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Jalan Sehala / Setia Dengan
One-way Street Kebenaran / Hold
Fast to the Truth
Genre:
Insight Genre:
Travelogue (Various)
To steer life, we only face one direction: This is a collection of articles
forward. We need to be adept in using permeated with important real-
the right, left, rear and front mirrors of time questions and perplexing
our life to make sure we arrive at our issues, guised in a series of casual
destination safe and sound. One-way Street travelogues. The author deciphers,
is the author’s critical view on the wheel criticises, and channels his views
of life; on how we drive our day-to-day pertaining to the current issues,
endeavours. The eyes and the mind must cultures, the community’s stagnant
work hand-in-hand to stop looking and mentality, while offering his
start seeing the miraculous view from the perspectives and proposed solutions
right mirror, to embrace difficulties seen in harmony with the main texts of the
from the left, to assess how far we have religion: al-Quran and Sunnah. As the
come from the back and keep our focus title Hold Fast to the Truth, the author
on what lies ahead from the front. In the urges readers to be among the ones
end, when we strip the realities for what who side with the truth even when it
they are, we are all manoeuvring life in the may only belong to the minorities and
same one-way street. the isolated.
Rindu Bau Pohon Tin / Di Hamparan
Yearning for the Scent Shamrock Kuseru
of a Fig Tree Nama-Mu / By the
Fields of Shamrock,
Genre: I Call Upon You
Travelogue (Jordan)
Genre: Travelogue
(Ireland)
Yearning for the Scent of a Fig Tree
chronicles Ustaz Hasrizal Abdul Jamil’s
travels across the Jordan lands. In this The fig trees of Jordan passed their
riveting record of life lessons, shared baton to the fields of shamrock of
stories and experiences, the author plays the Emerald Isles, with a unique set
of lessons for the author of Yearning
with nostalgia and bares his heart; inviting
readers to his world, back to the 90s and for the Scent of a Fig Tree. Between
back to when he delves into the unknown. Ireland and the United Kingdom,
In hindsight, these are the memories he the author faces new challenges,
looks back to, because they are much like drilling into him what it means to be
fig trees; while scentless, they clean the air, a student, an imam, a son, and also a
and things were never the same without husband. Hasrizal, in his signature
them. This travelogue rekindles the sense style, bares his heart, presents his
of nostalgia from memories that build a realities and weaknesses as what
person, for such is the nature of life. they are for all to see, to urge his
readers to think, to ponder with him
as fellow servants of God.
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