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I’ve always loved children. One of my life’s biggest dreams is to get married to the right woman, have children, and live a normal God pleasing life. I don’t dream of fame, power, or financial wealth because I don’t think they constitute success. To me life is all about relationships: relationship with our heavenly Father, ourselves, and others. I would consider myself to be successful when I become a godly child of God: a good son, brother, uncle, friend and worker, and if it is God’s will, a husband and father too.

Parents have the most joyful, stressful and important job in the world. I’ve always considered mothers to be extraordinary humans beings. I consider a housewife’s job more important than any other job. I don’t know of any other profession that requires as much patience, love, kindness, self-control, selflessness, and sacrifice. In what other career can a person claim to be building a healthy family—the core cell of our society?

There is no other feeling like when I play with my nephew and nieces, hold them, listen to their stories, hug them and kiss them. There is no feeling as holding a child who is completely trusting, innocent and dependent on you: it is like being able to get a glimpse of heaven, and to experience the way God loves us. Sometimes I dream about the day when I have my own family. I pray that I would be a good husband, first, then a good father. My future wife holds a special place in my heart. I love this quote:

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." (Theodore Hesburgh)

I also love the insightful words Paul Washer said in one of his sermons. He said something to the like:

"God didn’t call you to love the ministry, or preaching, or your career, or even your children, as Christ loved the church, but He did command you to love your wife as Christ loved the church. "

I remember when I was 16 years old in Jordan, (that was in 1999 while my family was waiting for our immigration papers to Canada), I didn’t have any friends so I spent all my day reading the Bible starting with the Old Testament. I hadn’t read the Old Testament before so when I came across this verse it became an instant favourite to me. Until today I have a warm feeling when I remember the verse:

"If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married." (Deuteronomy 24:5)

Isn’t it the sweetest most romantic verse ever? I also love this verse:

"Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, ‘I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.’ So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her." (Genesis 29:18,20)

I remembered this verse years later when in 2006 I decided to continue my education. You see, I had worked in a warehouse doing general labour for 3 years and the mental agony was killing me. (Even though the work was ok, and the people I worked with were wonderful.) I hated the fact that I wasn’t being faithful towards my God’s given talents, and the fact if one day I get married I probably wouldn’t be able to offer my wife and children a comfortable life. I remember how in the mall one day with a friend of mine she saw a ring in the window of a jewellery store and she thought it was very beautiful. I instantly realized that one day if I got married and she saw a ring she liked I wouldn’t be able to make her happy by buying it for her. That made me very sad. I even avoided reading verses like 1 Timothy 5:8:

“If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

But thanks to our heavenly Father who has called me to finish my education to be able one day not only to enjoy and put my God given talents into practice, but hopefully be a good provider for my own family.

If you have never been married and long to I understand it can be very hard on Valentine’s Day. I often wonder “what’s wrong with me”, or “why can’t I...”, when I see couples. But I do understand that God has His own plans and He carries them His own ways—we need to trust Him. Please don’t rush into marriage because you are “getting old”, or want to “be happy”, or because you are “in love”, or because all your “friends are married”! There are many other wrong reasons to get married. If you want to get married make sure you both are ready, in love and are committed to each other, and because you want to share the rest of your lives together—you want each other as life partners.

Being from the Middle East I can tell you many stories of people getting married for the wrong reason. That’s why I have distanced myself from much of my culture long time ago, because I realized some of my culture’s standards will pull me away from God’s

“Oh you who believe! Eat of the good things where We have provided you, and render thanks to Allah if it is (indeed) He whom you worship” —- Al-Baqarah : 172

The event was held by Korea Islamic Malaysian Student (KiMS) on Saturday, 30th may 2009 at Dongyang Technical College.

1.I admired Ustaz because he changed his citizenship to become Korea citizen, married a Korean, learn their culture and language in order to dakwah and spread Islam among Korean. I wish I have the guts to do the same. But it’s okay because I will spread Islam using my friendship with my friends. Showing good examples by my action first.

2.Halal means it is good for your body and life. And haram is the opposite. Only the Creator knows what is good for our body. Just like a car, the car manufacturer will recommend you the most suitable motor oil etc because they know best. But if you want to use other products just because it is cheaper, most of the time as time passed by your car will get to visit the mechanic more often.

3.Pork already been proven scientifically that it is bad for health, but let’s we follow not because of science but because of our faith in Allah. When the doctor tells us to follow some rules, we did not ask too many questions because we acknowledge his/her credibility because it is their expertise. They know about our body more than we do because they study about it. The same thing goes with the Creator, who know our body better than our own creator? None, only Allah. And Insya-Allah if we will be healthy and look younger if we follow Allah’s rules. Even Ustaz Abdul Zahid Abd Wahab look like he only 50 years old even though he actually already over 70 years old.

4.Why we need to slaughter animal properly according to Islam? Blood is bad for health; only by slaughtering the animal properly all the blood will escape the animal’s body. Thus ensuring the meat that we eat is free from toxins. There are some people who said that if they slaughter the animal the same way like we do except they did not preceded by “In the name of God, God is the Greatest (Bismillah, Allahu Akbar) so it is okay. Even though we are the owner of the animal and we slaughter it using the same method, the soul of the animal still belong to Allah. And only by asking His permission we are allowed. As said, “It is yours if you say My name”.

5.Ustaz said the once he gave a talk in front of more than 200 Korean students.
Q: Someone asked,” Why Islam don’t eat pork? Is it because Islam thinks highly of pig?”
A: In Islam all animals are treated the same, not hated.
After that Ustaz asked them, “What kind of food do pig eat? Is it a good food?” and a lady stand up and said “they eat trash”.
So Ustaz asked her again, “Do you think the meat of the animals that eat trash is healthy?” and of course the lady says “No way”.

6.We are called Muslim because we controlled by rule of Allah. And remember that not only the food need to be halal, the source also need to be halal. Meaning that it is not stolen from someone else or the money that already used interest (riba’).

7.Ustaz told us that if another Muslim brother offer us food to eat, is it okay to eat it because sometime we have doubt. That depend on the person cleanliness and how do we know this? We all know our neighbors and friends’ personality. And to know our neighbor we can ask our mother or wife. Women play a very sacred and high role in family according to Islam. That’s among the reason why Islam teaches us to respect women.

8.Mother teaches us. A reason why in afterlife we will be called with our mother’s name. I will gladly be called Hishamuddin, son of Noor Azmar. We have to love and protect our sisters, younger sisters and our wife. Men need to treat women with care for women’s’ feeling are like glass, very fragile. And they will teach our children in the future.

9.The only thing that differentiate human from animals is our mind and ability to think. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam because it will make we lose our sanity temporarily. That is when we do bad things to our children and wife. If we drink alcohol at the end we will lose them. But some people disagree because they say they can drink lots of liquor but still not drunk. At the end Allah know best, so He generalizes. Because there is a person who drink just one drop or a sip and get drunk like donkey (not sure this is a good expression but it sound catchy and funny too LOL)

10. Another example is when a man and a woman staying together inside one room without other people watching. They can control themselves and say that nothing happen but we all know that most of the time, blunders happen. So that is why lots of Islamic rules use prevention rather than relying on man’s self control.

11.We all know Korean love to drink, if someone asks you to drink just say no. And if you are thinking about drinking, try to burn you little finger using a lighter and just remember that the hell fire is much stronger than that.

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