Assalamualaikum :)

Minggu lepas, ada event Twins of Faith kat PICC. Alhamdulillah, I was among the chosen ones untuk pergi program tu dengan kakak aku. Ummi tak dapat datang last minute, so the ticket was sold to my sister's friend whom she met online on Twitter. It was a 2-days programme and we stayed at Abah's house at Putrajaya. So, Abah did the sending and picking us up :D
On the first day, kitorang jumpa dengan Kak Ida (yang beli tiket tu). She just graduated from France and is having 3 weeks holiday before flying back to France to get a job there. Then, I found my long friend from KMS ; Wan Zanariah! Dia nampak sangat lost dan lonely so I amek dia bawak jalan sekali hihi. Sooooo, in the end, there were 4 of us :)
You see, aku tak la eager sangat about this event. Mainly pergi sebab kakak yang beria sangat nak. Tiket dia mahal pulak tu = RM200 but Ummi sponsored everything so ok pergi je la kan.
Upon entering the main hall, dah rasa macam WOW sikit. Heyyy, I AM HERE. wuu!
Ok, lets get serious and do some sharing session shall we?
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"To love is to burn, to be in fire", said Syeikh Daood Butt, quoting Jane Austen. He gave a talk about What is Love? To love is not to let ourselves be burnt in fire of course. Do we actually love Allah as we claim we are? Then he asked, siapa tau 99 nama Allah sekali dengan maksud? Siapa tau setengah dari 99 nama Allah sekali dengan maksud? I felt like a knife was stabbed into my chest. Do I know really know my God well? I dont even remember all His names.
Love.
Ialah untuk berasa malu.
Malu nak buat dosa samada secara public ataupun bersembunyi.
Dengan pengetahuan yang Allah sentiasa memerhati.
Untuk tahu semua pasal Dia yang kita sayang.
Untuk tak pernah berasa terpaksa.
Dan sentiasa buat semua benda yang Dia suka.
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"Loving Alah gives you strength. You bend, but you do not break. Love is yearning. You yearn to see the ones you love. You yearn to see Allah. Look, you wanna know what's better than Jannah? It is to finally be able to stare at Allah's face."- Exemplary Love by Syeikh Omar Suleiman.
I went to a workshop by Syeikh Omar Suleiman downstairs on the 2nd day. Workshops were done in a smaller room which is followed by Q&A session, which you dont have in the mainhall. His topic was 'Happily Married and Blissfully Divorced'. This was the time when I mustered all my strength to try to talk to him by asking questions. It was 2 lame Qs by the way, but the fact that he was looking at me while I talked to him directly, and answered my lame Q..Ya Allah, tak boleh describe feeling tu.
"If you don't want to get married because you're afraid you cannot raise your children to be good Muslims, then you're having bad perception about Allah"
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Syeikh Tawfique Chowdury told a story about Hassan Al-Basri when he was giving a talk on How The Prophet Loved Us.
"If the money is haram, then fear Jannah. If the money is halal, then fear the questions from Allah"
A lot of things to be pondered upon here...it was very emotional listening to him, talking about our beloved Rasulullah SAW, how he loves us dearly, how he tried to make everything easy for us.
"Sekiranya tidak memberatkan umatku, nescaya aku wajibkan sugi ke atas mereka"
“Jika tidak kerana memberatkan umatku, nescaya aku wajibkan Tahajud ke atas mereka”
Despite us being the last ummah, disebabkan doa Rasulullah untuk Allah permudahkan semuanya untuk kita, we are given privileged to be the first ones entering the Heaven.
Kat akhirat nanti, we'll be gathered with the ones whom we love in the Dunia. Jadi, kalau kita tak cuba untuk sayang Rasulullah SAW now, boleh bayangkan dengan siapa kita akan duduk sama-sama nanti?
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The Love Test. This session with Brother Abdurraheem Green was really mind-provoking. Macam mana kita boleh cakap kita beriman selagi kita tak diuji? What are we doing with what Allah has bestowed upon us? Our money? Our time? Our health? All these will be questioned later.
And all these will be questioned later. Just the thought of that makes me scared. An easy life itself is a test. Do we turn to Allah when He puts us in a comfortable life? Do I?
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There are many more I wish I could share here. But I know it's impossible to convey even 1% of the talk and make u feel what I felt during the blissful 2 days. It's hard to describe the feeling of being there. To be with everyone with the same goal ; to know Allah better. Untuk finally rasa, Ya Allah nikmatnya lahir sebagai seorang Muslim, and yet I seldom be thankful for this. To see the Muslim reverts are better than me, still trying and never give up to being the best Muslims they could be, to finally be with Allah.
Twins of Faith is not a typical ceramah agama. A friend asked me. speakers tu ada certificate ke dlm field diorang nak bagi talk tu? I was like, stumbled. We don't need any certificate to give a talk on Islam. It is more like a sharing session. Someone is sharing how he misses Allah and Rasululah SAW, and we, the listeners secretly pray to have the same feeling too.
You guys try la pergi if this event ada lagi in the future. InsyaAllah kalau ada kelapangan, I'd definitely go again. The value of knowledge and amazing feeling Allah instilled on me after going there is priceless. I hope it stays. I hope I can turn everything I learnt into actions. If I slip off along the way, I hope Allah will pick me up and guide me again.
"The greatest tragedy of hell is not the fire,
but the fact that you're unable to communicate with Allah anymore. He's
no longer listen to you and you won't have any chance to meet him
anymore, forever" - Syeikh Tawfique Chowdury







