Journey

Zindagi ek safar hai suhana, yahan kal kya ho kisne jaana

(Life is a beautiful journey, who know what will happen tomorrow)

Today you fall but you may already stand up tomorrow. Today the sun shines bright, who knows tomorrow the whole day will be raining. In the morning you're laughing, who knows something bad happen in the middle and the whole day will be rotten in memory. The one you meet today, you think he/she is the best person you ever met but suddenly betray you, scars you for the rest of your life. Who knows? Nobody knows except The One who let it happen. And why do He tries us? Because He want to differentiate which one of us strive to serve Him the best. Simply look at the final year student in the universities. The one who strive hard and give the best in his project compare with the other who just takes his project lightly, producing such bad results and writing a horrible discussion in his thesis. By looking at their efforts and outcomes, is it fair for them to get the same grade?

The Creator knows His Creations far much better than the creations know about themselves. Our limitations, skills, attitudes, imaan, everything inside and outside. Just like an engineer who create a machine, he know how the machine is operating, know how to do troubleshoot, the advantages and disadvantages of using it. Monologue, things that you are thinking, the voice inside your heart, The Creator knows about it. Although you are at the point when you can't find words to perfectly describe your feeling. The feeling which can only be expressed by tears. 

".......And to Allah are returned [all] matters." (35:4) This verse coming from the Surah Fatir which means Originator/ The Creator.  In whatever situation you are, return to Allah. My grandpa said, "Whenever you lost, you can't find your way back, you turn to Allah. He will show the way." Because He is The One who create you, me, us. Fatir is one of the surah which one should read whenever they feel lost and down. Those verses below give you motivation to go on, to keep move on, pull you to get up again when you fall: 

" [ For them are] gardens of perpetual residence which they will enter. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their garments therein will be silk. And they will say, " Praise to Allah, who has removed from us [all] sorrow. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative. He who has settled us in the home of duration out of His bounty. There touches us not in it any fatigue and there touches us not in it weariness [of mind]." (35: 33-35)

Heaven is the ONLY place where there are no fatigue, no sadness, only joy. But Heaven is in the future  &  now we live in the present, world. Through our journey here, sometimes we can rest and enjoy but there are times which we will be smacked with troubles. If we wanna get something that we love, we must be able to bear with something that we hate first. The greater the rewards, there will be lots of thorns along the path to reach it.Tell me, which students love to stay up till late at night, having lecture from 8am- 5pm, doing tons of lab reports & being scold by lecturers? But why do many of them still bear with it? Because they know in the end they will be graduating and all these things will just past. They know that the rewards in end of the tunnel will grab them out from darkness. Promising better future for them and family. The experience, our inner character which build during hardship are the things that matter for us to face more challenge in the future.

Walk on this world as traveler. Nothing will last forever. Whatever it is either good or bad. Our destinations are either Heaven or Hell. We are given time to work on where we want to end up. That's all, waallahua'lam.