Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi Words...

“Oh soul,

you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

"Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top."










"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might."

Slm

Membaca Travelog Haji itu, membuatkan hati membuak2 ingin ke Mekah. Ingin merasai kesusahannya, kenikmatannya, ketenangannya. Saat diri ingin lepas dari kekangan dunia, ibadah haji seakan jawapannya. Rasa seperti hendak menyeru semua yang berkemampuan untuk pergi haji. Pergilah! Kenapa tunggu lagi? Hairan... banyak yang takut. Takut Allah bayar "cash". memang la takut..tapi kenapa takut masa nk pergi haji je sampai menghalang diri dr mengerjakan rukun Islam ke-5 tu?

Adakah bagi diriku waktu dan kemampuan untuk mengunjungi Baitullah?
Hanya Allah sahaja yang tahu. Semoga aku akan dapat 'jemputan' Nya...

Penulis mengatakan yang semasa disana, pelbagai ragam manusia dapat dilihat dan dialami sendiri...kadang2 perlakuan manusia ini kita sendiri pun x pernah tfikir yang dia boleh buat begitu.

Satu perkara yang dapat dari membaca buku itu ialah jangan hanya melihat sekeliling dengan pandangan kosong, tapi pandanglah dengan pengamatan hati yang mendalam untuk mencari pengajaran dimana sahaja kita berada, walau apa yang kita lalui. Soalan2 yang selalu terdetik dalam hatinya seperti, " Tiada cara lain yang lebih mudah?" "Mungkinkah Allah mahu menunjukkan sesuatu?" "Apakah hikmah Allah tentukan begini?"
Mungkinkah approach ini disebabkan penulis seorang yang berlatar belakangkan sains? Mungkin. Tp sendiri pun sains juga... belum lg mcapai tahap itu. Itulah, ilmu dibaca, bukan difahami dan diselidiki maknanya. Tapi, masih belum terlambat untuk berubah kn? Nasib baiklah sedar sekarang....kalau x sedar2 kn rugi je...
Cara penulis berfikir membuatkannya mampu melihat penyelesaian unik pada masalah dan perspektif lain pada musibah. Kalau kita yakin betapa Maha Adil Allah pada kita dan betapa Maha PengasihNya pada kita, pasti kita juga akan berfikir sedemikian. Kita akan sentiasa yakin dengan ketentuanNya kerana Allah tidak akan menzalimi hambaNya. Ini akan menjadikan kita kuat kerana harapan tidak disandarkan kepada diri sendiri tetapi hanya kepada Allah.

Satu lagi yang berguna ialah cara penulis berdoa. Penulis berdoa secara khusus pada Allah, dinyatakannya secara spesifik apa yang diingini. Doalah, mintalah apa sahaja daripadaNya. Yakin akan dikabulkanNya dan andainya tidak, yakinlah yang semua yang berlaku dalam pengetahuan Allah dan semuanya pasti mempunyai sebab. Kadang2 doanya tiada pun yang versi arab sebab kalau diterjemahkan pun ke Arab mesti pelik. Contohnya dalam satu doa, penulis meminta agar ditutup hati isteri, kakak dan adiknya untuk pergi shopping. Apa lah perkataan arab untuk shopping? hehe. Saya rasa doa kalau dalam bahasa apa sahaja, asalkan ikhlas mengharap kerana Allah, pasti tiada salahnya. Ini semua kerana Allah lebih mengetahui keadaan hambaNya. Perbezaan kita disisiNya hanya pada taqwa, bukannya kfasihan berbahasa arab.
Sebenarnya saranan untuk berdoa secara khusus memang sudah lama dicanangkan oleh Datuk Fadzilah Kamsah, tapi baru sekarang terkesan kerana cerita penulis. (Hehehe lambat pikap juga aku ni ye...dah beratus kali dengar br faham..)

To be con't

"Dont make someone a priority when they make you an option"

How do you feel when somebody you don't have any problems with suddenly starts acting weird, avoiding eye contact at all cost and ultimately avoiding YOU. The sad thing is, you don't even know why. The person much rather call you than talking face to face even though the distance is not far..and that only as a last resort when nobody else is available.

Firstly, you tried to ignore and push it to the end of your mind, hoping to erase it from your memory database entirely by convincing yourself that it is nothing. But unknowingly to you, the hurt stays and spreads like a tumor that burdened and weakened your heart. You start asking dangerous questions like:
"Am I too repulsive to even look at?"
"Did I do something wrong unknowingly?"
"Why is this happening so suddenly?"
"Why does these things always happen to me?"
"Is there something wrong with me?"
WHY?

Then, when you fail to answer these dead end questions, confusion turns to anger. Angry at the person for treating you this way when all the time your intentions are good. Angry at yourself for feeling hurt when that person does not know or refuse to acknowledge your hurt. Exasperated at yourself for failing to ignore the situation as effectively as the other person.

The whole thing is a whole new messed up situation. One day you helped the person suddenly the next day the person acts as if you're nobody.

Yes, I am hurt. Every time i remember it, it is like a deep slicing of a knife.

This is not a desire to be the only one that the person could ask for help, but the way that the person treated me is not the way to treat a person. It is not fair to suddenly exclude a person after the person has helped you. This is a perfect example for the Malay peribahasa "Habis madu, sepah dibuang". I know I should just let it be and move on because it is a small thing, it is nothing. But if I feel hurt, then it surely must be something?

Why can't I just go on with my life? Please, PLEASE go away and do not mess with my already messed up self. I have enough troubles without you adding to it all.