Wednesday, June 4, 2008

IYAZ TURNS SEVEN - 3 JUNE 2008

With the birth of each of my six children, my life gets better - rezeki dari Allah as the Muslims would say it. Iyaz is number five and Iyaz realises that he needs to start praying cos for one, Bapak will insist that he did and he will get first-hand scolding from Bapak but he also realises that Allah is taking stock on whether he is being a good boy or not. At seven, he very much believes in Allah and that Allah is All Seeing, All Knowing - I pray that Iyaz and all his siblings remember that fact all throughout their lives - Mak will not be with you guys forever to remind you.

Iyaz celebrated his seventh birthday with his younger brother and five of his many cousins. His cousins were looking forward to sharing the blowing of the candles bit but that did not take place. It took a while for me to explain to the imps that celebrating birthdays is not Islamic, however you see it. I just only discovered this through a ceramah recently.

It actually makes sense i.e. not blowing candles -- why would you want to make a celebration out of blowing your life away?! After all, the sure sign of death for us all is in the passing of time...as time moves on, we are closer to take the calling from our Maker. So, celebrate a birthday if you are very sure that you are ready to meet Allah, otherwise, take it easy with the birthday celebrations.

Waallahu'alam. I thank God Iyaz understood.