or maybe ignorance? or the meaning is the same? ;P
I hope you guys are open to my opinion. Sorry if i offended some of you but this entry is for my fellow muslim friends.
I don't know where are we heading now, our culture and society are getting worse and worse these day and the norm are well the norm are just bloody sad. One of the things that often pissed me off is the malay like myself who consider them muslim, drink the alcohol in front of their fellow muslim member without any sort of shame or guilt. Call me culture shock or what i don't care but its just wasn't pleasant in my eyes.
I remembered one day i saw this two malay teenage boys went to a shop to buy their drink. The sells girl refuse to sell it because of the law. Then the boy just couldn't stop nagging the girl shamelessly and kinda blackmailing her. It was really awkward and i respect the girl for holding her ground until those LAHANAT give up. I don't know what is in their mind and the lifestyle that they are living but its just sad.
I also remember discussing this matter with a friend who is also a muslim and sadly they end up telling me that he taught that i was open minded because i used to live in the UK and change their mind. WHAT? Well the drinking culture are indeed a norm over there but that doesn't mean Its okay for a muslim to do it. What are you thinking man?
I also once get into this awkward situation where a friend of a friend which i think is also a muslim(atheist?) and i think knows that I'm also a muslim start to open a topic about drinks and stuff since he knows that i used to live in UK. I was like WTF, WTF is in their mind. Just because i used to live there that doesn't mean i live like them. Well, I got my boundary. How short sighted is these people with their so called 'civilized' lifestyle or mind? Real world is 'eff'ing pissed me off.
I don't know their lifestyle, maybe it is from the peer pressure and surrounding or maybe they want to blend in to a certain group of people or maybe they are BOLD or curious? well...shyness is a bless from god then.
I can adapt or pretend that its alright to do it to not offend them but how about ME? They are bloody offended me and Islam... Should i just carry on? Hell no, this is wrong man what the hell is wrong with our society here in Malaysia.
Now the recent news:
Kartika Sari Dewi, seorang model sambilan dari Singapura telah di’jatuhkan hukuman enam sebatan (Aduh, sakit!) oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah, di sini semalam selepas mengaku salah meminum minuman keras di sebuah pusat hiburan di Cherating.
“Mahkamah tidak ragu lagi menjatuhkan hukuman ini selepas tertuduh sudah membuat pengakuan bersalah dan selepas meneliti hujah pendakwaan selain berdasarkan dalil bagi hukuman berkenaan, maka sebatan wajar dikenakan mengikut enakmen ini.
“Malah, hukuman sebat ke atas tertuduh bertujuan untuk memberi keinsafan dan pengajaran kepada semua pihak supaya tidak mengulangi perbuatan itu,” kata Hakim Datuk Abdul Rahman
Aktiviti Kartika Sri Dewi khabar’nya dikantoi baik oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang (Jaip) ketika satu serbuan dibuat di kelab malam Cherating. Satu pengajaran epik buat anda, jangan buat benda haram.
That should teach her a lesson.Its obvious that alcohol give you more harm than goods but we people are just weak and ignorance...
“O you who believe intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), and gambling … are an abomination of Shaitan’s (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful. Satan wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from As-Salat (the prayer). So will you not then abstain?” (5:90-91)
The latest developments in medical science have proved the consumption of alcohol and narcotics to be a social evil causing great harm not only to the society but also to human health. If we look into the expenditure incurred on drinks (intoxicants) in European and American countries we get an alarming figure of thousands of millions of dollars. France has the highest alcohol consumption. Frenchmen consume 200 million liters of alcoholic beverages every year.
Alcohol makes the man unstable and creates multifarious problems. It breaks the family ties and brings about a complete disruption in family life. The man under its influence fills the destructive bowl, gets excited with an urge to commit crimes and does not hesitate to commit adultery, incest and fornication.
Alcohol abuse presents the society with a staggering bill. In the US, somewhere between $25 billion to $40 billion are lost in terms of labor productivity, treatment and welfare. (Koffend 1979)
In 1979, the World Health Organization in a report stated that alcoholism is becoming a major problem in developing countries. In Zambia and Venezuela the abuses of alcohol are linked with increasing crimes and is the major cause of road accidents. In South Africa, 75 percent of the population is affected directly with adverse affects of alcoholism. In US, 40 percent of all road accidents are due to alcohol abuse and alcohol accounts for 50 percent of criminal arrests.
Man is a social animal. He is superior to animals by virtue of his mental faculties. If these faculties are impaired, he will act like an animal. Alcohol and narcotic drugs impair the higher centers of the brain with the result a man loses judgment, intellect, learning reason, memory and orientation. The lower centers of the brain are freed from the inhibiting influence of the higher centers causing excitement and animalistic behaviors. Owing to this, the intoxicated person behaves recklessly and become loquacious and loses self-control, totters and is led by evil desires to commit crimes.
The following are the bodily harms or diseases of alcoholism observed by the medical science.
- Peripheral Neuritis, i.e. numbness and weakness in nervous system.
- Wernicks Encephalopathy, causing the disturbance in consciousness and neurological problems.
- Korsakoffs Psychosis i.e. impairment of memory delusion.
- Delirium Tremens. The alcoholic is confused, restless, misidentifies people and places and has severe tremor.
- Cerebella degeneration.
- Alcoholic gastritis causes heartburn, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting.
- Pancreatitis. It may result into hemorrhage resulting in death.
There are some other sever diseases like cardiomyopathy abnormality of the rhythm of the heart and beri beri heart disease etc., etc.
The above facts make it crystal clear that alcohol and narcotic drugs not only take away the hard-earned money of the people but also their intellect and health and leave them worthless. Caliph Omar was wise when he prayed in earlier 7th century for the ban saying intoxicants take away the money and the intellect. Allah the Omniscient, the All-Wise Who cares for the welfare of his bondmen banned intoxicants and delivered them from the pernicious evil.
Now in 20th century all the sensible world is making a lot of hue and cry to stop alcoholism only to learn that it is reaching epidemic proportions.
It is Islam which tackled all social evils and crimes and devised ways and means to save humanity from the menace of narcotics and alcoholism. ENDS.
Quoted this from the science and quran site
Just think about it. Every rules that god made are for a perfect reason.
Now think about BABI and H1N1. I remember one of my teacher in Scotland who asked his student "who doesn't eat pork?" and i was the only student who raised my hand up since i was the only muslim in the class and to my amazement he also raised his hand and explain about the worm living inside it and cooking the pork still wouldn't kill the creature. That's why if you notice the polka dot in the skin for those who eat pork are resulting from the worm. Remember Japanese encephalitis and now H1N1.
An artwork from my friend, Rizal
To me, people who doesn't believe in god is the most ignorance living creature on earth. Look at everything around you. Look at your face at you eyes and your gender for instance. Things are perfectly design, there's balance for everything, there is connection in everything so you can learn from it. The matter which exists, some of it you can't see it but you can feel it in your heart. If there is one, there must be zero. Male, female. Black and white. Good and bad you see? PERFECT! This can't be happen by chance as the theory of Darwin stated. To me, adaptation on the anatomy and the feature to the surrounding of the creature that had been design is what we can take from it but design, NEW DESIGN, different design is another thing. Monkeys and us is TWO DIFFERENT DESIGN GOD DAMN IT!! WAKE UP PEOPLE !!...well Arctic Monkeys is a metaphor ;P
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