Here goes my check list again..

1. Results of my 4 months leave application; first my HRM boss replied like so:-

• Your application for 4 months of leave is subject to the approval of your Head of Department. If he does not give his approval, you may appeal to higher authority in XXXXSB. Take note that long leave by a staff will affect the business of the company.
• Once XXXSB management has agreed to your application for 4 months leave, you have to fill the unpaid leave form for our submission to Group HRM for approval. You will be notified whether your application for unpaid leave is approved or not ASAP.
  
• Take note that you are allowed to take a total of 1 year unpaid leave during your whole service with XXXXXXXX. During the unpaid leave period, your loans and your medical benefit (including family) will be freezed. You will have to pay your monthly loan via cash or cheque.
  
• Subject to all these approvals (item 1 & 2), please refrain from being absent from work.

2. Then my so called hand-over boss replied like so:-

• Dear XXXX/XXXXX, Kindly review the following leave application, by Erman as Engineering Services section will be transfered to TSD after TA. Thank you.

3. Then my future boss replied like so:-

• Assalamualaikum and a very good morning, I would like to personally discuss with you before I can make any decision about your long leave. Preferably today i.e 11 am at my office. Thank you.

4.  Already had a 2 hour session on the "what", "why", "where" then a little bit on the "how could you?" then some on "ummah needs to change to the better" then later on "why just solah?", and also on "Saidina Umar ade set time limit utk berjauhan dgn bini" the I'd said yes.. it's 4 months!

Ibn Jarir said: One I trust informed me that 'Umar, while he was patrolling, heard a woman saying:'This night stretches out and is grievous, and that I have no intimate to sport with has made me sleepless, For, if it were not for fear of Allah Whom nothing is like, his rights would have been removed from this couch.' 'Umar said, 'What is wrong with you?'

She said, 'You sent my husband on an expedition some months ago, and I long for him.' He said, 'Do you mean to do wrong?' She said, '(I seek) the refuge of Allah!' He said, 'So restrain yourself; it is only (a matter of) the post to him.'

He sent a message to him. Then he went to Hafsah and said, 'I want to ask you about a matter which concerns me, so dispel it for me. How long does a woman long for her husband?' She lowered her head and was shy. He said, 'Truly Allah is not shy of the truth.' She gestured with her hand, indicating three months, and if that is not possible, then four months. '

Umar wrote that armies must not be kept on service for more than four months.

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