Saturday, September 15, 2007

a GaL LikE heR...



Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils) – al Isra’

Sadaqallahul azim. Allah says the truth. Perlahan holly Koran itu ditutup dan tangan diangkat, putting al kitab on the side table next to her bed. Sebelah tangan lagi laju membuka ikatan telekung at the back of her head. Termenung memikirkan verse yang baru dibaca. Telekung dilipat kemas dan kaki berjalan menuju ke tingkap. One beautiful Sunday morning. Calm, peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. Yeah, another gift from Him to His creatures. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the world (alhamdulillahi rabbil ‘alamin), Allah is the greatest (Allahu akbar) and glory be to Allah (subhanallah).

Pandangan ditala pada kawanan burung yang terbang dan berkicauan. Tetiba teringat time a level. Heh, tersenyum sendiri. Tak sangka dah besar panjang, tak sangka jugak dah dewasa aka matured enough to think and to spill some words of wisdom kat kengkawan se-a level. Dan tak sangka jugak dah ade kawan jumped into a marriage. Tu semua kisah a level. Kisah yang tak seberapa panjang in proportion to her whole life but the period was long enough to make her understood the importance of friendship, a continuity to her comprehension since her secondary school. Masih sama, padanya kawan masih lagi seorang yang akan protect her friends from any danger not only in here but in the hereafter. Bukan takat berhuha-huha sesedap oren, gossiping every now and then, nak tau ni bf sape, sape minat kat sape or what top pop shows now on tv tapi kawan jugaklah yang bertanggungjawab bagi nasihat, kejutkan solat, ajak posa reramai dan jadi role-model untuk dia bangun solat malam.

Tapi tu time secondary school, phase of fully absorbing all the theories of friendship. Tak put the idea into practice lagi sebab dia yang paling nakal dan dia la yang paling banyak terima nasihat. Thanks to all her friends. And some more, itu masa kat sekolah agama, sekolah yang jarang ade social problems especially between the opposite genders, yang dah diajar since the very beginning the limitation in socializing dengan bebudak laki and the essential of covering the aurah and lowering the gaze. Yang rase secure je kalau tertido dekat waktu solat sebab ade je yang nak tolong kejutkan.

Confession: Memang naik pelik kene cultural shock, the first time she made her baby steps into new world. Weird feeling each time she saw the way boys and girls greeting, talking to one another. Rase macam baru sampai dari andromeda galaxy, everything so strange up to the point where she felt like “rerasa jpa marah tak kalau mintak nak buat a level back at her secondary school je.”

Heh, tapi sebab dah besar dan tak payah IQ up to 180 to know yang jpa takkan accept that one lame excuse jadi dia teruskan jugak la study kat situ. Dan mula belajar to put all the theories into practice, walau payah, tak larat, penat, malas. Dah kene fikir bebetul mane yang baik dan yang buruk. Dah tak de orang yang voluntarily nak bagitau. Dah tak de batch mates yang sibuk nak ambik tau kalau buat silap, dah tak de seniors yang nak ingatkan to keep the distance from this mushy-lovey-dovey creepy story of boys and girls. Kene aware sendiri time solat, dah tak de orang yang nak kejutkan bangun solat berjemaah reramai bile masuk je waktu. Gotta grow up mentally and spiritually. Dah tak boleh take things for granted and it’s definite.

A level-year indeed a big challenge to her mind and her soul. Dulu tak payah nak fikir sangat masalah couple2 ni sebab seniors kan ade, biar diorang yang advise bebudak ni, or others in her batch might lend hands as well to this matter.

Sekarang tak. Semua kene buat sendirian berhad. Belajar erti dakwah yang sebenar. Memang tak reti tapi kene gagahkan jugak. Walau memula malas nak ambik tau pasal gossips tapi lelama kene tau jugak, takut kalau gossips become reality maka kene la bertanggungjawab bagi nasihat supaya jaga hubungan. Jangan terlebih manis sebelum nikah. Belajar dan mengajar diri supaya jangan nak mematchmaking a.k.a gossiping kan anak dara dan teruna orang sesuka-suki takut lebih banyak fitnah, dosa dan maksiat. Takut jadi terlebih rapat orang yang digossip, sendiri tak tertanggung dosa and run out of pahala.

Dan belajar serta mengajar diri menjadi pemberi nasihat aka social psychologist aka public relation officer dalam bab2 yang dia sendiri pun tak berani nak venture tapi taram je bukak mulut sebab takut tak bagi nasihat jadi benda lain pulak.


Tergelak kecil sensorang tepi tingkap. Among the advices given was in promoting marriage to young couples. Kelakar sebab budget bagus je suruh orang kawin but indeed she was serious and always serious, regardless of the sayings, “jangan gunakan alasan agama untuk kawin, sebab niat nak cegah dosa tapi kalau dah tak completely prepared mentally, physically and spiritually nanti buat tambah dosa je lepas kawin.”

It’s true. Tapi macam mane nak cure orang yang tengah intoxicated dengan cinta jiwa raga bakul ni semua? Prevention hanya bagi orang yang tak penah involved dengan benda pelik2 ni tapi kalau dah termasuk dalam zone kehampagasan, susah nak tarik keluar melainkan dengan offering alternative which is “get married first before nak bawak anak dara orang ke hulu ke hilir.”

Yang penting, semua kene ambik responsibility. Jangan nak bab gossiping excellent, nak enjoining good and forbidding evil, bagi nasihat...penyegan. tapi bile things get worst, pandai pulak mengumpat dan menunding jari siap dengan geleng kepala.

“dah kawin ni kene la beringat, it’s like you are stealing some body’s son. Tak boleh nak buat bodo je. Get married to the son, buat dunno to the mum. Tak baik, jangan buat mertua sendirik terasa. takut dia rase kecik hati ko dah la ambik anak dia dari dia then tak nak pulak berbaik-baik dengan dia. Selalu2 la call her. Make her feels needed, wanted and accepted in your life. Make her feels the importance of her presence, how significant she is dan jangan memandai-mandai nak buat dia rase tersisih, terpinggir.”

Huh, sampai sekarang she got no idea, how in the world the words could simply come out from her mouth. Unpredictable sungguh mulut ni...

Happy Ramadan al mubarak to all Moslems around the world.

“O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,” – al Baqara (the cow) 2:183


2 comments:

kakkumei said...

nad..kita sokong!!!yeah!!!elakkan dating sebelum kahwin!!eh, sienkrutz okay kan?and club baru nama apa ek?hehe...

ayasofia said...

sientkrutz memang ok,gempak and mantap!chaiyuk!club baru nama NDWA.he...nak tau, ym nad.