Life is Tough

Assalamualaikum, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

All praise to Allah, the Supreme Ruler of the world, and salawah upon Prophet Muhammad PBUH.

Have you guys experienced hardship, to the point of breakdown? Well, personally, i did. Last two weeks were quite tough for me. So many challenges happened back then. I lost my watch, the one my mom gave me. Then, my computer was broken, the one also from my mom, right before I need to submit an assignment. My iPhone strangely switch off by itself, constantly, which also was given by my mom. And the list goes on.

harith, don't overreating. :P

I don't know why, but everything related to mom, seems to lose, one by one. I hope there's no hidden meaning behind this tragedy. Back then in Malaysia, I used to ask my mom for almost everything. "Mom, I need to upgrade my laptop", "Mom, can I have this and that", and stuff. Here, of course thousand miles away is a barrier. I have to independently sought out for solutions of these life-threatening problems. It feels like the end of the world, when everything went wrong. But, alhamdulillah, I have Allah to watch over me, watch my back, and my future as I walk this path of a strange world.

It's not like I never solve my problems myself before, it's just that, being here, far away from my family reminds me how important their support is. I have to spend in about £900 just for a new laptop, so that I can start to make my report, and hey this is how I updated the blog :). Because of that, I'm at the edge of broke. I need to save up for my spain winter trip. :)

I want to become stronger, independant, and mature in every angle. I want to deepen my knowledge, thinking skill, decision making action and life skill, somewhat cooking skills. :P I want to be useful to the world, not how useful the world is to you. I want to be a part of renaissance of Islam. Because that's what we were promised. We will rise, and win. In shaa Allah.

My very precious friend used to say:

"I want to become rich, so that I need not to beg to anyone else except the God Himself."

I just talked to my mom over the phone. It relieved all this stressed. Sometimes the far away ones are the most comforting in your life. :)

I found this hadith during my sight-seeing in Sheffield last week:

On the authority of Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with both of them, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) took hold of my shoulder and said, ‘Be in the world as if you were a stranger or a traveller along the path.” And ibn Umar would say, “If you survive till late afternoon, do not expect [to be alive in] the morning. If you survive till morning, do not expect [to be alive in] the late afternoon. Take from your health before your sickness and your life before you death.”(Recorded in al-Bukhari)

This hadith reminded me of how near the death with us. And we should have appreciate every moment Allah blessed us upon. :)

Illaliqa'. Wassalam.