Anda mengambil Herbalife??!

Assalamualaikum,

Post saya hari ini adalah untuk menyedarkan tentang pengambilan produk Herbalife terutamanya ShapeWorks yang dikatakan mampu untuk membantu mengurangkan berat badan. Mula-mula saya ingin mengajak saudara/saudari untuk membaca sedikit informasi tentang produk ini dari website utamanya di:

http://www.herbalifeww.com/my/products/xml/main_p.asp?loc=en-AU&pid=Id1_14&cid=Id1_11&nids=Id1_2|Id1_11

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Maksudnya: Produk ini tidak dievaluasi oleh FDA. Oleh itu, produk ini adalah tidak bertujuan untuk menyembuh mahupun mengelakkan apa-apa penyakit.



Jika dilihat dari segi sejarahnya, produknya pernah mengandungi 'ephedrine' yang berbahaya namun bahan itu tidak digunakan lagi. Bahan terlarang ini boleh menyebabkan masalah kepada jantung.

Pada Mac 2010, pemilik fasiliti penghasilan produk Herbalife menerima surat amaran daripada FDA tentang kekurangan kawalan kualiti dan menunjukkan integritii yang sedikit dalam keselamatan produknya. FDA hanya boleh mengambil tindakan hanya setelah produk Herbalife ini dibuktikan sepenuhnya adalah tidak selamat.

Pada hemat saya, adalah lebih baik elakkan sebelum terjadi apa-apa yang tidak diingini. Walaupun produk ini dikatakan 100% semulajadi, namun produknya seringkali dikaitkan dengan hepatotoxicity atau kerosakan pada hati.

Mari kita lihat bahan-bahan asasnya pula:
# Includes 19 vitamins and minerals.
# 9 grams of soy protein and 18 grams when mixed with milk or soy milk per serving plus fibre to help keep you full and satisfied.

Mengikut akal fikiran yang logik, adakah vitamin, mineral dan protein mencukupi untuk memenuhi keperluan badan kita? Saya rasa tidak cukup. Jika ada sesiapa makan milk-shake ini pasti akan turun berat badan. Saya yakin tentang itu tetapi adakah ianya baik untuk kesihatan, jawapannya adalah tidak.

Penurunan berat badan ini berlaku tanpa peningkatan/pembinaan otot. Ini adalah kerana diet Herbalife ini tidak cukup kalori untuk pembinaan otot-otot badan mahupun ianya cukup untuk menampung sistem imunisasi badan. Kekurangan otot atau muscle mass ini adalah penting sebagai pelindung pada hari tua kelak. So macamana nak dapat muscle? Jawapannya ialah senaman!

Bahan asas yang amat merunsingkan saya dalam produk ini ialah penggunaan soya. Walaupun ramai antara kita yang tahu tentang kelebihan mengambil kacang soya, saya yakin ramai yang tidak tahu tentang kesan buruk soya kepada manusia. Telah terlalu banyak kajian tentang soya ini, saya ingin kongsikan beberapa daripadanya:

1. Dalam soya ada bahan yang dinamakan asid phytic yang juga dikenali sebagai phytates. Asid organik ini juga didapati dalam bijirin yang lain tetapi tidaklah sebanyak yang ada dalam kacang soya.
Asid ini meransang dan menyebabkan badan tidak dapat menyerap mineral-mineral penting seperti kalsium, magnesium, zat besi dan zink. Phystate ini adalah sukar untuk dibuang walaupun dimasak dengan lama dalam api yang kecil.
Oleh itu, mineral yang ditambahkan dalam produk ini adalah sia-sia sahaja apabila soya digunakan sebagai bahan asas.

2. Kacang soya juga mengandungi perencat enzim yang kuat. Perencat ini menghalang pengambilan tripsin dan emzim-emzim lain yang diperlukan oleh badan untuk pencernaan protin. Kaedah masak yang biasa tidak mampu untuk memusnahkan perencat ini yang boleh menyebabkan gastrik, mengurangkan pencernaan protin yang boleh membawa kepada penyakit kronik lain yang berkenaan dengan kekurangan amino asid.
Oleh itu, tiada gunanya produk ini dikaitkan dengan kandungan protin yang tinggi tetapi menggunakan soya yang merencat penyerapannya oleh badan.

3. Di sebalik semua ini, kacang soya juga mengandungi 'hemagglutinin', bahan peransang penggumpalan yang menyebabkan sel-sel darah merah untuk menggumpal sekali. Penggumpalan menyebabkan sel darah tidak mampu untuk menyerap oksigen dengan baik untuk kegunaan tisu badan. Dan ini sekaligus tidak membantu dalam mengekalkan kesihatan kardiak/jantung yang baik.

Hemagglutinin dan perencat tripsin merupakan bahan yang merencat pertumbuhan. Walaupun kacang soya yang telah difermentasi/penapaian boleh memusnahkan kedua-dua perencat tripsin dan hemagglutinin, presipitasi dan memasak tidak memusnahkannya. Walaupun kadar perencat tripsin berkurang dalam produk soya yang dipresipitasi seperti tofu, ianya tidak dimusnahkan sepenuhnya. Hanya dengan cara fermentasi atau penapaian yang lama sahaja seperti tempeh dan miso mampu untuk memusnahkan bahan perencat tripsin dan hemagglutinin sepenuhnya agar manusia dapat menyerap khasiat dari kacang soya.
Sudah pasti, kacang soya yang digunakan dalam produk Herbalife ini tidak di presipitasi apatah lagi difermentasi untuk membuang bahan-bahan yang bahaya ini.

4. Kacang soya mengandungi goitrogen. Goitrogen adalah bahan yang menghalang sintesis hormon tiroid dan mengganggu metabolisma iodin yang akhirnya akan merencat fungi tiroid.

5. Soya adalah kaya dengan isoflavones genistein dan daidzein. Isoflavones adalah sejenis phytoestrogen, merupakan kompaun tumpuhan yang menyerupai estrogen tumbuhan. Kompaun ini yang menyerupai dan kadang-kala menghalang hormon estrogen dan telah didapati memberikan pelbagai kesan kepada tisu manusia. Phytoestrogen soya telah dikenali untuk merosakkan fungsi endokrin, menyebabkan kemandulan dan menggalakkan kanser payu dara pada wanita.

Meminum hanya dua gelas kacang soya setiap hari untuk sebulan adalah cukup untuk kompaun ini mengganggu kitar haid. Walaupun FDA meregulasikan produk yang mengandungi estrogen, tiada amaran diberikan pada kacang soya ini.

6. Kacang soya mempunyai risiko toksik aluminium dan mangan. Kacang soya yang diproses dengan basuhan asid dalam tangki aluminium boleh menyebabkan aluminium mencecah kadar yang sangat tinggi dalam produk akhir soya.

Menurut Dr. Kaayla Daniel, penulis 'The Whole Soy Story', mendedahkan ribuan kajian terhadap kacang soya dan kaitannya terhadap malnutrisi, masalah pencernaan, sistem imune rosak (breakdown), disfungsi tiroid, penurunan kognitif, masalah reproduktif, kemandulan, kanser dan penyakit jantung.

Berikut adalah sebahagian daripada masalah kesihatan yang dikaitkan dengan pengambilan kacang soya:
* Breast cancer
* Brain damage
* Infant abnormalities
* Thyroid disorders
* Kidney stones
* Immune system impairment
* Severe, potentially fatal food allergies
* Impaired fertility
* Danger during pregnancy and nursing

Saudara saudari sekalian, saya tidak membincangkan lagi tentang kacang soya yang telah dimodifikasi secara genetik dan kesan-kesannya lagi. Cukuplah setakat ini.

Saya harap artikel ini mampu memberikan kesedaran tentang bahayanya mengambil produk Herbalife. Saya juga harap selepas ini, jangan ada yang datang mempromosi produk yang saya anggap berbahaya kepada kesihatan lagi pada saya, keluarga saya, rakan-rakan saya dan pada pembaca blog saya.

Rujukan:

http://www.herbalifeww.com/my/products/xml/main_p.asp?loc=en-AU&pid=Id1_14&cid=Id1_11&nids=Id1_2|Id1_11
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/18/soy-can-damage-your-health.aspx

TSP: Faith & Reason: Friends or Foes - Hamza Andreas Tzortzis

A Radical Experiment in Empathy

Credits to http://hamzatzortzis.blogspot.com

Assalamualaikum,

This is just a hadith to ponder on. Especially if you are a boss.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Anyone who has been a ruler over ten people will be brought shackled on the Day of Resurrection, until the justice (by which he ruled) loosens his chains or tyranny brings him to destruction."
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1037

Perlu atau Tidak?

Perlukah aku memandang wajah-wajah mereka, lalu perlukah aku memberitahu mereka...

Bahawa amalan itu perlu didatangi dengan ilmu.
Amalan tanpa ilmu itu seperti orang yang memandu kereta tanpa belajar dahulu cara memandu.
Bagaikan orang yang meletakkan kail ke dalam air tanpa umpannya.
Perlukan aku bangunkan mereka yang sudah lama tidur dan nyenyak dengan mimpi-mimpi mereka?

Sudah pasti ada yang tidak suka jika aku mengganggu tidur dan mimpi mereka.
Sudah pasti mereka bilang amalan mereka itu sudah sempurna kerana mereka mengikuti kata-kata orang tua mereka dan sudah pasti mendapat syurga.
Mungkin juga syurganya itu dalam mimpi mereka sahaja.
Aku lihat mulut berkata-kata tetapi tangan, kaki dan badan lain pula ceritanya.

Mereka sudah tidak mahu belajar lagi. Apa yang mereka mahu hanyalah diterima.
Asalkan diterima oleh orang-orang mereka juga.
Buat sahaja asalkan tidak menjadi janggal.
Pada aku, orang begini tiada pendiriannya, hanyalah boneka sahaja.
Lebih baik mati daripada hidup begitu.

Mungkinkah ini adat mereka?
Biar mati anak jangan mati adat?
Mahu sahaja aku membuka mulutku, biar sahaja hati dan perasaan mereka aku calarkan.
Masakan aku mampu bersabar apabila agamaku dibuat mainan??
Asalkan sahaja hatiku tenang laksana tanggungjawabku.
Biarlah dunia aku tempuh dengan kesukaran.
Biar anakku ada masa depan.

Shah Rukh Khan is a Muslim? Guess again.

I just read the article at Mahaguru58 and I feel disgusted.:
http://mahaguru58.blogspot.com/2011/02/shah-rukh-khan-another-asoka-in-india.html


Why am I disgusted, please see the following video.




He said,'..... next to Ganesha and Lechumi, we put the Quran there.........' After that he even put something on the idol to show blessings. OMG!!!

That guy just made an idol out of the Holy Quran!!!

Not sure wether he is ignorance or a hypocrite. One of the most important and basic thing in Islam is not to make shirk with Allah SWT.


Allah will not forgive those who make shirk with him.

[004:048] In fact, Allah does not forgive 'shirk’ _ (an act of associating others as equal to Him). Baring that, He may forgive anything He wants, and whomever He pleases. The one who commits 'shirk’ has indeed invented a singularly sinister sin!

[004:116] Indeed, Allah does not (ever) forgive ‘shirk’ _ (the sin of associating partners with Him) _ anything else He will forgive for whomever He wills. He, who commits ‘shirk’ has in fact lost his way, and has gone far astray!

Good deeds will not be accepted is you shirk. All the good that you do will be nothing at the Day of Resurrection. Don't be a loser.

[039:065] “It has been revealed to you just as it had been revealed to those before you, that if you commit 'shirk’ (associate partners with Allah) your (good) deeds would surely come to naught, and you would definitely be the losers!”

Note: This could be the reason why the deeds of non-Muslims who associate partners with Allah SWT will not be accepted. They have done such injustice to our Creator!


Hell is the only place for people who shirk

Indeed they do blaspheme those who say that Allah is Jesus, the son of Mary, but Jesus said "O children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord". Whoever joins other gods with Allah, Allah will forbid him heaven and the fire will be his abode. (Al Maidah:72)


I shirk because my forefather shirk, what to do...

[007:173] Or lest you should say, “It was in fact our forefathers who started (practicing) 'shirk’ _ (accepted others as Allah’s partners). We were mainly the descendants who came much later. Will you then punish us for the deeds of the wrongdoers?”

[007:174] Thus do We explain the signs in detail; and perchance they may turn (unto Us).

[007:175] Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent Our signs, but he passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray.

[007:176] If it had been Our will, We should have elevated him with Our signs; but he inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that of a dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude of those who reject Our signs; So relate the story; perchance they may reflect.

[007:177] Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls.


What if my parents force me to do shirk?

[031:015] Yet if they, (your parents), compel you to commit 'shirk’ (associate partners) with Me _ something you have no knowledge of _ then do not obey. Deal with them in this life with kindness and courtesy, but follow the path of the one who turns to Me in repentance. Towards Me is your retreat! Then, I will relate to you what you used to do.

Note: Let me remind all reader that this happens often in our society. Examples of shirk includes 1. believe in 'azimat' or 'tangkal' (popular to be worn on babies),
2. believe in bomoh,
3. believe in horoscope,
4. believe in rituals which can control weather,
5. 'berzanji'
(comment please if you know more)


I have already shirk, so what should I do?

[008:038] Tell (all) those who have disbelieved, that (even now) if they give up (their skepticism), He will forgive their past deeds. However, if they persist then (remember): a precedent (for punishing the unbelievers) has existed since the earliest generation.

Note: As long as taubah before die, Allah SWT will forgive regardless wether its a small or big shirk.

Solat Reminder for Myself

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

"Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness and gray hair. He creates what He wills. And it is He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful (i.e. Able to do all things)." (30:54)

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Allah's Messenger (pbuh) once said: "Prayer is the pillar of religion." (Al-Baihaqi)

The Prophet (pbuh) also said:

"Islam is erected on five pillars: to testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger; to establish prayer; to pay Zakat; to perform Hajj to the Sacred House, and to fast in the month of Ramadan." (Bukhari, Muslim)

Prophet (pbuh) said: "Verily, between man and between polytheism and unbelief is the negligence of prayer." (Muslim)

"What has caused you to enter Hell?" They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their prayers. Nor we used to feed the poor; and we used to talk falsehoods (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers, and we used to belie the Day of Recompense. Until there came to us (the death) that is certain." (72:42-47)

"Successful indeed are the believers. Those who offer their Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness. And those who turn away from Al-Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehoods and all that Allah has forbidden). And those who pay the Zakat. And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts). Except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, -for then, they are free from blame. But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors. Those who are faithfully true to their trusts and to their covenants. And those who strictly guard their Salat (five compulsory congregational prayers at their fixed stated hours). These are indeed the inheritors. Who shall inherit the Firdaus (Paradise). They shall dwell therein forever." (23:1-11)

"Verily, man (disbeliever) was created very impatient; irritable (discontented) when evil touches him; and niggardly when good touches him. Except those devoted to Salat (prayers), those who remain constant in their Salat (prayers), and those in whose wealth there is a known right, for the beggar who asks, and for the unlucky who has lost his property and wealth, (and his means of living has been straitened). And those who believe in the Day of Recompense, and those who fear the torment of their Lord. Verily! The torment of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure. And those who guard their chastity (ie, private parts from illegal sexual acts), except with their wives and the (women slaves and captives) whom their right hands possess, -for (then) they are not to be blames. But whosoever seeks beyond that, then it is those who are trespassers. And those who keep their trusts and covenants, and those who stand firm in their testimonies, and those who guard their Salat (prayers) well; such shall dwell in the Gardens (i.e. Paradise) honored."(70:19-35)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) also said:

"The first thing about which a man is going to be questioned on the Day of Judgment is prayer. If it is found to be sound all his other reactions will be sound as well. If his prayer is not sound all his remaining actions would be spoiled." (Al-Tabarani)

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WHICH PRAYER IS ACCEPTABLE?

"Those who offer their Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness." (23:2)

"So woe unto those performers of prayers (hypocrites), who delay their Salat (prayer) from its stated fixed time, " (107:4,5)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) was once sitting in the mosque at Al-Madinah when a bedouin entered and began to pray. He prayed so quickly, that when he had finished, the Prophet (pbuh) asked him to repeat the prayer. His second attempt was just as hurried, so the Prophet (pbuh) asked him to repeat it again. After a third hurried prayer, the bedouin said: "O Messenger of Allah. I cannot pray better than this." The Prophet (pbuh) then showed the man how to pray. He instructed him to recite Surah Al-Fatiha while in the standing position, then to say Tasbih in the Ruku position, to stand upright saying Rabbana lakal hamd, to go down with Sajdah and recite Tasbih, and to sit between the two Sajdah and recite a Du'a. The Prophet (pbuh) advised the bedouin to do this in each Rakaa. (Musnad Ahmad)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) used to spend a lot of time on each prayer, so that each movement of the prayer could be offered slowly and properly. He once said: "A man's lengthy prayer and short sermon shows that he has a good understanding of the religion." (Muslim, Abu Dawood)

"O you who believer! Seek help in patience and Salat (prayer). Truly! Allah is with the patient." (2:153)

"...and establish prayer for My Remembrance." (20:14)

"...Verily, As-salat (the prayer) prevents from Al-Fahsha (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse etc. ) and al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed etc.)..." (29:45)

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PRAYER AS AN EXPIATION OF SINS

"Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds (i.e. small sins), " (11:114)

As prayer is the best of all good actions, it can erase many sins. 'Ali narrated that Abu Bakr heard Allah's Messenger (pbuh) saying:

"Whoever commits a sin, but performs ablution in the best way, then offers two Rakat prayer, and he asks for the forgiveness of Allah, Allah almighty forgives his sins." (Ahmad)

In Surah Al-Furqan repentance is described as a way out for those who commit major sins:

"And those who invoke not any other Ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse - and whoever does this shall receive the punishment. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace. Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds, for those, Allah will change their sins into good deeds, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds, then verily, he repents towards Allah with true repentance. " (25:68-71)

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WHY DOES MAN ABANDON PRAYER?

Allah Almighty says:

"Then, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up prayers (i.e. made their prayers to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times, etc.) and have followed lusts. so they will be thrown in Hell. Except those who repent and believe (in the Oneness of Allah and His Messenger Muhammad {pbuh}) and work righteousness. Such will enter Paradise and they will not be wronged in aught." (19:59, 60)

Preceding this verse, the Quran gives the example of many previous Prophets and their guided followers. This particular verse explains that the people who abandon prayer are those who follow their own selfish desires. A man can either obey Allah, or he can obey his own wishes; and this obedience is equated to worship by the Quran:

"Have you (O Muhammad {pbuh}) seen him who has taken as his Ilah (god) his own desire? Would you then be a Wakil (a protecting guide) over him?" (25:43)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) described such people as the sales of Dirhams and Dinars, and things have not change much since his time. Today, the Americans are described by a western author as - 'people who worship the dollar for six days a week, and then they turn to God on the seventh day!"

When a heart is filled with love for money, it has no room for God, and prayer is the first thing to be abandoned.

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PRAYER: AN EVERLASTING PRESCRIPTION FOR PURITY, CLEANSING OF SINS AND ENTERING PARADISE

(Some Ahadith on prayer)

1. Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said:

"Just see, can anything of his filthiness remain on the body of anyone of you if there were a river at his door in which he washed himself five times daily?" They said, "Nothing of his filthiness will remain (on his body)." He said, "That is like the five prayers by which Allah obliterates sins." (Bukhari, Muslim)

2. Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said:

"Five (daily) prayers and from one Friday prayer to the (next) Friday prayer, and from Ramadan to Ramadan are expiations for the (sins) committed in between (their intervals) provided one shuns the major sins." (Muslim, Tirmidhi)

3. Rabia bin Kab narrated:

I was with Allah's Messenger (pbuh) one night, and I brought him water and what he required. He said to me: "Ask (anything you like)." I said, "I ask your company in Paradise." He said, "Or anything else besides it?" I said, "That is all what I require." He said, "Then help me to achieve this for you by devoting yourself often to prostration." (Muslim)

4. Abu Dhar narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) came out in winter when the leaves were falling. He took hold of a branch (and shook it) and its leaves started falling. Then he said:

"O Abu Dhar!" I said, "Labbaik, O Messenger of Allah!" He said, "Whenever a Muslim prays seeking the Pleasure of Allah, his sins start falling like the leaves of this tree." (Musnad Ahmad)

5. 'Uqba bin Aamir narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said:

"Your Lord is amazed by that shepherd who is at the top of a mountain (with his sheep) and who calls for prayer and then offer his prayers. Allah Almighty says: Look at this slave of Mine who calls for prayer, then says Iqamah for the prayer, and then prays as he is fearful of me. I have forgiven my slave and admitted him to Paradise." (Abu Dawood, Nasai)

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PRAYER: A DUTY ON EVERYONE

A child born into a Muslim family begins his life hearing the Adhan in his right ear and the Iqama in his left ear. From his childhood, he should be taught the importance and method of prayer.

'Abdullah bin Amr bin Aas narrated that Allah's Messenger said: "Command your children to pray when they reach the age of seven and admonish them by beating (if they don't pray) at the age of ten. And keep them (i.e. boys and girls) apart in their beds." (Abu Dawood)

Abu Malik Al-Ashjai narrated on the authority of his father that the first thing the Prophet used to teach a new Muslim was the prayer. (Al-Bazzar)

Prayer is just as obligatory for women as it is for men. It is recommended that women should pray at home, but if they wish to attend the mosque for any obligatory prayer, they should not be prevented from doing so.

Abdullah bin Umar once quoted this saying of the Prophet (pbuh) to his son: "If your wife asks permission to go to the mosque you should not stop her." His son Bilal replied: "By Allah, we will stop them." Abdullah was so displeased at this that he criticized his son in strong terms, adding: "I quote to you what Allah's Messenger (pbuh) has said and you say 'we will stop them'. (All report this except Nisai)

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I pray to Allah SWT so that he will engrave this to my memory. I hope this reminder will be fresh in my mind everyday when I wake up and everyday before I sleep.

-A reminder to myself

Muhammad Ng