Azhari Azizi

Kesultanan Melayu Melaka

Azhari Azizi — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:15:44 +0000

Peta tempat-tempat Islam

Hari Khamis lepas Ustaz Isharuddin mengajar tentang Kemerosotan Kesultanan Melayu Melaka. Petang itu, dirasakan begitu ringan kerana 3 soalan yang terlintas di hati ana sejak Darjah 4 apabila membaca buku sejarah Tingkatan 1 kakak ana. Kini, ana berada di Tingkatan 1. Ustaz memberikan sebab yang meyakinkan dan memuaskan hati ana.

Soalan yang pertama.

Mengapakah Khilafah Uthmaniah tidak membantu Melaka?

Ustaz menjawab: Kerana Uthmaniah terlalu baru menakluk kota Konstantinopel atau Istanbul sekarang pada tahun 1453. Kerajaan itu masih memerlukan tentera yang banyak untuk mempertahankan Konstantinopel kerana masih ada tentera Byzantium dan tentera Salib yang ingin membebaskan kembali kota Konstantinopel iaitu ibu kota Empayar Romawi Timur. Selain itu, ada khabar angin yang mengatakan mengatakan tentera Portugis ingin menyerang Makkah Al-Mukarramah. Oleh yang demikian, tentera Uthmaniah juga perlu mempertahankan Makkah. Apabila Portugis mengetahui tentera Uthmaniah sudah bersedia, mereka berpatah balik dan menyerang Melaka.

Dari penjelasan ini, timbul lagi satu soalan.

Mengapakah tentera Uthmaniah tidak mengejar tentera Portugis?

Ustaz menjawab: Kerana Uthmaniah tidak mahu tenteranya berpecah terlalu jauh sehingga satu berada di Eropah dan satu lagi berada di Asia tenggara. Satu di utara dan satu di selatan.

Soalan yang kedua.

Mengapakah China tidak membantu Melaka?

Ustaz menjawab: Kerana China ketika itu mempunyai masalah dalaman. Selain itu, hubungan Melaka-China sudah kendur apabila Tun Mutakhir menjadi bendahara Melaka. Kelemahan pemimpin Melaka iaitu Sultan Mahmud Shah juga menyebabkan China teragak-agak untuk membantu Melaka.

Soalan yang ketiga.

Mengapakah Johor tidak berjaya menewaskan Portugis walaupun dengan jumlah tentera yang ramai?

Ustaz menjawab: Portugis belajar daripada cubaan untuk menawan semula Melaka yang berkali-kali oleh kerajaan Johor. Portugis membina dan menebalkan kota A Famosa untuk mempertahankan kedudukannya. Sebaliknya, Johor tidak belajar daripada kekalahan Melaka dan cubaan-cubaanya yang gagal. Apabila Johor gagal, Johor menambahkan lagi tenteranya tetapi tidak berusaha untuk mencanggihkan teknologi persenjataan mereka. Mereka lebih mementingkan kuantiti daripada kualiti.

Selepas berfikir mengenai jawapan-jawapan ini, mula terlintas di hati saya beberapa soalan lagi.

1) Mengapakah Uthmaniah tidak memberikan teknologi persenjataan kepada Melaka sedangkan Uthmaniah berjaya meruntuhkan tembok Konstantinople menggunakan meriam yang boleh menembak peluru seberat 300 kg dengan jarak tembakan sejauh 1 batu?

2) Mengapakah China tidak memberikan teknologi persenjataan kepada Melaka sedangkan Chinalah yang mula-mula mencipta ‘Gun powder’?

3) Mengapakah Melaka tidak bernaung dibawah Kerajaan Uthmaniah walaupun ia mengatakan bahawa ia adalah Negara Islam? Pada pendapat ana, Uthmaniah mungkin akan lebih berusaha untuk membantu Melaka dan menghantar tentera untuk mengawal sempadan serta berkongsi teknologi persenjataannya.

Walau bagaimanapun, ana berterima kasih kepada Ustaz Isharuddin Ismail di atas penjelasan yang meyakinkan. Sebelum ini, ada ana dapat cerita bahawa kapal yang menghantar bantuan dilanda rebut, tenggelam di lautan dan pelbagai cerita lagi yang ana rasakan tidak munasabah.

Ooh how the holidays have simply flown

Azhari Azizi — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:59:09 +0000

27 Dec 2009 - Visiting my sister at Darul Quran with cousin, Chong Chwee Huan

I woke up today. I felt strange. Yes, tomorrow is the first day of school!

Ooh how the holidays have flown. It will be my first and only time for me to experience the first day of secondary school. I don’t know how to feel. I could be sad for not being able to continue my routine during the holidays. I could be happy to meet my friends and making new friends. Overall I think I am looking forward to learning new subjects, making new friends and meeting new teachers and getting new experience.

Well, even if I think the holidays are good, I think I need a holiday from holidays. If the holidays are continued, I shall never be a man. I will be a Koala Bear (without the stinking smell, of course!). Sleeps almost every time every day. Yeah, I know that is a bad habit. But that is the reality. The holidays were worse without my sister to guide me every day.

Oh, by the way my sister came home for a-day trip yesterday. She came home from Darul Quran to do some medical check-up as it is one of the requirements that should have been done before her registration. That day I woke up early and feeling excited to meet and be with my sister even if it’s just for a while.

We arrived at Darul Quran early that morning. We picked her up and have a quick and good breakfast a few kilometres away from the Darul Quran (DQ). Then, we rushed to Vijayan X-ray to do the X-ray first because the X-ray clinic closes early. Then we proceeded to Klinik Keluarga for the rest of the medical check-up. Then my sister went home to pack ‘some’ biscuits, tea and sugar. She complained about her bag being too big. She got herself a smaller one and began packing happily. But then she realised that she needed another bag because it was too small. Then, my mother suggested that she used the big bag and returned it to us after unloading the contents. It was 3:30 p.m. when we left to eat before performing Asar prayers.

We left for DQ at 5:00p.m. She should be there before 6:30p.m. Alhamdulillah, we arrived there safely.

I will miss you…

Azhari Azizi — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:40:17 +0000

Nurazlina Azizi

After yesterday, I felt alone. Without someone. A special mankind. A human. A kindhearted person. A friend and a foe.

Now I’m alone. No one to quarrel with, to chit chat with, to laugh with, to be with me.

I know it’s just for a while. But I feel strange. I feel alone. Now I regret, I really need her. When I was with her, I ignored her presence. But now I realise, I really needed her.

She is my friend when I am alone. My guide when I am lost. I remembered last week when she finished her SPM. She said she wanted to do this and that. But I knew, she will never achieve it. For earlier that Saturday (12 Dec 09) she got a letter from Darul Quran. She achieved where she wanted to go for her higher studies. It was a dream since she was in Form 2. She had one week to pack and filled the forms and make all the necessary preparations to enrol into Darul Quran. When she was doing all these, I knew, she had to be away from me for a while.

Last Sunday (20 Dec 09) was a very hot day. A very memorable day I must say for it was also the day my sister registered into Darul Quran. She tried to hide her nervousness for she was the only one from her batch at Al-Amin to enter Darul Quran. She was very sad to know that her friends didn’t make it.

It was a very sad day. I was controlling my ego and managed not to cry but my mum cried a lot. She cried until the night.

Now I am lonely. Without my sister, Nurazlina Azizi. Well, this is her jihad, my jihad. Coincidentally the Islamic calendar just entered into a new year. Her going to “her new world” requires lots of adjustments from me and for mum and dad too. It is a HIJRAH for all of us. InsyaAllah, Allah will make it easier for both of us to be 30 juzuk huffazah and huffaz for the rest of our lives.

There’re always a place for you

Azhari Azizi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:56:33 +0000

22 November 2009, when I walked out of the Takrim (Prize Giving Ceremony), I realized that this is my last day of primary school. The last day I walk among the primary school children as one of them. The last day I can walk in and out of the primary school building freely. The last day my primary school teachers teach me formally. The day we first meet each other seems like yesterday. I can still remember the day I walked into school as a schoolchildren for the first time. The time I met my friends and teachers. I learned, and played together with my friends. I remember my first presentation in the school hall. My first class teacher, Muallimah Suhaini.

But, the time comes and go. I say goodbye.
Goodbye may seems forever.
Farewell is like the end.
But in my heart a memory.
And there it always be…

Goodbye my friends
We might not schooling together next year.
My teachers,
that may not teach me formally forever.
Goodbye my primary school age.
May Allah’s blessings and our sweet memories unite us.

To my friends,
I may never meet you again.
But to me, the moments we are together.
Lays deep in my heart,
Lays in a golden sheet,
In my memory.

May we be like friends who loves each other, meet and depart for Allah with His blessings.

To everybody. I beg you forgiveness. Forgive me for all my wrong doings, my weakness and in short for everything. Forgive me as Prophet Joseph forgave his siblings for throwing him into the well. I’ve also forgave you for your wrong doings. I also need your pray. Pray to Allah that I find success in the world and the Hereafter.

Knowledge…

Azhari Azizi — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:24:12 +0000

I saw an ocean wide,
spreading across my sight,
as far as my eyes can reach.
I saw clouds, white above me,
with birds flying calmly.
I saw green mountains behind me,
big and strong supporting the lands.
I saw kites the colours of rainbow,
played by children gaily.
The ocean,
wide and deep,
as knowledge that never ends.
The clouds,
clean and white,
as hearts that learn sincerely.
The green mountains,
huge and strong,
are will, the determination,
the commitment and hardwork.
The kites,
are hopes flying to reach the star.
Hopes to stay high in the sky.
The ocean will never dry.
The clouds,
don’t want for them,
to become dark.
The mountains,
let them stay green and virgin.
And the kites,
don’t let them to loose freely.
Muslims, Allah will grant you the strength.
Keep searching…
For knowledge is everywhere.
Keep searching…
For sincerity will be rewarded.
Keep searching…
Aren’t success in both world our aim??!

Merentasi Cabaran Kehidupan

Azhari Azizi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:12:47 +0000

Al-Amin... Tempat kutempuh cabaran untuk meneruskan kehidupan di alam ciptaan tuhan

Pada 6-9 Julai 2009, ana (saya) menghadapi peperiksaan SPPM dan PEKERTI Al-Amin. Ana sudah selamat menduduki peperiksaan ini. Hari Isnin bermulanya subjek pertama iaitu Bahasa Arab Penulisan. BA ini ana kira mudah tetapi ada sedikit gangguan teknikal yang menyebabkan hilang tumpuan seperti lampu yang tidak berfungsi dan sebagainya. Selain itu, ana juga rasa tertarik mendengar perbualan guru pengawas dan pengetua tentang eletrik di dalam dewan itu. Ketika itu, ana sedang membuat karangan di bawah lampu ‘kelip-kelip’.

Pada hari Selasa, ana menduduki peperiksaan Tasawwur Islami 1 yang berkisar dalam bab yang ana kurang mahir. Tetapi Alhamdulillah boleh jawab dan didoakan agar jawapan itu betul lah Insya Allah… Kemudian matapelajaran Tajwid. Hmph. Tak lah susah tapi tak lah senang sangat. Ada beberapa soalan yang ana tak pernah tahu jawapan itu wujud pun!!! Subhanallah Alhamdulillah La Ilaha Illa Allah! Allahu Akbar!
La haula wa la Quwwata illa billah ! ! ! Apa jawapannya tuh??!

Para guru yang bukan sahaja mengajar tetapi juga mendidik kami semua ilmu dunia dan akhirat

Rabu Tasawwur Islami 2 yang berpusing didalam tajuk Sirah, tamaddun dan sebagainya. Ohh… tu tajuk yang seronok. Soalannya pun agak senang Alhamdulillah!

Khamis. Mmm… hari terakhir. Datang dengan harapan soalan mudah dan tidak mengelirukan. Mula dengan bahasa Arab pemahaman ahh… soalan mudah. Lepas itu Ujian bertulis Kadet Remaja sekolah… Susah!!! Allah! Apa benda itu??? Contohnya: Bagaimanakah syaitan masuk ke dalam hati manusia? Ana tanya Muallimah Ishamela lepas selesai. Apa jawapannya. Muallimah kata jawapannya mudah. Apabila kita lupa Allah lah. Alahhmak!!! ana ingat macam tanya ‘Bagaimana cara untuk pergi ke KLCC’. Jawapannya mestilah ‘Ikut jalan ini kemudian belok kiri ke Jalan Yap Kwan Seng kemudian terus sampai ke hadapan bangunan KLCC’. Jadi ana jawaplah ‘melalui saluran darah’. Mmm… tahlah. ana tawakkal sahajalah. Doakanlah ana supaya menjadi orang yang cemerlang di dunia dan di akhirat. Amin…

EXAMINATION??! Again?! Oh NOOO! no! no! no!

Azhari Azizi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:44:09 +0000

I open the exam paper,
with my heart is ready to face anything,
I thought I’m ready,
I thought I knew everything,

I read the first question,
Oh yes, yes! yes! yes!,
My first impression,
Is at the question,
So I do and do and do.

What's the answer?

What is this?!
What is the answer?!
Hadn’t I had read the whole book
from cover to cover too?
why i don’t know the answer?!
WHY???
I look at the next question.
I also don’t know the answer
‘Okay don’t panic’
I said to myself,
‘Look ahead and relax’
So, I turn to the next page.

The first question confuse me,
the second panic had got me,
the third made me angry,
The forth made me quite crazy,
The fifth almost made me cry in agony,

Then it frighten me,
I ask myself to keep cool and steady,
I put my head on the tabletop to think carefully,
With tears rolling across my cheeks sincerely,
I pray to Allah hopefully,
to make the answer clear for me,
to give the knowledge back to me,

I look again at the questions,
with my tongue reciting Zikrullah,
I read the questions slowly and carefully,
Easy! the answer is easy!
then the next…
well… the answer is…
WHAT?! ISN’T THAT IS THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS?!!
Well Allah certainly helped me to answer,
Alhamdulillah…

Oh… Peperiksaan

Azhari Azizi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:34:23 +0000

Oh peperiksaan…
Aku mengeluh, suka dan duka,
Takut dan lega,
Risau tiada terhingga,
Ohh… debarannya tidak tertahan jiwa,
Tiada ubat kecuali keputusannya,
Sama ada sedih atau gembira,
Rasa lega itu semestinya,
Ohh…
Lepas ini periksa lagi.
kemudian lagi sekali,
Tiada penghujung tidak pula diakhiri,
Aku sedar…
Ujian Tuhan yang Maha Esa,
Lebih berat daripada ujian didunia,
keputusannya boleh mengubah hidup kita,
sama ada Syurga atau Neraka,
Tidak diketahui oleh kita di dunia,
Diketahui hanya diakhirat sana,
Aku lupa…
Usahaku ini tidaklah sia-sia,
Kerana Allah menilai usaha kita,
Untuk permudahkan kita,
Dikala menjelang peperiksaan kelak,
Setiap lembaran soalan diselak,
Lafaz basmallah tidak luput dari kalam,
”Katakanlah, sesungguhnya solatku, pengorbananku, hidupku, dan matiku adalah untuk Allah, tuhan semesta alam”
Ayat 132 Surah Al-An’aam
Maka, sedarlah diri dari kedinginan malam,
Beramallah kerana Allah tuhan semesta alam,
Sebelum terlewat, sebelum terlambat,
Fikirlah dahulu sebelum Kiamat!!!

Sejarah pembukaan Constantinople

Azhari Azizi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:20:23 +0000

Map of the fall of Constantinople

Sultan Muhammad II adalah pembuka kota Constantinaple yang kini dipanggil Istanbul di Turki. Beliau adalah adalah sultan dibawah pemerintahan Kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah. Constantinaple yang terletak di antara benua Eropah dan Asia adalah ibu negara Empayar Byzantium yang beragama Kristian Ortodox. selatannya ada Laut Marmara, utaranya pula ada teluk Golden Horn. timurnya ada Selat Bosphorus yang menghubungkan Laut Mediterranean dan Laut Hitam. Manakala baratnya ada Bulgaria dan Greece. 3 daripada empat sempadannya ialah air.

Benteng Theodosius

Constantinople dipertahankan dengan benteng Theodosius yang mempunyai tiga lapisan. Benteng ini bertujuan untuk pertahankan Constantinople daripada tentera Islam Uthmaniyyah yang ada di Bulgaria, Serbia dan Turki.

Tentera Islam yang pertama dipimpin oleh Muawwiyah bin Abu Sufyan pada zaman khilafah Ummaiyah ke kota itu. Mereka tewas ditangan Byzantium. Kemudian percubaan demi percubaan untuk menawan dan menakluki kota Constantinople sehingga Sultan Murad II bapa kepada Sultan Muhammad II juga tewas di Constantinople lebih setengah abad kemudian.

Sultan Muhammad II adalah seorang mujahid yang berani dan bercita-cita tinggi untuk membuktikan kebenaran hadis Rasulullah : “Rasulullah SAW bersabda: Kamu akan pasti membebaskan Constantinople, sebaik-baik pemimpin adalah pemimpinnya dan sebaik-baik tentera adalah tenteranya.” (riwayat Imam Ahmad)

Sultan Muhammad dan tenteranya bersama selaras meriam

Baginda mula menjadi sultan ketika belau masih remaja iaitu dalam lingkungan belasan tahun. Baginda tidak pernah tinggalkan solat rawatib dan solat tahajjud serta dan semestinya solat fardu sejak baligh. Baginda mengisi dirinya dan tenteranya ilmu. Baginda mula menyusun taktik untuk menyerang dengan efisyen mantap dan berpotensi tinggi untuk berjaya. Baginda juga membuat persediaan material dengan membebaskan Urban daripada tahanan Byzantium. Baginda menyuruh beliau membuat meriam yang besar dan boleh menembak daripada jarak yang jauh.

Constantinople juga membuat persediaan. Antaranya, membuat rantai yang tebal merentangi teluk Golden Horn supaya angkatan laut Muslim tidak boleh masuk ke dalam teluk itu

Baginda telah mengepung kota itu dengan dua ratus lima puluh ribu orang tentera yang meliputi laut dan darat. Baginda sendiri memimpin tentera itu ke medan perang. Baginda melakanakan langkah pertama iaitu mengepung dan menyekat bantuan material kepada tentera Byzantium.

Baginda juga menghantar utusan untuk meminta Constantinople dengan aman. Maharaja Constantinople tidak menerima tawaran itu dan mengisytiharkan perang.

Sultan Muhammad dan tenteranya memasuki Constantinople

29 Mei 1453
Kota Constantinople berjaya ditawan selepas 53 hari dikepung. Ramai yang syahid. Baginda mengganti gereja Aya Sophia menjadi masjid. Baginda mahu melantik seorang imam kepada masjid itu. Baginda menyuruh siapa yang pernah tinggalkan solat fardu sejak baligh duduk. Tiada seorangpun duduk. Kemudian siapa pernah tinggal solat rowatib sejak baligh duduk. Separuhnya duduk. Siapa yang tidak pernah tinggal solat tahajjud sejak baligh duduk. Semua duduk kecuali seorang. Itulah Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih…

Itulah kisah sebaik-baik pemimpin dan tentera. Kita kena berusaha mengikut contoh yang pernah ditunjukkan.

21 February… Happy or Not???

Azhari Azizi — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:47:55 +0000

21 February was my birthday. Now I am twelve. I am going to have my MyKad (Identification Card) today. I am a senior boy at school.

Numbers that were used to get my identification card

One day when you are big and strong,
YOU WILL BE A KING!!!

(see the video for more)

(I just want to highlight the lyrics that I have given to you ONLY)

But, I am facing the UPSR. An examination never make me happy (I will be happy after that Insya Allah, Bi iznillah, Bimashinatillah)

Every evening except for Saturday and Sunday I have to attend extra classes until 5:30pm.

Weekends are occupied too. There will be extra classes too.

I don’t feel very lazy because I know the extra classes will benefit me. It shows that my teachers are caring towards me.

Oh… Allah!

I WILL TAKE A BREAK FROM OCTOBER UNTIL DECEMBER. I’M FREE. I WILL BE FREE
(Too early to think about that actually)
when I felt lazy, I will think of these words. THAT will cheer me up.

But I must not waste my time because this year is my last year in the primary school. It is also the first and the last year for me to be 12 and to take UPSR examination paper. Why should I waste my time grumbling about tiredness because this is the only 2009 in my life.