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“Dua perkara yang merosakkan bangsa; Rasuah & Tak Tepati Masa”, dialog Khir Rahman dalam citer ROCK oleh Bro Mamat Khalid. Sinis bunyinya ayat tu tapi kalau diamati maksudnya secara mendalam, memang banyak tersirat kebenarannya. Mungkin ada yang perasan mesej ini secara am dan mungkin juga ada yang anggap ianya sekadar jenaka yang mengisi ruang filem ROCK yang bersifat hiburan semata-mata. Apapun tanggapan penonton, aku nak ucap tahniah untuk Bro Mamat Khalid sebab hasilkan karya-karya yang bukan sekadar menghiburkan tapi mampu mengajak berfikir. Jika disorot peredaran masa berdasarkan pengetahuan manusia semata-mata, jelas akan ternampak betapa keterbatasan akal yang dianugerahkan kepada kita tidak cukup kuat untuk menjadi sandaran mentadbir dunia. Demikian juga halnya sewaktu para malaikat bertanya kepada ALLAH ketika ALLAH menyatakan hasratNya mahu menjadikan manusia sebagai Khalifah pentadbir dunia. “Adakah layak dijadikan di dunia ini mereka yang merosakkannya serta menumpahka...

“ Burung Kenari riuh berkicau …”, “ Oh burung nyanyikanlah, katakan padanya aku rindu …”, “ His eyes are on the sparrows …”, “ Eagle fly free let people see …” and a lot more birds were recorded as song lyrics all over the world. Birds with the ability to fly and roam the sky are simply ideal to represent free-spiritedness that beats the odds of human capacity. Flying men and women are popular myths; with superman, batman, supergirl, wonder woman or even X-men for that matter is not sufficient to elucidate the special feeling of birds flying and chirping. ‘Burung’ is the Malay word for bird. Countless species of birds in this whole world have given us different stereoscopic meanings in life. Perhaps some inherited negative meanings such as Vulture as carcasses’ scavenger, Crow as garbage vandal, Chicken as coward etc are just a small friction of birds' negativity. Our cultural legacies that affect our worldviews sometimes offer contending definitions to similar species such as Owl ...

People are like sheep, that’s why most Prophets were Sheppard. That may sounds simple and straight forward but the underlying truth and meaning is indeed profound. Human civilizations throughout the history of mankind including Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Greek, Roman etc. proved that only when we can identify knowledge and started using it towards our favor, our living standards shall be upgraded from disorganized individuals and horticultural to communal and societal. Over time we can witness how human basically feed on information and knowledge mentally and intellectually. The more we learn and know things, the more we realize how to behave attitudinally in conformity with practical human values. Philosophically the shared purpose of all genuine knowledge leads towards realization of truth, which in relation to human rationale turned into expectation to create a balance between sheer wisdom and ability to govern life.