Terasa Bahagia

Setiap orang mahu kan kebahgiaan, jesturu mereka mencari2 sumber kebahgiaan. Orang yang bahagia akan rasa kepuasan dalam hidupnya. Tapi masing2 mempunyai definasi kebahgiaan yg berlainan. Ada orang mengatakan siapa yang sudah berkahwin, baru akan mengerti makna kebahgiaan. Ada orang pula berpendapat apabila sudah dikurniakan anak baru akan rasa bahagia. Tetapi bagi saya kenyataan2 yang dilontarkan tadi sangat bertentangan dengan apa yang saya rasai dan lalui. Boleh jadi kedua perkara tersebut jadi asbab untuk kita bahagia tetapi bila diuji n dtimpa musibah kt akan berbolak balik.

Saya pernah berjumpa dengan pasangan yang kecewa dengan perkahwinannya, lantas terasa terseksa bila mengenangkan alam rumah tangganya. Saya juga pernah berjumpa dengan ibu yang meningking anaknya dan saya juga pernah bertemu dengan orang yang mahu serahkan anaknya kepada orang lain. Allahu Allah... Rupanya kebahgiaan itu bukan terletak pada faktor itu kan. Bahkan kebahgiaan itu adalah kurniaan atau anugerah yg tidak boleh dibeli dengan wang dan harta. Kuncinya terletak kepada kita. Sejauh mana kita mendefinasikan kebahgiaan itu. Jika kita tidak dapat ketenangan dalam kehidupan, maka kebahgiaan itu masih jauh dari bayangan kita.

Carilah kebahgiaan kerana kebahgiaan itu milik semua orang dimuka bumi ini. Pandanglah langit, pandanglah lautan, koreksi diri, benda apa yang hendak dicari? Pinta lah pada Allah, penguasa seluruh alam. Kerana hanya Dia sahaja yang boleh membahagiakan kita. Ada orang bahagia walaupun dalam kesempitan. Ada pula orang sengsara walau penuh dengan kenikmatan. Allahu Allah... Perkara ini sangat abstract kan. Tapi bila kita sudah temui kuncinya kita akan TERASA BAHAGIA.

Baiti Jannati

"Kana kullu amrihi 'ajaba"

Semua perilakunya menakjubkan bagiku

Kuteringat dengan Aisyah, isteri Nabi yang paling dicinta sesudah Khadijah. Ibnu Umar pernah datang kepadanya dan berkata, "Izinkan kami di sini sejenak dan ceritakanlah kepada kami perkara paling mempesona dari semua yang pernah engkau saksikan pada diri Nabi."

Aisyah menarik nafas panjang. Kemudian dengan berisak menahan tangis, ia berkata dengan suara lirih, "Kana kullu amrihi 'ajaba. Semua perilakunya menakjubkan bagiku."

Masih dengan suara lirih, Aisyah bercerita, "Suatu malam, ketika dia tidur bersamaku dan kulitnya sudah bersentuhan dengan kulitku, dia berkata, 'Ya Aisyah, izinkan aku beribadah kepada Tuhanku.' Aku berkata, 'Sesungguhnya aku senang merapat denganmu, tetapi aku juga senang melihatmu beribadah kepada Tuhanmu.' Dia bangkit mengambil gharaba air, lalu berwudhu. Ketika berdiri solat, ku dengar dia terisak-isak menangis hingga airmatanya membasahi janggut. Kemudian dia bersujud dan menangis hingga lantai pun basah oleh air mata. Lalu dia berbaring dan menangis hingga datanglah bilal untuk memberitahukan datangnya waktu Subuh."

Aisyah melanjutkan, "Bilal berkata, 'Ya Rasul Allah, kenapa engkau menangis padahal Allah telah ampuni dosa2mu baik yang terdahulu maupun yang akan datang.' 'Bukankah aku belum menjadi hamba yang bersyukur?' kata Rasulullah, 'Aku menangis kerana malam tadi Allah telah turunkan ayat kepadaku, 'Sesungguhnya dalam penciptaan langit dan bumi serta pergantian malam dan siang benar2 terdapat tanda2 bagi orang2 yang berakal.' Kemudian Nabi bersabda, 'Celakalah orang yang membaca ayat ini namun tidak merenungkannya.'"

Ibnu Katsir menukil peristiwa ini ketika menafsirkan surah Ali Imran, 3: 190-191.


-Saat Berharga Untuk Anak Kita
Pengarang: Mohammad Fauzil Adhim

Take Back Your Heart - YM

No one likes to fall. And few people would ever choose to drown. But in struggling through the ocean of this life, sometimes it's so hard not to let the world in. Sometimes the ocean does enters us. The dunya seep into our hearts. And like the water that breaks the boat, when dunya enters, it shatters our heart. It shatters the boat.

We drowned.

If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor. And you will fell as though you were at your lowest point. Entrapped by your sins and the love of this life, you will feel broken, surrounded by darkness. That's the amazing thing about the floor of the ocean. No light reaches it.

However, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don't have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up - stronger from the swim and richer from the jewels.

Seek God to bring you back up, for when He does, He will rebuild your ship. The heart that you thought was forever damaged will be mended. What was shattered will be whole again. Know that only He can do this. Seek Him.

And when He saves you, beg forgiveness for the fall, feel remorse over it - but not despair. As ibnul Qayyim has said: "Satan rejoiced when Adam came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sink into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again."


RECLAIM YOUR HEART - YASMIN MOGAHED

Ocean of The Dunya - YM

This worldly life, the dunya, is just like the ocean. And our hearts are the ships. We can use the ocean for our needs and as a means to get to our final destination. But the ocean is only that: a means. It is a means for seeking food of the sea. It is a means of travel. It is a means of seeking a higher purpose. But it is something which we only pass through, yet never think to remain in. Imagine what would happen if the ocean became our end - rather than just a means.

Eventually we would drown.

As long as the ocean's water remains outside the ship, the ship will continue to float and be in control. But what happens as soon as the water creeps into the ship? What happens when the dunya is not just water outside of our hearts, when the dunya is no longer just a means? What happens when the dunya enters our heart?

That is when the boat sinks.

That is when the heart is taken hostage and becomes a slave. And that is when the dunya - which was once under our control - begins to control us. When the ocean's water enters and overtakes a ship, that ship is no longer in control. The boat then becomes at the mercy of the oceans.

The moment we let the dunya enter our hearts, we will sink. The ocean was never intended to enter the boat; it was intended only as a means that must remain outside of it. The dunya, too, was never intended to enter our heart. It is only a means that must not enter or control us. This is why Allah s.w.t repeatedly refers to the dunya in the Quran as a mata'a. The word mata'a can be translated as a "resource for transitory worldly delight". It is a resource. It is a tool. It is the path - not the destination.



RECLAIM YOUR HEART - YASMIN MOGAHED