Why Should I?

I was in Melbourne for 4 days and I only had the chance to look around the city on the last day of my visit. While wandering around the city, I was attracted to this one old-man standing on a box to to get attention wearing colourful dress just like a man in a circus. He was playing hoola-hoop and in front of him there were two containers for donation. He collected a fair amount of money that day.


There was also one poster lying on the floor explaining why he did that. It seemed that he was the 70 year-old war veteran from South Korea and was fighting with North Korean before. He travelled around the world to collect donation to build a church to bring people back into faith. I do not know what drives him to do that, was it because of the war and he wants peace and the only way to achieve peace is through religion? Make sense!


Usually I will put a coin or two when I encounter this kind of people. But for this particular one was a bit different because he was collecting money to build a church. Why should I? It took me a while to ponder about this. I kept telling myself of whu should I donate to him if he wants to build a church?

Final thought. I shoved my hand in my pocket and put 20 cents inthe container. Why? This brought me back to thelecture by Sh Faizel that I did write in my blog entitled A Matter of Perspective. Why I should sow hatred towards the non-Muslim who wants to build a church for his people. I will do the same if I am in his shoes. After all, if his intention is sincere, why shouldn't I help him no matter from waht background he comes from? I tried to look from different perspective. Well, it took me a while to think but I think I did the right thing.

I Did Something Stupid That Day

Sometimes I wonder why I can be so susceptible to things that I previously refrain from. Peer influence? May be. When people is in that kind of environment, they tend to do things done by people around them. I know that you should have a firm believe of what you do, but we are just human being bound to make mistakes.



I blame myself for what happen in Church last Friday. Do I really feel good after that? A mix feeling instead. Feel quite good and remorseful. I blame myself for having that mix feeling again. I should only feel bad for doing something that I have been adamant not to do it.

I can proudly say that my life is balance between entertainment and religion. Now I know that I am wrong. You can't balance religion with entertainment. You can only balance the nowadays world with the hereafter with the guidance of your religion.



I am a hypocrite myself. I tell people to do something good but then again I am no good myself. But people is always in the constant process of changing. I hope I make mistakes to learn not to do it again.

A Matter of Perspective

I was facsinated by the sermon given by Sh Faizel yesterday about how we Muslim have to change our perspectives towrads the situation now. Given all the facts that is happening in the Muslim world now, we should not inculcate the feeling of hatred towards the so-called Western oppressors. They are opressors of course but will hate solve all the problems now? I use to give the feeling of contentment when I hear an American was slaughtered or an Australian was bombed. Well yes I feel sort of contented when these happen, but now I know that I am wrong. Rasulullah used to cry (if I am not mistaken! I am no guru in religion)when he heard that a kafir passed away. He could have saved that one person from the fire of jahannam.




Our perspectives need to be changed. The sheikh particularly takes Australia as the boundary of his talk. There used to be no mosque before in Perth but now we have 6 or more mosques. Muslim relatively does not feel oppressed living in this Western land. We have to cherished this. We have to learn to appreciate of what we have. Our view towards the non-Muslim have to be diverted from what we view them as now. We should treat them just the way we treat our Muslim brothers. Not all of them have the same way of thinking like other westerners that Muslim is a terrorist. I reckon that they can think in a more logical way that we Muslim. A generalisation may be but I guess it is a fact.



It is analogous to onw incidence that happen in Perth before when someone just shot himself in the shooting-practice area the sheikh narrated. They use to hold the pistol without any constrainst before but after the incidence happen they can only move it to the left or right. But then again it is to late to mend the situation. Who should we blame? The one who imposed the law or the one who commit suicide? Muslim should not create more damage in their own image. They should not fight fire with fire. It is understandable that sometimes out of desperation people tend to do stupid things. But living in nowadays world we need to slowly adapt ourselves to thier civilisations while still holding to our believes.

Things can happen in a matter of time. A slight mistake can result in major oppression among the Muslims. We need to alter our mindset and begin to view the situation nowadays in a way of how can we solve it not how can we fulfil our satisfaction. That's the bit and pieces that I gather from he talk and i write it down here for a reminder for me and for those who read this.