Dalam toilet, ada sorang makcik, Indian, baru lepas keluar toilet. Dia senyum. Tak sure lah senyum lega ke apa, eh abaikan. Agagag.
No lah, I'm sure itu satu lemparan senyuman ikhlas dari lubuk hati untuk memulakan bicara dengan seorang stranger.
Senyum balik.
Selesai pinkan jubah, sekarang pinkan tudung...moh le gera..k..
"Adik kerja sini?" Masa tu ada Chocolate and Pastry Fair dekat KAED Gallery...
"Eh tak, saya student lagi.." Stop.
"I jual kacang-kacang dekat sini.."
"Ohh. Dekat sini, dekat mana?"
"Luar sana.. Tepi-tepi sana.. Tapi sedihlah.. I datang dari Ipoh, tapi takde orang nak beli.."
Tak tahu nak respon apa. Kesian, seriously. "Ohh jauhnya datang dari Ipoh... Tepi-tepi? Orang tak perasan kot.."
krik krik krik.
"Saya student kulliyyah ni je.." Senyum je, nak buat apa lagi.
"You study Islam ? Pengajian Islam?" Lupa, I said KULLIYYAH. -.-
"Tak.. Er.." Nak jawab student kulliyyah Architecture and Environmental Design, Applied Arts and Design panjang sangat, "Dalam bidang ni jugak, architecture.." In fact I'm planning to do Interior Archi, so yeah, I guess that will do.
Muka makcik tu terkejut. As expected. But then she smiled.
And I smiled back, minta diri, off we go to STABAZ yang jauh di hujung alam.
Itu satu cerita. Now keep that aside.
Plan lepas STABAZ nak gi Dr Zakir Naik's talk dekat PWTC... (btw, STABAZ jauh gila. Lalu AIKOL, senyaaaap sunyiii je. I thought budak Law bising2 belaka? Senyaaaaaap je ghupe kulliyyahnya. Gelapp. Gelita.. Hahah. hari tu semua gi STABAZ kot, bangunan AIKOL takde orang, mungkin)
Memang nak pergi sangat sangat ni. Daripada the previous one before this one lagi. Tapi masa tu semua busy. So macam, yg dekat PWTC ni jelah semua orang macam ada masa sikit.
Lupa nak inform dekat mak, ingat nak inform awal pagi lagi. masa on the way g LRT baru bagitau. Then mak ckp..
"Ok. Tak jadilah nak singgah UIA jap malam ni. Esok jelah.."
Now wait. Nooo. Tak boleh jadi. The whole family is coming, mesti patah balik. mesti..! Esoknya pulak kelas dari pukul 9-4, mesti patah balik. tak boleh tunggu esok! (tengah taknak mengaku rindu, oh well, you got me :P) Turun sampai LRT, naik teksi patah balik sorang-sorang. Yang lain gerak g PWTC.
And so I didnt go to the talk.
I keep telling myself, if it is meant to be, then it is meant to be. If it's not, then it's not. As simple as that. And who controls this? And who has the ultimate knowledge and justification of why these things are allowed to happen? Allah . Believe in Him. Believe in His timing, believe in His plans.
I didn't get to go to the talk but I get to spend some time with my whole family tolak Along. Bersempit dalam kereta sebab Yan ajak keluar gi Giant, Adik sat on my lap.. of which I will not be able to let him do that again unless he slims down as he gets older lulz.
Aaaanyway, now back to the first one. I've encountered a few similar situations.
Different reactions. Makcik tadi tu kira antara pleasant ones jugak lah.. daripada yang jawab
"uui.. meremang bulu roma dengar art-art ni.." yg jenis mmg pantang dengar seni-seni ni..
I even heard seniors from a particular tahfiz centre memang tak galakkan juniors dia amek bidang ni.
Or even those yg mmg dalam bidang ni tapi mcm tak yakin,
"I tengok stok-stok assalamualaikum wbt je ni..."
Sekali sekala bolehlah nk wat lek wat cool tapi to a certain extent, I find it disturbing.
ilmu Allah ni luas, terpulang pada kita yang nak meneroka, learn from geniuses of the field that we're in, manipulate or even innovate it to benefit the ummah, and most importantly, take back what was once ours. . Tak payah cerita panjang bab ni, semua orang tau. Cuma kena ingatkan.
My QSBE (Quran Sunnah and Built Environment) lecturer, Dr Spahic Omer, said (paraphrase) "Islam is the way of life, Islam is life. And when there's life, there's built environment. And what is built environment? Built environment is the framework of life..." "This environment is a fertile ground for evil doings - corruption/bribery, arrogance, etc. How do you avoid this? With, Taqwa. When one perceives architecture as a mean to serve God, he remembers that he will always be, number one, servant of God. Quran and Sunnah stop someone from evil.." Awesome lecturer by the way, rasa macam pergi international talk every week. Rasa macam masuk kelas Quotes and Sayings.. :P
Anyway, do you know why is this happening?
Cuz we're being judgmental. We judge people from their appearance and put them into specified fields yg kita dah kategorikan dalam minda kita. Got what I mean?
Man, what's up with that attitude?
Nak membebel pasal judgmental dah masuk satu bab lain. Mungkin perlukan buku berjilid. No, wait. Tak perlu sebenarnya.. kalau semua orang faham yang membezakan kita cuma taqwa.
Dang. Banyak membebel kebelakangan ni. I need to regain my calmness. Hahah.
3 org bernyanyi riang.:
salam syaza:)
been here in Brighton for a month++ makes me realise that arts are interesting:).u know,Brighton is famous because of its arts.i think kat malaysia people always look differently to those arts students.yeah,just like what u said.can i say,most of Malaysians are still narrow-minded??hahaha.kat sini kan,rmai ja muslim buat course arts related.ada siap pakai shawl labuh hingga ke lutut lagi,tapi usung drawing block/board.it's a norm here.just live the way u are:)
bestnya UIA. dalam semua course ada terapkan islamic values. semua lecturer cam penceramah je lol. can relate everything to islam, if the course we study is not 'islamic enough' for certain people.
ohai :D
just when i tot no one reads this pondok buruk anymore. :P
ummu; wsalam ummu :)) waah komen dari jauh :D tulah, macam dlm cite ibu mertuaku... kassim ahli musik jalanan. luls. :D
my course, ramai jugak yg tudung labuh, kopiah. tp some people still, you know, the not-yet-changed malaysian malay muslims' perception on 'budak agama'..
i miss the feeling dkt irshad, where you aren't judge by the tudung you wear cause back then semua org kena lebih paras siku. :')
thank you dear, anda jugaa :)
amalina; tu yg kadang2 akk rasa nk senyum sorang2.. walau pun ada yg mcm malu2 or even kadang2 mcm perli2 bila masukkan pasal agama dlm lecture, course objective ke apa, xkisahlah kan, at least kita teringat utk kaitkan seluruh hidup kita dgn Islam..
tapi naqibah akk, org turkey, akk tu ckp, "when i first came here, i was confused. am i in the right place? i couldn't find anything islamic here." hohohoh.
oh, depends jugak, ada je sbnarnya yg tak suka ckp pasal agama2 ni. heheh
eh haluuu :D
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