The story behind Eidil Adha

 

This Eid is celebrated  on the 10th day of the 12th months of the Muslim calendar (Zulhijjah/ Zil-Hajj). This year, the festival falls on the 15th October 2013.

Eidil Adha or Eidul Adha, regardless of the spelling, in Malaysia is known as Hari Raya Haji (Hajj Celebration Day). It is celebrated in relation to the performance of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, known as Hajj.

This special day is also known as the Festival of Sacrifice,as those who have the means would sacrifice animals like sheep and cattle and would donate the meat to the poor and charitable homes.It is a practice done in commemoration of the sacrifice undertaken by Prophet Abraham (Peace Be Upon Him).

A bit of the history………..

Prophet Abraham’s faith was tested by Allah when he was asked to sacrifice his son. His love for his son was great, but his love for Allah was greater. For the love of God, Abraham pulled himself together and placed the knife on the throat of his beloved son, who was then readily consented to be sacrificed.

Suddenly a sheep appeared and Abraham heard the voice of the Archangel Gabriel, delivering the message from God to replace the sheep in the place of his son, to be slaughtered , instead.

The sacrificing of these animals on every Eidul Adha is done as the way of expressing the inner feeling that, if need be, a Muslim will sacrifice his most loved possession of God.

There are a  few versions of this story, and I’m sharing one of them here.

Food for thoughts

 

(This is a reminder to myself and those I care)

Those who spend generously in The Way of Allah whether they are in prosperity or in adversity, who control their anger and forgive other people, Allah loves such charitable people (3: 134)

Serve Allah and do not commit shirk (associate any partner with Him), and be good to your parents, relatives, orphans, the helpless, far and near neighbors who keep company with you, the travelers in need……….. Allah does not love those who are arrogant and boastful (4:36)

Paying Zamri a visit

He is a pilot who rides big bike and loves jet skiing, as I was told. 3 days ago I received his photo looking so worrying. He got my sudden concern.

He was caught in a tragic accident.

I was shocked to see this photo of his. So were the rest of the family members.

Was there a plane crash?

That was the first thing came to my mind. I was wrong.

Who in the world would expect for a Pilot,  Captain Zamri , to be caught under a pile of heavy teak woods?? and within his own compound???

OH EMM GEE..!!!

The incident was captured on CCTV. It happened so quick. Thank God, the construction workers, who were then renovating his house and his children were fast enough to recover him from under those heavy piles.

Today, a week after the incident, I, accompanied by my hubby, my islander eldest SIL and her hubby who flew all the way from Penang island, visited The Captain at the hospital.

Aye..aye.. Sir..!! but where is the plane?

  Zamri is still as joyful as he is known to be. He looked much..much..much better than the last photo I saw, sent by my youngest SIL, 2 days back. He laughed to our jokes and he too, able to crack one.

Phew..! what a relief to see him with a smile.

He suffers from 1 broken rib and his pelvic on the right side. ouch..! I can imagine the pain. May Allah grant him strength to pass through the trauma.

He is a relative by marriage to my hubby. We would meet during wedding of family members, or during Eids. Though I could detect his fun character, I never had a chance to get to know him better. Today however, I felt as if my heart dropped, and filled with sympathy seeing him in that position. I prayed for him to recover well. Poor Zamri.

  He is so lucky to have such a loving family who took care of him well, though. His pretty daughter,Iqa, was busy spoon feeding him when we excused ourselves, after about half an hour later.

Get well soon, my dear cousin brother. Lets get together again like we used to in every Eid occasion.

No news is good news

 

I’ve been away for my blogging activities, for a while. Sorry for the long pause, but no worries…No news is good news. I’m fine and eating well and gaining weight pretty well too, should you want to know.

Today, I’ve got news for you. Do you notice anything in this photo? Look closely…..zoom….

This morning, as I looked outside of the window of my office, which is 10th floor above the scene, I saw it.

A drawing on the parking lot, the police car and another vehicle of forensic unit ……… take a guess.

yup… you are right, there was a dead body. Others said it happened much earlier, during the wee hours.

I only noticed when the body was bagged and loaded in the police car. Check this out…

 

Curiosity caused me to stand still outside the compressor room, looking down to the ground, with my camera in hand. click..click..click…

Then I saw those police officers taking the body bag down 

AND THEN…………..

they opened the black bag….

AND THEN……….

Look closely….. a pair of sexy legs, I saw. It could have been a woman. A fair woman. I had no clue of its gender nor its origin.

 

  My camera continued clicking…. click…click..

click..

Next, there came a police’s dog sniffing its way on the dead body, following order of its trainer.

click..  click..   

click…

The sniffing business was over and they sealed the bag and returned it into the police 4-Wheel Drive.

      

I looked up to the apartment across the road…..

None of the window were opened.

Until almost lunch time, the dead body was still in the vehicle. I guess there were more investigation being carried then.

There goes my lunch for today. I skipped lunch. I was feeling nausea all day.

What happened …? you asked..?

Thats the same question I had and still having.

She maybe got frustrated and jumped out of the window…

or

killed and thrown out of the balcony?..

or

fell off unintentionally?…

or

ok ..ok..lets just scrap all the maybe’s and perhap’s. We leave it to the Policemen to handle.

Back to work.!

Now THATS NEWS.