LAMB FOR DINNER

On group journeys, our beloved Prophet (s.a.w.) would work like the others and would never let anybody work instead of him. One day, the Prophet (s.a.w.) and his companions were travelling.

When they reached a certain destination, they stopped their camels. They laid their loads down. Everybody was tired from the journey, but they were also very hungry. It was decided that they would sacrifice a lamb for dinner. The companions began to divide the tasks between themselves.

One of the companions volunteered: “I will sacrifice the lamb.”

Another companion said: “I will skin it.”

Third companion said: “I will cook it.”

Fourth one: “I will …”

The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “I will gather the wood from the desert.”

The group: “O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.), it is not becoming of you to discomfort yourself as such. Please don’t worry about collecting wood. You can rest, you must be very tired. We will be honored to do all this on our own.”

The Prophet (s.a.w.) would not let them do all the work. “I know that you are eager to do it all, but Allah isn’t pleased with the person who lets others work for him and he does not do anything. It is not right for a person to feel that he is better than others and he should just sit while others work for him.”

So the Prophet (s.a.w.) went around looking for logs of wood to create a fire. He gathered some and brought them to the companions. Then they lit the fire upon which the lamb was cooked.

Moral:

1) Everyone must work together

2) Do not set yourself above others.

A Beautiful Day

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.
A busy man was walking by the building when he saw the boy. The man stopped, thinking for a moment. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back in such a way that everyone who walked by would be able to see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up quite quickly. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.
That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was:

“Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

MY POLITICAL VIEW

Saya bukan anggota partai manapun, bukan pula pendukung atau fanboy partai manapun. Saya mendasarkan tulisan saya pada pandangan pribadi. Mungkin dalam tulisan-tulisan yang akan datang ada pandangan yang beririsan dengan pandangan suatu partai, jika itu terjadi maka bukan berarti saya pendukung partai tersebut.

Kenapa saya tidak mau mendukung partai manapun, bahkan cenderung melawan? Well.. Men are Easily Corrupted, terutama orang-orang partai sekarang. Terlalu banyak tipu daya dan kebohongan. Tidak bisa dipegang perkataannya. Sesungguhnya yang saya lawan adalah tipu daya mereka. 

Ketika saya mengungkapkan pandangan saya, mungkin secara tidak sengaja akan menyinggung perasaan sebagian teman atau kenalan. Bahkan ketika saya tidak mau masuk dalam lingkaran mereka, sebagian menganggap saya sudah jadi lawan. Hehehe… fanboy selalu baper. 

Teman, jika kamu tidak berusaha untuk membodohi orang lain, saya bukan lawanmu. Jika kamu bersikap ceroboh, saya akan mengingatkanmu, saya bukan lawanmu. Jika kamu sengaja membodohi, segeralah sadar jangan mau diperalat.

Semoga Allah SWT menjagaku, menjaga kita semua dari tipu daya mereka. Aamiin.