PRIORITIES

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

We inevitably always get caught up with our work, studies and daily tasks and activities, fearing time we have is getting packed. As we grow up to having more responsibilities, our main concern is whether we have enough time to achieve our tasks for the day?

Here are some tips on how we can manage your tasks properly so that we can make the most out of our day. This acts as a personal reminder for myself jua, as I always end up forgetting why am I going in circles trying to fix things. This might need to be adjusted to different lifestyle, but to my understanding, in achieving something, it goes along side by side with first understanding one's situation and condition.

"If you give your time for Allah, Allah will make everything adequate, that includes making your time sufficient to carry out your daily tasks " 

1. It all starts with paying close attention to our subuh prayers. Followed by reading atleast two pages of the Qur'an, try not to sleep anymore after that.
2. No matter how hectic your day gets,Solat comes first . No boss or business is more superior than the creator himself.
3. Live the Sunnah.
4. At times on the days where it gets more tough, remember to ask Allah for forgiveness.  The prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم recites the istighfar, which translates "O Allah please forgive my sins" 70-100 times per day and he is the best among human beings,who is a person clean of doing any sin. Let alone us as normal human beings, always committing sins time to time.
5. Work/Study for the sake of Allah, mencari rezeki/ilmu satu ibadah, i like to put it this way, if we get sleepy during work, especially during prayer times, we pray instead of sleeping, insyaAllah, Allah will grant us the energy we need, if we feel that our break time is too short to eat and we are rushing to do our solat, we drink a glass of water and proceed to pray, insyaAllah, Allah will make us adequate of energy and our thirst will be quenched.

   "Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly." Ash-Shaff (verse 4)

   in other words,Allah guarantees a wonderful life and hereafter even if you have little income as long as you put your heart and mind towards achieving Allah's blessings, He will make everything adequate.
6. Dont complain over a bad day, instead remind ourselves that we have been granted so many good times before and it wouldn't make sense if we complain over one bad incident over a thousand good ones. Be grateful.
7. Try by all means to be good and helpful to others. If we find it hard, bear in mind that helping a fellow muslim is all in the favor of Allah. Expect not from the person whom we helped, but do it as an act of kindness so that Allah will grant us his blessings, no bad has ever come out from doing good, if not sooner, it will have a positive impact surely later.
8. And finally,muhasabah, reflect upon ourselves towards whatever happens towards the day in facing our work/studies. Evaluate which part of ourselves we need to fix on, how we can perceive a better attittude.

I hope these tips not only can help my fellow blog visitors, but this is a constant reminder as well for myself to always practice specially in a job filled with a lot of challenges. May we all benefit from this amiin. Wassalam.

2016

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

It has been 6 years of life without blogging, i have been weakened by dunya. A wrong date to wish everyone salam maulidur Rasul. I didnt have the chance to greet in this blog during the date so i will share my stories here that i encountered during the Prophet Muhammad ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم celebration.

 

So a public holiday, to anyone was just another holiday benefit,to us muslims, its more than only that. It was the day our beloved Prophet Muhammad ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم was born. I did my regular day at the barber shop as i was on leave on my day job since the 8th of December. Unfortunately i did not went for my maulud walk. I couldn't sleep the night before the maulud happened. I thought alot to myself that night. I have been astray for so long that i realized i wasn't the muslim i was before. I was more careless, i was lost in so many ways. There came a time where i felt only Allah was the only one i can turn to. Then i turned to people instead, padahal Allah lagi maha mendengar dan memahami apa yang ku runsingkan.

The very night when Maulud entered, i realized i did not do so much to remind myself about Rasulullah ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم, i felt really bad for that. I loved Rasulullah ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم but living his sunnah kadang2 inda ketani tebuat apa lagi hidup macam kedia. I got home past 1 am after i spent time with Bryant and all the guys from the barbershop, Bryant was making a tattoo at the time, some of the other guys were drinking. I sat there to my thinking,innocently just hanging out. Eventhough i didn't do any of those, still i felt bad,that i knew i should be elsewhere at the time. I should spend my night doing dikir at the Masjid. How am I celebrating one of the big events in Islam instead?

I went home, i did my Isya and i just felt like doing a two rakaat solat with the intention of my respects and apologies to Allah and our beloved prophet, for all the things that i have done in that matter. For always forgetting how Rasullullah ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم sacrificed alot! alooottt i tell you, for each and every one of us. I somehow push myself to get back into blogging because of this one friend lah who i always get inspired from reading her blog. I wish that you will get on blogging soon! :D 

So back to our Prophet, like i ever posted a ceramah by Ustaz Abdullah Khairi back in my previous blog posts, he opened my eyes to how i never saw Rasulullah
‘صلى الله عليه وسلم before. I never realized how much of a big deal Prophet Muhammad
‘صلى الله عليه وسلم was until he served the khutbah jumaat which brought me to tears. Islam adalah sebaik2 agama, segala yang terjadi berlandas kan Islam adalah sesuatu yang menunju ke arah kebaikan. All we had to do was put faith in Allah's timing, Allah's plan for us, live our lives according to the sunnah, because Allah sent us our beloved messenger as the perfect example. Its impossible to really live up to his values, but his sunnahs are achievable. I know so little about his ways of living until i met a good friend last year who was living daily basis off the sunnah of Rasulullah ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم. And so i wanted to learn more about our Prophet. Sadly at the time I was at a weak state in terms of Iman and i was deprived of motivation.

Its better to get back on track sooner or later than never. This blog post will be the fresh start of my journey. I wish to find hidayah in this hunt. I wish that all the people i meet in 2016 will bring me to the path of Allah. Oh Allah i have been missing you. I have been caught up with dunya that I wasn't communicating with you properly. Allah is indeed the most merciful. I hope this post will go on. Wassalam.