Salaam Brothers & Sisters, how's your fasting and ibadah this Ramadhan? Hope everything goes well for all of you. Alhamdulillah, i wish all of you the best and my prayers for you that you'll be better Muslims than you are in the previous Ramadhan.
As for me, lot things have happened around me, though it doesn't involve me, but it does effect me spritually and emotionally. It is not easy working in a mosque. It requires lots and lots of patience, the challenges and obstacle that you’ll face here is double than what you get outside. This is truly based on my personal experience. Well, an Ustaz ever told me this “Wan, as we are moving closer to our Creator, the test is greater, go through each test with lots of patience and iman, trust me, you’ll grow to be a better Muslim.”
Working in a mosque does open my eyes to see and experience myself how working with the community is like. Not everything about working in the mosque is bad; there are lots of great and wonderful things to talk about too.
First Day:
First Day of Ramadhan, everyone came into the office, quiet, restless, weak and sleepy. Just two hours sitting and working on the desk, you can see everyone trying hard to keep themselves awake, putting a toothpick in between the eyelids might help i guess, hehehehe, in the end, hmmm whats wrong in taking a 5 minutes powernap, hehehe yeah rite, and some even took 15minutes. Who? Ok ok, it’s me, I admit. Heheheh……
The volunteers are busy preparing Ramadhan porridge for the jemaah. This year En-Naeem is giving away four huge pots of porridge!! And like many other first day of Ramadhan, everyone would be rushing to get porridge from mosques till its very last drop. So, usually by 5.30pm, there’ll be no more porridge left.
So, one 'pakcik' (uncle) came to collect porridge, too late that is, only to be greeted by four empty pots. We apologise and told him to come another day, and we told him to come earlier. He got so frustrated and said this "I've been regularly donating to the mosque, can't even get a packet of porridge!" Astarghfirullah....... So are you expecting something in return for every cents you donated the mosque or what! What a comment!
Zakat Fitrah :
As for me, lot things have happened around me, though it doesn't involve me, but it does effect me spritually and emotionally. It is not easy working in a mosque. It requires lots and lots of patience, the challenges and obstacle that you’ll face here is double than what you get outside. This is truly based on my personal experience. Well, an Ustaz ever told me this “Wan, as we are moving closer to our Creator, the test is greater, go through each test with lots of patience and iman, trust me, you’ll grow to be a better Muslim.”
Working in a mosque does open my eyes to see and experience myself how working with the community is like. Not everything about working in the mosque is bad; there are lots of great and wonderful things to talk about too.
First Day:
First Day of Ramadhan, everyone came into the office, quiet, restless, weak and sleepy. Just two hours sitting and working on the desk, you can see everyone trying hard to keep themselves awake, putting a toothpick in between the eyelids might help i guess, hehehehe, in the end, hmmm whats wrong in taking a 5 minutes powernap, hehehe yeah rite, and some even took 15minutes. Who? Ok ok, it’s me, I admit. Heheheh……
The volunteers are busy preparing Ramadhan porridge for the jemaah. This year En-Naeem is giving away four huge pots of porridge!! And like many other first day of Ramadhan, everyone would be rushing to get porridge from mosques till its very last drop. So, usually by 5.30pm, there’ll be no more porridge left.
So, one 'pakcik' (uncle) came to collect porridge, too late that is, only to be greeted by four empty pots. We apologise and told him to come another day, and we told him to come earlier. He got so frustrated and said this "I've been regularly donating to the mosque, can't even get a packet of porridge!" Astarghfirullah....... So are you expecting something in return for every cents you donated the mosque or what! What a comment!
Zakat Fitrah :
Everyone understands that the payment of zakat and zakat fitrah is obligatory upon those who can afford it. Among other things, zakat purifies wealth and its owner. Until the obligation to pay zakat is met, it must be understood that the person is keeping what rightfully belongs to the poor and needy and other recipients of zakat categories or beneficiaries. Alhamdulillah, i will be an amil zakat again this year and is authorised to collect zakat harta and zakat fitrah from the jemaah. This year's zakat fitrah is priced at $4.50 and $6.50.
I was touched one day by an old man who came to me to pay his Zakat Fitrah. His face seems very familiar, when i continue to look hard then i realise that this man used to appear on TV during Ramadhan, being one of those family who receives zakat money monthly to help them as they were considered to be under one of the zakat beneficiaries, Miskin. He is blind, his wife is half-blind and they are poor. I'm touched to see someone like him that earns very little income, understand how important it is to perform Zakat. The little income that they had, they willingly shared part of it by performing their Zakat.
Looking at them, those who can afford to do Zakat but prefers not to, should be ashame of themselves.
I'm certain that if people in the Muslim Ummah carry out their zakat obligation faithfully in obedience to the Commands of Allah, there will be less poverty in society.
Alhamdulillah, may Allah continue to bless us and guide us through the obstacles during this month of Ramadhan. May Ramadhan this year make us better Muslims. As for me, i'm certainly looking forward to this saturday's community service with my juniors from NurIkhwan cleaning 10 homes in Chai Chee area for the old folks. On the 19th Sept, there'll be Youth-In-Charge programme for the mosque youth wing Al-Fataa. On the 20th to 21st, there'll be Iktikaf Camp, Nuzul Quran, Malam Lailatul Qadr, Qiyammulail........ lots more.
Brothers and Sisters, please Dua' for me. May Allah give me guidance and the strength to perform ibadah in this Holy month of Ramadhan, Ameen.
No comments:
Post a Comment