.:USRAH and PICNIC:.

With the name of Allah, The Most Gracious Most Merciful.

i thank Him as He has provided me the strength to carry out my duty,

indeed, i am the one at lost as i keep holding this entry. ::sedih::

Alhamdulillah, He had given us yet another opportunity to 'Yazid' our Iman throughout our effort in tarbiyahing and fikrahing within our Manees.

'yazid' here is from the word 'zada' which means increase.

our iman is characterized by two words. -yazid wa yanqus-

'yanqus' comes from the word 'naqasa' which i'm sure most of us could guess the meaning.

correctomund0! yes, it means decrease.

why we are willing to wake up early and prepare carbonara pasta and lempeng jagung and then, carry them from our house to the palace and then to the hostel pulak?

why indeed we give a damn about this usrah thingy actually?

personally, i believe this is one of the booth, in fact a concrete one, where i can top- up my iman. this is our effort in seeking His Guidance and Love because we realize, if He decided to abandon us right here right now, we are condemned. and we don't want that. we want to go back home- the Jannah and not being abandoned and lost which definitely going to lead us to the Naar.

that is why we should always ask ourselves have we realized the alert from our iman if it's decreasing like when Orange sent us sms each time we finish calling ppl. annoying yes, but it provides us the info on how much credit left. same goes here, when we have been 'lagha' by the non-stop works-movies-songs-sports which all these fall under the categories of DUNIAWI, our iman is actually sending beep-beep to us. "UWAGA!! i'm depleting_do top-up me!!" well, i just made this up-of course.hihihi

back to our usrah last-last Saturday on 3rd of April in front of the Teatr which-i-don't-remember-its-name, keeping our guts- we couldn't care less about the coldness that nearly engulfing naqlis and asma. *it's me actually.. =P

below is how our day, our soul, our mind and our tummy was filled... ::bahgie!::

we opened our halaqah with ummul kitab Al-Fatihah before starting our TnT which was from the Surah Al-Fath:18-29.

Al-Fath brings the meaning of 'the victory' and 'the opening'.

This honorable Surah was revealed after the Messenger of Allah returned from the area of Al-Hudaybiyyah, during the month of Dhul-Qa`dah, in the sixth year of Hijrah. This is when the idolators prevented him from reaching Al-Masjid Al-Haram to perform the `Umrah he intended. They stopped the Prophet from reaching Makkah at that time, but then were prone to peace negotiations. A peace treaty was conducted stipulating that the Messenger would return this year and then come back for `Umrah the following year. 

The Messenger agreed. However, some of the Companions disliked these terms, including `Umar bin Al-Khattab, as we will mention in detail, Allah willing, while explaining this Surah. 

After the Prophet slaughtered his sacrificial animals in the area where he was stopped and headed back to Al-Madinah, Allah the Exalted and Most Honored revealed this Surah about what occurred between him and the idolators. 

Allah declared the Al-Hudaybiyyah peace treaty a manifest victory, because of the benefits peace would carry and the good results that did originate from it. 

`Abdullah bin Mas`ud and other Companions said, 

"You consider the conquering of Makkah to be Al-Fath (the victory), while to us, Al-Fath is the treaty conducted at Al-Hلudaybiyyah.'' 

Jabir (bin `Abdullah) said, 

"We only considered Al-Fath to be the day of Hudaybiyyah!'' 

Al-Bukhari recorded that Al-Bara' (bin `Azib) said, 

"You consider Al-Fath to be the conquest of Makkah, which was indeed a victory. However, we consider Al-Fath to be the pledge of Ar-Ridwan on the Day of Al-Hudaybiyyah. Then, we were fourteen hundred with the Messenger of Allah . Al-Hudaybiyyah had a well, whose water we consumed, not leaving a drop of water in it. When the news of what happened reached the Messenger of Allah , he came towards us and sat on the edge of the well. Then he asked to be brought a bucket of water and used it for ablution. He next rinsed his mouth, invoked Allah and poured that water into the well. Soon after, that well provided us, as well as our animals, with sufficient water, in whatever amount of water we wished."

Imam Ahmad recorded that `Umar bin Al-Khattab said, 

"We were with the Messenger of Allah on a trip, and I asked him about a matter three times, but he did not answer me. So I said to myself, `May your mother lose you, O son of Al-Khattab! You were stubborn in repeating your question three times to the Messenger of Allah ; each time he did not respond to you.' So I mounted my animal, my camel, and went ahead for fear that a part of the Qur'an might be revealed in my case. Suddenly, I heard a caller calling, `O `Umar!' So, I went to the Messenger while fearing that part of the Qur'an was revealed about me. 

The Prophet said,

«نَزَلَ عَلَيَّ الْبَارِحَةَ سُورَةٌ هِيَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا:

[إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحاً مُّبِيناً لِّيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ]»

("Last night, a Surah was revealed to me that is dearer to me than this life and all that it contains: (Verily, We have given you a manifest victory. That Allah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future.)") Al-Bukhari, At-Tirmizi and An-Nasa'i collected this Hadith from several chains of narration through Malik, may Allah grant him His mercy.

to be continued... *ada sikit pengisian from kak naQlis and kak Elle yang akan dikupas sedikit waktu lagi.

tungguuuuuuu____ ^^,

p/s: jazakillah jiah for the entry about 'Tips to fight Depression'..sayang anda!