Random Thoughts



My mind was disturbed by a few things right now. But before that, alhamdulillah I managed to settle my passport renewal application. Hopefully I'll get my new passport before I have to leave State College for good in december. Well, talking about the civil service, I was told that the Immigration takes minimum of 3 months to process passport application from oversea. I seriously think our civil service needs a major overhaul. But I don't think I will see this in my lifetime. It takes a strong political will to improve such system and also, the right attitude. Other than that, I just have to bear with this bull system.

Anyway, my iPod gives me a headache. It isn't because of its music. It's because of its malfunction. I thought I could fix it, you know. Put the plug in and connect it to my Powerbook and voila, it's dead! Shit! Disk Utility doesn't do its magic anymore on my iPod and of course, iPod Software Updater doesn't do any good either. So now I opt for sending it to Apple Care on campus here. So today I went to the place and unfortunately, it was closed. Phewww..penat la aku menapak camni...abih haus tapak kaki menapak ni!!

Ah well, I decided to come home.

On the way walking to my apartment, I started to recall a few issues I read over the net. Most of them I read on newspaper. Recently there are few issues raised by some people concerning women involvement in Syari'ah court, hijaab and also rape within marriage.

Women in Syari'ah court..hmmm..why not? If women can act justly and deliver a just verdict with sound mind, why they can't be the judges? Besides, I never heard such an Islamic law to say the judges MUST be a male. Unless there is a specific Quranic verse or saheeh hadith, then I'll buy it. Otherwise, let us be progressive ok, instead of discriminative towards women. Besides, Islam is suppose to elevate the degree of women in society, not the other way around.

Hijaab is also another issue which is fiercely debated especially amongst the feminists. Well, I'd say, let them wear hijaab. But before that, address to them the hikmah of wearing the hijaab instead of throwing the word 'hellfire' and 'sinful' straight to their face. And even if they do not want to wear hijaab, at least we did our job and pray to Allah so He blesses them with hidayah. People nowadays are more inquisitive, instead of taking things at their face values. People will ask why and how and we need to address their concerns with smiling face and yet, cautious so that we will not transgress ourselves.

Oh yeah, another issue - rape within marriage. Mufti of Perak says any motion to enact a law to punish the husband from committing rape with his lawful wife is against the Islamic law. Okay, I got the juice. But when I carefully think about it, this whole issue will not arise if any man with sound judgement treats his wife justly, doesn't matter if it is in bed or outside of bedroom.

Rape as defined in Dictionary.com is an act of forcing another person to submit to sex act. Every Muslim is aware that Islam forbids this. Also, by the virtues outlined by objective shari'ah ie. protection of phsycal and emotional state, there shouldn't be a problem about this issue because men need to treat their wives respectfully and with ihsan. Same goes to the women. If your husband treat you with kindness, ihsan, please return the same courtesy to him. This will make just to both of you and none of this bullshit issue of raping within marriage will arise.

Okay lah..I better stop here. Need to figure out what to cook for tonight. Later peeps.