The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

Robert Frost

i like n love this poem

PEPERIKSAAN

Kenapa mesti diadakan peperiksaan atau ujian?? Peperiksaan ibarat sebuah medan peperangan untuk menguji kemampuan, strategi, ilmu pengetahuan dan ketangkasan yang dimiliki oleh seseorang calon. Ianya juga menjadi kayu pengukur kepada kecemerlangan seseorang dalam bidang akademik yang diceburinya, tidak kira di peringkat rendah mahupun universiti, malah dalam alam kerjaya juga diwujudkan PTK (Penilian Tahap Kecekapan) sebagai tanda aras untuk kenaikan pangkat dan pengesahan jawatan. Di sini penulis ingin kongsikan beberapa  tips untuk cemerlang dalam peperiksaan, dengan harapan agar ia menjadi pedoman dan panduan untuk semua Insya Allah :-

Sebelum Peperiksaan :

• Betulkan niat (islah wattajdid), menduduki peperiksaan untuk mencari Redha Allah.
• Kenali (ta'yiin) kehendak peperiksaan dan dapatkan gambaran format kertas peperiksaan yang akan diduduki secara tepat dan spesifik. (sama ada ia berbentuk subjektif atau objektif, bilangan soalan, variasi soalan, bentuk-bentuk soalan (struktur, isi tempat kosong, atau sebagainya) yang akan dikemukakan nanti. 

• Kelaskan (taqsiim) peperiksaan berdasarkan kesusahan soalan yang akan dikemukakan.
• Sebaik-baiknya buat perancangan ulangkaji strategik (Jadual mutala'ah dan muraja'ah) sepanjang sesi pengajian dan penekanan dan fokus terhadap subjek dalam lingkungan sebulan atau tiga minggu sebelum exan bermula.

• Setkan (tathbit) markah atau CGPA untuk sesuatu subjek yang hendak dicapai, letakkan markah setinggi yang boleh untuk semua subjek sebagai pendorong, contoh ; A untuk semua subjek/ CGP 4.0 untuk subjek2 di Universiti.

• Lakar (ilhaq) matlamat yang hendak dicapai cantik-cantik dan tampal di hadapan meja study atau di tempat tidur agar diri kita terkesan untuk mencapainya. Contoh keputusan A dalam semua subjek dalam STPM 2009.

• Bina komuniti (ijma' wattabaadul) strategik untuk perkongsian pintar. Contoh, study group untuk subjek-subjek kritikal dengan sahabat-sahabat yang mantap dalam subjek tersebut, berkawan dengan mereka yang hero dalam sesuatu subjek dengan niat untuk tuntut ilmu darinya dan selalu merujuk kepadanya, berkongsi dan bertukar-tukar nota dan soalan dengan student dari sekolah, instutusi, universiti lain.

• Ajar (ta'lum) kawan-kawan yang memerlukan pertolongan kita untuk memahamkan mereka, jangan pandai sorang-sorang jangan kedekut ilmu, melalui method ajar orang lain akan membuatkan kita berlipat kali ganda mudah ingat dari membaca disamping dikurniakan ganjaran yang besar di sisi Allah Taala.

• Membiasakan diri merujuk kepada guru/pensyarah (murshid) jika tidak begitu faham dalam sesuatu subjek yang diajari sama ada direct dalam kelas atau selepas waktu pembelajaran. Dengan bertanya sebenarnya akan membuatkan kita lebih rapat dengan guru, dikenali dan diberi kepercayaan oleh mereka.

• Kumpulkan sebanyak yang boleh contoh-contoh soalan yang lepas-lepas untuk dibuat analisis dan latih tubi, minta dari senior-senior atau cari di Bank Soalan Sekolah/Universiti, pada kebiasannya soalan tidak lari dari 5 tahun kebelakang (pengalam penulis) jika format tidak berubah. Perhatikan rentak (bentuk) soalan yang dibuat guru/pensyarah dan tackle cara nak menjawabnya.

• Bersihkan diri dari sifat buruk sangka, merendah-rendahkan orang, membesarkan diri, takabbur, sam'ah, ujub, riak, bermusuh-musuhan, menderhakai ibubapa atau guru.

• Jaga solat lima waktu sehari semalam dengan sempurna, amalkan wirid-wirid yang ma'thur (dari hadis yang sahih dan Al-Quran iaitu yang pernah diamalkan oleh Rasulullah atau diajar oleh Baginda sahaja) selepas solat agar disucikan dan dikuatkan jiwa menghadapi hari-hari peperiksaan nanti.

• Pastikan FERI (Fizikal, Emosi, Rohani, Intelek) dalam keadaan seimbang dan cukup stabil sepanjang membuat persediaan menghadapi peperiksaan. Usah biarkan ia tergangu kerana akan memberi impak negatif kepada mutu menjawab peperiksaan nanti.

• Minta ibu dan ayah doakan kejayaan kita selalu di samping kita bermunajat kepada Allah dalam sujud ketika solat di sepertiga malam.

• Kenalpasti kelemahan kita dalam sesuatu subjek dan minta ulasan dari guru/pensyarah bagaimana untuk meningkatkan pencapaian kita dalam subjek tersebut. Seterusnya buat perancangan strategik untuk membaiki kelemahan yang ada agar terus meningkat setanding dengan orang lain. Berkorbanlah masa dan wang demi pelaburan masa hadapan.

• Pastikan kita mencintai kesemua subjek yang kita ambil, kalau ada yang tidak berapa kita minat atau susah, paksakan diri sukakan subjek tersebut kerana ianya satu amanah ilmiah bukan hiburan,learning is fun, cuma cari pendekatan yang membuatkan kita tertarik dan minat untuk mendalami subjek tersebut, di mana ada kemahuan di situ ada jalan.
  
  
  
  Selepas Peperiksaan :
  • Teruskan berdoa dan bertawakal.
  • Teruskan buat solat hajat. 
  
  
  

The Mother’s Pleasure

Prophet Muhammad (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “The curse of Allah is on the one who causes difficulty to his mother. The curse of the angels and the curse of mankind are on him. Allah neither accepts his fardh nor his nafl worship as long as he does not repent and obey his mother. He has to gain her pleasure as best he can. Allah’s pleasure depends on the mother’s pleasure and His wrath is concealed in her wrath.” [Ahmad]

This hadith highlights the importance of mothers and tells us how necessary it is to try to keep one’s mother happy. The only situation in which a person is not required to obey their mother is if it entails disobedience to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). 

For example, if a mother wants her daughter to not dress Islamically then she would not obey her mother in this matter, but would still try her best to keep her mother happy with her. Or if a mother asked her son to deprive his wife of the rights Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has ordained for her, then he would not obey his mother in this instance, but he would obey her in all other matters that did not involve disobedience to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala).

Allah, Mighty and Majestic, comes before all else. We do our best to obey Him and in doing so, obey those whom He asked us to obey after Him.

Gift From Allah

Pain is truly a gift from Allah.
With pain, 
our life is more meaningful.
Imagine our life without pain.
We would not have a different view of thinking or experience as before..

With pain,
we can add values in ourselves.
Without pain,

we could never have known that we can be THAT strong.
SubhanAllah!

With pain,
We can remember Allah.
Without pain, sometimes we could forget him..

With pain,
we can gain Ajr from Allah as long as we have sabar.
Without pain,
we would not have the chance to practice our sabr & be among Allah's loved ones.

So know dear believer,
that pain is truly a gift from Allah.

Alhamdulillah for this pain & suffering..
It makes us turn to You, Ya Rabb!

WHICH WOULD BE YOUR DECISION?

A group of children are playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child is playing on the disused track, the rest on the optional one. 

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchane. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing at the disused one would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Lets pause to think what decision we would eventually make...

Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one lone child. You may think the same way, I guess. But have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the used track was sidelined. And in the case where he was sacrificed, none shed a tear for him.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right ones.

"Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right."

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils.