What is my jihad..?

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I was enjoying my dinner of chicken soup with Darwish at Talhah Stall when i caught a glimpse of Mr Hafiz (IIUM Orthopaedics Surgeon) on tv.

I couldn’t catch what it was about, but i seems that he is being interviewed and its like he is promoting a new technology or new product. He was on-air just for a second or two and unfortunately we weren’t paying much attention to the tv (by the time i turned myself to the tv he has ended his speech)..

Darwish, hardly surprised told me that Mr Hafiz is a renown figure in his field, delivering seminars, conducting research. He always tell his students “ This is our jihad! How long are we going to depend on US and other western countries.. . ?”

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3 month in 11 – 21^st April 2009, i went for an Umrah trip under FIMA (Umrah for Medical Students). There were about 40 delegates from 9 different countries; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia, Palestine and of course Malaysia.

Among the people i’ve met, theres this chap name Bilal from Lebanon – a psychiatrist wannabe. He claimed that in Lebanon muslim psychiatrist is a rare species. I do not remember his exact words, but he did mentioned something about there’s not a single MUSLIM psychiatrist in his college (or was it the whole Lebanon?). Most of the psychiatrist are Christians. What more most of the syllabus and therapeutic methods are separated and secularized.

Thus he said it is his jihad to become a psychiatrist... and to develop an Islamic therapeutic methods to be assimilated in modern psychiatry...

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Hmm..

What about us?

What is OUR JIHAD?