The policeman, a best-friend and the summon...........

Suatu Hari.......

Dari kejauhan, lampu lalulintas di satu persimpangan itu masih menyala hijau.
Harun segera menekan pedal minyak kenderaannya.
Dia tak mau terlambat.
Apalagi ia tahu penempatan di situ cukup padat sehingga lampu merah biasanya menyala cukup lama.
Kebetulan jalan di depannya agak lengang.
Lampu berganti kuning.
Hati Harun berdebar berharap semoga ia boleh melepasi lampu hijau itu dengan segera.
Tiga meter sebelum garis jalan, lampu merah menyala.
Harun bimbang,haruskah ia berhenti atau terus saja.
"Ah, takkan nak brake mendadak," fikirnya sambil terus memandu laju.

Priiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Di seberang jalan seorang pegawai polis melambaikan tangan memintanya berhenti.
Harun menepikan kenderaannya agak jauh sambil mengumpat dalam hati.
Dari cermin pandang sisi ia melihat pegawai polis itu.
Wajahnya tak terlalu asing baginya..
Jamal rupanya!
Sahabat baiknya semasa di sekolah menengah dulu.
Hati Harun agak lega.
Dia cepat cepat keluar sambil melambai mesra.

"Pekabo, Jamal! Lamanya tak jumpa...last jumpa masa aku kawen dulu"

"Aku baik je." Tanpa senyum.

"Alahai...aku ndak cepat nih. Bini aku dah lama menunggu di rumah."

"Oh ye ke?" Nampaknya Jamal ragu.

"Ye la Mal, hari ini bini aku punya birthday. Dia dan anak-anak sudah menyiapkan semuanya. Tentu aku tidak boleh terlambat, kawan-kawannya pun sedang menunggu "

"Aku paham. Tapi, sebenarnya aku dah lama peratikan kau...selalu sgt kau langgar lampu merah di persimpangan ini."

Harun mesti ganti strategi.

"Jadi, kau nak menyaman aku ker? Tapi tadi aku tidak melanggar lampu merah. Sewaktu aku jalan lampu kuning masih menyala." Berdusta sedikit boleh melancarkan keadaan fikir Harun.

"Ok.Sebenarnya aku nampak jelas. Tolong keluarkan lesen dan kad pengenalan."

Dengan kesal Harun menyerahkan lesen dan kad pengenalan lalu masuk ke dalam kenderaan dan menutup kaca tingkapnya.
Sementara itu Jamal menulis sesuatu di buku catatannya.
Beberapa saat kemudian Jamal mengetuk kaca tingkap kereta harun.
Harun memandang wajah Jamal dengan penuh kecewa.
Diturunkan tingkap sedikit saja.

"Ah, satu inci cukup untuk memasukkan surat saman." Fikir Harun.

Tanpa berkata-kata Jamal terus kembali ke tempat dia bertugas.
Harun mengambil surat saman yang diselitkan Jamal.
Tapi, hei apa ini.
Ternyata lesen memandu dan i.c. dikembalikan bersama sebuah nota.
Kenapa ia tidak menyaman aku.
Lalu nota ini apa?
Semacam gurauan atau apa?
Tergesa-gesa Harun membuka dan membaca nota yang berisi tulisan tangan Jamal.
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"Harun...Kau tahu kan aku dulu ada seorang anak perempuan dan seorang isteri yang cantik. Sayang, mereka sudah meninggal dunia.
Dilanggar pemandu yang tidak memperdulikan lampu merah di persimpangan ini.
Pemandu itu dihukum penjara selama 3 bulan.
Sekarang pemandu itu bebas bertemu isteri dan memeluk ketiga2 anaknya lagi.
Sedangkan anak dan isteriku sudah tiada.
Hari ini aku sendirian menyesali peristiwa itu.
Yang pergi tidak akan kembali lagi.
Beberapa kali aku cuba memaafkan pemandu itu tetapi sangat sukar.
Begitu juga kali ini bila sahabatku sendiri memandu seperti pemandu itu.
Aku kecewa teramat sgt.
Berhati-hatilah ketika memandu,Run"
- Jamal
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Harun terkedu.
Ia segera keluar dari kenderaan mencari Jamal.
Namun, Jamal sudah meninggalkan pos tempat ia bertugas.
Sepanjang jalan pulang ia memandu perlahan dengan hati tak tentu sambil berharap kesalahannya dimaafkan.
Tak semestinya anggapan kita adalah sama dengan pengertian orang lain.
Boleh jadi suka kita adalah duka rakan kita.
Hidup ini sangat berharga,
jalanilah dengan penuh hati-hati,
mengerti perasaan orang lain dan
bertimbangrasa.

Common mistakes during prayers.

Try to avoid these common mistakes during Prayers !

Spacing is determined by matching your legs space with your shoulder to shoulder distance!!!

Pronouncing NIAT (willingness) and calling ALLAHuAKBAR loudly for late comers are two wrong things that happen in our Masjids

Bad smelling breath from mouth due to eating some type of foods (onions and garlic) or from clothes (socks, unclean clothes) are annoying to other people and should be avoided as per our Islamic teaching.

Don't rush and don't be too slow (it is JAMA'H prayer) go with Muslims in timely manner (in the drawing above it is almost end of Fatihah and some one is still in Sujod)

Yawning during prayers is wrong, try to avoid it……….
Will you do this if you are meeting an important person at work?
Remember, when you feel like Yawning, you are facing ALLAH. So, try to suppress it and insyaAllah you will succeed…. Respect your presence in front of Allah and HE will respect your solah.

New line start MUST be directly behind the IMAM wherever he is. People start their Jamma Solah some times in a corner. That is wrong.
The IMAM reads loudly and you should listen, but not that you read loudly and others are disturbed by your reading… in fact IMAM's reading is enough for all behind him.

Some other Common Mistakes !

Mistake 1: Reciting Surat al-Fatiha fast without pausing after each verse.
The Prophet (SAW) used to pause after each verse of this surah. (Abu Dawood)

Mistake 2: Sticking the arms to the sides of the body, in rukoo' or sujood, and sticking the belly to the thighs in sujood.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "Let not one of you support himself on his forearms (in sujood) like the dog. Let him rest on his palms and keep his elbows away from his body." (Sahih Muslim) . The Messenger of Allah (SAW) used to keep his arms away from his body during rukoo' and sujood that the whiteness of his armpits could be seen (Sahih Muslim).

Mistake 3: Gazing upward during prayer.

This may cause loss of concentration. We are commanded to lower our gaze, and look at the point at which the head rests during sujood. The Prophet (SAW) warned: "Let those who raise their gaze up during prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to them. i.e. lose their eyesight]." (Muslim)

Mistake 4 : Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during sujood.

The Prophet (SAW) said: "I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and the two feet." (Sahih Muslim) Applying the above command necessitates resting the forehead and the nose on the ground during sujood.

Mistake 5 : Hasty performance of prayer which does not allow repose and calmness in rukoo' or sujood.


The Messenger of Allah (SAW) saw a man who did not complete his rukoo' [bowing], and made a very short sujood [prostration] ; he (SAW) said: "If this man dies while praying in this manner, he would die upholding a religion other than the religion of Muhammad." Abu Hurairah (RA) said:

"My beloved friend, Muhammad (SAW) forbade me to perform postures of prayer copying the picking of a rooster; (signifying fast performance of prayer), moving eyes around like a fox and the sitting like monkeys ( i.e. to sit on thighs)." (Imam Ahmad & at-Tayalisi) The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: " The worst thief is the one who steals from his own prayer." People asked, 'Messenger of Allah! How could one steal from his own prayer?' He (SAW) said: "By not completing its rukoo' and sujood." (At Tabarani & al-Hakim).

To complete rukoo' is to stay in that posture long enough to recite 'Subhana rabbiyal Adtheem' three times, SLOWLY, and 'Subhana rabbiyal-a'ala' three times, SLOWLY, in sujood. He (SAW) also announced: "He who does not complete his rukoo' and sujood, his prayer is void." (Abu Dawood & others)

Mistake 6 : Counting tasbeeh with the left hand

The Prophet (SAW) used to count tasbeeh on the fingers of his right hand after salah. Ibn Qudamah (RA) said: " The Messenger of Allah (SAW) used his right hand for tasbeeh." (Abu Dawood). The above hadeeth indicates clearly that the Prophet (SAW) used only one hand for counting tasbeeh. No Muslim with sound mind would imagine that the Prophet (SAW) used his left hand for counting tasbeeh. Aa'ishah (RA) said that the Prophet (SAW) used his left hand only for Istinjaa', or cleaning himself after responding to the call of nature. He never used it for tasbeeh. Yasirah (RA) reported: The Prophet (SAW) commanded women to count tasbeeh on their fingers.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "They (the fingers) will be made to speak, and will be questioned (on the Day of Resurrection. )" (At-Tirmidhi) ... The above Hadeeth indicates that it is preferable to count tasbeeh on the fingers of the right hand than to do so on masbahah (rosary).


Mistake 7 : Crossing in front of a praying person.


The Messenger of Allah (SAW) warned: "Were the one who crosses in front of a praying person to know the consequences of doing so, he would have waited for *forty better than to cross in front of him." (Sahih Bukhari and Muslim). *The forty in the tradition may be day's months or even years.

Allah knows best.