AMARAN: JANGAN MUDAH TERTIPU

Disini aku nak beri amaran dan peringatan kepada rakan².. janganlah kita mudah tertipu dengan pembelian melalui internet.. Kita mesti tahu pembelian bagaimana yg selamat dan yg tidak selamat...

web yg aku syor utk membeli:
-ebay
-lelong

*penipuan tetap boleh berlaku tetapi maklumat penipu boleh diperolehi dari web yg berdaftar itu..

web yg mudah untuk menipu:
-mobile88
-mudah

*kat sini ade orang yg benar² ingin melakukan penjualan dan ada yg cuba utk menipu..dan web ini lebih mudah utk menipu kerana tidak perlu mendaftar..


kat bawah ni aku kasi salinan REPOT POLIS kawan aku yg tertipu..korang bace sendiri..

**klik gambar kalau nak bace repotan kawan aku ni**


p/s: sedap makan hasil tipu orang didunia, di akhirat nanti korang akan terima balasan...amin

AMARAN: BERHENTI MEROKOK SEKARANG!

Padah hisap rokok

(Berita Harian, Isnin – 17 Julai 2006)

London – Sekumpulan penyelidik antarabangsa mendakwa tabiat buruk merokok adalah punca sehingga separuh faktor kematian lelaki golongan atasan dan orang miskin. Mereka mendakwa di Britain, Kanada, Amerika Syarikat dan Poland misalnya, lelaki kelas bawahan atau berpendidikan rendah mempunyai risiko sehingga dua kali ganda untuk mati pada usia muda.

Brawn GP take dramatic one-two victory in Melbourne

Not since the French Grand Prix in 1954 has a team new to Formula One racing finished one-two on their debut. That day it was Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling for Mercedes-Benz. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for Brawn-Mercedes after an extraordinary ‘race of two halves’ in Australia.

Button led from pole as Barrichello bogged down when his car activated its anti-stall device, and the Brazilian was then embroiled in a first-corner clash with BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Force €ndia's Adrian Sutil and McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen.

Button streaked away from Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull, Robert Kubica’s BMW Sauber, Nico Rosberg’s Williams and the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. But the face of the race changed on Lap 19 when Kazuki Nakajima crashed his Williams heavily, bringing out the safety car until the end of the 24th lap.

By then Button had watched a 47.7s lead reduced to nothing, and began to struggle to generate heat in his tyres. But he got his head down and opened a gap to Vettel again. As the Ferraris faded, Kubica found his BMW Sauber getting better and better on the harder Bridgestone tyre and gradually began to put Vettel, on the softer option tyre, under serious pressure in the closing stages.

Going into Turn Three on the 55th lap - with three left to run under a setting sun which made driving conditions very difficult - Kubica got alongside Vettel but they touched. Both spun, but continued. But not for long. Vettel had lost his front wing and crashed heavily just as Kubica, further down the road, did the same thing. Out came the safety car again.

€ncredibly, that melee had promoted Barrichello back to the second place, despite his first-lap incident and a later touch with Raikkonen which damaged his Brawn’s front wing. €t was changed during his first pit stop on the 18th lap. As the race finished under the safety car, he admitted that he had never expected a one-two after all his dramas.

Jarno Trulli started from the pit lane after Toyota’s rear wing infringement yesterday, but hauled through to take the final podium finish, while a very determined drive brought a hugely valuable fourth place for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. The world champion was briefly third in the dying stages after Trulli ran off track behind the safety car, before the €talian subsequently retook the place - a move which could yet prompt action from the stewards.

€n the second Toyota Timo Glock came home fifth. The German survived a spin while battling from his own pit lane start, when he and Fernando Alonso tangled.

The Spaniard brought his Renault home sixth, while seventh place came as a bitter disappointment to Rosberg. The German was running fourth with six laps to go and had set fastest lap, but had used up his Bridgestone option tyres and was simply in no position to defend the place. By the finish he had rookie Sebastien Buemi thirsting after him as Toro Rosso’s Swiss driver scored a point for eighth place on his debut.

Neither of the Ferraris finished. Both struggled with tyre wear, and as Massa suffered a mechanical problem late in the race, Raikkonen spun and subsequently retired.

Sebastien Bourdais was ninth in the second Toro Rosso, ahead of Adrian Sutil, who survived a brush with Force €ndia team mate Giancarlo Fisichella. They were separated by Heidfeld, who was consigned to a recovery race after the first corner fracas, while Fisichella further delayed himself by missing his pit marks in his first stop.

Webber, another in recovery mode, was the final classified finisher, ahead of Vettel, Kubica, and Raikkonen. The retirements were Massa, Nelson Piquet who spun his Renault after the first safety car restart, Nakajima and Kovalainen.

Button’s great victory marked the 200th for a British driver.

"€t's not just for me but for the whole team,” he said, “a fairy tale ending really to the first race of our career together and € hope we can continue this way. We are going to fight every way we can to keep this car competitive and at the front. This has got to continue and this is where we want to be. Bring on Malaysia!”

credit for http://www.formula1.com

SEMAKAN KEPUTUSAN UJIAN MTEST KPLI SUDAH BOLEH DIBUAT

KURSUS PERGURUAN LEPASAN IJAZAH(KPLI)
SUDAH BOLEH DISEMAK MELALUI LAMAN WEB

tarikh peperiksaan MTEST 28 MARCH 2009

http://apps.emoe.gov.my/kpli

--->SEMAKAN PANGILAN MTest KPLi<---

PANDUAN PEPERIKASAAN MTEST(KPLI)

BAHAGIAN PENDIDIKAN GURU
KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA

Alamat:

Telefon:

Faks:
Bahagian Pendidikan Guru
Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia
Paras 2 – 6, Blok E13
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan
62602 Putrajaya

03-8884 1233
03-8884 1235
03-8884 1243
03-8884 1245
03-8884 1252
03-8884 1260

03-8884 1320

A: PENGENALAN

MTeST merupakan singkatan bagi “Malaysian Teacher Selection Test” (Ujian Pemilihan Calon Guru Malaysia). Ujian ini digunakan sebagai saringan awal untuk calon yang memohon mengikuti Kursus Perguruan Lepas Ijazah (KPLI) di institut/ maktab perguruan Malaysia. Calon yang telah menduduki ujian dan mencapai tahap yang ditetapkan sahaja akan dipanggil temu duga.

B: KOMPONEN DAN TEMPOH MTeST

Terdapat lima komponen dalam MTeST iaitu:

1. Inventori Sahsiah Keguruan (INSAK)
2. Analitikal
3. Kuantitatif
4. Verbal (Bahasa Melayu)
5. Bahasa Inggeris

Kelima-lima komponen ini dimuatkan dalam tiga buah buku seperti berikut:

Buku 1: Kuantitatif dan Bahasa Inggeris
Buku 2: INSAK
Buku 3: Analitikal dan Verbal

Tempoh keseluruhan ujian ialah selama 2 jam 30 minit.

Buku Komponen Jumlah Soalan Masa (minit)
1 Kuantitatif 30 30
Bahasa Inggeris 25 30
2 INSAK 135 30
3 Analitikal 20 30
Verbal 25 30

C: TARIKH DAN TEMPAT MTeST DIADAKAN

Tarikh dan pusat ujian akan ditentukan oleh Bahagian Pendidikan Guru (BPG). Pemohon boleh memohon tempat ujian dalam e-permohonan. Walau bagaimanapun Bahagian Pendidikan Guru berhak menentukan tempat calon menduduki ujian.

D: SYARAT-SYARAT KELAYAKAN MENDUDUKI MTeST

Calon yang memenuhi syarat iklan seperti berikut layak menduduki MTeST:

i. Warganegara Malaysia
ii. Memiliki Ijazah yang diiktiraf
iii. Mempunyai kepujian Bahasa Melayu di peringkat SPM atau kelayakan setaraf dan lulus Ujian Lisan
iv. Mempunyai Pengesahan Nilai Taraf Ijazah daripada Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) bagi semua ijazah
v. Berumur tidak melebihi 35 tahun pada tahun kemasukan.

Calon yang layak dikehendaki mencetak tiket panggilan ujian daripada internet untuk menduduki MTeST.

E: BAYARAN UJIAN

Tiada bayaran dikenakan kepada calon yang menduduki MTeST.

F: PERATURAN MTeST

Calon yang layak untuk menduduki MTeST perlu mematuhi peraturan-peraturan berikut:

i. Calon diwajibkan membawa bersama tiket panggilan ujian yang dicetak dan kad pengenalan atau dokumen pengenalan diri yang diiktiraf semasa ujian.
ii. Calon mesti mengguna pensel 2B untuk menjawab semua soalan dalam borang jawapan OMR yang disediakan.
iii. Calon hendaklah berpakaian kemas dan sesuai dengan profesion perguruan ketika menghadiri ujian.
iv. Calon hendaklah hadir 30 minit sebelum ujian bermula.

G: KEPUTUSAN MTeST

Maklumat calon yang berjaya untuk dipanggil temu duga akan disiarkan dalam laman web kementerian:
www.moe.gov.my

H: HURAIAN KOMPONEN MTeST

Inventori Sahsiah Keguruan (INSAK)

Rasional

Calon perlu memiliki ciri-ciri sahsiah yang terpuji, positif serta kesediaan yang tinggi untuk memikul tanggungjawab sebagai guru. INSAK merupakan ujian bagi mengesan kesesuaian sahsiah calon untuk profesion keguruan. Komponen ujian ini mengandungi gagasan amanah, taat setia, ikhlas dan dedikasi, kawalan emosi, disiplin, kepekaan, kepimpinan, motivasi, kreatif dan inovatif serta kematangan fikiran. Komponen INSAK merupakan teras dalam MTeST dan calon perlu mencapai tahap yang ditetapkan.

Objektif

Komponen ujian ini bertujuan
• memilih calon selaras dengan keperluan profesion keguruan;
• mengenalpasti calon yang mempunyai sahsiah yang sesuai dalam bidang keguruan.

Format Soalan

Jumlah soalan: 135
Masa: 30 minit
Bentuk soalan: Soalan objektif dengan dua pilihan jawapan

Panduan Menjawab Soalan

Calon dikehendaki menjawab
• secara spontan
• purata 4 – 5 soalan dalam masa 1 minit

VERBAL
Rasional
Kemahiran verbal mencakupi aspek komunikasi yang menjadi asas penting bagi setiap individu untuk berinteraksi antara satu sama lain. Sehubungan itu, seseorang calon guru haruslah menguasai kosa kata yang sempurna serta dapat menghubungkaitkannya melalui komunikasi. Komponen ini akan menilai kemampuan calon menguasai kemahiran tersebut. Penguasaan verbal bertujuan menguji tahap kemahiran menghubung kait, menaakul dan menguasai kosa kata.

Objektif

Komponen ini bertujuan
• mengenal pasti tahap taakulan verbal calon sebagai alat komunikasi;
• mengesan kemampuan calon untuk bertindak secara matang, rasional dan profesional;
• membolehkan calon mengaplikasikan kemahiran verbal secara berkesan.

Format

Komponen verbal mengandungi 3 bidang :
• Analogi – 15 soalan
• Melengkapkan Ayat – 5 soalan
• Kefahaman – 5 soalan

Jumlah soalan: 25
Masa: 30 minit
Bentuk soalan: Soalan objektif dengan empat pilihan jawapan

Panduan Menjawab Soalan

Calon diingatkan bahawa soalan
• analogi memfokuskan pasangan perkataan atau rangkai kata yang memperlihatkan unsur hubungan tertentu.
• melengkapkan ayat terdiri daripada satu ayat majmuk dengan satu atau dua tempat kosong
• kefahaman menguji sejauh mana calon memahami sesebuah petikan.

ANALITIKAL

Rasional

Keupayaan analitikal merupakan daya taakulan seseorang yang menjadi asas pembentukan manusia yang saintifik, progresif dan berkeyakinan terhadap kemampuan diri untuk membolehkannya berdaya suai, berwawasan dan berteknologi tinggi.

Objektif

Komponen ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan memilih calon guru yang berpotensi serta mempunyai keupayaan analitikal dan logikal.

Format

Komponen ini mengandungi 2 bidang
• Analitikal - 16 soalan
• Logikal - 4 soalan

Jumlah soalan: 20
Masa: 30 minit
Bentuk soalan: Soalan objektif dengan empat pilihan jawapan

Panduan Menjawab Soalan

Calon dingatkan bahawa soalan
• analitikal adalah berdasarkan rangsangan atau penyataan dan diikuti dengan beberapa soalan. Membuat rajah, jadual atau membuat catatan ringkas akan membantu calon menjawab soalan jenis analitikal;
• logikal adalah berdasarkan rangsangan atau penyataan dan diikuti dengan satu soalan.

KUANTITATIF

Rasional

Kebolehan untuk memanipulasi data atau maklumat seperti membuat perbandingan antara dua kuantiti, mentafsir data dan menyelesai masalah dianggap sebagai kemahiran asas bagi semua bakal guru. Keupayaan ini membolehkan mereka membuat keputusan dengan lebih tepat, cekap dan berwibawa.

Objektif

Komponen ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan memilih calon guru yang boleh
• mengaplikasi asas-asas matematik sekolah menengah (Aritmetik, Algebra dan Geometri) dalam pelbagai situasi;
• membuat perbandingan antara dua kuantiti;
• membaca, mentafsir dan membuat analisis carta, jadual, graf atau rajah;
• menyelesaikan masalah yang melibatkan penggunaan data;
• membuat ramalan berdasarkan maklumat kuantitatif dan;
• membuat keputusan yang terbaik berdasarkan maklumat kuantitatif.

Format

Komponen kuantitatif mengukur pengetahuan, kefahaman konsep dan kemahiran asas matematik. Komponen ini menggunakan jenis soalan yang berbentuk

• perbandingan kuantitatif - 15 soalan
• penyelesaian masalah &
mentafsir data. - 15 soalan

Jumlah soalan: 30
Masa: 30 minit
Bentuk soalan: Soalan objektif dengan empat pilihan jawapan

Panduan Menjawab Soalan

Calon diingatkan
• tidak membazir masa membuat pengiraan yang terlalu tepat untuk membanding dua kuantiti;
• mempertimbang semua jenis nombor sebelum membuat keputusan;
• gambar rajah geometri tidak dilukis mengikut skala;
• perbandingan perlu dibuat berasaskan pengetahuan matematik.

BAHASA INGGERIS

Rasional:

Bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa ilmu yang digunakan di peringkat global. Oleh yang demikian amatlah penting bagi calon yang mengikuti kursus di maktab perguruan mempunyai pengetahuan dan kemahiran dalam bahasa tersebut untuk membolehkan mereka mendapat maklumat daripada pelbagai sumber.

Objektif

Komponen ini bertujuan memilih calon yang mampu:
• mengesan dan memperbaiki kesilapan penggunaan bahasa Inggeris dalam pelbagai situasi;
• menggunakan bahasa Inggeris yang gramatis dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran.

Format

Terdapat tiga jenis item:
 Error identification - 10 soalan
 Improving sentences - 10 soalan
 Improving paragraph - 5 soalan

Jumlah soalan: 25
Masa: 30 minit
Bentuk soalan: Soalan objektif dengan empat pilihan jawapan

Panduan Menjawab Soalan

Candidates are required to:

• answer three types of item i.e. Error Identification, Improving Sentences and Improving Paragraph;
• read the instructions for each item carefully;
• choose/select the best answer from the four options given in each question.

BAHAGIAN PENDIDIKAN GURU
KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA

PERATURAN MENDUDUKI UJIAN MTeST 2009

TAHNIAH kepada anda kerana berjaya dan dipanggil untuk menduduki ujian MTeST. Sebagai seorang bakal guru, anda mesti mempunyai perwatakan dan penampilan diri yang sesuai dengan profesion keguruan. Di sini digariskan peraturan yang perlu anda turuti sebagai persediaan untuk menduduki ujian tersebut di atas. Kegagalan mematuhi arahan ini boleh menyebabkan anda dilarang daripada menduduki ujian. Sila ambil perhatian dan tindakan kepada perkara-perkara berikut :

1. Sila bawa perkara-perkara berikut ke pusat ujian :
a. Kad Pengenalan Diri/ MyKad
b. Tiket Panggilan Ujian yang dicetak melalui internet.
c. Pensel 2B dan Pemadam

2. Anda mestilah berpakaian kemas dan sesuai dengan etika profesion keguruan.

Penampilan dan pakaian lelaki:

a. Berpakaian formal, sesuai dan kemas iaitu bertali leher, berseluar panjang dengan berbaju kemeja. Baju T dan seluar jeans tidak dibenarkan.
b. Memakai kasut dan berstokin. Sandal atau selipar tidak dibenarkan.
c. Berambut pendek, kemas dan tidak mencecah kolar baju. Fesyen rambut tidak keterlaluan dan tidak diwarnakan.

Penampilan dan pakaian perempuan:

a. Berpakaian formal, sopan, kemas, sesuai dan tidak menjolok mata. Sandal atau selipar tidak dibenarkan.
b. Baju mesti berlengan panjang dan tidak ketat sehingga menunjukkan bentuk tubuh badan. Baju T dan seluar jeans tidak dibenarkan.
c. Solekan, aksesori dan pewangi adalah sederhana sahaja.
d. Fesyen rambut tidak keterlaluan dan tidak diwarnakan.

3. Bahan-bahan berikut tidak dibenarkan dibawa masuk atau keluar daripada bilik ujian
a. Membawa masuk apa jua buku, kamus, telefon bimbit, alat perakam, kalkulator, kamera, kertas dan barang lain yang dilarang ke dalam bilik ujian.
b. Membawa keluar buku soalan, kertas jawapan berkomputer atau kertas kira kasar pada bila-bila masa.

4. Perbuatan berikut adalah dilarang semasa ujian:
a. Meniru.
b. Mengambil ujian untuk orang lain.
c. Memberi atau menerima pertolongan semasa ujian.
d. Membuat sebarang komunikasi (bercakap, berbisik, memberi isyarat dan sebagainya).
e. Menyalin soalan sama ada secara menulis atau elektronik.

5. Sila berada 30 minit sebelum masa ujian. Calon yang datang lewat lebih daripada 15 minit selepas masa ujian bermula tidak akan dibenar masuk menduduki ujian.

Dengan arahan

Pengarah Bahagian Pendidikan Guru

23 Mac 2009

Malaysian Broadband Package

Hari ni aku post pakage internet dimalaysia..
antaranya ade kat bawah ni...

Digi Broadband



Maxis Broadband



P1 W1MAX Broadband


Streamyx



p/s: bayar mahal tapi teteap slow...

Turn off your lights and join Earth Hour on Sat 28-3 at 8:30 PM [Kempen Padamkan Lampu]

Turn off your lights and join Earth Hour on Sat 28-3 at 8:30 PM

VOTE EARTH

YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Independent Bands Tanpa Nama

assalammualaikum wbt,

hai semua pembaca...post aku hari ni ialah pasal band kawan aku ni. aku turut serta secara tak lansung memberi sokongan dari belakang je pasal nak nyanyi sore x best, nak main gitar tak reti nak ketuk drum lagi ler tak reti..

so post hari ni aku kasi sedikit video dari persembahan dari band ntah xde name kumpulan lagi.. aku ingat nak letak name "The Tepung Pelita Band" aje.. kopem melatop..

ini link youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/trbs62


Stacy - Aku Stacy Cover


Blues Terengganu Kite


mEEt unCle husin


FeeL The PAIN


kalau nak tngok banyak lagi persembahan band ni boleh view kat youtube..
link youtube: http://www.youtube.com/trbs62

p/s: sila kasi komen yg membangunkan minda kat youtube tu... lagi bagus kalau korang ade idea nak kasi/rekemen name Band ini.. TQ :P~

p/s-2: sapport independent bands malaysia!!!

PC Fair Kuala Terengganu 2009

Assalammualaikum wbt...
Udah lame aku tak ngepos menda terbaru.. Ini salah satu aktiviti tekini aku, aku jd salesman kat pc fair kuala terengganu baru² ni,. ramai orang datang.. semua nak beli murah².. terima kasih kepada customer yg datang dan beli dari gerai kami..thanks. kat bawah ni ade skit gmbar kenangan..


1-Nadia sales girl di datangkan khas dari ilp...seksi/ser
2-Yie(tokey) ..dia ketua geng...
3-Tak nampak muka, Ra adik tokey...
4-Isang salesman yg tak kenal apa itu monitor...
5-Adi salesman yg selalu mencuci mata...
6-cybertech technology -name kedai/syarikat...



-Mangsa sedang membelek² barang ape nak dibeli...
aku: pilih² mane yg kenang royak kat saye..saye kasi diskaun spesel 99% yg kedai lain x kasi..



-Aku yg kontrol hesem walaupun mata dah xnak buka sbb ngantuk sngat..
aku: sape yg buat ona plak ni suh pakai kemeja plak. pakaian sragam konon..


Penat... 3 hari(khamis, jumaat, sabtu) berturut² aku duk berdiri kat gerai tu menjual barangan komputer. hari last paling penat, time tutup kena angkut barang plak hantar kedai..wah nak tercabut pinggang aku ni..

Tapi at the ending time Yie belanja makan kat kedai mek siam.. mase makan kite orang borak² dan kat situ juga Yie kasi gaji.. dapat la rm150 sorang.. aku dapt rm74 pasal potong harge barang aku amik dari kedai tu..

Aku amik tak banyak. 3 benda yg nampak diperlukan iaitu pendrive 8GB, USB-vakum dan USB-Bluetooth...

Walaupun penat tetapi seronok.. dapat tngok pelbagai ragam manusia yg datang kat situ,..

akhir kata, thanks to all yg sokong kite ni.....


p/s: kantoi ngan mira... habis skill aku nyorok tapi dia nampak.. hehehe

Orkid

salam,..
Hari ini aku saje nak kongsi ngan pembaca..pokok orkid yg mama aku tanam.
mama aku suke tanam orkid..katanye orkid ni cerewet..
kalau tanam je x jaga maka orkid tak akan menjadi..
mama aku kata kalau nak orkid tu cepat berbunga, kite kena selalu bebual ngan orkid tu sendiri..kena kasi dan tunjuk kasih sayang kite kepada orkid tu..
insyaallah menjadi lah orkid tu..

kat bawah ni aku ade upload gmabr pokok dan bunge orkid kat umah aku..
kalau ade berminat nak beli sorry aku x jual tapi kalau sistem barter ok yes..

Salam Maulidur Rasul

ABLESSED Quranic verse often mentioned in Maulud celebrations over the world conjures us, "In the bounty of God and in His mercy: therein alone let them rejoice — It is better than what they hoard!" (10:58). The greatest exegete Ibn Abbas said: "The bounty of God is The Science, and His mercy is The Prophet." Accordingly, the two months of Rabiul Awwal and Rabiul Akhir (March-April this year) see many Bruneians take to special gatherings in mosques and homes in which they recite, among other zikir texts, Maulid Syaraful Anam (The Birth of the Pride of All Creatures) and Maulid Daybai (compiled by the Yemeni scholar Abdur Rahman al-Daybai). This practice is rooted in the very beginnings of Islam.

The historian Ibn Sayyid al-Nas relates that when the Prophet conquered Mekah, he turned to his poet Hassan bin Thabit and asked him to recite something extemporaneously, whereupon Hassan replied:

Pillar of those who rely on you,

Immunity of those who seek refuge in you,

Resort of those who seek herbiage and rain,

and Neighbouring Protector of those in need of shelter —

You whom the One God has chosen for His creatures

by planting in him perfection and purity of character —

You are The Prophet! You are the best of Human Kind.

Open-handed one, like the outpouring of a swelling sea —

Both Mikal and Jibril are with you,

helpers to victory, sent by One Mighty, Irresistible!

Thus, the recitation of poetic praise of the person (and not just qualities) of Prophet Muhammad, upon him blessings and peace, began in his very lifetime at the hands of his Companions, who left no stone unturned in fulfillment of the Divine command in the Holy Qur'an to "invoke abundant blessings and lavish salutations of peace on him" (33:56) and rejoice in his blessed person. Whoever hears his name and is not instantly moved to bless him, in fact, is characterised in the Hadith as a rank miser.

Blessing him was — and is — an easy command to fulfill, since it was the very person of the Prophet and the very fact that he had been created which impelled those who knew him to extol him to their fervent utmost — not with noses buried in booklets as we tend to do today, but with thundering emotions and unbridled, hyperbolic joy. Thus did al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib, the Prophet's uncle and one of the major Companions, explicitly refer to the Prophet's Birth when he addressed him before the crowd of the Sahaba:

When you were born, the sun rose over the earth and the horizon was illumined with your light.

So we — in that radiance, that light, those paths of guidance — can pierce through!

In the wake of the early generations, the Ulema of Islam through the centuries similarly vied in poetic and historical praise of the Prophet. Uniquely famous in the genre is the 162-line poem formally entitled al-Kawakib al-Durriyya bi-Mad-hi Khayr al-Bariyya, "The Stellar Pearls in Homage to the Best of All Creation" but commonly known as Qasidat al-Burda or "The Mantle Poem" by the pious Moroccan littérateur Sharafuddin al-Busiri. This masterpiece of Arabic sensibility is sung from East to West in countless gatherings, especially at this time of the year, and contains lines of unsurpassed beauty among panegyrics, though virtually untranslatable:

(Muhammad) Whom lofty mountains endeavoured to turn from himself with offerings of gold, whereupon he showed them greater loftiness,

And what confirmed that he renounced them was his need: Even dire need has no sway over those God makes immune!

For how can need attract to the world the one were it not for whom the world would not have come out of the void?

The title of this great poem is derived from two incidents, one historical, the other a dream. The first took place when an earlier lover of the Prophet, the Companion Kaab ibn Zuhayr, recited a similar poem before the Prophet which contained the line inna al-rasula la-nurun yustada'u bihi, "Verily the Prophet is a light from which one's light is sought". Upon hearing this moving line, the Prophet rose and placed his mantle on Kaab's shoulders as a gift of appreciation. The dream was experienced almost seven centuries later when al-Busiri (d 696 H), at the time partly paralysed by a stroke, was visited by the Prophet who, in the same gesture, placed his mantle on al-Busiri's shoulders in appreciation of the latter's poem, whereupon he woke up hale and sound.

One of the last caliphs of the Ottoman State, the pious Sultan Abd al-Hamid Khan ibn al-Sultan Ahmad Khan looked back to al-Busiri's lines when he began his own poem in praise of the Prophet with the line Ya sayyidi ya rasulallahi khudh bi-yadi ("My liegelord, Messenger of God, take my hand!"). This poem was calligraphied in full on the walls of Lady Aisha's room where the Prophet was laid to rest in Madinah. Al-Busiri himself had looked back to Hassan ibn Thabit both in form and content: both the Burda and Sultan Abd al-Hamid used the kamil or "perfect" metre chosen by Hassan ibn Thabit in the four lines he had improvised for the Prophet.

The perennial theme is the Prophet as humanity's last and greatest hope. The Qur'an names the Prophet "nothing but a Mercy to the Worlds" and the Prophet describes himself in the Hadith as "nothing but a Gift of Mercy". Maulid poems seek to capture the direct experience of that Divine Mercy. In the following lines from al-Daybai's Maulid Eulogy we recognise the longing cry familiar to visitors to Madinah:

There stands the Green Dome wherein is found a Prophet whose light dispels pitch darkness!

True has his good pleasure with us proved, as communion grows near

and commendation greets us from all sides.

Say to your soul: Enough delay! Today from the Beloved no veil blocks us.

Your fill of the Beloved take, therefore, to all intents.

Felicity is ours, banishing opposites!

Similarly we hear, among the delicate lines of Brunei's oft-recited Maulid Syaraful Anam:

Best of all those who trod the earth, whom all creatures seek for intercessor,

By him break the shackles of every sinful slave,

There is no one like him, by whom triumph all followers;

Whoever dies loving him reaps every imaginable prize!

The Qur'an compares human hearts to hard rocks but adds that water is known to gush even from rocks. Our own hearts may also melt when we experience poetry praising our Beloved Prophet the way he deserves to be praised, and tap its treasures for the refreshment of our souls.