Monday, January 19, 2009

Life is a journey

I would like to repeat what so many people have been saying so many times in the past that " Life is a journey ". And it is indeed a journey..... a journey from the past towards the future and then dissapear...
And how long does a journey takes? Ten years? Twenty years? Or one hundred years? As for me the journey takes only "Lima Waktu" based on the time a muslim do their prayer. "Subuh" is the time you come out to see the world, peaceful and serene. Then comes "zohor". It is the time you reach puberty (age nine to fifteen) and also the time to learn what is right and what is wrong. The third stage is the "asar" (age forty). Well, some say that life begins at forty. This is actually the stage where you arrive at the junction where there are two roads ahead of you. Either you go right or you go left. The decision is based on what you learn during the zohor stage. Then comes "magrib" a time to look back and a time to repent. Isyak is the time you are gone only to rise again in subuh (the day of judgement....)
Well, time do fly very fast. It seems like just twenty years ago that I first set foot in the school and proud to be a grown up kid. The school then look so big because I was small. Eleven years of schooling plus a few years in the college of higher learning came and gone so fast. All of a sudden you are thrown in a wide world as a free man and wondering what the future would be. Before you knew it you are already retired.
Like I told you earlier that time do fly very fast, and at sixty-two I still feel very young.

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“They rob your money. They take your land. They steal contracts. But when we give cows to the poor, they want to charge us,”
Pesan Nabi Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam kepada Uthman bin ‘Affan radhiyallaahu ‘anhu berkaitan Sunnah dalam sebuah kepimpinan:

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“Wahai Uthman, seandainya suatu hari nanti kamu dilantik oleh Allah mengendalikan urusan kepimpinan ini, dan kaum munafiq mahu menanggalkan pakaian engkau yang Allah pakaikan kepadamu, maka JANGANlah engkau menanggalkannya!” [riwayat Ibn Majah]