Busy?

Salam wbt :) Hi there!

 It has been a while, huh? I was going to say that I was so busy that I didn't have time to write..but, that would be a lie. I'm not that busy actually. I watched a video the other day and one statement threw me off guard, "Kalau nak dibandingkan dengan Rasulullah, dia lagiiiii busy tau..". *dush* Yeap, can't deny that. He's the busiest person on earth with the biggest responsibility to teach and spread Islam to others. And who are we to complain that we don't have enough time just to read a page of Qur'an a day, or to pray 2 raka'ah prayers before or after the obligatory prayers, or to take a little time off from our daily routine to remember Allah? Sometimes we tend to forget that we had a big purpose in this life that we need to achieve. Even bigger than just getting good grades and getting a good job, raising a family and all that..*sigh* 

At a time like this, when I started to ask myself over a lot of things..

I always wonder, what's the purpose of living for those who did not know that their purpose in this life had already been stated by Allah in the Qur'an..

And I (Allah) created not the jinn and mankind except to worship Me (Alone)  

[Az-Zariyat 51:56]

It's good to know what our goal is right? Just like what I learnt in one of my management subjects, we need to have a goal so that we can plan & work strategically in achieving the goal. 

Let us keep this (our goal) in our mind every morning when we wake up. So that our day can be planned according to our goal and insyaAllah everything that we do will be blessed by Allah..^_^

Mode: Muhasabah Diri 

Till then, Wassalam.

the 22 year old me

Salam wbt,

InsyaAllah, I'll begin with how grateful I am that Allah had given me countless of blessings throughout my 22 years of life in this world.  Alhamdulillah. It's so funny how time went by just like that. They say, the older you are, the wiser you be. I hope I am :) When you were 2, all you think about is play, play, play. When you were 12, you started to be more conscious about your look, no more childish stuff. You want to be just like someone in the television. And now when you are 22, you look at those stuffs you thought and care about back then, and just laugh at it. Now, you have more serious stuffs you need to think about. Like, where do you plan to work, what sort of job you want to do, which car do you want to buy, how much salary do you want to make, where do you want to settle down and maybe have family, kids etc. Ok, you might think, "Hey, isn't that too early to think about that stuff? We're still young, no need to think about having kids already, enjoy your life!" Haha. The thing is, whether you like it or not, we need plans for all of that. Cause we don't know when it might happen. Even though it's not a concrete plan, just being aware of all the things that might happen in the near future will help you to be prepared. Scary, really. But, that's a fact of life. Everybody will grow up eventually. 

Looking back in all those years, I'd never imagine, I'll be the person I am today. Thanks to Allah's guidance, my parents, my family and people around me.. Alhamdulillah, I'm still learning and learning, to be a better servant to Allah, the Almighty.. to be a better person that will benefit the ummah. I'm praying that in many years to come until I die, inshaAllah, I will still be in this path, bringing Islam to its Glory. Amin~

The 22 year old me

^^

About Tarbiyah :)

Salam to all readers :) 

I was reading this book, and I came across a poem about Tarbiyah. 

So, I was thinking of sharing it to you. But before that, just to have some introduction..

What is Tarbiyah actually? 

To put it simply Tarbiyah is development and training in people in various aspects.

From the islamic context, it is the systematic and continuous development and training of a muslim to build up his/her characters and personality according to Islam.

So basically, it's a continuous learning process,

to become a better Muslim :) rite?

[this is in my own definition. hihi]

Everyone want to become a better person. In one way or another.
Some people want to get better in their cooking skills, some people want to be better in their studying.
Some might want to get better in their time management skills, public speaking skills, etc..
The point is we always want to improve ourselves, cause if we don't, we are not developing ourselves and we become stagnant while others around us are moving.

So, why do we want to get better at something?
Cause we want to equip ourselves with enough skills and experiences
to face the future, to get a good job, a good salary and get married, right?

So, what I want to say is, insyaAllah, tarbiyah will help us to do all that, the whole package.
Cause Islam taught us about everything, patience, time management, respecting others, being a good person, benefiting others and many others. Islam is a way of life.

It's good that we want to improve ourselves like I said earlier in cooking, studying, etc2..
But it is better if we tweak that a lil bit, not just because for the sake of getting a good job, etc.
How about we improve ourselves for the sake of Allah, for the sake of becoming a better Muslim..
that will be beneficial to others, that will benefit the ummah, that will bring Islam to its destined Glory.
Isn't that better?
Teachers always told us to dream big, right? Well, this is a BIG dream. The BIGGEST, trust me.
Well, is it achievable? Allah promised that it is.

So if we do anything with Allah in our mind, we follow His Commnd,
everything will be blessed by Him.
And InshaAllah, we'll get what we want and not only that,
we'll get a BIG reward for that..if not in this dunya, inshaAllah a BIGGER reward in the hereafter.
Cause someone said to me, Allah look not at the outcome, but He look at our effort.
If we struggle, don't give up. Cause, I admit the road is long.
The process is a continuous process until we died.

So, are you up for the challenge?


oh. yeah, I forgot about the poem. haha. so much for an introduction.

This is in malay.

Tarbiyah adalah kekuatan yang mampu
mengubah duri jadi mawar
mengubah cuka jadi anggur
mengubah malang jadi untung
mengubah sedih jadi riang
mengubah syaitan jadi nabi
mengubah iblis jadi malaikat
mengubah sakit jadi sihat
mengubah bakhil jadi dermawan
mengubah kandang jadi taman
mengubah amarah jadi ramah
mengubah penjara jadi istana
mengubah musibah jadi muhibbah
Itulah tarbiyyah


(diadaptasi daripada puisi cinta oleh Ar-Rumi yang dideklamasikan oleh Ayyatul Husna dalam filem Ketika Cinta Bertasbih)


And this is a short video I found very inspiring about Tarbiyah.




From tarbiyah,  there came usrah.
What is usrah? I'll tell you in the next post inshaAllah :)
^^
Till then, take care of yourself.


A humble opinion and thoughts,
from me, who is still learning, and always will be.

Lesson learnt ^^

Salam wbt :)

Have you ever encountered a situation where you did something wrong and someone corrected it?

No one likes to be corrected, especially if we believed that there's nothing wrong with what we did, right? :)
Or even when you know you did something wrong, the feeling of being corrected from someone else is not a good feeling, really.

I guess we can call that, ego maybe? or pride?

We have our ego and pride in ourselves. We'd like to think that we are perfect in what we do.

 

That 'ego' and 'pride' gave us the confidence. In a way, it improves our self-esteem.

But, let me tell you something.
Too much 'ego' and 'pride' can hurt us.
It will let us think that we're perfect, when in fact we aren't that perfect.
We have our flaws. And we WILL do mistakes.

So, when we can't stand someone giving advice or corrected us,
How can we improve ourselves?

In surah 'Abasa', Allah the Almighty Himself corrected Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him).
But did Prophet Muhammad turn against Allah who corrected him in the Qur'an that will be read by all his ummah?
No.
He learnt from his mistake.
That's why our Prophet is the best man with the best character ^^.

Don't we want to be just like him? Following his examples in character?

I know from experience that it hurts when that happened.
But, after a lot of thinking and inner reflection within myself,

 I realised that when someone corrected and give advice to you,

it shows how much they care about you.

It shows that they want you to be better and improve yourselves.

In one of the hadith related by Bukhari and Muslim,
it says,
"None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself"

We should want the BEST for our brothers and sisters just like we want the BEST for ourselves.
So, reminding and giving advice to each other is one of the way.


Let us learn to open up our heart especially in accepting advice from other people.
Even when it hurts.

And don't be mad to that person that's giving you advice as that's exactly what the shaytan want us to do.
Bit by bit, shaytan will try to destroy our ukhuwah with one another.
Value the ukhuwah that we have with each other.
And don't let a small incident lead us to destroy the it.
Ok?


note: animated emoticons for dramatic effects..^^ hihi.

inspection

Salam wbt :)

Good day to you! By the way, the title for today does not have any relation with the picture up there. That's just my attempt to create another so-called masterpiece for my collections. But, end up a total failure. heh. =_=" Seriously, this editing, designing thingy really took up a lot of your time. But,,,I love it anyway..hehe..:) Practice! Practice! Practice! 

So, here's what I'm actually going to write today. INSPECTION! or more specifically House Inspection. Here in Aussie, the house agent will do periodic house inspections to obviously inspect the house and ensure the house is in a good condition. We cleaned up the house yesterday to be prepared for the inspection. Some of the agents are really fussy with the cleanliness of the house to the extent that he/she will wipe his/her finger along every single window pane, etc. But, I've never experienced those kind of agents. So, we're just doing our best to clean the house. Alhamdulillah, she said everything's fine. Even though there are couple of things that we overlooked, like forgetting to wipe the windows. hihi.

So, I was thinking.. how we had worked hard to prepare for things like a house inspection, and compare to how well we had prepared for the Day of Judgement. Sometimes, we were to focused in achieving the dunya that we forgot about the forever life hereafter. I'm not saying to forget totally about the dunya, but be balanced in doing the deeds for this dunya and the akhirah. Just like how well we were balancing our time for study and enjoyment. Right?

So, think about it! May Allah bless us in this dunya and the akhirah. Amin. :)

ps: I just realised, I used a lot of "So" here. [vocabulary deficiency =_="]

Reminder of the day

Salam wbt ;)

Just a quick reminder before starting a new day ahead of us. InshaAllah.

Everyone will be busy doing what they plan to do today, like, going to the uni, going to work, going to school, buying groceries, meeting friends, etc. 

But, one thing we should not forget while busy doing those stuffs is to remember Allah. 

InshaAllah, everything that we do then, will be blessed by Him..^^

Have a good day! :)

and the journey begins

Salam wbt ;)

These past few days have been very...*pause*...interesting in many ways ^^. I don't know what to expect, but the truth is I'm both excited and scared. So far, I'm thankful to Allah had given me the strength to do it, Alhamdulillah..

Everything we do is based on our niat. As stated in the hadith below,

Narrated 'Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him), reported: Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wassallam) said, "The deeds are considered by the intentions, and a person will get the reward according to his intention. So whoever emigrated for Allah and His Messenger, his emigration will be for Allah and His Messenger; and whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration would be for what he emigrated for".

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

One of the most important thing that I learnt these past few days, is that, I need to constantly reminding myself to check my niat (intentions) so that I'm doing this solely for the sake of Allah, inshaAllah. I found it interesting that this hadith is placed first in Hadith 40. It shows how important it is to have the right niat in doing everything we do. We didn't realise that sometimes we did things to please other person, or we did things to make ourselves look good, or we did things because we were forced to do so. It can also turn out that at first we did things for the right intentions, but along the way, the intentions changed due to some circumstances. I think the majority of us will agree that our heart is the most uncontrollable part in our body. We think and feel differently. Sometimes we will faced a situation where we have to make a decision based on what our brain think is right or what our heart feel is right. Such a complicated thing, right? That's why Allah remind us to make a decision and put our trust solely to Him. We must be 100% confident that in the end Allah knows what's right for us.

May Allah guide us to the right path. May everything that we do be for Him only. And may we be rewarded for that in Jannah.

to me in the future

Salam wbt,
Hello people! ^^

Yup, I know. I've been lazyyy. But today, I feel like I want to write something.
I read few blogs before this, so, I feel motivated to write one. But, I'm not quite sure what to write.
So, maybe I'll just write down random stuffs. Feel free to press the 'x' button on top of your screen.

This is all coming from my heart. So, let me just say this.
I've learnt that our 'iman' can increase and decrease at certain times, right?
And for some times before this, I think my 'iman' had went down drastically. I can feel it.
I had not been able to maintain the pace and be 'istiqamah' in my ibadah. *sigh*
I guess, I'm still not strong enough to fight my 'nafs'. *double sighs*
But, I'm recovering right now. hyaaa! \(^^)/
I spent some times to reflect on myself on what I've done wrong and what can be improved.
I've realised that, our relationship with Allah first and foremost need to be strong and of course our relationship with the Qur'an as well. Those two things are very important to fight the 'nafs' especially when we don't have people around us to remind us of it.

So people, don't be like me. Be strong.
Maintain your pace. Check your 'iman'.

I wrote this, so that I can remind myself again in the future to never be like this again. OK!

"O Allah, forgive my sins and strengthen my 'iman'...for you are the most forgiving of all.."

Till then, Wassalam.. ^^