rain n smiles =summer camp UK 2011

Alhamdulillah for giving us the chance...

to give better meaning to the things we do in life..insyaAllah. 

i quote a sister "semua org bercamping, kita nampak ramai mat salleh camping, tapi apa bezanya camping kita dgn camping mereka adalah makna. Kita ada makna yang lebih besar kepada aktiviti yang kita buat, mungkin kita tak byk berjaulah ke tempat-tempat lain, tapi jaulah yang bermaknalah yang lebih berharga." 

Pennine way, yorkshire dale

and here's a list of what this year's summer camp meant to me insyaAllah:

hidup yang sekejap di dunia

pain is temporary as is rain, but a good deed/pahala is forever insyaAllah.  Alhamdulillah utk ruang-ruang yang Allah beri utk kita beramal. 

solat in the rain. hehe n that's me trying to join the saf ;)

nikmat dan rahmat Allah yang terlampau luas

without being wet, we wouldn't appreciate being dry.  without wet clothes and shoes, we wouldn't appreciate our warm and dry garments.  without having to drive for 4 and a half hours we wouldn't appreciate the services along the way. hehe

وَإِنْ تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ

(16:18) If you try to reckon up Allah's blessings, you cannot count them. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Compassionate

and to appreciate Allah's nikmat as best as possible. to always question ourselves what are we doing with Allah's nikmat that we are graciously given for free and using everyday? are we using it for the good?

Janet's Foss Waterfall

to always have good faith in Allah and to not complain about the weather ;)

the day we had our hiking was terrible because it was raining throughout the day. and in my dark and damaged heart, i was thinking this is so bad..oh Allah please make it sunny.  i prayed and prayed silently. but it still didn't change.  but i was still happy nevertheless the walk was great, and it went smoothly Alhamdulillah. then, we had out tadabbur on Malham Cove and we went through the verses from surah an-Nahl 1-18..but these two particular versus struck me.

هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً لَكُمْ مِنْهُ شَرَابٌ وَمِنْهُ شَجَرٌ فِيهِ تُسِيمُونَ 

(16:10) It is He, Who sends down for you water from the sky, which provides drinking water for you and brings forth fodder for your cattle.

يُنْبِتُ لَكُمْ بِهِ الزَّرْعَ وَالزَّيْتُونَ وَالنَّخِيلَ وَالْأَعْنَابَ وَمِنْ كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآَيَةً لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ 

(16:11) And thereby He grows for you crops and olives and date-palms and vines and different kinds of many other fruits. Surely there is a great Sign in this for those people who ponder.

it was such a blow to my selfish self.  in the heat of the moment i must've forgotten that Allah sent down His rain as a blessing to us.  and I quickly said istighfar.  may Allah forgive me.  the next thing i knew, with every drop of rain, i smiled.  and i felt uplifted as though each drop was a hug.  a sign of love and care from Him.  the funny thing is, the next day which was our last, was really bright and sunny and hot too.  and i thought, it would have probably been worse hiking in this weather as we would have been sweating profusely and dropped down to our knees from exhaustion in an instant. which ever way, truly Allah knows best.  and so, if ever i complain about the weather being too hot, or the rain non-stop can you remind me to stop and have good faith in Allah, pleaseeee? ^^

Gordale Scar, Yorkshire Dale

at-tadhiyyah

another quote from a sister a.k.a kemkom "sebenarnya waktu kita rasa berat dan kena berkorban, waktu itulah kita diuji, kalau kita rasa senang je sebenarnya kita belum teruji lagi." so basically, if we are not yet tested than how do we know that we have actually grasped the many theories we've learned so far. because the end point of learning something is always in the amal, insyaAllah. 

Allah, it scares me everytime I write things in here because we will always be tested for every word we say.  Astaghfirullah astaghfirullah astaghfirullah. but i know if i don't write this down somewhere part of it will be forgotten and become a distant memory.  and i hope that won't happen. ;)

sisterly love..fillah insyAllah

may Allah help us to become better people and grant us the understanding we need and the strength to practice what we preach insyaAllah.

p/s: congrats to the childhood bestfriend who just tied the knot on the 24th of june. in the midst of waiting at the checkpoint for summer camp explorace, i was thinking of you guys and wished i could be there. hehe. congrats again Mrs. 'Atikah! (i didn't forget the apostrophe hehe)

yours sincerely (which means without wax),

nmj