suka vs perlu

in the nama of Allah, the most gracious the most merciful

Rasanya tidak perlu disertakan definisi "suka" dan "perlu". Secara linguistic nya pasti rata-rata kita sudah sedia maklum dengan definisi dua perkataan mudah tersebut. Namun, realitinya kita perlu akui kita seringkali meletakkan makna yang salah pada praktikaliti dua perkataan tersebut.

Kita hari ini lebih suka memilih untuk melakukan perkara yang kita suka berbanding perkara yang perlu.

Setuju? Mari kita buat justifikasi…

Rasa-rasa antara laungan azan dengan menghabiskan ‘extra time PES (baca: game bola)’ mana yang kita lebih peka?

“eh, sikit je lagi, belum iqamah lagi…”

Rasa-rasa antara halaqah ilmu dengan program tv kegemaran, mana yang kita pilih?

“All Black vs France final kot, 4 tahun sekali, ceramah minggu depan ada lgi…”

Rasa-rasa antara tonton movie dengan membaca buku ilmiah dan akhbar tempatan, mana menjadi pilihan?

“gila semua movie kau tak tengok, baik tak yah hidup...hilang satu nikmat dunia…”

Dialog diatas tiada kena mengena dengan sesiapa, saja cipta sebagai muhasabah kepada diri.

Hakikatnya kita lebih cenderung kepada perkara yang kita suka. Selagi mana perkara yang perlu tidak mengancam kehidupan kita, selagi itulah kita merasakan segala yang kita suka itu satu keperluan.

Jangan sampai habis semua tergadai, baru kita nak sedar lebih banyak perkara yang sepatutnya kita perlu buat kita tukarkan dengan perkara yang kita suka kerana kita fikir, “ala…mesti ada orang lain yang buat”.

Kita perlu ingat, sikap “taka pa lah….” Yang membuat melayu-muslim di bumi Malaysia ini dihimpit dan diperkotak-katikkan. Bukan lagi kerana Melayu mudah lupa, tapi kerana melayu semakin lupa kepada yang Maha Esa.

Sekian cebisan idea yang tak seberapa. Menulis bukan untuk member tahu, tapi sekadar untuk mencetus mahu.

“Bersama Membina Generasi Harapan”

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just for 40 days

in the name of Allah, the most gracious the most merciful

if looking back to the archive of this blog, i wasn't consistently writing here. it doesn't mean i'm getting bored on blogging but ........

Anas r.a berkata :

"Kemalasan mendirikan solat, kekurangan rezeki dan ketidak gembiraan adalah akibat dari dosa-dosa" ( Kitab Tarikhul Khulafa )

40 days plan

i just updated my 'one note' with some modification on my routine. one of them is 40 days transformation plan. it is just a simple plan that discover physical and spiritual. Pray hard so that it could give out a big impact to me. while undergo this transformation plan, i would leave facebook, twitter and some other social network including this construction site.

insyaAllah, something that we practice consistently in 40 days will become part of our nature

If Allah permits, i'll be back with a better way of thinking.

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almaklumlah kita ni kan hebat

Hari ini hujan menyimbah bumi Pokok Sena sejak dari pagi, rasanya seluruh Kedah merasai nikmat yang sama melalui sembang-sembang dengan rakan di alam maya.

Hujan itu nikmat, sungguh enak bagi anak muda macam saya untuk terus membuta. Mungkin kita mengatakan ianya nikmat kerana ia membuatkan kita rasa selesa tetapi bagaimana pula dengan manusia yang mata pencariannya bergantung kepada factor cuaca?

Kisah Lahuma & Jeha

Mereka yang pernah membaca dan menghayati novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan pasti dapat mengagak apa yang terlintas di fikiran saya. Bagi yang baru kali pertama mendengar, boleh la menggunakan khidmat ‘Google’.

Saya merasakan dengan kondisi cuaca sekarang ini, air sudah melimpahi petak-petak sawah dan padi juga sudah mula rebah. Para penoreh getah juga pasti menggaru kepala tanda resah. Resah mereka mungkin mendapat simpati kita, tapi apa yang dirasa pasti diluar jangkaan kotak pemikiran kita. Shahnon Ahmad memperkayakan bait tulisannya dengan gaya bahasa hiperbola bukan sekadar suka-suka, tapi itulah hakikatnya “berat mata memandang,berat lagi bahu yang memikul”.

Obses dengan hidup sendiri

Manusia menurut Sun Tzu melaui karyanya ‘Art of War’ menyifatkan manusia ni secara semula jadinya memang pentingkan diri sendiri.

“Give two men a spear each and in no time, they will be locked in combat to prove one is superior to the other. It is the nature of people to be egoistic” – Sun Tzu, 500 B.C

Tidak perlu pergi jauh, lihat pada diri sendiri apa kita ini penting diri?

Teringat kata-kata seorang sheikh yang tiba-tiba ke hadapan mengambil tempat pentazkirah semasa tazkirah Ramadan Jumaat lalu, dengan nada sedikit tinggi katanya:

“Saya nak menyeru kepada ibubapa, jangan benarkan anak-anak main mercun. Jangan bagi duit pada mereka, kalau ibubapa tak bagi duit mana mereka nak dapat duit beli mercun. Saya sedih, semalam akhbar lapor ada budak putus jari sebab main mercun. Tapi umat hari ini saya pelik, tak ada iman, orang beriman kalau saudara seaqidahnya sakit dia turut rasa sakit. Tapi apa kita rasa? Ala biar lah bukan anak kita? Ada iman ka tak dak kita ni?”

Ini lah kita, setelah disemai gaya hidup Eropah. Kaji lah sejarah Eropah, mereka lah yang memperkenal sistem ‘ranking’ dan mengagungkannya. Sistem itu lah yang membawa kepada penting diri, kerana yang berada di puncak akan disanjung dan dipuja. Kita tidak rasa kerana sejak kecil dah berada dalam sistem ini, mendapat tempat pertama itu hebat. Betulkan?

Kesimpulan: jangan lupa orang di bawah

Saya tidak kata memandang yang di atas itu tidak elok, pandanglah, jadikan ia sumber motivasi untuk kita terus memacu diri kehadapan. Cuma kita perlu ingat, berhati-hati dengan tingkah laku kita. Tidak semua manusia seuntung senasib macam kita. Mungkin kita gembira tapi mereka sedang bermuram durja, ada kita peduli?

Pesan Puan Adilah (guru fizik), tips untuk terus kekal senyum itu dengan memandang orang yang berada dibawah. Ia akan membuatkan kita rasa bersyukur.

Sekian.

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*gambar sekadar hiasan (ihsan google)

critic is human part-time job

In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful

Let me start this post with a story of Dick Fosbury, who developed the “Fosbury flop” technique which is used in high-jump by athletes nowadays.

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Previously, athletes used the straddle method, in which they went over the bar while facing it with one arm and one leg leading. Fosbury developed a technique where he went over head first with his back to the bar.

Developing the new technique is one thing and getting it accepted by others was another matter. Fosbury remarked, “I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say, “We’ll just have to see.”

And people see Fosbury won gold medal in the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, shattering previous Olympics record. Since then, nearly all world-class high jumpers use his technique.

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What I can say about this story is that criticism will always heard when we come out with some ideas that have the uncertain outcome. At this stage, only people that have strong determination could survive.

Maybe to we should learn the concept of shame from the Japanese that contribute to strong determination. The Japanese always fear being shame. To talk about big dreams and success then failed would cause them enormous shame. That’s why they will absolutely do their best in whatever they do. The Malays also practice this concept but the different is because of fear being shame then they stop exploring new things.

How if we failed?

In this case we have to define failure carefully. Sometimes we feel ‘loser’ just because of criticism. Is it true we failed? We should see all the things that we had done in more perspectives. Let me give you one example:

A coach of a football team plan to go for European tour so that his players could learn something from the European style and tactical but at the end of the season the team not achieved the management’s target and the management blamed the coach. However the coach stand firm on the ground and always optimist. He never calls it a mistake, but it is an education. At least now he knows where they stand and from the tour he knows his player better which is vital for tactical planning.

Like it or not, people will always criticize but for our part, we have to keep a positive state of mind and stay focus because it will increase our potential for success.

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

that's all for this time. Happy fasting to all muslims.

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*story of Fosbury was quoted from "Dare to Dream" - J. C. Maxwell

motivation: The Power of Dream

In the name of Allah, the most gracious the most merciful.

What the mind can conceive and believe, it can be achieved.

The above quote give us well interpretation about dream and I’m pretty sure that it is very familiar to us but something that is maybe not familiar is actually the above quote is just derive from a hadith qudsi;

“Aku bertindak sebagaimana sangkaan Hamba-Ku. Dan Aku akan selalu bersama hamba-Ku jika dia mengingati-Ku. Kalau dia mengingati-Ku didalam dirinya, Aku mengingatinya dalam diriku. Apabila dia mengingatiku di khalayak ramai, Aku mengingatinya di tengah khalayak yang lebih ramai lagi (para malaikat dan seluruh makhluk).

Apabila dia mendekati-Ku sejengkal, Aku akan mendekatinya (lebih dekat lagi) sehasta. Apabila dia mendekati-Ku sehasta, Aku mendekatinya sedepa. Apabila dia mendekati-Ku dengan berjalan, Aku mendekatinya dengan setengah berlari”

(Riwayat al-Bukhari dan Muslim)

Every of us may have our dream but what kind of dream is it?

Our dream may be just a ‘day dream’ and it could be a ‘daring dream’. Daring dream can be a great things and the past shows that daring dream have change the world. Galileo has a daring dream to see the planets and he invented a first telescope. Tun Mahathir has a daring dream to see Malaysia become a respectful and progressive country, now you can see how he put our country among the developing countries in the world. However day dream nothing more than wishful dream and just make you want to nap instead of fires you up and moving you forward.

How to make it work?

Life is not easy for everyone. Sometimes it may not undergo as we planned but above all we should have perseverance and confidence in ourselves. How can a big fat panda become a Kung Fu warrior? There is no secret ingredient, you just have to believe! Allah always give the best that suit His creature.

Dreams don’t work unless you do

Quoting from one of behavioral researcher:

“Anytime I want to make a change or achieve anything in my life, I write it down, along with my plan to accomplish the goal and when I will achieve it. In this way I turn each of my goals into action.” - Shad Helmstetter

It could be summarized with my “3D principle” that I hold and practiced it. You may begin your life with a dream and you may write it down or do something that can always burn your desire to achieve your dream. Then stick to your plan with full of discipline. That’s it.

You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great!

Thank you.

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* actually wanna write in the form of short story but u know how bad my english is...eventually end up with this post.

*reference: 'dare to dream'- John C. Maxwell