Sejarah Hari Raya Aidiladha atau Hari Raya Korban

Hari raya Aidiladha merupakan salah satu dari hari kebesaran dan perayaan bagi seluruh umat Islam.

Anas bin Malik r.a berkata: Nabi s.a.w pernah datang ke Madinah sedangkan penduduknya memiliki dua hari raya. Pada kedua-duanya mereka bermain-main (bergembira) di masa jahiliah. Lali baginda bersabda:

إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَبْدَلَكُمْ بِهِمَا خَيْرًا مِنْهُمَا يَوْمَ الأَضْحَى وَيَوْمَ الْفِطْرِ

 

Maksudnya:
“Sesungguhnya ALLAH telah menggantikan kedua-duanya bagi kamu semua dengan dua hari yang lebih baik, iaitu hari raya Aidiladha dan Aidilfitri.” - Hadis riwayat al-Nasaai, di dalam Sunan al-Nasa’i, hadis no: 959.

Aidiladha juga diberi gelaran sebagai hari raya haji kerana ia diraikan ketika umat Islam mengerjakan salah satu dari amal ibadah yang termasuk di dalam rukun Islam yang lima, iaitu ibadah haji. Di samping itu, Aidiladha juga dikenali sebagai hari raya korban kerana antara syiar semasa merayakannya adalah mengorbankan haiwan seperti unta, lembu, kambing dan biri-biri.
Ibadah korban dilakukan sempena memperingati kisah pengorbanan Nabi Ibrahim a.s yang sanggup menyembelih anak kesayangannya Nabi Ismail a.s kerana taat kepada perintah ALLAH. Namun, berkat kesabaran serta ketaatan kedua-dua ayah dan anak ini maka ALLAH telah menggantikannya dengan seekor binatang ketika Nabi Ibrahim sudah bersedia menyembelih anaknya itu. Peristiwa ini telah dirakamkan oleh ALLAH sebagaimana firman ALLAH S.W.T:

"Maka ketika anaknya itu sampai (ke peringkat umur yang membolehkan dia) berusaha bersama-sama dengannya, Nabi Ibrahim berkata: Wahai anak kesayanganku! Sesungguhnya aku melihat dalam mimpiku bahawa aku akan menyembelihmu. Apakah pendapatmu? Anaknya menjawab: Wahai ayah, lakukanlah apa yang diperintahkan kepadamu. Insya ALLAH, ayah akan mendapati aku termasuk orang-orang yang sabar.
Setelah kedua-duanya berserah bulat-bulat (menjunjung perintah ALLAH itu), Nabi Ibrahim merebahkan anaknya dengan meletakkan iringan mukanya di atas tompok tanah. (KAMI sifatkan Ibrahim dengan kesungguhan azamnya itu telah menjalankan perintah KAMI).
Lantas KAMI menyerunya: Wahai Ibrahim! Engkau telah menyempurnakan maksud mimpi yang engkau lihat itu. Demikianlah sebenarnya KAMI membalas orang-orang yang berusaha mengerjakan kebaikan.
Sesungguhnya perintah ini adalah satu ujian yang nyata dan KAMI tebus anaknya itu dengan seekor binatang sembelihan yang besar serta KAMI kekalkan baginya (nama yang harum) di kalangan orang-orang yang datang terkemudian." – Surah al-Soffaat: 101-108.

Rentetan dari peristiwa ini, saban tahun ketika merayakan hari raya Aidiladha maka umat Islam menyembelih binatang-bintang korban lalu mengagih-agihkannya kepada golongan yang kurang bernasib-baik seperti orang miskin, anak yatim, orang Islam yang sedang ditimpa musibah dan lain-lain lagi.

Kenapa Saya Menulis "Time Travel"

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Tiada apa yang istimewa tentang menulis di blog. Itulah saya beberapa ketika dahulu. Tetapi, apabila melihat blog dari hamba Allah yang sangat istimewa membuatkan hati saya terusik untuk menulis didalam blog supaya setiap insan sama-sama dapat berkongsi samaada dari segi ilmu ataupun perjalanan hidup seseorang.

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Saya pernah beberapa kali bertemu dengan penulis blog ini dan beliau berjaya mengubah cara pemikiran saya dalam perjalanan menuju ke alam dewasa. Begitulah kita manusia dalam mencari sesuatu yang tertinggal.

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How your career choice affects your love life

By Laura Schaefer

Do people pre-determine just how happy their future marriages will be when they choose a career to pursue? Not exactly, but our professions do play a big role in our personal lives. Work doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Our incomes, stress levels and identities are all related to what we do for a living — which can’t help but influence how we shape our romantic relationships. A study out of Radford University in Virginia published in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology sheds some interesting light on the divorce rates found within certain professions. People in the workforce with the highest rates of divorce include: bartenders, massage therapists, entertainers and performers, choreographers, waiters, nurses, home health aides, and telemarketers. But that’s only part of the story — read on for more details on how your job shapes your love life.

Stressful careers are correlated with higher divorce rates
As much as we might endeavor to keep our professional and private worlds separated, choosing which career to pursue can have a profound impact on our future love lives — especially regarding high-stress jobs. “Law enforcement sees an overwhelming amount of divorce,” notes Stacey Dillon of Public Safety Authority Medias. “We have attended national conferences that show state police work sees the highest rate of divorce — an estimated 80% likelihood. Police associations attribute this to the job, as it requires [an individual] to be a police officer 24/7. State laws require them to respond to any crime at all times. The profession puts a great demand on families.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, the high stress level associated with routine police work subsequently makes relationship stability harder to maintain.

Members of the clergy, engineers, and eye doctors tend to stay married

“A student of mine, Shawn McCoy, did a wonderful job of getting U.S. Census data broken down by occupation and divorce rate,” explains Michael G. Aamodt, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Radford University, who led the study on professions and their associated rates of divorce. “He was told many times that this was not possible, but he stuck to it and eventually found the right person at the Census Bureau who figured out how he could get the data.” Among the professions with the lowest divorce rates were optometrists, members of the clergy, engineers and podiatrists.

For a stable marriage, get a good education first
“A follow-up study conducted by three of my graduate students — Paul Park, Elizabeth Matt, and Chad Carrick — found that occupations that had brighter, better-educated employees had lower divorce rates, and that divorce rates were lower for higher-paying jobs than for lower-paying jobs,” continues Dr. Aamodt. “Thus, it appears that it is not the job itself, but the characteristics of the employees that are related to occupational divorce rates.” It might sound like a no-brainer, but now we have scholarly confirmation: a little extra money in the family coffers does lead to more stable marriages. So if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a bright and educated person your husband or wife.

Those who work in people-helping professions enjoy more peaceful relationships
“The greatest relationship volatility can arise in professions where one or both parties have careers where they act as authority figures, i.e., military, police, clergy,” asserts Dr. Lynda Veto, a therapist and media expert who lives in Princeton, NJ. “They are used to speaking and being listened to or followed without question.” As you’d imagine, this can create problems at home, where relationships are more fluid and (hopefully) less hierarchical in nature. “Conversely, more peaceful relationships are seen by those in helping-type professions, like educators, social workers, therapists, medical personnel, and individuals who work in philanthropic endeavors.”

Your job helps determine who’s in your dating pool
“I have a ton of anecdotal evidence — i.e., lots and lots of tech startup friends — that suggests that techies who work at startups are really busy and devoted to their jobs, so they tend to date other people from work,” says Jeska Dzwigalski, 34, the director of community and marketing at Coffee & Power, a technology startup in San Francisco. When you choose a job, then, you’re also choosing the pool of people you’ll most likely date within — and eventually find someone to marry. There are a lot of lawyers married to lawyers, in other words. “Although it’s frowned upon in many other businesses, I’ve seen this happen a lot in technology companies,” adds Dzwigalski. “In fact, I met my fiancé when the company I was working for acquired his small startup.”

Your chosen career path is an expression of your values
“Core values can predict a workable relationship,” says Debbie Mandel, stress management expert and author of Addicted to Stress (Wiley and Sons). “A job becomes one’s identity. Artistic people tend to look at the world imaginatively, but not always realistically. An engineer is sequential and exacting. Physicians tend to feel powerful; many want to be taken care of after taking care of others on a daily basis. Teachers tend to lecture and repeat themselves. Opposites can attract and form a whole — but it takes awareness and compromise.” No matter what personality quirks your job evokes, however, the key for achieving relationship peace is that it matches your partner’s career in terms of shared core goals. Relationship advisor and therapist Dr. Terri Orbuch, author of 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great, puts it this way: “If you marry someone whose profession’s values are the opposite of those found in yours (or your own personal values), there’s a greater likelihood of experiencing conflict, tension and frustration over time.”

Successful marriages are mostly just a matter of time
No matter what career you choose to pursue, the main predictor of a relationship’s happiness and stability is simply a combination of time and attentiveness. “We put our time and effort into what we believe is most important in life,” says Dr. Veto. “If you have to spend most of your time climbing the corporate ladder or hitting the books, you won’t have the time to nurture a quality relationship. However, it’s just wrong to believe you must choose either a successful career or a successful relationship. With balance, you can have both.”

Laura Schaefer is the author of Notes to Self and Planet Explorers New York City: A Travel Guide for Kids.

Apples Work Magic on Bad Cholesterol

Tom Valeo Tampa  Bay Times Chicago Daily Herald 
 

 
It raises good cholesterol, lowers bad cholesterol and contributes to weight loss. So what is this miracle substance? An apple.
 
"I consider apples a magic food," said Bahram H. Arjmandi, Ph.D., director for the Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging at Florida State  University . "Apples are not my favorite food, but I buy a bag a week and try to eat two per day. I am convinced this is what I should do if I want to remain healthy."
 
According to Arjmandi, apple pectin -- the white stuff under the skin -- binds to cholesterol in the gut and ferries it out of the body. This is well-known, but what surprised Arjmandi is how much cholesterol a couple of apples can remove from the body.
 
In one recent study, he divided 160 women between the ages of 45 and 65 into two groups. One group ate 75 grams of dried apple per day -- about 2 1/2 ounces -- while the other ate the same amount of dried prunes. To his amazement, the women who ate apples experienced a 23 percent decrease in LDL "bad" cholesterol, and increased their HDL "good" cholesterol by 3 percent to 4 percent -- a boost difficult to achieve with drugs or exercise.
 
The women who ate the dried prunes experienced no such effects on their cholesterol, although another study found that women who ate 10 prunes per day, while taking calcium and vitamin D supplements, had higher bone density in their forearms and spine than women who ate apples.
 
Cholesterol is manufactured in the liver. Statin drugs, such as Lipitor and Crestor, reduce cholesterol very effectively by blocking an enzyme needed to make it. The problem is that statins can be hard on the liver, which is why people who take them must have a blood test periodically to make sure their liver is not becoming irritated and inflamed.
 
"The liver is one of the largest organs in the body, and it can remain pretty functional if only 50 percent of it stays healthy," said Arjmandi. "You do not see an abnormality in the blood unless you do substantial damage to the liver. Drugs have their place, but if you have to check your liver enzymes, that means the drug is doing something not so good for you, and I don't understand why we would go for drug therapies when eating two apples a day reduces LDL cholesterol so effectively. Eat apples and you not only don't harm your liver, but you substantially benefit your health."
 
So why aren't apples prescribed for high cholesterol as avidly as statin drugs?
 
Statins account for about 6.5 percent of all drug sales in the U.S. , according to Forbes magazine, and earn drug companies about $26 billion per year.
 
"You'd have to sell a lot of apples to make that kind of money," Arjmandi said. "If the drugs earn that kind of money, why would a business bother with apple pectin?"