Original Recipe of Ours

Assalamualaikum wbt

Yesterday was the 1st day I started my routine as a fullltime housewife. It's not that I'm married. It's simply because I'm now taking care of the house, replacing Mak Tam for a while. She now is concentrating on her cute baby boy, Iman Solihin.

After everyone leaving for work and school, I'll start cleaning the kitchen, sweeping the floor, rearranging the books of Azizi and Aiman, doing the laundry, and watching the only available program in the morning, Malaysia Hari ini. At 12, I'll defroze either chicken, fish or whatever thing that is needed to prepare the lunch. As for yesterday, I made ikan tilapia bakar with my own style. And for today, it's only chicken curry. It wasn't hot as I wanted. The chilly boh (blended) was running out of stock. I was too lazy to blend some more. Whatever it is, it really suits Azizi's and Aiman's taste. Not hot!

I watch TV a lot within this few days. It reminds me to my habit when I was 14-15 years old. Hmm... It was about 7-8 years ago. But it seems just happened a year ago. At that moment, I liked watching Chinese serial dramas at 7pm everyday. I still can list down a few of them: The Good Old Days, The Stepping Stone, Fei Mau, The Police Academy and a few more. My mum even addressed me as Hantu Cina for being so into the dramas very much. But now I'm no longer a drama addicted. I'm now an observer. I observe almost everything about Malaysia. From the people, the culture, the weather and even up to the politics and crisis.

What attracts me most is the people. And to be specific, the women. And to be more specific, the Muslim women. Women nowadays put on make up to appear beauty and eligent. They look happy to be the center of attractions. I sometimes get confused with their mind. Some of them are wearing hijab but still are proud to be up-to-date with this make up thing. Don't they know the do's and don'ts that a muslim woman should apply in daily life? Well, maybe I can say it's still okay as long as they are still covering their aurah (parts of the body that should be covered). But what about the non-hijabis? Can we say that they are putting themselves at higher risk to be 'murdered' by irresponsible men? Can't they think that hijab can protect them from harms or at least lower the risk to be raped or what so ever bad things desired by men?

Back to the make up issue. To make it simple, I just want to drag your attention on aurah issue again. Since we know that for women the should-be-covered area is the whole body except the face and the palms. But it doesn't mean that we can simply make our face up with colors and blushers here and there. This is what we call 'tabarruj' or 'menunjuk-nunjuk' or showing off. The same goes for perfume. Rasulullah once said that if a woman went out of her house with perfume around and had attracted men to look at her, she is no different with the prostitutes (sharbutah = wanita penzina). But what is happening around us is totally different. They are proud to be 'in' make up and feel that they are left behind if they don't follow the trend.

Err... I lost my words already. While writing this on, I keep doing another job actually. So the result is, I mess up my mind and can't even think of a word to continue the topic. Well, maybe I can conclude that, "Girls, be proud of your originality. " Make up is just a thing that runs you out of your originality. There is always hikmah behind the reason of make up prohibition. Think about it.

Now I'm seriously totally empty. Why??

p/s: Why can't we just accept our natural beauty?

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Hari buat dia:

23) Janganlah bersedih jika apa yang kita pinta tidak dimakbulkan Allah lagi. Sebaliknya rasalah bersyukur kerana Allah memilih kita untuk terus mendengar suara kita sebagai suara hamba yang selalu ingat kepada-Nya.