ALLAH MAHA BERKUASA, PERNAHKAH KITA RASA BEGITU?

Sekali baca slogan 'Allah Maha Berkuasa',dengan bersahaja kita menjawab betullah tu Allah memang maha berkuasa. memang tak leh dipertikai lagi. Tul tak? Adakah ini sekadar keluar dari mulut kita atau ianya benar-benar keluar dari lubuk hati sanubari kita, yang akhirnya vocal cord & mind agreed to confess and recognize Allah the most powerful and Allah has the supreme power. Mari kita & let us muhasabah & correct diri kita balik. Renung sejenak, take 5 kata orang Banjar untuk memikirkan tentang perkara ni.

Because of you @ Kerana engkau

A fisherman went for fishing at Danau Toba and after a few hours, he returned home and said to his children: ' Oh My children, because of my expensive fishing gear I've successfully caught a bucket of fish.Thank you my loveky fishing gear, Muah! I'm proud of you'

KATA-KATA HIKMAH, KELEBIHAN ZIKIR DAN SELAWAT KE ATAS NABI, SUNNAH…

1. Sesiapa yang berwuduk saat ingin tidur dan meminta supaya ALLAH berikan kebaikan dunia dan akhirat pasti akan di kabulkan – Tirmizi. Sunat tidur dalam keadaan berwuduk.
2. Sesiapa yang berselawat tidak kiralah banyak mana hitunganya setiap hari akan dapat keberkatandalam apa jua dengan syarat ia berusaha mencari keredhaanNya.
3. Sesiapa yang berselawat 41 kali sehari, insyaALLAH, akan dihindarkan daripada sifat tercela seperti hasad dengki, riak dsbnya dalam dirinya.
4. Berselawat 33 kali sehari dapat menjernihkan hati, mudah memahami akan sesuatu ilmu yang diajarkan, di samping beroleh ketenangan fikiran.
5. ALLAH akan hapuskan dosa-dosa kecil dengan kita mengamalkan berselawat sebanyak 11 kali tiap kali selesai menunaikan solat fardu.
6. Sewaktu menghadapi hidangan, Nabi membiasakan diri dengan mengambil makanan yang terdekat, kemudian baru di ambil hidangan yang lainnya sebagai simbolik kesopanan.
7. Amalkan membaca selawat sebanyak 1000 kali sehari, insyaALLAH akandi kurniakan kebijaksanaan pemikiran. Di samping itu berusahalah untuk menerokai pelbagai ilmu.
8. Sesiapa yang berniat mandi(untuk solat jumaat) kemudian pakai pakaian terbaik & wangian lalu solat jumaat, dosanya akan diampun hingga jumaat berikutnya-Ahmad.
9. Sesiapa yang mengamalkan berselawat 11 kali tiap hari, dengan izin ALLAH dirinya akan lebih dihargai oleh orang lain.
10. Uthman bin Affan riwayatkan bahawa Nabi SAW apabila berwuduk, beliau membasahi janggutnya-Tirmizi
11. Nabi tidak pernah mencela makanan. Jika baginda suka, dia makan dan sebaliknya beliau tinggalkan-Bukhari. Apatah lagi jika makanan itu pemberian orang lain.
12. Sahabat meriwayatkan: Aku lihat Nabi SAW makandengan 3 jari(ibu jari telunjuk & tengah)-Muslim. Jarang sekali beliau makan dengan 4 @ 5 jari kecuali ada keperluan
13. Menurut Sayyid Ahmad dahlan, sesiapa berselawat walau sekali pada malam jumaat, saat mautnya kelak akan dipermudahkan ALLAH seperti yang dihadapi oleh para nabi
14. Setiap penyakit ada penawarnya. Bacalah selawat tujuh kali pada air dan minum. InsyaALLAH, perut yang sakit atau memulas akan sembuh
15. Perbaharui wuduk tiap kali bersolat kerana padanya terdapat banyak fadhilat. Hadith: Sesiapa yang berwuduk dalam keadaan suci, ALLAH catatkan 10 kebaikan baginya-Abu Dawud.
16. Sesiapa yang mengamalkan membaca selawat tiga kali setiap selepas solat lima waktu akan dihilangkan kebuntuan fikiran dalam menghadapi apa jua masalah
17. Nabi SAW sering menghadap kekanan sedikit setelah solat berjemaah supaya makmum dapat melihat wajahnya. Sebaiknya imam berzikir dan doa seketika bersama makmum
18. Allah akan hapuskan dosa-dosa kecil dengan kita mengamalkan beselawat sebanyak 11 kali tiap kali selesai menunaikan solat fardu
19. Nabi tak makan sambil bersandar-Bukhari. Ertinya, baginda makan dengan duduk condong sedikit ke hadapan bagi elakkan dirinya terlalu kenyang & mudahkan penghadaman
20. Menurut Syihab Ahmad, sesiapa berselawat tiga kali tiap selesai solat subuh, Maghrib dan Isyak, ALLAH akan menghindarkannya daripada sebarang bencana
21. Nabi sering beristinsyaq air kedalam hidung dan menghembuskannya. Selain membersihkan, ia juga mengelakkan sebarang penyakit yang berkaitan dengan hidung
22. Setelah bersolat Nabi memohon ampun ( astagfirullahalaziim) tiga kali-Muslim. Dalam riwayat yang lain, Nabi adakalanya beristighfar 75 kali sehari
23. Sesiapa yang amalkan berselawat sebanyak 1000 kali tiap hari, ALLAH akan memeliharanya daripada sebarang ancaman musuh serta bahaya fitnah
24. Apabila Nabi tidur, ia dahulukan mengiring sebelah kanan – Bukhari. Dari segi kesihatan, cara berkenaan baik untuk jantung (yang berada di kiri badan) mengepam darah
25. Amalan berselawat secara teratur setiap hari mampu membersihkan kekeruhan jiwa, dipermudahkan ALLAH segala urusan dan mendapat keampunan daripadaNYA
26. Tika Nabi tidur, ia membaca surah Al-Ikhlas,Al-Falaq dan An-Naas lalu meniup telapak tangan serta menyapu keseluruh tubuh)mohon perlindunganNYA) – Bukhari
27. Membaca selawat 10 kali pada setiap waktu pagi dan petang akan memperolehi keredhaan serta dijauhkan diri daripada mendapat kemurkaan ALLAH
28. Wuduk dahulu jika ingin tidur sekalipun dalam keadaan junub. Nabi menyarankan, cukup dengan bersihkan kemaluan dan berwuduk tanpa perlu mandi wajib jika ingin tidur
29. Munurut As-Shawi, sesiapa yang membaca selawat secara rutin, akan terpelihara hatinya daripada gangguan serta tipudaya syaitan yang melalaikan
30. Silangkan kaki jika tidur di masjid. Hadith: Sahabat melihat Nabi berbaring di masjid dengan satu kakinya atas kaki yang lain (kerana bimbang terdedah aurat) – Bukhari
31. Sesiapa yang membaca selawat sebanyak tujuh kali selama tujuh Jumaat berturut-turut, ia bakal mendapat syafaat (pertolongan) daripada baginda SAW
32. Adakalanya Nabi SAW amat menyukai doa-doa yang ringkas (mudah) – Abu dawud. Baginda mementingkan kualiti doa itu sendiri dengan sedikit tetapi maknanya yang menyeluruh
33. Menurut Al-Hafiz Dimyati, sesiapa yang berhajat menemui Nabi SAW dalam mimpinya maka amalkan membaca selawat sebanyak 70 kali sehari
34. Setelah bersolat Nabi SAW mohon ampun (astagfirullahalaziim) tiga kali – Muslim. Dalam riwayat yang lain, Nabi adakalanya beristighfar 75 kali sehari

Maulidurrasul or Birthday of Prophet Muhammad Peace be Upon Him, Is it a day for rememberance?

First and foremost, I'm not an expert to comment on the topic, thus this is just my opinion and should not be used as reference. Any problem in regards to the topic, please kindly refer and ask any recognized Muslim scholars.

I start with the name of Almighty Allah and Allahummashollia'la Muhammad wa a'la alihi washohbihi wasallim and Oh Allah, all praises are upon Muhammad, his family and companions.


I grew up in a small town in Red Giant state called Sg. Big, which has sufficient facilities to supply for a few hundreds family in the surrounding area. It has a main mosque call Masjid Makmuriah and other small musolla or praying house in every small villages nearby. Sounds religious town isn't it? Yeah, the majority nearly 99% of the population is Malay and they all Muslim. Like in the book titled The Travels of Marco Polo said, if he managed to pass through my town, he surely will said " All the villagers are idolaters, they worship Mahomet(Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him)".I'm positive he will said so.



What is so special about Muhammad Peace be Upon Him? When I was 7, my parents bought a book titled Collection of Selawat of Muhammad Peace be Upon Him. Roughly the book contains 99 Selawat and their benefits to the life here and hereafter. After spending a few hours reading the book, I concluded and decided to at least recite a selawat a day, because by reciting once, Allah will do selawat upon us 10 times, by giving forgiving our sins, increases our good deeds and at least put us among people who love to praise His beloved prophet Muhammad Peacebe upon him. I as a stubborn boy at that time, knew that my ustazah at primary school always said a person who has committed a sin must repent, if not he will be burnt in the hellfire before being put into the paradise.


I will put the a story of hell and paradise in the future InsyaAllah. What do you think a cute little boy but stubborn and handsome like me will think? You don't know right unless I tell you but you can make an intelligent assumption like my lecturer always said.

If you do a committed a sin, you will be given bad deed but nothing given if it just an intention to do bad things. However if you performed a good things, you will be rewarded 10 good deeds. Mathematically, 10 good deeds minus 1 bad deed is equivalent to 9 good deeds, if 1 good deed neutralizes 1 bad deed. So, as a stubborn and a bit naugthy boy, I thought the rewards by reciting a Selawat is far too generous, and not included other type of Selawat which has hundreds to thousands good deeds given per recitation. This is definitely infinite generousity which of course it is from Allah Almighty, the King of the King.

Oh, I come back to my question in previous paragraph, as I remember(correct me if I'm wrong) when the first human, Prophet Adam 'Alaihissalam ate a forbidden fruit in the paradise, he was punished by Allah and was kicked out from the heaven to the earth. Everyday, he pray to Allah for forgiveness, but Allah ignored but oneday, which was 40 years later, suddenly by the permission of Allah, an idea just clicked in Adam's mind and he pray 'Oh Allah, forgive my sin by the blessing of Muhammad Peace be Upon Him'. Immediately, Allah granted his prayer and the sin was forgiven. Allah asked Adam, ' How do you know about Muhammad peace be Upon Him?'. Adam
answered ' I just remembered while I was walking in heaven, I saw Muhammad's name was located side by side with your name. So, I thought he must be special'. Allah replied: 'Muhammad is the last prophet from your descendent'.



Why Muhammad so special? As I remember, when Muhammad Peace be Upon Him was ordered to see Allah for determination of 5 praying times, he used a Buraq, heavenly flying horse to reached the highest layer of the sky. The Buraq itself was chosen thousand years before the birth of Muhammad Peace be Upon Him. As according to Muslim scholars, when Muhammad Peace be upon Him see Allah at that night of Isra' Mikraj, he entered the Arash of Allah with his daily shoes. My meaning of daily shoes is the shoes he use everyday. My point about the shoes is, We as normal(if you are normal) human being, when attending special occasion with so many protocols especially royal function, we ususally use special shoes, not our daily shoes. In the case of daily shoes belonged to Muhammad Peace be Upon Him, his shoes has the sweat and smell of Muhammad Peace be Upon Him' s foot(as we know all the excess or secretion came out from Muhammad Peace be Upon Him, are noble) and futhermore at that time he already made dakwah, asking the Arabs to worship none but the Almighty Allah only. Thus this made he himself who is already known as not just the Messenger and lover of Allah just noble, but even higher rank of noble class than that.Therefore his shoes is noble and can enter the 'Arash of Allah. Not our shoes you know. When the body Muhammad Peace be Upon Him bled,his companions will quickly rush to eat the blood as whose body contains the blood of Prophet Muhammad Peace be Upon Him will not be touched by the hellfire. When Muhammad Peace be upon Him performing an ablution prior to prayer, his ablution water which of course contains his sweat will be drank by his companions. There were so many stories about these. Please ask Muslim scholars.

Are you so special until the people around you will be competing to drink your sweat? Tell me if you got one today.

Have you ever heard saying about whoever practices the sunnah or daily practices of Prophet Muhammad Peace be Upon Him will rewarded a good deed as equal to syahid, who died in path of Allah or in another saying it is equal to 100 good deeds of the syahid, in which a syahid, will be enter the paradise easily without judgement?

So, from now onwards, I ask myself to recorrect whatever should be corrected in regards to the practices of the Sunnah, then I called Maulidurrasul celebration.

P/S: Dear English obsessed people, I'm sorry 4 my poor English..

Cellphones/Handphones bad to health???

Few years back in 1999,about 12 years ago, I still remember fresh in my mind, my humble, funny and down to earth physics teacher taught me about wave. He asked my class, what is wave? Then students had given a few answers, and then silence for few minutes. He broke the silence by saying ' All of you answers are almost correct', and he continued by saying actually wave is disturbance, then he repeated twice and he laughed. I was wandering what was so funny about wave.
Then I asked my classmate about his personal life history. My friend said my physics teacher was a brilliant and genius student who got scholared by government to study abroad in England in 1970s. He studied there until Phd(Physics) if I'm not mistaken but didn't finish it. Why? As according to my friend, while my teacher doing Phd, he was no more a practicing muslim. He almost become an atheist and overwhelmed by his studies. Oneday, a tabligh (Muslim preacher) guy came to him and asked him to go to the path of Allah. Started from that moment he realized he had deviated away from the Islam and later he decided to quit the Phd and returned to Malaysia with his Master qualification only . The reason why he gave up his Phd is remained his . Later I concluded that the reason of his laugh was related to his life as student. He taught us about the danger of wave used by handphone  back then, in which handphone was not popular and rarely seen used by people, and it was famous in 2000/01, about  1-2 years later when NOKIA 3310 hits the technolgy market. He said the wave used in handphone is almost similar to the wave used in microwave, thus our brain slowly will be cooked. Then he laughed again. We also laughed.

News 1

New Delhi, Feb 3: There have been numerous rhetoric doing the rounds on the ill-effects of mobile radiation for a while. The results are out and they are not pleasing at all. It has been found that radiation from mobile towers pose grave health risks including memory loss, lack of concentration and digestive disturbances. The fact was revealed by an Inter-ministerial committee formed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones.

If the damages are not lethal for humans, its even worse for birds and insects as well. The committee has attributed the radiation effects to the disappearance of butterflies, bees, insects and sparrows.

today's friday sermon talked about this....

If We had caused this Qur'an to descend upon a mountain, thou (O Muhammad) verily hadst seen it humbled, rent asunder by the fear of Allah. Such similitudes coin We for mankind that haply they may reflect. (21) He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the Beneficent, Merciful. (22) He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One, Peace, the Keeper of Faith, the Guardian, the Majestic, the Compeller, the Superb. Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him). (23) He is Allah, the Creator, the Shaper out of naught, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifieth Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise. (24)

English translation from http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/

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baca setiap kali sebelum solat







Surat Hud, ayat 56, baca setiap kali sebelum tidur dan selepas solat.






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Doa Naik Kenderaan @ When mounting an animal or any means of transport

Pagi tadi aku naik kereta pasang lagu Muse - Resistance, pastu tiba-tiba si isteri tanya " dah baca doa naik kenderaan belum?", Aku jawab : "dah, long version punya". So, this is the supplication taken from Hisnul Muslim Book. 

 

The Supplication :

7 REASONS WHY A SCIENTIST BELIEVES IN GOD

(This article of Mr A. Cressy Morrison, former President of the New York Academy of Sciences, first appeared in the "Reader's Digest (January 1948); then on recommendation of Professor C. A. Coulson, F. R.S., Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, was republished in the Reader's Digest November 1960) - It shows how science compels the scientists to admit to the essential need of a Supreme Creator.

We are still in the dawn of the scientific age and every increase of light reveals more brightly the handiwork of an intelligent Creator. In the 90 years since Darwin we have made stupendous discoveries; with a spirit of scientific humanity and of faith grounded in knowledge we are approaching even nearer to an awareness of God.

For myself I count seven reasons for my faith.

First:

By unwavering mathematical law we can prove that our universe was designed and executed by a great engineering Intelligence. Suppose you put ten coins, marked from one to ten, into your pocket and give them a good shuffle. Now try to take them out in sequence from one to ten, pulling back the coin each time and shaking them all again. Mathematically we know that your chance of first drawing number one is one in ten; of drawing one and two in succession, one in 100; of drawing one, two and three in succession, one in a thousand, and so on; your chance of drawing them all, from one to number ten in succession, would reach the unbelievable figure of one chance in ten thousand million.


By the same reasoning, so many exacting conditions are necessary for life on earth that they could not possibly exist in proper relationship by chance. The earth rotates on its axis at one thousand miles an hour; if it turned at one hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as long as now, and the hot sun would then burn up our vegetation during each long day, while in the long night any surviving sprout would freeze.


Again, the sun, source of our life, has a surface temperature of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and our earth is, just far enough away so that this 'eternal fire" warms us just enough and not too much! If the sun gave off only one-half its present radiation, we would freeze, and if it gave half as much more, we would roast.
The slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, gives us our season; if it had not been so tilted, vapours from the ocean would move north and south, piling up for us continents of ice. If our moon was, say, only 50 thousand miles away instead of its actual distance. Our tides would be so enormous that twice a day all continents would be submerged; even the mountains would soon be eroded away. If the crust of the earth had been only ten feet thicker, there would be no oxygen without which animal life must die. Had the ocean been a few feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have been absorbed and no vegetable life could exist. Or if our atmosphere had been thinner, some of the meteors, now burned in space by the million evey day; would be striking all parts of the earth, starting fires everywhere.


Because of these, and host of other examples, there is not one chance in millions that life on our planet is an accident.

Second:

The resourcefulness of life to accomplish its purpose is a manifestation of all-pervading Intelligence. What life itself is no man has fathomed. It has neither weight nor dimensions, but it does have force; a growing root will crack a rock. Life has conquered water, land and air, mastering the element,


compelling them to dissolve and reform their combinations.
Life, the sculptor, shapes all living things; an artist, it designs every leaf of every tree, and colours every flower. Life is a musician and has each bird to sing its love songs, the insects to call each other in the music of their multitudinous sounds. Life is a sublime chemist, giving taste to fruits and spices, and perfume to the rose changing water and carbonic acid into sugar and wood and, in so doing, releasing oxygen that animals may have the breath of life.


Behold an almost invisible drop of protoplasm, transparent and jelly-like, capable of motion, drawiug energy from the sun. This single cell, this transparent mistlike droplet, holds within itself the germ of life, and has the power to distribute this life to every living thing, great and small. The powers of this droplet are greater than our vegetation and animals and people, for all life came from it. Nature did not create life; fire-blistered rocks and a saltless sea could not meet
the necessarv requirements. Who, then, has put it here ?


Third:

Animal wisdom speaks irresistibly of a good Creator who infused instinct into otherwise helpless little creatures. The young salmon spends years at sea, then comes back to his own river; and travels up the very side of the river into which flows The tributary where he was born.


What brings him back so precisely? If you transfer him to another tributary he will know at once that he is off his course and he will fight his way down and back to the main stream and then turn up against the current to finish his destiny more accurately.

Even more difficult to solve is the mystery of eels. These amazing creatures migrate at maturity from all ponds and rivers everywhere - those from Europe across thousands of miles of oceans - all bound for the same abysmal deeps near Bermuda. There they breed and die. The little ones, with no apparent means of knowing anything except that they are in a wilderness of water; nevertheless find their way back not only to the very shore from which their parent came but thence to the rivers, lakes or little ponds - so that each body of water is always populated with eels. No American eel has ever been caught in Europe, no European eel in American waters. Nature has even delayed the maturity of the European eel by a year or more to make up for its longer journey. Where does the directing iruptilse originate?
A wasp will overpower a grasshopper, dig a hole in the earth, sting the grasshopper in exactly the right place so that he does not die but becomes unconscious and lives on as a form of preserved meat. Then the Wasp will lay her eggs handily so that her children when they hatch can nibble witliout killing' the insect on which they feed, to them dead meat would be fatal. The mother then flies way and dies; she never sees her young. Surely the wasp must have done all this right the first time and every time, or else there would be no wasp. Such mysterious techniques cannot be explained by adaption; they were bestowtd.

Fourth:

Man has something more than animal instinct - the power of reason.

No other animal has ever left a record of its ability to count ten or even to understand the meaning of ten. Where instinct is like a single note of a flute, beautiful but limited, the human brain contains all the notes of all the instruments in the orchestra. No need to belabour this fourth point; thanks to the human, reason we can contemplate the possibility that we are what we are only betause we have received a spark of Universal Intelligence.
Fifth:

Provision for all living is revealed in phenomena which we know today but which Darwin did not know - such as the wonders of genes. So unspeakably tiny are these genes that, if all of them responsible for all living people in the world could be put in one place, there would be less than a thimbleful. Yet these ultra-microscopic genes and their companions, the chromosomes, inhabit every living cell and are the absolute keys to all human, animal and vegetable characteristics. A thimble is a small place in which to put all the individual characteristics of two thousand million human beings. However; the facts are beyond question. Well then, how do genes lock up all the normal heredity of a multitude of ancestors and preserve the psychology of each in such an infinitely small space? Here evolution really begins - at the cell, the entity which holds and carries genes. How a few million atoms, locked up as an ultra-microscopic gene, can absolutely rule all on earth is an example of profound cunning and provision that could emanate only from a Creative Intelligence - no other hypothesis will serve.

Sixth:

By the economy of nature, we are forced to realize that only infinite wisdom could have foreseen and prepared with such astute husbandry.

Many years ago a species of cactus was planted in Australia as a protective fence. Having no insect enemies in Australia the cactus soon began a prodigious growth; the alarming abundance persisted until the plants covered an area as long and wide as England, crowding inhabitants out of the towns and villages, and destroying their farms. Seeking a defence, the entomologists scoured the world; finally they turned up an insect which exclusively feeds on cactus, and would eat nothing else. It would breed freely too; and it had no enemies in Australia. So animal soon conquered vegetable and today the cactus pest has retreated, and with it all but a small protective residue of the insects, enough to hold the cactus in check for ever. Why have not fast-breeding insects dominated the earth? Because they have no lungs such as man possesses; they breathe through tubes. But when insects grow large, their tubes do not grow in ratio to the increasing size of the body. Hence there has never beetn an insect of great size; this limitation on growth has held them all in check.
If this physical check had not been provided, man could not exist. Imagine meeting a hornet as big as a lion!

Seven:

The fact that man can conceive the idea of God is in itself a unique proof.

The conception of god rises from a divine faculty of man, unshared with the rest of our world - the faculty we call imagination. By its power, man and man alone can fmd the evidence of things unseen. The vista that power opens up is unbounded; indeed, as man is perfected, imagination becomes a spiritual reality. He may discern in all the evidence of design and purpose the great truth that heaven is wherever and whatever is; that God is everywhere and in everything, but nowhere so close as in our hearts. It is scientifically as well as imaginatively true; in the words of the palmist; The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.

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Studies Show Fajr Prayer is Healthy

 

 

By Karima Burns, MH, ND

"And He it is Who made the night a covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the day to rise up again" (Qur’an 25:47).

Certainly sleep is one of the blessings from Allah. At the end of a busy day a person looks forward to sleeping and regaining enough energy for the next day. Sleep is also important for good health and safety reasons. However, studies vary as to how much sleep is enough. Some studies claim 8-10 hours is a requirement for everyone. However, the Prophet Mohammad (saws) used to sleep very few hours in the night and used part of the night for prayer. Recent studies confirm that this may actually be healthier for some people.

Sleep is important for health and safety reasons. Lack of sleep can lead to mental illness, relationship problems, absence from work and even traffic accidents.

Researchers have found that people with chronic insomnia are more likely than others to develop several kinds of psychiatric problems, and are also likely to make greater use of healthcare services (Yang). Lost productivity due to sleepiness has been estimated to cost the national economy as much as $100 billion annually and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has estimated more than 100,000 auto crashes annually may be fatigue related (Yang). Because of this, some studies claim that 8-10 hours should be required for everyone. However, recent studies have confirmed what the prophet Muhammad did may be healthy for some people.

"…the Prophet slept for a part of the night, (See Fateh-al-Bari page 249, Vol. 1), and late in the night, he got up and performed ablution from a hanging water skin, a light (perfect) ablution and stood up for the prayer (Bukhari)."

Modern studies show that this may actually be the best advice for many people. In fact, many studies are showing that less sleep or even lack of sleep can be healthier in some cases.

A six-year study of more than a million Americans shows that a good night's sleep lasts seven hours. It also showed that people who sleep for eight hours or more tend to die a bit sooner. Study leader Daniel F. Kripke, MD, says,"You really don't have to sleep for eight hours and you don't have to worry about it. It is evidently very safe to sleep only seven, six, or even five hours a night (DeNoon)."

Kripke and co-workers analyzed data from an American Cancer Society study conducted between 1982 and 1988. The study gathered information on people's sleep habits and health, and then followed them for six years. Study participants ranged in age from 30 to 102 years, with an average starting age of 57 years for women and 58 years for men. In the study the death risk for people with too much sleep was 34% as compared to only 12% for those who slept 8 hours and only 22% for those who had too little sleep.

These findings are similar to those in the dietary realm that show that eating too much food is much more harmful than not eating enough (of course massive extremes such as starvation and not sleeping at all are not included in this discussion). Kripke even noted that, "For 10-hour sleepers, the increased risk of death was about the same as that for moderate obesity."

Some studies have even experimented with sleep deprivation to cure depression. Up to 60% of depressed people will show a 30% improvement after just one night awake, according to a review article published in the January 1990 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. People who feel the most depressed in the morning and improve later in the day seem to benefit the most from a night without sleep (Yang). However, keeping people up all night is not a long-term solution and researchers often found a relapse in people once they went back to "normal" sleeping hours.

Further research showed that one reason staying up all night worked was because sleep inhibits the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) that helps control our metabolism and, indirectly, our levels of energy. An estimated 25% to 35% of depressed patients have low TSH levels. Recent research has shown that while sleep inhibits the release of TSH, staying awake through the night and the early morning hours boosts it. This "new" scientific research is completely in accordance with the habit of the prophet (saws), which was to sleep shortly after Eisha prayer (earlier than most people sleep nowadays), and wake in the very early morning hours (sometimes as early as midnight) again to pray.

Ibn 'Abbas said, "The Prophet slept till he snored and then prayed (or probably lay till his breath sounds were heard and then got up and prayed)." Ibn 'Abbas added: "I stayed overnight in the house of my aunt, Maimuna, the Prophet slept for a part of the night, (See Fateh-al-Bari page 249, Vol. 1), and late in the night, he got up and performed ablution from a hanging water skin, a light (perfect) ablution and stood up for the prayer. I, too, performed a similar ablution, then I went and stood on his left. He drew me to his right and prayed as much as Allah wished, and again lay and slept till his breath sounds were heard. "

This is similar to the therapy given to depressed patients in Europe who are told to sleep early for a week, awake at midnight and then ease back into a "normal" sleeping schedule by waking a bit later each morning, but no later than sunrise (Yang).

If you already feel you don’t have enough sleep you may wonder, though how less sleep can make you feel better. Oftentimes sleep problems are related to sleep quality rather than length of sleep. Things a person can do to improve their sleep quality is: eat at least two hours before bedtime, change to healthier dietary habits, check with a doctor about possible sleep apnea, snoring issues, or TMJ, sleep on your side, avoid alcohol and sedatives, lose weight and find a comfortable mattress.

So how do you know how much sleep you need? Many people instinctively feel what is right for them. If you feel great after 7 hours, but feel tired if you get five hours or nine hours then you know that seven is your "ideal sleep" time. However, sleep requirements may also vary with life events. During travel or personal trauma or illness sleep requirements may increase.

John McDougal, author of several dietary books, offers a further distinction between people who need more or less sleep. He says in his book The Quick McDougal Cookbook, that healthy people usually need only 5-7 hours of sleep a night. This, in fact may be the reason many people think they need more sleep. Bad dietary habits can cause sleepiness. One such example is the heavy feeling one gets after eating a large meal or the drug-induced state that bread causes in some people. Dr. McDougal says that as long as a person is healthy they should need less than 8-hours of sleep. Medical science seems to be saying that if you need more that 8 hours of sleep you need to work on some dietary issues and strive to need less sleep. Even the prophet (saws) spoke against extremes in sleep deprivation and told men who stayed up all night for days on end praying, that they needed to moderate their habits and also get some sleep.

Sources:

• www.webmd.com

• Yang, Sarah. "Staying Up to Beat the Blues."

• DeNoon, Daniel. "Are you Sleeping Enough – Or Too Much?"

• Durgan, Amy. "Tips to Sleep More Soundly."

Doa Haikal

 

Sunnah potong kuku

Cara potong kuku mengikut sunnah:

Bermula dengan tangan kanan:
1-Jari telunjuk
2-Jari hantu
3-Jari cincin
4-Jari kecil

Kemudian diikuti dengan tangan kiri(tanpa memotong kuku ibu jari tangan kanan) 

5-Jari kecil
6-Jari cincin
7-Jari Hantu
8-Jari Telunjuk
9- Ibu jari tangan kiri 
10- Ibu jari tangan kanan

Ada yg mengatakan dari segi sains, amalan ini boleh mengawal tekanan darah & tahap gula dalam badan. Kebenarannya, Wallahua'lam. Yang penting ada berkatnya dan byk pahalanya dalam mengamalkan sunnah.
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