SAMER @ PERKASA 13

[cReepyEX]

Lately, we have been hearing, or worse encountering, people debating over simple issues, like Nikah Mut`ah, how many rakaat should be performed for Tarawikh prayer, and some other topics that I wouldn't list out here.

I might not a good Muslim, but we, I would like to point myself also, have been forgetting the biggest picture - the very basic things of being a good Muslim, which is The Five Pillars of Islam.

We've past the first pillar, which has done by our ancestors. The rest 4 pillars await us along our life. I had an academic talk with a friend recently, where he pointed this thing out, and he made me think. I have been thinking about this ever since.

From the very first day of our birth, we've been taught to be a good Muslim (but some of us - including me - didn't come out as the real good ones). Did we realise that somehow, we were making things just not the way they should be? In other words, the result didn't turn out exactly like we planned. When this happened, we started to blame, point our fingers to everybody, saying he was wrong or she made the mistake. Did we even know (or maybe unconsciously) that we started to blame the God? Because we could only plan, the God made the result. When the result is unfavourable to us, why blaming?

When he said this, I reflected back to the things I did in my life. I realise that I made THE BIGGEST mistake by blaming others, which means I doubted the God's power. I was taken aback by his opinion, and managed to thank him after.

Here, I would like to point that, in which also remembering myself, in order to be a good Muslim in the others' eyes, we have to be a good Muslim to ourselves first. We should carry The Five Pillars of Islam carefully, and see them as the biggest picture, before telling people that they were wrong and they made mistakes (in ibadah). I strongly believe that, Dakwah can also be done not by just giving ceramah, but also by totally practicing the way of Islam itself. So that when others look to us, they'll say we are the exact Muslim, the exact Islam practitioners.


Allahu a`alam.

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**The same thing (almost) was posted on my blog @ master-pamy.blogspot.com**
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