Half Glass of Water

“What is the most effective way of Dakwah (Making an invitation towards Islam)?” One of my friends asked. “As we know that most non Muslim has no idea what Islam really about. Islam is the eternal light of our life, our soul and salvation to afterlife.”

“Dakwah is not an easy task. Before we invite non Muslim to have a brief knowledge about Islam, what is our role to emphasize Islam is the right path? Non Muslim friends tend to judge our behavior and speech as a Muslim, it might reflects our personality and the image of Islam itself. How do we going to convince people that Islam is the right path of human being while we are on the opposite way?”

Hidden Writer

“Your father and I are feeling very upset with you, how dare you publish your conversion to Islam into magazine? Do you ever realize that the whole world will be laughing at us?” My mother spoke to me via mobile phone.

“Stop writing any article at internet anymore, your father open the blog link based on magazine, he feels more stressed with everything you have done. You just convert into Islam, how much do you really understand about that religion?”

Alright, I thought I am always being criticized by local Muslim that I am not qualified to understand Islam, now my mom is thinking the same thing. The theory is like I’m not born to understand what Islam about, that’s exclusively for the lucky one who born to be Muslim. My mother was telling me this depressing comment few weeks before I received my 2012 Brass Crescent Award. I was so frustrated till ever wonder that I should be closing down my blog and live peacefully, perhaps fully underground Muslim life.

Free E-Book : Tertubuhnya Koporat Latihan Dakwah Imaginatif

"Tertubuhnya Koporat Latihan Dakwah Imaginatif" merupakan sebuah E-Book sebanyak 116 muka surat yang ditulis oleh Esa Yap. Menurut beliau tujuan menulis buku PDF dan dikongsi secara percuma adalah berikut :

Buku ini merupakan sebuah novel yang ingin menyampaikan idea sustainable dakwah. Sarat dengan isi dan pengajaran. Harapan saya ialah usaha dakwah daripada pelbagai pihak dapat diperkasakan lagi dengan penerapan prinsip pengurusan dan juga amalan industri.

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First Chinese Muslim Mosque In Malaysia

Guests attending the Hari Raya function at the Muhammadiah Mosque in Ipoh.

Most of my readers asking me whether I’m Taiping citizen, actually I had live my early childhood at Ipoh until the year I recited Shahadah at age 23. A small “Hijrah” to Taiping and start my new life at there. My heart is still missing Ipoh a lot, the place I grow up and had fun with my friends.

Whole Malaysia is surprised with the First Chinese-Muslim mosque built up at Taman Tasek Jaya, Ipoh Perak as published in The Star Newspaper:

Polls now open for the Tenth Annual Brass Crescent Awards

All praises to Allah SWT, my blog Another Chinese Muallaf is nominated again this year.

Please vote my blog at http://www.brasscrescent.org/ at "Best Regional Blog" category.

Most importantly, check your email inbox to verify your vote... Jazakallah Khyran !!!

Getting Officially Muslim

Whenever someone who register his/her reversion to Islam at Department Of Islamic Affairs, they will be issued an Islam Card that stated:

• Original Name 
• Muslim Name
• Date Of Embrace Islam 
• Identity Card Number

The reverted Muslim must be bring along the Islam Card wherever they go, especially when dealing with Islamic matters like marriage, register Hajj, request Zakat and even Islamic burial. These Islam Cards are issued by local state Islamic Department, which is not centralized and different design of card Islam from each state.

Berita Harian 31 Julai 2013 : Ulasan Buku Dengan Lafaz 2 Kalimah Syahadah

Malaysia Reverted Muslim Statistic

Malaysia’s media overwhelmed with negative news against Reverted Muslim, like parent custody against children, heritage, cultural conflict and so on.

Those criticisms don’t stop the growing of Islam at Malaysia. More people started to realize the beauty of Islam and registered as Muslim officially. According to the World Religions Follower Statistic:

• Christian 2.2 billion
• Islam 1.6 billion
• Hinduism 1 billion
• Buddhism 488 million

As we can see from the Malaysia’s Reverted Muslim Statistic, the growing of Muslim is larger than the minor issue on newspaper. All praises to Allah, the Lord of the World.

Please Vote "Another Chinese Muallaf" At Tenth Annual Brass Crescent Awards

Alhamdulillah, Tenth Annual Brass Crescent Awards is opening now to world wide Islamic Bloggers. I would like to invite you nominate my blog, Another Chinese Muallaf.

Please visit http://www.brasscrescent.org then fill in the details :

Blog Name: Another Chinese Muallaf
Blog URL : http://lifemualaf.blogspot.com/
Blogger: Ikhwan Ng
Category : Best Regional Blog 

Next step, fill in the question : "Why are you nominating this blog?". Click Submit Nomination.


I'm ready to serve more intriguing article at future, your vote might become inspiration to improve myself. 

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Syukur alhamdulillah, buku saya "Dengan Lafaz 2 Kalimah Syahadah" stok baru diterbit. Sekiranya anda berminat boleh buat penempahan dengan saya serta dapat Autograf. Harga buku hanya RM 16.90 sahaja.


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Komen Pembaca

salam..
alhamdulillah ,saya dah pun selesai membacanya. terlebih dahulu saya ingin mengucapkan tahniah kerana ini adalah buku sulung saudara

Saya amat kagum dengan hasil penulisan saudara ikhwan yang banyak merujuk kepada petikan ayat-ayat Al Quran dan dikaitkan pula dengan pengalaman saudara sepanjang bergelar muallaf.. memang tiada keraguan lagi bagi sesiapa yang memahami maksud tersirat dalam surah Al Quran melainkan kepada orang yang sentiasa ingin mencari keredaan dari Nya.. saya sungguh terharu , terasa diri ini begitu kerdil..sebelum ni pun saya sudah baca beberapa buku mengenai cerita yang membabitkan muallaf .. sebab ia dapat memberi saya motivasi dan inspirasi kepada saya untuk istiqamah dalam agama yang suci ini.

semoga dapat teruskan berkarya dalam bidang penulisan jika itu minat saudara.dan semoga buku ini dapat memberi panduan dan membuka pintu hidayah kepada golongan non muslim di luar sana. bagi saya buku ini pun sudah cukup lengkap dengan point-point yang penting yang menunjukkan keesaan Allah. namun saya sedar hidayah itu milik Allah..


Maklumat lanjut click "Read More"

Muslims In Korea Prepare For Ramadan

Whenever someone mentioned about Korea, what I'm thinking about is :

• Running Man
• Barefoot Friends
• Jang Ok-Jung
• PSY
• Rooftop Prince
• Monday Couple

Recently my friend shares a youtube film about Muslims in Korea, definitely an eye opener for KPOP lovers. And still, I would like to wish everyone Happy Fasting Month and Ramadhan al-Mubarak.

Inspired By Nature

Taiping Lake Gardens, photoshop effect is unnecessary.

When I was a kid, I used to visit D.R. Garden at Ipoh. I love the freshening breeze from trees and few lakes. Till the moment I grew up to be teenager, I still walking alone at there to find the peace of my mind. The beauty of nature is calming my heart, walking on the greenly grass and look at swarm of fish in the lake.

As time goes by, my passionate on beauty of nature makes me pondering more upon the creations of Allah. Nothing beat its beauty with any sort of entertainment and luxurious stuff. Most people getting bored of 80’s Hollywood film and preferable with latest CGI effects, however Nature doesn't need any designation from human, it just grows as always will be. Nothing much changed for hundred or even thousand years.

After I hijrah to Taiping, I fell in love with Taiping Lake Gardens. That beauty of well growth trees captured my attention, finding inspiration from the creation of Al-Mighty. Since the moment I recited Syahadah, “Comfort Zone” is getting far away from me, a popular word that describe certain people who enjoy the comfortable situation without getting any challenging task in daily life. Perhaps I am staying upon “Challenging and Uncomfortable Zone” for the rest of my life, nerve wrecking kind of life when you have become the lonely passenger on the right path.


When I'm back to the nature, nothing else is matter.

First Step Is Always The Hardest

Book description that written by publisher

Since I was registered myself as muslim, this year is going to be my 5th Ramadhan fasting month. I was eager to study as much as I can regarding Islam, however I was stuck at bottleneck that most people won’t tell you the difference between cultural and Islam.

I am fully believed that Islam is the righteous religion, a way of life, ad-Din. Whenever I’m dealing with complication between cultural and Muslim, there are hardly anyone may explain about it regardless of self-esteem customs and community perception. Although Islam principle can be easily adopted by all walk of life, the controversy aroused whenever a “custom made Islamic cultural” being applied on a reverted muslim.

Best Kept Secret

One of my reverted Muslim friends is going to publish his reversion story at local magazine. Almost every Malay magazine attach along with reverted Muslim stories for inspiration purpose. I gave him an advice that he may tell the reporter anything but not your secret. Especially if the secret involved his family dignity, problematic challenges and dilemma. Also, I advised him to write an email reply instead of face to face interview as for avoid miscommunication happen.

MR. Red Hat's Collection

If you ever wonder why I call my friend Ah Hong as “Mr Red Hat”, in fact he does have whole lots of hats! Everyone has their own hobby in collecting special item like coins, stamps, key chain and so on… So I would like to present his collections, please share your thought about it!

Kindly click "Read more" to view photo gallery.

Free Books : A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam (Mandarin)

伊斯兰简明指南

I am posting books "A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam" to anyone who needed. This is printed in Chinese language. Very suitable for non muslim to have a brief introduction about Islam along with science statement and al-Quran verse.

If you are interested, kindly contact me via email : lifemualaf@gmail.com (While stock last)

Revisit Bookshop

广州伊斯兰古迹研究

I have a dream.

I dream that whenever I walk into any local bookshop, I may buy at least a Chinese language Islamic book. But the fact turn out to be none, you can’t even get an al-Quran in Chinese translation. Perhaps it’s due to the market problem or so called “Sensitivity and Religion Freedom”.

“Everyone has their right to preserve their own religion.” Civilian yell out.

Coming Soon, InshaAllah

Sharing Is Caring : Friends Of Y

http://friendsofwahida.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/friends.of.y

Friends of Y adalah sekumpulan rakan rakan yang berganding bahu untuk membantu rakan kami, Wahida Mohamed (lebih dikenali sebagai Y di kalangan rakan2), yang mengidap penyakit kanser. Kami juga berharap dapat membantu rakan2 yang lain, terutama pesakit2 kanser and keluarga pesakit kanser melalui perkongsian maklumat, titipan doa dan kata2 semangat, dan juga pengumpulan dana kebajikan. Sertai usaha kami. Segala bantuan dalam bentuk apa sekali pun, walau hanya ingatan dan doa, amat kami alu-alukan. Allah sahaja yang dapat membalas.

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Friends of Y is a group of friends that came together to provide support for Wahida Mohamed or affectionately known as Y among her friends. Y has been affected by cancer in 2008. After a series of aggressive treatments and surgery, she was subsequently declared free of cancer.

In early 2013, the cancer cells came back and spread to other parts of her body, including her brain. Friends of Y came together to develop and share ideas, in a non-judgmental and caring environment. Friends of Y also aim to plan, run and manage fundraising activities to assist Y in any way we can, including the cost of treatments.

Why join a support group like Friends of Y?

People with cancer often feel alone, scared, isolated and unsupported when they are diagnosed with cancer.

People caring for people with cancer (i.e. spouse, partners, children, family members) quite often feel scared, helpless and unsupported too.

Sometimes someone to listen is all that is needed. By joining a support group like Friends of Y, we can share important information about cancer, raise awareness that leads to specific actions, share inspiring stories, show we care about Y (or anyone else, who is a cancer warrior).

Adik (14), Y, Zul dan Syafiq (17) semasa Aidilfitri Sept. 17, 2012

Why join a support group like Friends of Y?

We say, "WHY NOT?".

The Lantern Festival ( Chap Goh Meh )

历正月十五元宵节，又称为“上元节”（the Lantern Festival），春灯节，是中国汉族民俗传统节日。正月是农历的元月，古人称夜为“宵”，而十五日又是一年中第一个月圆之夜，所以称正月十五为元宵 节。又称为小正月、元夕或灯节，是春节之后的第一个重要节日。中国幅员辽阔，历史悠久，所以关于元宵节的习俗在全国各地也不尽相同，其中吃元宵、赏花灯、 舞龙、舞狮子等是元宵节几项重要民间习俗。

According to Chinese Calendar, The Lantern Festival (Chap Goh Meh) is celebrated on15th day of First month Chinese Calendar. Also called as "Yuan Xiao Jie" （元宵节) . Local Malaysian prefer to call it "Chap Goh Meh" which is in Hokkien language, "The Fifteenth Night". Lantern Festival is one of the origin custom from China "Han" ethnic traditional festivals. 15th day of first month CNY also remarks the first "Full Moon" (As we knew, chinese calendar is emphasize a lot with the Moon phases). China has large territory and historical festival, so every district have their different custom to celebrate this festival. Few of the important custom like eating Festival Lunch together, watching lantern, dragon dance and lion dance.

Chinese New Year Drama Starring Razali & Yeo Wee Kiat

I know Yeo Wee Kiat personally.
University student who love to share and talk a lot. As contrary of me, quiet and a bit shy perhaps. I do admit of being a quiet person, as my primary school teacher gave me a lovely testimony in my academic record : Ng is a very quiet student, whenever I ask him question he always remain silent.

The teacher even asked my parent : Do your son have any "disorder" or "abnormal behavior".

No, I'm not mentally disorder as what claimed by my teacher.
I do believe my brain cell Hijrah from "communication room" into "non-verbal communication room". My character turns me into books and blog matters.

Everyone have their ability to spread the message of Islam.
Mine is Silent.

In the name of Allah, The Glorified and the Exalted

Bismillah

How do we understand al-Quran?
The answer is we understand  each al-Quran verse by looking for explanation from one another al-Quran verse.

Non-Muslim can't use "Allah" name and it's against freedom of speech? 
The answer already given by Allah The Glorified and the Exalted in al-Quran more than 1400 years ago before Malaysian debate this issue.

First of all, Allah s.w.t. already explain about Himself that none of the creation is looks like Him. As stated clearly in al-Quran, Surat Al-'Ikhlāş (The Sincerity) :

Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One, Allah , the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent."

The exclusiveness of "Allah" name?
Those people at the prophet time already argue about the name of god, when they being asked who is their god? They immediately said "Allah", but then they worship hundred idols that placed around Kaabah. Clearly contradicts what the real meaning of "Allah" which mean "One God". As stated in al-Quran:

And if you asked them, "Who created the heavens and earth?" they would surely say, " Allah ." Say, "[All] praise is [due] to Allah "; but most of them do not know.

 (Surat Luqmān (Luqman) 31:25)

Allah s.w.t. more than just a name to behold. Allah s.w.t. isn't idolatry to be worshiped. This is clearly stated in al-Quran for servant's mindset that when they asked who is the Creator of Universe? They answer "Allah". But then, at the same time they praise to the idolatry for the faulty they made although they claim god is Allah.

This is pointless to say which religion have the right to use "Allah" in Torah or Bible. Everyone has the right to talk about "Allah", and most importantly we are not talking about "Name", we are talking about the "Awareness" of knowing who is our Creator (Surat Al-'Ikhlāş ).

Mourn Over Reverted Muslim Chai Jian Xiong （蔡健雄)

Chinese article written by Brother Esa Yap and translated

A Chinese Muslimin, had commit suicide by hanged himself inside Police Station's office that placed at Pekan Nanas, Pontian district, Johor. The deceased aged 29 years, embraced Islam last year. According to his colleagues, Chai Jian Xiong （蔡健雄) embraced Islam due to close relationship with a girl. Chai Jian Xiong seems to be worried over their relationship, also claimed had an argument with girlfriend last wednesday, hence go and back between Melaka state and Pekan Nanas few times.

A Rescued Mosque In Kuala Kangsar, Perak

The Ihsaniah Iskandariah Mosque was first built in 1936, funded by the late Almarhum Paduka Seri Sultan Iskandar Shah, the 30th Sultan of Perak.

Its design and decoration were inspired by and based on the architecture of Istana Kenangan in Bukit Chandan. The mosque is broadly cube-shaped and has a flat roof. The walls, made of kelarai (woven bamboo) in a diamond motif, were produced by local villagers. It is the only mosque in Malaysia (and possibly in the world) to have woven bamboo walls.