Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
Alhamdulillah, almost all new students have arrived safely to their respective universities. Welcome and ahlan wa sahlan wa marhaban bikum I wish to all. I hope all of you have already settled down, get the feeling of how university life is, plan your time, get involved in society activities and you control your life.
It is the time of the year, when event organizers will be promoting all out for people to join their program. Subhanallah, only Allah can reward the intention and hardworking in delivering awareness of Islam in the most entertaining, easy going and fruitful while enabling the participants to create new networks and strengthen bonds that are present.
I remember when I was in my first year. I went to PUISI 2006 and that time the main speaker was Ustaz Hasrizal Abdul Jamil (SaifulIslam.com) and what happened was amongst my batch from KYUEM, a lot of us decided to register in a bulk. Therefore during PUISI, it looked like we "invaded and colonised" it. Nevertheless, new bonds and friendships were formed. I even still keep in touch with some of the new people I met back than. Alhamdulillah, what a nice brotherhood it is.
However during that year, I didn't planned to tour Dublin and other places on Ireland which I should have done. Therefore, I was looking forward to attend PUISI in the following year in addition of planning to travel interesting places around Ireland.
What I did was gathering few of my friends and planned the trip with a good friend of mine, Im Koyube. But I firmly inform everybody in the group that I wanted to go to PUISI as the main agenda, and traveling around Ireland and other places are included because PUISI is always in Ireland. If I didn't use the opportunity to travel there when I attended PUISI, chances are I won't explore Ireland at all. This is important to ensure all the new students are well informed before making a decision.
Regardless of how polite a senior is or the uncountable the helps and lending hands given to welcome you, you must have a grip of your life. You run your life and never let other people, regardless who the person is, how mature or more experienced they are you have to get grip of your life. You determine your path, you determine your future.
I keep on emphasising this every year because there is a great tendency that the senior students here in the UK to "control" the lives of the junior students. The seniors tend to be very very very very very very very very very kind to the juniors when they arrive, pick them up from the airport privately although in Nottingham we have the official entity to do so, cook for them and invite them secretly and so on. I believe the intention is to promote the organisations where they belong to so that the juniors and to prevent the "clean" senior students who are not part of them from "poisoning" the minds of the new students.
I remember when shamefully, some of these people even "prevent" and "discourage" the new students from joining events and programs which are not theirs by saying this and that about the respective events. Who are you to do so, and to the juniors, don't be such a fool to follow these bullshitty ideas. Please don't. You are all the bright students of the clever, the successor of the leaders and the Malaysian hope. Don't allow yourself to be a fool. To the seniors who had done it before, please stop it and be gentlemen. Do things at the right way, do things professionally.
Alright, I'm going too far already. But the gist of what I wrote are you decide on your life pathway and if you don't have anything in mind on what to do this winter, I recommend you go to PUISI and travel around Ireland. It didn't disappoint me, so I dare say it won't disappoint you insyaAllah.
Ibn MuSa
Dunkirk 2010
Zulqaedah 1431H
Alhamdulillah, almost all new students have arrived safely to their respective universities. Welcome and ahlan wa sahlan wa marhaban bikum I wish to all. I hope all of you have already settled down, get the feeling of how university life is, plan your time, get involved in society activities and you control your life.
It is the time of the year, when event organizers will be promoting all out for people to join their program. Subhanallah, only Allah can reward the intention and hardworking in delivering awareness of Islam in the most entertaining, easy going and fruitful while enabling the participants to create new networks and strengthen bonds that are present.
I remember when I was in my first year. I went to PUISI 2006 and that time the main speaker was Ustaz Hasrizal Abdul Jamil (SaifulIslam.com) and what happened was amongst my batch from KYUEM, a lot of us decided to register in a bulk. Therefore during PUISI, it looked like we "invaded and colonised" it. Nevertheless, new bonds and friendships were formed. I even still keep in touch with some of the new people I met back than. Alhamdulillah, what a nice brotherhood it is.
However during that year, I didn't planned to tour Dublin and other places on Ireland which I should have done. Therefore, I was looking forward to attend PUISI in the following year in addition of planning to travel interesting places around Ireland.
What I did was gathering few of my friends and planned the trip with a good friend of mine, Im Koyube. But I firmly inform everybody in the group that I wanted to go to PUISI as the main agenda, and traveling around Ireland and other places are included because PUISI is always in Ireland. If I didn't use the opportunity to travel there when I attended PUISI, chances are I won't explore Ireland at all. This is important to ensure all the new students are well informed before making a decision.
Regardless of how polite a senior is or the uncountable the helps and lending hands given to welcome you, you must have a grip of your life. You run your life and never let other people, regardless who the person is, how mature or more experienced they are you have to get grip of your life. You determine your path, you determine your future.
I keep on emphasising this every year because there is a great tendency that the senior students here in the UK to "control" the lives of the junior students. The seniors tend to be very very very very very very very very very kind to the juniors when they arrive, pick them up from the airport privately although in Nottingham we have the official entity to do so, cook for them and invite them secretly and so on. I believe the intention is to promote the organisations where they belong to so that the juniors and to prevent the "clean" senior students who are not part of them from "poisoning" the minds of the new students.
I remember when shamefully, some of these people even "prevent" and "discourage" the new students from joining events and programs which are not theirs by saying this and that about the respective events. Who are you to do so, and to the juniors, don't be such a fool to follow these bullshitty ideas. Please don't. You are all the bright students of the clever, the successor of the leaders and the Malaysian hope. Don't allow yourself to be a fool. To the seniors who had done it before, please stop it and be gentlemen. Do things at the right way, do things professionally.
Alright, I'm going too far already. But the gist of what I wrote are you decide on your life pathway and if you don't have anything in mind on what to do this winter, I recommend you go to PUISI and travel around Ireland. It didn't disappoint me, so I dare say it won't disappoint you insyaAllah.
Ibn MuSa
Dunkirk 2010
Zulqaedah 1431H
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