December 26, 2011

KESILAPAN MASA LALU: JADIKAN TELADAN

TIADA manusia yang tidak melakukan kesilapan, baik kesilapan besar mahu pun kecil. Manusia melakukan kesilapan sama ada secara sedar atau pun sebaliknya.

Kesilapan demi kesilapan yang dilakukan adalah sebahagian daripada pengalaman di dalam perjalanan kehidupan. Tiada manusia, kecuali Nabi Muhamad s.a.w, yang tidak pernah melakukan kesilapan. Nabi Muhamad s.a.w adalah Kekasih Allah s.w.t yang terpelihara daripada melakukan sebarang kesilapan. Itu janji Allah s.w.t. yang Maha Benar.

Sebagai manusia biasa, kita pasti melakukan kesilapan di dalam hidup ini. Namun kita harus memperbaiki diri dan memperbetulkan kesilapan yang pernah dilakukan terdahulu. Hindarilah daripada mengulanginya lagi supaya perjalanan kehidupan kita akan menjadi lebih mudah dan beroleh keberkatan Allah s.w.t.

Kita mesti menilai setiap kesilapan yang dilakukan dan mengambil iktibar daripadanya. Itulah namanya 'muhasabah', iaitu menilai setiap kesilapan yang pernah dilakukan dan kemudiannya berusaha memperbaiki keadaan. Apabila kita berjaya melakukannya, kita harus berhati-hati supaya langkah kita selanjutnya tidak mengulangi kesilapan yang sama.

Begitulah seharusnya, kita mengambil iktibar dan pengajaran daripada setiap kesilapan yang telah dilakukan supaya ia menjadi pengalaman yang amat bermakna. Jika kita tidak bermuhasabah diri dan belajar daripada kesilapan lampau, kita sebenarnya masih belum menjadi seorang yang berjaya.

December 10, 2011

NILAI SEGELAS SUSU

SATU emel masuk ke dalam kotak emel saya. Sudah agak lama saya tidak menerima emel yang mengandungi cerita-cerita menarik. Saya membaca cerita tersebut. Menarik dan ada pengajaran yang boleh dikongsi bersama. Saya paparkan semula di sini. Semoga ada manfaatnya.
GLASS OF MILK

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water! She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said ... "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many years later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case. After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge, and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ...

"Paid in full with one glass of milk" - Signed, Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this: “Bread cast on the water comes back to you”. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about?

Berapakah sebenarnya harga segelas susu itu? Ya, bagi seorang yang kehausan dan kelaparan harganya terlalu mahal. Tetapi bagi seorang yang ikhlas, berapalah sangat harganya jika dibandingkan dengan kelaparan serta kehausan yang dirasai oleh orang yang meminta itu. Kerana keikhlasan yang benar-benar lahir dari hati kecilnya, akhirnya dia mendapat bayaran yang berlipat kali ganda harganya.

Jangan segan menghulurkan bantuan kepada orang yang memerlukan, tetapi dengan syarat bantuan itu diberikan dengan penuh rasa keikhlasan.