Learning Anatomy is FUN :)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.. Asslamu'alaikum.

Before I begin, Happy Labor Day! Hope you are enjoying this holiday with your family and friends. I know I'm not... I'm enjoying it with 3 assignments that were given by my lecturers yesterday. You can tell how excited I am. (liarrr)

Yesterday evening scenario..
Lecturer: "Please send it to me before tomorrow evening ."

That is what he said(I still had not yet send mine). Like a good student that I'm trying to be.. I'll send it tonight. Huahahahahaha.. NERD.

Anyway, yesterday we were having our practical anatomy on the hip bone. Suddenly, one teacher came up to us and asked about the hip bone. Plus, he told all of us some fascinating information about it.

1. There is hardly a case of a fractured hip bone. This is because the bone is covered with thick layers of muscles and fats that absorbs the impact of a trauma (acting as a soft pad).

2. During labour, the body releases oxytocin hormone to soften the symphysis pubis cartilage in order to increase the area for the baby to come out from thw mother's womb.

However, if there is lack of oxytocin release, this will slow down the baby delivery. So, physiotherapist/doctors would push (with force) the Anterior Superior Iliac Spine (ASIS) of the hip bone to provide a bigger space for the baby to come out. Caution: this procedure will cause a bigger stress to the mother's body.

3. Femur is a very strong bone. It stores the fats which will be use later by the human body. This bone too hardly fractures as it is covered by thick muscles (quadriceps and hamstring muscles).

4. If it ever occurs on the shaft of the femur, the fracture part would be so sharp that it would pierce through the thigh muscle layers. Ouch!! It can also be use to pierce you manubrium. (imagine that..no wonder cavemen use this as a tool)

5. Fracture of the femur would also cause heart stroke (as i had mention that it stores the fat).

Well this is what I have learned from that lecturer. Of course these words are not 100% accurate from what my lecturer said. But this was all I got from him. Hope you find this as interesting as I do. :D

P.s. Do not mistaken the word Labour with Labor.

Definition
Labor= work
Labour= baby delivery

Respect Your Teachers.. They Graduated without Google.

Assalamu'alaikum everyone,

Alhamdulillah, it is great to be given another day to breathe, to live and to continue on worshiping our Creator.

Recently, I came across with students who had a 'lot' to say about their lecturers.
The lecturers are cruel.. they are purposely failing us! they never liked us in the first place! 
These lecturers are horrible! That lecturer is bias! 

Blah blah blah..so on and so forth..you get the idea.

It's not that I don't believe in what they say, but I believe in the term 'there are two sides to every story'.
In high school, I had this one SPM Biology teacher that I didn't like very much. Why? The way she taught us in class that caused me to dislike her. Sounds nerdy I know but it was our final year in high school and I wanted to do well in my Bio. it was the bloody SPM for goodness sake.

"I loved biology very much, until she showed up and ruined it all."

I'll describe to you on how she taught us in class. She looked at the form 5 Biology book, read it for 5 minutes and wrote it on back the whiteboard. You'd think that she would made us understand more or explain it more elaborate, but NOOOOOO!! She just read it back to our faces and then BOOM.. exercise work. WTH?? Seriously dude, if this is how I get to be a teacher then I'm not surprise that I can be one myself. Read from the textbook and your done. A Teacher is produced. Plus, her voice was so damn low, it couldn't even pass the 1st row in class. It was literally like seeing a mute person trying to speak. It was rather sad to look at it.

So whenever we had Biology in class, I would not care what she said and did my own thing. Some of my classmates had the same thinking as I was back then. Only a few of us were actually listening to her.
This had been going on till the day of SPM.

A few weeks before our SPM started, the teacher had swore "Those who never listened during my class, will never get an A in their Bio." You'd think we would at least took her words seriously, but due to my huge size ego and 'not-listening' personality..I ignored her warning and continued to study by myself.

That - was a huge mistake.
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When the day of our SPM results came out, I was such a nervous wreck! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't even think.. I didn't know what to do exactly. My mother took my results since she's a teacher at my school, so I didn't need to come and get it. too much hassle they say...hehekkk :p

As I looked as my SPM slip, well what do you know. surprise..surprise.. you reap what you sow, right? My Biology was 'C'. a big fat C, and it's not even a plus. just a 'C'.

Where am I going with this story? I'm getting to the point.
No matter how much effort you put into studying certain subjects, if you don't respect the teacher.. you'll never be able to achieve the grades, the goals, or achievement that you worked so hard for.

"Sesungguhnya, doa seorang cikgu itu adalah berkat kepada pelajar."

Because of that, I had learnt my lesson. Nowadays, even there is that one teacher that I didn't like very much, I still respect that teacher. No matter how much you wanted another teacher to come and teach you, no matter how much you dislike, argue or whatever with a teacher...you still need to respect them.

Why? Because they worked very hard to teach you in class.. Plus, they graduated without ever using Google. *Burrrrnnn*

I am telling this story so that you, students, will never make the same mistakes as I did and to never regret for not hating them. If they like to make your life miserable as you say, then try not to be one. If you did, that just shows that you're just as worst as your lecturer. If they really did treated you in an ill-mannerly way (highly unlikely), continue on smiling and say 'OK'. Hating them won't bring out the best of you but rather it'll bring out the worst from you. You won't gain a prize nor a golden ticket. Just a bigger ego.

If you don't like the way they teach, just tell them up front. It's not like they're cannibals where they will cut you up and have you for breakfast, lunch and dinner (exaggerating much?!). They are people too and your excellence is their benefit. It shows that they are a good teacher. When you are correcting/advising them, please speak in a calm-moderate tone and make sure you use nice words. You don't want to start a bar fight with your teachers, you're trying to make peace with them.

Well, this is just my side of the story.

I Can't Stop Sinning by Sheikh Kamal El Mekki

Assalam 'alaik everyone,

I consider myself to be a sinful person. Why? Because I can never see myself a person with a good heart. I may pray 5 times a day or dhikr once a week but this still never stop me form sinning. Why? My actions or my words, wether I did it deliberately or unintentionally, might have hurt someone's feelings etc.. Because we're humans, we're not perfect.. we can never run away from committing sins in our daily life. But that doesn't mean that we should stop ourselves from repenting. It is better to keep asking for forgiveness from our Creator rather than to let the sins grow more bigger and larger in our hearts.

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It was narrated that a man who used to sin a lot, came to the wise and righteous man, Ibrahim ibn Adham.
He was from the early muslims, so he tells him, "give me advise because I always sin".. So Ibrahim ibn Adham(ra) then.. he's trying to shame him out of sinning, in front of Allah (swt).

 Ibrahim ibn Adham: "If you want to sin against Allah (swt) then go ahead and do so. just don't drink.. don't eat from Allah's food. and don't drink from the drink that HE provides for you.. don't use HIS provision.

The man: "How can I do that when everything is provided from Allah?"

Ibrahim: Does it make sense to sin against Allah, while you're eating His food?

Man: you're right.. give me the second piece of advice

Ibrahim: If you insist on sinning against Allah while eating His food and drinking from His drink, then at least, don't sin against HIM on HIS land

man: That is bigger than the 1st one, when all the land belongs to Allah

Ibrahim: Is it proper then that you sin against Allah? while you eat His food and you do  it in His land?

man: . . . give me the 3rd piece of advice.
Ibrahim: Third piece is if you are going to insist upon doing all that, then at least sin where He can't see  you

Man: This is even greater..
Ibrahim ibn Adham: Does it make sense that you sin against Allah..on His land, while eating His food that He provides and you do it right in front of Him?

MAn: give me the 4th piece of advice
Ibrahim ibn Adham: If you are still insist upon sinning after all of this, then continue sinning, but when the Angel of Death comes to take you.. tell them to wait for you until you make 2 rakaat and you repent to Allah azza wa jal

Man: the angel won't allow me
Ibrahim: When they are commanded to throw you into the Hell fire, then refuse to go

Man: they won't allow me. [Then after that the man said] enough..enough..

He got his advice and understood the admonition and it was said that from that day, the man went on without sinning - against Allah (swt)

wallahu'alam

Allah COVERS the sins of His servants

Assalam'alaikum everyone,
This topic was covered by brother Bilal Assad.. I've only known him through youtube videos and I would recommend everyone to listen to his speech. :) at least give him a chance.
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Then the angels will call to the believers, so the angels will grab them as well and they come to Allah SWT in a hadith it says that Allah will say to them, come closer..

He will say, "My servant come close to ME"

There are some special servants whom Allah SWT will say "come closer" that servants keeps coming closer and closer until finally.. the 'light' covers him, 'the hijab' covers him.. and there is between him and Allah a veil, a different type of veil.. where no angel can hear or see [through it], only between him and Allah

Allah SWT speaks to them, in a speech.. Allah's speech; we know that Allah has a speech, He told us this in Hadith and Quran..He speaks, He has a speech, but we don't know what this speech is like. There is nothing like Him, and He hears and sees all things.. just like He say's - He hears and sees, He speaks...

Buthow does He see? How does He hear? not like us.. In a manner that befits Him, He knows we accept it as it is and Allah says to him, "my servant, look at your records." He sees sins..

Allah says to him
"Didn't you know that you did this sin and I could see you did it?" He did in secret and and he could see him..
"Didn't you know that this day would come?"
"Didn'tyou know today I will question you? Didn't you know?"

And he will say "My Lord, I did." And Allah will say, "Why did you do it?"
Finally the servant will say, "Oh my Lord, for you to throw me into Hell fire is easier than to judge me with me standing before you with this sin."

So then He looks at the next page, He sees another sin... worse than the other one, same thing happens.. Then he looks and there are worse sins, and sins keep growing.. and this poor believer is sitting there saying my Lord.. In the end, he says 
"I'm actually going to Hell fire, my deeds haven't been accepted. I've done all these wrong deeds and that is why my good deeds haven invalid."

So when he is certain that he is going to end up in Hell fire, Allah says to him "My servant, you know how you kept it a secret in the former life?" He replied "yes." 
He says "Why did you keep it a secret?" he says " 'cause I was ashamed.. of my sin, my Lord."
He says, "Don't you see I kept it a secret in the former life? I didn't expose you and that.. was part of My Mercy and today, I will keep it a secret.. I will not expose it."

In one other Hadith Allah SWT says to some of them
"you knew a fault of your brother and you covered it. Today, I will cover yours(sins)."

He turns the page and he sees his first good deed; then he turns and see's a better deed, and his deeds keep growing -  then he turns back and the records are empty. The records are empty of his sins, the Angels don't know, it is wiped off..

The sins will be forgotten.

The Storm is COMING!!

Assalamu'alaikum everyone, lately I have been busy with my studies and my finals are coming soon. Recently, I had watched this video called 'The Storm Is Coming' by Yasmin Mogahed on YT. Her words really made you think "Have I done enough in this world?". This is the script that she said in the video...

There is an honor in serving the one you love, there is Tashreef [honor].
And it is only that once that love is gone or weakened that serving that person goes from being an honor to just being a burden...It goes from tashreef to only takleef [burden].
Sadly our worship to God is like this: just a BURDEN.

We don't pray to seek refuge from the storm of our lives. If we pray at all,we do it to get out of the way or maybe because our parents won't stop nagging until we do.. Somehow we have forgotten that if we pray, we harm no one.
Not Allah, not our mother, not our father, we only harm our selves!

On the day of judgement, every man and woman will stand ALONE in front of Allah and there is nothing that anyone can do for you - except by His permission. On that day, a mother would be willing to throw her own child just to save herself.

Pleas understand the reality that we have forsaken because we are so caught up with our phones, apps, friends, our parties and our highs! We're so caught up with the cute guys and the pretty girls..
Please understand that ignoring a reality does not make it any less real
It is still going to HAPPEN!!
 being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.
If you choose for example, to stay up all night partying instead of studying for your final exam it doesn't mean that the final exam won't happen. it still WILL and you'll only end up FAILING!
If we spend this life just partying pretending that the final isn't coming, it wont stop it from happening.
nothing will stop DEATH. Nothing. Nothing will delay the Day of Judgement
Like that final exam,the question's only: Are... We..Prepared?? or Are We Too Busy Playing?

Imagine for a moment, that a news reporter tells you that a huge storm is coming.
Imagine that you're told that unless you seek shelter, you and your family will be destroyed
What would you do? if we really believed that a storm was coming,  we would run to shelter, right?
Only a person who didn't believe the forecast would continue playing, ignoring the countless warnings.
Only if you thought it was a lie, or you were too drunk to realize! only if you didn't really believe or you really didn't really understand!

But how could someone know - really KNOW - that a storm was about to hit?! and do absolutely nothing to protect themselves and those they love!
would anyone say:"I'm actually too busy hanging out right now", "I'm too busy on my phone or on facebook to run for shelter."
NO ONE WOULD SAY THAT
and yet, every single time... we put off our prayers! put off our hijab! put off giving up dating! put off leaving our poisonous bad company! put off abandoning alcohol or smoking or getting high! or pornography! - that is exactly what we're saying!
The fact that we cannot put off these haram things, the fact that we insist: "I will never give up on alcohol drinks""I will never give up Illegal Sexual Intercourse!" " I will never give up dating and all the so called pleasures associated with it!"

The fact that our worship has become a burden, is a sign there is a problem internally.there is a problem with our sight! We don't really see the storm is coming! We don't really see The Day of Judgement. We haven't purified and rectified the lump of flesh the Prophet (PBUH) spoke about.
And as a result.. the rest of our bodies, the rest of our actions, the rest ofour lives have become corrupted.
We don't really see Allah with our hearts and we haven't built our love for Him. We haven't used the heart for the very purpose of which it was created: to know, to serve and to love God (Allah).

Remember the very first verses revealed were not about haram and halal. They were not about dating or drinking or smoking pot.They were about the fact that as a matter of certainty..
Just as I am standing in front of you today, that YOU and I will meet our MAKER.
You and I will stand in front of Allah and will be asked:
"What did you love most in this world? what did you spend yourlifedoing? What did you run after? Will it.lasts? The things that you chase..will.. they..last? Will they help you or will they hurt you?  When the illusion of this life has passed?"

we need to come back to Allah before it is too late.

and often what keeps people from turning back is that they believe that their sins are too GREAT for Allah to FORGIVE. but to this, Allah SWT Speaks:
"Say, 'O my servants who have trasgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed Allah forgivesall sins.Indeed He is the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful.'" (Quran 39: 53)