Apakah masih ada dikalangan bangsa ku yang sebegitu... Atau, menanam tebu dibibir mulut lebih menjadi tradisi kebanggaan, kerana manis mulut itu perlu...bagaimana pula..dengan..keluhuran dan keikhlasan memegang tanggungjawab..apakah juga semata-mata atas nama pangkat...atau atas nama ingin berbakti atau inginkan NAMA dikenang..betul..harimau mati meninggalkan belang...manusia mati meninggalkan nama...Patah tumbuh hilang berganti..tetapi..ada yang tak reti reti...masih beranggapan hidup menongkat langit..senyum...ada tetapi tidak semestinya ikhlas..salam dihulur..tidak semestinya...kerana ingin bersahabat...dimana sebenarnya..nawaitu masing-masing....
Ada yang baru setahun jagung..tetapi merasa dirinya..sudah lebih dulu makan garam..ada yang hanya baca brochure universiti..tetapi merasakan dirinya setaraf sarjana universiti..ada yang hanya sekelumit usaha dan sumbangan tapi tanpa segan -silu menuntut pujian....dimana ye...barangkali perasaan rendah diri orang Timur yang mana Agamanya dilindungi oleh Perlembagaan..dimana ye..sifat tawaduk..untuk berterus terang tanpa perlu mengungkit2 dengan reverse psychology supaya dirinya dilihat berusaha dan layak....selayak -layaknya bekerja...
Dimana pulak keimanan mereka yang suka berkata 'Insyallah'...tetapi, tak pernah hadir bila dijemput...
Sungguh menarik dunia hari ini..memang betul - betul plastik...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Old Testament
The Old Testament is the collection of books that forms the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. The contents of the Old Testment canon vary from church to church, with the Orthodox communion having 51 books: the shared books are those of the shortest canon, that of the major Protestant communions, with 39 books.
All Old Testament canons are related to the Jewish Bible Canon (Tanakh), but with variations. The most important of these variations is a change to the order of the books: the Hebrew Bible ends with the Book of Chronicles, which describes Israel restored to the Promised Land and the Temple restored in Jerusalem; in the Hebrew Bible God's purpose is thus fulfilled and the divine history is at an end, according to Dispensationalism. In the Christian Old Testament the Book of Malachi is placed last, so that a prophesy of the coming of the Messiah leads into the birth of the Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.
The Tanakh is written in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic, and is therefore also known as the Hebrew Bible (the text of the Jewish Bible is called the Masoretic, after the medieval Jewish rabbis who compiled it). The Masoretic Text (i.e. the Hebrew text revered by medieval and modern Jews) is only one of several versions of the original scriptures of ancient Judaism, and no manuscripts of that hypothetical original text exist. In the last few centuries before Christ Jewish scholars produced a translation of their scriptures in Greek, the common language of the Eastern portion of the Roman Empire since the conquests of Alexander the Great. This translation, known as the Septuagint, forms the basis of the Orthodox and some other Eastern Old Testaments. The Old Testaments of the Western branches of Christianity were originally based on a Latin translation of the Septuagint known as the Vetus Latina, this was replaced by Jerome's Vulgate, which continues to be highly respected in the Catholic Church, but Protestant churches generally follow translations of a scholarly reference known as the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. In 1943, Pope Pius XII issued the Divino Afflante Spiritu which allows Catholic translations from texts other than the Vulgate, notably in English the New American Bible.
The Hebrew Bible divides its books into three categories, the Torah ("Instructions"), the Nevi'im ("Prophets") (according to some Christians, essentially historical, despite the title), and the Ketuvim ("Writings}," which according to some Christians might better be described as "wisdom" books (the Song of Songs, Lamentations, Proverbs, etc). The Christian Old Testaments ignore this division and instead emphasise the historical and prophetic nature of the canon - this the Book of Ruth and the Book of Job, part of the Writings in the Hebrew Bible, are reclassified in the Christian canon as history books, and the overall division into Instructions, Prophets and Writings is lost. The reason for this is the over-arching Messianic intention of Christianity - the Old Testament is seen as preparation for the New Testament, and not as a revelation complete in its own right, see Supersessionism for details.
Although it is not a history book in the modern sense, the Old Testament is the primary source for the History of ancient Israel and Judah. The Bible historians presented a picture of ancient Israel based on information that they viewed as historically true. Of particular interest in this regard are the books of Joshua through Second Chronicles.[1][2]
The oldest material in the Hebrew Bible - and therefore in the Christian Old Testament - may date from the 12th century BCE. This material is found embedded within the books of the current Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, which reached their current form at various points between the 5th century BCE (the first five books, the Torah) and the 2nd century BCE[3], see Development of the Jewish Bible canon for details.
All Old Testament canons are related to the Jewish Bible Canon (Tanakh), but with variations. The most important of these variations is a change to the order of the books: the Hebrew Bible ends with the Book of Chronicles, which describes Israel restored to the Promised Land and the Temple restored in Jerusalem; in the Hebrew Bible God's purpose is thus fulfilled and the divine history is at an end, according to Dispensationalism. In the Christian Old Testament the Book of Malachi is placed last, so that a prophesy of the coming of the Messiah leads into the birth of the Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.
The Tanakh is written in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic, and is therefore also known as the Hebrew Bible (the text of the Jewish Bible is called the Masoretic, after the medieval Jewish rabbis who compiled it). The Masoretic Text (i.e. the Hebrew text revered by medieval and modern Jews) is only one of several versions of the original scriptures of ancient Judaism, and no manuscripts of that hypothetical original text exist. In the last few centuries before Christ Jewish scholars produced a translation of their scriptures in Greek, the common language of the Eastern portion of the Roman Empire since the conquests of Alexander the Great. This translation, known as the Septuagint, forms the basis of the Orthodox and some other Eastern Old Testaments. The Old Testaments of the Western branches of Christianity were originally based on a Latin translation of the Septuagint known as the Vetus Latina, this was replaced by Jerome's Vulgate, which continues to be highly respected in the Catholic Church, but Protestant churches generally follow translations of a scholarly reference known as the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. In 1943, Pope Pius XII issued the Divino Afflante Spiritu which allows Catholic translations from texts other than the Vulgate, notably in English the New American Bible.
The Hebrew Bible divides its books into three categories, the Torah ("Instructions"), the Nevi'im ("Prophets") (according to some Christians, essentially historical, despite the title), and the Ketuvim ("Writings}," which according to some Christians might better be described as "wisdom" books (the Song of Songs, Lamentations, Proverbs, etc). The Christian Old Testaments ignore this division and instead emphasise the historical and prophetic nature of the canon - this the Book of Ruth and the Book of Job, part of the Writings in the Hebrew Bible, are reclassified in the Christian canon as history books, and the overall division into Instructions, Prophets and Writings is lost. The reason for this is the over-arching Messianic intention of Christianity - the Old Testament is seen as preparation for the New Testament, and not as a revelation complete in its own right, see Supersessionism for details.
Although it is not a history book in the modern sense, the Old Testament is the primary source for the History of ancient Israel and Judah. The Bible historians presented a picture of ancient Israel based on information that they viewed as historically true. Of particular interest in this regard are the books of Joshua through Second Chronicles.[1][2]
The oldest material in the Hebrew Bible - and therefore in the Christian Old Testament - may date from the 12th century BCE. This material is found embedded within the books of the current Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, which reached their current form at various points between the 5th century BCE (the first five books, the Torah) and the 2nd century BCE[3], see Development of the Jewish Bible canon for details.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Adab dan Pekerti Bangsa Melayu
Didalam suasana hari ini, dimasa semua mengejar kemewahan dan bererti juga keselesaan, saya tertanya-tanya, apa yang dikejar sehingga ia menjadi sikap diluar dari yang diwar-warkan..
Sewaktu berada di Bunga Raya petang semalam..sebagai orang yang menghormati orang lain..saya menghulurkan tangan berjabat salam..dengan hamba Allah yang berpangkat, berusia muda..punya penglibatan diri didalam korporat walaupun dia menzahirkan dirinya sebagai seorang pemimpin..Apa disebabkan jawatan...makanya bererti..dia berhak untuk menoleh kearah lain..semata-mata kerana saya enggan untuk bersalam dengannya pada kali pertama? Kenapa saya, kalau bukan kerana dia merasakan...bahawa ruang lingkup persekitaran..disitu adalah untuk mereka - mereka yang 'sewaktu' dengannya...tertanya saya - dimana amanah yang dipegang oleh jati dirinya (tak perlu saya ulas tentang ucapannya dikaca TV baru-baru ini..dimana saya turut sama berada dalam 'idiot box' tersebut.
Semoga kata-kata 'Rakyat Didahulukan' dihayati oleh beliau juga...kerana selain dari tidak tahu hendak senyum, beliau melanggar kaki saya didepan kapalterbang..sewaktu hendak mengejar 'rakannya' yang turut 'sewaktu' dengannya...
Belajarlah rendah diri sikit...
Sewaktu berada di Bunga Raya petang semalam..sebagai orang yang menghormati orang lain..saya menghulurkan tangan berjabat salam..dengan hamba Allah yang berpangkat, berusia muda..punya penglibatan diri didalam korporat walaupun dia menzahirkan dirinya sebagai seorang pemimpin..Apa disebabkan jawatan...makanya bererti..dia berhak untuk menoleh kearah lain..semata-mata kerana saya enggan untuk bersalam dengannya pada kali pertama? Kenapa saya, kalau bukan kerana dia merasakan...bahawa ruang lingkup persekitaran..disitu adalah untuk mereka - mereka yang 'sewaktu' dengannya...tertanya saya - dimana amanah yang dipegang oleh jati dirinya (tak perlu saya ulas tentang ucapannya dikaca TV baru-baru ini..dimana saya turut sama berada dalam 'idiot box' tersebut.
Semoga kata-kata 'Rakyat Didahulukan' dihayati oleh beliau juga...kerana selain dari tidak tahu hendak senyum, beliau melanggar kaki saya didepan kapalterbang..sewaktu hendak mengejar 'rakannya' yang turut 'sewaktu' dengannya...
Belajarlah rendah diri sikit...
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