Sesungguhnya peringatan itu memberi manfaat kepada mukmin

"Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli daripada orang-orang yang beriman (mukmin), jiwa dan harta benda mereka dengan memberikan syurga kepada mereka, disebabkan mereka berjuang di jalan Allah, …. Maka bergembiralah dengan jual beli yang telah kamu lakukan dan itulah kemenangan yang seagung-agungnya". (At-Taubah: 111)

Perjalanan kehidupan seseorang menuntut kepada suatu perjuangan yang terkandung didalamnya nilai pengorbanan. Seseorang pejuang sudah pasti mengimpikan suatu kejayaan yang memerlukan pengorbanan. Seiring dengan pengorbanan itu sudah pasti perlukan ketabahan, keyakinan, semangat dan matlamat kejayaan yang jelas dan jitu demi memastikan kejayaan yang dimiliki akan membuahkan kebahagiaan kepada si pejuang. Sesungguhnya kehidupan adalah memberi bukan sekadar menerima...ia juga untuk dimanfaatkan sebagai bekalan kehidupan abadi.

“Ya Allah, ampunilah kesalahanku, kebodohanku, sikapku yang melampaui batas dalam urusanku, dan semua dosaku yang Engkau lebih mengetahui mengenainya daripada diriku sendiri. Ya Allah, ampunilah kesungguhanku, kelalaianku, kesalahanku dan kesengajaanku yang semua itu ada pada diriku.” (Hadis riwayat Imam Al-Bukhari dan Muslim)

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Motivational Story

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones, while it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves that is the source of your problems and stress.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So, don't let the cups drive you… enjoy the coffee instead.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
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