So, as days passed by, there was always this one thing that never missed to keep buggin' my mind. Yet still
whenever it knocked my head, i can never feel satisfied without knowing the
answer to this matter. What i've learnt is that a strong heart is those who are
strong to forgive people regardless of depth of the pain that you felt inside.
And lucky me that Allah has tested me with this situation which i've
experienced it by my own. So, i hold tight to the teachings of Islam which is
to forgive ABSOLUTELY anyone that hurt you EVEN you haven't done a single thing
to him/her. So everytime this situation reached me, i keep saying to myself
'that's okay, forgive him, forgive her, forgive them..' and so it
continues. But until this one point, i honestly tired of forgiving people and
buried this pain inside and to see that those people don't have a single clue
that im in pain. Its like i've been eaten by the worms bit by bit. I feel
smaller and smaller and people keep stepping my head. Its different when people
who apologize and who don't. When someone apologize to you for their
mistakes, you'll feel easy on that. But when they dont apologize, and you
know you need the strength to forgive them for the sake of Allah and for
yourself (serenity), that's when it takes a strong heart to do it.
So i started to think is
this what Islam about? Forgive people, hold your temper, keep inside you, buried deep down the
pain. FOREVER? I even came across to a bigger circle that what if the
disbelievers mock the muslims, dishonor us, are we just gonna keep forgiving
them? But wallahi everytime this thing come across me, i make du'a to Allah
'please let me understand this thing O Allah, please give me wisdom of all
these. You are All-Wise. I believe in You, I believe in Islam.. So teach me,
give me understanding..'
And so as i reached home, i
put down my bag and laid down on my bed.. (it rhymes, lol) Checkin' up my
smartphone (not deuces :P ) So i opened the Youtube and scrolling down at the
news feed. There's one video named 'the stories of three pious people by Mufti
Menk', so in random, i clicked on the video. As i keep listening.. i have no
idea that it relates to my issue! The story is about one man lookin' at the 3
pious people and he said 'they must be really pious'. So he came to the first pious
man who reciting the Quran and he give salam to the man but the man continue
reciting.. then what he did, he clapped at the man's face ( i guess Mufti Menk
use the word clap because its not as hard as slap) but still the pious man keep
revising the Quran. So he said 'this man is really pious'. After then, he went
to the second pious man. Again he clapped at the other man's face, then the
pious man said to him 'Are your hands okay brother? Is there any pain?' The
pious man worried about the hands that clapped him rather than his own face
that been clapped. Finally, he went to the third pious man, and same thing
happened, he clapped the man. And so, the third man clapped the man's face
twice. He was in shocked and said to the pious man ' I thought you were pious'.
Then the pious man said 'someone somewhere need to stop you from clapping
people's face' ...
I was like, subhanallah!
Allah showed me the answer! Wallahi i had the biggest smile at that moment.
lol. In this video, there's also a hadith that said, ' if you dont stop the
oppressor from oppressing others, then chaos will overtake the whole community'
and Mufti Menk continue saying 'SOMETIMES YOU CAN FORGIVE PEOPLE, BUT IF YOU
CONTINUE FORGIVING THEM WHO IS GOING TO STOP THE OPRESSION?' THIS really
brainwashed me. I understand that you must forgive. BUT you must also speak out
the false that they made. and correct them. In that way you'll not feel smaller
but you feel LIGHTER as you clean the dirts and built a garden on this earth
for spreading peace. You and i know that its not easy. I
myself still need a lot of guts to speak. BUT together, WE CAN! :D In fact, WE MUST, in order to have a better world :) Lets pray
that may Allah give us the strength to speak up, enjoin good and forbid evil
and have a strong calm heart! Ameen ameen ya Rabbal 'Alamin!
p/s : this is the video that i'm talking about. enjoy :)
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