So, I went to school again yesterday to collect more data but it wasn't as good as I've planned either. First, the camera is 'misbehaving' again. Died in the middle of an interview! Then, some students were misbehaving too! Some of them refused to be interviewed. Fair enough, it's their choice anyway, no one can force them. But blessed the teacher, he felt so embarrass by the students' behaviour. This was because in one of the classes that I visited, there were only 3 students who were presence. I must say, he is a very dedicated and patient teacher, for a male teacher.
Anyway, alhamdulillah I still managed to download all the important bits of the recording. Plus, the teacher kindly arranged another meeting for me with another class next Monday, which should be the last chance for me because after that, they will be having GCSE exams. I hope they will be doing very well in their exams.
During the visit in that school, I bumped into a few Muslim girls who are also the students in Cambridge Quranic Classes in the mosque. I gave salam to them but some of them seemed a bit startled to reply my salam. Some of them even started with 'Hello' to me. I don't know what is the reason and don't want to make any negative assumption, just pray that they hold Islam as their way of life wherever and whenever they are. I hope they just shocked to see me in their school.
And in the afternoon, yay, a circle by Mufti ibn Adam organised by FOSIS. The title is quite interesting - Overcoming Trials, Tests and Tribulations, mainly to attract all the undergraduates who are going to take their exams this term. The turn out was great for exam term, can see the picture below:
The speaker - Mufti ibn AdamWhat I found really good about this talk is his explanation of Surah Sharh, verse number 5-6.
According to Ibn Abbas (ra), these verses were revealed to comfort the Prophet Muhammad (saw) about his poverty and the hardships he faced. According to the Mufti, he said that al-'Usri (the hardship) is specifically just 1 problem and yusra (relief) is not specify to any solution. The hardship here is just one and it's repeated twice as just 1 problem in 2 different verses, but then, the relief, which is indefinite (no alif lam or lam ta'rif) means that they are different solutions in these separate verses. So, his conclusion is that, in one problem or hardship, ALLAH has prepared at least 2 different solutions or reliefs. SubhanALLAH, all the knowledge of the Heaven and the Earth is belong to ALLAH and HE alone knows the best translation of HIS words. I quite enjoyed the talk until the Q & A session where ISOC which is dominated by medics started questions concerning medical ethics in Islam. But alhamdulillah it's not a long Q & A session.
"Verily, along with every hardship is relief. Verily, along with every hardship is relief."
Wassalam.
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