Fadhilat membaca surah Al-Mulk

Fadhilat membaca surah Al-Mulk


SURAH Al Mulk (beerti Kuasa Pemerintahan) merupakan Surah yang ke-67 di dalam Al Quran, mengandungi 30 ayat. Di antara isi kandungannya ditegaskan tentang kekuasaan mutlak Allah s.w.t. iaitu menguasai pemerintahan dunia dan akhirat. Seluruh alam telah diciptakan-Nya begitu rapi tanpa sebarang cacat celanya. Di akhirat kelak, mereka yang kufur ingkar akan mendapat balasan azab yang amat buruk dan menggerunkan. Mereka yang mentaati Allah akan mendapat keampunan dan balasan yang sebaik-baiknya.


Terdapat banyak hadis Rasulullah s.a.w. yang menyatakan tentang fadhilat, faedah dan hikmah bagi mereka yang mengamalkan membaca surah Al-Mulk ini. Di antaranya diriwayatkan oleh Abu Daud, At Tarmizi, An Nasa’i dan Ibnu Majah dari Abu Hurairah yang bermaksud:


“Sesungguhnya di dalam Al Quran terdapat tiga puluh ayat yang kandungannya akan memberi syafaat kepada orang yang membacanya sehingga ia akan mendapat keampunan dosanya iaitu Surah Al Mulk.”


Daripada Ibnu Abbas r.a., seseorang sahabat Rasulullah s.a.w. menceritakan ia telah mendirikan khemah di atas kubur yang beliau tidak ketahui. Dari kuburan itu beliau terdengar suara orang membaca surah Al-Mulk sehingga khatam; beliau lalu menemui baginda dan berkata: “Wahai Rasulullah, saya dirikan khemah di atas sebuah kubur yang saya tidak ketahui, saya mendengar seorang sedang membaca Surah Al Mulksehingga khatam.”


Maka Nabi s.a.w. bersabda: “Itulah yang menahan (Al-Maa’inah) dan yangmenyelamatkan (Al-Manjiah) dia dari siksa kubur.”


(HR At Tarmizi)


Daripada Jabir r.a., sesungguhnya Rasulullah s.a.w. tidak akan tidur sehingga baginda membaca surah Alif Lam Miim Al Sajdah dan Al Mulk.


(HR At Tarmizi)


Daripada Anas Ibnu Malik berkata, Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda: “Satu surah di dalam Al Quran menghadiahkan kepada pembacanya sehingga memasukkannya ke dalam syurga iaitu Tabarak-al-llazhi.”(Surah Al-Mulk)


(HR At Tabrani)


An-Nasa’i juga meriwayatkan dari Ibnu Mas’ud bahawa Rasullullah s.a.w. bersabda:“Sesiapa yang membaca Surah Al Mulk setiap malam maka Allah mencegahnya daripada azab kubur.”


Tentang surah ini ada satu riwayat yang lain menyatakan bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda: “Hatiku menghendaki supaya surah ini berada didalam setiap hati orang-orang yang beriman.”


Mengikut satu hadis, seseorang yang membaca dua surah iaitu Tabarak-al-lazhi dan Alif-Lam-Mim-Sajdah di antara sembahyang Maghrib dan Isya adalah seumpama sesorang yang berdiri sembahyang untuk sepanjang malam Lailatul-Qadar. Adalah diberitakan juga bahawa jika seseorang itu membaca dua surah ini, tujuh puluh kelebihan akan diperolehinya dan tujuh-puluh dosa-dosa akan dihapuskan. Mengikut riwayat yang lain, jika seseorang itu membaca dua surah ini, ganjaran pahalanya adalah menyamai orang yang berdiri sembahyang sepanjang malam ‘Lailatul-Qadar’. Ini juga telah disebutkan di dalam Mazahir.


Ta’us rahmatullah ‘alaih telah berkata: “Kedua-dua surah ini mendatangkan enam-puluh kelebihan-kelebihannya yang mengatasi daripada segala surah-surah.”


Siksaan di dalam kubur bukanlah satu perkara yang biasa. Setelah meninggal dunia, tingkat pertama seseorang itu mesti lalui ialah alam barzakh. Apabila Saidina Uthman r.a. berdiri diatas sebuah kubur, ia akan menangis dengan begitu sekali sehinggalah janggutnya dibasahi air-matanya. Seseorang telah bertanya kepadanya mengapakah menangis begitu rupa jika disebut kubur daripada disebutkan Syurga atau Neraka.


Ia menjawab, “Aku telah mendengar dari Rasulullah s.a.w. bahawa kuburlah tempat persinggahan yang pertama untuk menuju akhirat. Barangsiapa terselamat daripada azabnya , peristiwa-peristiwa selanjutnya akan mudah baginya. Dan sesiapa yang tidak selamat daripada azab di dalamnya, kepadanya peristiwa yang akan datang kelak menjadikan lebih sukar sekali. Dan daku juga mendengar bahawa tidak ada satu gambaran yang lebih menakutkan dan menggerunkan selain daripada apa yang ada didalam kubur.”


Ya Allah ! Selamatkanlah kami daripada azab-Mu dengan keampunan-Mu..

Are Whole Eggs or Egg Whites Better for You?

Dear friends, an interesting and informative article for your reading pleasure.

Egg is now recognised as a superfood. So do not waste the egg yoke!!!

Are Whole Eggs or Egg Whites Better for You?

By Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer

I was on a weekend trip with some friends recently and one of my friends was cooking breakfast for the whole group. I went over to see what he was cooking and saw he was getting ready to make a big batch of eggs

Well, to my shock and horror, I noticed that he was cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks. I asked him why the heck he was throwing out the egg yolks, and he replied something like this...

"because I thought the egg yolks were terrible for you... that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is".

And I replied, "you mean that's where all the nutrition is!"

This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. In a world full of misinformation, somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG!

By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients... it's not even worth trying to list them all.

In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolks.

Even the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available. Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids.

Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain ALL of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as ALL of the essential fatty acids.

And now the common objection I get all the time when I say that the yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg...

"But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof"

No, this is FALSE!

First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.

On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.

And here's where it gets even more interesting...

There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.

And 3rd... High cholesterol is NOT a disease! Heart diseaseis a disease... but high cholesterol is NOT. Cholesterol is actually a VERY important substance in your body and has vitally important functions... It is DEAD WRONG to try to "lower your cholesterol" just because of pharmaceutical companies propaganda that everyone on the planet should be on statin drugs.

You can read the following article about why trying to attack cholesterol is a mistake, and what the REAL deadly risk factors actually are...

Cholesterol Myths In addition, the yolks contain the antioxidant lutein as well as other Antioxidants which can help protect you from inflammation within your body (the REAL culprit in heart disease, not dietary cholesterol!), giving yet another reason why the yolks are actually GOOD for you, and not detrimental.

To help bring even more proof that whole eggs are better for you than egg whites, I recently read a University of Connecticut study that showed that a group of men in the study that ate 3 eggs per day for 12 weeks while on a reduced carb, higher fat diet increased their HDL good cholesterol by 20%, while their LDL bad cholesterol stayed the same during the study. However, the group that ate egg substitutes (egg whites) saw no change in either and did not see the improvement in good cholesterol (remember that higher HDL levels are associated with lower risk of heart disease) that the whole egg eaters did.

So I hope we've established that whole eggs are not some evil food that will wreck your body... Instead whole eggs are FAR superior to egg whites.

Also, your normal supermarket eggs coming from massfactory farming just don't compare nutritionally with organic free range eggs from healthy chickens that are allowed to roam freely and eat a more natural diet. Your typical cheap grocery store eggs will have lower nutrient levels and a higher omega-6 level and lower omega-3 level. On the other hand, the cage-free organic eggs from healthier chickens allowed to eat more natural feed and roam freely will have much higher vitamin and mineral levels and a more balanced healthier omega-3 to omega-6fatty acid ratio.

I recently compared eggs I bought at the grocery store with a batch of eggs I got at a farm stand where the chickens were free roaming and healthy.

Most people don't realize that there's a major difference because they've never bought real eggs from healthy chickens... The eggs from the grocery store had pale yellow yolks and thin weak shells. On the other hand, the healthier free range eggs from the local farm had strong thick shells and deep orange coloured yolks indicating much higher nutrition levels and carotenoids... and just a healthier egg in general.

So next time a health or fitness professional tells you that egg whites are superior, you can quietly ignore their advice knowing that you understand the REAL deal about egg yolks.

And can we all please STOP with this silliness about eating an omelet with 4-5 egg whites and only 1 egg yolk.... If you want real taste and real health benefits, we'd all be better off eating ALL of our eggs with the yolks.

Another interesting thing about eggs...

I read a study recently that compared groups of people that ate egg breakfasts vs groups of people that ate cereal or bagel based breakfasts. The results of the study showed that the egg eaters lost or maintained a healthier bodyweight, while the cereal/bagel eaters gained weight.

It was hypothesized that the egg eaters actually ate less calories during the remainder of the day because their appetite was more satisfied compared to the cereal/bagel eaters who would have been more prone to wild blood sugar swings and food cravings.

Enjoy your eggs and get a leaner body!

Eat the Damn Yolks! Eggs Are Good For You

Despite what you may have heard, eggs do NOT raise your cholesterol. They do NOT cause heart disease.

What if the market is projected to be increasing but seems to be going down first?

 

The projected return is supposed to be high. At first it seems to be getting higher but in the middle of the way, it went downwards for a while and is lower than the price at the time of purchase. Towards the end, the price recovers and is actually (as projected) higher than the price at the time of purchase. How do we manipulate this situation?

Option 1: Do a regular savings or auto-debit from your savings account. If you make sure that every scheduled investment is the same every time. You will get the above profit. If this happens in 3 years, average annual return would be 14.67%. But if this happens in a 5 year term, average annual return would be 8.8% a year.

Option 2: This option is almost the same as the above option, except that be purchase the units based on the price. The profit would be higher. If this happens in 3 years, the average annual return would be 19.67%, but if this happens in 5 years, the average annual return would be 11.80%.

Note: Sometimes this can actually happen within a year. Especially in a very aggressive fund. 

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Smart Unit Trust Investing.

This is an example of the unit trust's price (NAV).

The "V" events in unit trust's graph is common. Why not use it wisely?

If a "V" happens in a graph, this is what happens when autodebit or regular monthly investment of RM1000 is done. Look at the profit. What do you think? This is actually the safest way to invest in unit trusts.

Let us see what happens if we add in a little more value every time the price goes down go back to the initial investment value every time the price goes back up. Is that not a better profit?

Want to see that value in millions? Or lets just put hundred thousands...

However, this may take years to complete. Sometimes a few months. It depends entirely on which funds you put your money into. There are three types: Very aggressive funds, Moderately aggressive funds, balanced funds, non-aggressive funds (bonds or money market which only goes up surely but slowly).

Dangerous modern food?

Yale Professor Chan CM, in his lecture at Beida Univ about poisonouseels being sold in China and how widely the local eel farms are using hormones which remain in the human body sometimes for 7-8 yrs. 

Prof Chan went on to say that an Environmental Scientist whom he met at Suzhow meeting told him "my relative who owns a bean sprouts farm said that because of the use of hormones, the sprouts normally take 5 days to be ready for sale is now ready in 1 day.  Truckloads are sold to Canton and no one in his village will eat the stuff they farmed. "

據媒體報導，耶魯大學經濟學教授陳志武去年在北大演講時，談到毒黃鱔問題 .

他說，當年七月，他到蘇州參加會議用餐時，一位科學院環境研究所知名學者對他說：“你們知道如今的黃鱔為什麼長得這麼快嗎？就是因為飼養者用了激素，人吃了黃鱔，這些激素在人體內七、八年還要發揮作用。”陳志武說，聽到這話之後，嚇得那些與會學者們沒人再敢吃黃鱔了。

陳志武還說，“ 我有一個親戚是賣豆芽的，他對我說：這些豆芽不能吃，用了激素，本來要五天才能長大的豆芽只要一天就長好了。本村人知道這些，都不去買這種豆芽，都是賣給廣州，一卡車一卡車，一夜之間就到了廣州的菜市場。” 

Hairy Crabs :  Mostly from Jiangsu ..  Each year, the crabs became more affordable due to large harvest.  They are bred using all kinds of toxins : hormones, antibiotics.  From the baby crabs stage, the crabs are fed around 10 types of chemicals.  In Fujian , they are worse, they will feed the female crabs with birth control hormones so that the mother crab will be plumb and ready.

不僅黃鱔、豆芽，還有廣東、香港人最愛吃的大閘蟹，也是用激素餵養的。江蘇是中國盛產大閘蟹之地，有600多個蟹場。

香港廣東的大閘蟹，多是從江蘇運來的。香港《壹週刊》去年十月報導說，“香港人喜歡吃大閘蟹，蟹價越來越便宜，幾乎成為市民家常便菜。大閘蟹賣得愈便宜，市民吃得愈凶。”大閘蟹怎麼越賣越便宜，是大豐收嗎？

  該刊記者專程到江蘇蟹場採訪，結果發現，那些大閘蟹都是用激素快速養成的。湖裏的大閘蟹一般至少兩年才能長到二兩以上，但江蘇養殖場的大閘蟹，使用激素之後，都是一年蟹，當年下苗，當年養成上市。《壹週刊》的記者把從江蘇蟹場買回來的螃蟹送到香港“標準及檢定中心”化驗發現，蟹肉裏不僅有激素，還有多種對人體有害的抗菌素。

江蘇使用“高科技”養蟹聞名的“大發水產養殖場”徐場長對香港記者說，“ 從蟹苗到上市，至少要十種藥，例如：氯黴素、土黴素、乙醇、痢特靈、諾氟沙星、恩諾沙星、病毒靈、多西黴素、己烯雌酚等等。”他還謙虛地說，他們比較守本份，福建人更毒，在蟹產卵時喂避孕藥，這樣母蟹不會變瘦，蟹苗更容易長大。說著，這位蟹場負責人撈出兩隻大蟹對記者說：“你看看，多凶，不吃藥哪有這麼凶！”當記者問這麼做不是害人嗎？這位場長直率地說，“現在的魚類、家禽類， 哪一樣不是藥物長大的！”你不這樣做，別人做，你還能做生意嗎？

    24 hours after they are fetched, the crabs arrive HK dinner table, but not before they were fed one last time with antibiotics so that they will stay healthy enroute. 

     If you walk along the small streets in the Crab Farms, you will see many shops selling "Medicine for Crabs"; there are at least 10 different kinds on their "menu".

 香港記者在江蘇蟹場看到，“工人將藥物攙入飼料，站在船上撒飼料，有如天女散花。”江蘇的大閘蟹，多數外銷香港、廣東，而且使用飛機運，當晚撈蟹，次日上午就運到香港、深圳，下午就上市，晚上香港人就吃到嘴了。那位徐場長透露，為了防止運輸途中大閘蟹死亡，他們在捕蟹前再喂一次抗菌素。而24小時後，那些抗菌素就經蟹肉到了港人肚子裏。香港記者說，在“大發養殖場”附近路上，隨處可見“蟹藥店”。他們進去一家，賣藥人一下子拿出十多包不同種類的藥物，並告訴記者用法：土黴素每百斤飼料攙500顆、痢特靈每百斤飼料攙8兩、乙醇每百斤飼料攙9兩……

Next Magazine Investigative Journalists took 12 Hairy Crabs for lab test.  11 of them have 土黴素.   6 have 氯黴素  All damaging to blood, and esp bad for pregnant women and foetuses.

《壹週刊》記者把從港九、新界、深圳、江蘇四個地方買回的12只大閘蟹，送去化驗，結果發現11個樣本有土黴素，6個樣本有氯黴素。土黴素屬“過時”抗菌素，因副作用太多，很少使用；而氯黴素屬香港違禁物質，因會壓抑骨髓功能，影響人體產生血球和血小板，導致貧血、抵抗力下降和凝血困難問題。孕婦吃了含有土黴素的毒蟹，胎兒的骨質會變灰、變脆。

 香港記者在江蘇瞭解到，蟹場附近的女性，很多因吃了帶毒的大閘蟹而有流產症。在“大發蟹場”附近住的周紅梅說，“我生在水邊，吃水產長大，懷上三個孩子都流產了。後來醫生禁止我吃螃蟹，說裏面的藥物會對我不利，我照做了，才有了這個小寶寶。”

 If they tell you their crabs are fed by organically (versus Chemically Fed), that means they are fed by decomposing carcases of dead cats, dogs, chicken.  The dogs died from first being poisoned, or from diseases.  The owner of the crab farm pulled from under a bed a dead carcass, deskin and dehaired it, waving a piece of the leg proudly pronouncing it as "organic feed"  These dogs came from a private vendor that kills the dogs by poisonous gases.   The dog died from chemical poisoning.

The investigative journalists from HK witnessed such display of "organic feeding" when the farmer tossed the dog carcass into the pond.  They watched 2 crabs feeding on the decaying carcass.

     除了使用激素、抗菌素，江蘇的蟹場還使用死貓、死狗、死家禽等餵養大閘蟹。江蘇“新群蟹場”被稱為“李叔”的負責人的床下就放著兩隻未剝皮的死狗，還有一堆死雞鴨。他說，“一星期放一次，蟹特別喜歡吃爛肉！”香港記者看到蟹塘中浮著一隻剝了皮的死狗，兩隻大閘蟹爬在狗上進食。水面的狗血紅中帶紫，狗頭呲牙咧嘴，樣子很恐怖。但那位“李叔”卻很輕鬆地從他的床下拖出一隻死狗，剝去皮毛，拎著狗腿對記者得意地說：“這是天然飼料，我的蟹營養豐富，從小吃肉，不像別人的蟹從小吃藥！”但這些狗都是走私團夥將路上的狗用劇毒氰化鉀毒死後，拿來出售的，本身就是毒狗。

The Fishery Dept of the govt showed that the most famous YC Lake for Hairy Crabs, at maximum can only produce 13,000 Class 1 Crabs.  HK imported 130K crabs all claiming it's from YC Lake.

養蟹的人說，現在大閘蟹飼料有兩種：素和葷。吃素就是喂激素，以及土黴素、氯黴素，金黴素等抗菌素；吃葷就是往蟹塘裏扔死狗、死豬、死雞、死老鼠、死魚、死蝦，這叫 “天然飼料”。江蘇陽澄湖出產的大閘蟹最出名，但據水產部門統計，陽澄湖的一級大閘蟹，每年只產一萬三千隻。但去年香港人吃了一千三百萬隻螃蟹（平均每人吃兩隻），可見大部份都是冒牌貨。江蘇淡水研究所工程師唐天德說，現在全中國除西藏外，都說出售正宗陽澄湖大閘蟹，但八成以上是雜種蟹；是毒蟹。
JiangSu natural water engineer Mr Tong, TK said the the whole of China claims that the hairy crabs they sell are from YC Lake.  The only exception being those sold in Tibet , a desert :-P

Turtles, Snakes, all fed by chemicals, as well as birth control hormones.  

      廣東人、香港人還喜歡吃 烏龜，認為大補。但養殖戶用避孕藥替烏龜增肥，本來五、六年才長大的烏龜，現在一兩年就能上市。香港人和廣東人還喜歡吃蛇，但據深圳《晶報》報導，蛇場為了使蛇在短期內份量加重，也喂避孕藥。深圳、香港市面出售的蛇，體形肥肥大大的都是食藥蛇。

據廣州《南方週末》報導，中國每年生產700噸諾酮類（一種抗菌素），但其中有一半被蟹場、蛇場、烏龜場、黃鱔場等養殖業用掉；再加上其他種類的抗菌素，不知總數有多少噸，最後全部轉到了香港人、廣東人，以至各地中國人的肚子裏，不知慢性殺死了多少國人。誰知道這薩斯病是不是這些毒藥經毒動物再轉化到人體後產生的呢？專家們不是說這種病毒以前只在動物體內產生過嗎。

Toxin fed Crabs, snakes, eels, turtles, all fed for revenue, not forgetting fake milk powder, Fish from fish farms, bean sprouts, fake soya sauce, fake seaweeds, fake eggs ........  Color-enriched tomatoes, melon seeds, grapes...... all massive exploits to milk cash.  Why is all that happening in China ? 

First: Lack of govt control.  To be fair, even if the govt wish to do it, they cannot keep up with the sudden market demand as consumers as the surging middle class have a lot more cash nowadays. 

2nd : Greed.  

3rd and most fundamental reason : This has led to the current problem of the maximization of profit at the cost of morality.

4th: The lack of Family Values (as kids growing up, the only family value bred them is how to make money).  The daily mantra is "Study hard to ultimately get rich." 

The adults feel that they have to make up for "lost" time when they were deprived under the Totalitarian regime when the govt kept what they harvested.  While their bank accounts swell, they are morally bankrupt. 

這些毒螃蟹、毒蛇、毒黃鱔、毒烏龜等，只是當今中國摻毒食品的巨大冰山一角。在中國人突然有了發財致富的機會、卻又處於一個無法無天的  道德真空 (既無宗教信仰，傳統倫理也全部淪喪）狀態下，那種不顧一切賺錢的欲念，可以誘發出人性中最冷漠、最惡毒、最瘋狂的部份。像往番茄、葡萄等水果上撒藥、塗色以增加鮮亮等，都根本不足一提了。在這種情況下，中國的食品檢驗制度又遠遠不完善，同時人為的漏洞比大閘蟹還多。例如香港記者曾在江蘇蟹場問那位徐場長，“國家有沒有禁止或者化驗標準？”徐場長毫不忌諱地說，“笑話，你不瞭解國情吧！放藥多少上市測試也沒個准，他高興就放行，不高興，再乾淨也沒用！”

 當年第一個吃螃蟹的人，被稱為最勇敢的人。但今天，敢吃中國大閘蟹的人，還是世界上最勇敢的人

WATERMELON IS DANGEROUS?

We all love watermelons right? It is a must as dessert at weddings and birthdays, or at the 5-star hotel buffets. But do you realize that WATERMELON IS DANGEROUS?

This is because the watermelon planters put Furadan, a powerfulinsecticide (a poison), into the soil before planting the watermelon to kill and keep away insects, especially ants.

 

Experts confirm that Furadan is active for one whole year(12 months), and is most powerful and effective during the first 90 days.

 

The problem is this: The watermelons mature and are picked after 55 days, when Furadan is still powerful, and a lot of it is INSIDE THE WATERMELONS!

 

Meaning the watermelon is filled with poison! Furadan especially DAMAGES THE KIDNEYS the organs which have to filter pollution from the blood!

From now on I will stick to the bananas and papayas, for the sake of my poor kidneys, thank you!

DON'T THROW YOUR ATM RECEIPT AWAY - Urgent!

Since all of us have ATM card(s), I would like to share this important news. My friend saw a man at Novena MRT ATM trying to get all the receipts out of the ATM bin. 
Please read the following message from a friend of mine, it's true. Please be careful, it’s not a joke....

Be careful when u draw cash from ATM with receipt complete with your account number.

Please never throw the ATM receipt in the public bin even if u used to tear it into small pieces before throwing it away.

Today, just got a call from my sister that she had lost all her cash from her account. She threw the receipt into the bin provided at ATM recently.

Luckily, she only has $633/= in her account.

Not much of suspicious when she was left with $11/= because she thought it was her petrol GIRO payment, however, that’s not true.. She only got to know it when the petrol company, Mobil cut-off the petrol card's transaction when she realized something is wrong.
After checking with the bank, she was told that now there is this syndicate who will pick up the ATM receipt & with their IT expert, they are able to draw out your money.

The bank will not be able to trace where these people had drawn the money & how they do it, don't ask me, even the bank can't answer it.

They can only advise you to report the case to the police for investigation. My sister is the third victim in this month

DON'T THROW YOUR ATM RECEIPT AWAY!     SEND THIS TO All YOU KNOWS....

MTUC SHOCKED AT CONDUCT OF STATE OWNED COMPANY

Assar Senari Holdings Sdn Bhd has retrenched employees after coercing others to take VSS. 70% of employees lost their jobs, including office boys and clericals. 

While MTUC fully respect a company’s discretion to restructure, such restructuring must be bona fide and cannot be a cloak to get rid of workers.  

As the Chief Minister (Borneo Post 1/10) has stated that the company has lots of projects and it will be having the same ownership and partners, there is cannot be any redundancy in the company. As such VSS or retrenchment is totally unjustified and illegal. 

What MTUC cannot accept is that the claim that 70% of the employees are bad workers without any proof.  It appears that the company is blaming workers including office boys while directors remained and some directors even promoted. 

For a state owned company to say workers come and go and they can change workers anytime showed a complete disrespect for workers dignity and their fundamental rights. 

MTUC will take appropriate actions to protect the rights of workers

ANDREW LO
SECREATARY

http://www.sbeu.org.my/

Fresh Lemon Grass Drink Causes Apoptosis to Cancer Cells

Tuesday 24 June 2008

This is an article by Allison Kaplan Sommer 02, April 2006

(apoptosis) noun: a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival.

Fresh lemon grass fields in  Israel  become  Mecca  for cancer patients

A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube. Israeli researchers find way to make cancer cells self-destruct -Ben Gurion University. At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn't understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass. It turned out that their doctors had sent them. 'They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemon grass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments,' Zabidov told ISRAEL21c.. 'And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass.'
 
It all began when researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. The research team was led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Prof. Yakov Weinstein, incumbent of the Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiation and Malignant Diseases, from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at BGU.

Citral is the key component that gives the lemony aroma and taste in several herbal plants such as lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), melissa (Melissa officinalis) and verbena (Verbena officinalis.)

According to Ofir, the study found that citral causes cancer cells to 'commit suicide: using apoptosis, a mechanism called programmed cell death.' A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt the cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube.

The BGU investigators checked the influence of the citral on cancerous cells by adding them to both cancerous cells and normal cells that were grown in a petri dish. The quantity added in the concentrate was equivalent to the amount contained in a cup of regular tea using one gram of lemon herbs in hot water. While the citral killed the cancerous cells, the normal cells remained unharmed.

The findings were published in the scientific journal Planta Medica, which highlights research on alternative and herbal remedies. Shortly afterwards, the discovery was featured in the popular Israeli press.

Why does it work? Nobody knows for certain, but the BGU scientists have a theory. 'In each cell in our body, there is a genetic program which causes programmed cell death. When something goes wrong, the cells divide with no control and become cancer cells. In normal cells, when the cell discovers that the control system is not operating correctly - for example, when it recognizes that a cell contains faulty genetic material following cell division - it triggers cell death,' explains Weinstein. 'This research may explain the medical benefit of these herbs.'

The success of their research led them to the conclusion that herbs containing citral may be consumed as a preventative measure against certain cancerous cells. As they learned of the BGU findings in the press, many physicians in Israel began to believe that while the research certainly needed to be explored further, in the meantime it would be advisable for their patients, who were looking for any possible tool to fight their condition, to try to harness the cancer-destroying properties of citral.

That's why Zabidov's farm - the only major grower of fresh lemon grass in Israel - has become a pilgrimage destination for these patients. Luckily, they found themselves in sympathetic hands. Zabidov greets visitors with a large kettle of aromatic lemon grass tea, a plate of cookies, and a supportive attitude. 'My father died of cancer, and my wife's sister died young because of cancer,' said Zabidov. 'So I understand what they are dealing with. And I may not know anything about medicine, but I'm a good listener. And so they tell me about their expensive painful treatments and what they've been through. I would never tell them to stop being treated, but it's great that they are exploring alternatives and drinking the lemon grass tea as well.'Zabidov knew from a young age that agriculture was his calling. At age 14, he enrolled in the Kfar Hayarok Agricultural high school. After his army service, he joined an idealistic group which headed south, in the Arava desert region, to found a new moshav (agricultural settlement) called Tsofar. 'We were very successful; we raised fruits and vegetables, and,' he notes with a smile, 'We raised some very nice children.'

On a trip to Europe in the mid-80s, he began to become interested in herbs. Israel , at the time, was nothing like the trend-conscious cuisine-oriented country it is today, and the only spices being grown commercially were basics like parsley, dill, and coriander. Wandering in the Paris market, looking at the variety of herbs and spices, Zabidov realized that there was a great export potential in this niche. He brought samples back home with him, 'which was technically illegal,' he says with a guilty smile, to see how they would grow in his desert greenhouses. Soon, he was growing basil, oregano, tarragon, chives, sage, marjoram and melissa, and mint just to name a few.

His business began to outgrow his desert facilities, and so he decided to move north, settling in the moshav of Kfar Yedidya, an hour and a half north of Tel Aviv. He is now selling 'several hundred kilos' of lemon grass per week, and has signed with a distributor to package and put it in health food stores. Zabidov has taken it upon himself to learn more about the properties of citral, and help his customers learn more, and has invited medical experts to his farm to give lectures about how the citral works and why..

He also felt a responsibility to know what to tell his customers about its use. 'When I realized what was happening, I picked up the phone and called Dr. Weinstein at Ben-Gurion University , because these people were asking me exactly the best way to consume the citral. He said to put the loose grass in hot water, and drink about eight glasses each day.'

Zabidov is pleased by the findings, not simply because it means business for his farm, but because it might influence his own health. Even before the news of its benefits were demonstrated, he and his family had been drinking lemon grass in hot water for years, 'just because it tastes good.'

Subject: criminal CASES REPORTED IN 2008

(1) Today i passed by a building which had an ATM  machine. There was an old man looking at me and he suddenly  called me. He said he didn't know how to read, so he  gave me anATM card and asked me to help him take money from  the ATM machine.  I refused and told him to ask the  security guard if he needed help.
 

REMEMBER : ATM machines have CCTV. If you help him he may turn round and say that you had robbed him or stolen his ATM card. Further the ATM card might not have been his. So please be  careful.
 

(2) Also, once the electricity at my house suddenly went off. I looked from the windows and saw that my neighbours still had their lights on. So I went outside the house to check the Meter Box. But once I opened the door, a man with knife stopped me  from closing it. And they robbed and injured us.
 

 REMEMBER : Even if the electricity suddenly goes  off, DO NOT open ur door immediately. Look around to see if  there is anything unusual or sounds.

 

 (3) This is another story. You think you had heard it  before, but this is slightly different. Its about a girl,  she saw a kid by the roadside crying. When she asked the  kid, the kid said he was lost and wanted her to take him  home. The kid even gave her a paper which he said it was his  house address. So she took him home. But when she ring the  bell on the door. She was shocked by pressing the door bell  with high-voltage electric. Once she woke up, she was naked  in an empty room.
 

 REMEMBER : Being such a compassion person might not be  a good thing. Pass this on and girls, especially, please be careful..AND DON'T BE TOO GOOD!!

 

 (4) One day, there was an old lady outside my house  holding 2 packets of sweets. At first i thought she was our  neighbour and wanted to give us these packs of sweets as a  gift. But then when she talk, i can hear that she is a  foreigner i guess, because i don't really understand  what is she talking about. But i know that she is asking for  money. And it just feels that there's something wrong. i  immediately closed the door and ignored her.

 

(5) I was at the ATM machine to take my money. Behind  me, there was an old lady asked me whether i'm able to take my money or not, because she said there's a button might be spoiled, and i don't know since when a small girl came beside me. The small girl was squeezing to my side but i didn't notice, i thought she was just naughty and playful. But then, the small girl put her hand at the hole of the ATM machine where the money comes out, ready to take my money. I felt something wrong and immediately push the small girl away. Then i thought, the small girl and the old lady cooperate together to take my money. The old lady distracted me so that the small girl can take my money away.
 

 REMEMBER: Be VERY CAREFUL when you are at an ATM machine and be aleart for anyone suspicious around you.

 

6) My parents are retired and they stay at home. One afternoon, there was a young stranger said his motorcycle has no more petrol and the petrol station is too far, it's hard to push the motorcyclefor such a long distance, so he asked my parents for an empty coke bottle to
 buy petrol. He said he will pay 2, 3 bucks for it. So my mum took one coke bottle for him. He really did took out money from his pocket, but it was a RM 100 note, and even let my mum to find change for him.But luckily my mum was smart, she said just take and go.
 

 REMEMBER : obviously that note is fake!! Who would want to pay for a stupid empty coke bottle!! Its OBVIOUS to know that that starnger is a fraud!!

 

 (7) this happened in Bali. A newly married couple were having their honeymoon at the hotel. When both are in the changing room, the wife suddenly gone missing. The husband was very anxious and went around to find her. He asked the hotel staffs to help him find her too. Then he thought his wife was just playing hide and seek or wat. So he went back and waited for his wife. After a few hours, he decided to call the police. 3 weeks has passed, there were no news about his missing wife. So he went back and his honeymoon just ended up like that. He was so dissapointed and has no mood to work and so he went to travel to other places. Few
 years later, he came back to Bali, to watch 'FREAK SHOW' in an old house. He saw a dirty and rusty metal cage, there was a lady without limbs, body including the face, full of scars. When she was distorted on the ground, she gives out a sound of a monster-like voice. when he saw her face, he was shocked. He could not  regconise the face anymore, her missing wife's face with a red birthmark.

 

 (8) this happened in shanghai. Few yeas ago, a girl reported to the police that her cousin sister was missing in the shopping complex. But after 5 years, one of her friend found her cousin sister begging beside one of the street in Bangkok, Thailand. The worst thing is that her counsin sister has no more limbs and her body is tied to a lamp post with a Shackle (metal chain).

 

(9) Let's just shorten this story. DO NOT open your house door when you hear some sound of a BABY CRYING!! It might be a trap! Women in the house must be alert in these case. The police said it will be a murderer using a recorder with de baby crying sound to attract your attension. These normally happens at night and when you are only alone in the house. GIRLS, especially, plese be careful.
 

(10) i read an email that was sent by my friend. Her friend, which is known as A, went to Luo Hu Commercial City with 2 friends, B and C. Luo Hu Commercial City is Shenzhen
 counterfeit goods distribution center, there are many people there, its also near to the ShenZhen train station and Hong Kong's Luo Hu Port. Its says, C wants to go to the toilet. So A and B waited outside. But then after they waited for so long, they felt weird and went into the toilet to ask her to hurry up. But once they went in, there were nobody inside there. Both were scared as they called C's phone but no one answered. So they called the police. The police asked them whether they had saw anyboby suspicious went into the toilet. Both said there were none and its impossible to bring an alive person with more then 100 kg out of the toilet without them noticing. Then A remember there was a cleaner pushing a trolley in, and then came back out...the police told them this is not the 1st time happening. The police has already suspect a gang of criminals that always attacks the toilet in a complex where many people are. They use cleaners to kidnap or trafficking in human organs.
 

REMEMBER : please be careful when using the toilet. For anybody, not only girls, boys too!! Do not go to the wash room or toilet ALONE!!

 Please at least have a partner with you.
 

 PLEASE PASS ON THIS MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND
 FAMILY MEMBERS!!

Mahalkah Harga Sebuah Kereta dari Harga Seorang Anak ?

Ingatlah.... marah mcm mana sekalipun, jgnlah bertindak keterlaluan....kepada
semua parents, sebuah kisah untuk dijadikan iktibar dan pengajaran......

Sebagai ayah atau ibu kita patut juga menghalang perbuatan suami kita memukul,
especially pada anak2 yg masih kecil dan taktau apa2 lagi tu.
 
Mengajar dgn cara memukul bukanlah cara terbaik, mungkin dah sampai masa untuk
badan2 kebajikan educate orang2 kita untuk praktikkan konsep 'time out'
jika anak2 buat salah.

IKUTILAH SEBUAH CERITA BEHUBUNG KAIT DENGAN KERETA DAN
 ANAK
 
Sepasang suami isteri - seperti pasangan lain di kota-kota besar - meninggalkan
anak-anak diasuh pembantu rumah semasa keluar bekerja.

Anak tunggal pasangan ini perempuan berusia tiga setengah tahun. Bersendirian
di rumah, dia kerap dibiarkan pembantunya yang sibuk bekerja bermain diluar,
tetapi pintu pagar tetap dikunci. Bermainlah dia sama ada berbuai-buai diatas
buaian yang dibeli bapanya, ataupun memetik bunga raya,bunga kertas dan
lain-lain di laman rumahnya.
 
Suatu hari dia terjumpa sebatang paku karat. Dia pun melakar simen tempat letak
kereta ayahnya tetapi kerana diperbuat daripada marmar,lakaran tidak kelihatan.
Dicubanya pada kereta baru ayahnya.

Ya... kerana kereta itu bewarna gelap, lakarannya jelas. Apa lagi kanak-kanak
ini pun melakarlah melahirkan kreativitinya. Hari itu bapa dan ibunya
bermotosikal ketempat kerja kerana laluannya sesak sempena perayaan Thaipusam.

Penuh
 sebelah kanan dia beredar ke sebelah kiri kereta. Dilakarnya gambar ibu
dan ayahnya, gambarnya sendiri,lukisan ayam, kucing dan sebagainya mengikut
imaginasinya.Kejadian itu langsung tak disedari si pembantu rumah.

Pulang petang itu, terkejut badaklah pasangan itu melihat kereta yang baru
setahun dibeli dengan bayaran ansuran,berbatik-batik. Si bapa yang belum pun
masuk ke rumah terus menjerit...

'Siapa punya kerja ni?'

Pembantu rumah yang tersentak dengan jeritan itu berlari keluar. Dia juga
beristighfar. Mukanya merah padam ketakutan tambah-tambah melihat wajah bengis
tuannya. Sekali lagi diajukan pertanyaan keras kepadanya, dia terus mengatakan..

'Tak tahu... !' 

'Duduk di rumah sepanjang hari tak tahu, apa kau buat?' herdik si
isteri pula.
 
Si anak yang mendengar suara ayahnya, tiba-tiba berlari keluar dari bilik.
Dengan penuh manja dia berkata...

'Ita buat ayahhh.. cantik kan
 !' katanya menerkam ayahnya ingin
bermanja seperti selalu. 

Si ayah yang hilang sabar merentap ranting kecil pokok bunga raya di depannya,
terus dipukul bertalu-talu tapak tangan anaknya. Si anak yang tak mengerti
apa-apa terlolong-lolong kesakitan sekaligus ketakutan. Puas memukul tapak
tangan, si ayah memukul pula belakang tangan anaknya. Si ibu cuma mendiamkan
diri, antara setuju dan takut pada suami dengan hukuman yang dikenakan.

Pembantu rumah melopong, tak tahu nak buat apa-apa. Si bapa cukup rakus
memukul-mukul tangan kanan dan kemudian tangan
kiri anaknya.

Selepas si bapa masuk ke rumah dituruti si ibu, pembantu rumah menggendong anak
kecil itu, membawanya ke bilik. Dilihatnya tapak tangan dan belakang tangan si
anak kecil calar balar.
 
Pembantu rumah memandikan anak kecil itu. Sambil menyiram air sambil dia
menangis. Anak kecil itu pula terjerit-jerit menahan kepedihan
 sebaik
calar-balar itu terkena air. Sipembantu rumah kemudian menidurkan anak kecil
itu.
 
Si bapa sengaja membiarkan anak itu tidur bersama pembantu rumah.

Keesokkan harinya, pembantu rumah mengadu kedua-dua belah tangan si anak
bengkak. .. 

'Sapukan minyak gamat tu!' balas tuannya, bapa si anak.

Pulang dari kerja, dia tidak melayan anak kecil itu yang menghabiskan masa di
bilik pembantu. Si bapa konon mahu mengajar anaknya.
 
Tiga hari berlalu, si ayah langsung tidak menjenguk anaknya, sementara si ibu
juga begitu tetapi setiap hari bertanya kepada pembantu rumah.

'Ita demam... ' jawap pembantunya ringkas.

'Bagi minum panadol tu,' balas si ibu.

Sebelum si ibu masuk bilik tidur dia menjenguk bilik pembantunya. Apabila
dilihat anaknya Ita dalam pelukan pembantu rumah, dia menutup semula pintu.

Masuk hari keempat, pembantu rumah memberitahu tuannya bahawa suhu badan
 Ita
terlalu panas.

'Petang nanti kita bawa ke klinik. Pukul 5.00 siap' kata majikannya
itu.

Sampai waktunya si anak yang longlai dibawa ke klinik. Doktor mengarahnya ia
dirujuk ke hospital kerana keadaannya serius.

Setelah seminggu di wad pediatrik doktor memanggil bapa dan ibu kanak-kanak
itu.

'Tiada pilihan..' katanya yang mencadangkan agar kedua-dua tangan
kanak-kanak itu dipotong kerana gangren yang terjadi sudah terlalu teruk.

'Ia sudah bernanah, demi nyawanya tangan perlu dipotong dari siku ke
bawah' kata doktor.

Si bapa dan ibu bagaikan terkena halilintar mendengar kata-kata itu. Terasa
diri tunggang terbalik, tapi apalah dapat dikatakan. Si ibu meraung merangkul si
anak. Dengan berat hati dan lelehan air mata isterinya, si bapa terketar-ketar
menandatangani surat kebenaran pembedahan.

Keluar dari bilik pembedahan, selepas ubat bius yang dikenakan habis, si
 anak
menangis kesakitan. Dia juga terpinga-pinga melihat kedua-dua tangannya berbalut
putih. Direnung muka ayah dan ibunya. Kemudian ke wajah pembantu rumah. Dia
mengerutkan dahi melihat mereka semua menangis.

Dalam seksaan menahan sakit, si anak yang keletah bersuara dalam linangan air
mata berkata...

'Abah... Mama... Ita tak buat lagi. Ita tak mau ayah pukul. Ita tak mau
jahat. Ita sayang abah... sayang mama.' katanya berulang kali membuatkan si
ibu gagal menahan rasa.

'Ita juga sayang Kak Narti..' katanya memandang wajah pembantu rumah,
sekaligus membuatkan gadis dari Surabaya itu meraung seperti histeria.

'Abah.. bagilah balik tangan Ita. Buat apa ambil.. Ita janji tak buat lagi!
Ita nak makan macam mana? Nak main macam mana? Ita janji tak conteng kereta
lagi,' katanya  bertalu-talu.

Bagaikan gugur jantung si ibu mendengar kata-kata anaknya.Meraung dia sekuat
hati namun takdir yang
 sudah terjadi, tiada manusia dapat menahannya.

Life Handbook

Health:

1.    Drink plenty of water.
2.    Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner          like a beggar.
3.    Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less          food that is manufactured in plants.
4.    Live with the 3 E's -- Energy,  Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5.    Make time for prayer.
6.    Play more games.
7.    Read more books than you did in 2008.
8.    Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9.    Sleep for 7 hours.
10.  Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk,  smile.


Personality:

11.  Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what          their journey is all about.
12.  Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.          Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13.  Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14.  Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15.  Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16.  Dream more while you are awake.
17.  Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18.  Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with  his/her         mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19.  Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate         others.
20.  Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21.  No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22.  Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.   Problems          are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like
      algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23.  Smile and laugh more.
24.  You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 

Society:

25.  Call your family often.
26.  Each day give something good to others.
27.  Forgive everyone for everything.
28.  Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the  age of 6..
29.  Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30.  What other people think of you is none of your business.
31.  Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your          family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32.  Do the right thing!
33.  Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34.  GOD heals everything.
35.  However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36.  No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37.  The best is yet to come.
38.  When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39.  Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last but not the least:

40.  Please Forward this to everyone you care about