Sad Truth.

Again, to day I'm going to blog about ayat from Quran have some significant to me while I was reciting Quran these past few days..


Surah Ar-Rum, [30;30]

So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah . That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.

It's clearly stated there there should be no change in the creation of Allah. That Islam way of life, is the correct religion. But sadly, even Muslims themselves reject this way of life. I'm talking about justice system. The law. In Islam, Allah has clearly stated some of the punishment for certain crime/sins. Yet, even a country with Muslims majority reject this law created by Allah himself. What more the leader of this country reject to implement the said law. I'm not asking to apply this Islamic law onto the whole citizen. If it can be applied to Muslims living in a Muslim country, that should be enough already. We have the capacity as a Muslim dominated country yet, sadly, yes, sadly even the leader of such country are so afraid of people's judgement towards them- the judgement of non-muslim especially. They don't care the judgement from 'above'. If they were asked, do you believe in Allah judgement, in the law he created, I'm sure they would say yes but their words didn't reflect their deed. They gave so much excuse but actually all they care about is vote. If not that, it only shows they have no confidence in Allah's law.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;31-32]

[Adhere to it], turning in repentance to Him, and fear Him and establish prayer and do not be of those who associate others with Allah. [Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.

This is pretty much what happen in the world nowadays. Not just Muslims, even Christians. We see sect upon sect, division upon division. Even in my country there can be such thing. We're Muslims, yet some of us divide even further among themselves between ruling and opposition party. And even in each party, they are further divided among those who support this person and who support that. Varieties and differences itself is not something bad because Allah himself created humans in different languages and skin colour so that we may learn to know each other among various other hikmah that we don't know. But differences, if people are too fanatic with it to the point it drives people beyond their reasoning, is bad. Saying this people is kafir or badmouthing other people in media, in open speech, in newspaper, in magazine, just because they are from a different party isn't something that were teach by Allah. On international level, the strain between Syiah and Sunnah heightened because of discrimination against each other by small fraction of Muslims. The people revolution in Bahrain for example, didn't get much attention from the world even in Muslims dominated country just because most of them are Syiah. But they didn't know or purposely overlook the fact that revolution in Bahrain is joined hand in hand between Syiah and Sunnah. The people of Bahrain brings one message, 'la Sunnah, la Syiah' [basically means no Siite, no Sunni] which means there's only Islam, they are one, unite together to fight injustice of the oppresser. Yet, this revolution is easily overlook by some ignorant people as sectarian one. Let unite ourselves and forget the diffrences. People with 'iman' are those when another Muslim is sick, they also feel sick. When other Muslim suffer from injustice, they also feel the suffering.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;33-34]

And when adversity touches the people, they call upon their Lord, turning in repentance to Him. Then when He lets them taste mercy from Him, at once a party of them associate others with their Lord, So that they will deny what We have granted them. Then enjoy yourselves, for you are going to know.

There really is no one who knew us better than Allah Himself.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;36-37]

And when We let the people taste mercy, they rejoice therein, but if evil afflicts them for what their hands have put forth, immediately they despair. Do they not see that Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it]? Indeed, in that are signs for a people who believe.

This is true to myself. I myself are lowly. There are times, when I get to enjoy some good fortune, I came to the conclusion how blessed I was. Yet, when I was tested by some difficulties, I feel as if God is punishing me. Rarely that we think the fact that good fortune or bad one is both a form of test given by Him to cleanse ourselves and come back to Him. All is for His love towards us.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;39]

And whatever you give for interest to increase within the wealth of people will not increase with Allah . But what you give in zakah, desiring the countenance of Allah - those are the multipliers.

There are times when  I give something, I was desiring in my heart for Allah to give me better duniawi returns. This ayat really gets to me, urging me to teach my heart to seek for better reasons to give, that is His bounty in the hereafter.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;41]

Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].

This is the ultimate answers towards those who seek the reason for all the big and major event, wheather it natural or human-derived, that currently happened in the world today.

Source of Quranic translation and text:
http://quran.com/30
http://www.ahadees.com/arabic-surah-30-60.html

Reflection.

Just had my morning recital, and I stumble upon this verse,

 

What is the life of this world but amusement and play? but verily the Home in the Hereafter,- that is life indeed, if they but knew.

(Al-Ankabut, 29:64)

Indeed, I found what been said here truly fits me. I think my life right now is just all about amusement/entertainment/play. This verse made me think I must not loose focus on the little goodness that I did and still practices. Because that little thing might be the only thing that can made me survive from the hellfire.

Another verse which caught my heart is also from the same surah but verse 63,

 

And if indeed thou ask them who it is that sends down rain from the sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death, they will certainly reply, "(Allah)!" Say, "Praise be to Allah." But most of them understand not.

I wonder if I askedd my non-muslim friend the same question, what would her answer be. I get the feeling she'll be anwering the same thing but as the verse say, most of them understand not. Note here Allah is also refer to God.

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Sad.

I feel sad that Faisal Tehrani has stopped blogging in his blog. His entries are always informative and interesting to me. Now, I've lost another source of info - a good and critical one. But he must have his own reasons.

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God/Allah told us this:

"I'm beside what My servant expect of Me. I'm with him if he thinks of Me. If he thinks of me inside of himself then I'm thinking of him inside of Me. If he thinks of Me in groups, then I'll think of him in a better groups than him. If my servant comes closer to me an inch, I will come closer to him a feet. If he get closer to me a feet, I'll get close to him in greater distance. If my servant comes to me by walking, I'll come to him by running." (Riwayat al-Bukhari no. 7405 and Muslim no. 2675)

Bioindicator Studies (Continued..)

Bioindicator organisms used usually the species are:
1. Regionally well distributed.
2. Sessile- do not move around.
3. Tolerant to pollutant.
4. Show good bioaccumulation potential in relation to size.

Example bioindicator organisms in marine environment:
1. Bivalve. Exm: mussel.
2. Algae.
3. Fishes.

Example of bioindicator organisms in terrestrial environment:
1. Trees.
2. Lichens.
3. Earthworm.

The case of imposex in snail exposed to TBT paint.
1. TBT- tributyltin, usually used in anti-fouling paint in ship.
2. Imposex- the condition where the female change into male because they develope penis. This cause them unable to reproduce. Subsequently, this will disturb the food chain & affect the food chain.
3. Now, use of TBT has been banned as it is very toxic.

Importance Of Biomonitoring - the radiation leak at Fukushima Radiation Plant. [by Prof. Dr. Noor Azhar Sazali, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu]

1. A bioindicator organism responds to all environmental parameters surrounding it and is affected in different ways depending on the parameters concerned.

2. Effects of multiple pollutants on single organisms can be determine whereas using machine is costly and sometimes only limited to single pollutant detection at a time.

3. Early warning system. Certain organism is more sensitve to certain pollutants. Exm: fish swim ashore when tsunami approach.

4. Major component of bioassessment evaluation: 1)determine organisms exposed to stressors. 2) determine its effect to organisms. 3) conduct risk assessment experiment.

5. Criteria for selecting bioindicators: *relevance*sensitivity*specitivity*broad applicability*representativeness*variability*cost.

6. Potential uses of bioindicators:
-indicate contaminant exposure.
-identify toxic mecha.