Hijrah - To The Path of Allah

This is my latest work entitled ‘Hijrah’ or emigrates. ‘Hijrah’ literally means leaving your hometown to another place for good. In Islam, Hijrah is the migration of the Prophet Muhammad saw (peace be upon him) and his followers to the city of Madinah in 622, hence its significance to a humble Muslim like me.
Fundamentally, one should emigrate from its comfort zone to learn and enhance themselves in all aspects. Allah swt in the Holy Qur’an El Kareem reminded us to look and learn from what He had created in this universe so as to be inspired and aspired. The fact is that, any living creatures in this world, the blood, the wind, the water, all types of birds, trees, electricity, etc. must move or ‘emigrate’ from one point to another in its own form, otherwise, that particular creature is considered ‘dead’, useless or not functioning. Hijrah will surely broaden our mind frame and shifting our paradigm, thus making us a better person with positive attitude and perception. This reminded me about the famous Malay’s proverb, “Jangan jadi macam katak dibawah tempurung” or literally means like a frog under the coconut shell, who thought that he has already have everything in life, complacent and arrogant, denying the existence of other wonderful things outside the old coconut shell.

The ‘Hijrah’ is made of used Carefourr’s receipt; boarding passes of Qatar Airways, Egypt Air, Jordan Air, MAS, and Turkish airline; Gates’ tickets of various places that we had visited in Egypt, Jordan and Turkey; Polystyrene; Scarves’ decoration pins and masking tape.

Yes, success comes with sacrifices and sacrifice comes in many forms – time, efforts, wealth and health. While ‘efforts’ are not necessarily physical, wealth is not necessary the monetarily aspect but also the ‘quality’ of both aspects. Well, what is more important though is for us to promote and to practice what we know.
It took me two nights to put all these materials together, few months to come up with the idea and months to collect all the materials. Alhamdullillah, here I am with the ‘Hijrah’ - dedicated to my family and those who are on the ‘Path of Allah swt, sacrificing their life propagating good deeds and bringing people to the right path for better tomorrow – the life thereafter.