“Kita dapat pergi umrah bukan sebab kita sihat, bukan sebab kita ada duit dan bukan sebab kita ada masa. Kita dapat berumrah kerana Allah undang dan izinkan. Yang lain itu cuma asbabnya saja.” Sehelai Sejadah di Lantai Kaabah ialah sebuah naskhah refleksi Nisah Haron ketika menunaikan umrah pada Ramadan 1444H. Ini bukan sekadar buku panduan umrah yang biasa, sebaliknya segala tip dan panduan disampaikan melalui peristiwa serta pengalaman beliau sepanjang 18 hari di Tanah Suci. Catatan ini dapat menyuntik semangat buat mereka yang belum pernah ke Tanah Suci atau membuka jendela kenangan kepada yang sudah menjejakkan kaki di Bumi Haramain ini. Menuju ke Tanah Suci, sama ada untuk mengerjakan umrah mahupun haji, adalah suatu proses pembelajaran menuju kematian. Pemergian ini belum tentu kembali dan jika kita pulang sekalipun, kita seharusnya kembali sebagai diri yang ”bersih”.
Author
Born in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan on 20 April 1973, Nisah Haron has been writing as a hobby since 1988. She has written forty short stories, five novels, essays and a few poems published in local literary magazine and newspaper. Nisah Haron had her legal education from National University of Malaysia and graduated in 1997. She also obtained her LL.M from the same instition in 2006. She practised as an advocate and solicitor as well as a syarie counsel for eight years before becoming a full-time writer in 2006. She advocates on the copyright awareness among writers and publishers. Nisah has also written a copyright book for laymen entitled "Karya Kita Hak Kita - Panduan Hak Cipta" (Al-Ameen Serve Holdings, 2008). Her works has been received my awards including Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia, Hadiah Sastera Kumpulan Utusan and many others. Recently, she won first place in Hadiah Sastera Berunsur Islam with her winning short-story, “Aset Istiqamah”. Her personal blog is www.annyss.blogspot.com, or join her on Facebook "Nisah Haron - Pengarang". Nisah Haron full bio is available online - http://annyss.blogspot.com/p/biodata-...
