Aidilfitri Is In Our Hearts

AIDIILFITRI Is In Our Hearts

Hari Raya is a happy day for all Muslim through out the world. We are happy because we have completed our duty to God in the month of Ramadan for fasting. We are happy because God has promised to give us good reward if we do our duty faithfully. We belief to His promised to give us pahala and pardon us

Allah has said in the al-Quran, Surah Yunus verse 58, “Say, “In the bounty of Allah And His Mercy- in let them rejoice”, that is better than the [wealth] they hoard”.

This is [2010] the second times I and my family receive Idilfitri without my loving wife, Asiah whose has returned to the mercy of God on the first July 2009. This is one of the grieving days in ours life.

Although all the family can accept the fact that she was gone forever but we could not forget her as a loving and happy wife and mother. The memory still lingered forever in our heart. Everything is still cleared to our eyes.

We always pray mercy for our loved one in the life after from God. In fact every day we prayed for Almighty Allah for her.

Last two days one of granddaughters told that her grandmother came te visit her. She said as usual her grandma came to her dream with a happy and smiling face. She did not say anything instead gave her a letter to read. She said in that letter her grandma asked to wish her salam for us all, asked us for forgiveness and asked we all to pray for her. Oh God please grand our Doa.

Usually one or two days before Hari Raya my wife was very busy in making preparation for Hari Raya that would come when the month of Ramadan end. Despite prepared for special food for Hari Raya, she also must had a bunch of life flowers in variety of colours to be put on the main table in the house to make the surrounding more beautiful to the eyes.

As long as I remember the flower for the Hari Raya is the “must” for her beginning from the time of our marriage. We have to go to town to buy the flowers although the traffic is congested. If we did not have the flower for Hari Raya she will not be satisfied.

I remembered only one Hari Raya in during our life time we did not have flower for our Hari Raya. It was three years ago. During that times we stay at Kuala Krai, about 65 km. from Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan state. No body sell flower at Kuala Krai. So if we want to buy flowers we have to trip to Kota Bharu. Usually about one week before Hari Raya the traffic to Kota Bharu is very congested. It was very sad that we could not go to Kota Bharu to buy Hari Raya’s flowers.

My late wife was not happy. One year after that, when the new Hari Raya came she still mentioned her unhappiness having without flowers during the Hari Raya. So that she said we have to be very careful not to miss flowers during the next Hari Raya.

Even today, one year after she was returned to the mercy of God we still have the flowers every Hari Raya. This evening when my daughter, Noorbaiti Zaini came back from shopping she brought back a bunch of life flowers of difference colours. She put the flower in the pot and placed carefully on the table on the settee.

The flower has switched our mind to remember vividly to our beloved wife who was very fond of the flower for Hari Raya. Surely she would be very happy if she was here with us tonight.

From the evening up to late at night she still at the kitchen prepared food for Hari Raya. Usualy she cooked nasi dagang, nasi kerabu, or just plain rice with curry of meat and chickens. It was very splendour to have them as breakfast or meal at any times of the day. She was a very good cooker. My late mother was fond of her cooking.

Tomorrow morning after solat Hari Raya we have a family breakfast. Then everyone who was in the house will shake hands with their mother and father, asking for forgiveness. Before that my wife will shake hands with me first and asked for forgiveness if she has made anything that unpleased me during the past months. So did I. After that the occasions followed by our sons and daughter, firstly with their mother than their father. It happened every Hari Raya, that came two times yearly for Muslim through out the world.

After that we will go back to my kampong to visit my mother and family and have Hari Raya with them. After my mother death, with still went back to the kampong to see my sister who stay near by and have Hari Raya with them. Surely she will bought lemang fo me, because she knew that I like to eat lemang, taken with sugar or sambal daging.

Before we go to her house firstly we go to the grave yard where all my family was buried there. Then my mother, my brother and my wife were buried there. May God be mercy them all.

By God will tomorrow will we back to kampong and visit their grave and make Doa for them all.

I am longing to hear takbir Hari Raya from the mosque that situated not to far from our house in Pasir Tumbuh, instead we heard the bands of fire crackers near and far. No takbir was heard. For five years back, during our staying in Kuala Krai we can hear the takbir that came from the mosque nearby every Hari Raya. The takbir will be eco up to the late at night that make our heart deepen in remembering to the Almighty and Merciful God. From God we came to God we will returned.

“Allahuakbar
Allahuakbar
Alahuakbar
Lailaha Illah
Wallahu Akbar.
Allahuakbar Walillahil Hamd”.

Food for thought:

-“Everyone of you is in charge and everyone will be accountable for those given in their charge. The man is in charge of the household and the woman is in charge of the home and the children”. Bukhari.

-“The best of you are those who are best in dealing with their wives and I am the best in dealing with my wives”. Tirmidhi.
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