Sad morning...

I was having breakfast this morning, alone and with a newspaper in hand. Read about the little 3 year-old girl... What has the world turn to?! How could a mother, who had been carrying her for nine months, tergamak did something like that? And that mother who abused her kid till he ruptured his intestine and died a slow death... How could a mother do all those things to her own child?!

All these happened here, in my beloved country. If it happens in some hell-on-earth countries like Afghanistan or Iraq (ironically, both are so-called Muslim countries), perhaps it is more acceptable. With the need to survive and what not. Even that, I still couldn't swallow the fact that a person would kill his/her own blood!

Ya Allah! Lindungilah keluarga aku dan keluarga umat Islam yang lain dari perkara2 musibah dan buruk!

I was discussing this with my new friend over skype. She said, she's sad as well. And felt like bashing up the mother and her boyfriend. I asked her, what good would that do? You might feel good about it, or you might not. It is because fighting violence with violence that makes the whole world violent. Islam allows an eye for an eye but, the great religion also said that giving forgiveness is a more noble thing to do. I think because of taking Islamic teachings in parts, rather than its entirety, that extremists mushroom.

I was reading the book my skype friend gave me. It was about Afghanistan, prior to Soviet invasion, during Taliban and post Taliban. Things are not looking up over there. Most Afghans may have forgotten the Islam way of life prior to the Soviet invasion. Then, when the Taliban took over, the literal and extreme interpretation of Islamic teachings prevailed. It was hell being delivered, rather than heaven that was promised. Imagine, a Muslim woman, being beaten for speaking out too loud in public without further enquiries being made. In the book, there was story about this woman who went to the market with the husband. She asked for the price of some fruits to the old man who was selling it. And the old man was hard of hearing. So, she asked in a raised voice. She was beaten there and then, in front of the husband, the crowd for doing that! She was beaten so hard that she couldn't walk for days! That wasn't Islamic teachings. That was just brutality to women. And what about the Taliban's massacre of the Hazara. Just because they are Syiah, they were massacred? Even the Prophet S.A.W said that towards the end, his ummat would have many sectarians beliefs, but they are not wrong as long as they hold to the 5 pillars of Islam and believe in the six pillars of faith.

I am not religious. I am no imam or ustadz. But I believe this, peganglah Rukun Islam dan percayalah kepada Rukun Imam, InsyaAllah, you'll be okay.