper mine, Escondida, was operating normally. Chile produces about 34 percent of world supply of copper, which is used in electronics, cars and refrigerators. TSUNAMI Bachelet said a huge wave hit the Juan Fernandez islands. Radio stations reported serious damage on the archipelago, where Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in the 18th Century inspiring the novel Robinson Crusoe. Bachelet, who was heading to the worst-affected area, said residents were also being evacuated from coastal areas of Chile's remote Easter Island, a popular tourist destination in the Pacific famous for its towering Moai stone statues. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a Pacific-wide tsunami warning for countries in Latin America, and as far away as the U.S. state of Hawaii as well as Japan, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia and the South Pacific.

Kisah Di Hari Kelahiran Nabi Muhammad SAW

1. Dikisahkan selepas kelahiran Nabi saw ada seorang Yahudi telah bertanya kepada penduduk Mekah malam tadi mesti ada seorang bayi telah dilahirkan. Ini kerana orang yahudi tahu berkenaan dengan Nabi kita lebih dari mengetahui terhadap anak-anak mereka. Maka penduduk Mekah berkata ada kelahiran malam tadi. Maka segeralah orang itu hendak menemui bayi tersebut dan setelah melihatnya maka ia pun menggigil dan terus pengsan.
3. Kenapa ianya pengsan? Kerana setelah ia sedar dari pengsan ia menyatakan bahawa setelah melihat ada tanda Nubuwah kenabian dibelakang Nabi saw maka tahu lah ia bahawa terlepaslah peluang Umat Yahudi untuk menjadi Nabi terakhir yang selama ini amat dicita-citakan oleh mereka. Mereka menyangka penutup segala Nabi datang dari kaum mereka tapi sebaliknya yang berlaku, Itu yang menyebabkan ia pengsan mungkin terkejut yang amat sangat dan terlalu mengharap.

Wakaf dan Umrah

1. Bagi yang telah menunaikan ibadah haji dan umrah dan setelah itu ingin lagi berkali-kali mengerjakannya. Jika ini terjadi adalah satu perkara biasa kerana ia menjadi amalan didalam masyarakat kita.
2. Apa yang tidak biasa ialah apakata jika wang perbelanjaan haji atau umrah tersebut dibuat wakaf kejalan ALLAH SWT. Umpamanya mewakafkan tanah dan lainnya untuk diguna demi kebaikan agama dan meninggikan kalimahNYA.
3. Adakah dengan wang RM5800 untuk sekali umrah diwakafkan sanggup kita melakukanya? Jawabnya belum tentu kita sanggup sedangkan dengan wang yang diwakafkan kita mendapat pahala ganjaran yang berpanjangan dan dapat melepaskan orang lain dari kesusahan. Kenapa ini berlaku? Ianya berlaku kerana kurangnya ilmu yang kita miliki kerana kurang mengetahui keutamaan ibadah.

70 Tahun Ibadat dan Debu

Sheikh Abdul Kadir Al Jailani seorang wali Allah yang mana pernah tidak bersolat Subuh sekali kerana tertidur telah mengerjakan solat subuh tersebut sebanyak 100 kali kerana menyesalinya kerana terlepas mengerjakan dalam waktunya. Begitulah hebatnya amalan beliau. Tetapi beliau pernah menyatakan bahawa sahabat-sahabat Nabi SAW yang berjuang menegakkan Islam amat besar ibadahnya dan ganjarannya. Dimana beliau mengibaratkan debu-debu yang melekat ditapak kaki sahabat Nabi SAW tersebut lebih besar pahalanya dari ibadat beliau selama lebih 70 tahun.

Kepala Hancur Digilis Treler

Jalan Lingkaran Tengah 2 Bandar Tasek SelatanDia dalam perjalanan ke tempat kerjanya dengan menunggang motosikal.Bagaimanapun, malang memang tidak berbau, apabila motosikalnya dipercayai bergesel dengan sebuah kenderaan sebelum mangsa terjatuh.Kemalangan berlaku kira-kira jam 9 pagi di Jalan Lingkaran Tengah Dua (MRR2) dari arah Ampang ke Bukit Jalil berhampiran Wisma Edutech Bandar Tasik Selatan.Mangsa sebelum ini dipercayai terjatuh dari motosikalnya setelah terlanggar sebuah kereta di hadapnnya.
Sebuah kereta juga gagal mengelak.Sebuah treler yang mengekori dari belakang, gagal mengelak lalu menggilis kepala mangsa.Mangsa, 23 tahun, dari Taman Sri Sentosa,Bentong Pahang ,maut ditempat kejadian akibat kecederaan teruk di kepala dan badan.Difahamkan, pemandu treler dan kereta terbabit terus membuat laporan di balai polis berdekatan setelah kejadian berlaku.Orang ramai yang menyaksikan kemalangan itu menjadi pilu apabila melihat sebotol bekas air dan sebungkus roti bertaburan dijalan raya ,dipercayai untuk sarapan paginya yang tidak sempat dijamah.

Polis terpaksa menutup dua lorong di jalan ini berikutan cebisan daging mangsa yang bertaburan di atas jalan.Sesiapa yang menyaksikan kejadian diminta tampil untuk membantu siasatan dibalai polis berhampiran atau menghubungi talian Rakancop -
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Soldiers carry the coffin of Spanish soldier John Felipe Romero Meneses as it leaves the Spanish base camp in Herat, before flying to Barcelona 02 Fe

Soldiers carry the coffin of Spanish soldier John Felipe Romero Meneses as it leaves the Spanish base camp in Herat, before flying to Barcelona, February 2 2010. Romero was killed in Afghanistan on Monday and another six were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was damaged by a land mine explosion near Sang Atesh, in northwest Afghanistan. REUTERS/Defence Ministry/Handout (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY OBITUARY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Source: Reuters

RM1000 ++++ Dan Alhamdulillah

1. Diibaratkan jika kita diberi oleh ALLAH SWT sejumlah rezeki didunia ini berupa wang ringgit, harta benda, anak pinak, ilmu yang bermanafaat dan segala macam lagi. Dengan rezeki tersebut pula kita tidak pernah lalai menyebut ALHAMDULILLAH kerana mensyukuri nikmat yang diberikan.
2. Maka kita sebenarnya mendapat satu lagi ganjaran yang lebih besar dari jumlah tersebut diakhirat kelak. Disamping itu pula akan ditambah pula nikmat tersebut didunia ini. Andaikata kita lalai menyebut Alhamdulillah sudah tentu menjadi kerugian pula samada nikmat akan ditarik balik diatas dunia lagi. Wallahualam

Sedekah Dan Mengeluar Perbelanjaan Ke Jalan ALLAH SWT

1. Mana yang diredhai ALLAH SWT mengeluarkan sedekah atau perbelanjaan yang kita merasa nikmat mengeluarkannya atau sebaliknya. Contohnya kita sanggup mengeluarkan wang yang banyak untuk menunaikan ibadah haji dan umrah dengan pakej yang istimewa berbanding yang biasa sebab ianya memberi keselesaan kepada kita dan kita rasa berbaloi. Ini bukanlah bermakna tidak boleh menggunakan pakej tersebut cuma ingin membuat satu perbandingan sahaja. Ini kerana semua ibadah bergantung kepada keikhlasan jua.

2. Tetapi kita tidak merasa nikmat jika mengimfakkan wang ringgit kepada masjid/surau atau lainnya walaupun sedikit sebab kita tidak mendapat pulangan samada peribadi atau balasan keselesaan darinya. Tapi agak nikmat juga jika ada yang memujinya. Tapi itu tidak ikhlas namanya.

3. Pendek kata sesuatu yang kita keluarkan jika kurang merasa nikmat itu bermakna kita lebih diredhai oleh ALLAH SWT. Wallahualam

An injured resident reacts after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince

An injured resident reacts after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The death toll in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake could run to tens of thousands, the country's president said on Wednesday, a day after the quake demolished schools, hospitals, houses and hillside shanties across the crowded and impoverished capital. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI tags: - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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An injured victim waits for medical assistance after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince

An injured victim waits for medical assistance after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The death toll in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake could run to tens of thousands, the country's president said on Wednesday, a day after the quake demolished schools, hospitals, houses and hillside shanties across the crowded and impoverished capital. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI tags: - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) TEMPLATE OUT
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Residents walks along a destroyed street after a major earthquake hit Port-au-Prince

Residents walks along a destroyed street after a major earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, January 13, 2010. Thousands were feared dead in the major earthquake that destroyed the presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties in Haiti, its leaders said on Wednesday, and the United States and other nations geared up for a big relief operation. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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People work on damaged houses on a street of the historical Brazilian city of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga

05 Jan 2010

Source: Reuters
People work on damaged houses on a street of the historical Brazilian city of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga, 170 km (106 miles) north of Sao Paulo January 5, 2010. At least 76 people have died in flooding and mudslides in Brazil's three largest states over the past four days, according to police officers. REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio (BRAZIL - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)

AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…

AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…

Source: Inter Press Service

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By Paul VirgoROME, Dec 26 (IPS) - Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is les than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years. Climate change and overuse have put one of Africa's mightiest lakes in mortal danger, and the livelihoods of the 30 million people who depend on its waters is hanging by a thread as a result.An unprecedented crisis is looming that would create fresh hunger in a region already suffering grave food insecurity, and pose a massive threat to peace and stability, experts say."If Lake Chad dries up, 30 million people will have no means of a livelihood, and that is a big security problem because of growing competition for smaller quantities of water," Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, executive secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) tells IPS in Rome."Poverty and hunger will increase. When there is no food to eat, there is bound to be violence."The lake, which shrank 90 percent between 1963 and 2001 from 25,000 square kilometres to under 1,500, is bordered by Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria.

Kenderaan

1. Pada setiap hari perjalanan hidup kita apakah kenderaan yang kita naiki. Apakah kenderaan itu kereta, kapalterbang, kapal, kuda atau segala macam jenis pengangkutan laut darat juga udara.
2. Itu semua memanglah kenderaan diatas dunia ini. Tapi bila kita mati kenderaan ini akan diwarisi. Tapi apakah kenderaan yang kita sentiasa naiki siang malam samada tidur jaga, pengsan, sakit, susah senang selama 24 jam tanpa henti.
3. Pada hakikatnya UMUR kita itulah kenderaan kita yang sebenarnya. Jika 40 tahun umur kita bermakna sudah jauh perjalanan kita yang dibawa oleh umur tersebut. Kenderaan ini tidak akan berpatah balik dimana ia datang. Ia akan sentiasa ketempat tujuannya iaitu KUBUR. Bila kita mati maka kenderaan (umur) tadi pun tidak akan membawa kita kemana-mana lagi tempat didunia ini. Kerana tempat persinggahan terakhir umur kita ialah kubur. Jadi gunakan kenderaan ini dengan sebaik-baiknya semasa ia masih ada untuk ketempat-tempat yang diredhai oleh ALLAH SWT sebelum ia sampai ke kubur. Bila kita mati kenderaan (umur) lain pula yang akan membawa kita. Kenderaan itu akan kekal untuk selama-lamanya. Jika baik balasan maka berbahagia dan begitulah sebaliknya.

Climate change and freshwater part 3…rising sea levels and island nations at risk

Since the mid to late 1800’s sea levels have been very slowly rising…about 1 cm a year which is so small who would notice? It’s now been about a century and some change and the rate of rising is starting to accelerate to about 2 cm a year. The tiny changes over the years are becoming noticeable. Sea levels are rising and we are learning that in the last decade alone the rate is up to about 3cm a year.The threat of rising sea levels to our coastal cities is being felt around the world such as the magnificent historical city of Venice, Italy…a place on my “bucket list” [the list of things you want to see and do before you die or "kick the bucket" in American slang]. Poor Venice has a double whammy of both slowly sinking as a result of its own weight on the barrier islands it was constructed upon and a rising Adriatic Sea. Venice is not alone..more than half of the world’s population lives within 60 Kilometers [36 miles] of the coast and the effects of a rising sea and retreating coastline is a serious issue for all of us. I’m not going to be focusing on coastal effects here, instead this post is the warm up to the issue of freshwater and island nations. As you’ve hopefully read in my previous posts I believe that islands hold lessons for the rest of us on the mainlands. Islands are the “Miner’s Canary” for us and when island nations start running into issues, in this case sea levels and freshwater, we need to pay attention.

Rising seas threaten 20 million in Bangladesh

11 Dec 2009 13:39:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
DHAKA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Rising sea levels, triggered by global warming, will displace about 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh, a study by a state-run think-tank said on Friday.

"The sea level will rise at least by three metres (yards) submerging some 18 percent of the country by 2050," the Dhaka-based Institute of Water Modelling (IWM) said.

IWM was set up in 1996 for planning and management of Bangladesh's water resources and to monitor rise in sea level and its probable adverse effects.

Bangladesh would need $4.16 billion for building embankments and forestation to secure inhabitants from rising seas, the think- tank said.

"Only embankments with deep forestation along the coast and coastal rivers can protect millions of people," it said.

The existing embankments should be raised up to six metres to protect the coastal villages from being devoured by sea, the study said.

Bangladesh has said it would need $10 billion from big polluting nations to help it adapt to powerful storms, floods and rising seas.

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 03 Dec 2009 Source: Reuters

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - A policeman walks past the body of a man, who was killed by a stray bullet when the funeral procession for Reverend Gerard Jean-Juste was broken up by gunshots, in front of the national palace in Port-au-Prince June 18, 2009. The funeral procession for Jean-Juste, an ally of Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was broken up by gunshots from U.N. soldiers and at least one person was killed by stray bullets, according to witnesses. The U.N. has yet to make a statement on this incident. REUTERS/St Felix Evens (HAITI POLITICS OBITUARY CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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People look at the wreckage of a bus after a blast ripped through it in Sayyedeh Zeinab, near Damascus 03 Dec 2009 Source: Reuters

People look at the wreckage of a bus after a blast ripped through it in Sayyedeh Zeinab, near Damascus, December 3, 2009. The blast ripped through a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims on Thursday, killing at least three people in an incident Syria said was an accident and not a terrorist attack. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA POLITICS CONFLICT DISASTER)
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REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE

REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE. A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (GEORGIA)
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Fourteen-month-old Yabila Kubemboli

Fourteen-month-old Yabila Kubemboli, who is malnourished after his mother fled attacks on her village by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, awaits treatment at the hospital in the village of Dungu in northeastern Congo, February 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - Six-year-old Sara Luce and her mother eat as they rest outdoors after an earthquake caused the collapse of St. Salvatore Hospital in Aquila April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake struck a swathe of central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing more than 90 people and flattening whole towns. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito (ITALY DISASTER HEALTH IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)
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RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - An injured girl cries during an evacuation after an earthquake hit Padang, Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under rubble, officials said. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper (INDONESIA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE
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Chernobyl disaster

The Chornobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion that destroyed the reactor. Most deaths from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning. On 26 April 1986 at 01:23 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chornobyl plant, near Prypiat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.[2]

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Photo:
1. The nuclear reactor after the disaster. Reactor 4 (center). Turbine building (lower left). Reactor 3 (center right).
2. The abandoned city of Prypiat with Chornobyl plant in the distance.
3. Abandoned housing blocks in Prypiat.