Just the way you are..

Bismillah..

cool water, warm sun

heads barely out of the clouds, it's school holiday and yet, at 7am, was standing at the beach

laid out canvas, banana-flavored drinks, cream puddings, three different types of fried noodles

water pistols, a bucket of assorted kids galore of a child's idea of an ideal picnic

no expectations, perceptions

just pure play

and of warm reunions

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..and it was at those shoreline I learned about being protected, about being cared for

someone confided in me

when you're young, often you felt wronged

that grown-ups know 'nothing'

weak, incapable of providing what you needed the most

what I heard made me cry

because they know they lack a lot of things (knowledge, experience, etc)

can't provide a proper soil

the sun's glare too strong

winds too harsh

yet they traveled far to carry a few beans out
 to have a taste of proper sunlight, proper rain

before being planted back into home-soil

so they'd adapt

made strong, made true

..and its the sacrifices they continually made

at first, I thought

that being indebted is making yourself into a fool

a price paid for an uncertain future

yet, it's the future I'm looking into now

sunflower faces beaming at me

blooms from that effort, from that sacrifice

MasyaAllah, how can I compete with that?

the fact that I'm really too young

that with all my fierce sense of what is right

couldn't compare to elders patience

in facing praises and critics

on hearing own faults paraded

they bear with it

and am in awe and warmed by that gesture

I know I'm being cryptic now

but please bear with me

coz' that's who I am

accept it or leave it

...the lesson was

accept someone for who they are

their strength, their weakness

because there's a lot we don't know actually

no matter how much we think we knew

we don't

what a strange world it is

that misfits paved the way for perfection

in amal, ibadah, etc

compared to flawless heroes

I think I love these misfits better

so don't worry if you had a bumpy rides in your life

one word

"beramallah"

although people would see you as a fool

Allah SWT see you as much better than that :D

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"Sesungguhnya Allah tidak menganiaya seseorang walaupun sebesar zarrah, dan jika ada kebajikan sebesar zarrah, niscaya Allah akan melipat gandakannya dan memberikan dari sisi-Nya pahala yang besar."
An-Nisa, 4:40


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Dalam kitab Shahih Muslim disebutkan sebuah hadits dari Abu Hurairah radhiallahu 'anhu bahwa Rasulullah Shalallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda (dalam sebuah hadits yang cukup panjang, namun kami ketikkan dalam bentuk poin-poin):


1. Siapa yang melepaskan satu kesulitan dari kesulitan dunia pada seorang mukmin, maka Allah akan melepaskannya dari kesulitan di hari akhirat.


2. Siapa yang memudahkan orang lain, Allah memudahkan kesulitannya di dunia dan akhirat.


3. Siapa yang menutupi aib orang muslim, Allah akan menutupi aibnya di dunia dan akhirat.


4. Allah tidak akan berhenti menolong seorang hamba selama ia tidak berhenti menolong saudaranya.


5. Siapa yang melewati jalan, di jalan itu ia mencari ilmu. Maka Allah akan memudahkan baginya jalan ke surga.


6. Sekelompok kaum berkumpul di rumah Allah, membaca kitab Allah dan mengkaji isinya, maka pasti akan turun ketenangan di dalam hatinya, mereka diliputi rahmat, dikelilingi para malaikat, dan Allah akan membanggakan kaum tersebut kepada malaikat.


7. Siapa yang lambat amalnya, nasabnya (keturunannya) tidak membuatnya cepat.
(Maksudnya, kemuliaan seseorang itu tidaklah dilihat dari keturunannya, namun dari amalnya).


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