Assalamualaikum and Selamat Sejahtera (gotten so used to that one).
It's been-- ages.
I've been pretty busy lately with stuff, and I kinda don't feel like posting about it anywhere, unless if I'm tagged on facebook or something like that. I mean hey, I can go around and do something, and not post about it on social network. People don't need to know about it. If you're there, someone will see you there, and maybe--just maybe, someday, someone will come up to you and go like "Hey, weren't you there at ____, I think I remember seeing you there," would be so much more interesting than "Hey, saw your photos on facebook" yeah, you and everyone on my friend list that aren't even my friends. It keeps things fresh, and gives you more options on how to share your stories.
In short, I was busy with things.
Anyways, that's not what I wish to talk about on this very lovely page. It's about the people today's mentality, especially when it comes to teaching, well, life teachings. We tend to say "you should do this, you should do that" instead of actually taking someone by the hand, and show them the beauty of what teachings you carry with you. for once, what I'm doing right now, I'm telling y'all readers what you should do. Now that ain't nice yo. But hey, it's a necessity. A must. I mean in real life, outside under the sunshine and all. Go, do something, take someone with you. I won't know what feels like to go bungee jumping until someone pushes me off a bridge (with the bungee cord attached, of course), and some of you might not know what it feels like to go for a candle light dinner if I don't take you to one *cough* dinner's on me *wink*
You get what I'm saying right?
This applies in da'wah. You can't sit around at some coffee shop and rant about how corrupted the education system is, or the dirty politics, or the youngster's social issues. Heck, you shouldn't even sit around at the local masjeed and bad mouth the teens that dozed off during fajr everyday. They don't follow a given system, a ruling order because they don't see it beneficial for them. Not because they are rebels. Give them the beauty, and they'll understand why it's important for you, and for them. Complaining alone sure won't make things better.
I was part of the technical crew for a three day carnival at a shopping mall near my campus, and the whole crew had to do the cleanup after the closing of the carnival. It was not our job, initially. So we were very reluctant about bending over and collecting empty cups and cans, food leftovers and whatnot. But with every backache, I learned something. Humility. Awareness.
We, day walkers and no better than the janitors, the cleaners. Because they are not there because they're there. They're there because we make too much of a mess and we simply couldn't be bothered to clean up after ourselves. Humility.
We, day walkers never notice how much a mess we make, because we don't look back to what we've dumped. Only when you're the one picking up the garbage, you see everyone's trash, not just your own. And you would see how valuable the cleaners are, and how messed up we are. Awareness.
That's one example, you simply cannot learn just by listening. You can teach people what a rock looks like, but you can't teach what light looks like, the fact that light is what defines the rock. You have to let them see it for themselves. Hands on.
So stop talking, start walking. Don't walk the talk, just walk it. And people will follow, if you strut gracefully enough.
-Hafidz Iddin
*in search of further, greater adventures ahead.
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