Thursday, August 20, 2015

GOLD and DIAMONDS

As I was browsing through the ISLAMIC THINKING Blog, I stumbled upon this:






















And then I think, that it is indeed true. Putting aside the message that it actually trying to converse about, my MIND seems to be thinking on other matter; the thing that always bothers me, GOLD.

Everyone knows how precious GOLDS are, and of course DIAMONDS! But I really really think that there is something special about this GOLD thingy, something so special that it is simply different from the other things!

GOLD is so rare, so damn rare, that it is rare even to the UNIVERSE! All of the GOLD on Earth come from dead stars crashing together, created as a result of gamma-ray burst of stars that die and collide with each other. Pretty rare indeed, and so much energy too!

All of the metals found on earth in itself are made from starts, as the earth don't have the energy, or to be precise, the HEAT to create these elements. Yet, GOLD is even more complex to be created!






So what is it with this DIAMOND that actually worth more than GOLD??? why is it so???
First of all, DIAMONDS - being the hardest material once, not so nowadays - are not entirely expensive in its pure form, it is just a compressed carbon anyways. Looking at GEMOLOGY, its worthiness is referred to its colour, clarity, carat weight and cut. So it is simply more of its workmanship, how it sparkles and things like that rather than it in itself.

GOLD, on the other hand, is precious in its pure form, by weight and such. You could shape it to other things then melt it to the ground again, and yet, it still maintains its value. Almost simply indestructible! Well, maybe that's kinda too much... lol...

DIAMONDS can be synthesized nowadays, so I heard, which could again, makes it less worthy than GOLD. DIAMOND is just a molecule, yet GOLD is an atom! And that is a huge difference!!! ALUMINIUM was once more precious than GOLD - we're talking about 19th Century - but look at it nowadays; we throw away aluminium cans every now and then! So why can't it happen to DIAMONDS instead??!



Well I'm not the expert here... Maybe I'm just the GOLD GUY and less of a diamond guy...
We all have our bias...



-AFDHAL MAAROF-

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Ulama, Hai Ulama...

I don't really know where to start...
But somehow I became rather fed up with some of those people who called themselves "Ulama,"
but they are not very honest about delivering the revelations of God...
Be it Quran or Hadith...!


There are so many statements given, and it sounded wrong! so wrong!!!
What are you trying to do here?
Are you trying to educate us, the public, about Islam and the righteous;
or are you stuck in somesort of a political dispute and you just can't help but to create somesort of a cover story or something?!!!
And you made it seems like God is with those wrongdoers and supported them in any way?!!!
This is so wrong man!!!


Then I remember that I once have heard about the arrival, or lets call it prophecised Ulama Su'.
So who are these guys the prophet were talking about?



أَلاَ إِنَّ شَرَّ الشَّرِّ شِرَارُ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَإِنَّ خَيْرَ الْخَيْرِ خِيَارُ الْعُلَمَاءِ
Ingatlah, seburuk-buruk keburukan adalah keburukan ulama, dan sebaik-baik kebaikan adalah kebaikan ulama.
(Hadith Riwayat ad-Darimi) 



وَيْلٌ ِلأُمَّتِيْ مِنْ عُلَمَاءِ السُّوْءِ يَِتَّخِذُوْنَ هَذَا الْعِلْمَ تِجَارَةً يَبِيْعُوْنَهَا مِنْ
  أُمَرَاءِ زَمَانِهِمْ رِبْحاً ِللأَنْفُسِهِمْ لاَ أَرْبَحَ اللهُ تِجَارَتَهُمْ
Kebinasaan bagi umatku (datang) dari ulama su', mereka menjadikan ilmu sebagai barang dagangan yang mereka jual kepada para penguasa masa mereka untuk mendapatkan keuntungan bagi diri mereka sendiri. Allah tidak akan memberikan keuntungan dalam perniagaan mereka itu.
(Hadith Riwayat al-Hakim)



الْعُلَمَاءُ أَمَنَاءُ الرُّسُلِ مَا لَمْ يُخَالِطُوْا السُّلْطَانَ وَ يُدَاخِلُوْا الدُّنْيَا فَاِذَا خَالَطُوْا السُّلْطَانَ وَ دَاخَلُوْا الدُّنْيَا فَقَدْ خَانُوْا الرُّسُلَ فَاحْذَرُوْهُمْ وَفِيْ رِوَايَةٍ لِلْحَاكِمِ فَاعْتَزِلُوْهُمْ
Ulama adalah kepercayaan para rasul selama mereka tidak bergaul dengan penguasa dan tidak asyik dengan dunia. Jika mereka bergaul dengan penguasa dan asyik dengan dunia maka mereka telah mengkhianati para rasul. Kerana itu, jauhilah mereka.
(Hadis Riwayat al-Hakim)




And some could even be found within Al-Quran itself, such as they are:

وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقًا يَلْوُونَ أَلْسِنَتَهُم بِالْكِتَابِ لِتَحْسَبُوهُ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللّهِ وَيَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللّهِ الْكَذِبَ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
Sesungguhnya di antara mereka ada segolongan yang memutar-belitkan lidahnya membaca Al-Kitab, supaya kamu menyangka yang dibacanya itu sebahagian dari Al-Kitab, padahal ia bukan dari Al-Kitab. Dan mereka mengatakan ia (yang dibacanya itu) dari sisi Allah, padahal ia bukan dari sisi Allah. Mereka berkata dusta terhadap Allah sedang mereka mengetahui.
(Al-Quran : Ali Imran : 78) 


وَاتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ الَّذِيَ آتَيْنَاهُ آيَاتِنَا فَانسَلَخَ مِنْهَا فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَكَانَ مِنَ الْغَاوِينَ

Dan bacakanlah kepada mereka berita orang yang telah kami berikan kepadanya akan ayat-ayat kami, kemudian dia melepaskan diri dari ayat-ayat itu lalu dia diikuti oleh syaitan (sampai ia tergoda) maka jadilah dia termasuk orang-orang yang sesat.
(Al-Quran : Al A'raf : 175)


وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَرَفَعْنَاهُ بِهَا وَلَكِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَى الأَرْضِ وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ إِن تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْهِ يَلْهَثْ أَوْ تَتْرُكْهُ يَلْهَث ذَّلِكَ مَثَلُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا فَاقْصُصِ الْقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
Dan jikalau kami kehendaki, sesungguhnya kami tinggikan darjatnya dengan ayat-ayat itu, tetapi dia cenderung kepada dunia dan menurutkan hawa nafsunya yang rendah; maka perumpamaannya seperti anjing, jika kamu menghalaunya diulurkan lidahnya dan jika kamu membiarkannya diulurkan lidahnya (juga). Demikian itulah perumpamaan orang-orang yang mendustakan ayat-ayat kami, maka ceritakanlah kepada mereka kisah-kisah itu agar mereka berfikir.
(Al-Quran : Al A'raf : 176)




And that's about it that I could find for now...
You don't need to be a scholar to differentiate who is who on this issue.
Fine I get it, not everything that the government is doing is wrong...
but you don't have to make up a cover story using some ayat of Quran or Hadith to make them right! With a twist here and there! And half-read here and there!

You made it seems so perfect to you, but no one is going to buy them!!!
Come on! are you that desperate!!!
Do you really believe in God?! Don't you think you are going the exact opposite way?!!!







Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Favorite Food Porn


My favorite FOOD PORN video ever!!!
adventure in imagination: Mark & Spencer food...

the food and the music, just perfect... enjoy!!! 
and now I'm hungry.....


- Afdhal Maarof -