"Ketenangan & kebahagiaan adalah hembusan dari langit...diturunkan ke lubuk hati orang beriman...mereka tetap berhati teguh di kala orang lain dalam kegoncangan."
-Syed Qutb-
Lately, weakness seems to creep into me. An old habit in which I've triumphed over and surprisingly so comes knocking at my door again. It truly is disappointing but as I said before we need to love ourselves moderately remember? In this case, not too little till we wish to be someone else...no matter how disapponted in myself I can get.
There's no point in wanting to be another person, what we should be is a better us. What I should be is a better me.
'Mujahadah itu pahit, kerana syurga itu manis.'
Indeed that's true. I do believe that when there is something that we must do and it pains us ever so much coz we feel it to be so difficult and so hard on us...it's because the reward for it is so great. Beyond whatever greatness we can imagine.
As humans we are weak...but that does not mean we have no strength at all. Strength is none but Allah's and with His love and mercy He gives us strength. Sometimes strengths we never thought we had in us. How loving Allah is for giving us things we don't even ask for.
I can't let this old habit of mine come creeping back into me. I can't be weak and insyaAllah I won't be weak.
Teguhlah wahai jiwa...teguhlah. Teguhlah demi Allah.
Salam.
ReplyDeleteMay God give you strenght.
Yes it's hard to do something, particularly if your expectation towards urself is high.
But then you think again, if you work hard but still you didn't get what u want, maybe it's because God wants you to be a better person than you want to be.
Greetings from Jordan. :P
salam alayk,
ReplyDeleteInsyaAllah, for strength is none but Allah's.
Greetings from Shah Alam then. haha.
Salaam 'alaikum Nadira,
ReplyDeleteThanks heaps for the reminder, indeed it's so meaningful.
Keep on nourishing the soul, for the readers as well.
Lihat bagaimana Imam Asy-Syafi'e rodhiyallahu 'anhu, dimaklumkan beliau menghidapi penyakit buasir, namun demikian beliau terus tabah meneruskan pengajaran 'ilmu agama.
Hampir begini respon beliau, (mohon ampunan Allah jika tidak tepat), "Andai pada kesukaran/penyakit ini ada besarnya rahmat dan ganjaran pada-Mu, aku terima."
All the best for the exams.
May Allah grant you success.
Salam alayk akh muhammad :),
ReplyDeleteTerima kasih juga atas peringatan yang diberikan. It takes great strength to see past tests given to us by Allah. A blessing in disguise they say, rite? To accept what we feel is very difficult to handle, believing that it is all not in vain for Allah never breaks His promise.
Alhamdulillah~
Thanks for the prayers akh. wa iyya kum insyaAllah. ^_^ I have 9 more papers to go!