Assalamualaikum!
Remember when I posted an entry abt the 30days Ramadan challenge? I hope that there are women out there who take up this challenge to cover up and wear hijab AT LEAST for this 30 days. Who knows it could be a life changing for them. I'm well aware that most people don't like changes, and so do I. But if we're willing to sacrifice for Allah, He will provide us an easy way to go through this. And for sure we'll be rewarded for our efforts. I suddenly just thought abt the challenge but I'm sorry that you can't see the pic that I posted bcs of the Google+ thingy. If you wanna know more, just Google it. The pic will be there.
Anyways, last week I watched a program called 'Being Me 2013' on tv. It is an Islamic conference, held every year, for women. They will invite a foreign speaker like Yasmin Mogahed to give the talk. But the one that I watched was by Zaara something I couldn't remember her full name. And I apologize for that though. To me, it is a very good program to organize bcs it helps to empower women and make us understand Islam better. For us, we might think that we know a lot abt Islam, but after watching it, it made me ponder on where I'm at in this world. We are all travelers. We are all commuters. We commute and travel everyday. But where are we actually heading? What are our aims? That's the real question that we need to ask ourselves.
Sometimes, we don't realise how short our lives are in this world. The world itself is temporary, let alone our lives. So we always have to reflect back what is our contribution to the world? To our religion? To ourself? Living in this life that's full of desires and temptations, I know it's hard to really live the life during the times of Prophet PBUH and the sahabahs. One of my favorite sentence from the speaker was, "we the women should be very proud that we were born as women." Bcs, women are very highly respected during those times. Skrg ni muslimah sendiri yg letakkan diri di tempat yg hina. So are we really proud to be muslimahs? Do we really cherish the chances and opportunity that we have in our lives? It's not easy being a woman, there's so many things that we have to deal with. But I guess that's the special thing abt being one, you know. Allah does not give us the things we can't handle, bcs He is well aware of our capabilities.
Look at muslimah these days, they are turning into jahiliah women and being a display for the ajnabis. There are many ways to correct ourselves, bcs somehow or rather we'll be making mistakes along the way. As long as we are still humans, we will make mistakes. You know, da'wah is not something that you can do just for people. You can do da'wah for yourself, too. Da'wah can also be a reminder towards ourselves, a guidance or whatever you want to name it. And one more thing, it's not something that can be delivered by ulama', ustaz and Ustazah only. Everyone can give da'wah. Every single person. Even a prostitute can also give da'wah. We have to look at what is being delivered, not who is delivering it. Even that person is bad, but if he gives us an advice, we have to listen. Must. Islam is perfect, but Muslims aren't, remember?
I was in a dark place too, before. Before I made the decision to change, I was not a good person. To think back, I'm embarrassed to even remember who I was before, let alone to tell people in public. I was never a good person to begin with. But Allah is all Fair, He changed this little heart of mine 360°. I made a lot of things that I knew were wrong. But due to my ignorance, I continued to commit those things. As I said so many times, it wasn't an easy ride at first, to adapt and accept the changes that I made for myself. Mind you, nobody forced me to change. I did it willingly. I told you that Allah opened up my heart and changed it 360°. I learnt how to perfect myself, inside and out. And after three years, I still need to learn. There's a lot more for me to improve. Even after 10 years, I still need to improve. In sha Allah...
Most of us can give advices, can help to inspire people. But what most of us can't really do is to practice what we preach. Betul tak? Sometimes, it's so hard to even listen and follow our own advices. People always say, practice what you preach. But when things get so out of hands, we forget of the things that we advised. Everything doesn't make sense already. Last but not least, betulkan nawaitu and please be aware of what we do and say. Because if we aren't, we might make mistakes and hurt other people. I'm sure none of us would want to do that, right?
Till then, xx
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