Well, keeping in line with (just barely!) the target of (at least) a post a week (hopefully something meaningful)… after all, good habits don’t come overnight; you have to beat them in day real hard time after time. and with somebody like me (an aquarius, tho i don’t fully put the blame on that), it can either just go straight through (when i’m liquid or vapour form), or i just dont get it, experience brittle failure (ice!).. heheh..

anyhoo, so we had a small get together of brothers in MT EDEN islamic centre.. (WAH!! doesn’t name carry an eerie foreshadowing? mt EDEN - ‘adn..) for a mini spiritual retreat.. time to get away from hiruk-piruk urusan dunia and focus on muroqobatillah, getting closer to Allah swt, and work on our iman and yakin.. hehe [internal joke]

of the activities done, we listened to a presentation of Seerah Nabi Musa a.s by br Azmir… think you know the story already? do you really? really really? ok, so tell me… what was his complexion? ha!

but that isn’t the point of learning the seerah of our anbiyaa is it? what’s important is that we learn from their actions and it’s consquences… we should also examine WHY things were the way they were; situations/circumstances don’t happen ‘just because’.. and of course, as the malays say,

"…yang baik jadikan teladan, yang buruk jadikan sempadan…"

i wonder though, how many an average malay do as do the malay say, ay?

and in many many places in the qur’an, after telling tales of the ancients,

… dan pada itu adalah ayat-ayat kami…
… tidakkah kamu melihat?
… tidakkah kamu berfikir?
…

ayat-ayat? sentences? mere words? or… clues… hints… pointers…

sorry, just writing on the fly here, and excuse the inadequate citations and references… i have to work on that…

so, who’d have thought that kisah musa has so much to do with us in the modern context?

"what?? what?? what does it have to do with us??"

err… more on that later, but i gotta read up on that.

and so should you.