dear sister(s),

first of all i love you, and i’m writing this to you. for i know everything i said will be crashed by your words, will be stabbed by your look, and you’d say my words sound neking to you before i finished my points. this is all by my point of view, biidznillah and i take the responsibilities for my words. bismillah.. with an open heart i hope you read this.

i’ve learned that students studying abroad have only two choice; one you’ll become better (in the faith and deeds) alhamdulillah, or two you’ll follow the crowd there (follow their lifestyle lah).. i heard that statement and i looked around. and kept quiet. recently, due to the media exposure about the genius girl in united kingdom, i poured what i’ve learned, and again, i got the advice; jadilah biasa-biasa saja.

jadi biasa-biasa?

then what changes you’ve made in life? after two years (or more) of living away, and you return being the biasa-biasa person? owh, what a plain-dull-boring life you’ve endured two years ago. we shout “people change” but yet we wanna be biasa2 saja? i got your point. i heard that since 2003, when you said jadi biasa-biasa saja kat sekolah. jangan jadi budak baik alim sangat nanti bila keluar sekolah rebellious and jangan jadi budak tak baik yang tuang kelas pakai tudung singkat semua tu. it has been 9 years dear….

until one day, during winter trip. i stumbled upon this:

“Hai orang-orang yang beriman, masuklah kamu kedalam Islam secara keseluruhan, dan janganlah kamu turuti langkah-langkah setan. Sesungguhnya setan itu musuh yang nyata bagimu. Tetapi, jika kamu menyimpang (dari jalan Allah) sesudah datang kepadamu bukti-bukti kebenaran, maka ketahuilah bahwa Allah Maha Perkasa dan Maha Bijaksana.” 
(Al Baqarah: 208-209)

and i reflect, have i been in islam thoroughly? i wanna be orang beriman, i wanna be orang bertakwa, i wanna enter the Jannah too and i dun wanna be the person who holds islam in their id and just pray. yes, pray is one part of it. one part. there are still other parts that we need to cover to become orang beriman, bertakwa and may Allah rahmati kita to be in his Jannah. ameen.

we want to be in His eternal garden, for we know the world we’re living here is just for a few more years, wallahualam. avoiding His fire is our aim, right? so we avoid following the not-yet-muslims lifestyle’s. okay. but by being a biasa-biasa person, where is our goal? if being biasa-biasa are not righteous to be in His Jannah, then where is our eternal home? not fully devoted to Him, not deny Him, yelah jadi orang biasa kan? lalu?

and i tell you, it’s impossible to put one foot in the Jannah and the other foot in the Hell fire you know.

and for me the translation is better. cuba fikir mana boleh nak letak sebelah kaki kat syurga sebelah kaki kat neraka kalau kita tak pilih untuk jadi salah satu. pilihlah mana destinasi akhir kita. takkan nak tergantung-gantung tengah tu bila kita pilih nak jadi baisa-biasa saja? destinasi ada dua saja.

i’m reminding myself too… these reminders are for jari2 yang menaip ni jugak Y.Y i want to be more than orang biasa. inshaAllah..

our two purposes of  life:

2:30 – And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, “Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority.” They said, “Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?” Allah said, “Indeed, I know that which you do not know.”

51: 56 – And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.