{"id":28,"date":"2017-06-14T01:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/?p=28"},"modified":"2017-08-25T04:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:25:42","slug":"lets-learn-about-barakah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/2017\/06\/14\/lets-learn-about-barakah\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets learn about Barakah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/615\/2017\/06\/barakah-root-words-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/615\/2017\/06\/barakah-root-words-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/615\/2017\/06\/barakah-root-words.png 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barakah is a word from Tabarakah. Direct english\u00a0translation -blessing has limited meaning. Here, we try to understand the deeper and beautiful meaning of barakah from arab definitions. Nouman Ali Khan helps us a lot on these.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, arab\u00a0linguists breakdown the barakah into three main parts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Growth and increases above and beyond expectations &#8211; it is like you plant a tree and then you get the forest.<\/li>\n<li>Something keeps coming continuously\u00a0&#8211; it is like\u00a0the rain keeps coming.<\/li>\n<li>remains in its place &#8211; stay and stable &#8211; it is like a camel kneels and sunk in the sand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So part of what Barakah means is that logic says when you plant one seed in the ground, you expect one tree to come out of it; but in return, you get ten trees! Or after 10 years you come back and you get a forest in return!<\/p>\n<p>That is barakah.<\/p>\n<p>I hope one day the book we (UKM alumni) readers will say this \u201cI remember I read only this book to start my phd journey, today that book still remains in my heart and I do realize\u00a0what it saying one by one\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That is barakah.<\/p>\n<p>You may hear some people say \u201cin my first year, I struggled to find one student to come to my classes, but today my school has grown so much that I have to turn away students because I don\u2019t have capacity even though I have expanded three times already!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is barakah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, when Barakah from Allah comes, know that there is no end to Allah\u2019s Barakah.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>http:\/\/www.shaadhamid.com\/2014\/05\/barakah\/<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dHR6i1iK8Tk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barakah is a word from Tabarakah. Direct english\u00a0translation -blessing has limited meaning. Here, we try to understand the deeper and beautiful meaning of barakah from arab definitions. Nouman Ali Khan helps us a lot on these. Basically, arab\u00a0linguists breakdown the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/2017\/06\/14\/lets-learn-about-barakah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nouman-ali-khan-allah","category-allah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/suraya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}