When Allah blesses us

Something to ponder upon, a good read I supposed.

  

As humans, we are made to feel love and attachment towards others. This is part of our human nature.  While we can feel this way about another human being, five times a day we enter into a meeting with our Lord and Creator. I wondered how often we ever felt the whole world disappear while in His presence. Can we really claim that our love for Allah is greater than our love for anyone and anything else?

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true.  Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with  na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols  in the heart.

When Allah blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than Allah. We forget that the source of our provision is not and never was the money, but rather it was the giver of that money. Suddenly we’re willing to sell alcohol to avoid losing money in our business, or we need to take out loans with interest to feel secure. In so doing we are foolishly—and ironically—disobeying the Provider in order to protect the provision.

When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that blessing, and we begin to love that person as we should love Allah. That person becomes the center of our world—all our concerns, thoughts, plans, fears, and hopes revolve only around them. And worst is, If they are not even our spouses, we are drawn and willing to fall into haram just to be with them. Sadly most of the times we as human are drawn to a relationships that is haram albeit it brings nothing but sins and burdens.  And if the relationship doesn’t ends well and that person leave us, our whole world would crumble. So now, we have shifted our worship from the Source of the blessing to the blessing itself.

Allah says of such people:“Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah.: They love them as they should love Allah. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for Allah. If only the unrighteous could see, behold, they would see the penalty: that to Allah belongs all power, and Allah will strongly enforce the penalty.” (Qur’an 2:165)

It is because of this tendency to lose sight  after Allah has  bestowed His blessings that  He warns us in the Qur’an when He says: 

“Say, [O Muhammad], ‘If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and jihad in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command. And Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.’” (9:24)

It is important to note that all the things listed in the above surah (verse) are halal (permissible) to love and are, in fact, blessings in and of themselves. In fact, some of those blessings are signs of Allah. On the one hand, Allah says: 

“And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.” (Qur’an 30:21).

But on the other hand, Allah warns:  “O you who have believed, indeed, among your wives and your children are enemies to you, so beware of them.” (Qur’an 64:14)

The warning in this surah is critical. People who we love including our spouses and our children are listed here because they are among the blessings we love the most. And it is in  that which you love most that you find the greatest test.

Diploma, Degree, Dr. or Drop-out?

I don’t think of all the above are essentially important, they’re just pieces of papers. What’s more is Determination and Discipline. Without these two elements you’re nothing. I’m not saying having those are not important but just depend on it so badly. They’re not your absolute destiny.

Just look at Bill Gates, he dropped out of Harvard University and cofounded Microsoft by the age 20, Mozart, wrote one of the best opera of all time by the age of 21.

My theory is, you should learn, and educate yourself all the way through your passage of life. Don’t stop learning. Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H once said, should thou learn even have to go to China, whether you receive the cert or not eventually.

I, nevertheless, can’t help consuming myself from jealousy to those who earn masters and PhDs and Drs, but if you act and behave like you’re having none, I respect you no more.

Most successful dropouts, like most graduates, continue life-long learning – usually training on the job, then taking courses that teach them to do the things they want to do. Graduates rely on their credentials, but as a dropout; on the other hand, you have to ‘prove’ yourself in different ways. Many A and B students are also dropouts. Many C students who drop out simply aren't interested in higher learning – they want to run a small business or work with their hands. They aren't interested in a college or university degree. And they often do very well in the trades or service industries. In fact, teachers often say “The A students teach the B students who end up working for the C students.”

Some people are very much concern about my education level. I’m touched by their concern but no thanks, I have my own plan and I have my own reason not to further (or maybe later). You guys out there don’t really know what I’ve went through and have no idea that what other things that differ me from others.

I would like to share with you guys who as bold as brass having DEGREE showing off to me they're having a piece of that particular transcript. (not all of them though). This article I've found from my cousin's friend's blog. Worth to share with.

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:

By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:

By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:

With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty:

A master's degree deepens that specialty:

Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge:

Once you're at the boundary, you focus:

You push at the boundary for a few years:

Until one day, the boundary gives way:

And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:

Of course, the world looks different to you now:

So, don't forget the bigger picture:

You see, having a Ph.D. does not means you know everything, you're just specialized.

Education is very important. Major very. It reflects the way you talk and think, nevertheless, your maturity is not being measured by highest level transcript that you have. Well just remember, you just know something but not everything. Not all the adult can think maturely. Whoever are you, wherever you come, which universities you graduate from, how much transcripts that you have, whether you finish your school or not, and whatever things people say about you, as long as you did not stop learn and learn, you are consider as knowledgeable person. Who are you now or in the future is not being measured by your 4 flat result. Learning about life is not something that you can get from the books,its all about EXPERIENCE.

Ps: Hargailah orang rendah, ketahuilah bahawa sutera asalnya daripada ulat.

Lelaki, Dulu dan Kini.

Dulu,
Bila disebut lelaki,
Wanitanya mendongak megah.
Lelaki kami Asadullah, Saifullah.
Tokoh ramai tak terkira.
Kini,
Bila disebut lelaki,
Wanitanya menunduk lemah.
Tokoh kami sedikit sekali.
Ramainya, boneka yahudi. 

Dulu,
Bila disebut lelaki,
Wanitanya tenang di hati.
Lelaki kami menjaga, melindungi.
Kini,
Bila disebut lelaki,
Wanitanya mahu cabut lari,
Lelaki khianat, perogol bersiri. 

Dulu,
Bila seorang wanita teraniaya,
Sepasukan kuda putih membela,
Al-Mu’tasim kebanggaan wanita.
Kini,
Ribuan wanita suci dipenjara.
Fatimah diperkosa minta dibela,
Lelaki tunduk tak bertenaga. 

Dulu,
Bila wanita di bawah jagaannya,
Lelaki memagari sehabis daya,
Tiada siapa berani menggoda.
Kini,
Bila wanita di bawah jagaannya,
Lelaki tak kisah auratnya terbuka,
Wanitanya dibiar bebas binasa. 

Dulu,
Lelaki menggadai harta dan nyawa,
Untuk mengangkat kemuliaan agama.
Kini,
Lelaki menggadai ketinggian agama,
Demi nafsu dunia dan seisinya. 

Dulu,
Lelaki bermatian mencipta sejarah,
Kental berjihad, tekun berdakwah.
Kini,
Lelaki hanya menyanjungi sejarah,
Dari bermalasan, tenaga tak dikerah. 

Dulu,
Lelaki memperjuangkan Deen dan Ummah,
Al-Farouq, Zunnurain mati terbunuh.
Kini,
Lelaki memperjuangkan diri dan kroninya,
Hingga sanggup membunuh.

Dulu,
Lelaki bersatu menghadapi musuh,
Angkatannya kuat dan teguh.
Kini,
Lelakinya berpuak dan berpecah
Sesama sendiri saling bertelingkah. 

Kembalilah lelakiku,
Pada kelelakianmu,
Kami rindukan lelaki dulu,
Acuan Madrasah Rasul. 


Dari Novel : Syabab Musafir Kasih
by Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin.