Showing posts with label Allah SWT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allah SWT. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

Bergantung Harap Pada Yang Maha Esa

Kejayaan ialah sesuatu yang amat relatif dan mempunyai pentakrifan yang berbagai bergantung kepada persepsi dan kefahaman individu. Walau apa pun, kejayaan adalah milik setiap insan yang bernyawa tidak mengira bangsa, darjat, agama atau warna kulit. Setiap insan yang darah merah panas masih mengalir di setiap pelusuk tubuhnya berhak menginginkan kejayaan dan berhak pula membina kejayaannya sendiri selagi bumi yang terbentang luas ini dan langit biru yang tidak bertiang membumbungi alam fana ini masih utuh menahan mamahan masa. Pengembaraan dan perjuangan membina kejayaan perlu diteruskan selagi ianya belum selesai, selagi keinginan terus membara dan selagi ikhtiar masih terbuka. Setiap usaha yang diperkukuhkan dengan doa dan diperkuatkan dengan bertawakkal kepadaNya akan diberikan ganjaran kejayaan yang amat dicitakan. Ini adalah janji Allah SWT kepada setiap insan yang pasrah mengharapkan pertolongan dan bantuan dariNya.

Bagi setiap insan yang masih bernafas, bagi setiap insan yang jantungnya masih berdegup dan bagi setiap insan yang nadinya masih berdenyut, kematian adalah suatu kepastian yang akan datang tepat pada masanya, tidak lewat atau cepat walau sedetik. Manakala kehidupan pula belum tentu. Adakah kita akan diberi kesempatan untuk melihat matahari esok hari? Tiada siapa yang dapat memberikan kepastian. Adakah kita masih berpeluang untuk meneruskan kehidupan menjelang malam? Tiada siapa yang boleh memberikan jawapan tanpa megucapkan INSYAALLAH. Tetapi, selagi kita hidup dan diberi kekuatan serta kesempatan, kita wajib berusaha untuk membina kehidupan yang lebih baik untuk esok hari. Dengan izin Allah SWT, berkat usaha yang diperahkan, keikhlasan doa yang dipohon dan tawakkal kita kepadaNya kejayaan yang dicitakan dan yang dinanti-nantikan akan menjelma juga satu hari nanti. Tetapi ingatlah bahawa sekiranya Allah SWT tidak memberikan kejayaan yang diidamkan hari ini di dunia, percayalah apa yang kita pohon dan cita-citakan sebenarnya akan dimakbulkan oleh Allah SWT di Akhirat kelak dan Syurga menanti bagi setiap insan yang beriman walaupun sebesar zarah di mana kenikmatan yang kekal abadi sedang menanti setiap penghuninya. Ini adalah sesuatu yang perlu kita yakini.

Semestinya, kita harus ingat bahawa kejayaan mudah diucapkan tetapi hakikatnya “jauh panggang dari api”. Kejayaan sebenarnya “mudah cakap dari bikin”. Kejayaan memerlukan pengorbanan segala apa yang kita sayangi dan kasihi. Kejayaan memerlukan kesabaran, ketahanan dan kekuatan. Banyak halangan yang perlu diatasi. Banyak dugaan yang perlu ditempuhi. Banyak cabaran yang perlu dilalui. Jalan menuju kejayaan penuh onak dan duri. Hanya mereka yang benar-benar berhati cekal dan berjiwa tabah berpeluang dan layak menikmati kemanisan kejayaan. Seorang sahabat pernah mengingatkan kepada saya memburu kejayaan memerlukan kita membuat pilihan. Kita boleh memilih samada untuk menjadi daun atau menjadi pokoknya. Kalau kita memilih untuk menjadi daun, usaha kita tidak akan dapat bertahan lama kerana daun akan menjadi kering dan luruh. Kemudian daun akan hilang dimamah masa dan akan hilang buat selama-lamanya. Mati tidak bernisan. Mati tidak meninggalkan sebarang kesan, hilang bersama peredaran masa dan hilang ditiup bersama desiran angin. Tetapi, kalau kita memilih untuk menjadi pokoknya, walau angin bertiup kencang, walau matahari menyinar dengan gah dan walau siang dan malam silih berganti, pokok akan tetap berdiri teguh memberikan tempat untuk ranting dan daun untuk terus menyemai baktinya. Kerana kuatnya pokok, burung dapat menumpang membina sarangnya. Kerana teguhnya pokok, manusia dapat berteduh di bawahnya. Kerana tegapnya pokok, makhluk dapat mencari rezeki darinya. Daun akan silih berganti tetapi pokoknya akan terus berdiri menahan segala anasir dan gejala yang boleh menganggu dan menggugat kewujudannya. Untuk memburu kejayaan kita harus memilih untuk menjadi pokok supaya kita boleh terus berdiri tegap dengan penuh kecekalan dan kekuatan menahan segala dugaan dan cabaran.

Blog ini bukan bertujuan untuk mengajar pembaca kerana saya percaya 80% dari isi kandungan blog ini telah pun diketahui oleh pembaca. Anggaplah blog ini sebagai medan perkongsian idea dan ilmu. Walau bagaimanapun, tujuan utama blog ini ditulis ialah untuk berkongsi pendekatan dan membina perspektif yang lebih matang dalam kita menongkah arus badai dan gelombang dalam usaha kita untuk membina kejayaan. Maka, bacalah blog ini dengan hati yang terbuka dan minda yang lapang semoga pembaca akan mendapat manafaat darinya seperti mana saya sebagai penulis telah mendapat berbagai ilham dan inspirasi darinya.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Success : God Given Opportunity for ALL

Success can be simply defined as “the ability to achieve what we set out to do”. Just by the definition, every living soul has the ability to be successful regardless of colour, race and education background.

We often hear that success needs a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work. Well, this may surprise a lot of people, but luck has nothing got to do with it. How do we explain luck? It is unexplainable. Why is it then some people are bestowed with all the good luck while others are cursed with all the bad luck? This is just not right.

Lets take a few steps backwards. In some cosmic perspective lets try to understand the purpose of our creation and everything else around us. The Almighty God created the earth, the sky and the universe to submit without question to Allah SWT, the All Powerful, Ruler of the Judgment Day. To express their submission, the sole purpose of their creation is to serve humans. God created cotton and with cotton humans are able to produce bundles of thread from which cloth were made. Cloths were then made into dresses so that humans could cover their aurat in observing their deeds to the Almighty Allah SWT. God created animals that could be slaughtered, plants that would bear fruits and vegetations as food so that humans could consume them for energy and nutrition so that humans could be thankful and steadfast in observing their deeds to the All Knower Allah SWT. God created rain so that all life forms could benefit from the bounties of the Almighty Allah SWT.

Allah SWT had repeatedly narrated this phenomenon by saying “humans and jin were created for the sole purpose of worshipping Me”. Humans have to use their intelligence to transform resources around them so that humans could observe their deeds and make the necessary preparations to face the grim challenges of the Hereafter where the promise of Jannah (Heaven) is the goal of every soul. Heaven is the ultimate destination and the ultimate reward of success where we live eternally.

Therefore, we have the divine right to be successful both here and the hereafter. Allah SWT presents countless opportunities to enable us to pursue the right to be successful and to seek freedom. How many times have prayed to Allah SWT to bestow us with “rizqi” and to shower us with His Blessings. Allah SWT the All Sustainer and the All Maintainer, the Ruler of the Entire Universe, do not lose anything if He were to Grant all of our prayers. As a matter of fact we are obliged to believe that Allah will grant all our wishes, it is just a matter of time. How do Allah help us? By presenting opportunities so that we would make every effort to transform those opportunities into actual results.

But time and time again we have turned Allah down by making up endless excuses when opportunities start to knock on our door. Excuses such as “I do not have the time”, “I do not know how to do this”, “Can someone do this for me?” and “I do not have the money to do this” are commonly heard and enough to deter anyone from making an honest effort.

We need to understand that every single event happened with the Blessing of the Almighty and these events happened for a reason or several reasons. Therefore, from the standpoint of religion, to aspire to be successful is a duty of every man and more importantly to be successful here today and in the hereafter.

Note : This article was extracted from my book “Success, Happiness and Performance : They Are Within Our Control” published in 2007 by Pekan Ilmu Publications. Your comments are greatly appreciated or email me at azmantaher@gmail.com or gemasia2u@yahoo.com.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Put Your Heart on the Right Path

It was a humid mid-August night in Kuantan. It was cloudy. There were no stars in sight. I just got back from another road trip delivering a one-day seminar in Building Effective Performance Management Systems Using KPIs to the management team of Ladang Rakyat Trengganu Sdn. Bhd. We emphasized on the main virtues of honesty, integrity and most of all truthfulness in ensuring effectiveness and efficiencies of work process implementation. Once again, on my way home while Light FM was playing a favourite 80s tune “What Does Love Got to Do With it” by Tina Turner, the word truth comes to my mind. The truth is, the word truth is such a relative word. The word truth means differently to different people. How do we know that we have been truthful? What is truthful to me could be dishonesty to another. What is truthful to me could mean betrayal to another. What is truthful to me could mean disloyalty to another.

The fact is that sometimes “truth” is not well-defined. Truth is a lot of times start in the gray area. With the right interpretations, the gray area could turn to white and everything becomes crystal clear. But with the wrong interpretations the gray area could turn to black and everything got lost in translation. Interpretations require wisdom and wisdom requires knowledge and experience. In the end, we can’t see the truth with our naked eyes but we need to see the truth with our heart. When the heart believes, the mind will conceive. When the heart starts to see, then the heart could penetrate all barriers of sight.

But the heart could only see the truth when we could start to put the heart on the right path. Actually, this is easier said than done. Most of us used logical thinking to navigate our way through in order for us to see the truth. Logical thinking only see things from a binary standpoint. It’s either yes or no, right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable, white or black and nothing in between. But when the heart feels strongly about something, there’s virtually nothing could stop it from continuing to believe and starts building hope around it. When the martyrs of Badar fought against the disbelievers, logical thinking may suggest that it was sheer suicide. How could 313 men fought against 1,000? But the 313 men could see the Promise of Allah SWT with their heart. The 313 men of Badar could see the sheer ecstasy of becoming eternal dwellers of Heaven. The 313 men of Badar searched for the truth with their hearts. The 313 men of Badar put their hearts on the right path.

Sometimes the truth hurts. That maybe true. But the most important thing is, if we could see the truth with our heart on the right path, we will always be at ease with ourselves, at peace with our mind, and will feel a sense of calmness and serenity with every beat of the heart. If the “truth” do not bring peace to the mind, contentment to the heart and always feel that we could have done things differently, then chances are we probably did not put our heart on the right path when we set out to search for the truth. Think about it …

In the end, the essence of life and living is always about searching for the truth. But we can only find the truth if we could put our heart on the right path. And the right path will always lead us to the path of Allah SWT, the Almighty, the Sustainer, the Merciful and the Creator of the entire Universe.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Searching for the Truth

The essence of life is always about searching for the truth. But we can only search for the truth when we start to put our heart on the right path. And the right path will always lead us to the Path of the Almighty Allah SWT.

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