I Need Your Love & Friendship

Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly, each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced, (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired,) that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured. It cannot subsist in its perfection, say some of those who are learned in this warm lore of the heart, betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others. I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other, and between whom subsists a lofty intelligence. But I find this law of _one to one_ peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship. Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad. You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together, and you shall not have one new and hearty word. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one. Imagine peace in the world in our life time!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Fadhilat Ramadhan | Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan

Fadhilat Ramadhan | Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan
Dalam kemeriahan kita nak menyambut Ramadhan kadang-kadang tanpa kita duga. Ada orang yang pergi meninggalkan kita tanpa sempat merasai nikmat Ramadhan tahun ni. Dalam minggu ni sahaja aku dapat tahu 2 berita kematian dari bloggers yang selalu menceriakan dunia blog ni.

Tanggal 7 Ogos yang lepas, bapa kepada Mazidul Akmal Sidik telah menghembuskan nafasnya yang terakhir kira-kira pukul 2.10 pagi. Dan tadi pula, aku terbaca blog Eyriqazz yang mendapat berita dari kampung akan kematian pak ciknya yang juga telah pergi meninggalkan kita tanpa sempat merasai Ramadhan 1431H. Aku bersyukur sebab aku masih lagi berpeluang bertemu dengan Ramadhan tahun ni.


Di kesempatan ini, aku nak mengucapkan Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan al-Mubarak tahun 1431 Hijrah. Jom tengok Ery Farieha bersama kucingnya mengucapkan Salam Ramadhan. Dengan peluang yang kita ada, aku harap kita masing-masing dapat memperbaiki amalan kita. Capai target untuk Ramadhan kali ni. Pastikan kita jadikan Ramadhan kali ni lebih bermakna dalam hidup kita. Antara fadhilat bulan Ramadhan:

* Di buka pintu-pintu syurga dan di tutup pintu neraka dan diikat segala syaitan
* Sesiapa yang berpuasa dengan penuh keimanan dan keikhlasan nescaya akan diampuni segala dosa yang telah lalu
* Puasa mampu menjadi perisai diri daripada terjebak ke lembah maksiat, begitu juga mampu menghapuskan segala dosa-dosa yang lepas jika kita benar-benar bertaubat
* Berpuasa pada semua anggota badan dan bukan hanya pada makan dan minum sahaja
* Ada satu hari yang lebih baik daripada seribu bulan, marilah kita sama-sama mengejarnya

Mari kita sama-sama jadikan Ramadhan kali ni cukup bermakna, sebab kita belum tentu akan berjumpa Ramadhan akan datang. Insyaallah.

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