Ini adalah Abang Long Fadzil, bekas gengster Singapura…beliau telah memperoleh hidayah dengan memilih jalan dakwah sebagai perjuangannya..
Sesungguhnya Hidayah itu milik Allah..
Lokasi: Forum Mega Pajak Song, Masjid Al jalal Pajak Song, Kepala Batas, P. Pinang
Source: Taiko Tai
I have seen opposition supporters trying to put a positive spin on the by-election.
Honestly, whichever way you look at it, it was quite a disaster (but not an unexpected one) for the SDP and Dr Chee. This was a by-election, not a general election, so there was a greater chance for him. He was up against a minority candidate. And it was an SMC.
If he could not get more than 40% of the votes considering these factors, honestly, he’d probably find it hard to win in any other contest.
Perhaps then it is time for Dr Chee Soon Juan to consider stepping down. He can help build the SDP, but maybe, his time with regards to contesting elections should be up.
Of course, it is easy for me to say all these. I am not the one who has fought my entire life against all odds, just for what i believe in. So i may not feel the need to hold on as much as him.
As for our friend Ah Mu, congratulations are due. But more than that: scrutiny should also be applied. His attendance record in Parliament, the amount of time he spends in his constituency (visiting homes just during election period is not ‘walking the ground’), the promises he made during hustings: all these should be looked at closely by Bukit Batok residents and Singaporeans in general.
And a word on race: Ah Mu, it is hard enough for minorities as it is, so when someone who is as successful as you feels a need to be known via a Chinese name, it really does tell the rest of us that perhaps, being sinicized is a prerequisite for success. So please, Ah Mu and future minority candidates, bear this in mind.
I want to say that elections should henceforth be based on contests of ideas, and not personal attacks, but Singaporeans have shown that personal attacks are rewarded. So my point on this would be moot.
Source: Walid J. Abdullah
They were to be married today.
But instead of having cherished memories of her big day, Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha is left to reflect on what might have been – and to wonder about the circumstances in which her beloved was so cruelly taken away from her just days earlier.
Her fiance, Mr Noor Helmee Roslan, a 23-year-old Malaysian working in Singapore, suffered severe head injuries in an accident on the Seletar Expressway (SLE) last Friday.
A day later, Miss Khairunnisa, also a 23-year-old Malaysian, had the heart-shattering experience of seeing him being taken off life support and then laid to rest.
After The New Paper tracked Miss Khairunnisa down, she said in a phone interview from her family home in Johor Baru (JB): “I cannot believe that the love of my life was robbed from me mere days before the wedding. He is irreplaceable.”
Her first clue that something had gone very wrong was when one of Mr Helmee’s colleagues, whom she had never met, went looking for her at her mother’s food stall in JB at 5am that day.
He had photographs of Mr Helmee’s accident.
In between audible sobs, Miss Khairunnisa said: “Helmee would always message me once he reaches his workplace in Singapore – normally at about 4.30am. I waited and waited that morning, but there was no message from him.”
Mr Helmee, a bus driver with SBS Transit, lived in JB and was riding his motorcycle to work on the SLE when a car hit his bike from behind at about 3.40am, flinging him onto the road.
With little inkling how the collision had occurred, Miss Khairunnisa went to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, accompanied by a friend, and was told that her fiance was unconscious in its intensive care unit (ICU).
“I was shocked when the receptionist told me that he was in the ICU. When I saw the pictures, I didn’t think the accident was that bad,” she said.
Miss Khairunnisa was then told that Mr Helmee had been taken to the operating theatre.
“I just sat outside and broke down, I was really afraid to lose my fiance,” she said.
Four hours later, she was finally allowed to see Mr Helmee.
SPEECHLESS
“I was speechless when I saw him. He was all wired up and his face was so swollen I could hardly recognise him.”
Doctors warned her that Mr Helmee’s chances of waking up were slim and that even then, he might have suffered full memory loss.
Clinging to hope, Miss Khairunnisa, Mr Helmee’s mother and his sister, 22, remained outside the ICU in case he woke up.
“I kept thinking about things I could do to refresh his memory. I thought of pictures that I could show him to remind him of our love when he woke up,” she said.
That moment never arrived.
They had met through her younger sister and were five days from their second anniversary of being together when the accident happened.
“We dreamed of having a big family. He wanted to have many sons, enough to form a soccer club.”
Hours later, doctors informed her and his family that he was brain dead.
“My mind went blank in that instant. I had been focusing on the possibility of him waking up. I would cry every time we spoke to doctors as it was never good news,” she said.
That night, Mr Helmee’s family decided to take him off life support so as not to prolong his suffering.
“I told his mother that the choice of whether to take him off life support is all hers and I’d respect her decision,” said Miss Khairunnisa, choking back tears.
“Hearing the long, dreadful beep of the heart monitor was the most difficult moment of my life.”
Mr Helmee’s body was taken back to JB and buried on Sunday.
Since then, Miss Khairunnisa has had to deal with the cancellation of their wedding and planned honeymoon. But she could not bear to call the 500 invited guests with the bad news and asked her mother to help her with that.
Miss Khairunnisa said she will eventually donate his bridal gifts to her – a watch, a pair of shoes and a prayer mat – to charity, but for now, they give her some solace.
She said: “Helmee was honest, loyal and compassionate. His last words to me, the day before the accident, were that I was his last love, and he could never love somebody else.”
Mr Noor Helmee Roslan, 23, was on his way to work when his motorcycle was involved in an accident with a car.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the accident on the Seletar Expressway at 3.40am last Friday.
Mr Helmee, a bus driver with SBS Transit, shuttles between Johor Baru and Singapore for work, and the journey takes an hour each way.
The rear tyre of his motorcycle was stuck under the car after the collision and he was flung onto the road, reported Lianhe Wanbao.
Mr Helmee’s body was covered in blood and he had severe head injuries. He was conscious when an ambulance took him to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, said SCDF.
Police investigations are ongoing.
His fiancee, Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha, 23, told The New Paper that she has no idea how the collision that killed Mr Helmee could have happened.
She is hoping that witnesses will come forward.
“I just want to find out what happened. There is an empty hole in my heart now because we did everything together, including shopping for groceries,” she said, choking back her tears.
Anyone with information can call the police hotline on 1800-255-0000.
Mr Noor Helmee Roslan and his colleague would have been brothers-in-law had he not died after the accident.
The colleague, who wanted to be known only as Mr Arif, told The New Paper that he was supposed to marry Mr Helmee’s sister two weeks after Mr Helmee and Miss Khairunnisa Illyasha’s wedding.
He said: “My fiancee had insisted that we get married after her brother, none of us expected any of this to happen.
“Helmee’s family is still in shock. Our families are not discussing our wedding for the time being.”
“I lost a good friend and a future brother-in-law, but my grief is nothing compared to his family’s. I just want to do my part and be there for them.”
Ms Tammy Tan, the senior vice- president of corporate communications at SBS Transit, said that the company is “deeply saddened” by the death.
She said: “In the one year that he was with us, we have known him as a happy and joyful individual, who got on well with his colleagues.
“He was a good bus captain and we will miss him. We have extended our deepest condolences to his family and are rendering assistance as best we can.”
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
First of all, it goes without saying that every committed Muslim is supposed to pay his parents, especially his mother, due respect. One should try to show dutifulness to one’s parents, even if they happened to be non-Muslims, let alone being Muslims. What Islam goes against is to imitate non-Muslims by marking a special occasion such as celebrating the Mother’s Day in a way that shows that mothers do not deserve due respect and care save on this very day. If we are going to make the whole year a Mother’s Day, then Islam welcomes celebrating the occasion with open arms.
Indeed, Muslim scholars have maintained various opinions regarding the issue. Here below we will attempt to furnish you with Juristic views as regard this issue:
First of all, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, states:
Dutifulness to parents, especially the mother, and treating them kindly is an act of worship enjoined in both the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Being dutiful to parents is not confined to a specific time. It is an obligation that should be observed every time, as all people commonly know.
Yet, the Mother’s Day, as it’s known nowadays is a Western habit. The Westerners specified a day and called it the Mother’s Day. On that day sons and daughters show gratefulness to their mothers and offer them presents. It has become part of important feasts in the West, whereas we Muslims have no other festivals except the Lesser and the Greater Bairams. Any other celebrations are deemed mere occasions or anniversaries; and this is applied to the Mother’s Day.
The Mother’s Day implies paying more attention and exerting more effort in expressing gratitude to mothers. So there is nothing wrong in that.
However, there are two reservations worth mentioning; first, considering the Mother’s Day a feast; second, confining the task of showing dutifulness to mothers to that specific day, giving implication that throughout the whole year, just only one day is for showing love to parents. If such two anomalous points are addressed, then there is nothing wrong in considering the Mother’s Day a chance to give more care to mothers.
Thus, we may take the Mother’s Day as a chance to lay more emphasis on our duty towards our mothers, as Islam enjoins us, because dutifulness to parents is a genuine Islamic teaching. But Muslims, in doing that, should never deviate from the Islamic teachings, they should do things in Islamic manners, not in Western manners. Hence, they would not be imitating the non-Islamic habits of the West.
Hence, viewed in juristic perspective, we can say that celebrating the Mother’s day is controversial among the contemporary scholars. While a group of them consider it haram (unlawful) as a kind of blind imitation of the Western non-Islamic habits, which have no benefit for Muslims, another group see it halal(lawful) on condition that showing gratitude and dutifulness to parents should not be confined to that day only.
Moreover, the well-known erudite scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi states:
The Arabs tend to blindly follow the Western in their celebration of the Mother’s Day, without trying to understand the wisdom behind inventing such an occasion.
When the European found that children do not deal properly towards their parents nor give them their due right, they resorted to specifying an annual occasion for children to remedy the situation. But in Islam, mothers are to be given due respect and love every time, not only one day a year. For example, when one goes out, he kisses one’s mother’s hand seeking her pleasure and blessing.
A Muslim must not allow any gap between him and his mother, he must offer her presents every time. This indicates that Muslims can dispense with such an occasion, the Mother’s Day. Unlike the case in the West, where it’s a vogue for some children to show indifference to their mothers’ feelings, and, what’s more, it is so common to see some parents being dragged to infirmaries (as their kids have no time for them), dutifulness to parents in Islam, alongside with worshipping Allah, is a sacred duty.
In this concern, Almighty Allah says: (And We have commended unto man kindness toward parents. His mother beareth him with reluctance, and bringeth him forth with reluctance, and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months, till, when he attaineth full strength and reacheth forty years, he saith: My Lord! Arouse me that I may give thanks for the favor wherewith Thou hast favored me and my parents, and that I may do right acceptable unto Thee. And be gracious unto me In the matter of my seed. Lo! I have turned unto Thee repentant, and lo! I am of those who surrender (unto Thee).) (Al-Ahqaf 46:15)
Reflecting on the aforementioned Qur’anic verse, we find it stressing both parents’ right, but reviewing the following verses we find them paying special care to the mother and tackling the hardships she suffers in pregnancy, fosterage and rearing children.
In this verse, Almighty Allah informs man of the debt he owes his mother since he was a fetus, passing by the process of childbirth, infancy, childhood until he comes of age. A child normally forgets the hardship which his mother underwent during pregnancy. Hence Almighty Allah draws his attention to such hardships, laying emphasis on her great status in Islam.
Finally, Dr. `Abdul Fattah `Ashoor, professor of Qur’an Exegisis at Al-Azhar University, concludes,
Holding celebrations in honoring others and commemorating anniversaries are neither feasts nor Islamic. But one may seize any chance to express gratitude to those who deserve it. This is how we should consider the Mother’s Day. The mother has a special place in the Islamic culture, and all other civilized cultures. So it is something good to do anything to please her and show gratefulness to her.
So dedicating a day to showing good feelings towards parents, especially the mother, is by no means blameworthy as it does not contradict the Islamic teachings, nor can it be merely considered a form of joining the Western vogue of making celebrations. Conversely, it is a kind of devotion to Allah’s orders that we should be dutiful to our parents.
Allah Almighty knows best.
Source: www.onislam.net
All the kidney patient wanted was a drink from the vending machine.
She ended up getting into a fight for her handbag that contained the last $50 she had for the week to feed her two sick sons.
The robber was too strong and made off with her bag after a short but violent struggle.
She was left with a sprained arm and an anxious wait of several days for her salary to come in so she could put food on the table for her family.
Madam Jurina Johari, 42, has been a kidney patient for 25 years.
The part-time assistant pharmacist was on her way home from work when she felt thirsty.
She stopped to buy a drink at a vending machine at Block 512, Wellington Circle in Sembawang at around midnight on April 24. She was retrieving the can when she felt a violent tug.
Speaking to The New Paper last Thursday from her one-room rental flat, the mother of two sons, aged 21 and 22, said: “I was flung around. I managed to only catch a glimpse of the robber.”
She said she suspected the robber was a man in his 20s.
Madam Jurina said: “I held on to it (bag) as tightly as I could because the money in my bag was all I had. I didn’t want to let it go.”
A male passer-by, who was walking home with his mother, also gave chase, but he was too late as well.
Madam Jurina made a police report the next day and wrote to TNP to highlight the incident.
She said: “I was trembling. Everything happened in less than a minute.”
Madam Jurina, who is in the process of finalising her divorce from her husband of nearly three years, also lives with her mother, 60, who is diabetic and has heart problems.
Choking back tears, Madam Jurina said: “When I lost the money, I felt like I failed as a mother to put food on the table for my children.”
STRUGGLE
Madam Jurina has been struggling with chronic kidney disease since she was 17 – she had her right kidney removed eight years later.
Her older son, Mr Muhammad Shafiee Junadi, who is waiting to enlist into national service, was diagnosed with mild chronic kidney disease when he was an infant.
He has been a part-time mover after graduating from the Institute of Technical Education two years ago.
Said Madam Jurina: “He gets sick easily, so I was worried that he took on such a labour-intensive job.
“But he assured me the daily pay will allow him to support himself, so I’m just glad.”
She added that Mr Shafiee would at times complain of aches and pain near his left kidney, but the family cannot afford to seek treatment at the hospital.
“Medication for the four of us can amount to more than $1,000 a month.
“So we visit the doctor only when one of us is really sick. Otherwise, we just try to bear the pain,” said Madam Jurina.
“After I was robbed, Shafiee gave me $50 and told me to buy groceries. So I cooked one dish, reheated it for two to three days before cooking again.”
She said the money lasted her till she received her salary on April 28.
Madam Jurina’s younger son, Mr Muhammad Shahirul Junadi, was diagnosed with autism when he was one.
He attends the Goodwill, Rehabilitation and Occupational Workshop at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore (CPAS) from 10am to 4pm on weekdays.
The workshop provides vocational training and sheltered employment for adults aged 16 and above with cerebral palsy and other associated disability conditions.
When Madam Jurina called out to Mr Shahirul, he responded with a bright smile before lunging into her arms.
Planting a kiss on Mr Shahirul’s forehead, Madam Jurina said: “I couldn’t work full-time because there must always be someone to take care of him. So when my mother is sick, I have to take some time off work to help.”
SOCIAL AID
The family has also been receiving monthly food rations such as rice, biscuits and tinned food from the Lee Foundation through CPAS.
A Ministry of Social and Family Development spokesman said Madam Jurina’s mother, Madam Saminam, was provided with ComCare’s cash assistance, as well as support for water and electrical bills, from November 2015 to January 2016.
Representatives from the Sembawang grassroots group told TNP they are looking at how they can provide further assistance to Madam Jurina and her family.
Still traumatised by the incident, Madam Jurina raised her concerns about the groups of men seen drinking and hanging out at her void deck every weekend.
TNP spoke to 10 neighbours, who shared the same concern.
One of them, Madam Sheela Singh, 65, who goes on regular walks around the neighbourhood with her wheelchair-bound husband, said she has seen the group of men get rowdy at times.
“They will sit in groups of seven to eight people and drink. Especially on weekends, they can be quite noisy and usually leave the place in a mess,” said the retiree.
Another neighbour, Mr Norjohan Buniran, 43, a security guard, added that the problem has not improved since he moved in six years ago.
He said: “I have daughters, so I’m very worried about their safety. That’s why I don’t allow my children to play at the void deck.”
Madam Jurina said she is now more careful when she walks home at night after work.
“Even the idea of going to the shop at night scares me. I hope this incident will be a lesson to not only myself, but other residents as well to be more vigilant,” she added.
A police spokesman said investigations are ongoing.
“Medication for the four of us can amount to more than $1,000 a month. So we only visit the doctor when one of us is really sick. Otherwise, we just try to bear the pain.”
“When I lost the money, I felt like I failed as a mother to put food on the table for my children.”
– Madam Jurina Johari
The Singapore Police Force website listed some measures residents can take to avoid falling victim to snatch thieves.
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Source: www.tnp.sg