Wash the tank..

"Di dalam jasad manusia terdapat seketul daging, baik ia, baiklah dia keseluruhannya, rosak ia, rosaklah dia keseluruhannya. Ketahuilah, ia ialah hati" - Atau seperti yg dikatakan oleh Rasulullah (Al-Hadith)

Laksana sebatang sungai, kotor punca airnya, kotorlah sungai itu sampai ke kuala.

This entry uses one tank... pure water supply entry as the analogy. All bold words refer to the analogy, normal words are the structure of the entry, while your understanding is the value of this entry. Motivators use analogy in their books as a mental image to represent un-manifested psychological values.

Okay, simplest example, ambik seekor kambing dan tunjuk kat tiga manusia, doktor, tok imam, dan penjual daging. What will they have in their mind?

Doktor: kambing yg sihat, good!
Tok imam: Kambing ni boleh dah wat semelih korban ni.
Penjual daging: 25 kilo (pergh hebat betul tgk jer dah tahu berapa berat)..

Different people with different "assumptions" on one thing.

So that is a very simple instance from knowledge perspective, how about the social perspective? Your daily perceptions of the world? of your life? of the others? Actually, ramai antara kita ialah seperti penjual daging kat atas hehehehe..

While utk seorang budak umur 4 tahun, apa yg terdetik dihatinya? Itu namanya kambing........ that's all... He has in mind purely base on what he sees.

Yes, sebab dia tak tahu apa2. Tetapi semakin dia membesar, pelbagai racun akan memasuki tank dia, masalah rumah tangga ibu bapa, kawan-kawan, didikan yg tidak sempurna, cermin-cermin sosial dan persekitarannya sehari-hari. Maka dia mula mencari principles-principles (filtration) untuk kononnya dijadikan identiti mindanya seperti agama, liberalisme, punk, skinhead, falsafah2 hidup untuk mencari value diri (pure water) untuk dimanifestasikan di dalam masyarakat.

Contoh seterusnya, seorang pengerusi mesyuarat melihat seorang engineernya menguap di depan meja mesyuarat dan di tangannya terselit sehelai kertas kosong tanpa apa2 isi. Spontan terdetik di hatinya "ini mesti pagi tadi bangun lewat tgk bola, pastu kertas kat tgn kosong takde apa2 input, mmg tak berbaloi la aku hire dia ni". Namun sebagai manager yg "cool" (labeled), ia tersenyum lalu tanya "Ko tak prepare ke meeting ni? Smlm tak tido ke?"

Lalu si engineer tu pun kata "Semalam isteri saya masuk hospital, saya terpaksa jaga dia sampai pagi, terus saya ke sini daripada hospital. Ingat nak amik cuti tapi memandangkan meeting ni amat penting untuk kampeni saya terpaksa hadirkan diri"

Lalu si manager mengucap panjang.. Sungguh jauh prasangkanya melencong.

If we are the manager, we have a poisonous tank, we filter it to control the situation, to make ourself pleasant and cool. So that people pay with respect and good label. We look cool, but the poison is still there. The principles are useful when you are in control and clear. But, the point is, your thought at the first place is poisonous! It will be activated and take over you when you have "problem" that sweep away your grasp on the principles.

Last night, you had a quarrel with your wife, there was no solution. The problem resented you, lied deep in your heart, and your mind keep running to find your wife's fault, to make yourself right. This morning you went to office without saying goodbye to her as usual. You had an important company performance meeting in the morning and you saw an engineer with no input in hand, sleepy face. Your poisonous heart triggered, the filtration system by-passed, your principles get vague, your "mind" then took over you. You scolded him, you asked him to step out of the meeting room..

"I am in no mood of listening your reason to appear like that!!"

~~~~~hmmmmm~~~~~~~

Pure heart has no "problem". Why do you define hard "life situation" as problem? Minyak naik? Stubborn kids or wife/husband? Suami/isteri tak dengar ckp? Prisoned for being right (ISA maybe)? These are generally defined as PROBLEMS. When you define your hard "life situations" as problems, it effects your heart, your focus, your self esteem. It is your mind's works, it labels the life situations as problems base on its logic, give you worries, fear, those useless emotions. The reality is, problem is illusion. When you have pure heart, there is no problem at all. It is just the life situations. Seperti permukaan laut yg mempunyai arus dan gelombang. Suka atau tidak, ia akan berlaku seperti sifat-sifatnya. Don't burden your heart with it. Just let it go! Stop your mind from running uselessly inside, keep it clear to do something effectively.

Kita sebagai khalifah tugasnya membina hati untuk mengubah situasi, bukan dipengaruhi hatinya oleh situasi. Whatever the situation, khalifah's heart is clear. Kerana hatinya bebas, independant, free from "life situations" effects.

"Hanya kepada Engkau kami sembah dan kepada Engkau kami minta pertolongan"

So, wash the tank itself. Purify your heart, heart with no anticipation, neutral, independant, free, no "seeing things with labels", heart of an infant.

"Maka diampunkan dosa-dosanya seperti dia mula-mula dilahirkan"-Hadith berkenaan haji mabrur.

Islam bukan permanently prinsip hidup, sbb Islam ialah kehidupan itu sendiri. Islam bukan gula utk memaniskan air, bahkan air itu semulajadi manisnya, tetapi racun yg merosakkannya dan Islam datang untuk membuang racun tersebut.

Don't embrace Islam to be your principles of life, but use Islam to help you to find and be "yourself". Because even the principles are verily right, but the point is how you read, see, listen, feel, your comprehension, understanding, acceptability, perception towards the principles is the real value. It is yourself! Get what i mean?

Kemanisan Iman itulah fitrah, akhlak Islam itu akhlak manusia yg fitrah, yg transparent, yg suci seperti seorang bayi, yg tidak dihinggapi oleh nafsu-nafsu dunia.

So take time to wash the tank and cheers...


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