PUTERA AMIROOL FAEZ

Aku pernah terbaca sebuah kisah.
Sebuah kisah mengenai paderi yang menyebarkan mesej cinta.
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" Thank god, I am an atheist," kata seorang pemuda dengan angkuh.
"It is okay if you don't believe in God, but remember He always believe in you," Paderi Cinta terus memujuk.
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Bukankah agama Islam seyogianya lebih hebat daripada ini?

Berkata tentang cinta. Aku bukanlah layak untuk memperkatakannya.
Masih banyak koyak dan cacat cinta ini. Ketinggalan jauh berbanding cinta sempurna.
Namun apalah salahnya untuk aku memperkatakan cinta.
Kerana aku manusia. Kerana aku makhluk Allah. Aku hamba Allah.


Cinta itu merupakan suatu yang fitrah dan suci.
Kerana ia milik Allahu Rabbi.

Tidakkah kita pernah tertanya mengapa Allah yang mempunyai 99 asma, mahu namanya Ar-Rahman disandingkan bersama dengan Ar-Rahim?
Bukan Jabbar. Bukan Muntaqim.
Allah mahu sekali hamba-hamba-Nya mengenali-Nya sebagai Tuhan yang maha kaya.
Maha Kaya dengan CINTA.
Kehebatan Cinta Allah lebih suka mengampun daripada menghukum.

Alangkan dengan berwuduk sahaja dosa-dosa kita telah terampun.
Dengan senyuman di bibir, dosa terampun.
Ini apatah lagi jika seorang pendosa datang kepadanya memujuk rayu dalam keadaan taubat nasuha dan beristighfar.

Kita umat pendosa.
Kecil atau Besar. Kita tetap berdosa.
Kita fikir dosa kita tak terampun kerana dosa kita besar. Tersangatlah besar.
Besar mana dosa kita?
Adakah sebesar rumah yang kita duduki?
Sangat besar.
Adakah sebesar dunia yang kita diami?
Sangat besar bahkan lebih besar.
Adakah sebesar alam ciptaan Allah yang kita lihat ini?
Besar, sangat besar, lebih besar dan tersangat besar.
Adakah lebih besar berbanding sifat PENGAMPUN Allah?
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Allah itu maha Pengampun kerana Dia maha kaya dengan CINTA.

"Katakanlah, wahai hamba-hambaKu yang melampaui batas terhadap diri mereka sendiri! Janganlah kamu berputus asa daripada Rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya Allah mengampuni dosa-dosa semuanya. Sungguh, Dialah Yang Maha Pengampun, Maha Penyayang."

(Az-Zumar: 53)

Rasailah, rasa ini.
Hayatilah, hayat ini.
Jiwailah, jiwa ini
Kasihilah, kasih ini.
Cintailah, cinta ini.
Jalanilah, jalan ini.
Jalan yang membawa kepada jalan MENGENALI.
Sehingga bertemu dan dijemput ke pertemuan KEKAL ABADI.

Zeaf I-sahus
Si Cacat Cakap Cinta.

 Sorry for the long hiatus. Currently I have some tests. My schedule is very packed from now onwards. So, enjoy this entry.

This case is a must for every law student to understand. I have done a presentation on the law of tort of negligence. Praises are due to Allah, I did it very well. Therefore, I would like to share one case for all, even you are not a law student. This would add to your general knowledge.

Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100 is often referred to as the "Paisley snail" or the "snail in the bottle" case, and is one of the most famous decisions in British legal history. The case originated in Paisley, Scotland.


CASE FACTS

On the evening of Sunday 26 August 1928, May Donoghue and her friend took their seats in the Wellmeadow Café. Donoghue's friend ordered an ice-cream drink. The owner brought the order and poured part of an opaque bottle of ginger beer into a tumbler containing ice cream. Donoghue drank some of the contents and her friend lifted the bottle to pour the remainder of the ginger beer into the tumbler. It was claimed that the remains of a snail in a state of decomposition dropped out of the bottle into the tumbler. Donoghue later complained of stomach pain and her doctor diagnosed her as having gastroenteritis and being in a state of severe shock.

On 9 April 1929, Donoghue brought an action against David Stevenson, an aerated water manufacturer in Paisley, in which she claimed £500 as damages for injuries sustained by her through drinking ginger beer which had been manufactured by him. The writ lodged in the Court of Session alleged that May Donoghue had become ill with nervous shock and gastroenteritis after drinking part of the contents of an opaque bottle of ginger beer, and David Stevenson, the manufacturer, "owed her a duty to take reasonable care that ginger beer he manufactured, bottled, labelled and sealed, and invited her to buy, did not contain substances likely to cause her injury."

Counsel for the manufacturer denied that any such duty was owed but, in June 1930, the judge Lord Moncrieff ruled there was a case to answer. Stevenson appealed the ruling on a number of legal grounds, and the judges of the Inner House granted the appeal in November 1930, dismissing Donoghue's claim as having no legal basis following the authority of their earlier decision in Mullen v AG Barr. One of the judges said that "the only difference between Donoghue's case and the mouse cases was the difference between a rodent and a gastropod and in Scots law that meant no difference at all."

Donoghue's solicitor, Walter Leechman of W G Leechman & Co in Glasgow's West George Street, had already tried to establish liability against aerated water manufacturer A. G. Barr when a dead mouse was alleged to have found its way into a bottle of its ginger beer. However, an action for damages was rejected by the Inner House of the Court of Session, when the appeal court judges ruled that there was no legal authority allowing such an action.

Donoghue was allowed to appeal her case to the House of Lords but, whilst her legal team had agreed to provide their services free, she was unable to put up the security needed to ensure the other side's costs were met should she lose in the Lords. However, as such security would not be required if she could gain the status of a pauper, she petitioned the House of Lords, saying, "I am very poor and am not worth in all the world the sum of five pounds, my wearing apparel and the subject matter of the said appeal...". A certificate of poverty signed by a minister and two elders of her church was attached to the petition, and the House of Lords agreed to grant her pauper status.

Donoghue's counsel - George Morton KC and W. R. Milligan - argued that a manufacturer who puts a product intended for human consumption onto the market in a form that precludes examination before its use is liable for any damage caused if he fails to exercise reasonable care to ensure it is fit for human consumption. Stevenson's counsel - W. G. Normand KC and T. Elder Jones - argued that there was no authority for such a principle of law.

LEGAL PRINCIPLE

In common law, a person can claim damages from another person where that other person owed the first person a duty of care and harmed that person through their conduct in breach of that duty. This concept existed prior to Donoghue, but it was generally held that a duty of care was only owed in very specific circumstances, such as where a contract existed between two parties or where a manufacturer was making inherently dangerous products or was acting fraudulently.

There was no contractual relationship between Donoghue and the drinks manufacturer or even the café owner, as Donoghue had not ordered or paid for the drink herself. Although there was a contractual relationship between the café owner and Donoghue's friend, the friend had not been harmed by the ginger beer. As ginger beer was not a dangerous product, and the manufacturer had not fraudulently misrepresented it, the case also fell outside the scope of the established cases on product liability. On the face of it, the law therefore did not provide a remedy for Donoghue.

JUDGMENT

The leading judgment was delivered on 26 May 1932 by Lord Atkin. The most famous section was his explanation of the "neighbour" principle, which was derived from the Christian principle of "loving your neighbour".

"There must be, and is, some general conception of relations giving rise to a duty of care, of which the particular cases found in the books are but instances. ...The rule that you are to love your neighbour becomes in law you must not injure your neighbour; and the lawyer's question: Who is my neighbour? receives a restricted reply. You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Who, then, in law, is my neighbour? The answer seems to be - persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions that are called in question . . . a manufacturer of products, which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination, and with knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of products will result in an injury to the consumer's life or property, owes a duty to the consumer to take that reasonable care."

The case was returned to Scotland for the Court of Session to apply the ruling to the facts of the case. In the event, David Stevenson died within a year of the decision and his executors settled out of court, for less than the original claim of £500.


* This decision is still relevant today as if you have bought any product from a retailer that is faulty and it causes you injury this case will allow you to bring a claim for compensation.

Living on a shoestring budget is not easy. There are timrs when our pockets are empty even before the month has come to an end. The allowances given by KPT to us are decreasing. For those who take PTPTN loan, they have to pay back. Nothing in life comes free, we all know that!.

Living as a student has given me an opportunity for me to feel what students do and I can feel how much money are spent for tertiary education including fees, daily cost, unseen expenditure and so forth. I like to observe people. Living with them has taught me how we as students here can actually stretch the ringgit. Things have become expensive over the last couple of years and I personally feel that the tips I am about to cite below could teach us to be money-wise.

#1. Make a list when you go out to shop. This will prevent you from buying things on impulse. Shopping on impulse makes you waste money, that is, you end up purchasing things you do not actually need.

#2. If you smoke or spend a lot of your money buying reload credits or make-up, stop it. You will be surprised at how much money you can actually save.

#3. Do not be envious of friends who have big allowances or come from rich family. You cannot afford to spend like them if you are on a tight budget. Stop keeping up with the Joneses. Learn to live within you means.

#4. Do not go out often or unnecessarily. Be with your friends at the dormitory. You can watch movies, play indoor games and study together. Going out makes you spend money. However, going out once in two weeks would be necessary because all work and no play will make Jack a dull boy.

#5. Shop when there are sales or bargains. Things you need could go as low as 70 percent off their original price. Clearance sales or Year-End-Sales offer goods at knock-down prices too.

#6. Finally, there is nothing embarrassing about taking hand-me-downs. If you are offered used books, clothes or even electrical gadgets that are still in good condition, accept them gracefully. The person who offers you these items is probably very happy that he or she can be of some help to you. In addition you can take things that are left when students have semester leave. Usually, degree students will have an earlier holiday than others. They would leave some of their belongings because they could not take all home. They left them and those things are considered as trashes. So, don't be ashamed for collecting those trashes.

Why not try out tips I have mentioned above. These simple suggestions will help you to reduce stress caused by bad saving and spending habits.

Subuh itu kutolak Baqir menjadi imam. Lama sudah tidak mendengar alunan bacaan ayat-ayat suci al-Quran daripada insan yang qari. Tambahan pula, dia seorang 'sayyid' . Sayyid Baqir al-Munawwarah.

Hampir syuruk, kami ke bilik. Kawan-kawan lain sambung tidur, aku pun hampir sambung tidur.

Tiba-tiba Baqir membuka cerita.

Terus segar mataku.

Sudah lama tidak berbual sebegini. Aku masih ingat kali pertama Baqir dan aku bersembang dari waktu malam kira-kira jam 11 hingga awal pagi jam 4. Kami tidur lewat hari itu. Mujur kami tidur di surau, jika tidur di bilik mungkin sahaja terlepas solat Subuh.

 Itulah kenangan di TGB.

Banyak penceritaan kisah kehidupan kami kongsikan bersama. Antara aku dan dia. Antara aku dan DIA. Antara aku dan 'dia'.

Satu kisah menarik Baqir sampaikan.

Pabila seseorang itu nak mati pun syaitan akan cuba untuk syirikkan Allah.

Ada seorang yang sedang nazak. Saudara-mara, sahabat-sahabat dan keluarga berada di sisinya. Mereka cuba mengajar insan yang sedang nazak itu untuk mengucap. Mereka risau dan mencuba berkali-kali. Namun sepatah ayat pun tidak terungkap di mulut insan yang sedang nazak itu.

Mungkin lisannya tidak mengungkap, namun hati insan itu sentiasa ingat Allah. Walaubagaimanpun, hal ini tidak diketahui sanak-saudara di sampingnya.

Anak-anak yang bakal yatim. Isteri yang bakal janda. Sahabat-sahabat yang bakal hilang teman. Jiran-jiran yang bakal hilang anggota masyarakat. Semuanya meraung-raung, kerana dia tidak lagi melafazkan 2 kalimah sayahadah. Lantaran itu mereka merayu kepada si nazak dan terus mendesaknya untuk mengucap.

Syaitan pun menggunakan peluang ini bagi menyesatkan si nazak itu. Syaitan pun datang di sisinya membisikkan, " Angkatlah jari telunjukmu!! Beritahu orang kesayangan yang berada di sisimu bahawa kau sudahpun mengucap di dalam hati. Bahawasanya engkau telah bersyahadah."

Lantaran mengetahui itu bisikan syaitan, si nazak enggan seraya berkata. "Tidak, tidak. Aku tidak mahu syahadah ku di dalam hati ini, tergelincir dari paksinya. Aku bersyahadah di dalam hati dengan paksi LILLAHI TAA'LA. Bukan kerana selain dari-Nya. Bukan kerana mahu mententeramkan hati sanak-saudara, anak-anak dan istriku."

"Tidakkah kau kasihan melihat mereka meraung, menderita. Angkatlah tanganmu." syaitan terus mencucuk.
"Jika aku angkat tanganku, itu bererti aku bersyahadah kerana MEREKA. Biarlah mereka menagis air mata darah sekalipun. Biarlah mereka tidak tahu. Biarlah apapun berlaku. Syahadahku LILLAHI TA'ALA." si nazak itu pun meninggalkan dunia ini dengan Syahadah jitunya.

Pengajaran

Syaitan akan terus-menerus cuba untuk pesongkan niat kita. Untuk itu, satu method yang pernah aku pelajari adalah dengan cara IKHLAS NIAT.

Setiap amalan yang kita lakukan kita ikhlaskan niat kita pada tiga peringkat.

AWAL amalan. Aku buat ini kerana Allah.

PERTENGAHAN amalan. Aku buat ini masih kerana Allah.

AKHIR amalan. Aku buat ini memang kerana Allah.

Mudah-mudahan kita bakal terselamat daripada ancaman syaitan untuk pesongkan niat kita. Lebih-lebih lagi ketika nyawa diragut sakaratulmaut.

Masalah yang tak terjawab.

Lazimnya, dengan sambutan tahun baru, orang ramai akan bersemangat mahu melaksanakan azam baru. Namun aku terkecuali. Belakangan ini, akuberasa sungguh malas dan tidak bersemangat untuk melakukan apa kerja. Entah apa masalah yang aku hadapi pun aku tak tahu. Sering juga aku berfikir, mencari jawapan.

Pernah beberapa kali aku ditegur. dimarahi oleh rakan-rakan kerana tidak menyiapkan tugasan berkumpulan. Kerana ego, aku hampir melenting. Tetapi aku sedar, aku yang bersalah.

Hal ini ditambah lagi dengan kekecewaan yang aku hadapi dalam masalah pencapaian pelajaran. Bukan pointer Law UiTM. Tetapi MUET. Faham-faham sajalah.

Aku menjadi semakin Lemah. Letih. Lesu.

Aku langsung tak bersemangat.

Semua perkara yang aku buat tidak disertakan dengan jiwa dan semangat. Aku berasa seperti hidup ini tiada bergunanya lagi.

Suatu hari di surau, Abang Ilham datang kepadaku, "Sabtu ni pergi Sri Petaling. Teman Zul. Ajak lagi budak-budak Asasi lain. Budak degree dah nak blah ni. Budak Asasi lah yang kena sambung usaha ni,"

Aku hanya mengangguk tanda setuju, biarpun hatiku sedikit berat kerana memikirkan masalah-masalah baru yang datang disebabkan masalah awal iaitu tidak bersemangat.

Petang Sabtu

Aku fikir-fikir balik, ada baiknya aku ke Madrasah Sri Petaling ini. Mana tahu ada semangat aku untuk study kembali.

Aku tidak keseorangan. Ditemani Zulhilmi, Zulfikri, dan Firdaus.

Sepanjang perjalanan, aku perasaan kami digoda oleh kehadiran wanita-wanita comel. Menyedari perjalanan kami ini kerana Allah, kami buat-buat tak endah.



Sebaik sahaja sampai di kawasan Sri Petaling, kami melihat bumi bertuah itu telah dipenuhi dengan orang berserban. Aku dapat rasakan suasana agama ketika itu. Itulah kali kedua aku jejakkan kaki ke Masjid Sri Petaling itu. Kali pertama dahulu tidaklah seramai ini.

"Ya Rahman, selain untuk dapat reda Engkau, aku juga inginkan semangatku untuk belajar kembali." hatiku berniat.

Selepas Bayan(cerita/ceramah) Maghrib, aku memikirkan isi ceramah yang disampaikan dalam bahasa Tamil itu. Benar kata pembayan itu. Aku hampir tersedar bahawa aku ini sudah lama mengkufuri nikmat Allah.

"Satu orang yang hidup seribu tahun, sepanjang hidup dia hanya sujud untuk syukur, dia tetap tak dapat bayar nikmat Allah yang dia dapat.."

 Selepas Isyak, kami berta'am. Kami tak makan makanan disediakan, kami makan di luar Masjid kerana jumlah jemaah yang datang adalah berduyun-duyun sehingga terpaksa beratur panjang.

Selepas makan, kami membeli-belah. Sepanjang kunjungan aku ke kedai-kedai kecil di sana, pandanganku seringkali tertarik kepada sebuah beg. Setiap kedai menjual beg itu dengan harga RM136.

Aku masih tertanya-tanya. Sedangkan aku mencari buku, bukan beg. Aku pun mengambil keputusan untuk keluar dari kedai-kedai itu dengan tangan kosong. Kemudian kami terus ke tempat tidur.

Pagi Ahad, Semangatku.



Selepas menyempurnakan solat Subuh berjemaah, kami mendengar Bayan Subuh. Semangatku masih lagi tidak dapat dikembalikan. Aku masih lagi mencari semangatku di celah-celah isi ceramah yang disajikan. 
 Sehingga hampir habis bayan yang disampaikan, masalahku masih bersarang di hati. Ustaz yang sampaikan bayan pun tasykil jemaah yang mendengar.

"Semua sedia insya-Allah. Beri nama, beri azam. Cara masjid atau cara individu kita terima. Bangun tuan-tuan! Insya-Allah!," kata pembayan itu.

 Seorang lelaki tua dalam lingkungan umur hampir mencecah 70-an berdiri memberi azam.

"4 bulan, insya-Allah," katanya kepada pencatit nama dan duduk semula di tempat di mana ia bersila.

Tatkala itu, aku masih bersugul hati kerana masih tak dapat untuk kembalikan semangatku yang hilang.

"Nampaknya, tak ada gunanya aku datang Seri Petaling ni. Buang masa saja. Semangat aku tetap tak dapat kembali." getus hatiku.

Tiba-tiba lelaki tua itu mencuit bahuku.

"Adik, dalam hidup ni memang banyak masalah. Namun yakinlah tidak ada masalah yang dapat beri mudarat, yang tak dapat diselesaikan, melainkan dengan izin Allah...," kata beliau.

Sambunnya lagi," Ikut pak cik lafaz." aku pun mengangguk tanda setuju.

"La Ilaha Illallah! Makhluk tiada kuasa, Allah sahaja yang berkuasa. La Ilaha Illallah! Tidak ada yang boleh beri manfaat mudarat, melainkan Allah!. La Ilaha Illallah! Makan tak boleh beri kenyang, Allah yang beri kenyang. La Ilaha Illallah! Duit berjuta-juta, berbilion-billion, bertrillion-trillion dolar tak dapat beri kekayaan, melainkan izin Allah. La Ilaha Illallah! Angin tak dapat bertiup, melainkan dengan izin Allah. La Ilaha Illallah! Tidak ada yang dapat beri makan kepada manusia, hidupan, pokok-pokok, binatang haiwan, melainkan Allah. La Ilaha Illallah! Pisau tak dapat memotong,melainkan izin Allah. La Ilaha Illallah! Bom atom, bom nuklear, senjata dunia tak ada kuasa, Allah sahaja yang berkuasa. La Ilaha Illallah!..... La Ilaha Illallah!... La Ilaha Illallah!...................................................." pak cik itu mentalkinkan Kalimah ini kepadaku.

"Adik, jadilah daie. Siapa itu daie? Daie ialah orang yang banyak cakap La Ilaha Illallah!. Cakap macam pak cik ajar tadi. Beritahu mak ayah, beritahu adik beradik, jiran-jiran, orang kampung, kawan-kawan, sebarkanlah Kalimah ini ke seluruh alam." pesan terakhirnya sebelum beredar.

Hatiku masih tertanya-tanya, bagaimana pak cik tua ini tahu akan nawaitu aku. Aku pun mengejarnya lantas mencuit bahunya pula.

"Pak cik, nama pak cik apa?," tanyaku.

"Nama pak cik, Zulkifli," jawabnya.

"Saya Putera,.." belum sempat aku mahu menyambung ayatku dia terus memintas.

"Dah mantap?" soalnya.

"Apa yang mantap? Aku pula yang menyoalnya kembali.

"Kalimah tadi. Mari buat sekali lagi. Ikut pak cik cakap. La Ilaha Illallah!...." aku pun ditalkin buat kali kedua.

Tatkala proses mentalkinkan kalimah La Ilaha Illallah!, pandanganku tertarik kepada beg yang dipakainya.

"Itulah beg yang aku nampak semalam!!!!" teriak hatiku dalam kejutan. Mungkinkah ini suatu petunjuk.

"Adakah ini petunjuk Ya Allah?"

Habis sahaja proses mentalkin, aku pun bertanya sekali lagi di dalam hati.

"Kenapa pak cik ni tegur aku?"

Tiba-tiba sahaja..

"Pak cik duduk sebelah adik tadi kerana PERINTAH Allah. Allah perintahkan pak cik duduk sebelah adik" jawabnya. Aku berasa sungguh terkejut. Seakan-akan dia mendengar setiap suara hatiku.

"Adik Putera jadilah daie. Bila adik jadi daie, Allah akan tolong adik. Mintak pada Allah. Nafikan segala kuasa melainkan kuasa Allah. Siapa itu daie? Orang yang banyak cakap kalimah La Ilaha Illallah. Pada pagi ini, pak cik telah IJAZAHkan Kalimah ini kepada adik, untuk adik sebarkan. Pada bersumpah dengan nama Allah, di rumah Allah ini, adik ini orang yang Allah pilih. Letak sepenuh kepercayaan adik pada Allah." pesan terakhirnya.

Aku pun memeluknya,."Doakan saya pak cik,"..

Tiba-tiba sahaja semangat aku kembali. Pulang dari Masjid Seri Petaling, aku terus mengulangkaji pelajaran yang aku tinggalkan. Alhamdulillah, banyak topik yang dapat aku pelajari.

Aku harap semangatku ini akan terus kekal membara, menerajui kecemerlangan pada Semester II dan juga untuk ujian MUET yang bakal aku ambil semula. Aku tak akan mengalah..