Prayer (Du'a)

Every person in the world will come to a point in life, no matter if its the President of a country, a celebrity, even the richest person on earth, will come to a day that they will seek help or ask for guidance, to turn to something or someone asking for help, and the one resort that everyone turn to is a 'higher being', which for me, is only Allah SWT...no other than that..insyaAllah for every other Muslims too...

What causes me to bring up this topic is when listening to an online lecture, "Du'a, the Weapon of the Believers", and there are a lot more interesting lectures. So to explain all about the lecture here would be a tideous work to do...especially for a lazy bum like me (^_^) ...heeheee, so I will only share one part of the whole lecture, with the hope that it could attract people to listen to the whole thing.. yeah it's a long lecture..but the advantage here is that, we can here it whenever we feel like it and we can download it into our very 'canggih' mp3 player or the very cute iPod nano *wink wink* and listen to it on the way to class or while on a roadtrip...clever isn't it?...benefit our time better kaann?...hehe...new reason to buy one for me...*grin* . Anyways, coming back to the original topic, here is some of the excerpt from the lecture...

Why are some of our du'a is not accepted by Allah or not responded to? Well, first thing we have to note here is that, Allah respond to every du'a, each one of them, the only thing is, it might not be when and how we want it to be, but we have to faith in it. Reasons for this?

1. Allah is al-maalik, the king, we cannot question the wisdom of Allah, only Allah have the right to question us. Allah judges and decides for everything, no one has the right to demand anything more than what Allah want to give. And know that, Allah gives what is the best for His servants, because Allah love us.

2. Recognition of our status, as the servant of Allah, we have no power, even breathing itself, are we breathing on our own will? No, it is the wisdom of Allah that made us able to breathe and it is His mercy that we have air to breathe with. What more is there to say but only to realize how small and timid we are. That is why, for everything we want, we ask only from Allah and Allah alone can give us what we need when He permits it. Nothing is in our hand to decide. Allahuakbar! If Allah gives something to us, it is because of His wisdom and justice, and if He does not give it to us, that is also His wisdom and justice.

3. A type of test Allah bring upon us, to test our imaan and taqwa towards Him. Allah will test our patience, how do we react when we make du'a for a long time but Allah still haven't granted us with what we want or rather, when we ask for something but instead Allah give us something else that we hate. What would you feel if happens to you? Personally I think I will be sad in the first place, but remember this ayat and hold it close to you and insyaAllah it will help you throughout your ups and downs in life and make us be more tranquil with what Allah have in store for us.

" ... it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know"-Al Baqarah, 216

Be contended with what Allah gives you, verily, Allah's wisdom is perfect, and realized that what we ask for might not be beneficial for us in this world or hereafter, only Allah knows this, the long terms or short terms consequences. Trust in Allah, Allah is more merciful on us than our mother. We do trust our mothers rite? So trust Allah more. He is our creator, He knows what is the best for us because Allah love us. The choice of Allah is better than the choice of the servant.
And remember that, when Allah doesn't give you what you want, He is giving you something better...only that we can't see it just yet because of our weakness..so, trust Allah...

4. To increase our iman. Because only through trial and testing will be able to increase our iman and taqwa. It is just like working out at the gym, if we don't exercise our muscles and put it through a lot of work, it won't be strong and big and have the shape that we want it to be. So, it is the same with our imaan, we have to make it go through tests and trials to increase it The more difficult the trials and fitnah, the more the reward will be. If Allah loves a servant, He test him. This is to raise the rank of the servant. So if we are being tested, say alhamdulillah instead of complaining, but pour your heart to Allah, verily Allah is the best listener to His servant and Allah love it when we turn to Him for everything, because it shows how much we acknowledge the relationship of a servant and his Creator.

5. Make us take a moment away from our actions, contemplate our behavior, every good ones and bad ones, ponder upon our lives, and make us think about our relationship with Allah SWT. Only when our du'a is not responded to, will we start to think over our actions. "Why is this happening to me?..What did I do to deserve this?"I don't think that a person that obtain all that he wished for and get all that he asked for will ever stop and ask such question and or even stop to thank Allah for it. Mostly because we are getting carried away with our fleeting happiness. So, when a du'a is delayed from respond, this is the best time to improve ourself and be a better servant, tazkiyyah, strengthen the feeling of 'pergantungan pada Allah', giving up our sins and doing more good deeds become easier for us to do because we know that all of this can increase the chances for our du'a to be asnwered..insyaAllah...

6. The du'a might have been responded to, only we did not realize it. We are narrow minded; we only look at what we want and discard from our mind all of the other bigger and better blessings around us. It is possible that Allah has given us things that are way better than what we ask for, but we are too blind to see and appreciate them. Nau'zubillah...

A lot have been said and a lot more is left to be discovered, so why not try to listen to the whole lecture? As a conclusion (mcm essay laa plak kan??), try this;- stop and question ourselves for every du'a..Have I perfected this du'a? Am I asking only for the benefits of the world and leaving out the hereafter? Am I fulfilling the ettiquete of a du'a? Am I doing something that could prevent my du'a from being accepted?

Turn to Allah for everything, insyaAllah life will be much better with tranquility and contentment together with redha from Allah....wallahua'lam~ ^_^

A New Start

Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim...

It has been the longest time since I blogged...longest ever..and I don't know whether this one will ever last too or not...but...we shall see how things goes...insyaAllah I will try my best to keep things updated at all time...huhu..what I'm afraid of the most is loosing the touch ..haha...how can you lose something you never had rite?..so..bear with me people..if there is any.

Why am I blogging again? I dunno myself..but I guess..it's because of the things that had happen or is happening in and about my life...very interesting things indeed...things that made me think and make me wanna story it out...and also...because people around me do blog...haha..I admit it....when I read my friends' blogs, they made me wanna write about all the issues, or stories too...and one last reason is..to improve my English..I've noticed that..since I don't have that many English-speaking friends to talk to, my English have become rusty...yuckkk...I don't even like the way I pronounce any English words too...say that I'm exaggerating...but it's the truth people! Even saying a simple 'thank you' or 'how are you' seems to sound like a very strange things to my ears...aiiyoooo...so...I hope these reasons are good enuff for me to start blogging again...insyaAllah...

and oh..oh...here is the link to my old one...the one that I abandoned more than a year ago..sorry! >>Heart to Speak

until my next post...be good and take care! ^_^