Read. In the name of your Lord who created-

note: Orang yang faham Arabic, entry ni bukan untuk anda .. kot.

 I miss them.

When i used to teach at the kindergarten while waiting for my offer letter into UM last year, i remember having this one genius student. He stayed in the UK for a few years and his family just moved back to Malaysia the year before. For a 6 year-old, his english was excellent.

Unfortunately, i teach reading for Bahasa Malaysia. His BM on the other hand was, erm.. just okay. See, he can manage to read a whole paragraph in such short time, and i would've given him an A+ each time i test him on reading... if i didn't know his dirty little secret.

*no. this is not the boy i'm talking about.
but feel free to watch how the reading process usually takes place, heh.

One day, I was guiding him reading a paragraph about 'Ayah bawa kami sekeluarga ke zoo' and i decided to make a conversation with him by asking, "Have you seen a 'monyet', like in this story?"

He looked up to me, and shyly shook his head.

"Tak pernah tengok monyet??" I was a little shocked.

"Monyet?" He asked.

"Yes dear. Monkey."

"Ooooh.. Monkey. Yes, I've seen monkeys."

That's when i discovered his problem. He has been reading all those paragraphs every day without understanding whatever he was reading! -_- Dia tidak faham bahasa malaysia, tapi pandai membaca dengan sangat lancar. Therefore, starting from that day, when it comes to his turn, instead of reading i began teaching him malay words and their meanings. Funny when he always seem to get confused between Kelapa and Kepala, haha.

If we were to look at this boy, what would we most probably say? "Pity him. He can fluently read an entire Berita Harian newspaper but understand nothing in the end. Such a waste." or something like that, right?

Now... look at ourselves. Just replace the 'Berita Harian' in the previous sentence with 'Al-quran'. Haaa.

Terjemahan al-quran........ to the rescue! tenenenenet

;)