Make Me Strong

I know I’m waiting
Waiting for something
Something to happen to me
But this waiting comes with
Trials and challenges
Nothing in life is free
I wish that somehow
You’d tell me out aloud
That on that day I’ll be ok
But we’ll never know cause
That’s not the way it works
Help me find my way

My Lord show me right from wrong
Give me light make me strong
I know the road is long
Make me strong
Sometimes it just gets too much
I feel that I’ve lost touch
I know the road is long
Make me strong

I know I’m waiting
Yearning for something
Something known only to me
This waiting comes with
Trials and challenges
Life is one mystery
I wish that somehow

You’d tell me out aloud
That on that day you’ll forgive me
But we’ll never know cause
That’s not the way it works
I beg for your mercy

My Lord show me right from wrong
Give me light make me strong
I know the road is long
Make me strong
Sometimes it just gets too much
I feel that I’ve lost touch
I know the road is long
Make me strong

Truth

Sometimes, it's hurt to be truth. 

Now, before, maybe in the other times. None will simply say that it's easy to tell the truth.

Well, we need to tell the truth, either we like it or not.

 Especially when its come from our feeling, heart, soul. 

Frankly, we can't deny it.

Shh.. Take a time to listen to the truth.

 We'll know how sweet the truth.

Give time to ourselves and others. 

 Let's time lead.

Abstract

Salam to all!

          Phew, I'm quite busy lately. A hectic schedule for a month. Alhamdulillah, that situation not burden me too much. During my hectic time, I thought about ...........

Oh ya, soul. Soulmate. Soul? What else? ( Why soul? heh..)

          The fact is every human being have a soul. Even that person is so cruel, deep inside him/her, there is a soul. Soul, feeling, is an abstract thing. We can't describe it physically. Sometimes we also don't understand about soul and feeling. So called as... dilemma.

Yeah, dilemma is another problem that we always face it. Through out time, how many times do we in this situation? How we handle it? Check out these conversation.

Some person said, "Oh no, dilemma. What should I do? Where should I complain?"

Some will, "Life is no longer for me. Problems always come around. I'm alone. Nobody understand me."

There also people who said, "Why me? I was in trouble for 3 months. And now, again?"

          Yeah, as human being, we will keep complaining in every incidents that happen in our life.  Doesn't matter whether that incidents are good or bad. We are keep complaining and never feel enough and satisfied.

Ops, before that, let us refer to something. Something that we seldom refer to.

So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief: [5] Verily with every difficulty there is relief. [6] Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard [7] And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention. [8]

                                                            [Surah ash- Sharh: 5-8]

          Look. Allah reminds us. There are many obstacles that we need to face in our life, after one to another. Each incidents either good or bad, have it magnificient.Then, Allah also let us know that only to Him we must put our attention, our hopes.

          How bout now? What do we feel? Dilemma? Guilty? Or embrassed because Allah keeps remind us? Don't worry. I would like to share something that guide us in every single thing that we do in this world. For the sake of Hereafter.

By (the Token of) time (through the Ages), [1] Verily Man is in loss, [2] Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy. [3]

                                                                    [Surah 'Asr: 1-3]

          By time. 'Asr = time. Something that is so precious. He swear by time. By His swearing, followed by tazkeer. To show us that our life is short but forever in Hereafter. We need supply to go there. Then again Allah guide us on how to prepare ourselves for Hereafter. He arrange the flow on how to get a better life in this world also in the Hereafter.

The choice is on us. So decide wisely.

Till then. Be blessed.

A Dearth of Ideas

I found this article from Pak Darma's wall on FB. I think this article is good. In the other hand, we as PISMP students, can learn something from this article. Yeah, it is all about education. So, let's read it!

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A Dearth of Ideas  

         An idea can change the world. A great deal has been written about the stark simplicity and honesty of the early believers and how the rustic, desert tribes conquered the world within two decades of the dawn of Islam. What fascinates me to no end though, is their seminal contribution to modern science and all streams of pursuit of knowledge. From astronomy to anatomy to medical science, from mathematics to chemistry to physics to navigation and philosophy to poetry, Muslims have not only left an imprint on modern science, they have shaped our world.

        Did you, for instance, know that it was an Arab woman, Fatima al Fihri, from Morocco who founded the world’s first university? Or that the blue print of the modern camera was created by an Iraqi scientist, Ibn Al Haitham, more than a thousand years ago? He wrote the Book of Optics that led to the invention of the camera.

        How many of us, accustomed to the comfort and speed of air travel, realise that the idea had been first tried by a curious pioneer called Abbas Ibn Firnas? With his body covered in feathers and ‘wings’ strapped to his arms, the Berber polymath took to the sky in the 9th-century in Cordoba, managing to “fly” several meters before crash landing. It was clearly a work in progress! But let’s not forget it happened a thousand years before the Wright brothers attempted their flight.

        New York these days is hosting an unusual exhibition profiling hundreds of such pioneers, from Ibn Firnas to Ibn Sena, in a long due tribute to the contribution of the Islamic civilisation. 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World opened in the Big Apple last month, after immensely successful shows in London and Istanbul attracting 800,000 visitors, is an attempt to recreate the glory of the magical millennium, from 700 to 1700 AD, that changed the world.

         It was during this period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the European Renaissance, that the Muslim civilisation led the world in science and technology and virtually everything else. From the humble coffee beans to the crafty game of chess to windmills to clocks to fountain pen to soap to surgical instruments and from quilting or sewing to gunpowder, the list of Muslim inventions is endless. Five-hundred years before Galileo discovered the earth was round and was duly punished for it by the Church, the Muslim scientists had established the spherical nature of the planet.

        In the empire of the faith that stretched from Spain through the Middle East to China, new ideas were constantly generated, encouraged and embraced. It’s this ferocious hunger for knowledge that took the Arabs and Muslims to great heights of power, prosperity and intellectual supremacy. They fought the battle of ideas from a position of strength, challenging reigning ideas and ideologies of the time.

        They looked for and embraced the best from around the world. Which was how the science of arithmetic from India and Greek philosophy were passed on to Europe and the rest of the world. Indeed, the Arab contribution played a critical role in the progress the West has made over the past five centuries.

        A culture of excellence coupled with their willingness to learn enabled the Muslims to conquer new lands. Muslim countries were home to scores of universities and libraries long before Oxford and Cambridge came to be founded in Europe.

        When the Mongol armies ran over the Middle East sacking eminent centres of power and learning like Baghdad, Damascus and Alexandria and killing hundreds of thousands of people, historians say that there was more ink than blood in rivers. The invaders had burnt and dumped in the river hundreds of thousands of invaluable books and rare manuscripts authored and collected over the centuries.

       How would you then explain the current intellectual stagnation? Why aren’t Muslims part of the knowledge revolution any more, let alone leading it? Have they run out of steam as a people and as a civilisation?

       It’s no coincidence that power began to slip from Muslim hands just when they stopped exploring and expanding new horizons of knowledge. Muslims haven’t produced one intellectual or scientist of the stature of Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sena, or Averroes and Avicenna, in the past many centuries. A small European nation or a backward Indian state could boast more universities today than the entire Arab world put together.

       All we do these days is spend all our time and energy on pointless delusions of grandeur and fruitless debates. Instead of doing something constructive and positive to lift ourselves out of the dangerous intellectual morass and stagnation we are stuck in, we are busy issuing fatwas condemning each other.

       There was a time when most Arab countries did not have much by way of financial and material resources. Thankfully, that’s not the case today. Yet they are not making the most of the boom driven by the oil wealth discovered during the last century. Instead of endlessly building malls, hotels and palaces and other delusions of grandeur, shouldn’t the Arabs be investing their resources in building infrastructures of knowledge like universities, research centres, think tanks and the media? Ours is the age of knowledge.

       A war of ideas is on. And only those well prepared and equipped for it will survive this battle of hearts and minds. If for nothing else, Arab countries should make greater investments in knowledge for their restive, young generations. After all, a majority of the Middle East’s population today is young and very restive. They are growing up with a sense of purpose and direction and a keen consciousness of their place in the world. The Arab nations will ignore them at their own cost.

       There’s no dearth of talent or resources, human or material, in the Muslim world today. What it needs is original ideas and men who could translate them into reality. More important, what is needed is an opening of minds.

By Aijaz Zaka Syed  

Thursday, February 24, 2011

 

-The Writer is based in Gulf and has extensively written on the Muslim world affairs. Email: aijaz.syed@hotmail.com


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