Week 10, in a nutshell.

This week has been a week of many reminders. If only one chooses to welcome it…

1) Futur

Started the week pretty bad. Let’s just call it the period of futur. The phase where a person experiences burnout and slackening in his/her life. I thought that the monthly period was the main reason. But as I reflect, anything can be your downfall, if, you let it be.

A woman’s monthly period gives her the much needed rest. Physically. But this rest does not include our spiritual selves. The break, makes you miss and yearn for your daily dose of connection with Allah even more. You are no longer obliged to perform the 5 daily prayers. Let alone to recite His words. (Exemption if one is reading it for the purpose of studying it) So much so that you have to put in the extra effort just to meet Him, to remember Him…

2) #FitFatiha

It’s been 3 weeks. Coach and I are having a break as there will always be something that hinders us from our weekly meet up. Week 8 was cheat week for myself. So in week 9, as shared in a previous post, was the week I tried the mobile app, Keep. It was awesome. There are both free and paid exercise routines. So I tried the free 7 day workout. I love how they incentivize us to check in on the app daily by giving us points/coins. Apart from that, they would give a short demo of a workout before doing the workout with us. There are also breaks in between exercises and a pause button. I haven’t tried all the apps in the world but I think this Keep App is definitely worth keeping, for now.

Week 10’s exercise was the night cycling on Friday night. It was so peaceful as I cycled my worries away~ Good job Ameen for organising and the whole exco for initiating 🙂

I stopped wearing the steps tracker for about 3 months. It’s time to track them down againnn.

Tetiba semangat after seeing how by just teaching can help me clock 10k steps. Must be the hand gestures haha.

3) Halaqah

Wanted to meet Syaf at NUS for some study session but I had to cancel it for some reason.

Ended the day with halaqah.

Tilawah:

Don’t wait for the inevitable to come to you (40:84)
Remember our own deadlines in this world.
Perkara akhirat jangan dilupakan. Perkara dunia jangan diabaikan.
Nak husnul khotimah, act it out. Do the things consistently.

Tazkirah:

Don’t blame others and avoid misunderstandings

Tauhid:

Nikmat bergerak
Our body and transportation that we are blessed with
Utilise in His way. To seek rizq, to get to know others etc

Hadith:

Lemah lembut in all affairs
Some of the examples given were situations where Rasulullah s.a.w was dishonoured, the Arab badwi who urinated in the mosque and how he reminded others.

Homework:

To act with kindness
Pause when in anger

We had our halaqah at Kak Az’s humble house. Such a beautiful family mashaAllah…<3 May Allah continue to shower His blessings on this family.

4) NZ Terror Attack

“The first Muslim man to die, his final words were ‘hello brother’. These words were uttered by a man who symbolised Islam. He had a rifle pointed at him by a man with clear intentions to kill and how did he respond? With anger? With aggression? No, with the most gentle and sincere greeting of ‘hello brother’.

“Perhaps this hero was trying to defuse the situation? Maybe Allah used this man to show the world the kindness that is Islam. I don’t know but what I want, is to make certain, is that this detail isn’t lost amongst you. That this mans final act was an Islamic one, a sincere courageous and warm way to stop violence instead of fuelling it”.

The sadness stabbed through my heart. While I cannot erase the horrific scenes of the video, or comprehend how such violence could be perpetrated, one thing stood out.

This particular incident, the peace and kindness shown to a man who walked into a mosque with a gun – this speaks so much to me.

Dying in a state of purity, on a blessed day and place – this helped me cope with so much loss and grief and…blood.

Also, I read this today:

It’s ok dear self to weep. It is only natural to feel voidness of when a beloved passes on. But what do we do next? That’s the real question. The people who have passed on would not want us to keep still. Life goes on. Let’s not allow their deaths to be in vain.