My paternal uncle passed away yesterday. My father is the only one left in his family. The only one left bearing the name of 'Baksin'.
Scary, isn't it? To be the last one.
But of course, his name will go on because of his children.
In your children, you live forever. At least in name and lineage.
My late uncle was a good man. Always soft-spoken and generous when he was financially comfortable. When I was younger, he would be generous to us for he was a draughtsman and my father a mere security officer.
May Allah accept all his kind deeds and sacrifices, to his children, to his wife and to others.
May Allah place his soul among those whom He has forgiven and accept as the righteous. Amin.
I will miss your quiet ways, Pak Ngah.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
LOST huMANity
When men are not MAN, they take another wife without the heart nor human courtesy to inform the wife and then wondered miserably why women are so possessive, so lacking in understanding when the wife finally found out and turned his world upside down?
When men are not MAN, and boys pretend to be MAN, they fall prey to innocent, trusting hearts, take what is not theirs, then left the defenseless women to face an accusing world – we then watched with angst the newly born left at the roadside, in the bins, alone in the mosques and we cringed in disbelief when a newly murdered newborn has his tiny arms as food for the dog?
When men are not MAN, they worked 7/12, go out until the early morning, confident that they have sacrificed their utmost in the dispensing of their rights as husbands, fathers but left unprotected; the honour and integrity of their charges – wives, mothers, children – preferring to abuse them mentally, ripped apart their self-esteem, laid bare their identity, their very existence as humans…tormented souls, whose tears are wasted on these men.
When men are not MAN, they made men mere pawns in their games of ambitions, in their aims to conquer others, in their belief of their self-righteousness and invincibility, in their pursuit of only one thing - the upholding of their manliness.
When men are not MAN, their women left them for OTHER women - the spat in their faces - the ultimate betrayal..
When men becomes MAN, they are the beacons when others are sinking; the buoys when the aimless falters in the seas of uncertainty, the hands that cradle the weak and the eyes that look upon the defenseless with humility and strength.
When men becomes MAN, they are the warriors against LIES, the protectors of women, the ones whose hearts are always in the mosques, the Qur'an and Sunnah in their eyes, the Omnipotence in their minds....
Khalifah fil Ards.
(Peace and blessings to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w - the MAN amongst men...)
When men are not MAN, and boys pretend to be MAN, they fall prey to innocent, trusting hearts, take what is not theirs, then left the defenseless women to face an accusing world – we then watched with angst the newly born left at the roadside, in the bins, alone in the mosques and we cringed in disbelief when a newly murdered newborn has his tiny arms as food for the dog?
When men are not MAN, they worked 7/12, go out until the early morning, confident that they have sacrificed their utmost in the dispensing of their rights as husbands, fathers but left unprotected; the honour and integrity of their charges – wives, mothers, children – preferring to abuse them mentally, ripped apart their self-esteem, laid bare their identity, their very existence as humans…tormented souls, whose tears are wasted on these men.
When men are not MAN, they made men mere pawns in their games of ambitions, in their aims to conquer others, in their belief of their self-righteousness and invincibility, in their pursuit of only one thing - the upholding of their manliness.
When men are not MAN, their women left them for OTHER women - the spat in their faces - the ultimate betrayal..
When men becomes MAN, they are the beacons when others are sinking; the buoys when the aimless falters in the seas of uncertainty, the hands that cradle the weak and the eyes that look upon the defenseless with humility and strength.
When men becomes MAN, they are the warriors against LIES, the protectors of women, the ones whose hearts are always in the mosques, the Qur'an and Sunnah in their eyes, the Omnipotence in their minds....
Khalifah fil Ards.
(Peace and blessings to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w - the MAN amongst men...)
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