" Al-Fatihah.. "

True to test, our lives are but a temporary fate and it is back to Him that our journey would end. In all sense of anguish and pain, one's passing is not a parameter bound by time - the irony is that we do not know our time, but are ultimately shackled by reason that it will eventually come at last.

My deepest condolences, and sympathy to Makcik and Pakcik's family - proud parents of Haris whom passed away yesterday morning. It is within my prayers that everything best finds him, and that his passing was with loving people around him. My wishes are also for the equally just strength and faith for his family, that in times like these we are ever more reminded not of those we have lost - but those whom we still have and what we have gained. Behind everything lies reason only Allah knows best for His subjects.

My last encounter with arwah Haris was a few years back during raya, and I remember many nice memories we'd shared in the past. Innalillahi wa inna illahi roji'uun.

Verily we belong to Allah, and to Allah we return.

-JeP