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today, it is offical.
in malaysia, christians are forbidden to use the word Allah.
I, as a catholic (im not really religious but this concern me) am very disappointed that my fellow malayisan fail to be united as a nation of multy racial and multy cultural and of multy religion.
to corresponde to this, i have add a lick of a CNN web new for you guys to understand the situation better.
also, i have pick an artical from Wikipedia talking about the usage of the word "ALLAH" for the Islams and the Christians.
i do not wish to make a propaganda, but i just want to express how disappointed and how nonsence it seems to me.
sorry for those who feel offended. but i feel like there is something that is not right. thanks for the time.
Islam
Main article: God in Islam
See also: Names of God in the Qur'an
Medallion showing "Allah" in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the proper name of God, and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith. "He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind." "He is unique (wāḥid) and inherently one (aḥad), all-merciful and omnipotent." The Qur'an declares "the reality of Allah, His inaccessible mystery, His various names, and His actions on behalf of His creatures."
Allah script outside Eski Cami (The Old Mosque) in Edirne, Turkey.
In Islamic tradition, there are 99 Names of God (al-asmā' al-ḥusná lit. meaning: 'the best names' or 'the most beautiful names'), each of which evoke a distinct characteristic of Allah. All these names refer to Allah, the supreme and all-comprehensive divine name. Among the 99 names of God, the most famous and most frequent of these names are "the Merciful" (al-Raḥmān) and "the Compassionate" (al-Raḥīm).
Most Muslims use the untranslated Arabic phrase in shā' Allāh (meaning 'if God wills') after references to future events. Muslim discursive piety encourages beginning things with the invocation of bismillāh (meaning 'in the name of God').
There are certain phrases in praise of God that are favored by Muslims, including "Subḥān Allāh" (Holiness be to God), "al-ḥamdu lillāh" (Praise be to God), "lā ilāha illā Allāh" (There is no deity but God) and "Allāhu akbar" (God is great) as a devotional exercise of remembering God (dhikr). In a Sufi practice known as dhikr Allah (lit. remembrance of God), the Sufi repeats and contemplates on the name Allah or other divine names while controlling his or her breath.
Some scholars have suggested that Muḥammad used the term Allah in addressing both pagan Arabs and Jews or Christians in order to establish a common ground for the understanding of the name for God, a claim Gerhard Böwering says is doubtful. According to Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God and jinn. Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs believed in a blind, powerful, inexorable and insensible fate over which man had no control. This was replaced with the Islamic notion of a powerful but provident and merciful God.
According to Francis Edwards Peters, "The Qur'ān insists, Muslims believe, and historians affirm that Muhammad and his followers worship the same God as the Jews (29:46). The Qur'an's Allah is the same Creator God who covenanted with Abraham". Peters states that the Qur'an portrays Allah as both more powerful and more remote than Yahweh, and as a universal deity, unlike Yahweh who closely follows Israelites.
Christianity
The Aramaic word for "God" in the language of Assyrian Christians is ʼĔlāhā, or Alaha. Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, use the word "Allah" to mean "God". The Christian Arabs of today have no other word for "God" than "Allah". (Even the Arabic-descended Maltese language of Malta, whose population is almost entirely Roman Catholic, uses Alla for "God".) Arab Christians for example use terms Allāh al-ab (الله الأب) meaning God the Father, Allāh al-ibn (الله الابن) mean God the Son, and Allāh al-rūḥ al-quds (الله الروح القدس) meaning God the Holy Spirit. (See God in Christianity for the Christian concept of God.)
Arab Christians have used two forms of invocations that were affixed to the beginning of their written works. They adopted the Muslim bismillāh, and also created their own Trinitized bismillāh as early as the 8th century CE. The Muslim bismillāh reads: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful." The Trinitized bismillāh reads: "In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God." The Syriac, Latin and Greek invocations do not have the words "One God" at the end. This addition was made to emphasize the monotheistic aspect of Trinitian belief and also to make it more palatable to Muslims.
According to Marshall Hodgson, it seems that in the pre-Islamic times, some Arab Christians made pilgrimage to the Ka'bah, a pagan temple at that time, honoring Allah there as God the Creator.
Some archaeological excavation quests have led to the discovery of ancient Pre-Islamic inscriptions and tombs made by Arabic-speaking Christians in the ruins of a church at Umm el-Jimal in Northern Jordan, which contained references to Allah as the proper name of God, and some of the graves contained names such as "Abd Allah" which means "the servant/slave of Allah".
The name Allah can be found countless times in the reports and the lists of names of Christian martyrs in South Arabia, as reported by antique Syriac documents of the names of those martyrs from the era of the Himyarite & Aksumite kingdoms.
A Christian leader named Abd Allah ibn Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad was martyred in Najran in 523 AD, and he had worn a ring that said "Allah is my lord".
In an inscription of Christian martyrion dated back to 512 AD, references to Allah can be found in both Arabic and Aramaic, which called him "Allah" and "Alaha", and the inscription starts with the statement "By the Help of Allah".
In Pre-Islamic Gospels, the name used for God was "Allah", as evidenced by some discovered Arabic versions of the New Testamentt written by Arab Christians during the Pre-Islamic era in Northern and Southern Arabia.
Pre-Islamic Arab Christians have been reported to have raised the battle cry "Ya La Ibad Allah" (O slaves of Allah) to invoke each other into battle.
"Allah" was also mentioned in pre-Islamic Christian poems by some Ghassanid and Tanukhid poets in Syria and Northern Arabia.
Main article: God in Islam
See also: Names of God in the Qur'an
Medallion showing "Allah" in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the proper name of God, and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith. "He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind." "He is unique (wāḥid) and inherently one (aḥad), all-merciful and omnipotent." The Qur'an declares "the reality of Allah, His inaccessible mystery, His various names, and His actions on behalf of His creatures."
Allah script outside Eski Cami (The Old Mosque) in Edirne, Turkey.
In Islamic tradition, there are 99 Names of God (al-asmā' al-ḥusná lit. meaning: 'the best names' or 'the most beautiful names'), each of which evoke a distinct characteristic of Allah. All these names refer to Allah, the supreme and all-comprehensive divine name. Among the 99 names of God, the most famous and most frequent of these names are "the Merciful" (al-Raḥmān) and "the Compassionate" (al-Raḥīm).
Most Muslims use the untranslated Arabic phrase in shā' Allāh (meaning 'if God wills') after references to future events. Muslim discursive piety encourages beginning things with the invocation of bismillāh (meaning 'in the name of God').
There are certain phrases in praise of God that are favored by Muslims, including "Subḥān Allāh" (Holiness be to God), "al-ḥamdu lillāh" (Praise be to God), "lā ilāha illā Allāh" (There is no deity but God) and "Allāhu akbar" (God is great) as a devotional exercise of remembering God (dhikr). In a Sufi practice known as dhikr Allah (lit. remembrance of God), the Sufi repeats and contemplates on the name Allah or other divine names while controlling his or her breath.
Some scholars have suggested that Muḥammad used the term Allah in addressing both pagan Arabs and Jews or Christians in order to establish a common ground for the understanding of the name for God, a claim Gerhard Böwering says is doubtful. According to Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God and jinn. Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs believed in a blind, powerful, inexorable and insensible fate over which man had no control. This was replaced with the Islamic notion of a powerful but provident and merciful God.
According to Francis Edwards Peters, "The Qur'ān insists, Muslims believe, and historians affirm that Muhammad and his followers worship the same God as the Jews (29:46). The Qur'an's Allah is the same Creator God who covenanted with Abraham". Peters states that the Qur'an portrays Allah as both more powerful and more remote than Yahweh, and as a universal deity, unlike Yahweh who closely follows Israelites.
Christianity
The Aramaic word for "God" in the language of Assyrian Christians is ʼĔlāhā, or Alaha. Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, use the word "Allah" to mean "God". The Christian Arabs of today have no other word for "God" than "Allah". (Even the Arabic-descended Maltese language of Malta, whose population is almost entirely Roman Catholic, uses Alla for "God".) Arab Christians for example use terms Allāh al-ab (الله الأب) meaning God the Father, Allāh al-ibn (الله الابن) mean God the Son, and Allāh al-rūḥ al-quds (الله الروح القدس) meaning God the Holy Spirit. (See God in Christianity for the Christian concept of God.)
Arab Christians have used two forms of invocations that were affixed to the beginning of their written works. They adopted the Muslim bismillāh, and also created their own Trinitized bismillāh as early as the 8th century CE. The Muslim bismillāh reads: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful." The Trinitized bismillāh reads: "In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God." The Syriac, Latin and Greek invocations do not have the words "One God" at the end. This addition was made to emphasize the monotheistic aspect of Trinitian belief and also to make it more palatable to Muslims.
According to Marshall Hodgson, it seems that in the pre-Islamic times, some Arab Christians made pilgrimage to the Ka'bah, a pagan temple at that time, honoring Allah there as God the Creator.
Some archaeological excavation quests have led to the discovery of ancient Pre-Islamic inscriptions and tombs made by Arabic-speaking Christians in the ruins of a church at Umm el-Jimal in Northern Jordan, which contained references to Allah as the proper name of God, and some of the graves contained names such as "Abd Allah" which means "the servant/slave of Allah".
The name Allah can be found countless times in the reports and the lists of names of Christian martyrs in South Arabia, as reported by antique Syriac documents of the names of those martyrs from the era of the Himyarite & Aksumite kingdoms.
A Christian leader named Abd Allah ibn Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad was martyred in Najran in 523 AD, and he had worn a ring that said "Allah is my lord".
In an inscription of Christian martyrion dated back to 512 AD, references to Allah can be found in both Arabic and Aramaic, which called him "Allah" and "Alaha", and the inscription starts with the statement "By the Help of Allah".
In Pre-Islamic Gospels, the name used for God was "Allah", as evidenced by some discovered Arabic versions of the New Testamentt written by Arab Christians during the Pre-Islamic era in Northern and Southern Arabia.
Pre-Islamic Arab Christians have been reported to have raised the battle cry "Ya La Ibad Allah" (O slaves of Allah) to invoke each other into battle.
"Allah" was also mentioned in pre-Islamic Christian poems by some Ghassanid and Tanukhid poets in Syria and Northern Arabia.
thanks for reading.
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just feeling like saying stuff.
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so, there is nothing special really. been really tired lately.
got a new job. which is fine actually. but it really cuts time for other stuff.
been feeling really tired lately. but its really not that bad.
i got the luck thinking about how life is right now. i guess i got it. life have been franky quite kind to me.
it wasnt easy these last few year. been down most of the time.
getting married to a guy that live half way around the world (which is the best thing that ever happen to me). having to finish my study. lost my grandma.
moving away from my friends and family to a country i never dream to live in.
things has totally turn out far different from what i had pictured it to be 5year ago.
all is well though.
im happily married. surrounded by new but friendly faces.
its truly a beautiful world.
alice is in wonderland, lol
love!!!
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Today is the 29th of May 2013.
Normal in Sarawak (Malaysia) this time of the year is a super big deal for all Dayak.
And I am a Dayak my self. An Iban to be precised
On the 31th of May of every year, there is the Harvest Festival. This is actually like a new year for us.
Because the new harvest symbolises that the year has end and a new year is to begin
Well I'm not really good at explaining but whatever
Anyway...
Back in Sarawak, my family is preparing everything for the festival.
its usually bigger the christmas althought we are catholic, but anyways lol
friends, relatives, and family will come together to celebrate this festive season that most of the time, last for weeks.
Gawai in a Long House is surely different from Gawai anywhere else.
But this year, like last year and the year before, i wont be celebrating. Each year for different reasons.
oh well, maybe next time :/ but i am not sad, just bump out that i will missed out on all the funs. huhu
I hope next year i'll be able to go back to my village with the husband for Gawai.
Anyways, in the spirites of Gawai, I wish you all SELAMAT NYAMBUT ARI GAWAI! GAYU GURU GERAI NYAMAI. LANTANG SENANG NGUAN MENUA!!! WUUHAAAA!!
Normal in Sarawak (Malaysia) this time of the year is a super big deal for all Dayak.
And I am a Dayak my self. An Iban to be precised
On the 31th of May of every year, there is the Harvest Festival. This is actually like a new year for us.
Because the new harvest symbolises that the year has end and a new year is to begin
Well I'm not really good at explaining but whatever
Anyway...
Back in Sarawak, my family is preparing everything for the festival.
its usually bigger the christmas althought we are catholic,
but anyways lolfriends, relatives, and family will come together to celebrate this festive season that most of the time, last for weeks.
Gawai in a Long House is surely different from Gawai anywhere else.
But this year, like last year and the year before, i wont be celebrating. Each year for different reasons.
oh well, maybe next time :/ but i am not sad, just bump out that i will missed out on all the funs. huhu
I hope next year i'll be able to go back to my village with the husband for Gawai.
Anyways, in the spirites of Gawai, I wish you all SELAMAT NYAMBUT ARI GAWAI! GAYU GURU GERAI NYAMAI. LANTANG SENANG NGUAN MENUA!!! WUUHAAAA!!
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So Many!! :D
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hey y'all!
i know i havent wrote any journal entry since a while, so i think im due to write one sooner or later.
but i think this is a great occation to write one now
so here is the journal worthy post lol
well, actually, there is bad news and good news.
the bad news is last year i've lost my grandma on 3rd of april. and her brother died just 10months after.
i was cut very deeply by it. but i promise not to cry anymore because i know if she is wathching, she wouldn't want to see me sad.
so im gonna keep smiling
ok, now for the good news (plural)
since december last year, i am surounded by expecting mothers ahaha
december 12, my bestest of friends gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Samuel
im soooo totally happy for her.
thought i still cant believe all those years we spent together, lol
we're both married now, and she got her 1st born, the wonders of life right? ahaha
then, my elder sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at 30th march.
She named her Chrystabelle Liew Zhi Ying her 3rd child, 1st girl
and 2days ago, my aunt also gave birth to a baby girl, hihihi
and today!!! lol my brother in law (his wife) is in labour!!
they are expecting a baby girl (as well)
i will give her a visit at the hospital this weekend
fuh!
life has turned full circle around me this two years, huh?
im happy
thanks grandma, i aill always love you
i know i havent wrote any journal entry since a while, so i think im due to write one sooner or later.
but i think this is a great occation to write one now
so here is the journal worthy post lol
well, actually, there is bad news and good news.
the bad news is last year i've lost my grandma on 3rd of april. and her brother died just 10months after.
i was cut very deeply by it. but i promise not to cry anymore because i know if she is wathching, she wouldn't want to see me sad.
so im gonna keep smiling
ok, now for the good news (plural)
since december last year, i am surounded by expecting mothers ahaha
december 12, my bestest of friends gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Samuel
im soooo totally happy for her.
thought i still cant believe all those years we spent together, lol
we're both married now, and she got her 1st born,
the wonders of life right? ahahathen, my elder sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at 30th march.
She named her Chrystabelle Liew Zhi Ying
her 3rd child, 1st girl and 2days ago, my aunt also gave birth to a baby girl, hihihi
and today!!! lol my brother in law (his wife) is in labour!!
they are expecting a baby girl (as well)
i will give her a visit at the hospital this weekend
fuh!
life has turned full circle around me this two years, huh?
im happy
thanks grandma, i aill always love you
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21st of July 2012
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hey people of DA! today is my last day as a Miss and i am very very excited with butterflies and all for tomorrow. it has been a long time coming but this is one of the most meaningful moments of my life 
my future husband is named Eric Penguilly. age 29. sweet. handsome. smart. and my everything after more then 2years together, this will be a fresh new start in our live. a new chapter of a blank book which soon will be written day by day i am very happy
the wedding will be tomorrow in St Pol de Léon, Brittany France. its a humble ceremony but i am very sure it will be beautiful
and according to the weather forecast, tomorrow will be sunny so thats great news!
well, to all my watchers i will continue DA as usual. and i hope you will keep supporting me, thank you!
today is my last day as a Miss and i am very very excited with butterflies and all for tomorrow. it has been a long time coming but this is one of the most meaningful moments of my life my future husband is named Eric Penguilly. age 29. sweet. handsome. smart. and my everything
after more then 2years together, this will be a fresh new start in our live. a new chapter of a blank book which soon will be written day by day i am very happy the wedding will be tomorrow in St Pol de Léon, Brittany France. its a humble ceremony but i am very sure it will be beautiful
and according to the weather forecast, tomorrow will be sunny so thats great news!
well, to all my watchers
i will continue DA as usual. and i hope you will keep supporting me, thank you!
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