In the name of Allah,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah,
the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds,
and Peace and Prayer be upon the Final Prophet and Messenger. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Quran
A coupladays ago, Saturday to be exact, my phone got wet and I noticed there was some kind of vapour trapped inside the phone and it was obvious on the display screen of the phone. I thought nothing of it until my keypad stopped working.
At first, all of it were not working so I switched off the phone(even switching off the phone was troublesome because I need to press the 'end call' button so I had to take the battery out in order to switch it off) and a few minutes later, I restarted the phone and still, the keypad wasn't working so I left it by itself for about half an hour. My effort seemed to be working because when I switched on the phone and saw that almost all of the keypad was working once again. But unfortunately the '1' and the '7' button were not functional so it was realllllllllllllllly troublesome when I wanted to reply my text messages. I had to expand my vocabs and tried to think of words that doesn't need 'pqrs' in them.
So I got annoyed and switched off the phone once again and this time I left it for a few hours and hey, the keypad worked again, all of it. But a few minutes later the phone switched off by itself and when I switched it on again the button '1' and '7' stopped working again which made me feel like turning green. Hence, I switched it off for good and let it be.
So, I decided to buy a new phone, but nothing luxurious. After purchasing the phone, I had to charge it for 8 hours as all new phones should.
8 hours later,(said in the Spongebob Squarepants' narrator's voice)
I unplugged the charger and I suddenly felt like switching on my deranged phone, and guess what? It's working just fine!
Too fine, almost as if nothing ever happened in the first place.
............(-_-|||) (my exact reaction at that time)
Suddenly I felt soooo devastated because I felt like I have wasted my money for nothing and because now I think that the new phone has no purpose to exist in my life.
Someone then advised me when I was whining about how devastated I felt, that, the money I used to buy the phone wasn't even mine in the first place. All things that I possess now are merely loans from Allah subhana wa taala and so I shouldn't be grieving about it. That got me thinking and alhamdulillah, I have been in peace ever since.
Anyways, getting to the point(finally), from the phone incident, I realized how easy it was to feel grief when you realized that something that you bought actually was meaningless. It got me thinking today that I wonder what would happen when human suddenly felt that their life was meaningless and all that is waiting them is death.
Perhaps this is why some people resort to suicide when things started to go wrong in their life and when they started to lose things. In the news, the reason for suicide would mostly be because of bankruptcy or when they were defamed. It was a shame, really, to have killed yourself when actually, our very existence hold such great meaning to the community, depending on how you look at it.
Allah has stated that we are created with a purpose. We don't exist simply with a 'bang'. There's always a process, and to waste your life by killing yourself on something frivolous such as falling out off love etc is sad. Really.
I remembered this one article that I read about a guy who jumped off a building because of a problem that he thought would have been solved if he was dead. He survived the jump but suffered from severe fractures that it was almost a miracle that he was able to live. I can only vaguely recall his words but this really hits home.
"After I jumped off the building, I suddenly realized that my problems can be solved. But at that moment, it was too late. I already jumped."
When you think the only way out of a problem is death, that's where you're wrong cause you see, for us, as Muslims, death which we think as the End was actually our real beginning. That is when our real life begins. So if you choose to kill yourself, depleting yourself of the life that Allah has given you in the first place, you're screwed. Real bad. Problems can be solved. But it will never be solved if you are dead, cause that's when you can't do anything about it. Cause you know dead, being dead, oh what am I blabbering. =_="
Anyways, I also learned that there are ways to live life to the fullest, that is by giving back to the community.
So you see, in the end, everyone has to have a purpose of living. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to literally enjoy life. I read once, that in order to enjoy life, think of something that you want to do, a job maybe, that you would enjoy it even if you have to do it for free. And as a Muslim, we all know that our very purpose of creation is to prostrate to Him, Allah, The One Alone. So let's learn to 'enjoy' being a Muslim okay?
Let's live, the way we believe. :)
ps: Found this while deviantarting. Lol.
pps: Yes, I'm a fan of The Art of Trolling. (busted) oh, and 9GAG as well. Heh.
Salam alaik and peace out~
We must hurt in order to grow, fail in order to know, & lose in order to gain. Because some lessons in life, are best learnt through pain.
Most Gracious, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah,
the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds,
and Peace and Prayer be upon the Final Prophet and Messenger. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Quran
A coupladays ago, Saturday to be exact, my phone got wet and I noticed there was some kind of vapour trapped inside the phone and it was obvious on the display screen of the phone. I thought nothing of it until my keypad stopped working.
At first, all of it were not working so I switched off the phone(even switching off the phone was troublesome because I need to press the 'end call' button so I had to take the battery out in order to switch it off) and a few minutes later, I restarted the phone and still, the keypad wasn't working so I left it by itself for about half an hour. My effort seemed to be working because when I switched on the phone and saw that almost all of the keypad was working once again. But unfortunately the '1' and the '7' button were not functional so it was realllllllllllllllly troublesome when I wanted to reply my text messages. I had to expand my vocabs and tried to think of words that doesn't need 'pqrs' in them.
So I got annoyed and switched off the phone once again and this time I left it for a few hours and hey, the keypad worked again, all of it. But a few minutes later the phone switched off by itself and when I switched it on again the button '1' and '7' stopped working again which made me feel like turning green. Hence, I switched it off for good and let it be.
So, I decided to buy a new phone, but nothing luxurious. After purchasing the phone, I had to charge it for 8 hours as all new phones should.
8 hours later,(said in the Spongebob Squarepants' narrator's voice)
I unplugged the charger and I suddenly felt like switching on my deranged phone, and guess what? It's working just fine!
Too fine, almost as if nothing ever happened in the first place.
............(-_-|||) (my exact reaction at that time)
Suddenly I felt soooo devastated because I felt like I have wasted my money for nothing and because now I think that the new phone has no purpose to exist in my life.
Someone then advised me when I was whining about how devastated I felt, that, the money I used to buy the phone wasn't even mine in the first place. All things that I possess now are merely loans from Allah subhana wa taala and so I shouldn't be grieving about it. That got me thinking and alhamdulillah, I have been in peace ever since.
Anyways, getting to the point(finally), from the phone incident, I realized how easy it was to feel grief when you realized that something that you bought actually was meaningless. It got me thinking today that I wonder what would happen when human suddenly felt that their life was meaningless and all that is waiting them is death.
Perhaps this is why some people resort to suicide when things started to go wrong in their life and when they started to lose things. In the news, the reason for suicide would mostly be because of bankruptcy or when they were defamed. It was a shame, really, to have killed yourself when actually, our very existence hold such great meaning to the community, depending on how you look at it.
Allah has stated that we are created with a purpose. We don't exist simply with a 'bang'. There's always a process, and to waste your life by killing yourself on something frivolous such as falling out off love etc is sad. Really.
I remembered this one article that I read about a guy who jumped off a building because of a problem that he thought would have been solved if he was dead. He survived the jump but suffered from severe fractures that it was almost a miracle that he was able to live. I can only vaguely recall his words but this really hits home.
"After I jumped off the building, I suddenly realized that my problems can be solved. But at that moment, it was too late. I already jumped."
When you think the only way out of a problem is death, that's where you're wrong cause you see, for us, as Muslims, death which we think as the End was actually our real beginning. That is when our real life begins. So if you choose to kill yourself, depleting yourself of the life that Allah has given you in the first place, you're screwed. Real bad. Problems can be solved. But it will never be solved if you are dead, cause that's when you can't do anything about it. Cause you know dead, being dead, oh what am I blabbering. =_="
Anyways, I also learned that there are ways to live life to the fullest, that is by giving back to the community.
‘The value of life lies not in the length of the days, but in the use we make of them. People may live long without doing any service to anybody and thus, live very little’. -quoted
So you see, in the end, everyone has to have a purpose of living. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to literally enjoy life. I read once, that in order to enjoy life, think of something that you want to do, a job maybe, that you would enjoy it even if you have to do it for free. And as a Muslim, we all know that our very purpose of creation is to prostrate to Him, Allah, The One Alone. So let's learn to 'enjoy' being a Muslim okay?
Let's live, the way we believe. :)
ps: Found this while deviantarting. Lol.
pps: Yes, I'm a fan of The Art of Trolling. (busted) oh, and 9GAG as well. Heh.
Salam alaik and peace out~
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