A New Phase

It's been 9 months now since I've become a parent.

For start, my life has changed and it's all about the little one right now. If I could sum these 9 months up, it would be like a mix of every new tasks & responsibilities, new feelings and countless things to consider thrown in together. Whatever I do, I have to think what's best for Afnan.

A Bundle of Joy

Time flies so fast when you become a father. It has been almost six months since I first hold my little son, Ahmad Afnan. Yeah it's been quite a while but I still remember every bit of Afnan's first day. Let's start with the day prior to Rahmah delivered Afnan.

It was 28th October 2014. It's Afnan's EDD (estimated due date). I remembered waking up feeling so excited, that if Afnan turned out to delivered later than that day, I'll be dissapointed loll. That morning, she looked okay. So okay that if I remember correctly, that morning she even do some house cleaning. Fast forward it was already noon, and we went for a lunch. But she didn't seem to enjoy her lunch very much. I asked whether we should go to our gynae for inspection. And we did; our doctor then asked us to stay for further examination after discovered that Rahmah was 3cm dilated.

Student of Knowledge

Assalamualaikum.

How is it going guys? Had a good weekend? Alhamdulilah I myself had a pretty good one. Let's start with last Thursday. My wife and I went for a talk in IIUM. It was given by Sheikh Navaid Aziz where we first heard him on our very first Twins of Faith. Prior to the talk, I remember he was hands full of stories that are both inspiring and full of lessons. And he was, again that night. The talk was on You Only Live Once, or YOLO to be short. This philosophy is what our youth nowadays live by. At least by majority of youths all around the social media. From what I can understand, YOLO means that you can do whatever you want because you only got to live once, especially when you do the crazy ones! From embarrassing yourself to indulge in sins, nauzubillah. But still, there are positivity behind this idea. Sheikh Navaid said that since you only live once, you got to seize the day and make the most of it. This dunya we live in is short for a reason; it is the place for us to sow the seeds, to do what Allah instructs and leave what He forbids as we will reap the rewards later in the Hereafter.

The next day, I was looking forward to hear Mufti Menk friday khutbah in Masjid Tun Abdul Aziz PJ. That morning I was actually kind of busy but alhamdulillah I got to the masjid in time. Suprisingly the masjid was not really full house when I first arrived. I reckon it was partially because most people didn't really know that he would be delivering the khutbah since I myself knew on Facebook. This is my actually my first time hearing Mufti Menk live. I got to listen to him a couple of times but most of them were on Youtube. Anyway, back to the real story here, Mufti Menk talked on Allah test gives on us. He asked the jamaah to wonder why did Allah create this dunya to be temporary and not forever? Because if it's forever there would not be tests and difficulties. Allah made it temporary so we would strive the very best that we can for us to book a ticket in His Paradise, insha Allah. He also talked about how the greater the difficulty the greater the reward we'll get if we only really understand how it would benefits us. One would not be crying in his prayers if one never got to face any kind of tests whatsoever in one's life. One would not be learning life's greatest lessons if life's on the right track all the time. Because the greatest life lessons were learnt when we were at our lowest.

May Allah make easy for us and may Allah make us to be always grateful for all the blessings He bestows upon us. Ameen.