You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.
You are SIMBA.
You're young, naive, and misguided. However, don't fear, because your growth comes exponentially with hard times ahead. Only then will you reach the goals you've set out to accomplish.
The Sorting Hat would put you in Gryffindor.
You are bold, passionate, and brave. You have a highly-defined sense of right and wrong, and you are not afraid to speak your mind or fight for what you want.
To begin this entry, I'd like to begin talking about reflection. How much time in a day do we actually reflect?
or possibly, a better question would be, why reflect at all?
It is because we are humans, that we need to reflect. It is because we err in our daily dealings and if we do not reflect, we would definitely repeat the same mistakes.
For people like me, who is always around other people, it is good to take maybe 3-5mins to reflect everyday at your own convenience. before sleep? in the bus? while driving? while riding? your call.
After the reflection, we should strive harder and explore new grounds/trying something new. I think being raised as a Singaporean Muslims, we are fortunate to be facing many challenges. It is because of these challenges that we become more resilient isn't it?
Thank you Allah for all the challenges You have challenged us with. Pls help us to see everything that happens has hikmah. And also help us to see the positive sides of the challenges we face.
Personally, im at a phase trying to be the best at what Im doing. and to achieve that, I might change my personality, so id like to apologise in advance to anybody if in this process, I would unintentionally hurt you.
If you notice, all baby creatures are cute, and most of them require love and care. Even baby wolves and baby rats are somewhat lovable. Human beings have been created with a need to be loved and are both cute and lovable to help the process along. Most often the baby’s need for love and attention is satisfied by the mother and then by the wider family circle extending to friends, teachers, and classmates. As we go through life we keep searching for love and acceptance, and this doesn’t change when we grow up.
There are also different kinds of love, and people might love us for different reasons because they appreciate different qualities about us. A mother and father’s love is entrenched; they just love us anyway! But when people grow up, their parents’ love is not enough and they seek someone who will love them, care for them, and appreciate them on a different level—a complete love.
In modern terms this is called “falling in love” and I’m sure we all know about it—perhaps from the time we were young and read stories about the princess and the prince and how they lived happily ever after. We read such stories and perhaps our notion of what it means to fall in love and have a partner for life grew out of those ideas. However, at the same time we live in a period in human history when the family is being torn apart and when many marriages end up in divorce. This leaves young people feeling disillusioned: How does the “happily ever after” idea fit into the real-life context of marriage and divorce in the world today?
We have to acknowledge that the need to love and be loved is inherent in every human being. Along with this is the desire to have a family and achieve one’s potential in life. People need to feel secure, and lasting changes usually come slowly. Love has a lot to do with this.
The feeling of love is a gift from the Almighty. After speaking to many Muslim couples, I discovered that the feeling of love they share after being married for some time has grown. I found that when young people meet in the Islamic way—I mean being introduced to each other and speaking together and getting to know each other while understanding the background of the other person including family, friends, interests, education, work, and so on—the couple will form an idea about whether or not they are suited to each other and they will either have or not have the desire to know more about the other person.
At this point in the process of marriage, it’s important that both parties are honest with each other and mention clearly what they expect from a marriage partner and what they can give to the marriage:hopes and fears and so on. Both parties much seek Allah’s guidance through praying Istikharah (prayer for guidance in making a decision) to ensure Allah’s blessings.
When the couple marry, they are at the point of knowing some basic things about each other, and marriage is the first step to discover each other and learn how to share their lives. If the couple follow Allah’s guidance and are merciful, kind, helpful, generous, cooperative, forgiving, and patient with each other, love will grow from this seed because these behaviors nurture this feeling and allow it to grow. Everyone likes to be treated well and this is the basis of marriage in Islam.
The divorce that occurs so often in the world is very often the result of people basing their marriage only on emotional feelings, infatuation for example, and calling it “falling in love.” In any approach to marriage, the basis of communication should be honesty, sincerity, and straightforwardness. It’s easy for someone to act in a certain way to catch a marriage partner. But then when reality sets in, it’s like buying something you thought was a good value then taking the sticker off and finding it says “made in ——.” It’s better to get to know someone, including his or her background, interests, hopes, and goals, before the feelings begin to grow. In this way, if you find out something you don’t like about that person, it’s easy to just call things off.
Too often people present themselves in a certain way before marriage only later to reveal their hidden selves, which may or may not be what the other person expects or wants. So don’t get caught up in the world of emotional feeling that is really infatuation or desire instead of basing your relationship on behavior that nurtures the human soul and the feeling we all seek—love.
One learns much from life experiences and events. Its not something you can read from a book or by someone telling you. Its happens in unique moments that Allah has specifically "block out" for you to experience it and at the same time letting you notice of His presence.
In a very recent event, it really made me feel humbled. an incident that reminds me of Allah's supremacy. That Allah puts men's best dream to shame.
Oh Allah, pls continue to let me see Your Greatness and not let me be blinded by the worldly challenges.
Salam All! I've just came back from a short jog but deep thinking. hehe. I know people have their new year resolution up because of Muharram and potentially the new 2010 ahead. For me, Ive never really had a new year resolution. I just feel that its abit too far fetch for me to plan that way. (=
Instead of calling it new year resolution, I would call it... baby steps to life improvement.
Ive heard of stretch goals and all but ill stick to what i think i can do first =D so here goes.
1. blogging! - ill start blogging again (= once a week for the next 4 weeks
2. exercise! - ill be joining this crazy adventure race. need to train endurance and strength! anybody else interested?
3. fityan! - get updates weekly from all comm so that i can manage better, insyaAllah
