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The Prophet Muhammad PBUH Solat
Assalamualaikum,
To my Muslim Brothers and Sisters, I went to a talk yesterday by Hj Rosli. It was an intersting one. He talked about how the Prophet PBUH did his prayers/solat. I believed that this is an important aspect of a life of a Muslim and we should learn on how the Prophet did his prayers. As making the wudhu’ is an important part of performing the Solat, that was his topic yesterday. I find it fairly interesting as he mentioned of various aspect of making the wudhu’ according to how the prophet did it. He mentioned it with references from the hadith which I believed from a University student point of view to be very beneficial it shows how Islam prioritises referencing of knowledge. But that would be a different topic that InsyaAllah I will mention.
I realised that I don’t know enough on how the Prophet did his wudhu’. This talk opened my eyes and dismissed the misconception that I had from my school years. I am appalled that the curriculum is not accurate enough on how the Prophet did his wudhu’. With regards to this, a few questions that I would like to ask my fellow muslims:
1. Did you know that the Prophet can performed his wudhu’ with only one hand scoop of water? Islam does not encourage wastefulness.
2. Did you know that you only need to wipe your head once? The prophet only wipe his head once for wudhu’, not 3 times as we have learnt before.
3. Did you know that you need to wipe your whole head? The method of only washing 3 strands of hair is from a hadith that is weak. Please correct your practices.
4. Did you know that touching your private parts does not require you to make wudhu’ again?
5. Did you know that if you touched your spouse, you don’t have to make wudhu’ again?
If you do not know all of this, I would suggest you to watch the talk by Hj Rosli
This is the first part of his talk. There are a few parts in it and I would suggest you to watch all of it in whole. It is very useful for our knowledge, Insya-Allah. May Allah bless us.
With appreciation to Nizam for his outstanding efforts.
Wassalamualaikum
Wivenhoe and Ipswich
It has been a while since I have posted my stuff into this speck that is called the internet. But I have been busy with uni, exams and traveling. Alright, I’ll start talking about my travel to West of QLD. It was a trip with my friends, Ali, Han Lin and Sol. Ali rented a car (Nice ‘little’ Ford Falcom XR6). So then we were on our way to Wivenhoe damn and UQ Ipswich Campus. But before that, we went to Mt Cootha and captured the sunrise as it fell on Brisbane City early in the morn. Imagine, 6.30 AM in Winter. Man, that was intense and cold. But, all for the sake of photography. This is one of the photos I managed to take. For other photos, take a look at my facebook account. I’m just too lazy with uploading them over here.
Then we went and picked up Sol from his Corinda house. That is a journey in itself. We stopped by his house and cooked some brekky and at the same time being disturbed by this big cat. Lolz. Soon (kind of like one hour later), we were on our way. Since I was watching Wimbeldon the whole night, I typically fell asleep the whole journey. Imagine that intense five setter with a 30 game final set. Actually, now to think of it. It doesn’t make much difference. Only that watching someone achieve greatness is kind of cool. We’ll talk about it some other time, I guess. Then, I realised that I am already there at the dam. It has quite a nice view actually. Not bad to think about it. We took some photos and then we set off again.
Ali and Hanlin did some test drive with the car while me and Sol were out (tennis fatigue). Then we reached some shopping complex in Ipswich. We basically ate lunch there. Well, Nandos was our only salvation for meat over there of course. Then, by some weird chance, the guy manning the counter overcharge me in the bill. That did cause me some confusion and then we were given a bottle of coke from the guy. Then we asked him back, without drinking the coke of course, how much is it supposed to be. Then he admitted that he charged us for the coke and we got our money back. Well that was close, I prefer to drink plain water instead of coke (because plain water was free of course). Then we set off to UQ Ipswich.
UQ Ipswich is much smaller than St Lucia. I guess the student population is much smaller than that of St Lucia. I mean, who would want to study in Ipswich? I prefer a bit of city life I guess. The best thing was the library. It got plants in it. More like the library is in the forest. I have a hunch that this is the library that is shown in the UQ promos. Imagine students would be impressed to study in a forest. How calming would that be? Haha.
Then we started our journey home. It was an interesting and refreshing (from the sleep) journey. That is it for my first part of my holiday travel log. I’ll post more once I have the time. Thesis is going to murder me.
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