Imam Al-Ghazali: The Alchemy of Happiness

Link to the pdf version of one of the chapters in Imam Al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum Al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences): The Alchemy of Happiness.

BBC Documentary 2011: The Life of Muhammad

Below is part 1 of Episode 1 (The Seeker) of the documentary. Follow the link to other parts.




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Below is part 1 of Episode 2 (Holy Wars) of the documentary. Follow the link to other parts.





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Below is part 1 of Episode3 (Holy Peace) of the documentary. Follow the link to other parts.

Bahagia vs. Sengsara

Kata-kata hikmah...

Diantara tanda-tanda kebahagiaan dan keberuntungan seseorang adalah:

1. Setiap kali seorang hamba bertambah ilmunya, maka dia tambah tawadlu' dan kasih sayangnya bertambah.
2. Manakala amalnya bertambah, rasa takut dan waspadanya bertambah.
3. Ketika umurnya bertambah, kerakusannya terhadap kehidupan dunia justru berkurang.
4. Setiap kali hartanya bertambah, bertambah pula kedermawanan dan pengorbanannya.
5. Juga setiap kali bertambah kedudukannya, bertambahlah kedekatannya dengan orang-orang dan bantuannya kepada mereka.

Sedangkan diantara tanda-tanda kesengsaraan seseorang adalah:

1. Setiap kali seorang hamba bertambah ilmunya, maka dia bertambah sombong dan sesat.
2. Manakala amalnya bertambah, dia kian berbangga diri, menghina dan meremehkan orang lain.
3. Ketika usianya bertambah, bertambahlah kerakusannya terhadap kehidupan dunia.
4. Setiap kali hartanya bertambah, ia semakin pelit dan sombang.
5. Juga setiap kali kedudukannya bertambah tinggi, ia semakin angkuh dan jauh dari manusia, serta bertambah sesat.

The Four Things...

The Holy Prophet (SAW) said:

Four things that make your body sick:

1. Excessive talking
2. Excessive sleeping
3. Excessive eating and
4. Excessive meeting other people

Four things that destroys the body:

1. Worrying
2. Sorrow (Sadness/Grief)
3. Hunger
4. Sleeping late in the night

Four things that dry the face & take away its happiness:

1. Lying
2. Being disrespectful / impudent (insisting on something wrong knowingly)
3. Arguing without adequate knowledge & Information
4. Excessive immorality (doing something wrong without fear)

Four things that increases the wetness of face & its happiness:

1. Piety
2. Loyalty
3. Generosity (being kind)
4. To be helpful to others without he/she asking for that

Four things that stop the Rizq (Sustenance):

1. Sleeping in the morning (from Fajr to sunrise)
2. Not Performing Namaz or irregular in Prayers
3. Laziness / Idleness
4. Treachery / Dishonesty

Four things that bring / increase the Rizq:

1. Staying up in the night for prayers
2. Excessive Repentance
3. Regular Charity
4. Zikr (Remembrance of Allah / God)

Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick on his coming to Islam

Christian Ministers convert to Islam

Dr. Jerald Dirks (Part 1 & 2):







Joshua Evans (Part 1 & 2):

Napoleon from the Outlawz on becoming a muslim

This is a brilliant session from The Deen Show. Napoleon was from the group Outlawz founded by the rapper Tupac Shakur in 1995. A must-see if you're interested in rap, hip hop, etc, and see what the message is from one of the industry's former rapper.

Dr. Jeffrey Lang: From Atheism To Islam (1/4)

This is the first ever video I saw on Brother Jeffrey Lang's talk. He is a Professor of Mathematics at a university in the United States. I stumbled upon this video after my Bapak gave me a link on a website that compiles a long list of western professionals who converted to Islam, people who are professors, doctors, etc. I saw a profile on Jeffrey Lang on that website that describes him as an American math professor who converted to Islam after reading a translation of the Quran.

I was immediately hooked on reading more about Jeffrey Lang's experience after listening to this video. Luckily, it turns out that he has written 3 books on Islam. The books are best-sellers. I've finished all 3 books with great satisfaction, and I'd say they have fundamentally changed my views and approach on being a muslim. Alhamdulillah. Thank you so much Brother Jeffrey Lang. May Allah bless you with the best in this world and in the hereafter.

The best thing about these books and about the talk below is his logical and rational approach on understanding Islam, seemed to be largely influenced by his background as a mathematician.

Honestly, I've never seen this rational approach towards understanding Islam and being a muslim. I think by far Jeffrey Lang has the best explanation on Islam and muslim from logical and rational perspectives.



Watch all 4 series on YouTube.

Dr. Jeffrey Lang: The Purpose of Life (1/7)

Watch through all parts 1-7 on YouTube.

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This is the best ever talk, by far in my opinion, on the purpose of life from an Islamic perspective. The talk summarizes the essence of Brother Jeffrey Lang's second book, Even Angels Ask.

The talk is about his analysis on the essence and fundamental message of the Quran from a highly rational and logical perspective. The arguments are almost highly mathematical in style, trying to uncover and decode the message embedded in the Quran, hidden among the stories, allegories, analogies, etc in all the Surahs in the Quran. The most important excerpts from the Quran that he uses to find its message is the story of the first man on earth, Adam, in Surah Al-Baqarah (2:30-38). To me, his extractions of the story is ground-breaking, fundamentally different from others, and essential to our entire understanding of what Islam is and what being a muslim is about.

Jeffrey Lang argues that the main essence of the purpose of life, from the perspective of Islam, as being told in the Quran, is that we humans have been given 3 things - intellect (or reason), choice (or freewill), and sufferings (or challenges) - on earth. These 3 things are essential to us to grow ourselves throughout our lives.

Jeffrey Lang argues that our growth, i.e. our development, is our main purpose of life on earth. This growth is important as a preparation for us to enter the next stage of our life - the hereafter. But most importantly is that what we grow into is what matters most. We have to grow ourselves to be closer to Allah by developing the qualities that make us better individuals. These qualities are defined by some of His attributes and virtues, e.g. Compassionate, Graciousness, Peaceful, Loving, Just, Truthful, Wise, Merciful, Patient. The source of all these good qualities come from God Himself. We thus grow ourselves to be closer to God by allowing ourselves to grow with these qualities, which means allowing ourselves to receive such qualities that originate from Him.

I'm giving one example of an ayat from the Quran that clearly states that one of these qualities come from God:

Act patience; your patience comes only from God.
Surah An-Nahl (16:127), Translation by T.B. Irving

It's also important to note that although we must grow into the qualities that define God's attributes, we can only approximate His virtues by a very small fraction, for Allah is the infinite source of these virtues, and none can compare to Him, and none can even come close to being His equals.

Jeffrey Lang gave some analogies in the talk to clarify why growing ourselves in these qualities allow ourselves to be closer to God. He gave examples that two people who are trying to get closer to one another gets closer through some shared or common interests. For example, if two people are trying to get closer intellectually, they would both have to have a common intellectual interest, e.g. math, science, etc. So, one builds a closer relationship with God by developing the qualities that originate from God.

However, Jeffrey Lang argues that these qualities don't come easy to use and cannot be programmed into us. We have to choose whether to grow with these qualities, or to grow with the opposites of these qualities (which inherently separates us farther from God). We are given the intellect to reason how we want to develop ourselves and we are given the environment that presents us the opportunity to exercise the qualities that we grow into. Some of these environments are sufferings. We face or see sufferings to help us develop these qualities. For example, we can develop compassion in ourselves when we have the opportunity to be compassionate towards people who go through some sufferings and thus need our help and compassionate act. We can learn to be more patient if we have gone through some rough ordeals in our lives which requires us to be patient when going through them.

In short, this Jeffrey Lang's talk is fundamental to our deeper understanding of what Islam is, about what our main purpose is in life as a muslim, about what the essence of our relationship with Allah is, and about what the essence of our relationship with other human beings is.

TED: Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf on Compassion

The Impact of Muslims on Western Civilization

Yesterday I went to a talk on the history and impact of Muslims and Islam during their Golden Age (circa 700 - 1200) on the western society who lived in their Dark Ages during those times. The talk is part of a 4-series talks organized by the British Muslim Heritage Centre in Manchester.

Overall, the talk was very good, especially informative. The lecturer was Dr. Salah Al-Djazairi from the University of Constantine Algeria. Very knowledgeable on Islamic and Western history - facts, dates, names, places pour out from his mouth just like waterfall.

I'm not going to jot down a long entry on this, just want to write out some of the essence of yesterday's talk so I won't forget them 20 - 30 years from now. These I think is very important and redefines and strengthens me as a Muslim positively.

1. Muslim empire was vast during these years and their civilization was entirely based on the culture of learning and teaching. There are vast numbers of learning centres throughout the empire - in Middle East, across North Africa, and in Spain.
2. Toledo in Spain during the 11th century was an important Islamic center for learning and translation into Latin. Many European and English scholars (when their societies were still living in the dark ages) visited Toledo and translated vast amount of Islamic work in Arabic into Latin and brought these manuscripts back to their places to start building centres of learning, imitated on the Islamic learning centres.
3. One of the famous western translator was Gerard de Cremona, an Italian. His entirely life was devoted to translating Arabic scientific literature into Latin.
4. The Muslim's contribution on Western society has been largely ignored, denied, weakened and reduced to just being a compiler of Greek work, translated into Arabic, then translated into Latin by Western Scholars that came to visit these Muslim cities, without original contributions from the Muslims. This is just a cover up. There were vast contributions from the Muslims on science and the approaches towards doing and learning science. The Greek's scientific method was largely based on speculative science, while the Muslims developed an entirely new approach towards science, one that relies on direct observation, experimentation, and hard evidence. The Islamic work on many scientific fields are far more advanced than those produced by the Greeks, even though many of the works were based on the works by the Greeks. There were many devices invented by the Muslims, unthinkable during the time of the Greeks.
5. Another accusation on the Muslims was that they were just copying works from different civilizations - Greeks, Hindus, Chinese - and translated them into Arabic. That's just what the Muslims did, or so they claimed. But that's not entirely correct. It's true that the Muslims went to all different places to collect and gather knowledge, but they synthesized and expanded the knowledge and made original and important advances from them.
6. The culture of teaching and learning - gaining knowledge, or ilm in Arabic - was very important to Muslim societies throughout its empire during the Golden Age. Scholars and students were celebrated in their quest for knowledge. Kings and rulers and wealthy individuals funded and supported these scholars and students and the madrasahs, mosques, and all centres for learning.
7. The main drive for the Muslims towards acquiring knowledge came from strong faith and believe in God. They put their total belief in Allah that they can achieve whatever they want to do. The Quran and Hadiths strongly stress the need to acquire knowledge on every individual to strengthen faith and believe towards God.
8. There were many internal conflicts and wars within different Muslim groups following its Golden Age. These internal conflicts weaken the Muslim civilization as a whole, opening up opportunities for western nations to divide and conquer them - the main one being the Crusades, a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns, waged by much of Roman Catholic Europe, particularly the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire. The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years, between 1095 and 1291 (more on the crusades in the Wikipedia).
9. Dr. Al-Djazairi found that in his research on the history of islamic contribution to the west, almost all of his reliable and accurate sources are from Western and Jewish scholars. Contributions on this topic from Islamic scholars themselves are almost none existent.

TED Video on Reading the Quran

Al-Quran: No Compulsion in Religion

"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in God has grasped the firmest handle which will never break. And God hears and knows all things."

- Al-Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (2/256)

Al-Quran: On Reason

"Do not follow blindly any information of which you have no direct knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception) you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord, you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning"

- Al-Quran, Surah Al-Isra' (17/36).

Some other stuff E says or asks

I forgot when E said these things, but within a couple of months to a year ago. So these were about when E was 4+ y.o. I better jot them down now before I forgot about all these things later on when E got older.

Why People Die?

We were looking out our kitchen window when there were some huge march in front of our house. They were marching towards a nearby Sikh's temple for a funeral. The march were huge, I mean really huge with horse carriage carrying the casket, 3 large luxurious buses, 10 extra-expensive black Mercedes and BMWs. I guess the guy/gal was some really important person in their community.

So E asked,

E: What's happening out there, B?
B: Somebody just died. They were bringing the body to their special place.
E: Why did he die?
B: I think maybe he's really old. When people get really old, one day they will die.
E: Everybody will die when they got old?
B: Yes E. Everybody will die when they got old.
E: Are you and M going to die when you got old?
B: Yes. But don't worry. We are not old yet. It will be along long time before we got old.
E: Then I don't want you to get old yet. Because if you are old and you die, I will be alone and nobody will take care of me. I will be all by myself and I will be sad then.
M: Don't worry E. When we are old long time from now and we die, you will become big like me and you will marry and have children so you won't be alone.
E: So I will have children like me when I get bigger?
M: Yes. And you will take care of them so you won't be sad and be all by yourself. But it will be a long long time from now before we get very old. So you don't have to worry.

(After a moment of pause)

E: B, why do people die?

I was like, damn, how do I answer this question. It's not an easy one. Probably one of the toughest one considering you have to explain it to a 4 y.o., and make them understand realistically, than just tell them so bogus stuff that's not true or make up some stupid excuses to avoid the question.

After some thinking, I then thought I've got a perfect answer that tops it all. We're muslim and I've told a few things about Allah the Almighty and that He's the God and that He's the one that we pray to if we need help. So I said:

B: Everybody will die when they become old because we will go to see Allah. That will be a good thing and we will go to a beautiful place if we always pray to Allah. So we don't have to worry.
E: Then I don't wont to see Allah because I don't want to die.

Me and M were loughing out loud, not that it was funny, but because the logic follows perfectly and it was just something totally not right to say but a perfectly innocent thing to say by a 4 y.o.

Me and M were just clueless what to say next. We simply said that it's not good to say that and that E will learn more about it as E grows. But honestly, it wasn't really a good answer because we didn't have a good one based on reason and logic that'll make her understand more. We don't want to simply just give a factual answer without E seeing the logic clearly. That won't help E much.

Some people with our faith might say that we should be firmer to correct the answer by E and tell E right off that that's a wrong thing to say and that the truth is bla bla bla. But the thing is, I think, there's no point to come straight out about the issue with a kid that age. Their brain develops in phases and that it's best for them to learn complex and abstract concepts gradually. That way they'll understand better.

If you just tell them straight out about this fact and that fact and except them to take it as it is, it might seem that you've done your job. But it might make things worse. You limit their ability to reason and just force them to memorize this and that or to just take 100% of whatever you say as true. If you keep doing this on and on to them, there's a big chance that they'll just become another person that have the ability to absorb anything they hear, but don't really have the capacity to exercise their brains to think logically and rationally. I don't want to do that to them!

Okay, another group of people might say that there are things you can use your rational thinking and there are things that you just have to take it as it is. The issue of religion and believe in God for example. You might say that it's best to keep reasoning in these matters limited, because to much logical thinking would lead to disbelief or blasphemy and you might say: "just look at them western people and Darwin theory that says God doesn't exist". So you say: "just follow the experts and don't ask too many questions!"

I only have 2 things to say about this:

Point #1:

We're human and we're different from the rest of the living things in the world because we have brains with the capacity to think, to reason, to rationalize, and to make sense of our senses. If you're a man of faith, then you should believe that the brains are there for a reason. Ultimately, we should be responsible on how we use our brain in believing what we believe in. There's a powerful quote on this issue:

"Do not follow blindly any information of which you have no direct knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception) you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord, you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning" - Al-Quran, 17/36.

Point #2:

If you say just follow the right people and stop asking questions, then who's to say who's right? On the issue of religion, if you're born in Saudi you might be a Muslim; if you're born in UK, there's a chance you're a Christian; if you're from Israel, big chance you might be Jewish; born in India, maybe you're a Hindu, and so on and on. So, what's the end of this then, if you blindly follow the 'right' people, which depends on who you are, where you're from, what school you go to, who your parents are, who your friends are, etc etc etc?

The thing is, I think you do have to develop some capacity of rational thinking. Rational thinking doesn't necessarily mean not believing in God simply because we can't see Him. The fact is that what we can really see using our eyes is an immensely small scope of the reality. Our visible light (electromagnetic EM wave) extends from only 400 to 700 nanometer of wavelength, but the whole EM spectrum goes far beyond what we can actually see; the wavelength goes from 0.0000001 nanometer to 100 000 kilometeres.

Plus, those who don't believe in God says that everything that they know about science in the universe tells them they shouldn't believe in one. Especially those guys who think too much of Darwin (guys like Richard Dawkins who's real expertise is more on manipulating words than about molecular biology or genetic evolution). The fact is that what we know about science (if we combine all those knowledge and all the people on planet Earth know) is only a small part of the reality of the entire universe that we can see. The fact is, a large part of what we don't know amounts to more than 95% of the entire universe (70% of them are dark energy and 25% of them are dark matter, which we don't know anything about, even the smartest guy you can find in the world). Imagine that, everything that we ever know about the universe, everything that we ever can see, even with the most sophisticated scientific device ever built, is only about 5% of the entire universe.

So with all that 5% that all the smartest people in the world ever know, how can you let people tell you that God doesn't exist? To the guys who proudly claim that they are atheist simply because all the facts in the world tell them that that is so, their case is even more pitiful than the case of a kid who says that a rainbow is a stairway to the sky. Not knowing so much about the science of rainbows, a kid would innocently say things that they've heard somewhere. But, not knowing that there's only 5% of the entire universe that they know (if they somehow have the capacity to absorb and understand all the scientific knowledge ever produced by man), a proud self-proclaimed intelligent atheist (the likes of Richard Dawkins, again) would write hundreds of books telling people there's no logic in claiming that God exist.

I've read books by atheists that claim that belief in God is absurd because it needs a leap of faith, which contradicts logical reasoning. The fact is, knowing that we only know at most 5% of the entire universe, not believing in God is as much as a leap of faith as believing in God is.

Also, if you still think that science is not compatible with faith, just go around and pick up some books about all that you can think of or doubtful about. Top of the list would be the Darwin theory of evolution - pick up a couple of books about it and try to see for yourself what arguments do they actually have that makes people conclude that Darwin theory makes religion obsolete. Pick up also books written by scientists (e.g. Collins or Denton) on the complexity of our DNA and genetic make-up and how they lead to faith in God (faith in specific religion is a different matter and now what I'm trying to point out here). Read both sides and form your own opinion rather than just follow what people say. Also read good books by scientist that writes about faith (e.g. Jeffrey Lang).

For the fun of it, read also books by prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins to see their side of views and find out for yourself that their arguments are extremely weak and childish and circulatory, relying so much on building people's hatred towards faith by showing extreme examples (or even badly simplistic hypothetical case) rather building up their case clearly and rationally on established scientific grounds. Even worse, his scientific background itself is not strong enough for him to make a case for Darwin theory against faith. If he's some kind of prominent molecular or DNA scientists, maybe you could give a thought or two about the things he has to say about evolution.

The thing is, if your doubtful or curious about something, build up your stand by first building up your knowledge about it, reading different sides of views, pros and cons. If you're just building your stand based on what other people say about this without really looking deeper into it, then you don't really have much to say about it.

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Man, I've been babbling for close to two hours now. Better stop now...

On the isue of using "Allah" in Malaysia...

I found commentaries by Marina Mahathir to be the most apt in what our response should be on this issue.

Excerpt from Marina Mahathir in The Malaysian Insider:

While some idiots are mourning over the “loss” of the word “Allah” and therefore basically telling the world that they are people easily confused by nomenclature, and others are predicting riots over what is basically a “copyright” issue, let me define what I think a confident Muslim should be:

1. A confident Muslim is unfazed by the issue of God's name. God speaks to all of humankind in the Quran and never said that only Muslims could call him by the name Allah.

2. A confident Muslim has 99 names to choose from to describe that One God. My favourites are Ar-Rahman (The All-Compassionate) and Ar-Rahim (The All-Merciful).

3. A confident Muslim never gets confused over which is his/her religion and which is other people's. For instance, a confident Muslim knows exactly what the first chapter of the Quran is. And it's not the Lord's Prayer.

4. A confident Muslim will not walk into a church, hear a liturgy in Malay or Arabic where they use the word “Allah” and then think that he or she is in a mosque. A confident Muslim knows the difference.

5. A confident Muslim is generous, inclusive and doesn't think that his or her brethren is made exclusive through the use of a single language. The confident Muslim is well aware that in the Middle East, all services of ANY religion are in Arabic because that's what they all speak.

6. A confident Muslim knows the basis of his/her faith are the five pillars of Islam and will not be shaken just because other people call God by the same name.

7. A Muslim believes in only One God. Therefore it makes sense that other people should call God by the same name because there is no other God.

ART THOU NOT aware that it is God whose limitless glory all [creatures] that are in the heavens and on earth extol, even the birds as they spread out their wings? Each [of them] knows indeed how to pray unto Him and to glorify Him; and God has full knowledge of all that they do: (Surah Nour, Verse 41) (Asad).

So I would ask those people demonstrating against the court decision, have you no pride? Are you saying you're easily confused?

One of the biggest idiot refererred to in her article must obviously be Khir Toyo per his comment in The Malaysian Insider. Touche...

Good scholarly books on Abrahamic religions

About the author of these books, Dr. Laurence Brown:

A product of Christian-American ancestry dating back to the year 1677, up until his conversion to Islam in April of 1994, Dr. Brown easily could have passed as an example of a man who lived the stereotypical American dream. A graduate from two Ivy League universities with subspecialty training in ophthalmology, Dr. Brown served as a respected ophthalmologist in the U.S. Air Force for a period of eight years.

Midway through his Air Force career, Dr. Brown's ‘ideal American family' included a wife, two children, and the requisite two cars and a dog. His country home was crowded with the full array of comforts and toys which clutter the lives of those preoccupied with materialism. Yet Dr. Brown ended up sacrificing virtually everything he had worked for when he faced a religious conviction that overturned his lifelong priorities. Following a personal miracle through which the life of his daughter was saved, Dr. Brown redirected his focus to religious study in an attempt to make good on a promise made to God. In the process, Dr. Brown followed the chain of revelation through the Abrahamic religions from Judaism to Christianity and, in the end, to Islam. It is the result of that study that he relates in this series of thought-provoking books. In the same manner that Dr. Brown's choice of religion confronted his slice of the American dream, so too do his religious conclusions challenge the Western religious establishment.

Laurence Brown received his B.A. from Cornell University, his MD from Brown University Medical School, and his ophthalmology residency training at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC. His immediate family presently consists of his wife, three daughters, and an ever changing assortment of parrots and hamsters.

He's written a number of well-researched books about Islam, Christianity, and Judaism - specifically on the continuity of their revelations and the differences/similarities between these three Abrahamic religions. A must read-read for all who's a genuine seeker of truth. More about these books on his website: www.leveltruth.com.

4 Perkara Yang Perlu Diingati

Telah bersabda Nabi Muhamad SAW yang maksudnya:
"Ada empat perkara yang berharga dalam diri manusia dan dia boleh hilang dengan empat perkara juga".

Adapun yang berharga itu ialah - Akal, Agama, Malu dan Amal soleh.

1. Akal boleh hilang disebabkan marah.
2. Agama boleh hilang disebabkan dengki.
3. Malu boleh hilang disebabkan tamak.
4. Amal soleh boleh hilang dan terhapus disebabkan suka menceritakan keburukan orang lain.

Manusia akan menghadapi empat penarikan antaranya:

1. Malaikat pencabut nyawa akan menarik rohnya.
2. Para ahli waris akan menarik hartanya.
3. Ulat akan menarik tubuhnya.
4. Orang yang dimusuhi @ dianiayai akan menarik barang kepunyaannya di hari kiamat iaitu AMALNYA.

Dari Ali r.a yang bermaksud: Sesungguhnya amalan yang paling sulit adalah empat macam:

1. Memberi maaf pada waktu marah.
2. Suka memberi pada waktu susah.
3. Menjauhi yang haram pada waktu sunyi.
4. Mengatakan yang hak kepada orang yang ditakuti atau kepada orang yang diharapkan sesuatu darinya.

Dari Hatim Al-Asom yang bermaksud: Empat perkara yang hanya diketahui oleh empat jenis orang akan nilainya iaitu:

1. Nilai masa muda hanya diketahui oleh orang tua-tua @ orang lama).
2. Nilai kedamaian hanya diketahui oleh orang yang pernah ditimpa bencana@musibah.
3. Nilai kesihatan hanya diketahui oleh orang-orang sakit.
4. Nilai kehidupan hanya diketahui oleh orang-orang yang telah mati.

Nabi S.A.W bersabda yang bermaksud :
Ada 4 di pandang sebagai ibu iaitu:

1. Ibu dari segala UBAT adalah SEDIKIT MAKAN.
2. Ibu dari segala ADAB adalah SEDIKIT BERCAKAP.
3. Ibu dari segala IBADAT adalah TAKUT BUAT DOSA.
4. Ibu dari segala CITA CITA adalah SABAR