013-1e The Cave 18:46 Better Source of Hope

Translation, Commentary & Explanation of Chapter 18 Al-Kahfi.


The meaning of Verse 46


Wealth and children are the decorations of life in this world.
But consistent good deeds and right actions,
are far better in the eyes of your Lord
and a far better source of hope.


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Imam Jalalain commented that :-


Examples of good deeds are remembering GOD by reciting


"Subhallah wal hamdulillah wa laa ilaaha illallah wallahu akbar
wa laa haula wa laa quwwata illaa billaahi"


which means,


"Glory to ALLAH and all praises to ALLAH
and there is no god other than ALLAH
and ALLAH is the GREATEST
and there is no capability
and there is no strength
other than with (the help of) ALLAH"


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Harun Yahya eloborates that lasting right actions are defined as good and beneficial deeds that comply with the Quran's morality and are pleasant to ALLAH


These consistent actions are signs of patience, devotion and seriousness in religion.


The intentions of these right actions must purely be for the sake of gaining the pleasure of ALLAH.


If there are other intentions along with them,then they are not the right actions.


The same is true for charity. It must only be for the sake of GOD and not to impress people or for recognition [or for rebate in Income Tax].


These actions must be consistent, and not just on the spur of a moment. For example, charity, in the form of zakat (taxes on wealth) must be contributed annually.


All these right actions are for the benefits of each individual and does not at all affect the Power and Greatness of GOD.


Even if there is no one performing them, GOD will not lost his respect and power.
And if everyone perform these right actions, GOD will not become greater than before.


GOD is always GREAT at all times.

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My Observations


GOD is the RICHEST.


HIS RICHNESS will never be reduced, when HE rewards all HIS creatures,
and will never be increased, even if all HIS creatures submit to HIM.


Our sincerity to ALLAH will benefit other creations. If we are not sincere doing things for the sake of GOD Al-Mighty, then, our actions will cause damages to other creations.
That is why sincerity for the sake of gaining GOD's pleasure is important in religion.

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Nietzsche talked about GOD

Now the bookworm is looking into the book of a Philosopher who is confused and not able to look at religion from a wider scope other the religion that is around him.


I always thought a philosopher has a wide spectrum of knowledge but this one proved my thought is wrong. Read on to find out why......

Let us deal directly to the core of his thoughts - Part Three : The Religious Nature

His incapabability to understand GOD's word in the Scriptures and Holy Book he blamed on GOD. Anyway, he was talking and complaining about only one Holy Book.

You and I know there are 4 major Holy Scriptures, viz.

The Old Testament for Moses,

The Psalm for David,

The New Testament for Jesus and

The Quran for Muhammad.

There are small booklets revealed to Abraham.

They are all men of GOD, i.e. The Messengers of GOD, The Prophets.

In a nutshell, this philosopher thought he was the most knowleageable person on Earth.

Despite declaring himself as a philosopher, he failed to understand the philosophy of sacrifice that GOD wanted.

That is to sacrifice our ego. To tell the world that we are nothing and GOD is EVERYTHING.

All of us and the things on this Earth are created by THE GOD.

Once again allow me to elaborate that in Arabic THE GOD is pronounced as ALLAH, where;

AL means THE

ILLAHU means GOD

When these 2 words are put together, in Arabic grammar, it is pronounced as ALLAH, with the sounds of "I" and "U" unheard.

This is the most wronglful and stupid thing to do; that is to sacrifice GOD.

GOD don't need us.

Wether we worship HIM or not has no impact on HIM.

GOD don't need this world and its contents.

If all creatures on this Earth do not worship or do not listen to HIM, also has no effect on HIM.

He created all of us on this Earth and wanted us to worship HIM is for our own benefits.

We should sacrifice ourselves for GOD. And sacrifice does not always means to kill the living bodies.

This sacrifice is abstract, that is, to kill our pride, our stubborness, our ego, our stupidity and all that we say what we are.

The Truth is that we are all nothing and worthless.

Nothing else matters except THE GOD.

If you have GOD in your heart, you have everything and you don't need anything else.

Let us all strive to bring THE GOD in our hearts and our lives.

012-1e The Cave 18:43-45 = Life is like rain

Translation, Commentary & Explanation of Chapter 18 Al-Kahfi (The Cave)



The meaning of Verse 43



And he did not have anyone that can help him other than The GOD, at the time when his garden was destroyed. And he will never be able to defend himself or protect his garden.



The meaning of Verse 44


There in the Hereafter the only help is from The GOD, The Truth. HE is the best in giving rewards and benefits.





The meaning of Verse 45


Give them methapor or example of the life of this world. It is like rain water that WE send down from the sky, which was absorbed by the plants and they grow vigorously.




But over time, the plants become dry and turn into hay or straw, and they become worthless and are blown by the wind all over the place.


And GOD has absolute power over everything.



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Imam Jalalain commented that :-


This verse is telling us that this world is like flourishing plants, which over time will become dry and turn into worthless hay.

Is This life a Shakespeare's Play ???

Do you know who Russell is?

Have you heard about him?

No no no I do not mean Kurt Russell the Actor, but Bertrand Russell the 20th Century Philosopher cum Mathematician.

Probably he was a student of Einstein or the other way round.

To Pacify Our Stressful Life

Have you try to find this book, Muhammad by Karen Armstrong, in the bookstore?

Not yet?

Can't find it?

I found it at Jurong Point 2. A medium size bookstore infront of NTUC 24hrs Fairprice Hypermart.

Well let's continue , a little bit more to fish your interest to buy it and keep it for future reading.

I would like to invite you to start reading this kind of philosophical and religious book, as it can help us to pacify our stressful life.

UEFA 39 - Unexpected European Far-flung Adventure

UEFA = Unexpected European Far-flung Adventure

Sorry no pictures for the early part of this trip. As we were moving too fast rushing to go to Amsterdam.

The next Unexpected European Far-flung Adventure was in 1996 (UEFA1996).

Frankly speaking, the unexpected far-flung adventure which happened in March 1996 was engineered by my dear wife. She made all the preparations and the money-saving strategies.

It was a flight to-and-fro Sin-Lon-Sin via Royal Brunei, which I remembered was about S$800.00 per person. We did not join any travel group or holiday package. We went on some kind of a bag-pack plan.

As usual I was the route planner and transportation. From previous experience, I found that the Euroline bus service would be a good alternative to trains. I read about it extensively, and was confident about its reliability.

Euroline is available at Victoria Bus Terminal in London.

From the Heathrow Airport we took the tube to Gloucester to meet my niece, Riny, who was studying there is London. She stayed in Gloucester. It was a very short meeting, as we were in a hurry to catch the Euroline bus to Amsterdam.

Although it was a short meeting but I was happy that we could made contact although, she was from Malaysia, and we were from Singapore, but we met in Gloucester, England. Ain’t that some kind of an achievement.

From the eyes of a Bookworm

If you are so bored then its time to read something serious. This one is a contribution from a bookworm. A bookworm's view is heavier than the bird's eye view, becos, worm has no eyes.

Birds are so light that they can fly, while Worms are so heavy that they sink in the earth. That's why his view is always heavy metal type.

This particular bookworm like Russell very much, becaos of the mathematical interest. All mathematicians are like brothers.

When this bookworm is so hungry he goes feebling other books for some different taste. The one shown below is quite Nietzsche (pronounce as 'nice')