Sunday, November 30, 2008

entering December....

assalamualaikum...

DECEMBER. it’s a happening month. so many things happen in December...don’t you agree? there’s a long school break, wedding normally takes place here, rainy season, for Muslim there’s Aidil Adha, for the Christian there’s always the Christmas, vacations time, job’s appraisal, year-end bonus, so on and so forth. for the company, this is the time to finish-up the budget otherwise they’ll not be having the new and more lucrative ones next year...regardless whatever budget it is. traffic flow were little bit smoother during December or in certain area were so much trouble-free excluding to the area like the northern, southern and the east coast (due to the rainy season).

I guess even the people were a little bit more relax during this month, especially for those who has achieve whatever their job’s target earlier of the year or even for those who has got hold of their own personal resolution.

for the sportsmen and sportswomen, this month they’ll know their true performance – their ranking! how far have they gone, are they still be having the potential to go further or will they still be getting the sponsorship or not. well, this is the month. many sports would be having December as their season finale although not all discipline adapting to this, EPL for example.

most times, it really tickles my brain of why such things happen during December. who has planned it in such a way? who has make it as a traditions for those things should-without-fail be carried-out in December? WHO?

I do understand that certain thing happen is because it relate to certain other things that will naturally happen in December. for instance, the long school breaks and the rainy season. it relate closely to each other. similarly with the traffic flow with the long school breaks or the long school breaks with the family’s vacation…or the sales of rain coat that has sky-rocketed due to the rainy season. this is a classic case. we can’t stop it from happening no matter what we do...well, as we should know by now that when anything happen there’s must be a blessing-in-disguise happen accordingly...wallahualam.


p/s : pardon me for being absent-minded, to Nor Azman Hj Md Yusof - happy birthday to you. its fall on December 7th, isn't?...he,he...hehe!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

susah senang nak jadi tenang

assalamualaikum…

susah nak cakap...bila keadaan akan tenang, bila negara akan tenang, bila rakyat akan tenang dan bila seseorang insan itu akan tenang. adakah bila Obama memerintah maka dunia akan tenang? atau adakah bila Osama Ben Laden dah mati maka dunia akan tenang? adakah bila UMNO dah bersidang Mac tahun depan maka keadaan politik negara akan tenang? adakah bila petrol dah jadi RM1.00 satu liter maka rakyat akan tenang? adakah bila dah tiada langsung pendatang asing tanpa izin maka kita akan tenang dari kadar jenayah yg tinggi? adakah Shah Rukh Khan akan tenang bila beliau dah bergelar Datuk?

bilakah pula kita sendiri akan tenang? adakah bila semua yg dihajati dah dapat, semua yang diingini dah dikecapi dan semua doa yg dipohon dah termakbul maka kita akan tenang? adakah kita perlu bebenda tu semua berlaku barulah kita akan tenang? susah...memang susah nak cakap. semua orang nakkan ketenangan hatta orang terkaya didunia sekalipun. tapi boleh ke dia dapat ketenangan itu?

ada sesetengah orang (terutama yg bergelar muslim) sanggup membayar beberapa ratus hatta beberapa ribu malahan puluhan ribu ringgit hanya utk dapatkan ketenangan tu. bercempera diorang cari diseluruh pelusuk dunia kaedah, metodologi, teknik, program atau ajaran-ajaran yg dapat menjadikan mereka tenang. sanggup brotherrrr...tapi diaorang terlupa atau memang sesaje tak nak tengok atau belek-belek apa yg ada dalam Quran tu? tidakkah Quran tu...is the ultimate guidance for mankind? nothing can outclass it.

بِذِكْرِ اللّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ

Ar-Rad:28

“Berzikirlah (mengingati Allah) nescaya hatimu akan tenang”.

jadi , apa yg dinyatakan dalam ayat ini sebenarnya? adakah ianya semata-mata sbg hiasan mata yg membaca atau sbg mempercantikkan mukasurat shj (dari terbiar kosong?)? cuba kita lakukan 3 perkara ini : Percaya, Amal dan Yakin. kita percaya dgn sungguh-sungguh yg dgn berzikir hati akan tenang. kita amalkan pula dgn melakukan ‘perbuatan’ berzikir itu. kemudian kita yakin tanpa berbelah-bagi yg kita akan tenang selepas itu. brotherrr...buat 3 benda ni tak kena bayar satu sen pun!

يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي

Al-Fajr : 27-30

“Hai jiwa yg tenang kembalilah kau kepada tuhammu dengan hati yg puas lagi diredhai-Nya dan masuklah ke dalam jemaah hamba-hamba-Ku, dan masuklah ke dalam syurga-Ku”.

apakah pula yg Allah maksudkan dgn ayat ini? “jiwa yg tenang?” kenapalah agaknya Allah kata jiwa kena tenang dulu dan lepas tu masuklah ke dalam jemaah hamba-hambaNya dan syurgaNya...patutnya bila dah masuk syurga barulah tenang...kan? kenapa le agaknya? jawapan tanyale pada yg arif disamping-samping menanya pada diri-sendiri....wallahualam.