SAM

Aku tidak pernah menyesal telah mengenalmu....

walau hanya sesaat kita bersama, tapi aku bahagia merasakan semua itu

sakit memang, ketika orang yang kita sayangi tidak berjodoh dengan kita

tapi aku percaya, ada sebab mengapa Allah mempertemukan aku dengan dia

Saya yakin, Allah telah merencanakan semua untuk ku

dan aku yakin, itulah yang terbaik untuk ku

Perpisahan itu, ketika engkau memutuskan untuk pergi

karena engkau pikir engkau tidak baik untuk ku

percayalah, siapapun engkau.... aku akan tetap mencintaimu.....

Engkau mengatakan tentang kejelekanmu, berharap aku untuk membencimu

hey,,,,, bahkan aku tak sanggup untuk marah kepada mu

bagaimana mungkin aku membencimu????

Sayang,,, setiap tetes yang keluar dari air matamu

dua tetes air mata yang keluar dari air mataku

aku cinta kamu

SAM

TERSENYUMLAH

Senyum tak perlu keluar biaya, tapi memberi banyak. Dan senyum tak bisa dibeli, diminta, dipinjam, atau dicuri karena senyum tak ada nilainya untuk siapapun, sampai senyum diberikan.

Senyum memperkaya yang menerima tanpa membuat miskin si pemberi. Senyum hanya berlangsung sesaat tapi kenangannya kadang berlangsung sampai selamanya.

Tak ada orang yang begitu kaya atau begitu kuat, sampai bisa bergaul dengan orang lain tanpa senyum, dan tak ada yang begitu papah sampai tak bisa menjadi kaya karena senyum.

Sebagian orang terlalu lelah untuk memberi kita senyuman. Berilah mereka senyuman, karena tak ada orang yang lebih membutuhkan senyuman selain orang yang tak bisa tersenyum.

Jadi, tersenyumlah, karena senyum menenangkan keresahan, membangkitkan semangat bagi yang berkecil hati, cahaya mentari bagi yang sedih, dan penangkal alamiah terbaik untuk masalah.

Pengalaman masa lalu

Kita mudah bersikap negatif dengan kesalahan-kesalahan dan ketidakbahagiaan masa lalu. Tapi jauh lebih sehat memandang diri kita dan masa lalu sebagai pengalaman, penerimaan, dan pertumbuhan.

Kita menjalani pengalaman yang persis yang kita perlukan, untuk menjadi siapa kita hari ini. Maka Lepaskan pikiran negatif yang kita pendam tentang keadaan masa lalu atau hubungan masa lalu dan terima dengan rasa syukur, segala sesuatu yang membuat kita menjadi seperti hari ini.

Belajar dan Belajar

Manusia bisa belajar darimanapun dan dari siapapun. Kita bisa mengetahui banyak hal dengan mengamati, mendengar atau merasakan apa yang terjadi di sekitar kita atau belajar dari pengalaman orang lain.

Selama ini kita hanya mempertimbangkan nasehat dari orang-orang yang kita anggap pintar atau mereka yang lebih berpengalaman. Kita sering meremehkan orang-orang yang tidak menunjukkan kepandaian secara akademis atau mereka yang masih muda karena menganggap pengalaman mereka belum banyak. Padahal tak jarang mereka bisa berpikir lebih bijaksana dibanding orang-orang yang lebih tua atau yang lebih tinggi pendidikan akademinya.

Buat setiap hari bermakna. Hargai setiap saat dan nikmati segala sesuatu yang kita raih atau alami. Kemungkinan kita tak pernah bisa mengalaminya lagi.

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat

“Kekayaan tidak dinilai daripada banyaknya harta tetapi kaya jiwa.”
― Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Tundukkan Hati: Rahsia Keikhlasan Hidup Di Dunia Fana

Muhammad Asad

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”

Hadith

“When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.”
― Hadith

Rumi

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

Osman Bakar

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.”
― Osman Bakar, Tawhid and Science

Quotes

“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic claim to Spanish soil was to be a protofascist and a supporter of 'Caliphate' imperialism: it had nothing at all to do with the mistreatment of the Palestinians. Once again, he did not exactly disagree. But he was anxious to emphasize that the Israelis had often encouraged Hamas as a foil against Fatah and the PLO. This I had known since seeing the burning out of leftist Palestinians by Muslim mobs in Gaza as early as 1981. Yet once again, it seemed Edward could only condemn Islamism if it could somehow be blamed on either Israel or the United States or the West, and not as a thing in itself. He sometimes employed the same sort of knight's move when discussing other Arabist movements, excoriating Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, for example, mainly because it had once enjoyed the support of the CIA. But when Saddam was really being attacked, as in the case of his use of chemical weapons on noncombatants at Halabja, Edward gave second-hand currency to the falsified story that it had 'really' been the Iranians who had done it. If that didn't work, well, hadn't the United States sold Saddam the weaponry in the first place? Finally, and always—and this question wasn't automatically discredited by being a change of subject—what about Israel's unwanted and ugly rule over more and more millions of non-Jews?

I evolved a test for this mentality, which I applied to more people than Edward. What would, or did, the relevant person say when the United States intervened to stop the massacres and dispossessions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo? Here were two majority-Muslim territories and populations being vilely mistreated by Orthodox and Catholic Christians. There was no oil in the region. The state interests of Israel were not involved (indeed, Ariel Sharon publicly opposed the return of the Kosovar refugees to their homes on the grounds that it set an alarming—I want to say 'unsettling'—precedent). The usual national-security 'hawks,' like Henry Kissinger, were also strongly opposed to the mission. One evening at Edward's apartment, with the other guest being the mercurial, courageous Azmi Bishara, then one of the more distinguished Arab members of the Israeli parliament, I was finally able to leave the arguing to someone else. Bishara [...] was quite shocked that Edward would not lend public support to Clinton for finally doing the right thing in the Balkans. Why was he being so stubborn? I had begun by then—belatedly you may say—to guess. Rather like our then-friend Noam Chomsky, Edward in the final instance believed that if the United States was doing something, then that thing could not by definition be a moral or ethical action.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir