Thursday, November 28, 2013

"They can see the difference"

Maybe since the war between Muslims who still have The Prophet Rasulullah SAW besides them with those who disobey Allah (the kuffar), they can see the difference.

And maybe since the First Crusade in 1095, they also saw the difference.

And during the war between Arab-Israel in 1948, they did see the difference.

What was it actually?

(Below was an extract from an article written by Almarhum Dr. Said Ramadhan Al-Buty, in The Muslim magazine entitled 'A lesson from the Battlefield'. It was a true story regarding the conversation between his friend who had been imprisoned during Arab-Israel war in 1948, with an Israel officer on the day his friend was being released)


(And this extract was published in a memoir entitled 'Desperately seeking paradise" written by Ziauddin Sardar)


"Can I ask you something for which I, as a fighter unable to get a satisfactory answer before this?",asked his friend.

"Go on. Maybe I can help you to answer it", replied the Israel officer.

"Why don't you attacked Sur Bahir?

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(below is the Malay translation of the extract since I couldn't find the original English copy.)
            “Mengapakah anda tidak menyerang Sur Bahir?”.Sur Bahir adalah sebuah perkampungan berhampiran Jerusalem, yang dikelilingi oleh dua koloni yang kuat, iaitu Tell Buyut dan Ramat Rahel.
            “Soalan yang baik. Adakah anda inginkan jawapan secara jujur?”
            Rakannya mengangguk tanda setuju.
            “Kami tidak menyerang Sur Bahir kerana ia diduduki oleh ramai tentera sukarela daripada Ikhwanul Muslimin.”
            “Apa perbezaannya? Anda seringkali menyerang posisi lain yang dipertahankan oleh lebih ramai askar, dalam situasi yang lebih sukar bagi anda.”

            “Bezanya ialah sukarelawan daripada Ikhwanul Muslimin adalah sangat berbeza dengan pasukan biasa anda. Bagi mereka, berperang bukanlah suatu tanggungjawab yang perlu dilaksanakan di bawah suatu perancangan , taktik dan arahan yang diterima, tetapi suatu kenikmatan yang di mana mereka mengabdikan diri mereka dengan sepenuh jiwa raga. Dalam kehormatan ini, mereka sama seperti tentera kami yang berjuang demi Israel. Tetapi beza antara kami dan mereka ialah kami berperang untuk mencari negara untuk kami tinggal, dan mereka pula mahu mati! Untuk menyerang golongan yang bukan sahaja tidak takut kepada mati malah amat bersemangat untuk mati dengan penuh keghairahan, seperti mereka adalah kuasa jahat yang keluar untuk menentang sendiri umat manusia, dan untuk menyerang golongan sebegitu ibarat menyerang sebuah hutan yang penuh dengan binatang buas dan liar. Ia adalah risiko yang kami pilih untuk jauhi.”
            “Pada pendapat anda, apa yang telah mempengaruhi golongan ini sehingga mereka tidak gentar pada mati dan menjadi sepasukan tentera yang sanggup hadapi segala rintangan?”
            “Kesan kuasa magis dalam agama pada minda orang biasa ini,” balas pegawai Israel itu. “Orang-orang yang miskin itu masih lagi menjadi mangsa kepada bayangan indah syurga yang menanti mereka selapas mati, dengan susu dan madu, arak dan bidadari….Mereka adalah bahaya bukan sahaja kepada kami tetapi juga kepada anda terutamanya….”
            Sahabat itu memberitahu Almarhum Dr. Said Ramadhan bahawa beliau merasakan sangat teruja dengan perbualan itu, ‘seperti dilahirkan semula. Saya sedar bahawa kuasa kepada senjata tersimpan dalam konsep kepercayaan dan kematian suci demi agama’ Almarhum Dr. Said Ramadhan memberitahu para pembaca bahawa insiden tersebut telah mengubah hidup rakannya dan dia menjadi seorang muslim yang taat(dan, melalui tekaan, juga ahli Ikhwanul Muslimin). Saya (penulis, Ziauddin Sardar) mempunyai masalah besar dalam kepelbagaian ketaatan ini. Dalam mengakui keberanian pejuang Ikhwanul Muslimin, saya berpihak kepada pegawai Israel itu. 

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Yes, they can see the difference inside these Muslims who fights in the cause of Allah. Motivasi syurga mereka sangat jelas, seakan-akan syurga itu terlihat di hadapan mata. 
Datangkanlah apa sahaja, sedikit pun mereka tidak gentar. 
Subhanallah...

Seorang Muslim itu hakikatnya perlu berbeza dengan orang-orang sekelilingnya. 
Dia yang mempunyai jadual waktu yang berbeza, penampilan yang berbeza, topik perbualan yang berbeza dan impian-impian yang berbeza. 
Perbezaan-perbezaan ini yang akan melihatkan ke mana arah pengakhiran kita. Sama ada kita memilih dunia, atau memilih untuk bahagia di akhirat sana. 

Kepada saudara-saudaraku yang memilih untuk menjadi berbeza, ketahuilah bahawa Allah bersamamu!


Picture from monumen-books.com

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

16 things you’ll only understand if you’re a medical student

Post santai di petang hari.. :)

16 things you’ll only understand if you’re a medical student:

    1.       Getting hungry during anatomy session.
Hehe, true enough. I wonder why they made the dissecting session just before lunch. Still remember our discussion on Eid Adha open house menu while waiting for the lecturers to come. Yes, discussing next to our cadaver. Eeuu..

    2.       Practising OSCE on each other over and over and over again.
“Hi, my name is ____ and I’m 3rd year medical student. I’ve been asked by the doctor today to have a look at your heart, would that be okay with you?” Sounds familiar?
“Do you have pain anywhere in your tummy? If you do have some pain, please let me know and I’ll stop.” And more familiar ^^

    3.       Watching your friend graduate, getting jobs and getting married and you’re still in med school.
Well, very true . Quite a number of friends had just delivered or already raising their first child, one and two friends are going for their second.  Some already have a stable career, and more and more wedding invitations to come. 

    4.       Never ending ward rounds shadowing doctors
Shadowing = floating around after doctors whilst they act like you’re not there. It should be called ‘Ghosting’.
Hehe. Ghosts during the morning ward round :)

    5.       Night shifts/on calls
It should be illegal to have to stay at a hospital for that long and not get paid for it.
A real sleeping test, though.

    6.       Medical student syndrome
Being convinced that you have every disease you learnt that week and driving your GP insane. ‘I have a headache…and I’m always tired…I MUST HAVE KAWASAKI’S DISEASE.’
But sometimes you are right. Keep learning! 

    7.       Gunners
They suck up to Consultants and volunteer to stay in the hospital for longer when you want to go home, making you look like a flake. And they should stay in the hospital for longer…more like forever…in the mental health unit.
Hmmm well just go home after you're done with your work. Family first :)

    8.       Having to learn a whole new language worth of medical words
Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies.
Err..

    9.       Taking all those entrance exams and interviews and wondering if it was all worth it.
Regretting on things you’ve said during the interview, and wondering how did you able to pass and get a place. 

    10.   Realising that scrubs is all based on lies
     Oh,really??

   11.   Using House and Gray Anatomy to revise. 
     I don’t watch gray anatomy. House sometimes. But Upin and Ipin is more interesting.. :p

   12.   Having to keep composed in DRE( Digital Rectal Examination)
They made you feel so hopeless when you never get a chance to do it. *sigh*

   13.   Ended up talking about medicine to your medic friends and your one non medic friends is like..
Hehe. Very very true. Sometimes I just can’t help it. Surely got something to talk about medicine. So usually I acknowledge the presence of my non medic friend, and shorten the so-called medical conversation. We need to have some empathy, right?

   14.   Still not having an answer for the dreaded questions: So why do you want to do medicine?
 I do have answer for it. But surprisingly the answer changed over time as you pass through the years. Experience is the best teacher..

    15.   You spend so long trying to get into medicine that once you got in you were like..
‘I didn’t expect this!’ You should be. Expect the unexpected. And keep moving forward, guys!

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