Monday, May 25, 2009

Holiday... already is boring... why??

I think it's a norm, when a holiday comes into our schedule, it would take a little time before it becomes boring. why is that??

From my point of view, these may be the reasons;

  1. We let Ustaz speak to mere 5 people in surau or masjid in kuliah after maghrib
  2. We let Quran and Allah's Words be as decorations on bookshelves and walls
  3. We just look on posters and banners on our neighbourhood activites (Qiam/kursus jenazah/gotong-royong, etc..)
  4. We let story books on shelves dust
  5. We let our mother cook alone, knowing that we should help
  6. We let our clothes in the wardrobe untidy
  7. We let the bicycle outside rust
  8. We keep on blabbering on the leaking pipe, and flickering lights
  9. We tend to ignore the drying garden and moss-covered flower pots
  10. We direct our younger brothers/sisters to study for their mid-year exam, yet we slumped ourselves on the couch watching TV, knowing that we could help them out.
  11. We let our sneakers rot on the shoerack
  12. We just watch our neighbours jog every morning/evening
  13. We let the toilets stained here and there
  14. We just share our boredom with our close friends, but long to see them.
  15. We keep on procrastinate to do assigned jobs from parents, siblings, and/or relatives
  16. We let our works be done by others
  17. We let our mother/father out early to do the marketing
  18. We let the car outside covered in dust and keep regretting it
  19. We let the grass grow uncontrollably
  20. We let mother do the dishes
  21. We let the doors creak
  22. We let the house' store in a mess
Why don't you;

  1. Go to the Musolla/Masjid to listen to Kuliah
  2. Read Quran, and Tadabbur its content
  3. Join the neighbourhood activities
  4. Read the story books
  5. Help and learn to cook
  6. Tidy up clothes in the wardrobe
  7. Ride the bicycle, or repair one.
  8. Get appropriate gadgets to repair the pipes and lamps
  9. Do some gardening! At least, brush out the moss on the pots
  10. Help our siblings in their studies.
  11. Use the sneakers to to physical exercise
  12. Jog with our neighbours, tighten the bond between neighbors.
  13. Wash out the toilets
  14. Visit, or Ziarah our friends and relatives.
  15. do designated jobs from parents, siblings, and/or relatives
  16. Do our work till it's done
  17. Do the marketing
  18. Carwashing!
  19. Mow the grass
  20. Wash the dishes and/or shoes
  21. Repair the doors creak
  22. Reorganize the house' store
We see various other problems and/or opportunities to gain hasanah, but we let it be the way it is. If we have the power, the control, why don't we do something? Honestly, if we could do these tasks, no holiday would be boring, and none would be enough!

وَالْعَصْرِ
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
Verily Man is in loss,
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.
(103:1-3)


مَنْ أَنصَارِي إِلَى اللَّهِ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ أَنصَارُ اللَّهِ
"..."Siapakah yang akan menjadi penolong- penolongku (untuk menegakkan agama) Allah?" Pengikut-pengikut yang setia itu berkata: "Kamilah penolong-penolong agama Allah"..."

"..."Who will be my helpers to (the work of) Allah." Said the disciples, "We are Allah's helpers!"..."
(61:14)

IF-an advice of life

You can say that this poem is my favourite. learn from a journey~!

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

مَنْ أَنصَارِي إِلَى اللَّهِ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ أَنصَارُ اللَّهِ
"..."Siapakah yang akan menjadi penolong- penolongku (untuk menegakkan agama) Allah?" Pengikut-pengikut yang setia itu berkata: "Kamilah penolong-penolong agama Allah"..."

"..."Who will be my helpers to (the work of) Allah." Said the disciples, "We are Allah.s helpers!"..."
(61:14)