Race To Nowhere

"I'm afraid the children will sue us  for stealing their childhood."

Race to Nowhere Screening by Kinza Academy with Hamza Yusuf

We...

must remember that Allah is the One who grants sustenance (rezeki) to us and He is able to take it any time He wants from us.

Sometimes we forget that all of our rezeki belongs to Him and Him only.

As a student, I think the perfect example would be regarding to our examination results.

Try to think about the time when we get not-so-good or really (it can be just really or really really really) bad results.

We will, inevitably, question the reasons why we get such results.

And we will be finding it difficult to accept. At some point, we'll get sad or mad with Allah. Unconsciously or consciously.

But think about this whenever you feel the same way as I've described earlier.

1. To whom our rezeki belongs to?

2. Who grants us such results?

It is Allah.

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So if He decides to take a little bit of his rezeki from you, it's His rights.

Because all of the rezeki belongs to Him and Him only, so it is His rights (and may I add, it is natural too) for Him take something of His belongings back.

Don't you think so?

And remember that it is by His mercy that He grants us sustenance. If not...

We are, after all, Alllah's weak servants who depend unto Him to live in this dunya.

We should be ashamed with ourselves whenever we feel sad or mad or angry with Allah and try to rebel Him just because He wants to take His belongings back from us.

And do know this. Allah's decisions are the best for us.

If He suddenly decides to test us with our exam grades, there must be reasons behind it. Kan kan?

So don't be sad or mad with Allah when we get bad grades.

Rather, we should think of the hikmah behind it and every time we study, try to betulkan our intentions (niat).

That we do it as an ibadah to Him. And it is up to Him to decide of the rest.

=)

"And if you would count the graces of ALLAH, never could you be able to count" [Quran 14:34]

P/S: This post serves as reminder for myself too...

P/P/S: Done with this quarter, alhamdulillah. ^__^ Can't wait for the grades and for next quarter's classes.

Double Post

in a day.

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They just inspire me.

I mean, this is the first time I've seen and read them.

And I already am inspired by them.

To top it off, it is the other who wrote them.

I just want to say thanks to ALLAH for giving me the instinct to read them from the blog.

Say, I wanna see and read more of them.

So I hope the other will update it as fast as the other can.

InshaAllah....the one goal, Ustaziyatul Alam (UA) is going to be achieved someday! Believe it!

And yes, you gotta start from IM and go through each step before going straight up to UA.

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اللهم مقلب القلوب ثبّت قلبي على دينك

“O turner of the hearts! Establish my heart upon Your religion.”

It Has Come to An End

Assalamu'alaikum.

Fall 2010 classes have officially ended last Friday.

I don't know why, but I feel sad when my Japanese class came to an end on that Friday.

Call me sentimental or whatever, but I definitely will be missing some of my classmates from that class.

That class, is(or should I use, was?) by far, the best class I ever ever had.

The instructors are very helpful in terms of giving useful comments when they daily-graded our performances in ACT or recitation class.

They don't  mind the students asking them lots of questions. In which the questions can be related to syllabus and off the syllabus.  :P

And they, especially Luftー先生, gave motivations every now and then to the students. Which helps us a lot. Like, really A LOT.

failed attempt to take pic in Jap class...

This is the class that I enjoy learning most, similar to what I felt before with  Psychology class in INTI.

I learnt lotsa new stuffs in which I believe will bring some goodness to my life as a Muslim...inshaAllah.

Anyways, I'll be looking forward to the next level of Japanese next quarter.

Can't wait to learn good atarashii stuffs! May Allah grant His barakah with the knowledge I've gained from this class...amin.

And InshaAllah, I'm planning to take Arabic classes too the next next quarter. And I'll definitely continue to the next level too...

Conclusion is, I am crazy with languages. Thank you.

To all my friends who will be sitting for the finals paper this week and the next, I wish you guys all the best! 

Put your best effort, and have trust in Allah (tawakkal), that He will take care of the rest.  


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Giving Up?

Click here for Part 2. :)

As of now, I'm trying to give up my liking to laziness and procrastination, for the sake of ALLAH. 

I'm more than confident that Allah will grant me better stuffs.

What about you? 

What will you give up for the sake of Allah?