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Pernah aku merasa kecewa dan tidak terima hanya karena suatu film berakhir tidak sesuai harapan. Dan boleh jadi banyak yang sefrekuensi denganku di dunia ini, bahwa film yang baik adalah yang berpihak kepada penonton. Happy ending adalah resolusi yang dinantikan setelah emosi itu lelah menyaksikan adegan2 yang menegangkan, konflik yang menyedihkan, dsb. Namanya saja hiburan, masa pada akhirnya bikin penonton kesal. Yang jadi ironi adalah, ketika konsep di atas kita gunakan di dunia nyata yang mana kita tau bahwa dunia ini hakikatnya adalah ujian, bukan hiburan. Ada berapa banyak orang di dunia, mendadak rajin shalat2 sunnah, bermunajat siang dan malam, meninggalkan hal2 yg haram, agar urusannya dilancarkan. Akan tetapi ia tidak sabaran, urusannya makin tercerai-berai, hingga ia bosan meminta, dan melupakan hijrahnya. Mereka ingin segala bentuk usaha perbaikan diri itu dibayar kontan semata-mata di dunia. Berhijrah, menikahi orang yang shalih/ah jamil/jamilah, menda...

Nearly 100 years ago, a philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. What is envy? In short, Envy is the desire to have what others have. It could be harmful whenever it leads us to hurt others. And for centuries, society understands that this envy or jealousy isn't a good thing. But do you know that Islam permits a certain kind of Envy? Long before recent studies distinguish envy into benign and malicious, Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Envy is permitted only in two cases: A man whom Allah gives wealth, and he disposes of it rightfully, and a man to whom Allah gives a knowledge which he applies and teaches it." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] This hadith talks about ghibtah or benign envy that's allowed in Islam. It's when someone desires to have blessings that others have without wishing that blessings be taken from theirs. And from the Hadith, we can ...

Your deeds in these days can compete with the best deed in Islam With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it. -paul kalanithi, when breath becomes air Very well stated about how much we value our lives no matter how hard the struggle we have in it. We love this world and every kind of pleasure that it contains. On the other hand, losing someone we love is already painful, but losing our life and leaving people and things we love, that is greater in pain. Therefore, as we highly value our and other's lives, Islam has also given our souls or lives a better price. That's why Jihad or fighting in the cause of Allah becomes the most virtuous deed in islam. Allah says in the Quran that has meaning, "O you who have believed, shall I guide you to a transaction that will save you from a painful punishment? [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your weal...

Remember last ramadan we filled our days fully with so many good deeds. We fasted, we gave charity, we prayed a lot even when the others were sleeping, we read the Quran, and etc. But we don't know whether it could save us from the hellfire, or the opposite. Because we can't guarantee that we were sincere when doing those deeds. So one can't tell which one of his deeds was accepted by Allah. That should make us worry and that is the situation of the most of our predecessors and scholars. They're worried as well about their good deeds while their deeds were greater in number and greater in supremacy and comprehension or even in sincerity. Fudhalah ibn 'ubaid, the companion of rasoolullah said : "If i know that Allah has accepted only one deed of mine even though it's only as small as grain, it's better for me that the world and all that it contains" So we are supposed to wonder what is the indicator when our deeds are accepted. Ibn...