Cheetah memburu mangsa hanya ketika lapar dan untuk makan. Selepas memburu dan makan ia perlu berehat. Tenaga mengejar mangsa perlu dipulihkan. Untuk buruan yang sukar, mungkin ia berehat lebih setengah jam. Ia segera makan daging buruannya. Ia tidak makan bangkai. Ia tidak makan kulit, isi perut dan tulang. Ia memberatkan badannya untuk memburu. Gambar-gambar di bawah menunjukkan cheetah yang tidak membaham anak antelop, bahkan menjilat lehernya. Binatang tiada akal, tetapi ada fitrah kehidupan yang Allah jadikan untuknya. Sebuas-buas binatang liar dan secekap-cekap seekor cheetah memburu mangsa, ada masa untuk berehat dari mangsa.
Manusia adalah sebaik-baik kejadian. Ada akal. Ada agama yang menjadi petunjuk. Namun nafsu serakah menjadikan manusia lebih buas dari binatang cheetah-menerkam dan membunuh tanpa mengira ketika lapar, kenyang atau terlau kenyang. Bagi manusia beriman, cara makan cheetah boleh menjadi pengajaran kepadanya. Tapi bagi manusia rakus membaham harta syarikat, negara dan rakyat, memfitnah, merasuah dan menerima rasuah, lebih dahsyat dari seekor binatang buas!
(Bergambar): The Law Of The Wild says kill only when you are hungry
Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya ’s Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw:
“These three brothers (cheetahs) have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,’ he said. ‘On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together. ‘At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily’.”
These extraordinary scenes followed:
Sungguh, pada kejadian langit dan bumi itu dan isinya ada pengajaran buat ummat yang ada hati lalu menggunakannya,yang ada mata lalu melihat dengannya tanda-tanda kebesaran ALLAH,yang punyai telinga lalu mendengar kalimat-kalimatNYA dan mengambil peringatan-peringatan buat persediaan untuk hari besar yang akan menjelang tiba....semoga menjadi manusia yang mulia hatinya..~
Daripada Abu Hurairah r.a. beliau berkata, Rasulullah S.A.W bersabda: Sebahagian daripada keelokan seorang mukmin ialah meninggalkan apa yang tak berfaedah baginya.
Hadis Hasan, diriwayatkan oleh al-Tarmizi dan lain lain sedemikian
Antara pengajaran hadis ini termasuklah bagaimana seorang mukmin itu dianggap elok, indah dan berakhlak tinggi apabila dia melakukan perkara-berkara yang berfaedah dan meninggalkan perkara-perkara yang tidak berfaedah baginya.
Perkara yang tidak mendatangkan faedah atau tak bermanfaat ini, tidak semestinya terletak pada benda-benda yang haram sahaja, malah kita harus sedar tentang benda-benda kecil yang kita lakukan. Ada yang melaghakan, seperti berhibur secara berlebihan. Sebagai contoh di Youtube, berapakali kita tewas dengan menekan suggested videos yang dihidangkan untuk kita? Lepas satu video, ke video yang lain, dan sedar tak sedar, dua jam telah berlalu. Aduh~
Oooh, di Facebook, jejari menekan butang tetikus untuk melihat si fulan dan si fulan dan lain-lain. Kata Melayunya, jaga tepi kain orang. Mungkin apa yang bermula sebagai keprihatinan berevolusi menjadi si busybody. Astargfirullah~
Benar, untuk tidak gunakan teknologi yang ada, ibarat satu kerugian. Namun begitu, setiap sesuatu itu ada batasnya. ;) Majukan pemikiran kita, seiring dengan kemajuan teknologi. Jadikan ia platform untuk kita berjaya, bukan untuk kita jatuh kecundang. Ana yakin, kita semua punya kapasiti untuk melakukannya.
Sekiranya semua umat Islam meninggalkan perkara yang tidak berfaedah dan yang tidak ada kena mengena dengan dirinya, nescaya mereka mampu mencipta kejayaan dan kemajuan serta menghasilkan produktiviti yang berkualiti. Biarlah kata-kata ungkapan IHAB, "kewajipan itu lebih banyak daripada masa yang ada pada kita" berpatutan dengan tindak-tanduk kita. Kalau kewajipan bagi kita adalah untuk melakukan perbuatan sia-sia, tak ke sedih bunyinya?
Akhir kata, penulisan ini, pertamanya untuk ingatkan ana sendiri, untuk nilai semula dan sentiasa berfikir sebelum bertindak.
Bisikkan dalam jantung masing-masing:
"Adakah tindakan aku ini, akan jadi manfaat atau tidak?"
InsyaAllah, saya harini nak berkongsi sedikit berkenaan bab menderma darah.
Rasanya, ramai yang sedia maklum mengenai hukum menderma darah, iaitu sunat. Maka post ini akan memberi sedikit sebanyak input, bagaimana pandangan ulama' dan beberapa counter argument (hujah balas) ke atas isu ini, InsyaAllah :)
1) Syeikh Dr. Yusuf Al-Qardhawi
Beliau melihat menderma darah ini merupakan satu cara bersedekah yg cukup utama. Ini disebabkan disamping memberi, keperluan darah dikala kritikal membantu pesakit dan dapat menyelamatkan nyawa.
Dan barangsiapa yang memelihara kehidupan seorang manusia, maka seolah-olah dia telah memelihara kehidupan manusia semuanya. (QS. AL-Maidah: 32)
Siapa yang membebaskan seorang muslim dari bebannya di dunia, maka Allah akan membebaskannya dari bebannya di hari kiamat. (HR Bukhari dan Muslim)
2) Syeikh Husamuddin bin Musa 'Ufanah
Ulama' yg berasal dari Palestin ini melihat menderma darah itu sangat penting hingga sampai ke tahap fardu kifayah. Namun, beliau menolak konsep menjual beli darah (dan juga organ)
3) Syaikh Zaid Bin Muhammad Al-Madkholi
Beliau berpandangan selagi mana ia tidak menimbulkan kemudharatan pada diri si penderma, ia bukan perkara yang dilarang, malah mendapat pahala.
“Barangsiapa yang beramal dengan sebiji debu kebaikan maka dia akan melihatnya, dan barangsiapa yang beramal dengan sebiji debu kejelekan maka dia akan melihatnya” (QS. Az Zalzalah: 7-8)
Namun, beliau menentang sebarang penjualan darah dan meletakkan hukum haram dalam penggunaan duit yg diperoleh dala urusan jual beli darah.
Derma darah dan mahram
Mengikut perbincangan ulama', sesetengah daripada mereka bersepakat berkenaan konsep mahram itu jatuh pada 3 perkara sahaja; nasab (keturunan), mushaharah (pernikahan) dan radhaah (penyusuan). Maka pandangan yang mengatakan si penerima darah bertukar menjadi muhrim kepada yang menderma ditolak sama sekali. Ringkasan syarahan mengapa tidak disamakan derma darah dan penyusuan ibu adalah disebabkan darah dianggap sebagai medium pengantara di dalam sistem badan manusia (nutrient, oksigen dll.); berlainan dengan susu ibu yang menjadi darah daging kepada si peminumnya.
SLICE a carrot and it looks just like an eye, right down to the pattern of the iris. Its a clear clue to the importance this everyday veg has for vision. Carrots get their orange colour from a plant chemical called betacarotene, which reduces the risk of developing cataracts. The chemical also protects againstmacular degenerationan age-related sight problem that affects one in four over-65s. It is the most common cause of blindness in Britain. But popping a betacarotene pill doesnt have the same effect, say scientists atJohns Hopkins Hospitalin Baltimore
WALNUT BRAIN
THE gnarled folds of a walnut mimic the appearance of a human brain – and provide a clue to the benefits. Walnuts are the only nuts which contain significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. They may also help head off dementia. AnAmerican studyfound that walnut extract broke down the protein-based plaques associated with Alzheimers disease. Researchers atTufts Universityin Boston found walnuts reversed some signs of brain ageing in rats. Dr James Joseph, who headed the study, said walnuts also appear to enhance signalling within the brain and encourage new messaging links betweenbrain cells.
TOMATO HEART
A TOMATO is red and usually has four chambers, just like our heart. Tomatoes are also a great source of lycopene, a plant chemical that reduces the risk ofheart diseaseand several cancers. The Womens Health Study ” an American research programme which tracks the health of 40,000 women ” found women with the highest blood levels of lycopene had 30 per cent less heart disease than women who had very little lycopene. Lab experiments have also shown that lycopene helps counter the effect of unhealthyLDL cholesterol. OneCanadian study, published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine, said there was œconvincing vidence that lycopene preventedcoronary heart disease.
GRAPES LUNGS
OUR lungs are made up of branches of ever-smaller airways that finish up with tiny bunches of tissue called alveoli. These structures, which resemble bunches of grapes, allow oxygen to pass from the lungs to the blood stream. One reason that verypremature babiesstruggle to survive is that these alveoli do not begin to form until week 23 or 24 ofpregnancy. A diet high in fresh fruit, such as grapes, has been shown to reduce the risk oflung cancerandemphysema.Grape seedsalso contain a chemical called proanthocyanidin, which appears to reduce the severity ofasthmatriggered by allergy.
CHEESE BONES
A nice ˜holey cheese, like Emmenthal, is not just good for your bones, it even resembles their internal structure. And like most cheeses, it is arich source of calcium, a vital ingredient for strong bones and reducing the risk ofosteoporosislater in life. Together with another mineral called phosphate, it provides the main strength in bones but also helps to ˜power muscles. Getting enough calcium in the diet during childhood is crucial for strong bones. A study atColumbia Universityin New York showed teens who increased calcium intake from 800mg a day to 1200mg equal to an extra two slices of cheddar – boosted theirbone densityby six per cent.
GINGER STOMACH
Root ginger, commonly sold in supermarkets, often looks just like the stomach. So its interesting that one of its biggest benefits is aiding digestion. The Chinese have been using it for over 2,000 years to calm the stomach and cure nausea, while it is also a popular remedy formotion sickness. But the benefits could go much further.
Tests on mice at theUniversity of Minnesotafound injecting the chemical that gives ginger its flavour slowed down the growth rate of bowel tumours. GINGER STOMACH
BANANA (SMILE) DEPRESSION
Cheer yourself up and put a smile on your face by eating a banana. The popular fruit contains a protein called tryptophan. Once it has been digested, tryptophan then gets converted in a chemical neurotransmitter called serotonin. This is one of the most important mood-regulating chemicals in the brain and most anti-depressant drugs work by adjusting levels of serotonin production. Higher levels are associated with better moods.
MUSHROOM EAR
Slice a mushroom in half and it resembles the shape of thehuman ear. And guess what? Adding it to your cooking could actually improve your hearing. Thats because mushrooms are one of the few foods in our diet that contain vitamin D. This particular vitamin is important for healthy bones, even the tiny ones in the ear that transmit sound to the brain.
BEANSPROUTS - SPERM
The stir-fry favourite bears an uncanny resemblance to the images we see of ‘swimming’ sperm trying to fertilise an egg. And research from the US suggests they could play an important part in boosting male fertility. A study at theCleveland ClinicinOhioshowed that to make healthy sperm in large quantities, the body needs a good supply of vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant that protects cells against damage by harmful molecules calledfree radicals. Just half a cup of bean sprouts provides 16 per cent of therecommended daily allowanceof vitamin C for a man. It’s not just dad but baby too who could benefit. Bean sprouts are packed with folate, a vitamin that preventsneural tube defects, where the baby is born with a damaged brain or spine.
BROCCOLI CANCER
Close-up, the tiny green tips on a broccoli head look like hundreds ofcancer cells. Now scientists know this disease-busting veg can play a crucial role in preventing the disease. Last year, a team of researchers at theUS National Cancer Institutefound just a weekly serving of broccoli was enough to reduce the risk ofprostate cancerby 45 per cent. In Britain, prostate cancer kills one man every hour.
Hidup perlukan inspirasi untuk menjadi yang terbaik. Tidak kisahlah apa yang kita ingin jadi, yang penting kita BERUSAHA menjadi yang TERBAIK. Terbaik dalam BIDANG yang kita CEBURI.
Berusahalah menjadi terbaik
DOKTOR yang TERBAIK
DOKTOR GIGI yang TERBAIK
PILOT yang TERBAIK
PENIAGA yang TERBAIK
PENSYARAH yang TERBAIK
GURU yang TERBAIK
USTAZ yang TERBAIK
PELAJAR yang TERBAIK
dalam bidang kita masing-masing.
Kita mampu menjadi BAIK dalam semua bidang, namun MUSTAHIL kita menjadi TERBAIK dalam SEMUA bidang. Sesuatu yang BOLEH kita kecapi adalah untuk menjadi TERBAIK dalam BIDANG yang kita CEBURI.
NAMUNINGAT, tugas kita dua 1. Sebagai KHALIFAH (wakil Allah di muka bumi) - kita boleh pilih BIDANG apa kita nak FOKUS TANPA MENOLAK TEPI tanggungjawab KHALIFAH yang LAIN seperti tanggungjawab terhadap AGAMA (menegakkan hukum ALLAH), NEGARA, IBU BAPA, ANAK, SAHABAT, ANAK YATIM dan lain2 lagi yang menjadi tanggungjawab kita. 2. Sebagai HAMBA (Hamba Allah) - kita semua WAJIB menjadi hamba yang SOLEH/AH!! ia bukan satu bidang untuk dipilih-pilih.
Berbalik kepada berusaha menjadi yang terbaik. Hidup perlukan inspirasi untuk menjadi yang terbaik. Saya DEDIKASIKAN kisah INSAN yang BERJAYA menjadi yang TERBAIK dalam BIDANG PERUBATAN tanpa meninggalkan tanggungjawab2 yang lain sebagai KHALIFAH dan HAMBA kepada Allah.
Calls for protests in Syria are spreading on social media websites, following popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
Organisers say protests will be staged in front of the parliament in the capital, Damascus, on Friday and Saturday, and at Syrian embassies across the world.
Several pages have been set up on Facebook, with the most popular one, named "The Syrian Revolution", "liked" by about 13,000 people by Thursday.
However, many of those writing comments on Facebook appeared to be Syrians living abroad calling on their "brothers" at home to protest.
Sources in Syria told Al Jazeera they doubted that the calls for protests would really result in much action on the ground.
"I think the day of anger will turn out to be no more than a day of mild frustration," one journalist told Al Jazeera.
"There's no appetite for regime change in Syria as there has been in Egypt for a while. The president isn't hated as much as [Hosni] Mubarak, or seen as out of touch. Also, the local context is very different ... and the poverty rate is significantly lower than in Egypt."
Demonstrations planned
Organisers said demonstrations would be held in the Syrian cities of Damascus, Homs, Aleppo and Qamishli, and in countries including Canada, US, UK, Sweden and the Netherlands.
"For all the fine Syrians who live outside the Syria ... you can help your brothers in Syria by demonstrating in front of Syrian embassy where you live, the same day and same time," one post on Facebook read.
Fidaa Aldin Issa, a Syrian living in Sweden, said a number of activists, including himself, had found each other on Facebook and were now co-ordinating the protest plans. "It's an independent youth initiative, without any ethnic or religious group, or political party, behind it," he told Al Jazeera.
Activists say Syria needs
a 'day of anger'
"We're working 24/7, we're not sleeping, urging people in Syria not to be afraid. They're very scared of the state and the intelligence service. "We're trying through Facebook to break this fear, encouraging them to stage peaceful protests, without violence, even without badmouthing the president." Issa said he has contact with two people on the ground in Syria who are trying to mobilise people. "People in Syria are mistreated. The police is only protecting the elite. The state doesn't care about the unemployed and it has arrested many activists, just because they want to improve the country with means of democracy. There must be an end to this."
There were also reports that a pro-government demonstration would be held in Damascus to coincide with the other rallies. Facebook is officially blocked in Syria since November 2007. However, many young Syrians bypass the hurdle by using proxy servers and, in August last year, there were about 30,000 Facebook users registered in the country.
As unrest broke out in Egypt last week, web users in Syria said the government tightened its grip over internet access by increasing the number of blocked sites and chat services.
Syria's emergency law - in place since 1963 - makes demonstrations unlawful unless authorised by the government in advance. When protests occur, security forces move in to disrupt.
Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday that a group of 20 people dressed in civilian clothing had beat and dispersed 15 demonstrators holding a candlelight in Damascus on Wednesday in support of the Egyptian mass protests.
The police, who were present nearby as the incident occurred, failed to intervene, the US-based rights group cited one of the gathering's organisers as saying.
Earlier reports had said that police were beating the demonstrators.
Curbs on freedom
As in Egypt, government critics in Syria complain of corruption and limitations to political freedom and human rights.
"Syria's authorities detained political and human rights activists, restricted freedom of expression, repressed its Kurdish minority, and held people incommunicado for lengthy periods, often torturing them, during 2010", Human Rights Watch, the respected rights monitor, said in a report issued last week.
The official unemployment rate is around 10 per cent, but some analysts say as many as every fourth Syrian is actually without a job.
However, Syria has undergone significant changes since Bashar al-Assad became president after his father Hafez's death in 2000, including slowly opening up the economy.
"Despite all troubles here, I don't think and don't hope that Syria will be the next [country to see an uprising] for too many reasons. My country is still not ready for such an experiment and the president here is not really hated," one young Syrian told Al Jazeera.
In an interview earlier this week, al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that the ongoing protests in the region were ushering in a "new era" in the Middle East, and that Arab rulers would need to do more to accommodate their people's rising political and economic aspirations.
He said he would push through political reforms this year aimed at initiating municipal elections, granting more power to nongovernmental organisations and establishing a new media law.
However, he said stability and economy were higher on his agenda than political reforms.
"Reform in politics is important but it is not as important and urgent as the people waking every day and they want to eat, to have good health, to send their children to good schools. That is what they want," al-Assad said.
"I want to feel safe in my own country. That is my goal."
Domino effect ruled out
Al-Assad also told the Wall Street Journal that a domino effect with unrest spreading from Egypt and Tunisia to Syria was unlikely because his country is different.
"We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance."
But in a possible reaction to the the recent events in Tunisia, whose long-time president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was driven from power by unrest triggered partly by soaring prices, the Syrian government announced late last month that it had increased the heating oil allowance for public workers by 72 per cent to the equivalent of $33 a month.
Calls for protests in a number of Middle East countries are circulating on Twitter, including Yemen, February 3, Algeria, February 12, Bahrain, February 14 and Libya, February 17.
And that was the news on 4th February. What about now? Would there be no revolution for Syria? Watch this video.
Cheetah memburu mangsa hanya ketika lapar dan untuk makan. Selepas memburu dan makan ia perlu berehat. Tenaga mengejar mangsa perlu dipulihkan. Untuk buruan yang sukar, mungkin ia berehat lebih setengah jam. Ia segera makan daging buruannya. Ia tidak makan bangkai. Ia tidak makan kulit, isi perut dan tulang. Ia memberatkan badannya untuk memburu. Gambar-gambar di bawah menunjukkan cheetah yang tidak membaham anak antelop, bahkan menjilat lehernya. Binatang tiada akal, tetapi ada fitrah kehidupan yang Allah jadikan untuknya. Sebuas-buas binatang liar dan secekap-cekap seekor cheetah memburu mangsa, ada masa untuk berehat dari mangsa.
