Sy

Today, I saw Sy propping up on all four for a few seconds, like he was about to crawl. Not so fast baby, I'm still trying to adapt to your sister's antics. Sy is seven months old now and A two years old and five months. Looking back, I wonder how I, errr, we, did it. But Alhamdulillah, with God's help we manage to see them growing up well, without much hiccups.

Two days ago, I read Nik Aziz's comment on Kelantanese women who like to wear lots and I mean, LOTS, of gold jewelleries. He reminded them to only wear moderate amount of gold, as in economic sense, the habit doesn't bring in profit, but only endanger the users. I fully agreed with him. There are women in Kelantan and also elswhere who're carrying themselves around with thousands of ringgit worth of gold, it may add few kgs to their bodyweight. Some women wear big pendants, as big as a cup saucer, their neck might break as the pendants are too heavy (am I exaggerating). Isn't that a bit too much? and the habit endangers the wearers too. There are many snatch thieves out there who can't wait to put their itchy hands on the jewelleries. Lucky, I don't like gold much. And I think Nik Aziz just said the right thing.
But there are individuals who seem to disagree and feel offended by his remarks. Some politician, of course, and definitely, a woman. Puteri chief felt she must fire back, saying Nik Aziz was picking on petty things and that it's up to women to wear what ever they want as long as they wear it moderately. Hmmm ... must she disagree and criticise Nik Aziz's remark just because it came from an opposition party leader. Can't she just take it as an ikhlas advice from a senior, pious man. And wasn't she also being petty? I don't see anything wrong with what Nik Aziz said. He asked women to wear gold moderately. And moderately was also the word used by Puteri chief. Hmmm ... some people just like to 'fire back', no matter what. Politicians love to 'fire back' especially on remarks made by other parties' leaders, be it right or wrong. What's wrong with people these days? Can't they listen to others and try to consider 'teguran-teguran yang baik'? Isn't in Islam we're encouraged to always remind each others on good things?

I like to express a bit of dissapointment over the mission and direction of an NGO who has Islam in its name. Its objective is to help sisters in Islam, which I think is a noble intention. Helping others is always noble to me. But it seems, the only way the NGO makes itself known to others is by wading in murky waters. Its chief is a vocal critic of ulamas and Islamic practices. She, seem to me, contantly disagrees with whatever muftis, Imams and Ulamas say, using newspaper to voice her comments and personal opinions. It seems none is right about these good people to her, sometimes I wonder if she is actually the one with problems. There was one time, when she just talked about 'tudong' and tudong and tudong. She seemed so obssessed with tudong issue. From my understanding, she probably wished she could make her own 'fatwa' that tudong is not wajib. Why she's so against tudong, I've yet to figure out. And of course, at the same time, she also emphasis the need to open our mind. Maybe to her, open the mind meaning to not cover heads. hahaha ... Perhaps, she needs to open her mind a bit to what others say and think about their messages, no matter if they are 'traditionalists' or 'contemporarists'. She should just sit down and listen. I wonder if she ever puts some efforts to actually understand what these alim people sais, as most of the time, she seems to already has objections in her head before these people even open their mouths.

There are many issues the NGO can tackle, bigs or smalls, all are important. Tudong is one if them. Overly exposed, is another issue, which maybe the NGO forgets, or purposely forgets, to mention. Immorality among muslim sisters, kehilangan jati diri, budaya and ugama, un-islamisation of muslim sisters' mind, poverty, education, etc, etc. Banyak lagi isu lain.

- A muslim woman with the loudest voice does not always represent the voice of muslim woman majority. She may only represents herself and a bunch of her good old friends, to fulfill their own agenda.