“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”


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 Went to Lim Jooi Soon's talk yesterday. He's a muallaf, ex-Buddhist, ex-Christian and the title of his talk was "Andai Kau Tahu Betapa Indahnya Islam", I haven't heard a ceramah for quite some time, with Usrah in a hiatus, I kind of needed this spiritual input, and it was really fun, I kept recalling Muallaf (which is a great movie, go see it.) Every time he mentioned verses from the Quran or the bible, he said it in numbers, and Sharifah Alesya was always screaming numbers in the movie, so it was a comforting deja vu.

Throughout the talk, he gave out a lot of hard-thinking questions like the paradox 'If God could do everything, can he create another God?' and everyone was dumbfounded. I think it was his intention to make us realize that we're inheriting the religion, and think are we actually embracing it?The whole talk made me think a lot, and made me think to actually do something. #1 Don't take Islamic subjects for granted. And tomorrow's exam for Understanding Islam. Better start there.

Embrace the religion, don't merely inherit it.

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