We Still Can

 My brother, I am sure that all of us want to be success man. But, after passing days we still can’t reach our dream. We are still like this. The big question for us is,  Why can’t we reach our dream? And, what have we done for reaching our dream?

My brother, if we are honest to ourself, big thing that cause it is we still can’t dominate our self well and completely. We still do manything that’s not suitable with our dream. We still more enjoy doing  other activity.

My brother, it is our big  examination and challenge. Actually, the biggest challenge doesn’t come from out side but from inside, from ourself.  The real war for us is not with other people, but war ourself.  Our enemy is not our competitors. Our competitors is important for us, because they can make us in high spirit and motivation. Our real enemy is our laziness, our bad thinking, and anything that make us forget  to our dream.

My brother, may be we are supprise to ourself because we are still like this, same with before, nothing canging, nothing improvement, nothing progressif. Yeah, may be like that. But never mind.  We still have oppurtinity. We still can delete and erase our badness. We still can change. We still can make us better than before. We still can reach our dream.

So, we should keep our spirit. :)

Panceng, Gresik, January 30, 2014

Make ‘Creation’

 My brother, all of people can make ‘creation’ in their life. They can give big advantage to other people. It can be by giving money (alm), helping  other people job, or making writing that can motivate and give big change, etc.

My brother, we can do it. But  usually, we are lazy to make ‘creation’. We choose other activity that only can give advantage to ourself  like sleep, eat, etc. 

Really, giving advantage to other people can give us happiness, not only fun. Our heart will be calm, our mind will be fresh, and our spirit will grow and be progress. 

My brother, when we were birthed to this world, we make people around us care and give attention to  us. They were worry to our condition. They were afraid if bad thing happen to us. So this way, when we grow and can do many things, we should care and give big attention to them. We should help them and give them  happiness. It for pay our ‘debt’ to them. We should change it. How the way? Make creation that give many and big advantage to other people. It’s the good solution.

My brother, beside that, we should be careful in making creation. Sometimes  we are  afraid to do good thing (creation). We are afraid whether it’s intention is for Allah or for human being. Because we have thinking like that, so we leave it. Really, it’s not good. It’s bad. It’s right that doing something because human being, not because of Allah is riya’. But if we leave, it is also riya’. How can? Because, our intention in leaving it is not because of Allah, but it’s because of human being. So the good way is, when we are worry do creation can make us riya’, we continue doing  it while we effort to do it because of Allah. 

My brother, I write like this doesn’t mean that I must be able to do it. But it’s for reminding for us, especially for me as writer.

Finally, let’s make big and useful ‘creation’ in our life that can give many advantage to other people. :)

Panceng, Gresik, January,28,  2014

Maximilize Holiday

 My brothers, all of us love holiday. We can take rest in holiday. We can sleep all time. We can watch TV as long as we want, etc. Yeah, it’s holiday. Holiday is time for refreshing. Time for stop and take rest from  job . 

But my brother, actually for good moslem there is no holiday in the world. Holiday is only in  hereafter. All days are busy time. Because we don’t know, when  angel  will take our life. We are commanded to make better our days every day . Today must be better than yesterday, tomorrow must be better than today. 

Allah also said in al-Quran surah al-Insyirah that, after finishing one job, we should move to other  job and finish it as before. Continuesly. There is no stop. 

We need refreshing. But  it doesn’t mean that we can get fun in all time like playing, watching, etc. Good refreshing is doing useful thing (not unuseful thing)  for making our mind and thought fresh as before. 

May we can make holiday better than before. May we can maximilize our holiday. Fill it by good activity. Amiin.

Panceng, Gresik, January, 20, 2014