Keep me humble

Alhamdulillah, recently I have chance to spend much time on reading blogs. I have visited a blog of a friend and found a very beautiful video which I attached down here. The video recorded a talk given by Ustadz Nouman Ali Khan about Ego.

I have learned so much from this video. I have realized that there are a lot of things about myself to be improved, before I can reach Allah's pleasure.

So, I really recommend you to watch this video till the end. I know it is hard to stay about one hour listening to a recording talk, but as you know, Allah count every effort that you do for His sake.

Short conclusion from me is ego and sincerity to Allah won't go along together forever. You just can not be purely sincere to Allah, even if you have only one dot of ego in your heart.

Enjoy the video and I would like to know your conclusion too.

Lastly, keep on learning to improve our worship to Allah. May Allah always guide us to obey Him.

Bicara cinta kakak

Adikku

tadi sebelum mata kita bertautan 

hati kakak sebenarnya berdebar kencang

bimbang kalau kedatangan kakak ini

bakal merobek amanmu

kerana kunjungan kakak ini tiba-tiba

bukan diundang, bukan dijemput

Adikku

saat kakak menjengahkan wajah

riak wajahmu jelas girang

seakan susuk ini sangat kau nanti sekian lama

mesra bicaramu menyapaku adik

sukar dipercaya yang kita baru berkenalan

ternyata kerisauan tadi sia-sia

kakak terlupa barangkali

bahawa kau insan yang ditarbiyyah

Adikku

mendengar kau petah berbicara

tentang dakwah dan tarbiyyah

penuh semangat tiada ragu

menyusun strategi mengorak langkah

agar matlamat kita bisa jadi nyata

sungguh kakak sangat gembira
setiap teletahmu bagai bunga-bunga

mekar penuh warna di taman hati

harum bunga itu bagai terapi jiwa
menenangkan, membahagiakan

Adikku
sukar mencari ketenangan seperti ini
saat bertemu adik kandung sendiri
melihat adik masih akrab dengan fantasi dunia
masih alpa bermain dalam dunia sempit
sungguh kakak sangat bimbang
bimbang adik akan terus hanyut
bimbang kakak akan terikut
kerana memang sifat tarikan syaitan
beribu kali ganda lebih mudah melekat ke hati
berbanding tarikan iman

Adikku
kebimbangan yang menggunung ini
rasanya sudah meletus menjadi amarah
menghamburkan lava panas yang memusnahkan sabar
acap benar kakak melenting
sehingga keakraban dicemari retak
kakak mohon maaf atas kesilapan ini
kakak akan belajar lagi
agar lebih ikhlas dan berhikmah dalam berusaha
dan lebih bertawakkal pada Allah dalam menanti

Adikku semuanya

tempatmu dihatiku sangat istimewa
khas untuk orang-orang
yang kucintai hanya kerana Allah
cinta ini tidak dibatasi dunia yang sementara
cinta ini luas hingga ke akhirat yang abadi
tapi cinta kakak ini tetap kerdil
tidak mampu memberikan
setiap apa yang kau cita dan cinta

Adikku semuanya

semoga Allah tak akan pernah henti

menganugerahkan kau dan aku
hidayah dan taufiq-Nya
disepanjang perjuangan hidup kita

agar dipenghujung perjuangan ini
ada cinta Allah yang menanti
yang pasti akan menunaikan
cita dan cinta kita

Maaf, tiada gambar adik dalam simpanan. Yang ada hanya gambar kucing kesayangan mereka.

Pesan Saidina Ali r.a.

Ini Iman

Alhamdulillah, today I have spent some time for reading. I would like to share some quotes here..

Oleh itu semakin kukuh iman ini melekat dalam jiwa seseorang, semakin tekun ia mengikuti hukum Allah dan menjauhi larangan-Nya. la bergegas menuju kebajikan dan mengerjakan apa yang diperintah oleh Allah sekalipun di dalam gelap mahupun bersendirian. Di hadapan matanya sentiasa terbayang pengadilan tinggi yang hampir dan tidak ada orang yang dapat melepaskan diri daripada pemeriksaan-Nya.  

Iman kepada Allah menjadi syarat pertama dan paling utama untuk menjadikan seseorang manusia itu Muslim kerana seorang Muslim ialah hamba yang taat dan patuh hanya kepada Allah SWT.

Iman

sifatnya turun naik

Kalau ia sedang naik

maka senang nak buat baik

Kalau sedang turun

nafsu jadi kawan baik kita

Kita yang berusaha

menentukan turun naiknya

The art of marketing

Experience is a great teacher

My experience as a promoter has opened my eyes to something important to be noted. Basically, the roles of a promoter are to promote product/s to customers, explain all about the product/s, create demand for the product/s if it isn't there, and answer all questions from customers. 

On the first few days of my working, of course I didn't know much about products that I was going to sale. Even though the seniors already mention to me about the products, but since it was done briefly, the information that I get didn't cover everything that I should know. Even worse, I can't remember everything that has been explained. Furthermore, I have no experience in using those products. So, frankly my knowledge about the products was extremely limited.

So at that time, the thing that scared me the most was when customers asking me about the products. Urggghh it's really terrible. They always asked questions that I had never imagine, and of course I don't really know or really don't know the answer. Thus, my responses were either answering with uncertainty, like "maybe...", 'I think..." and "If I not mistaken...", or being the mediator by passing the questions to the seniors. As the consequence, the customer felt doubt about the product or unsatisfied with the explanation. Because of this, convincing customer was really hard to be accomplished by me.

As time passing by, I was improved. For this, other than the seniors, I also have to thank to customers who accelerate my learning progress. Now, I know more about the products and the values to be delivered through the products. As my knowledge increased, so my confidence.

But for some reason, I didn't believe in some values that try to be specially delivered by some products, so that they can be more advanced in term of that values compare to other products equivalent. One day, a customer ask for further explanation about one of the values that I didn't believe in. I supposedly tried to convince the customer that the value is superior to make the product very unique compare to those without the value. However, because my disbelief in the value was so strong that I couldn't help myself to answer something like ""This value is supposed to make this product better than those equivalent product without the same value", instead of confidently answer "This value make this product better". At the end, the customer was also infected with my disbelief in the value - perhaps if the company knew what I was doing, they will fired me immediately!

The art of marketing a product

Through this precious experience, I learned the secret of successfully marketing a product. First, we should extremely know and understand well about our product. Second is to believe in the product to deliver its values. Please note that to believe or to disbelieve, both are your belief.

Islam is my product

As a Muslim who seek Allah's pleasure, Islam is the product that I should market to the whole world. So now is the time to work hard to improve my knowledge, understanding and faith!

My self-reflection

I have a list of reasons
to put blogging as a must
for myself
But
I always like this
even though I really want to
however
without the push of others
I just can't push myself

I can stand for whole day
sacrifice my lunch and rest time
to complete a very tough assignment
even though my brain was seemed to burst
and my body was shouting for a break
cause I know
the lecturer was going to fail me
if I didn't put enough effort on it

Also
I can give myself an applause
for whole morning doing housekeeping
even though it was really tiring
that I felt like sleeping for the whole day
cause I know
later when people see
my hard work
they will give me a big smile

But this is not the case
for things that I couldn't see directly
the appreciation of others
or the bad ending of my doings
therefore
this might be the reason
why I always put an excuse
to keep delaying a new post to my blog

Those excuses like
"I'm so buzy"
"I'm tired"
"I have no idea"
"I'm not in the mood"
I already used them all
until at the end
there's no more excuse left
except the truth
"I'm lazy!"

Now that I'm looking back
when I can't see people's appreciation to my good doings
I will be disappointed and miserable
and may be this is the answer
for why building up a better relationship with people
is easier to me
compared to the relationship with Allah
cause I concern more about what people think
rather than Allah's

     *******
This self-reflection
make me realize
I have a serious problem with my sincerity to Allah
and if I continue like this
I have nothing to save me from the hell fire

Now
I shouldn't waste my time regretting the past
because the time keeps moving and never once stop
I should make my first step to be a better servant of Allah
Hoping that I still have enough time for it
Hoping that my life will has a happy ending
Hoping that I won't regret with what I have done
I should be more strict to myself
and work extremely harder!

AL-KAHF, 18: 103-104

(Credit: http://quran.com/18)

O reader

If you read this post
please pray the best for me
and I wish you too
have a very good life
now and afterlife
ameen =)