An unexpected love

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Sometimes, it gets kind of scary. And quite overwhelming. But think, Clear Minds, think. He is answering your prayers, He is proving to you He is As-Sami'. He is showing to you He is Al-Wadud, He is professing to you His love...

I think people who does da'wah have big hearts, or ought to have big hearts. Enormous ones. Because, in the earlier phase of doing da'wah, they understand that they need to love everyone. Later, they'll find themselves wanting to love everyone. Before they know it, it is just another fact in this world that they do love everyone.

Why is this so important? Because the love they are professing to everyone is not that of the worldly kind, but, one that is more profound and true. The love for someone fillah (for the sake of Allah) is one that makes the one who loves strive to do all he can so that the beloved ones enter jannah with him. ( it's basically saying: " you know what? I love you so much that I wanna go to jannah, and I want you to go to jannah with me.") It is one that binds hearts together as long as the owner of those hearts bear iman in their souls. It is that which urges these strong souls to do da'wah. It is that which  keep their backs straight, their heads up, and their strides consistent in that path of finding Allah's redha, a path never short of mehnah (problems) and tribulations. Their da'wah is actually their profession of love. Towards Allah and towards those beautiful souls that Allah has chosen for them to convey da'wah to.

Alhamdulillah: Praise and gratitude belong to Allah for all that we know of Him and what He does, and for all that  we don't.

Last week, I got so many presents that it kind of overwhelmed me. It wasn't even my birthday!
 

hubb/ukhuwwah fillah is sweeter than this...

Taking a moment to stare at a yellow tissue bearing a note, that I found between the pages of my usrah notebook, a porcelain stick encrypted with "God made us sisters, our hearts made us friends", a box of Belgian chocolate, a postcard from Edinburgh with a note starting with "ditujukan buat kakak yang tercinta" and ending with "(dari) yang merindui", a battered up A4 paper filled with honest words about my strengths, my weaknesses, and sincere advices by those souls who I love and who, insyaAllah, love me too, and an fb group just 2 days old but that which gives me hope and had left me in awe at first.

Subhanallah! This is what fuels me to go on. The sweeter-than-honey-and-sugar-combined-but-totally-safe-even-for-diabetics professions of love by those who I love. <3

even sweeter than this!

But, wow! All that in a span of 2 days! Honestly, it overwhelmed me. To receive so much love that I don't feel quite qualified enough to receive. But Allah has binded these hearts together, and I am not one to let go of love (cewaaahhh..) May Allah keep  these hearts neatly and beautifully bound together not just until jannah, but even in jannah, ameen.

ooohh..i wanna eat this...

Taking this as a big package of gifts from my One and Only, the only One who loves to give me unexpected gifts like such forementioned, He also laced it with advice through my sis and muhasabah.

My heart has to be bigger. If I think it's big enough, I'm most probably wrong. The heart can always be bigger.

Responding to the one that my hadek2 bulatan gembira did, which left me in awe and shone like a light in a tunnel to me, my supply (bekalan) of iman and ilmu have to be more to accommodate their need. My mujahadah has to be more, my taqwa has to be more, my amal has to be more. If I want them to love Allah, I have to really love Allah first. If I want to introduce them to Allah, I have to know Allah first. If I want them to be close to Allah, I have to be close to Allah first.
But of course, all that with my One and Only as my ghayah (single most important and till-the-end aim). You don't give a map to someone to show the way but be yourself lost. Take lesson from what happened with Shaytan, who prayed that everybody remained in jannah, but forget to include himslef in his prayer, resulting in his banishment from heaven.
All of that love is of no use if it doesn't move someone closer to Allah, don't you agree?

Cerita tentang batu bertukar jadi bintang...pernah dengar?    

pic credit to muharikah.com =]

Suatu ketika dahulu, ada sebiji batu. Batu dengan karakter2 batu. Sejuk. Dia hanya duduk di situ. Lena.
Pada suatu hari, sekotak mancis menyapanya, mengetuk pintu hati, mengingatkan si batu yang dia berasal dari angkasa, yang batu2 sekalian di bumi ini juga asalnya dari angkasa.
Maka, dengan anak mancis dari kotak mancis itu, serta kehadiran friction dan oksigen, si batu tadi bertukar marak dan dilontar ke angkasa untuk menjadi bintang. Bintang yang mengindahkan langit malam, bintang yang menjadi panduan para musafir. Si batu yang menjadi bintang itu pun rasa bahagia kerana telah menemui dan memahami makna kewujudannya.

Lebih membahagiakan apabila si bintang tadi mendapat tahu bahwa ramai lagi bintang-bintang di angkasa bersamanya. Dia dan bintang-bintanglain itu pun membuat rangkaian bahagia bersama dan membentuk Buruj.
Bukan senang menjadi bintang. Kelipannya tak pernah henti agar musafir tak menggigit jari, mencari arah tak dikenalpasti; agar langit malam yang keindahannya dikagumi, mengingatkan makhluk akan keagungan Illahi; x henti membakar diri, kerana dambakan surga abadi. Walau sekali sekala, awan mendung dan rintik hujan mendatang, tak usah risau, semua itu digagahi. Kilauan bintang pasti muncul kembali.

Tiba-tiba, suatu hari, dari kebiruan mana, kotak mancis berkata yang dia akan meninggalkan si bintang. Si bintang merasa sedih dan menangis. Si bintang ingat si kotak mancis akan sentiasa bersamanya. Si bintang ingat dia istimewa kepada si kotak mancis. Tapi, ingat bintang sayang, ingat! Begitu banyak lagi anak mancis dalam kotak mancis itu! Begitu banyak lagi batu yang sejuk di bumi, yang tidur tanpa mengetahui...bahawa mereka asalnya bintang, bahwa mereka juga mempunyai makna kewujudan yang sama, yang belum merasai hangatnya rangkaian bahagia bersama, betapa indahnya kerinduan kepada Sang Pencipta!

"Am I going to lose my match box? You're not my match box anymore. You gave me away."

Nangislah Bintang, nangislah sepuas mahu. Tapi itu suatu hakikat yang benar, yang tak mungkin kau ubah.
Jangan goyah bintang. Jangan goyah. Adakah kau lupa?
Kasih sayang Illahi itu lebih luas. Kasih sayang-Nya lebih luas dari langit, bumi dan seisinya. Apa yang kau resahkan?
Dia yang mengizinkan pintu hatimu diketuk. Apa yang kau resahkan?
Dia yang mengizinkan kau marak. Apa yang kau resahkan?
Dia yang menjadikan kau bintang di angkasa. Apa yang kau resahkan?
Dia yang merangkai hatimu dengan bintang-bintang yang lain. Apa yang kau resahkan?
HE made you what and where you are right now. MAKA APA SEBENARNYA YANG KAU RESAHKAN HAA, BINTANG??


Rintih An-Najm ( Si Bintang ).

Ayat2 chenta of the day: Surah Fushshilat (41): 30-33

Sesungguhnya orang2 yg berkata, "Tuhan kami adalah Allah" kemudian mereka meneguhkan pendirian mereka, maka malaikat2 akan turun kepada mereka (dengan berkata), "Janganlah kamu merasa takut dan janganlah kamu bersedih hati; dan bergembiralah kamu dengan (memperoleh) surga yang telah dijanjikan kepadamu."

Kami-lah pelindung-pelindungmu dalam kehidupan dunia dan akhirat; didalamnya (surga) kamu memperoleh apa yang kamu inginkan dan memperoleh apa yang kamu minta.

Sebagai penghormatan (bagimu) dari (Allah) Yang Maha Pengampun, Maha Penyayang.

Dan siapakah yang lebih baik perkataannya daripada orang yang menyeru kepada Allah dan mengerjakan kebajikan dan berkata, " Sungguh, aku termasuk orang-orang Muslim(yang berserah diri)?"

Sumpah kool!!