If you are a phlegmatic-sanguine, your phlegmatic side will dominate. This will result in a greater tendency to introversion (though still less than a melancholic’s or pure phlegmatic’s). You are congenial and cooperative and get along well with most everyone. Because of your emphasis on harmony in relationships, you are peace-loving, conservative, well-balanced, easy-going, with a dry wit and a talent for bringing people together. As an employee, you are compliant, dutiful, orderly, and subdued (and probably were as a child too). Others may not realize that you have a sanguine side -- at first. It may take a little longer for you to make close friends (because you do not reveal your feelings or thoughts as readily as the more extraverted sanguine-phlegmatic), but once you do, your sanguine nature can assert itself. It will also show up when, for example, you have been so dutiful and compliant about work or school that finally you need to relax and unwind — and now the sanguine, fun-lo...

Mencintai isteri adalah sunnah Rasulullah s.a.w. yang wajar diikuti oleh semua para suami yang beriman. Isteri adalah anugerah yang istimewa daripada Allah kepada seorang suami untuk dipelihara dengan baik sebagaimana sang suami memelihara dirinya sendiri. Firman Allah yang bermaksud: “Isteri-isteri kamu adalah pakaian kamu, dan kamu pula adalah pakaian mereka”. Pakaian merujuk kepada maruah dan perlindungan. Ianya juga bersifat kebanggaan dan kemegahan. Pakaian juga memperlihatkan kecantikan dan kemuliaan. Bukan sahaja isteri merupakan pakaian ianya juga diibaratkan oleh Allah di dalam Al-Quran sebagai ladang yang akan tumbuh padanya segala tanaman-tanaman mengikut benih yang ditaburkan. Sekiranya baik benih yang ditaburkan maka baiklah hasilnya. Rasulullah s.a.w. adalah contoh yang terbaik untuk menunjukkan rasa sayang kepada isteri yang berkongsi kehidupan dengan kita. Nabi s.a.w. ada menyebut bahawa orang yang paling terbaik dikalangan kamu ialah orang yang baik tingkahlakunya bers...

Artikel dibawah ini dipetik daripada blog Ustaz Zaharuddin Abd Rahman. Moga sama-sama dapat menghayati intipati tulisan beliau, Insyaallah. - MAHAS Ramai yang berkata tentang ikhlas, ada yang mempertikaikan keikhlasan seseorang, ada pula yang mendakwa tindakannya dibuat secara ikhlas. Apa sebenarnya ikhlas? Benarkah manusia, khususnya umat Islam di dunia kini terlalu kurang keikhlasan?. Ikhlaskah diri kita dalam berdakwah, berpolitik, menulis, bercerita, belajar, mengajar, mendidik dan berniaga?. Ini satu persoalan yang besar di sisi Islam dan keikhlasan memerlukan satu mujahadah besar. Ia tidak mudah dan hanya mampu dicapai KECUALI oleh mereka yang benar-benar telah berjaya menanggalkan kecintaan kepada semua jenis makhluk, sama ada ia adalah pangkat, pujian, harta, dianggap selebriti, wang dan kebanggaan. Allah swt meningatkan :- قُلْ إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ مُخْلِصًا لَّهُ الدِّينَ Ertinya : Katakanlah: ""Sesungguhnya aku diperintahkan supaya mengabdikan dir...

"Everyone can write but not everyone can write well." Aku suka kenyataan diatas. Malahan aku setuju seratus peratus bahawa tidak semua orang boleh menulis dengan baik. Sesuatu penulisan itu banyak bergantung kepada apakah topik yang diperkatakan , siapakah golongan sasaran penulisan tersebut , apakah yang dikehendaki oleh penulis tadi daripada tulisan beliau atau sekadar menulis untuk "SS" (syok sendiri) atau sebaliknya? Kita pernah mendengar pepatah berkata " Sesungguhnya mata pena itu lebih tajam daripada mata pedang". Benar sekali. Satu bentuk penulisan yang tepat, ringkas dan padat sememangnya mampu menarik hati pembaca dan kadang-kadang boleh menimbulkan provokasi diluar jangkaan. Oleh itu, sememangnya ada bezanya seseorang yang cekap menulis dan tahu dimana untuk menzahirkan "punchline"nya berbanding dengan penulis yang yang menulis mengikut hati dan emosinya. Dalam hal ini, aku amat tertarik dengan blog che'det. Tun M menggunakan gaya ...

THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENT took place in Brooklyn: sixty-two teenagers were assembled in a room. Labels an inch and a half high were stuck at random on each person’s forehead. The labels were all different, saying things like: “Lazy,” “Ugly,” “Famous,” “Rich,” “Cool,” “Clumsy,” “Wimpy,” etc. Each person could see everyone elses’ label but his or her own, and it was against the rules to tell someone what their label said. They were told to treat each other according to the label on their foreheads. Then they mingled. At the end of the experiment, one young man said, “I feel distrusted, like I’m some kind of thief. I don’t like it.” The label on his forehead read, “Dishonest.” As you might expect, the people wearing the labels “Rich” and “Famous” enjoyed the way people treated them. The participants could tell, just by the way people treated them, what their label said—maybe not the exact words, but the general idea was pretty clear to each of them. This illustrates something very useful. ...

A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi`a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. Sitting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him: "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently." [Adapted from the "Memorial of the Saints" by Fariduddin Attar, in the abridged translation called "Muslim Saints and Mystics" by A. J. Arberry, p. 50.]

In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders. "Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science who has spent years studying the effects of food, exercise and sleep on the brain. "Diet, exercise and sleep have the potential to alter our brain health and mental function. This raises the exciting possibility that changes in diet are a viable strategy for enhancing cognitive abilities, protecting the brain from damage and counteracting the effects of aging." Gómez-Pinilla analyzed more than 160 studies about food's affect on the brain; the results of his analysis appear in the July issue of the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience and are available online at www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v9/n7/abs/nrn2421.html . Omega-3 fatty acids — found in salmon, walnu...

The LA Times just completed a wonderful 4-part series on how learning and memory work . The NYT re-emphasized the importance of physical exercise for neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons). To put this news in better perspective, let's review some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains. 1. Learn what is the "It" in "Use It or Lose It". A basic understanding will serve you well to appreciate your brain's beauty as a living and constantly-developing dense forest with billions of neurons and synapses. 2. Take care of your nutrition. Did you know that the brain only weighs 2% of body mass but consumes over 20% of the oxygen and nutrients we intake? As a general rule, you don't need expensive ultra-sophisticated nutritional supplements, just make sure you don't stuff yourself with the "bad stuff". 3. Remember that the brain is part of the body. Things that exercise your body can also help sharpen...

'Crazitivity' is a new word that needed inventing. Crazitivity is that sort of creativity that is solely driven by desire to be different. Creativity is always new and different so the belief is that something new and different is necessarily creative. So anything different, bizarre and off-the-wall claims to be creative. I have no objection whatever to this belief and this style of 'creativity'. My only concern is that people should equate crazitivity with creativity. This would be a pity and would be a great disservice to serious creativity. Creativity can be low key, simple, unostentatious and very logical - in hindsight. Creativity does not have to announce: "Look at me. Aren't I creative!!". In the advertising world something that is crazy may catch attention and may therefore have a direct value. This is seldom the case elsewhere. Since much of the impetus for deliberate creative effort came from the advertising industry (brainstorming) there is this...

A man entered a village and went to see Sufi Master. The visitor said " I'm deciding whether i should move here or not- and i'm wondering what people here are like?" The Sufi Master said "Tell me, what kind of people live where you come from". The visitor said " They were robbers, cheats and liars". The Sufi Master said " You know, those are exactly the same kind of people who live here". The visitor left and never come back. Another visitor entered the village and asked the same question of the Sufi Master. "I'm thinking of moving here- can you tell me what the people are like?" Again the Sufi Master asked, "Tell me, what kind of people live where you come from?" The visitor said " Oh, they are the kindest, gentlest, most compassionate, loving people. I shall miss them terribly". The Sufi Master said " Those are exectly the kinds of people who live here too.." Why the Sufi Master asked that kin...

(And these parables, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned) (Al-'Ankabut:43) Last week I came across one interesting article in a local newspaper about a guy named Ammon Shea who has memorised the Oxford English Dictionary. He documented his experiences in his recently published book; Reading the OED: One man, One Year 21,730 pages . I wonder why and how he could possibly do that. I wish i could talk to him and ask him what had determined him to do that? Can all these words would last forever in his mind? In facts, I do believe that some people have a gifted skill like a photographic memory which they can easily memorised everything they've seen or read within a split second! But even if you don’t have that kind of super memory, you can still memorised the book if you are determined enough to do so. Take an example, the Huffaz who can memorised all verses of Al-Quran. That’s the uniqueness of human memory. To my curious, I’ve googled about this po...

critical thinking? I remember when I was in the matriculation centre of IIUM way back in 1994, all new intakes had to sit for E.PT ( English Placement Test) in order for the University to assess the level of English competency among the students. Yes, as an average student from rural school , what do you expect? I started with level one! Hahaha..but that’s not exactly the point I want to highlight here. All level one student surely remember this..that we were taught how to write properly. Frankly speaking, only then I knew what the thesis statement is and how we were taught in the class to exercise a critical thinking as a writing skill. A critical thinker..yes! I always want to be a critical thinker and till today I’m still not sure whether I am a critical thinker..err let me think first..by the way, this is what the psychology textbooks writer had to say about critical thinking… How to be a Critical Thinker (based on Critical and Creative Thinking by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris) ...