~Izzah~

Al-Aminians..! Remember this book?? heheh..

The first time i heard the word izzah of course since i was a child. It is becoz izzah is my name. Heheh.. However, the first time i learned bout it is when i was in year 6. It was in the akhlak syllabus. At that time, i was very2 eager to learn the topic, as it was related to my name and i felt very proud as my name would be learned by all of my classmates. Hehe.. what a childish of me at that time. i still remembered that Mu'allim Zulkifli was teaching the topic and he was relating my name to the topic. haha..What a proud for whom named izzah in the class at that time..

Okey, those are only the intro..huhu.. what is izzah actually?? n why it is in the syllabus of the akhlak subject? Izzah means the feeling of proud to be a muslim and to practice the syari'at.. i know that many of us do not know, even their name is not izzah, they have to have izzah in themselves as muslims. Why izzah is very important in a muslim life? It is becoz if there is no izzah, then, the muslim will be ashamed to practice what have being asked by ALLAH n HIS prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Nowadays, as i observed the muslims.. it is very sad n disappointed. Everywhere people is influenced by the hedonism. Only a few, muslims that realize their responsibilities of their lives.

Let us observe the teenage muslims especially in developed town, for example K. Lumpur. They have no shame to enter the disco or join the clubbing. No shame for them to dance with many girls and drink that haram drink. On the contrary, they feel proud! Huh! One more thing, if someone wearing something that shows an islamic characteristics.. people will stare at them like they are very weird. Like an alien. Especially for muslimah who is wearing 'tudung labuh'. Actually, it is also my experience. I still remember how people was looking at me when i was lining up at the bus station Kajang to confirm the participation for the national service programme. And at the same time, i still remembered that one of the trainees who was the same camp with me, looked at me upside down then, he said "Wow!".. i don't know if he was making fun of me or what. Then, when i entered the bus that had been prepared for the programme, a trainer, was looking weirdly at me.. huhu.. then, he asked me.. "Awak ni, dari skolah agama ke?" i nodded. (Owh, klu pki macam ni skolah agama je eyh? X tau la plak..) After that, when i reached the MSHC after being in the bus for about ten hours.. haha.. like what i had thought, 'org tgkla..apa lagi..'

Then, after a few weeks, i got the title 'ustazah' as my nickname. Maybe becoz of my 'tudung labuh'. The title is not only famous for the trainees. It is also famous among the trainers. huhu.. At first, i feel like i didn't really like to be titled like that as i feel i'm not really qualified to get the title. However, i couldn't stop people calling me like that. If they didn't know my name, then most of them would use the title. Then, becoz of thinking that the title was not bad right? So, i didn't really care bout it. It was actually a motivation for me to improve myself. Improve myself to be a 'da'i' even my dream is to be a doctor, as duty of being da'i is the responsibility of all muslims.

One story from my friend. One day, she stayed at her friend's house. Then, her friend's mother wanted to take them for a shopping at Shah Alam. Then, at that time, my friend only brought 'tudung labuh'. So, she just wore it as she didn't brought the 'tudung tiga segi' huhu.. When she reached the shopping complex, she became very famous haha.. as many people was looking at her. and she told me that she heard one of the people said "x panas ke??" huhu.. I also had been asked for the same question during i was in MSHC.. huhu.. I only shook my head to left and right (geleng la) haha.. and smiled.

Look people now is looking weird to someone who practicing Islam. Most of them does not have izzah in their soul. However, i know that my sahabat who always support me have this word in them eventhough their names are not izzah..heheh.. and i know there are a few muslims that have this in them. They struggling hard in order to take the public back to the real islamic environment.

Anyway, let us think deeply the hadith below..

Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w. menurut riwayat Imam Ahmad bahawa:
"Islam bermula asing dan ia akan kembali asing. Maka berbahagialah golongan ghuraba' (asing)."
Sahabat-sahabat bertanya baginda:
"Siapakah golongan ghuraba' ya Rasulullah?"
Baginda bersabda:
"Mereka adalah yg memperbaiki keadaan yg dirosakkan manusia."

This is just as a reminder for all muslims including me.. =)