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23 Feb - As usual, the Tuesday Study Session this week was divided into two sessions, the Tazkirah and the lecture session. This week the Tazkirah was delivered by ISDEV ASTS Fellow Ustazah Azrin Ibrahim. She talked about a Pencil. To her, there are 5 types of lessons that can be extracted from a pencil. Firstly, pencil reminds us that we can do great things in this life. But one has to be conscious that there is always a guiding hand in this life. It's Allah SWT. He always guide us according to His will. Secondly, when sharpened, a pencil could hurt but this is not its aim. Its sharpness is meant to smoothen the writings. In lives, trials and tests certainly make us feel sore and painful. But be assured that there are wisdoms behind them, at least to make us better than ever. Thirdly, a pencil always give us the opportunity to capitalize on the eraser, correcting the wrong words. Therefore, eliminate our wrong-doings to get better attitude. Fourthly, the most important pa...

6 Dec- Proud and arrogant. These are the two negative traits that should not be in all human beings. That was what Ustaz Shukri Hanapi stressed in his Tazkirah for this week Tuesday's lecture. According to him, based from the verses in the Quran there is nothing to be proud of with our abilities and possessions. This is because all that happens is through Allah SWT authority and permission. He gave an example of someone embued with a beautiful face, wealth, position and advantages that are not owned bt other people and that these traits could become the main cause that made that person forget the advantages of these given traits. It should be noted there is no perfect human nature. Perhaps we are given the added advantage in certain traits but we have disadvantages from the perspective of others. So we must not be proud and arrogant because nobody is perfect. The second session continued with Ustaz Syahir who focused on Tajwid. He continued his lessons on the variety of Al-Madud...

8 Nov - 10th of Zulhijah would be a historical event for all Muslims. 'Sacrifice', is a word which carries multiple meanings and interpretations for each individual, but for sure the story behind that date would be a lessons for all Muslims. In conjunction with the recent Eid -al Adha that was celebrated by Muslims all countries in the world, Ustaz Yasir also took the opportunity by recalling the events that took place between Prophet Ibrahim As and his son Prophet Ismail AS that led to the events of the Sacrifice. The story started from the beginning till the end of the events of the Sacrifice which had involved them both. The session become calm and melancholy when each attendees began to feel the sacrifice made, and are aware of the lessons to be collected based on the story. For women, Siti Hajar's sacrifices taught one that a wife must be willing to sacrifice her feelings to her husband and son who both wanted to obey Allah's commandments, and striving for Allah ...

1 Nov - This week's lecture was held at C23, School of Social Sciences. As usual, the Tuesdays Teaching were divided into two sessions which started with the Tazkirah session followed by the lecture session. The Tazkirah session was delivered by Brother Ridwan Nurdin who talked on the topic pertaining to 'Wanton Wastefulness in Islam'. According to him, Ibnu al-Qayum al-Jauziah has said that there are 9 types of wastage in Islam such as wastage in knowledge, deeds, wealth, the heart, the body, love, time, the mind, and zikir (remembering of Allah SWT) if it does not give any effect to the heart. The second session then was led by Ustaz Yasir Yusuf who talked on 'Chapter of Marriage' with the focus on 'Personalities of Spouse'. The question and answer session which ensued as definitely lively as a number of queries were fielded to Ustaz Yasir who had managed to answer them all well.

25 October - This week's lecture was held at C23 with more than 30 students including lecturers as well as Director and Deputy Director of ISDEV attending. The Tazkirah session was delivered by Ustaz Shahir Akram while the lecture session was given by Ustaz Syakir. The topics of the teachings for that day were linked to each other. The Tazkirah was about "knowledge". According to Ustaz Shahir, before making a decision to learn any knowledge, one must first identify that the knowledge is derived from true sources, as mentioned in famous saying which brings forth the meaning in " Do not follow a knowledge if you do not know because all will be asked and accounted for later in the Hereafter" ( Janganlah kamu mengikuti sesuatu ilmu sekiranya kamu tidak tahu kerana semuanya akan ditanya di akhirat nanti ). Ustaz Syakir then continued the lecture session with a reminder that once knowledge is obtained one had to be persistent ( gigih ), diligent ( tekun ) and stand fi...