At-Takaathur

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Kamu telah dilalaikan (daripada mengerjakan amal bakti) oleh perbuatan berlumba-lumba untuk mendapat dengan sebanyak-banyaknya (harta benda, anak-pinak, pangkat dan pengaruh), -
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Sehingga kamu masuk kubur.
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Jangan sekali-kali (bersikap demikian)! Kamu akan mengetahui kelak (akibatnya yang buruk semasa hendak mati)!
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Sekali lagi (diingatkan): jangan sekali-kali (kamu bersikap demikian)! Kamu akan mengetahui kelak (akibatnya yang buruk pada hari kiamat)!
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Demi sesungguhnya! Kalaulah kamu mengetahui - (apa yang kamu akan hadapi) - dengan pengetahuan yang yakin, (tentulah kamu akan mengerjakan perkara-perkara yang menjadi bekalan kamu untuk hari akhirat).
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(Ingatlah) demi sesungguhnya! - Kamu akan melihat neraka yang marak menjulang.
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Selepas itu - demi sesungguhnya! - kamu (wahai orang-orang yang derhaka) akan melihatnya dengan penglihatan yang yakin (semasa kamu dilemparkan ke dalamnya)!
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Selain dari itu, sesungguhnya kamu akan ditanya pada hari itu, tentang segala nikmat (yang kamu telah menikmatinya)!

termites

then you saw them...







now you don't...
(i hope they're not in my house yet...and will not be ever...)

quiz on flags

what a shame. it's a very great embarrassment that i have never known the flags of the districts in my own state. but i think i didn't lose anything so far...

"cut down our business expenses"

since i 1st got their credit cards in the early 2000s, i had never received their paper statements. phone call after phone call. letter after letter. still no statement in sight. luckily, i could depend on their online banking to do so, even though it's just for the previous few months. after i recently applied for their islamic card, suddenly i received my 1st paper statement ever, but without details of the other cards, which accounts i was about to terminate anyway, which are now already terminated. when i called them to inquire about my now receiving the paper statements, they told me that i never received them before because i had requested to put the statement mailing on hold, which i never did. now that the pending issue was settled, they started to talk about e-statement, environmental preservation and what-not. so, i signed up for one. it's nice to receive e-statements via email. but the paper statements keep on coming to my doorstep. as of now, i don't dare to complain for fear that i would not receive both instead. i'd rather shut my mouth up...