Pelik tapi terbaik

Life is a choice. Ada banyak perkara dalam hidup ni yang memerlukan kita membuat pilihan. Bila pergi restoran, nah diberinya senarai menu. Nak makan yang mana pun pening kepala. Mula fikir yang mana kita rasa paling teringin nak makan pastu fikir pasal harga pulak. Dapat keputusan bagus pun dok pening fikir nak sambung belajar dalam bidang apa, di mana? Pokoknya, daripada sekecil-kecil perkara sampai la sebesar-besar hal yang melibatkan perubahan hidup memerlukan kita membuat pilihan dengan bijak. Pilihan yang diharapkan dapat memberi kebaikan dan membahagiakan. 

Salah satu cara yang diajar dalam Islam ketika kita ingin membuat pilihan ialah dengan melakukan solat sunat istikharah. Solat sunat ini boleh dilakukan dengan ringkas iaitu ditunaikan dengan 2 rakaat. Lepas tu, berdoa la pada Allah supaya diberi petunjuk tentang pilihan manakah yang terbaik untuk kita. If we don't know about something, we'll ask the one who have knowledge about it. Contohnya, kalau nak tanya tentang penyakit, jumpa la dengan doktor. Kalau kereta rosak, tanya dengan mekanik. So, when we want to decide something in our life, who knows about it better than The One who create us?

Berikut adalah langkah-langkah yang boleh dijadikan sebagai panduan dalam membuat pilihan:

1. Selidik dan buat senarai tentang kebaikan/keburukan pada setiap pilihan yang kita ada. Contohnya kalau kita dapat tawaran berkerja atau sambung belajar. Kita perlu selidik dengan teliti dari segi jarak perjalanan dari rumah, senarai tugas, minat kita sendiri, jumlah gaji setimpal ke tidak.

2. Cuba minta pendapat daripada orang yang dipercayai dan orang yang ada pengalaman dalam berdepan dengan situasi yang lebih kurang sama. Kalau anda seorang pelajar, boleh minta pendapat daripada penyelia/pensyarah kerana mereka tahu dan lihat potensi yang ada pada diri kita. Besides, they had gone through this kind of phase in their life so they can share their experience with us. Indeed, experience is the best teacher. They may know the consequences regarding each choice which we may had overlook.

3. Solat sunat istikharah. Lepas kita dah usaha sungguh-sungguh selidik dan bertanya pendapat orang lain, sekarang adalah masa untuk kita membuat pilihan. Minta la petunjuk daripada-Nya supaya pilihan kita membawa lebih banyak kebaikan berbanding kemudaratan. Antara hikmah melakukan solat sunat ialah apabila kita melibatkan Allah dalam keputusan yang dibuat, percayalah walau apa pun yang terjadi selepas itu, kita takkan jadi orang yang menyalahkan takdir. InsyaAllah. Worry ends where faith begins. If He bring you to it, He will bring you through it.

Kadang-kadang apa yang kita harapkan daripada pilihan yang dibuat mungkin berbeza. Waktu ni mula la nak kata, "Kalau aku tak pilih yang ni, takda la aku jadi susah macam ni." Ahaa...kata-kata ni dilarang sama sekali untuk diucapkan. Setiap perkara yang jadi pasti ada sebabnya. Perintah Allah, pilihan Allah walaupun kita nampak pelik tapi itu yang terbaik. It's just like walk down through a tunnel to reach your destination. Although the tunnel is dark and scary, just keep on walking either with a torch or not. At the time you are able to see light at the end, the darkness of the tunnel is not scary anymore. 

Heartbroken

Ever felt heartbroken? I did. Haha.. yeahh I guess most of us had the experience. Falling in love is not a choice, it's a gift. But how you manage your feeling and make decision either to stick with that person or not are all up to you. I had talked with friends who finally succeeded in going through it. I asked about their feeling, how do they react & how far does it influenced their daily routines. Well, you just have to take it like a bounce in life. It's just like driving a car in full speed then suddenly struck a hole or maybe like cutting your finger accidentally while cooking. Hurt, doesn't it? 

Whenever you meet up with this kind of thing, again, just remember that it's just a bad moment in your life which sooner or later, it will gone. Nothing everlasting in this world. No matter how happy your teen's life, you can't turn back to that time. Either you like it or not, you need to move on. As long as you still breath, you will growing up and growing old. If we are really a true believer, we will always look at everything in positive way. Right now, we are thinking that person was the best person we had ever met. But who knows maybe He had someone better for us in the future. A better person who we didn't ever have a thought about. Indeed, life is full of mystery and surprise. 

Who knows one day we will feel glad for having a heartbroken. Because of it, we found someone better. Because of it, we will appreciate everyone around. Because of it, we will never take for granted on people who sincerely love us. Everything has boundaries including love. Whatever excessive is not good. Indeed, in diet we also had been taught to have all sort kind of food in sufficient amount to keep us healthy.Too much sugars in diet will increase the risk for diabetes mellitus. Too much salt will increase the risk for hypertension. In fact, people can change so never put high expectation on anybody. 

I end up this entry today with some questions for us to think about. We get a lot of benefits from the sun but do we should bow on sun rather than bow on The One who create it? Then, why should we love someone more than The One who created him and us? 

Waallahua'lam.