Friday, June 5, 2020

Al-Fathiha

The four Tafsir I am trying to follow.
1. Ibn-kathir, Tafsir ibn Kathir
2. Ibn-Arabi, ഖുർആൻറെറ ഉൾസാര വ്യാഖ്യാനം
3. Maybudi, Kashf al-asrar
4. Seyyed Hossein Nasr(editor), The study Quran

And the Quran
- The Noble Quran, Karya Bestari




Monday, May 18, 2020

KMCA Halaqa 2018-2020

This is the slide which I presented in the first KMCA general body meeting back in 2018.

Why Tarbiya ?
•The word “Tarbiya تربية”  in Arabic can have many different meanings, depending on context. Conventionally, Tarbiya means development and training. Linguistically, it means increase, growth, and loftiness.
•Training helps in rejuvenating the health of organization in long run
•Part of Kerala Muslims’ identity is based on regional and religious aspects. By embracing our identity, liberates one and they can better contribute to the wellness of overall community.
•Tarbiya activity should help in finding a common ground (ethics and law) to work towards the unity of the community.

Activities
•Halaqa is one of the main responsibility of Tharbiya wing.
• Knowledge: Halaqa should help members in achieving knowledge or motivate to seek it.
• Dua: Also take part in Dua and thereby seek mercy and forgiveness from Allah
•Youth Program
•A bimonthly Halaqa for youth volunteered by parents.
•Our stretch goal is to conduct a Tarbiya fest with kids activity, family quiz and a talk from an external speaker.

Calendar
•Monthly Halaqa – 2nd/3rd Saturday of every month.
•First Halaqa on August 18th Saturday at MCA
•Tharbiya Fest – January (tentative)
•A bimonthly Halaqa for youth (boys) volunteered by parents (in planning)

Halaqa rough notes (just for me :) ):

08/18/2018:
Yaseen: 1-9
Br. Anis class.
"Whoever amongst you sees an evil, he must change it with his hand. If he is not able to do so, then with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then with his heart, and that is the weakest form of faith"
* Why someone doing wrong ?
1. Out of Ignorance
2. Out of necessity/Force
3. Before (?)
* (When you see an evil ), Change it by hand, by speech and by heart
* Widely misunderstood Hadith
* Shaithan Thettu cheyyunundu (I don’t remember the rest)

9/29/2018:
Yaseen: 10 - 17 (Explanation pending)
Shanavas Bhai - hajj reflections
* Hajj is a trial
Mayatha mudrakal
* First 2 page. 12
Riyadhu Swaliheen
* Hadhees 1,2
Fath'hul mu'een
* Page 45: Niskarikkal obligatory

10/27/2018:
Yaseen: 18-21
Nasid's class:
* About Dua
* Three aspects about Dua - love, hope and fear
Mayatha mudrakal
* Story 3,4 page. 13
Riyadhu Swaliheen
* Hadhees 3,4
Fath'hul mu'een
* Page 45: Vittu poya namaskaram ( 2 paragraph )

12/15/2018:
Yaseen: 22-30
Shyju's class:
* LEGACY: One's legacy for here.
* For the next generation
* Ibrahim (A)'s prayer to find him as a righteous person.
1. Knowledge about deen
2. Make Dua
3. Start aiming high

Mayatha mudrakal (5,6,7)

2/23/2019:
Yaseen: 30-36
Habeeb's Class:
Importance of Thajweed:
* Pronounce word correctly
* Apply rules
* Understand the difference between Clear mistakes vs Hidden mistakes
*Parenting class* - Br Yasser

Ramadan Halaqa (2019)
5/11 - Janab Shahu (Sr Sumayya’s father) Surah al-Burooj - @ SBIA
5/18 - Br. Shyju - Surah al-Dhuha - @ TBD
5/25 - Br. Rayees. Quran class - @ TBD
6/1 - Br. Sirjad - Surah al-Ghashiyah- @ TBD
Br Shine is planning to cover some basic tips of Arabic language after the Quran class.

7/20/2019:
Me - Absent

HAJJ :)

11/2/2019:
Yaseen:
* Time of revelation: In the sorrowful years - Death of Abu Talib and Khadheeja (RA), mistreatment from Taif
Sameer's Class:
* Diseases of Heart
* It’s symptoms, cause and care
* Verify an organ is healthy
* Allah looks our heart and deed
- Dua: Ya Mukhallib al-khuloob thabbhith khalbee a'la dheenik

12/4/2019:
Yaseen: 41 - 50
* What is Money ? Individual owned, Government created/backed by economy - no gold standard
* You give charity
* In bible: You cannot serve God and Money - Matthew 6:24, Do not lay up for yourseleves treasures.
* In Quran: Everything belongs to Allah
Faisal Chemban's class:
* Stress and anxiety and it’s Islamic perspective
* loosing life
 -> excessive thought/worry
* Stress, it’s part of being human.
* Prophet's period of sorrow followed by establishment of prayer
* Solution:
1. Breathing exercise
2. Turn to Allah - prayer
3. Be Grateful for all our blessings
4. Doing bad will hurt you / So smile to others.
5. Go to your loved ones - your wife.
Jamsheed's Dua

2/29/2020:
Yaseen:
Rayees N's Class:
* Signs of day of Judgement
* 50 Signs
* Judgement is very close (Hadith)
* Coming of Prophet is a sign of day of judgement.
* Ottomon Empire
* Arabian large buildings
* Obesity
* Coming of Mehdi, ISA(A) and Dajjal
* 10 major Sins
Nasid's Dua: Mentioned Abheesh

4/4/2020:
Yaseen: 59-65
Yasser's class:
* Siyam
* Siyam meaning: Abstention
* From eating and drinking
* Goal of Siyam
 - To gain Taqwa
 - Become righteous person
 * Rukun of Fasting
 Shanavas' Hadith class on Calamity

 Ramadan Halaqa (2020):
 Apr 26th:
o Surah Yousuf: Section 1 by Br. Nsaid and Section 2 Br. Samad
o Hadith Class and Dua by Br. Shajeeb Topic: Superiority of asking forgiveness for parents
May 3rd:
o Surah Yousuf: Section 3 by Br. Shine
o Hadith Class and Dua by Br. Shabeer - Supererogatory Prayers (Nafl Prayers)
May 10th:
o Surah Yousuf: Section 4 by Br. Sirjad
o Hadith Class and Dua by Br. Sabik - (SABR)
May 17th:
o Surah Yousuf: Section 6 by Br. Shyju and Section 6 Br. Samad
o Hadith Class and Dua by Br. Naseer (One Third)

Sunday, April 26, 2020

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon

Thanks for this wonderful story. Next time when I see children with special needs, I hope I will see things in a different light. This story could be very well a real one in our community. It depicts the alternative reality perceived by people with special needs. Very good thriller!

Monday, April 6, 2020

Refreshing Basheer !!

Read three short stories from Basheer. Very refreshing!! Made my day.
വിശ്വവിഖ്യാതമായ മൂക്ക്
നീതിന്യായം
പഴയ ഒരു കൊച്ചു പ്രേമകഥ

Friday, March 20, 2020

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS is simply amazing. It makes IT simple and agile to the end customer. Backed up by security aspects ingrained ground up, this is one of the best thing I’ve learnt. This book cover cloud computing in general, Amazon S3, EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, IAM, Amazon RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, SQS, SWF, SNS, DNS and Route 53, Elasticache with memcached and redis, CloudFront, AWS storage gateway, AWS directory service, KMS and CloudHSM,  CloudTrail, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, data pipeline, Import/Export, OpsWorks, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, Trusted Advisor and AWS Config.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

An Introduction to GCC by Brian Gough

This book is a beginner's guide on GCC and covers the topic comprehensively. The topics I like most are Compilation options, optimization and tools section. Its amazing that a high quality tool, like this, developed by open source community. Great book and a great tool!

Recommended option: gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings
To core dump: ulimit -c unlimited
GDB command: gdb a.out core
Optimization level: -O0 to -O3
Verbose debugging: gcc -v
Prevent excessive memory usage: ulimit -v limit
Prevent excessive memory usage soft limit : ulimit -S -v limit
GNU archiver to create: ar cr
GNU archiver to list .o: ar t
Profiler gprof: gcc -pg file.c, gprof a.out
Code coverage gcov: gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage cov.c, gcov cov.c
Tool-chain:
  Preprocessing: cpp
                           gcc --save-temps
  To assembly:  gcc -S
  Assembly to machine: as file.s -o file.o
  Linker: ld -dynamic-linker

To find details of a.out: file a.out
Examining symbol table: nm a.out
Find dynamically linked libraries: ldd a.out

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

The witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

This is the story of a witch and her making. It’s the transcript of her story from people she knew. Through her, the author introduced more loving feminine God. And finally she vanished to obscurity.

Ka’aba

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