Patience~~

April 26th, 2009 by gtd

I certainly need this. ‘Patience’ from one of my fav rock band. Patience

(1..2…1,2,3,4)
Shed a tear ’cause I’m missing you
I’m still alright to smile
Girl, I think about you every day now
Was a time when I wasn’t sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you’re in my heart now
Said woman take it slow
It’ll work itself out fine
All we need is just a little patience
Said sugar make it slow
And we’ll come together fine
All we need is just a little patience
(inhale) Patience…
Ooh, oh, yeah

Sit here on the stairs
‘Cause I’d rather be alone
If I can’t have you right now, I’ll wait dear
Sometimes, I get so tense
But I can’t speed up the time
But you know, love, there’s one more thing to consider
Said woman take it slow
Things will be just fine
You and I’ll just use a little patience
Said sugar take the time
‘Cause the lights are shining bright
You and I’ve got what it takes to make it
We won’t fake it, Oh never break it
‘Cause I can’t take it

…little patience, mm yeah, ooh yeah,
Need a little patience, yeah
Just a little patience, yeah
Some more pati… (ence, yeah)
I’ve been walking these streets at night
Just trying to get it right (Need some patience, yeah)
It’s hard to see with so many around
You know I don’t like being stuck in a crowd (Could use some patience, yeah)
And the streets don’t change but maybe the name
I ain’t got time for the game
‘Cause I need you (Patience, yeah)
Yeah, yeah well I need you
Oh, I need you (Take some patience)
Whoa, I need you (Just a little patience is all we need)
Ooh, this ti- me….

“Blessing in Disguise”

April 8th, 2009 by gtd

This 2 weeks have been a great, depressing and worrisome experience to me. I dont really know where to start but seems like its becoming harder and harder for me to continue living as a human being in this world. Maybe this is one of the great test that Allah S.W.T wants me to experience.
All of this time, I’ve only heard about divorce cases only in newspaper, from friends, internet and etc. I’ve never imagined that there will come a day where I’m actually involved in dealing with this divorce thing. The couple is so dearest to me that I cant never imagined that they wanted to get divorce. I’ve tried thinking of a lot of idea to make they get back together but it all seems so blur to me now. Is divorce is reallly the way out? I’m kind of confuse. For as long as I’ll live in this world I’ll always instill in my mind that marriage is a holy thing in which once you commit yourself to the relationship, no matter how hard it is, no matter how you suffer or no matter what you do, we need to keep the marriage. But living in this world is not as ideal as what I always thought. Otherwise there would be no divorces stated in Islam and there would be no divorces cases happen around the world. Having said that, even the couple who is dearest to me is at edge of their relationship, I promise myself that I would do anything to get them back together. I love to see when we’re all happy together again. Although things have become more messy and difficult at this time, as much as possible, I dont want it to end up in the worst possible way, divorce.

Work which has been always been interesting to me now giving me more and more pressure as I serve more years in Petronas. The new scheme that they introduce looks like a good venue to develop the staff but in a way, is a double edge sword. At this point of time there is nothing I could do but to follow the programme that has been set. I’ve to attend coaching session for a total of 100hrs, make several note for file, present various proposal, carry out software analysis which some I haven’t even started anything on it, that is on top of what I’m doing now. Just imagined, the load of work I have to carry out. Having said that, I guess I just have to do it. Take things little by little and if Allah permits I probably can manage it.

The only happy things that happen to me in the last week is it marks my first day going out to watch a movie in cinema with a girl. Frankly speaking, after knowing her for quite sometimes, she looks like a great package to me. Its so hard to believe that a girl like that which is cute and baik2 still tadek bf lagi. Although I did ask her

Me: Ade org marah gil(bkn nama sebenar) tak keluar dgn saya nie?
Gil: Takde
Me: Abis tu cincin yang kat tangan tu?
Gil: Cincin tu mak yang bagi

Even now, I still dont believe that she is still single. But having said that, I always believe what we do in the relationship will determine the outcome. For the time being, I’ll just go with the flow. 

There are too many things to handle in one time and I dont know whether I could make it. Only Allah is the best listener and at this point of time, getting closer to Allah is the best thing I could do. Praying is definitely giving me strength to continue with this struggle. Hopefully everything will end up good.

Mencari cinta - Realiti atau Fantasi

December 21st, 2008 by gtd

Semalam abang aku bertunang dengan gadis pilihan die. Aku rasa best gak sebab itu menandakan sudah tiba turn aku untuk mencari gadis pilihan aku. Tapi on the bad side, pressure pun datang lah dari sanak2 saudara mara yang asik bertanye, “dah ade calon ke?”, “orang mane”?, “Kerje mana?”, “satu tempat kerje ke?”. Tu lah, aku sebenarnye tak suka nak menipu sebab, satu penipuan akan menyebabkan aku terpaksa menipu untuk menjawab soalan yang seterusnya.

Macam masa abang aku bertunang ari tue, pak cik aku yang mmg nye agak rapat dengan keluarga aku bertanyakan soalan yang sama. huhuhu. Aku terdiam sekejap, pastu aku pun jawab,

Pak cik: Ko dah ade calon ke?

Aku: In the process. (aku ingat stop kat situ tup2 die tanye lagi)

Pak cik: Org mana?

Aku: KL ( aku dah menggelabah dah. tak tahu lah die perasan ke tak air muka aku dah berubah)

Pak cik: Satu opis ke?

Aku: Ha ah. ( aku mmg malas nak jawab. Dalam hati aku harap die tak tanye lebih2)

Nasib baik pak cik aku stop kat situ. Sib baik die tak tanye detail psl awek imagination yang aku create on the spot. hahahahhaha. Mungkin aku agak ego jugak tak nak ngaku tak dek awek lagi tapi nak wat camne. Tadek jodoh lagi kut.

Last week aku pergi awana kijal resort sbb ade course. Dah setahun gak aku tak gi course so mmg time nak pergi tu aku mmg excited gile. Course tu mmg best and aku mmg recommend sesape yang keje satu industri ngan aku nie patut pergi course tue. A lot to learn but so little time. Apart from that, aku rasa it mark my first time, trying to court a girl who is totally a stranger to me. Tak nah lagi aku wat camtue rasanye. Die waitress kat situ. Kerje part time.

First time aku nak cakap dengan die mmg menggelabah gel. Soalan tah pape jek. Tanye psl shift die, umur ngan kat mana belajar. 18 tu beb. Muda lagi tue. Selalu jek senyum2 dekat aku (perasan jek kut, sbb mmg dah keje die senyum2 kat customer). Fifth time aku jumpa die, aku tanye no phone die.

Aku: Aini, awak ade no. phone? (apa punye soalan da. Nampak gile tak dek experience)

Aini: Tak boleh.(sambil berlalu pergi cuci meja org lain).

Sixth time aku jumpa die, and last day yang aku boleh jumpa die, aku tinggal phone no. ngan die. Aku suruh die sms kalo rasa macam nak kawan dengan aku. Aku tak harap sangat sebenarnye tapi try je ah kan. Mana tau success. Last sekali sebelum balik, tah macam mana aku terserempak dengan die dekat parking lot awana kijal masa die nak balik kerje.

Aku: Aini, tunggu sape?

Aini: kakak

Aku: So macam mana? Boleh ke?

Aini: Tak boleh kut. Nanti boss marah. Entah2 masa awak bagi phone no. tu ade org perasan.

Aku: Saya tau time keje maybe tak leh kan. Tapi nie kan dah lepas keje, Tak leh gak ke?

Sambil tunduk2, macam nak lari jek dari aku, die pun jjawab,

Aini: Tak boleh kut.

Sememangnye aku yang tadek experience bende2 macam nie pun cakap.

Aku: Tak pe lah kalo camtue. Tapi kalo awak rasa macam nak kawan dengan saya, just give me a call.

Akhirnye aku pun berlalu pergi. Dah lah malam semalamnye baru kene kutuk dengan ade budak perempuan satu course dengan aku. Tah macam amana diorang boleh2 crite psl awek, tetiba masuk pasal aku yang tadek awek lagi. Budak perempuan tu dengan selamba cakap,

Kawan budak perempuan: Ha nie syafiq single lagi, ko pun single. Ape lagi.

Budak perempuan: Tak selera aku.

Perghhhhhh!!!!!!. Gila kejam perempuan tersebut. Aku nak balas tapi nanti nampak cam tak cool la plk. So aku senyum jek walaupun dlm hati rasa cam nak cili jek mulut budak perempuan tue.

Ape2 hal pun  course tu mmg best cuma ade hajat aku tak kesampaian dekat sana. Aku masih menunggu jugak, mana tau aini tetiba ade rasa nak sms aku ke walaupun peluang  die aku rasa ade lah dlm 0.000%. huhuhuhuhu.

Terkadang aku mengimpikan aku terjumpa bakal bini aku dlm situasi yang sungguh magical. Tapi bila dah makin tua nie aku rasa, fantasi hanyalah tinggal fantasi. Peluang takkan datang kalau kita tak berusaha. Macam yang member aku yang dah kawin cakap kat aku, ” ko kena persistent yok.” Sometimes aku wonder jugak kenapa bila aku try2 tak dapat. Ade org cakap not enough effort, tak cukup persistent, memilih sangat dan macam2 lagi. Tapi kadang2 aku rasa mungkin ini pembalasan terhadap dosa2 aku yang lepas. So tiap2 kali gagal aku mesti fikir psl bende nie. Bagus jugak, at least buat aku insaf.

Apa2 hal pun aku sememangnye malas nak pikir2 psl nie. Silap2 aku ikut jek mak aku nak kawinkan dengan sape. Hahahahahha. Harapnye tak sampai lah ke situ. Sekurang2nya aku masih ade egoku sebagai lelaki. Tapi tak tahulah sejauh mana aku boleh bertahan.

Sesungguhnye aku masih mencari my other half seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Al-Quran:

” Dan diantara tanda2 kekuasanNya ialah Dia menciptakan untukmu isteri-isteri dari jenismu sendiri, supaya kamu cenderung dan merasa tenteram kepadanya dan dijadikanNya di antara kamu rasa kasih dan sayang. Sesungguhnya pada yang demikian itu benar2 terdapat tanda bagi kaum yang berfikir” 30:21

Tak kira lah sama ade aku jumpa my other half dlm secara realiti atau pun fantasi, aku mengharapkan die mempunyai ciri2 wanita idaman aku. Semoga aku pun mempunyai ciri2 lelaki idaman my other half. Thats all.

Wanita-wanita yang keji adalah untuk laki-laki yang keji, dan laki-laki yang keji adalah buat wanita-wanita yang keji (pula), dan wanita-wanita yang baik adalah untuk laki-laki yang baik dan laki-laki yang baik adalah untuk wanita-wanita yang baik (pula). Mereka (yang dituduh) itu bersih dari apa yang dituduhkan oleh mereka (yang menuduh itu). Bagi mereka ampunan dan rezeki yang mulia (surga). 24:26

Getting a call from stranger’s

May 22nd, 2008 by gtd

Today, as I was just getting back from buying Macdonald double cheese burger, I’m getting a call from some stranger. Good thing is she introduce herself nicely but suddenly when she started to talk about the thing she wanted to say, she sounded angrier and angrier. I was shocked when she told me that she knows about the thing I wrote yesterday (I initially thought that she was my big blog fan but when she sound mad, I rethink, yeahhh its not possible).

She told me that the thing is not true and she wanted me to delete the post. Among other things like dont be such a loser and dont write all the craps. Actually I want to reply, I wanted to talk about something but I need sometimes to think. And I guess it was lucky for her cause she’s the one started the conversation so I was still kind of shock. And whats more surprising she said I sounded like I was angry when the fact she’s already using her high pitch voice against me.

This thing that happen has made me wonder. Why does she go all the way to call me and ask me to delete the post? Well, its obvious because she is the one to tell my friend about the thing. Perhaps, she was saying like, "jangan bitau sape2 tau, secret" Well, kalo selalu tgk citer 70’s show, this is the part where they say, "burn!!!!!!!" I guess her intention was good. She just wanted to get back in good term with her friend (the girl I wrote about yesterday).

Anyway if she’s reading my blog again today, I just wanted to tell that the damage has been done. I cannot undone it. If there is some mistake in the writing I apologize because maybe I over exaggerated. But I did not miss the point I wanted to say. My point from the whole story is that, A girl is just as good as anybody can get her unless you’re at least engage with her, then only she’s yours. So even if you’re already with someone and not yet engage you should be careful and he should also be careful.

And again you must be questioning why did I write the story just now and not before this? Well, only when we have the experience  and good example and its become better if its the real thing, a writer can come out with the piece. I’ve always wanted to write about this thing and the idea comes about the right time and well, now I have the story. I’m not moaning cause I fail in the relationship but whats important is what I’ve learnt from it and I guess its not wrong to share it with other people be it her, the stranger, my friend, his girlfriend or anybody else who is reading my blog.

If you think that your view’s are not the same as mine, then by all means, by all means, please write it in your blog too. Maybe I can learn somethings from different views.

Akhir kata, thanks for reading my blog.

p/s: Rasa cam dah tak lalu nak makan. Rasa cam budak2 pulak sebab kena marah. Dah lama dah tak kena marah dengan perempuan nie. Last rasanye pun 3 tahun lepas.

Treasure Friend’s More Than Woman

May 21st, 2008 by gtd

I still remember one of the stephen chow movie I watch several years ago, if I’m not mistaken its title is ‘God of Gambler’s 3′. In the movie, one of the character said ‘I treasure friend’s more than woman’ while expressing that he is ready to let his woman go as long as stephen chow can help him to restore the country’s peace. I used to laugh back then and always saying it as some jokes as I dont believe that its the real thing.

Anyway, here’s the real thing I wanna tell. Just a few days ago, I know what really happen to me 3 years ago. If you read my blog in the earlier stage about "whats with woman" the third chapter, you’ll know what happens. To cut it short, back then I really thought that she was mad at me because I paste her dialogue in the mirc but actually she’s mad at me because of other deeper but silly thing. What surprise me is that she thought that I plan it all so that my friend whom she have a chat and whom turn out to be the one that she like too, can never be together. In other words, its just like she thought that I told my friends, ’she is mine and dont touch her’.

When I know thats what actually happen, I kind of laugh and a bit disapointed because after what I told her, talked to her, she couldnt guess what kind of person I am. For me, I may have treated the girl nicely because I like her but whether she likes me back or not I totally leave it to her. There’s really no point keeping a girl that doesnt like you. Maybe thats what makes my relationship fail cause I dont really introduce enough pushing/pushing factor but well, everybody has their own principle. So until at least the girl is engage with me, I dare not say that she is mine.  If she really likes my friend, I would willingly give way and the disappointment will always be there but I dare not see many more disapointment in the future, if I kept the relationship.

Truth be told, now I know what is the hikmah of me having to experience the things. Hence, we always have to believe that Allah has his own way of getting the best for us. Patient is certainly needed and when we know the real thing, we would gladly say "Alhamdulillah".

And to conclude it all, I guess its not really treasure friend’s more than woman but its more about playing fair in the process. That’s all.    

Letting Go……

March 17th, 2007 by gtd

Recently I was watching a chinese series title The Chinese Paladin. At first I thought it is a kung fu movie but in the end it is filled with all the love and romance things. Even in the end the evil force is actually being defeated by the strong power of a couple’s love. I was a bit dissapointed cause I was hoping that something like a fist and kick kind of scene. The ending is also kind of unfinished showing the hero is trapped in his own love world since his couple is already dead. How pathethic, I thought it is? Though some may say that the guy is true to his love but what the heck? The girl is already dead, he’s nowhere near hearing her breath again, why bother to be miserable for the cause? Anyway it did mention in the middle of the story that love can means letting go. I guess the guy fails to let go.

There are many things in this world that people refuse to let go. Money, power and woman, I believe belongs to those group. I guess we have to accept or instill in ourselves that everything in this world is not immortal except Allah S.W.T. If we are given the chance to experience it, we have to know that it is just our responsibility to take care of the chances given. It is hard to have such an ideal thinking but I guess that is how it is supposed to be thought of. Otherwise thats why we can see a lot of people killing each other for money and power. Love among human if not carefully taken care of, in a way can make people insane and lose rational.

Recently I was talking with my friend about how to get a girlfriend. The bottom line of our discussion is all about high risk and high return way kind of thing. Just like when you want to do business, when the uncertainty is high the possibility of getting higher profit is always there. If you want to go for hot chick, the chances are very minimal but once you get it, then what my friend used to say to the guy walking with a hot chick, "one lucky bastard". hahhaahha. But if you dont get one, you’ll feel the humiliation and definitely you’ll start living in a world of chaos. Though I guess it only valid for people that refuse to let go.

To let go, I guess, is definitely something that we need to be able to do or otherwise the thing that we look for will eat ourselves in and out. If something just happen to slip out from our hand, just remember that something better might await for us in the future. Who knows right? Rather than giving our hope for things that has left us, might as well we hope for something that is not yet in our hand but we actually have a chance of getting it, isn’t it?

Agen Pengubah

January 29th, 2007 by gtd

Today I attended a talk on Volunteerism. It was delivered by some GE director (electric company worldwide), mr. Roshan, if I’m not mistaken his name is. I guess from all the taks I’ve ettended it was one of the session that I gave my attention. I dont really know hy I paid attention on whether cause it hits the spot, or I was impressed by the way the presentation was delivered. Most likely it has to be a blend between that.  I do note some important point in the talk, in which one of it is  Q x  A = E. He doesn’t really tell me what is the meaning of each word, but what I know is Q is the system, planning or something we put in place as a control measure, A is the acceptance of people who are using it and E is the success rate.
I have to agree with him that most people only stress on the first point which is the technical know how, but we alnost totally forgotten the second important point which is as important as the first point. Since it is a multiplication, eventhough you’ve reach perfection in the technical know how, but u get 0 in the acceptance or only the higher ups did agree on the point, it is most likely the system will soon fail to sustain its existance. Its all logic. If u build a system that people at large doesnt want to accept it, why bother thinking about it will success. It can be implemented but the success of it is certainly minimal. How do you measure people acceptance?? that is what we should be questioning ourselves.
Today, I believe we are no longer in a system whereby boss have all the power in his hands. Its up to them how to create the company the way they want it to be. People nowadays have realized their importance in the company. When given under circumstances whereby they have to obey something that they dont like, they can always back off. Resign from the company. Who is at loss now?? The employee?? The company?? Well the company can always hire a new employee but the cost to hire new employee which have zero experience on how to go about in the business is damn expensive. If they hire experience people, the pay would be high and still these experience people has to go through some step before they could be familiar with their role in the company. In the end the company end up losing money and also an experience worker.
The employees are the asset to the company. Without the employee, the company will not sustain. It is the people in the company that does all the job not the company using its name can do the job. Thus, in order to sustain this asset, we need to develop these employees not only things with regard to their job but also to develop the attitude of the employees. They have to be trained in such a way that they feel that they belong to the company.
Why volunteerism?
There are my friends who questioned the reason why I joined all the volunteerism work. For me its just as simple as I want to contribute. There are many people who are in need of our help, that can be help if we are willing to do it. If we cannot contribute monetary value, spend your time and energy to help those in need. There are reasons why Allah gave us wealth, healthy body or good brain. Its not solely for ours to be used. In everyting that we have there are potions in which it belongs to others. We have to utilised this sort of gift the best we can. Otherwise we are going to be questioned later, what has we done with all the gifts given to us. Well, thats my answer, but I know that its not limited to that.
What does it has anything to do with the company growth?? just like I mention before employees are the assets of the company in which the success of the employess will determine the success of the company. For instance let us think for one second. Its not like every employee in the company would have the chance to become a leader in a project. The company cannot afford to do that. But volunteerism will enable those who did not have the chance to do the leader job inside the company, to do the leader job for this volunteerism job. It can be as simple as arranging a visit to orphanage. Looks small but the job which comprises, organizing who will come, what activity, who will be involved, logistics, venue, gifts, souvenir and etc. is a complete package that teaches the employees the skills to lead events. This can happen if and only volunteerism is encourage in the company.
And surely this is what happen in the GE company and luckily I really hope that PETRONAS in its own way are moving to achieve that. I always hope that this mission of energy receive, energy return can be fulfilled in the direct way. Not in term of money but the time and energy spent by PETRONAS staff. But certainly money is needed to achieve that but lets not make it a reason of why we cannot contribute.
Anyway Allah has long said this in the Al-Quran in surah Al-Ra’d ayat 11. 13:11, "Sesungguhnya Allah tidak merubah nasib sesuatu kaum muslimin sehingga mereka merubah keadaan yang ada pada diri mereka sendiri.’
It is obviously stated there that we need to be willingly to change ourselves before we could hope Allah will do it for us. We need to change ourselves to a be a better person. We need to volunteer ourselves and lets not hope others will do it for us cause if they are doing it for us, where are we in the picture. We will always be in the old position, while other people are already a step ahead for us.

"There are reasons why we can sustain our company for more than 140 years and still able to sustain and diverse it business in many areas. That is because we are looking at business ahead of our time and do something to capture the market"
Quoted from Mr. Roshan.

"sekiranya kamu ingin lihat masa depan, lihatlah pemuda masa kini"
Quoted from Profesor Hamka(if I’m Not mistaken).

So, let us take our time and think about this. Thats all.

Pemerhatian

January 24th, 2007 by gtd

Dah lama agaknya aku tak menulis blog nie.
Banyak faktornya, antaranya sebab dah keje, takde ineternet connection, malas
dan macam2 lagi. Ada gak nak try tulis, tapi baru sepatah dua, idea dah kering, terus stop. Malas gila lah sejak dah keje nie. huhuhu.
Aku baru jek tukar section tempat keje, barulah ade keje skrg nie.
Baru lah tau nak rajin2 bila kerje nie.
kalo tak lepak2 jek makan gaji buta.
Tahlah tak tau kenapa bila aku masuk keje nie, mentaliti aku dah berubah kot.
Tapi I guess there still left some strong principal in my way of perceiving thing.
Anyway macam yang aku pernah cakap dulu, anybody has the right to give opinion,
but we cannot push others to accept our opinion. At the least we must be
courage enough to voice out our opinion, otherwise nothing gonna happen.
It start from the heart, goes to the mouth and translated into the action.
Kadang-kadang aku rasa pelik tgk camne org dengan mudah boleh express
what he feels about others publicly (in a disgraceful manner but not in the direct way) face to face, selamba jek. As a rational person, I wont be giving back what I had gone through but I’ll try as much as possible to be positive about it. I’ll still answer in a way that it wont hurt others.  Bende nie jadi lagi teruk kalo kita ade dalam satu team. and aku bukan nak jadi sexist tapi sepanjang aku join projek, wat projek, and macam2 lagi, aku mmg nampak perempuan banyak beremosi dalam melakukan pekerjaan diorang. Aku tak kata sume, at the least perempuan2 yang pernah satu team ngan aku, banyak yang camtue. And aku rasa yang paling problem ialah bila orang yang camnie, diberi kuasa untuk menetapkan keputusan.  Banyak keputusan adalah berdasarkan pada pertimbangan emosi diorang and bila ditanya rasional nye, tahlah tak nampak kepentingan keputusan tu di buat. And then banyak bende yang tak teratur. tak organize sampai delegation of work to tak smooth. Ade org kene wat kerje yang lebih. payah lah camtue.
Lagi satu aku nie jenis yang suka provoke org yang kadang2 sampai aku pun diprovoke sama oleh orang. Memang aku selalu cakap kasar. Tapi takde niat jahat pun. Aku saja jek nak tgk reaksi org camne. I dont really like the idea of being the center of attention but if that is one of the way of how I could know many other people in this world why should I give in. Kadang2 org yang kita sangka kita dah kenal pun sebenarnya there’s a lot of other thing yang kita tak tahu psl die. Selalu bende2 camni org cakap suka mencapap la. Aku pedulik hape, as long as aku pikir bende yang aku cakap and buat adalah something yang meaningful. Ade setengah org suka mencapap sampai cakap bende yang tah hape2 asalkan org boleh kenal die tapi aku bukan jenis camtue. I’ll talk when it is needed. Thats all.

The meaning of our existence

March 17th, 2006 by gtd

I dont quite remember when I was reading this verse of Holy Quran but I still remember what is the thing that come across my mind while I was trying to understand it. I dont dare to say that what I will explain later is the true meaning of the verse but I believe that what I want to tell about will at least have something that we all can think about. Many muslims nowadays always like to refer what philosophist said about how to motivate ourselves thus we take for granted the most holy book that we should refer if we want to motivate ourselves, Al-quran. Its not that I want to say what the philosophist wrote is not true but the question here is why we dont want to make Al-quran as our first reference book. Its just obvious that what human said has many possibilities of being wrong but what Allah s.w.t said is definitely correct.

I wont deny that some people are afraid to read and try understand the Al-Quran because they lack of the knowledge, but until when does this thing will go on and on. Today, there are so many translation of the Al-quran has been made and our duty is just to read and try understand it. If we find it hard to understand there are many ustaz we could refer to. There are lots of verse in the Al-quran that we can easily understood but its just a matter we want to try it or not. Al-quran is made so that people can understand it. This thing has been remind by Allah again and again in the Al-quran but do we even care for that. In surah Al-Qamar, 54:17,22,32,40, Allah s.w.t said,

“Dan sesungguhnya telah kami mudahkan Al-quran untuk pelajaran, maka adakah orang yang mengambil pelajaran”.

This goes again in surah Al-muddatstsir 74:55, Allah s.w.t said,

“Maka barangsiapa menghendaki, nescaya dia mengambil pelajaran daripadanya (Al-quran).”

There are lots of other verse that said about the importance of Al-quran but I guess if I want to list it out, surely it will steal a lot of time and thus what I want to deliver here will not reach to you. Its better if I just jump to the verse that I want to quote here from Surah Al-Muzzammil, 73:20. Allah s.w.t said

“Sesungguhnya Tuhanmu mengetahui bahwasanya kamu berdiri (sembahyang) kurang dari dua pertiga malam, atau seperdua malam atau sepertiganya dan (demikian pula) segolongan dari orang2 yang bersama kamu. Dan Allah menetapkan ukuran malam dan siang. Allah mengetahui bahwa kamu sekali-kali tidak dapat menentukan batas-batas waktu-waktu itu, maka Dia memberikan keringanan kepadamu, karena itu bacalah apa yang mudah (bagimu) dari Al-quran. Dia mengetahui bahwa akan ada di antara kamu orang-orang yang sakit dan orang2 yang berjalan di muka bumi mencari sebahagian karunia Allah; dan sebahagian yang lain lagi berperang di jalan Allah, maka bacalah apa yang mudah (bagimu) dari Al-quran dan dirikanlah sembahyang, tunaikanlah zakat dan berikanlah pinjaman yang baik. Dan kebaikan apa saja yang kamu perbuat untuk dirimu niscaya kamu memperoleh (balasan)nya di sisi Allah sebagai balasan yang paling baik dan yang paling besar pahalanya. Dan mohonlah ampunan kepada Allah;sesungguhnya Allah maha pengampun lagi maha penyayang.”

To be frank, when I was reading the verse, it was my first time reading it and suddenly this thought came into my mind. Why do we exist in this world? Why does some people can be rich and why some people is so poor? Why does some people can be so genius but some people have difficulties in understanding things? Why some people are so strong and why some people are so weak? Have we ever thought about the true reason for our existence in this world? The general reason yeah of course I believe every muslims know but what is our specific reason of why Allah create us in this world. Some people believe that if we work hard we can get anything we want but to me I believe that every people in this world has their own specific reason of why we exist in this world. The people that work hard, I believe that it is in their nature that they want to work hard but even so we can still see there are lots of people try hard but they fail. Some people like to blame it on fate but can we actually blame it on the fate? If we blame it on the fate it is just the same as we say that it is Allah’s mistake things like that happen, Nauzubillah, I pray that we are far from being that group of people.

And there goes the concept of “Redha” means to say that we accept that what Allah has destined for us. Does it mean that we dont have to work hard and just accept the fate? No, it is far from that. Allah has ask us to work hard to achieve what we want to be but we must accept whatever has destined for us. If we fail in something that we do, its probably because we have done some mistake in the process, and its up to us to repair the mistake and become succesful. Work hard is a must but whatever happens then, we have to accept it. Along the process we probably caught something that actually is the true reason of why we do exist in this world. We have to discover this on our own and nobody could tell us this thing except ourselves. So in everything that you do now, try to think about this and who knows you might discover your true reason of your existence in this world. Everybody is special and thus everybody has their specific reason of existing. And when you find it, work hard for it and be a successfull person. May Allah bless us. Thats all.    

p/s: Try to read and understand the verse. You’ll find it useful. From the very beginning of our existence Allah already created us for some reason. And whats obvious is everybody has their own special characteristic. Dont you find this amazing?       

In searh for True Love -(4-last chapter)- “The Answer”

March 4th, 2006 by gtd

Anyway, I have always realized from long time ago that my true love, is not something that I can give to human. In my opinion if true love were to exist, I don’t think that it should be given to human. Allah S.W.T says in Surah Ali Imran ayat 14, 3:14

“Dijadikan indah pada (pandangan) manusia kecintaan kepada apa-apa yang diingini, iaitu: wanita-wanita, anak-anak, harta yang banyak dari jenis emas, perak, kuda pilihan, binatang-binatang ternak dan sawah lading. Itulah kesenangan hidup di dunia: dan di sisi Allah lah tempat kembali yang baik (syurga).

From what Allah says in the Holy Quran, there are several things that being highlighted here. First, it is known to us that Allah has created human to see the thing that they desired as something so beautiful or attractive that makes them love it. That is probably why there is proverb saying that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Different people desire different things.

As guidelines, the first thing being reminded is of course the attraction of woman. It is known from the early history of mankind, that woman is known to have a great impact to man. Although it is being fated that by Allah that Adam has eaten the restricted fruit, everyone knows that eve is the one that persuade Adam to eat those fruits. Woman can bring good things to man but also can bring great destruction.

To some people they really loved their children that they are willing to fulfill everything that their child wishes that in the end it will destroy their children. There are also some people interested in gathering all the wealth in this world. If they have 1 million, they want to have 100 million, if they have 100 million, they want to have 1 billion. For them money is everything. They love their money more than everything else.

What is love actually? Usually when we talk about love people always refers it to a relation between man and woman. Love defined by

Oxford

is an intense feeling of deep affection which means that love can be defined as something that someone really likes. Then it is not a mistake to say that people who really like music, love music or people who really like money, love money.

If love were to be ranked according to someone liking, it should have been like below;

1)      Allah S.W.T

2)      Nabi Muhammad S.A.W

3)      Parents/Husband/Wife

4)      Others

This is why I strongly believed that if true love were to exist, Allah is the only one who deserved to have our true love. Kadang2 rasa pelik bila tgk ade org kat dlm tv ckp “ sampai hati ko menduakan aku”. Macam mana die leh cakap camtue. Setiap org harus ade rasa cinta pada Allah so camne die leh cakap tak menduakan. Dan yang sebenarnya cinta kita pada Allah yang tak boleh diduakan. Our love to Allah should be the greatest and we should not take others as the same. Sometimes I wonder how people can feel so down hearted that they want to kill themselves just because they broke up with their girlfriend. I wont deny that the feeling of frustration will always remain but its shouldn’t be that bad. This kind of thing would not have happen if they know who they should give their greatest love to. Just imagine how would your girlfriend do to you if you did not listen to them? Maybe both of you will fight over it and end up broke up. Now just imagine how many time have we did not listen to Allah’s order? Imagine how life would it be if Allah’s ignore you. Everything that we have now is what Allah has given to us. Your ear, eyes, legs, life, hands and everything. But Alhamdulillah, with His Rahmat and Rahim, He stills let us go on with our life as usual. However, how many of us realized this thing? How many of us really show our appreciation?

I’m not saying all these things because I am better than you all but just want to share what I have within me. We are orders by Him to keep reminding among us, giving advices. So here I am, giving what I thought would be beneficial for us. We are given such a wonderful brain and Allah has ask us to think. So think about this. That’s all.