We just continue yesterday work and Miss
Zu checks all the papers that she gave to us. After that we need to do peer
commenting, we have to change our draft with other people, because mine has
been changed with Acap so Miss Zu told me to change it with Zani's group. Bela
and me finished already our work but Zani's group still not yet finished their so
we have to wait until they finish. Zani's group done editing their draft then
we change ours and start commenting. Miss Zu provides us a blue paper that
require us to give a mark to other that we comment and cannot tell they the
marks we have give. For tomorrow class we will do speaking and for the
replacement class we will do writing according to Miss Zu so that why she want
us to done this work before tomorrow night. We will do speaking tomorrow evening
in class because our speaking test will start next week. Hopefully we can get
good grades. Amin. Miss Zu also told us to do our online quizzes this week. I
think done all of them except for 10th quiz because it still disable.
This our real draft before commenting.
This our real draft before commenting.
“As believers, we cannot question the knowledge of
God. He, through His scriptures and His prophets has told us of the signs of
the qiyamah. The knowledge of the end-of-times is something that only God
knows”, said by Deputy Mufti Datuk Abdul Majid Omar. This is because 2012 as
the end of the day is the current issue that being discusses by people around
the world nowadays .Most religions like Islam and Christianity believed that
the revelation comes gradually, complete with signs to
warn humanity. Based on the Quran and Hadith, Muslims believe that qiyamah will
come with major and minor signs such as the just will be unfairly accused, the
wise will be ignored, and the swindle people will become leaders and the sun
will rise from the West. Christians believe that Jesus will return, all the
believers will go up to heaven, and there will be a great tribulation. Many
Internet websites say the world will end on December 2012. As you and I know,
the world has not ended yet because I am working on this essay on 2013. So,
could it really happen? The truth is, nowadays, very few people believe in the
end of the world predictions, preferring to live their lives normally instead
of being bothered by such endless predictions. The end of the world has been
predicted many times, and none of it becomes true, however, due to the Mayan
prophecy, prediction of scientists and the continuous disaster that happened
make people started to prepare themselves to confront the doomsday.
Even though the augury
of the doomsday can affect people in many ways, but for its
believers it can
make them loss in countless kind of different prospective. Due to the
prediction that has been make and the evidence that is being on the news, the
believers will definitely wasting many things especially in terms of money and
time as to make sure that they are fully prepared if the doomsday come and they
will survive from it. One of the store in America, Uncle Sam’s Military
Surplus’ manager, states that the fire starters is the famous item at the store
for those who prepare for the doomsday that he calls “preppers” (Scott, 2012 as
cited in Moore, 2012) and in “Many prepare for”, (2012), states that people are
buying lounge for water which is the most crucial thing for emergency. This
situation is not only happened in the western country but it is also happened
in Asia. According to Tan and Arman (2012), in America, currently the sale of
underground bunkers has been speedy while in Russia, accompany is selling a
devastation kit that contains food and medicine and in Malaysia, those people
are stocking up food. The Utah Shelter System’s employees that be on duty said
that the sales price of the protection is range between RM
160424.60 to 201644.30 in North Salt Lake, Utah.
(Taylor, 2012). In this situation the sellers will take the opportunity
to increase the price of the goods since they know that people will buy it
regardless whether the price is expensive or not as they assume that the end of
the world will absolutely happened on 2012. The money that was used to paid for
the goods become a waste just like that
as a result from the cancellation of the day of judgment and because of the
same reason the medicines and the foods
that they stocking up will spoilt since it will reach its due date. Reuters and Kujundzic (2012, as cited in Taylor, 2012) have found
Liu Qiyuan, a Chinese creator who designed a spherical pod, named "Noah's
Ark", floats the pod on a river during an attempt in Xianghe, Hebei. To build
a protection that can secure us from the disaster is cost a lot of money. In
terms of time, to feel safety people tend to believe that there are a place
that can keep them out from the calamity. It is proves when Reuters and Arles
(2012) proposes that as the only place that will endure from judgment day is
the The Peak of Bugarachm Corbieres, in south western France, because of the
story said that the mountain contains a way into eternity. As a consequence of
all these preparations, our money and time is being throw away just like it has
no value at all. Even if we are prepare ourselves perfectly for the judgment
day, all this stuff are pointless as it will not help us to stay away from
devastation.
One
of the major reasons that make people put their fate on the Day of Judgment is
because of the Mayan prophecy. Most of people see that 21 December 2012 as the
date for the end of the world because the Mayan is the great mathematical and
able to predict the future. This statement become stronger as there are many
articles and news is publishes in media. In western cultures they strongly
convinced about Mayan forecast that the world will stop shortly. (John, 2012 as
cited in Braswell, 2012). For example, Deem (2012) states, the Mayan calendar,
the "Great Cycle" equates with 5,125.36 years, which began on August
11, 3114 B.C. and ends in 2012. According to “The Mayan Calendar”, (2012), the
Long Count on the 13th baktun, will complete its Great Cycle of the
Mayan calendar on 13.0.0.0.0 by comparing it to the modern version of calendar
the end of the cycle is match with December 21,2012, 11;11 Universal Time.
It is not only
due to the media but when the Mayan people itself speak about it that, “End
date” of the Maya calendar, Dec 21, 2012 has been confirmed as a very old Maya
text has appeared from the jungles of Guatemala. (Lorenzi, 2012), it is automatically
has increase the percentage of its believers. Even though the preppers has
raise but there are people who oppose that the day of reckoning will not be
happened. Holly (2012) argues that most of public over carry a myth because of
they are be short of understanding about the real Mayan foretelling. People are
misunderstanding about the Mayan prediction because of the lack of knowledge
about the prophecy. It is indeed true that the Mayan calendar is ended in 21
December 2012, but it is only the end of the its calendar’s cycle which after
21 December the Mayan calendar will be 14th baktun just like the end
of the year where after December 2012 there will be January 2013, so the earth
will be not be finished so far.
Another
provocation which gains humanity attention is the prediction of scientists
about unusual phenomenon that happened in outer space. The abnormal situation
that happen on the outside of the earth have contribute to made people become more afraid and believe
that the prediction is true as the scientist said about the unstable of solar
flares, Planet Nibiru crash and the asteroid collision. Nowadays, the
increasing of the radiation energy that shoots the Earth with the solar flare
that ruin the power grids and satellites. (Philip, 2012). When the power grids
and satellites ruin, the communication system will be the first that been
affected and it will a total blackout. Lately the radiation energy from the
solar storms has continuously increased and people around the world can feel
the heat. Not only the power grids and satellites will be affected but the
icebergs at North Pole will melting, as a result from it, the sea level will
rise up and the worst it can cause a huge flood which can drown the small
countries. Next, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) (2012), has verified that on 21 December 2012 the planet Nibiru will
collide with earth. What is planet Nibiru? Planet Nibiru is the twelve planet
which lies just outside Pluto. This means that there will not be any humanity
that can live there because the planet is located far away from the Sun and
it’s too cold for human to make as a place to stay. The collision of this
planet with Earth happened because of the strong gravitational force that is
attracting the Planet Nibiru so it will be a little bit out from its original
orbit. As a result of the attracting, the Planet Nibiru or known as Planet X
will come over to hit the Earth. A slightly miss of the planet, can watering
the earth with the deadly asteroids impacts that come from the planet’s
gravitational stir. (Handwerk,2012). Other than that, the asteroid smash is
contribute for making people put their fate by believing that the world will be
end. Tan and Arman (2012) notes that it was assumed that the dinosaurs was
vanished because an asteroid that crush the earth on 65 million years ago. Mohd
(2012) indicates that the high speed of the asteroid even the dimension is
small, it can wipe out the Earth and it will be able to cause tsunami which can
tear down cities if it knocks down in the sea. If these situations is
happening, the minimum consequence is only half of the Earth’s land will be
gone and the living things will be lost their home.
Other
than that, the continuous disasters event which are happened around the world
before these have made the believers completely convince on the prediction. The
nonstop calamity such as SARS, big flood, tsunami, pandemic and earthquakes
that happened previously makes the doomsday preppes make a conclusion that
December 21st is a judgments day. As we know there is various type
of tragedy which can bring to death and havoc to the Earth. It is not a new
problem but these continuous disasters had already happened before our generation
is born into the world. For example, in the 14th century, 75 million
people around the world were killed by the Black Death virus. (Tan & Arman,
2012). Because of the Black Death Virus, millions of human died around the
world. On 2003, there is a new kind of fever but this fever can take out the
soul of human. Davis (2012) states that the first case of the SARS virus was
record in Asia starting from 2002 until mid-year of 2003. According to the
World Health Organization (WHO) (2003), 8437 people around the world are
infected by the SARS as of July 2003, and 813 pass away during the plague. Park
(2012) explained, from the common symptoms that someone is infectious such as
fever, cough and hardly to breath, then the SARS pandemic patient will feel
muscle aches and chills. The signs of the SARS are same as the ordinary fever
so people that have been affected by it do not know that he or she is a SARS’s
patient. Followed by the next year which is 2004, people worldwide receive
shocking news where the Tsunami had happened and much life is gone. Hoffer
(2011) explained, in 2004, the west coast of Indonesia has been strike by an
earthquake which scale 9.2-magnitude that has cause a tsunami with waves over
100 feet high happened, not only in Indonesia but also take place not less than
14 countries. The place such as Fiji Island, Pacific Island and the most
important is Malaysia will be in danger as the level of the ocean keeps rising.
(Mushrifah, 2012 as cited in Tan and Arman).Due to this problem the small
country such as Malaysia can be vanished from the Earth forever. Luckily, with
the intelligent of people and the newest technology that the world has all
these problems can be solved. For example, there is a Tsunami detection buoys
that has been created to alarm people if there will be any tsunami and for the
illness we can detect our disease in the earlier stage so that we can cure it
before it is too late.
To put it briefly,
there are a lot of reasons why people believe in this rumor that has been such
as hot issue lately. The reasons are not only coming from the scientific
approached that are the prediction of
scientists and the natural calamity but it is also come up together with the ancient prospective which
is about the Mayan prophecy. As a people with religion, we should not easily
believe in what people said. All the religion that has in this world has
thought their believers about the sign of the judgment day so the prediction
that has been made is supposedly to be denied as soon as we know about it. For
Muslims, as we know that the world is only a temporary place for us to stay and
the world after death is the real place that we are going to stay. So the Earth
will absolutely end but it must have the sign first which it is already been
stated in Al-Quran so we should hold it without any hesitation. Just like what
has been acknowledged in Al-Quran, “His command is only when He
intends a thing that He says to it, "Be," and it is”, surah yassin
line 82. That means if Allah SWT said that the world will
end so despite of what happened the world will end.
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