Program Moments for Palestine di IMS Bangalore: let the pictures talk.

Alhamdulillah, Dengan Rahmat dan Limpah kurniaNya, program Moments for Palestine berjalan dengan lancar. Dengan kehadiran seramai lebih kurang 200 orang pelajar, program ini dapat membuka minda pelajar tentang isu terkini di Palestine. Terima Kasih kepada Akhi Zafry yang secara sukarela datang ke India untuk berkongsi banyak perkara. Tidak perlu saya mengulas banyak. Cukuplah dengan gambar-gambar yang dirakam:

Moments for Palestine in IMS Bangalore

Update on Medical Relief to Gaza; What Islamic Medical Assocations are doing...

I am now updating what have been posted on PPIM-net, a yahoo group for
all IMAM members... This is an email for all Islamic Medical
Association all over the world updating the Medical Relief effort for
GAZA. Please read through to know what happen on the Humanitarian
effort of IMAM.

Sincerely,
Anas Aminin

Day 21 Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza - Summary of major medical relief
efforts

a.. Gaza has been under merciless unabated bombardment via aerial, sea
and land attacks since 27 December 2008.
b.. Currently, there are more than 1,000 deaths, 5,000 injured and 50,
000 displaced from their homes.
c.. Social structures namely homes, schools, mosques, hospitals,
communication lines, fuel supplies have not been spared.
d.. The constant blockade of all borders have prevented essential
supplies from crossing into Gaza resulting in a grave humanitarian crisis
e.. Hospitals are totally dysfunctional as a result of the following
disruptions:
. No electricity: operating on generators but no fuel available

. No medical support (equipment, drugs, consumables)

. Staff overwhelmed, medical services targeted with many deaths reported

. Severe injuries often fatal due to inadequate care increasing the
death toll

1.. COMMUNICATIONS:
. Dr Azhar Aziz, Qatar (presently in Gaza)

. Dr M Ikram, IMA Malaysia & MERCY Malaysia (presently in Gaza)

. Dr Malik Mahmoud, Partners International Medical Aid (in Gaza)

. Dr Jemilah Mahmood, MERCY Malaysia (recently returned from 1st
successful mission to Gaza)

. Dr Khaled Hanafy, AMU Egypt (Arab Medical Union)

. Dr Muneer Bursh and Dr Madhat Abbas, Ministry of Health, Gaza

. Dr Ashraf Jedaar, FIMA (South Africa); Dr Aly Misha'Al, FIMA
(Jordan), Dr Musa Mohd. Nordin, FIMA (Malaysia)

2. FIRST RESPONSE:

. Doctors World Wide (IMA Turkey) - 2 trucks (43 tons) procured in
Cairo, transported to Rafah border (USD 300,000) when border crossing
first opened.

. MERCY Malaysia - $100,000 medical equipment, consumables and drugs
(5 trucks, 50 tons) delivered to MOH Gaza upon border opening. Another
$100,000 consignment procured in Cairo for delivery.

. MER-C Indonesia - sent a medical team along with medical supplies
since the start of conflict

. When borders opened to medical professionals, 21 doctors entered and
40 the following day.

. AMU delivered 200 units of blood, 1,000 units the following day

3. COLLECTIONS:

. Jamaah Islah Malaysia (JIM) - USD 42, 400

. IMA South Africa - USD 60,000

. IMA Pakistan - USD 17 500

. IMA North America - pending

4. PENDING:

. Sudan relief agencies & IMA Sudan - 1 jumbo jet to Arish ( 40 tons,
ambulances to be purchased in Egypt, team of surgeons and
anaesthesiologists)

. Gift of the Givers & IMA South Africa - 1 jumbo jet of medical goods
(74 tons) to Jordan (but we have advised against this due to border
closure) + 20 doctors, nurses & paramedics

. DWW Turkey & relief agencies - 13 ambulances & surgical relief team
due next week for Gaza. Total so far deployed USD 500,000.

. IMA North America - surgical team on standby

5. IMA PALESTINE:

a.. Operations shut down by the Palestinian Authority in West Bank


6. IMA EGYPT:

a.. IMA Egypt has a wide network of private hospitals and with AMU,
are helping with purchases of medicines, equipments and consumables
since they are familiar with the warehousing & other logistics


Our hearts and prayers are with the innocent men, women and children
massacred or maimed by this vicious invasion of Gaza. All monies
collected will be deposited directly with the Ministry of Health in
Gaza for the procurement of the much needed medical supplies in Cairo.

"so much to do but very little time"

Jazakumullahu Khair.

Dr. Ashraf Jedaar, FIMA Relief Coordinator

Why must IMAM?... a note on the principle behind IMAM India SC

Nowadays the famous topic amongst my fellow Malaysian bloggers all over the world is Palestine. Its a big cry and shouts of bloggers over the fouls happening in the blessed land of Jerusalem. My prayer for all the mujaheedin and mujahidaat in Palestine... They are in the front line of our war with the oppressors.

I am not to discuss about Palestine in this entry. Enough with all the good entries done by my fellow friends for the Palestinian. May Allah bless every single second of your time you sacrifice on the key board. Remember... words are sharper than swords. Its the element used for revolutions and changes in times of history.

This is about the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (IMAM) India SC. The association has been here in India for over 5 months already. It had gotten names among the Malaysian students. But only names.. not the understandings except for a few people. We must agree by the sunnah that every single things created by Allah got its own hikmah or -in philosophical term- principle. Even a pebble stone got its own principle or purpose.

Now, IMAM India SC is a creation of man. But we need to learn from Allah's creation. We must learn how Allah's creation succeeded in doing its function in this earth. We must learn how the bees succeeded in finding the honey, store it, ferment it with natural biotechnology and present it to us human being for us to drink and get healthy from it. From that spirit, we must learn the sunnah of Allah in assuring success in everything that we do and we strive for...

Principles... what is the principles behind IMAM? On what basis it is formed? I always stress this in my pamphlet, articles and speeches (i do make speech? poyo jer) as well. IMAM is the platform for networking among Malaysian healthcare professionals. With networking a lot of things can be done.

IMAM unite people under one roof of idea. Which is to de-secularize health industry among the healthcare professionals. For over decades, Muslims are much being secularized. We noticed that besides all the already existed fractions among the Muslims like Shia', Sunni, and the tribal factions, Muslims are further de-united by the presence of another large group which are the secular Muslims.

Indeed, the Islamic Khilafah falls because of the secular factions of the Muslims. The father of all the Secular Muslim- Attartuk. Now, why does the secular Muslim triumph over the non-secular Muslims? This is because, over decades, the non-secular Muslims are at large, uneducated. All the education they have is obtained from the Madrasah, being educated with the so-called 'ilmu agama'. They are far left behind by the advancements of sciences and technology which several hundreds years ago are the expertice of the Muslims.

On the other hand, the secular Muslims are at large educated with the scienctific knowledge, technology, economy etc. According to Allah's law, people who master all these knowledge will be able to advance in this world. They'll be able to achieve a certain level of civilization just like what the western world is achieving. With this, the secular Muslim triumphed over the non-secular Muslims, hence overtaking the last Khalifah and subsequently destroying it.

However, it's not the secular Muslim's fault alone. The non-secular Muslim that I'm refering to in this article are also contributing to the fall of the Khilafah. They did because they did'nt master the science, technology and the economy. Simply saying, THEY ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL.

Now, what we need in order to achieve back the glory of Islam, are the PROFESSIONALS that understand and live up the very basic principles of Islam. In other words, we need Mukmin Professionals not Mullahs alone.

IMAM is the platform to bridge secularism and professionalism. Its strive is to bring back professionalism into Islam. The West becomes the Order of the world or in the arabic word, Ustaziatul Alam because of their achievements, because of their professionalism. In order to bring back the throne of the world's Order to the Muslim which supposed to bring peace all over the world with its beautifull and perfect humanely principles, we need to regain back our expertise, our professionalism.

By bringing back what the Muslims own, we can solve many humanity crisis all over the world, including the PALESTINE crisis.

Bridging secularism and professionalism with Islam...

Wallahuallam.

There's a blast in Bangalore...

All students are gathering in the human experiment lab of the Physiology Department (that includes me of course). We were here to claim our third IA's mark on physiology paper. Thank God I passed the paper...

Dr Suresh, the Physiology Head of Deparment came into the room. There's a seriousness in his face.

"Dzul... come here, I need you to make an important announcement" beckon Dr Suresh towards Dzula. I saw Dzula rushing towards Dr Suresh while Im sitting cordially on a chair in the Human Experiment lab of Physiology Department inspecting my third Internal Physiology paper together with the rest of the students.

Dzula came back to the crowd in the lab. Calm in his face... nothing shocking... he even put a smile.. a childish smile.

"Er... Perhatian semua... This is very important... Dr Suresh nasihat semua orang supaya jangan pergi ke town... Don't go to MG Road, Garuda semua tu. Saya tahu semua orang eager nak keluar town time-time lepas exam macam ni... tapi saya harap korang stay put and balik ke apartment dulu kot... Sebab ada siri Pengeboman di Bangalore. Setakat ni ada 5 bombing berlaku. Jadi untuk keselamatan saya harap semua orang balik rumah dulu kot."

A bombing... Bangalore is under terrorist attack

Knowledge, Understanding and amal (Tribute to akh Zafry)

"Anas, can you briefly describe your understanding upon this 1st chapter of Muntalak?"

I was dumbfounded... I couldn't do it. I couldn't describe my understanding upon this chapter. I totally forgot what is being discussed in this chapter. The whole chapter has been discussed extensively over the period of a few months with our previous naqib, akh Aizuddin. Upon all these months i came to forget everything. MashaAllah.. what has befallen on me?

Life has a specific rule on knowledge and understanding. The rule is those who understand a particular knowledge will be able to apply it. Knowledge coupled with pure understanding results in perfect application. This rule applies to any type of knowledge be it ukhrawi or duniawi.

A surgeon doing surgery on the GIT will be able to have an image of every relations of the stomach, duodenum, jejunum etc in his mind. He'll be able to project a 3D image of the whole system in his mind. Then when he's in the surgery he'll be able to implement it without any potential injury to the important blood vessels and nerves which appears in the surrounding. This is knowledge plus understanding.

I've been taught knowledge. Knowledge about the relation between the wahyu(revelation) and al-hawa(undue desire). We have discussed in our weekly online halaqat that wahyu will never go hand in hand with hawa... that life has two attractions; the Islamic attraction which is always good and the satanic attraction which is always bad... that one who's involve in da'wa need to get rid the al-hawa from his life.. totally get rid of it. This concept has been discussed thoroughly over a substantial period of time.

I was shocked, sad and I felt ashamed. Till now, the question put forward by akh Zafry still ringing clearly in my limbic... it keeps circulating there in the limbic, making laps upon the circular neuronal pathways that make up the emotional and temporary memory system.

Its profoundly clear that my knowledge in this 1st chapter of muntalak has not come with understanding. It hence resulted in my failure to apply it. Knowledge been taught that I must free myself from all the undue desire that chained my life; then only I can focus on learning, understand and thus reverberate the revelation to people in my surroundings.

For not understanding this knowledge, I've done many things unpardonable...of which I couldn't reveal to anybody. Only Allah Knows the best. He's closer than my own jugular vein. He Knows everything that I've done. Everything that answers the hawa... not the wahyu.

The axiom never fail: I learn + I don't understand = Im not applying the knowledge
= I keep indulging myself with hawa nafsu

The conversation with akh Zafry reverberate again in my ears:

..........."Anas.... boleh tak beritahu ana apa yang anta faham dari chapter lepas?"
..........."errr... urrmmmm... haisssyyy... akh Zafry.... minta maaf..... urmmm..... ana dah lupa laaa... urmm...."

Diam.... hanya bunyi horn lori di jalanan Bangalore mengisi ruang conference maya....

........"Oklah... kalau macam tu kita revise balik chapter lepas... kita tak boleh teruskan chapter seterusnya tanpa pemahaman chapter pertama...."

Fortunate me. Akh Zafry was so kind to help me revising what I did not understand and subsequently forgot...


"O Allah, protect me from my own hands, eyes and ears!"

ps: Third IA is coming in 7 days... I wrote this while pausing my study on the abdominal aorta

Jane, Chaurasia, Satya and Freakonomics(only some snippets)

Jane, Chaurasia and Satya... who are these? Friends? Indeed they are. They are my best friends nowadays... and they are to continue becoming my best friends at least for another month... Question is, who are they? Haha.... they are respectively the Indian authors of Physiology, Anatomy and Biochemistry text book. In the preceding 1 month they are to be my companion, my very best and good companion... because in one month, I'm having my professional examination. 1st MBBS professional examination.
Quoting my seniors notion on this crucial exam: "This is between life and death... so no wonder you guys are so stubborn to get up and come to Subuh prayer at F15" (ironic heh? hehe). By the way it is true in its truest sense. It's so crucial that failing is of no option and totally unpardonable. Repeating will be cost me a fortune.
So... hurm ... Fraekonomics? What the freak? I call this book as my study pause book. Reading Jane, chau chau and Satya often makes my frontal lobe goes fatigue... pausing for a sip of some economics fact will reduce its ischaemic state.
So... Srinivas says that exam comes and goes but knowledge remains... I want to add something to this philosophical thought of a 26 year old anatomy lecturer... exam comes and goes and never come again... but knowledge need to be retained in your frontal lobe. For God's sake they'll ask you the relation of profunda brachii artery when you are in the second year and the consecutive years.